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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 5h

Questions about voting on November 3? Join Sahan Journal’s Vote Without Fear, a live conversation with Minnesota election experts and community advocates on October 15 at the St. Paul Neighborhood Network. Learn more: sahanjournal.com/inside-sahan...

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Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New book cover reveal! By me and Rosemary Wanis, with stories of becoming contributed by colleagues from all over. Coming soon from Gallaudet University Press. Stay tuned for a pre-order link. 🤩😍

The top third of the cover is blue, and in white font, the title and authors: Becoming an Interpreter; written and compiled by Rachel E. Herring and Rosemary R. Wanis. The remainder of the cover is a colorful checkered woven fabric.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 13/01/2026

Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out Monday to protest ICE operations in Minnesota. Some schools are reporting 30% drops in attendance as families fear leaving their homes, with districts pausing field trips and offering virtual learning options.

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Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues

Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...

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City of Saint Paul @cityofsaintpaul.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

With increased federal immigration enforcement activity in the Twin Cities, it’s important to know your rights. If immigration agents come to your home, take steps to protect yourself and your family. Learn what to do and find trusted local resources at: stpaul.gov/immigration-resources

Know Your Rights graphic explaining what to do if immigration agents come to your home. It states that ICE needs a judge-signed warrant to enter, people do not have to open the door, can ask to see a warrant through a window or under the door, and can keep the door closed if there is no valid judge-signed warrant. A link to stpaul.gov/immigration-resources is included.

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Mayor Kaohly Her @mayorher.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This week has been incredibly heavy for all of us. I wanted to share some thoughts, reflections, and actions we’re taking to stand up to this unprecedented incursion into our city. Please know you are not alone. We are fighting back.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 09/01/2026

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Hey, a quick hint for anyone trying to follow the news in Minneapolis from out of state: if you add ?utm_source=gift to any Star Tribune URL, it'll let you read it. Also, some reliable local outlets that are both better and free: www.mprnews.org www.minnpost.com sahanjournal.com

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/01/2026

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 08/01/2026

Hundreds gathered Wednesday night at the site where 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent earlier in the day. Mourners shared stories and remembrances while urging unity in opposition to ICE's presence in Minneapolis.

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Hundreds gather to mourn Renee Good, Minneapolis woman shot and killed by ICE agent

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Re-sharing this with alt text added (image appears twice because the text didn't quite fit and is continued on image #2). This is an incredibly important message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Melissa and Mark Hortman.

A Facebook message from Colin Hortman:

My father and mother, Mark Hortman and Melissa Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, were killed by a man who believed conspiracy theories and fake news. Words matter. Sharing fake news is dangerous.
One part of my grief journey has been understanding the last conversation with my mother. She loved her job. People respected her job and what she did at her job.

When I called her after the legislative session ended, I asked why she voted for the bill mentioned in the video shared by President Trump, and she wept. That bill and her vote had nothing to do with fraud. She voted for that bill because it was the only way to avoid a government shutdown. She had seen the impact of shutdowns: people lose their health care, their jobs, and in some cases, from a story she told me, have taken their own lives.

She was in a very tough position on that vote. She had never really voted against her conscience like that. It was emotional and extremely difficult. Her struggle with that vote makes this conspiracy all the more painful for me.

I am asking President Trump to remove the video that he shared and apologize to me and my family for posting this misinformation and for using my mother's own words to dishonor her memory.

My sister Sophia Hortman (Sophie) asked me to share this on her behalf, she is off social media:
“The video shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social is a painful, false twisting of my mother’s final vote.

The vote she made was incredibly difficult for my mother; it was not a vote made lightly or with malice in her heart. She made the decision to prevent a government shutdown because she believed our great state protects and helps Minnesotans.

We must create a society in which we do not harbor hatred and violence toward our political opponents, and this video promotes a false narrative which fuels the flames of political division.

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The video being shared by the president is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa, and their beloved Gilbert. I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced, and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents by taking down the post on Truth Social.”

Please share our message and help us ask the President to take this down.

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Deena Winter @deenawinter.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

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We went to some of the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.

Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.

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Félix do Carmo @felixdocarmo.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

"I am here. Are you?" If you don't understand the importance of this text, if you are dedicating all your time to AI, don't complain about what the world is becoming. When the interpreter wept: What automation erases inside Europe’s institutions – POLITICO share.google/PGkF84TZ3CGB...

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When the interpreter wept: What automation erases inside Europe’s institutions

We are building a world that treats translation as a problem to be solved. But translation was never just a technical challenge — it is an act of witnessing.

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Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Newly-published paper! Herring & Gieshoff 2025, a report on two surveys of trainers of dialogue interpreters www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTI3...

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 17/12/2025

The ACLU sued ICE agents and leaders Wednesday, alleging the agency has violated observers' and protesters' constitutional rights. The lawsuit is a thorough recounting of recent incidents where ICE agents arrested, detained, intimidated and pepper sprayed observers

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ACLU sues ICE, alleging agency violates constitutional rights of observers and protesters • Minnesota Reformer

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota and three Minnesota-based law firms sued federal immigration authorities Wednesday, alleging that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and their l...

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Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Finished grading my last set of interpreting exams--if not forever, then at least for the foreseeable future.

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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Advocates say community members are rightfully concerned when masked, armed men show up at homes and businesses. Law professors say local police can investigate federal agents with some limitations. Written by Mohamed Ibrahim.

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Should you call 911 on ICE? What can local police do, if anything?

Community members are calling 911 on ICE agents, but what can Minneapolis and St. Paul police do to investigate immigration enforcement?

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 12/12/2025

A growing share of people arrested by ICE have no criminal record. The percentage of people ICE has arrested who are convicted of violent crimes is less than half what it was under the Biden administration. minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/12/r...

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An ever-larger share of ICE’s arrested immigrants have no criminal record • Minnesota Reformer

Immigration arrests under the Trump administration continued to increase through mid-October, reaching rates of more than 30,000 a month. But, rather than the convicted criminals the administration ha...

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/12/2025

A community group against police brutality wants the St. Paul City Council to address a recent federal operation in which St. Paul police fired less-lethal munitions into a crowd of protesters.

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Community group wants St. Paul City Council to address police actions

St. Paul City Council will meet Wednesday and discussion of the incident is not on the agenda.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 11/12/2025

The agents handcuffed the man, took him across 4th Street and pushed him onto his knees in the snow. One put him in a choke hold. “I have my ID!” he shouted repeatedly, as heard on video. The agents do not respond.

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ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis

Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 10/12/2025

"We are as American as apple pie and as Minnesotan as ranch dressing, and we have invested in our communities, our state and our nation," second-generation Somali-American organizer Faisa Ahmed writes in today's guest commentary:

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He called us 'garbage.' Here is the Somali community I know. • Minnesota Reformer

I am an American and a member of the Minnesota Somali community. President Donald Trump called me and my 221,000 fellow Somali Americans “garbage.” The secretary of defense, who is Minnesota born, eag...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

A Minneapolis woman & American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three neighbors in north Minneapolis. She appears to be the first observer arrested since ICE launched a Twin Cities immigration surge last week. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block

Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 05/12/2025

Across the Twin Cities residents are volunteering to make ICE’s job in Minnesota as difficult as possible. ICE watchers say the ultimate goal is to prevent ICE agents from arresting, jailing and deporting their neighbors.

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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods

Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.

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Mayor Kaohly Her @mayorher.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Trump is once again weaponizing the federal government to attack communities that are central to our city’s identity. I will not allow Saint Paul to be used to indiscriminately advance his divisive and hateful agenda against the immigrant community under the guise of legal proceedings.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members say they were taunted and humiliated during a standoff with federal agents. By Shubhanjana Das

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Family of man swept up in St. Paul raid say agents had no warrant

A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members of a second man swept up in the operation say they were taunted and humiliated during a ...

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Hanna Risku @hrisku.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The PhD Program in Cognitive Science at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, invites applications for doctoral students to start in Fall 2026. 4 years of full financial coverage for enrolled students. Application deadline Feb. 4, 2026. cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission

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Applications Are Now Open for Academic Year 2026-2027 | Department of Cognitive Science

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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Really excellent resource for Know Your Rights materials in lots of Indigenous languages:

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Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Happy to be in the greater Seattle area for the @notisnet.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to four hours of workshops on consecutive note-taking on Saturday!

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Robert G Lee @robertglee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hello! I have started a website for information about the role-space model of interpreting - www.rolespace.online Hopefully it will be of use to interpreters, students, and others! Please visit and spread the word! #xl8 #interpreting

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Role-Space.online

Welcome! Click below to access various types of resources!

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Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The past two weeks have been A. Lot. (understatement.), but today I started off the long weekend by spending several hours hanging out with my five year old buddy, including making cookies and a trip to the playground. eleventy-billion/10 stars, can recommend.

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Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

After weeks of many library books on hold, but none becoming available, I suddenly have 7 available and checked out to me at once. Possibly the universe is sending me a signal.

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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

1. quick deepl/human comparison for you. This is from my current project on state sexual violence against Greenlandic women, which is obviously pretty sensitive stuff.

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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.

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Hanna Risku @hrisku.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

CfP by Christopher D. Mellinger & Elisabet Tiselius on Evolving approaches to Cognitive Interpreting Studies: From psychological to socio-cognitive perspectives incontextjournal.org/index.php/in...

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Tazin Abdullah @tazinabdullah.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

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The Social Impact of Automating Translation

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalun…

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Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Inputting changes into the book draft from the handwritten comments on the hardcopy manuscript that @tulkur.bsky.social and I worked on together three weeks ago in Leeds, and having happy memories of how much fun and how hard we laughed while working on them 🥰🥰. The book's not half bad, either. 😎

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