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Rachel Hatzipanagos

@rachelbianca.bsky.social
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Journalist formerly of WaPo. Latina & proud. she/her/ella

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Can you give my dad back? I miss him.” 💔 ICE kidnapped her father Luis at a DOT inspection. Her mother says he is legal and did everything the right way. #AbolishICE
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19/09/2026
Rubén Salazar was renowned for his hard-hitting journalism about the Mexican-American community. While reporting on 1970’s National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, he was killed when a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy launched a tear gas projectile into the crowd and struck him in the head.
Black and white photo of Ruben Salazar in a shirt and tie, with the words "Latine Heritage Month" above him. Below him it says "Photography Credit: Los Angeles Times." A quote reads: "'They don't want the press to rock the boat. And I think the press's obligation is to rock the boat." – Ruben Salazar. Trailblazing journalist, killed by law enforcement while covering the Chicano Moratorium." ACLU logo. Vibrant and colorful background and border.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“President Trump’s executive actions have blocked far more legal immigrants than illegal ones” www.cato.org/multimedia/c...
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The Immigration Crackdown You’re Not Hearing About
Featuring Ryan Bourne and David J. Bier
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Kennedy Center conversation reveals how deep the deliberate misinformation is out there about exactly who and what D.C. is. For outsiders, it's a place where "elite" gather in fancy ballroom gowns. Folks who live here just know it as "our" biggest performing arts center. 1/2
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/09/2026
Why would three multibillionaire tech CEOs all come together to agree that the technologies their companies are developing might be too dangerous? One thing is clear: Talk of existential risk is a highly convenient way to not address the already known harms produced by AI. buff.ly/p3886hn
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Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
truthout.org/articles/lou... If ICE has its way, as soon as the end of September, it aims to place immigrant women (including those who are pregnant), infants, and children, on top of this toxic site in a 528-bed facility, to be housed in a former military barracks….
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Louisiana Residents Are Resisting Plans to Build ICE Jail on Contaminated Site
Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
Trump’s fantastical pledge of $5,000 to Americans reveals an increasingly frantic midterms strategy. And like his previous promises of free cash—including $5,000 checks from all that money we never saved from DOGE—it is NOT going to happen. And let’s be honest, it’s just desperate and embarrassing.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
U.S. Citizen deported returns home: www.texastribune.org/2026/08/30/t...
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Feds allow return of U.S. citizen deported after traffic stop in Central Texas
Brian José Morales García maintained he was born in Denver after the federal government accused him of having entered the country illegally.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
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Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026
While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/08/2026
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/08/2026
"Without the union, you’re naked. You have no protection." How @karenattiah.bsky.social fought the Washington Post—and won
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Karen Attiah fought the Washington Post and won
Employers who fired their staff for posts about Charlie Kirk have lost a string of high-profile disputes.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
OMG! This is great news
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/08/2026
Breaking News: An arbitrator ordered The Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, a columnist who was fired over her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary residents have been without power for nearly two weeks following a massive storm. Saturated soil contributed to trees falling and taking out power lines, but there’s more to why Gary’s outage has lasted so long. bit.ly/4gLMIEQ
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Why the Power Outage in Gary Has Lasted So Long - Capital B Gary
Saturated soil contributed to trees falling and taking out power lines, but there's more to why Gary’s outage has lasted so long.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Angie Nixon’s victory didn’t come out of nowhere. It came because Black voters in the South are furious after the Supreme Court killed the Voting Rights Act. In almost every election since, Black voter turnout skyrocketed. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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‘People are p*****’: Black voters energized after Supreme Court guts Voting Rights
The Supreme Court loosened the rules allowing redistricting. Eric Garcia breaks down the numbers and they show that Black voters are protesting with their ballots — and their growing numbers could swi...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yes. They are actually angry at him for ruining their fun by injecting real world consequences. that matches my experience of targeted harassment, a lesson you can see in how I engage on here.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/08/2026
The question is: why did Natalie Harp resist applying for a security clearance? What doesn't she want anyone to find out? www.ms.now/news/trump-a...
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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A Florida police officer is accused of using Flock camera tech to track his estranged wife’s vehicle 717 times, according to an affidavit
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Affidavit: Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times
According to an affidavit, Christopher Goodson tracked his wife's vehicle 717 times with Flock technology -- including 280 times in September 2025.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've seen a lot of people advising job seekers to avoid putting down their race in job apps to avoid discrimination, but wouldn't a place that would do that ultimately be awful to work with anyway? How is that a long-term solution?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
A former guard at a Tennessee youth prison claims she was fired after calling 911 during an attack on another employee. “I thought I’d done something to save somebody’s life,” she said. “You shouldn’t have to choose a person’s life over your job.”
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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Jackmerius Tacktheritrix @j-tacktheritrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No matter how bad you think this sounds, it's definitely worse. I worked on the Unaccompanied Children program for a period spanning the Biden and Trump II administrations, and it's impossible to imagine a population more vulnerable. The reason for the special handling Aaron notes (1/x)
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Universities denounced themselves as complicit in systemic racism.” Well yes, my university for example held the charred bones of Black children killed by Philadelphia police and at least one faculty member was using them to teach forensics so yes, gosh, there was some necessary self-denouncing
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: Rep. Ilhan Omar is demanding answers from DHS after local police discovered an ICE agent sitting outside of her latest town hall in a car with mismatched license plates, a violation of Minnesota law. www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-...
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Ilhan Omar Says ICE Agent Sat Outside Her Town Hall In Car With Mismatched Plates
This “raises serious and uncomfortable questions,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It is wild how casually racist this is bsky.app/profile/cnn....
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
CoreCivic expects Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees to start arriving at the 1,800 bed Appleton, Minn., facility as early as this fall. with a ramp up to full capacity by mid-2027. The contract kicks in next week. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Appleton detention facility could start holding ICE detainees this fall
CoreCivic, which owns the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility has been awarded a contract to hold detainees.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Good framing.
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Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure
Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/08/2026
“There is so much money right now in detaining people.”
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As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
"There is so much money right now in detaining people."
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW: ICE is collecting unprecedented quantities of DNA from detainees, including children. Those samples sit, indefinitely, in an FBI database built for criminal investigations. "People are very confused about why their DNA is being tested. I do not think they’re being told what the purpose is."
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
O’Neal helped purge me & all the other Black full-time staff columnists at the Post Opinion Section. I challenged his move to fire me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. And he testified against me in June. We are expecting an arbitration ruling soon. Convenient time for him to quit.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
New court filings detail immigration agents in Los Angeles referring to potential targets using racial slurs.
Civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to bar an “ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory” stops in the Central District of California.
Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos using slurs like “tonk” and “wet,” according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar agents from making stops based on racial profiling.

After a June raid at Home Depot in Hollywood, body camera footage captured an agent saying: “There was a guy, I’m pretty sure he’s wet he was just sitting in that minivan.” A text chain revealed an agent referring to “tonks everywhere selling food” — using a word reportedly derived from the sound an agent’s utility flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head. In a video, an agent said, “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.”
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.
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Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The National Guard Bureau will spend $292 million to provide a "long-term housing solution" for thousands of troop members deployed in DC in "apartment-style lodging units"
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National Guard Signs $292M Housing Contract for Troops in Washington, D.C.
The deal would provide 2,000 “apartment-style lodging units” for service members deployed in the city.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Cecilia Vega describes what life at 60 Minutes was like under Bari Weiss, in the weeks before CBS fired her. Short version: One of the most disastrous debuts in modern journalism history. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
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Trump's Irag War, just three weeks into the conflict, Vega said she was told to introduce the story by saying, "Who is winning the war? Iran is totally outgunned by the United States and Israel." Vega called it an "administration talking point" used by the White House as it contended it was winning the war, which continues to rage months later without an end in sight.Finally, on a third piece about SNAP benefit cuts and poverty shot in the state of West Virginia, Vega and her team opted to tell the story "through the voices of strictly residents." Vega said she deliberately avoided interviewing experts and politicians for the piece. But Vega said she was asked why she had not either interviewed J.D. Vance or spoken to an expert about his "Hillbilly Elegy" book.
The book, Vega noted, had been published a decade before her story and was about his upbringing in Ohio, not West Virginia.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
17 Mexican citizens have been killed during ICE operations. The Mexican government has filed criminal complaints w/several state prosecutors, served evidence preservation letters on detention centers, & called for a formal review by the UN Human Rights Council. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Mexico seeks accountability in Chicago-area ICE death and 16 others. Can it force the U.S. to act?
Mexico has filed criminal complaints with state and county prosecutors seeking investigations into the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals, including Silverio Villegas González, who was shot and killed by ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...
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🚨 United States of America v. Adams
Learn more.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Nolan Wells' throat was missing when his body was sent to DC for an independent autopsy, attorney Ben Crump said. As a result of this an other issues, the cause of death is still "undetermined."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In Thomasville, GA, in a historic Black area, there's a creek Black churches once used for baptism Today, fecal bacteria and other contaminants have made the water unsafe due to an aging wastewater system The town got a grant to improve public health. Funding was axed due to Trump’s DEI crackdown
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Public health improvements stall amid Trump’s DEI crackdown
The predominantly Black neighborhood in Thomasville, Georgia, faces blight and health challenges.
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Laura Morel @lauracmorel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This week, TPS for Haitians is expected to end. No state will feel the impact more than Florida, home to roughly 350,000 -- many of them healthcare workers. “The workers are suffering, but the patients are going to suffer more.” My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Florida's nursing homes are bracing for life without Haitian TPS workers
The Supreme Court ended its legal status. Their patients will pay the price.
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