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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
UPDATED: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has now resulted in more than 83,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are continuing to track the increase in these cases:
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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The refugee crisis of 1709..." Lots of rich detail here, but it's an illuminating (and depressing) view on how xenophobic reactions to immigrants/refugees have always been with us. You'd hope we'd learned better by now how to block them. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is incredible work, and I've been searching for something like it for a long time.
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is fucking humiliating and anyone doing work in software should think about this long and hard before doing business with Google. Strong companies don't do this. Weak ones who think they need help from the government to survive? Yeah, this is their speed.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 28/08/2026
Every face on that wall was a person. Someone loved them. Someone misses them. They should still be here. #SheShed 🎥 IG: defiancedispatch
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Important reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit
The agency’s second killing in as many weeks prompted an abrupt policy change on vehicle stops.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/06/2026
Wealthy nations reap huge benefits from immigration, study finds reut.rs/4oKeXWO
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Wealthy nations reap huge benefits from immigration, study finds
Wealthy nations with the highest rate of immigration over the past 35 years reaped a large economic benefit and many could still absorb more ​workers, according to research to be presented at a top European Central Bank conference next week.
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I suppose I'd never thought about why LGBTQ's letters are in that order and just would have assumed that putting the L first was more mellifluous, but this is a much better reason: www.apa.org/ed/precolleg...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
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Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hey now, I'm a millennial and I had no friends before it was cool.
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Was clearing out some old bookmarks when I came across this: Gay Love Letter Through the Centuries www.rictornorton.co.uk/hervey1.htm . The site itself is an antique, nearly 30 years old (a minor miracle it's still going), but the letters are a timely fit for Pride Month.
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Gay Love Letters through the Centuries: Town and Country
Town and Country
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Federal judges have ruled against ICE detentions more than 10,000 times, compared with roughly 1,200 rulings in favor. That means courts found the detentions unlawful in about 90% of reviewed cases. ICE are lawless goons, and we are fighting back: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 23/05/2026
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.
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Alarm as GOP lawmakers hand themselves cash offer: 'Republicans in Congress did what???'
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.Levin took to X to announce that he had introduced an ...
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I know there's a certain irony in posting a paper that argues "users of social media are far more likely to scroll than post." But, well: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2026
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It was never just about “illegal” immigration, let alone about just “illegal criminals”. This is a white supremacist project!
Graph that show that, in absolute numbers, legal immigration has gone down even more than “illegal” immigration under Trump.
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Free countries are high-tax countries." www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqDd...
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Why the Rich Want a Weak Government
YouTube video by Patriotic Millionaires
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Riordan Frost @riordanfrost.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
How important has immigration been for recent state population growth? My new @harvard-jchs.bsky.social blog post has an interactive state map exploring this question: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/populat.... The patterns imply that the recent & projected declines will be felt unevenly. #MapMonday
This state map shows immigration as a share of population growth from 2021-2025. In 7 states, there was aggregate population loss in this period, so no share is reported. For the remaining states, the share varies widely, from less than 25% to 100% (where immigration outpaces total population growth). States in which immigration is a lower share of their population growth are largely in the Sunbelt and Mountain West. States in which immigration is a higher share or outpaces their growth are concentrated in the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/03/2026
Where’s the lie?
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less via sethackerman.substack.com
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 12/03/2026
Trump's tariffs have proved beyond doubt that corporate America can afford to pay higher taxes. The US urgently needs those tax dollars to restore its fiscal health (via Bloomberg Opinion)
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America Can Afford Higher Taxes. The Tariffs Prove It
If the Trump administration’s misguided tariff policy has proved anything, it’s that corporate America can afford to pay higher tax rates without the disruptions that Republican devotees of supply-side economics always say are inevitable. This is an important lesson as the warnings over the country’s elevated debt and federal budget deficits become more dire.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year” Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.
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EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year
Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A little art therapy with the latest from Gorillaz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRu...
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Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God
YouTube video by Gorillaz
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
pretty stunning chart
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🔔 INBOX — WILSON COUNTY: Tuesday 7PM is a county commission meeting where folks will have a chance to speak out against the planned ICE DETENTION CENTER Betsy Phillips: “Hell is here.” More: www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Homan might want to read our story. A few months ago, we counted at least 170 Americans detained. They were *almost all Latino.* www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"It's starting to seem like being consumed by the sun is the better option." Projections of the future of the solar system/universe are always such a special flavor of bleakness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1uk...
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What if Earth Survives the Red Giant Sun?
YouTube video by Kyplanet
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Quite informative. A lot to be said here, but one thing I've realized is, we really need a fairer model of accounting for public vs private costs, because it's too easy for bad actors to claim govt programs are more expensive than private ones, even when they're not www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQOX...
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We Found The Radical Solution To Skyrocketing Grocery Prices
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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m.e.s. @shimiaoning.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Something about reading this feels at once soothing and genuinely inspiring: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/02/2026
liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Conditions of confinement have grown significantly worse... Deaths in ICE detention in 2025 were the highest ever for a non-COVID year. And for the rising number of people held in detention, the worsening conditions have led many to simply give up their cases—even if they had viable claims."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
It would be far less time-consuming to count down the number of times he accidentally told the truth. shorturl.at/j6eU3
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CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale recounted 25 of Donald Trump's "top lies of 2025," although the journalist confessed it was hard to choose "only 25."
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The long shadows of sunrise seen from space.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Today is the last day you can vote early for Aftyn Behn if you live in TN-7! As families face high costs this Thanksgiving season, she will fight to make life more affordable. Find your polling place at IWillVote.com/TN and vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social.
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I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state's next election.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23/11/2025
You know who contributes billions to the economy? Immigrants. You know who doesn’t? Immigrants too scared to leave their homes (via Bloomberg Opinion)
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Defending Masked Immigration Agents Is a Losing Battle
California passed a pair of laws that would prohibit immigration agents from wearing masks or hiding their identities while detaining people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants. It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to not only sue, but to refuse to comply.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
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