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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What is up with the Trump administration denying people access to a government website?

Screenshot of DOI website that says "Access Denied"

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Link no longer active: "Technical difficulties"

Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Oglala Sioux Tribe has revealed that federal officials told tribe they'd provide info on the detained members' whereabouts only if the tribe entered into an immigration agreement. The tribe rejected terms and is warning feds of legal consequences for unlawful detention, treaty violations, etc

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan told our reporter ICE is racially profiling Native Americans and needs to get out of Minneapolis. She calls the detention of four Oglala Sioux Tribe members "outrageous and unacceptable." @buffalosfire.bsky.social

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Oglala Sioux Tribe demands release of tribal members in ICE custody - Buffalo’s Fire

OST president warns federal officials of legal consequences for treaty violations, unlawful detention and deprivation of civil rights

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Studies have shown a link between abusive practices in policing & PTSD. PTSD affects the brain’s function & structure. It can impair decision-making and lead to a heightened anticipatory stress response. Officers with untreated mental-health injuries are a known risk to the public. (2/2)

Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I’m a journalist who has written about policing & PTSD, so when I read that the ICE officer who killed Renee Good previously had been injured on the job, I wondered if ICE had required him to be evaluated for PTSD afterward to make sure he was fit for duty. (1/2)

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I do not know if that's the person I spoke with. But the number I called is the same number that was associated with Avi Silverberg on the site FeastGood.

Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

He wouldn't tell me his last name but says his community knows who he is. He told me Bow Valley Insider operates without investors or govt subsidies and is funded mostly by advertisers. He said his background is in digital marketing and media.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Well, that was a long conversation. Need to pick up my kid. More later.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I'm on the phone with the guy as I type

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A reverse google image search of the Ben S. photo on the site turns up...nothing.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you can, please support non-profit Native-led media.

Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The crowd is calling Trump a “jagoff,” which when I was growing up in Pittsburgh was just about the worst kind of insult.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My 82-year-old father sent me this from Pittsburgh. #NoKings

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My summer archives tour of alt-weekly literary journalism, aka immersion journalism, aka reported longform narrative, 1970s-2001, continues with this astonishment--14,000 unstoppable words from 1999 about brick scavengers by @torimarlan.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/news/brickya...

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Brickyard Blues - Chicago Reader

Numbed by cold, pelted by rain, enduring smashed fingers and toes, poorly paid brick salvagers keep coming back for more.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Thanks, Jeff! That was one of my all time favorite stories to work on. I hope you do put together an alt-weekly stories anthology—I’d love to read it.

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I understand that. What I’m saying is that if he didn’t know where the couple worked, then he killed them because they were Jewish or because they were at a Jewish museum.

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Unless there’s some evidence he targeted them because of their connection to the embassy.

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But the question is about whether his actions were antisemitic. Regardless of what his manifesto said, it appears he shot Jews on American streets because they were Jewish (and/or leaving a Jewish museum).

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

They were killed leaving a Jewish museum, not the Israeli embassy -- that's likely why there are claims of antisemitism. Have you seen reporting that shooter targeted them or knew they worked for the embassy?

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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

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Ethan Cox @ethancox.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Good morning from the campaign trail here on the west coast! Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria. Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thrilled to be providing editorial support to this dream team!

Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Aren’t they supposed to also outline the steps they’ve taken, and will take, to facilitate his return?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I crossed between Quebec and Vermont yesterday. It was completely dead, unlike any other of my many border crossings in recent years. All but one lane into the US was closed, and in the open lane there was only one car ahead of ours. The whole stop was quicker than the wait at a red light.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Residential street, Victoria, B.C.

Sign on residential street that says Sell Your Tesla While You Still Can

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This 🎯 article by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is one of the best recaps of the COVID reality, how we got here, and what it means for the present & the future: How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025) healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

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How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I didn’t feel this one, and I was near Gonzales beach.

Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

No tsunami expected after this morning’s earthquake because the conditions aren’t right? Or because the Trump admin fired the NOAA staff whose job it is to warn us? Genuinely don’t know.

Screenshot of NOAA site saying no tsunami warning

News article about NOAA Trump admin firings

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I've started in a new role as the Guest Managing Editor for Buffalo's Fire, an independent news outlet published by the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance. If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org

Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Congrats, Kate. I hope they know how lucky they are to be getting you!