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Reporter @washingtonpost.com covering politics, demographics & immigration. Argentino neoyorquino 🇦🇷🗽. Signal: teoarmus.27. Se habla español. washingtonpost.com/people/teo-armus

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Patrick Caldwell @patcaldwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Once founded to educate the children of Cuban exiles, this massive state school was now declaring open season on the next generation." Fantastic story by @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Hispanics flock to this university. It let campus police double as ICE agents.
Leaders of Florida International University signed an agreement to deputize its school police as immigration agents. Some wish they had put up more of a fight.
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Scott Clement @sfcpoll.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How mainstream Democrats pulled off a big upset against a democratic socialist, via Patrick Marley, @teoarmus.bsky.social & @ence.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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How mainstream Democrats pulled off a big upset against a democratic socialist
Supporters and detractors agreed that voters appeared to be increasingly worried over whether Hong could beat GOP nominee Tom Tiffany.
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mainstream Democrats in Wisconsin pulled off an unlikely victory against a heavily favored democratic socialist in the state’s gubernatorial primary Tuesday. @ence.bsky.social @teoarmus.bsky.social & Patrick Marley break down how... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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How mainstream Democrats pulled off a big upset against a democratic socialist
Supporters and detractors agreed that voters appeared to be increasingly worried over whether Hong could beat GOP nominee Tom Tiffany.
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Scott Clement @sfcpoll.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Most Americans say they would not back a democratic socialist for president, a Washington Post-Ipsos poll finds. New with @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Younger adults and postgraduates are most willing to consider voting for a democratic socialist for president — Washington Post-Ipsos poll. (@teoarmus.bsky.social and @sfcpoll.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260731
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Edward S. Solomon @edsolomon.net · 07/06/2026
Teo Armus, WAPO: "Yet at a moment when resentment of elites and the establishment has been growing in both parties ... family ties can also present significant downsides for 'nepo candidates,' as they have been dubbed by some rival campaigns." @teoarmus.bsky.social [Gift Article] wapo.st/4vt5fu7
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Political dynasties carry new baggage as voters vilify the elite
Family names have long given candidates a boost. In the era of No Kings, they can also make for an easy attack.
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Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The new Florida maps will split a growing Puerto Rican community in Kissimmee. Even some Republicans are unhappy. “You’re not giving the voters the respect they deserve,” a former Florida GOP field organizer told @teoarmus.bsky.social. Read our deep dive: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Arrow chart showing demographic populations of Florida's CD9 before and after redistricting, where the white population goes from 28% to 44% and the Hispanic population shrinks from 54% to 41%, including 26% to 17% drop in Puerto Rican population.
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Less than 4 years ago, 21 were killed by a gunman. Now Uvalde appears likely to elect "the AK guy." This from @teoarmus.bsky.social tells much about the reality of gun politics in Texas -- In tragedy-torn Uvalde, it’s a scandal-ridden incumbent or ‘the AK Guy’ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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In tragedy-torn Uvalde, it’s a scandal-ridden incumbent or ‘the AK Guy’
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is accused of having an affair with an aide who later killed herself. His primary challenger, Brandon Herrera, is running on a pro-gun platform.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#SaveThePost, Jeff Bezos.
This image shows a logo of The Washington Post Guild and our statement:

The Post Guild vehemently opposes any more cuts to the staff of The Washington Post. As we’ve seen in recent years, continuing to eliminate scores of workers who make this storied institution what it is only stands to weaken the newspaper, drive away readers and undercut The Post’s mission: to hold power to account without fear or favor and provide critical insight into communities across the region, country and world.

If Jeff Bezos no longer supports that mission, then The Post and its readers deserve a steward who does.

If you value The Post’s journalism and its renowned past — if you care about its future — we ask that you join us in our call to #SaveThePost.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.
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Caitlin Gibson @caitjgibson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It has never been more important to understand what is happening in our world, and @washingtonpost.com's foreign reporters regularly sacrifice their own wellbeing and safety to bring us those vital stories. I'm so proud to share a newsroom with them. We need them more than ever. #SavethePost
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Michelle Boorstein @michelleboorstein.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We're not perfect, but hundreds of us at The @washingtonpost.com bust our butts daily to bring you facts, expertise and context about your government & other powerful institutions, incredibly important foreign reporting and journalism you AREN'T GETTING ANYWHERE ELSE #SaveThePost
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26/01/2026
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. 

Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
A Washington Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
NEW: More than 80% of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during Trump’s federal law enforcement surge this year had no criminal convictions or charges, new data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime. w/ Emmanuel Martinez wapo.st/4iC8oCR
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Most immigrants arrested in Trump’s D.C. crackdown had no criminal records
A Post analysis of federal data shows that the arrests of immigrants with no prior criminal record shot up sixfold during the Trump administration’s crackdown.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/11/2025
“It’s taking a toll everywhere.” Charlotte's Border Patrol operation has rippled across the lines of race and class, spilling into tony neighborhoods where many residents gave little thought to how President Trump’s deportation push would affect them.
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Border Patrol’s Charlotte sting reaches into country clubs, upscale shops
As undocumented immigrants stayed home and federal agents swept through the city, even the wealthiest neighborhoods got a glimpse of what life without migrants might look like.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/11/2025
very lovely day in alexandria, va. this morning
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Virginia Democrats stick with Jay Jones, electing him attorney general despite violent text messages in which he nonchalantly mused about shooting the former GOP speaker of the House of Delegates in the head. @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Democrat Jay Jones projected to win Virginia attorney general’s race
Democrat Jay Jones and Republican Jason Miyares are battling in a contest for Virginia attorney general that was rocked by violently worded leaked text messages.
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Neil J. Young @neiljyoung.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Grateful to have my thoughts included in this terrific @washingtonpost.com piece about the gay Republican running to be VA’s Lt Gov by @teoarmus.bsky.social wapo.st/3WvuRqV
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This gay Republican could make history. He’d like to talk about something else.
Virginia’s John Reid could become the country’s first openly gay Republican elected to statewide office. Attacks from within his party have made his sexuality an issue, he says.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Virginia is never lacking in political drama when elections come around -- and I'm doing a Reddit AMA with my colleagues Greg Schneider & Erin Cox to answer your questions about races for governor, LG, attorney general & the House of Delegates. It's tomorrow (10/30) at 2 p.m. ET. Ask away here:
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From the Virginia community on Reddit: We’re reporters with The Washington Post who cover Virginia. Ask us anything about the upcoming election!
Explore this post and more from the Virginia community
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
NEW: The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall refugee admissions into the US over the next fiscal year set as low as 7,500. w/ @mradamtaylor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A story I wrote from Buenos in Aires in January on meat in Argentina ... suddenly all the more relevant in the U.S. as Trump proposes importing Argentine beef www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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In the colossus of beef, Argentines are increasingly turning to pork
Grill-obsessed Argentines, facing inflation and economic shock therapy, consumed less beef per capita in 2024 than at any point in the past century.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
NEW: Trump's 30-day crime emergency in DC is over. But DHS agents are still joining DC police patrols & roll calls, even though DC law bars police from helping fed immigration agents. The result? Immigrants are ending up in ICE custody. w/ Emma Uber www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Trump’s D.C. crime emergency is over. Immigration officers are still patrolling with D.C. police.
The Washington Post reviewed photos and videos of at least half a dozen incidents since Sept. 10. They show D.C. police officers with masked agents in vests labeled HSI for Homeland Security Investiga...
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Claudia Sheinbaum’s government doesn’t want to ban narcocorridos. They want to compete with them @teoarmus.bsky.social reports from CDMX www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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To fight the narcos, Mexico tries a new approach: A song contest
A Eurovision-style competition to counter narcocorridos, popular songs that romanticize the drug trade, draws viewers — and skeptics.
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 15/09/2025
The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers. The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
NEW: ICE has arrested so many people in Trump's D.C. crackdown that it's crowding the agency’s Northern Virginia processing site, lawyers say, creating "dangerous" conditions in a site not meant to keep people overnight. w/ Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff & @marialuisapaul.bsky.social
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ICE holding facilities overcrowded amid surge in immigration arrests
Immigration agents have arrested so many people in their D.C. crackdown that they are crowding the agency’s processing site in Northern Virginia, lawyers say.
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Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
told lovingly and beautifully by the brilliant @teoarmus.bsky.social
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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08
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They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.
Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New tonight: The Virginia Court of Appeals appears to have reinstated Arlington’s “missing middle” plan, reversing an order from a circuit court judge that put a stop to the EHO policy.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Amid deportations and fear, Mexicans in the U.S. are sending less money home, squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate @teoarmus.bsky.social and Karla Gachet report from San Bartolomé Quialana wapo.st/45vO9BX
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Amid crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. It’s leaving a mark.
Falling remittances are squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
NEW: Amid Trump's immigration crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. The drop is squeezing businesses, cutting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that often drive people to migrate. On the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com, with stunning photos by Karla Gachet
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Amid crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. It’s leaving a mark.
The drop in remittances is squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
NEW: As immigrant delivery drivers started using mopeds, D.C. police pushed greater enforcement of their vehicles. Now, amid Trump’s federal takeover, ICE is joining their patrols — and detained at least 11 of those drivers.
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ICE is joining D.C. police patrols. Moped drivers are an early target.
D.C. police’s efforts to enforce moped laws resulted mostly in food delivery drivers’ immediate release. That has changed.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2025
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
NEW in @washingtonpost.com: As Panama has been caving in to Trump's demands and shifting away from China, not even a historic monument is being spared from this geopolitical fight. My latest, on Central America's largest ethnic Chinese community -- now caught in the middle:
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The U.S., China, the Panama Canal — and the community caught in the middle
Pressured by President Donald Trump, Panama pivots toward Washington, raising concern in Central America’s largest Chinese community.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
On the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com: What 16 of the migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador’s CECOT experienced in that notorious mega prison w/ Sam Schmidt, Helena Carpio @marialuisapaul.bsky.social @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social @asteckelberg.bsky.social
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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
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María Luisa Paúl @marialuisapaul.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“Welcome to hell” We spoke to 16 Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. This is the most complete view yet of the conditions they faced — which, some experts said, may violate conventions against torture. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the mega prison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
NEW: In a time of travel bans and visa fees, Trump is moving to let Argentine tourists into the US without a visa — a political gift to his friend Javier Milei. But a State Dept cable acknowledges that Argentina doesn’t meet a key requirement for that exemption. w/ @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
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In move to lift Argentina visa restrictions, Trump rewards Milei’s friendship
Argentina does not meet a key requirement for the U.S. visa waiver program, a State Department cable acknowledges.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/07/2025
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
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U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Washington Post: U.S. Deportee, Freed from Salvadoran Prison, Describes ‘Horror Movie’ By @teoarmus.bsky.social, Samantha Schmidt and @arelisrhdz.bsky.social "Cells of nine to 15 people with metal benches for beds — thin mattresses were brought in for photographs and then taken away." Gift link!
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U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Julio González Jr. thought he was being deported back to Venezuela. Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador. “The horror movie started there,” he said. What the Venezuelans freed from CECOT experienced at the world’s largest prison, w/ Samantha Schmidt, Helena Carpio & @arelisrhdz.bsky.social
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U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’
Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Cristosal has relied on U.S. funding to document detainee abuse, investigate corruption and advocate for critics targeted by the Salvadoran government. Trump cut their funding; now the rights organization is fleeing the country @teoarmus.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Its U.S. funding cut, rights group flees Bukele’s El Salvador
Cristosal, wary of newly restrictive laws and the arrest of one of its staffers, follows dozens of journalists, lawyers and rights advocates into exile.
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Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Surprising and illuminating story from @teoarmus.bsky.social about immigrants increasingly sending their savings home as their futures in the U.S. dim: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Facing a crackdown, Central American immigrants are sending more money home
The Trump administration is set to implement a tax on those payments through the president’s landmark legislation that he recently signed into law.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Statement from the Arlington County Board re: latest missing middle ruling: “The Court of Appeals chose to hold a hearing following their June 24 order. That hearing was held Monday, July 8. The previous order was withdrawn pending the issuance of a new order after this week’s hearing.”
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Arlington's missing middle policy ending single-family-only zoning was effectively reinstated Tuesday by a Virginia panel of judges, who ruled that homeowners suing over that effort did not adequately take real estate developers to court, too. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Va. appeals court says Arlington can eliminate single-family-only zoning
The Northern Virginia county’s push for more “missing middle” housing had divided its residents and was paused in response to a lawsuit from some homeowners.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/06/2025
Analysis by Teo Armus | The political spotlight this year is on Virginia, which kicked off its statewide election cycle on Tuesday. Here’s what stood out as November’s matchups came into view:
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Analysis | 5 takeaways from Virginia’s primary election results
The political spotlight this year is on Virginia, which kicked off its closely-watched statewide election cycle with primaries that set November’s ballot.
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David Nakamura @davidnakamura.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. His mother was jailed in WWII internment. Now, Norman Wong has become an unlikely spokesman in the fight for American citizenship, with its presumed guarantees of civil rights, free speech and due process. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. Norman Wong is trying to save it.
One hundred and twenty-seven years after Wong Kim Ark’s Supreme Court victory enshrined birthright citizenship, Norman Wong is fighting to protect that legacy.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The Trump administration ground refugee admissions to a halt, suspending a program that lets in thousands of people fleeing war or political persecution -- except now for one group: White South Africans. @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President Donald Trump’s suspension of refugee admissions.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... vía @teoarmus.bsky.social
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Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President Donald Trump’s suspension of refugee admissions.
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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing. 
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.
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