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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Only one of the men is from South Sudan. The others are from Vietnam, South Korea, Laos, Mexico, Cuba, and Myanmar. Try to imagine being set down and being imprisoned in a country at war with which you have no contact and which is war.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“he is a south Asian man born in Uganda?”

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“and the source is a eugenicist who opposes affirmative action because he thinks brown people are an inferior race! cool!”

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi”

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National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) @youthlaw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🚨 The Senate budget bill puts immigrant children in grave danger. It guts key protections, allows indefinite family detention in unlicensed facilities, and increases children’s risk of abuse, and exploitation. 📢 Tell Congress: NO on the budget bill. youthlaw.org/voteno

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/06/2025

Every time I post about ICE tactics, I get replies, “This is what I voted for.” Really? You voted for a mother crying for mercy while her child is still in school—about to come out and find her missing? There isn’t another way to go about this that preserves our humanity?

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Jesuit Refugee Service/USA @jrsusa.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Rev. Michael Pham, the first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV is calling on faith leaders across the Diocese of San Diego to accompany asylum seekers to court this Friday, June 20, in honor of World Refugee Day. JRS/USA applauds this call to solidarity and action. Read more: ow.ly/nvQ150WbRgj

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Virginia Senate Democrats @vasenatedems.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The Commonwealth has spoken! Congratulations to our Democratic nominees, Abigail Spanberger, Ghazala Hashmi, and Jay Jones! And a big congratulations to all who won their House of Delegates and local primary election races.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2025

Trump on the difference between his first and second terms: "I was the hunted. But now I'm the hunter."

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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Senator Alex Padilla gives an emotional speech on the floor. He discusses his experience of being detained by agents while trying to ask Kristi Noem a question about immigration policies. He also was escorted by a FBI agent & a national guardsman who knew exactly who he was but stood by silently.

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AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

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Virginia Democrats @vademocrats.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Virginia, today is Primary Election Day! Democrats up and down the ballot are depending on you to show up across the Commonwealth. Every vote counts! Visit elections.virginia.gov to check information for your locality.

Polls are open for the June 2025 Primary Election!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

NEW—After an innocent protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City No Kings protest by a “safety volunteer,” @utah50501.bsky.social says they hired team of them based on “military, first responder, other relevant de-escalation experience.” Volunteer who fired gun was a vet. Full statement:

June 16, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — It is with profound heartbreak that we acknowledge the passing of Afa Ah Loo, a peaceful protestor who was fatally shot during Saturday's Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City.
During the protest an individual was spotted holding an AR-15 style weapon. Our team of safety volunteers, who have been selected because of their military, first responder, and other relevant de-escalation experience, believed that there was an imminent threat to the protestors and took action. The saftey volunteer who responded to the individual and who was questioned by police is a military veteran. The person currently in custody was apprehended thanks to a protestor who saw the rifle and brought it to police attention.
We are mourning Afa Ah Loo with everything we have, and we are holding his family and friends in our hearts. Afa's name, courage, and commitment to his people will never be forgotten. We express our dearest and deepest sympathy to all those who knew and loved him.
The investigation into these events is still currently ongoing. At this time, SLCPD has not chosen to charge any of the volunteers. We want to thank the SLCPD, first responders, and everyone else for their quick actions on this difficult day.

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Virginia Democrats @vademocrats.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Head to your early voting polling location today for the 2025 June Primary! Visit elections.virginia.gov to find yours now.

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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 08/06/2025

As the next Governor of Virginia, I want Virginia to lead the nation in lowering housing costs. We need a real strategy to bring costs down — whether it’s buying a home or paying rent, we need to make Virginia housing more affordable.

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Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thinking of Greta Thunberg (and co) and those being attacked by ICE in LA. Lot of horrible stuff going on right now but also A LOT of people standing up for what's right.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Or hell, just read Newsom’s recent statement on this. It’s short and clear. Illegal. bsky.app/profile/evan...

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Robert Saint Lawrence @robertsaintlawrence.bandcamp.com · 09/06/2025

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Just gonna leave this right here…

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The LAPD whenever they think no one can see

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in open rebellion. @down2marsgirl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Yes. Please make sure a loved one IN YOUR CITY has a copy of this info as well. At the minimum, they can present the real docs to media/news IMMEDIATELY to hopefully get you released sooner if the govt is holding you secretly.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is illogical. And anti-science.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2025

What’s supposed to happen? If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do? Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run? 1.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 16/05/2025

Whichever network picks this up getting the same treatment as Target.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

From a South African SubReddit — This “Amerikaners” site has details for white South African *refugees* looking to move to 🇺🇸 — outlining benefits they are eligible for, Etc. “You do not need to prove persecution” 🤔 (The program is suspended for others) www.amerikaners.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"Independent journalists like Kabas uncovering major scoops are something of an existential threat to mainstream media’s business model, because they prove that you don’t need to spend millions of dollars to report the news."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I don’t care what immigration policy you favor masked federal officers is a way to instill terror and not just among the undocumented

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

omg

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2025

RFK Jr explains why he supports the idea of creating a national autism database

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
WASHINGTON, DC 20202
May 5, 2025
Dr. Alan Garber
Office of the President
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Garber,
The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?
Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates.
Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected?
Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then…

$running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede…$

Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University.
These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Sincerely,
Linda E. McMahon
Secretary of Education

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 05/05/2025

Immigration policy or bribery? Trump wants to PAY immigrants $1,000 to leave. This ain’t policy — it’s a payoff. And guess what? Our taxpayer dollars are funding it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

For those curious, here's the email I sent to WaPo that made the correction happen:

I'm reaching out regarding a story you published last week about Rwanda agreeing to take third country nationals from the US. In it you write, "Ameen’s presence in Rwanda was first reported by independent journalist Marisa Kabas, who cited a State Department cable that described it as a new “removal” program for third-party nationals. The Post has not independently confirmed the contents of that cable."I'm trying to understand what prevented you from saying that I was the first to report the overall story. My piece was not just about Ameen, but about the new diplomatic relationship between the two countries, the $100k that the US gave Rwanda, and the agreement to take 10 more TCNs in coming days. As a result of this bizarre crediting, both CBS News and the New York Times have reported that the Post was the first to report these talks. CBS News referenced my reporting but didn't even include my name until enough people reached out after I posted about it on Bluesky. NYT erased me from the equation entirely. I know it may seem small as a reporter at one of the largest media outlets in the country, but for me, an independent journalist who does 100% of the work for top to bottom all by myself, it's huge. I'm requesting you issue a correction to your story to make clear that The Handbasket was first to report this story overall—not just as a professional courtesy, but for the sake of factual accuracy.
Thank you,

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tlcompass.bsky.social @tlcompass.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This happens to you (and others) too often @marisakabas.bsky.social. Brava for insisting you receive the credit you deserve.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/04/2025

This is chilling!!! Trump gave the Pentagon control of 170 square miles of U.S. land—now a militarized zone called the “New Mexico National Defense Area.” This move walks the line of Posse Comitatus and edges toward the Insurrection Act—to go after migrants. But it doesn’t have to stop there.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved. I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:

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Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak

Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I have confirmed twice that these materials were on a 10 year loan and were scheduled to be returned now. This has nothing to do with Trump. I’m sorry that Rev. Brown perceived it that way. We need to stay on alert, but not prematurely sound the alarm.

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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 28/04/2025

It’s not always wanting a seat at the table. Especially when the table is bullshit. Make your own table.

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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tonight! @janainelson.bsky.social joins Win With Black Women. Watch here: youtube.com/@winwithblackwomen #WinWithBlackWomen

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