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Not a bad friend to have in your friend pocket. She/her. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” —Frederick Douglass

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South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com · 11h
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own. buff.ly/rhN62Oa
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US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations outside immigrants’ home countries • South Dakota Searchlight
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation.
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Alan Wexelblat (he/him) @awexelblat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a really important point in here: the term 'deportation' has become Newspeak. The correct term is "human trafficking" because what this regime is doing fits that description much more than the genteel ideas we hold about 'deportation.'
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Even here in Maryland, this story hasn’t been getting enough attention. Read this thread. Watch the videos. Share it widely. This is what solidarity looks like Showing up for your neighbors and protecting them from terrorists like these is fucking rad as hell. Heroes, all
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Ximena Vargas @ximenavargas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anything to say about this blatant abuse of peaceful protesters 1st amendment rights? @govwesmoore.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @oagmaryland.bsky.social @wearecasa.bsky.social @aclu.org
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 05/09/2026
Tonight #ICE and Frederick, Maryland police bullied peaceful protestors who refused to let ICE kidnap more people. We joined our brothers and sisters tonight. At about the 35 second mark is when police start USING THEIR POLICE VEHICLE TO PUSH PEOPLE OFF A PUBLIC SIDEWALK! @maddow.bsky.social
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Mle Gordon @edgegrrl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
not saying federal immigration enforcement in any form should disappear tomorrow but if you leave this entity intact, and tinker at the edges and give them a stern talking to, however well meaning you are, you’re leaving these weapons and this orgy of abuses and masked thuggery intact for the next…
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Ella, Amanda & Daddy @ellico2020bis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#DontLookAway #AbolishICE #FuckICE
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The unspeakable ethnic cleansing operation being run by the WH and its secret police is ramping up
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 24/08/2026
When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy. www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/he-was-…
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, was arrested after leaving his house to take his car to the mechanic, according to his wife, Argelia Aviles. She said her husband, a handyman in Key West, Florida, has a permit...
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/08/2026
Elvis Brooks described being unable to receive compensation for his wrongful conviction as torturous, a barricade constantly preventing him from moving forward. Right now, his only source of income is his $994-a-month Social Security payment.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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Erika Andiola @erikaandiola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My friend Guillermo is terrified he will not make it out of immigration detention alive. Memo, a welder and construction worker, has lived in Arizona for over 20 years, building a life and raising his family. He’s been in immigration detention for a year with no due process.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 12/08/2026
Howard County residents vowed to fight a federal immigration facility planned for an Elkridge office building, one day after a federal judge ordered the county could no longer block work on the project. via @marylandmatters.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fede...
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Federal judge says proposed immigration facility in Howard County can move forward, for now
Howard County residents vowed to fight a federal immigration facility planned for an Elkridge office building, one day after a federal judge ordered the county could no longer block work on the…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Adelanto ICE facility, north-east of Los Angeles: The video shows a plastic bottle filled with water, which he said was given to detainees to drink. It appeared to have small pests of some kind swimming inside... “worms” or some kind of “larvae”: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A Phoenix man from Egypt has spent the last three months confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after ICE deported him there without warning. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Humberto" works at Scheid Vineyards in San Lucas, CA. Temps this day were 99° with an expected high of 103°. It feels even hotter under the grapevines. "I am glad I works at a union company where all heat protection laws are followed. They take my health seriously." #WeFeedYou
A worker working in the wine grapes under the vines
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10/07/2026
On Tuesday, another person was killed by Trump's ICE operation. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot & killed on his way to work. Americans deserve answers. There must be an independent investigation & ALL findings must be shared. The killing with impunity must stop.
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Family demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in Houston
The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the...
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
the president's personal racist paramilitary wing are skulking through our streets hunting and murdering people. they may be putting on less of a show of it than they were before, but they have not left and they are no less a threat to all of us
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/07/2026
“The victim, identified by neighbors and immigrants’ rights groups as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, was killed shortly after 7 a.m. in Biddeford, roughly 15 miles south of Portland. He was authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number...”
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ICE fatally shoots 26-year-old man in deadly traffic incident in Maine
Bullet holes seen in car windshield in second deadly shooting involving federal immigration agents within one week
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/07/2026
ICE is a horrifically evil institution that tarnishes every other institution in this country for allowing it to persist.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My god
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A world-famous doctor could die in prison and there are no consequences to the genocidal regime doing this
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/07/2026
A young mother of 4 finds her dream house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.” This is a story about how there are 2 kinds of justice, one for those who own, another for those who rent. (Published 2022 w/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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The Landlord, the Tenant and a House Fire in Milwaukee
A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Martina" is a single mother. "I get up at 4am to take my children to the babysitter and head to work in the blackberries. the temps inside the tunnels where we work reaches 80°-95°. We have to work hard to cover the rent—which has become very expensive lately." #WeFeedYou
A worker picking blackberries inside a plastic tunnel
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/07/2026
Look at these modern-day slave catchers in northeast Georgia (GIFT LINK) www.ajc.com/news/2026/06...
“If you get a wild hair and want to snatch up some folks just let me know.”

“Yeah, I’ll come out.”

“Work vans or trucks with multiple occupants are the general target. If you get one stopped holler at me and I’ll have them (ICE) en route.”

“Yeah, white work van and a ladder rack is like a 90% chance lol. Where do y’all go?”

“I generally sit in front of Waffle House and catch them coming off the interstate.”

That’s part of a text message exchange between Jefferson Police Officers Jordan Redman and Nick Hobbs.
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Génesis @gdp941.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Join @hagerstownrapidresponse.com and Washington County Indivisible and tell DHS: Stop the ICE Warehouse in Washington County! Submit your public comment now! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell DHS: Stop the ICE Warehouse in Washington County
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is attempting to convert an 825,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Washington County, Maryland into a massive ICE detention facility despite overwhelming...
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Mohammad Taher clutched the frail body of his two year old son as the toddler died in his arms from malnutrition. His food rations in Myanmar stopped due to USAID cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/06/2026
The United Nations is calling for independent investigations after at least 50 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump began his second term. The death rate is higher than it's been in over a decade, and this year is already on track to be worse than 2025. This is unconscionable.
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UN Demands Probes Into US ICE Custody Deaths
The United Nations on Friday demanded independent investigations into dozens of deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since last year -- and swift action to prevent more peopl...
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"unpaid labor" is a hell of a way to describe slavery
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We should all be concerned. Members of Congress were prevented from speaking with people inside at least two different US concentration camps this week. Both facilities are privately run FOR PROFIT by the same company, GEO Group, which is expected to make $3 billion in revenue this year.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/06/2026
Rachael Floyd drowned in her SUV as a flash flood swept through the strip mall parking lot she was driving by near the Walmart in Petal, Mississippi, on May 25. Now, the community is raising money for her husband, who suffers from an aggressive form of brain cancer, and their three children.
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After Petal Woman Drowns in Her SUV, Community Fundraises for Her 3 Kids and Ailing Husband
After Rachael Floyd drowned in her SUV in a flash flood in Petal, Mississippi, the community is raising money for her ailing husband and their kids.
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 16/06/2026
Join @hagerstownrapidresponse.com and Washington County Indivisible and tell DHS: Stop the ICE Warehouse in Washington County! Submit your public comment now! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell DHS: Stop the ICE Warehouse in Washington County
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is attempting to convert an 825,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Washington County, Maryland into a massive ICE detention facility despite overwhelming...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
ICE shouldn't be at schools. Period. This is horrific, it's unacceptable. These parents should be immediately released and we must all collectively demand that ICE stay out of schools. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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ICE agents detain parents dropping off kids outside Baltimore school
ICE agents detained two adults on public school property Thursday in a chaotic scene caught on video.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2026
Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Great. replacement. theory.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Severe medical neglect at ICE camps across the U.S. An @apnews.com investigation
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From festering infections to untreated cancer, ICE detainees across the US describe medical neglect
Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.
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Lobster Nanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Betcha didn't know David Costello, an eminently qualified candidate, is running against Platner in Maine.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

This story is based on audio of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelley's stunning series of remarks left staffers on the newsmagazine wondering if he will resign.

In the meeting, Pelley pointed out that Weiss has "no qualifications for her job" and told Bilton "you have slender qualifications for this job." Pelley, the former anchor of "CBS Evening News," noted that the changes Weiss has made to that program "have been catastrophic."

"So why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Pelley asked Bilton.

Bilton tried to move the meeting along, but Pelley pressed on, challenging the new executive producer’s references in interviews to “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt’s vision for the program as he outlined his plans.

"I have another question," the veteran journalist said. "Did you at any point work with Don Hewitt, telling everybody about what Don Hewitt thought, and what his inspiration was? I worked for Don Hewitt from 1999 to 2004 and Lesley Stahl probably worked with him for 30 years. Just wondering how you have such deep insight?"

Bilton replied that he was simply quoting Hewitt’s own words from past interviews and asked Pelley whether he had any other questions. Pelley said that he did.

"I have many questions," Pelley responded. "What was wrong with Sharyn Alfonsi?"As Bilton started to say he would "defer," Pelley interrupted: "This is not the crowd to dodge."

Bilton insisted he was not dodging.

"Nobody talked to you about that?" Pelley continued, pressing him on the firing. "They're taking one of your correspondents away and nobody mentioned to you what was wrong with Sharyn?"

Bilton acknowledged that he "had conversations with people."

"And what came out of those conversations?" Pelley asked. "They are private conversations?"

Bilton reiterated that he "did not fire" Alfonsi or Vega. Pelley pointed out that Bilton had nonetheless discussed the matter with others. Charles Forelle, a top Weiss deputy and managing editor of CBS News, interjected, telling Pelley that he was being "rude."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," Pelley replied.

"Anybody came into our house—this is '60 Minutes,'" Pelley added. "I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Pelley then asked Bilton "what was wrong with" Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of "60 Minutes" who was fired on Thursday.

Bilton again said that he did not fire Mihailovich. Forelle one more told Pelley that he was being "rude."

Pelley did not let up, however. The veteran newsman told Bilton and Forelle that the way management handled the firings was "cruel." Forelle—yet again—responded by calling Pelley "rude."

"I'm not being rude," Pelley shot back. "I have some pretty—you know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock. Sending Draggan Mihailovich to HR to get fired, because nobody could look him in the eye. Not talking about Tanya's contract. Not talking about Sharyn Alfonsi's contract. Not talking about Cecilia Vega's contract. Just calling them up and telling they were fired. That's rude. This is a conversation. That is rude, and you were part of that."
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Something that has been really striking to me as an attorney representing detained immigrants is how even the detention center staff view these places as prisons. I’ve corrected guards numerous times who referred to my client as an “inmate,” only to realize that they thought I was wrong.
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