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WIRED @wired.com · 29/05/2025

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene.” www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

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Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families

“It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

UPDATED: As of Tuesday night, California universities are reporting at least 92 revoked student visas. — 50 at UC campuses. New: UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine and a jump at UC Berkeley to 19 total — 36 at CSU campuses, including San Diego State — 6 at Stanford www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Caught off-guard, California colleges scramble to determine scope of student visa cancellations

More universities are discovering that international student visas were cancelled last week, causing growing concern and confusion at UCLA and other California campuses.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez. Bezos is in a tight fitting shirt, heart-shaped sunglasses, tight white pants, and a white belt. The shirt has a red, gold, and blue pattern in the style of a kitchen backsplash. Sánchez is in a two-piece, sparkly outfit.

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's been a few years, but I'm excited to be going back to #NICAR25 next week! I'm always happy to talk to early career folks and students, so reach out for coffee 👋 Also reach out if you have veggie/vegan friendly recs

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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thousands of refugees can no longer resettle in Minnesota after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing immigration to the United States. Written by Katelyn Vue

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Thousands of refugees destined for Minnesota in limbo under Trump

Thousands of refugees can no longer resettle in Minnesota after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing immigration to the United States.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/12/2024

A bunch of my colleagues were laid off on Thursday and we are trying to get them as much money as possible to ease the blow, if you have anything to spare www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

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Donate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok Selvam

On Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union

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Akoto Ofori-Atta @akoto.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hey new followers! 👋 Longtime Twitter lurker making my way over to Bluesky and hoping to be less lurky here. But enough about me—go follow @capitalb.bsky.social! We’re an independent newsroom covering the issues that matter to Black folks, both locally and nationally, with real depth and care.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I think they trust billionaires even less.

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Imagine putting a lot of engineering resources into building AI tools that more easily surface news articles and then using those tools to hide your own newsroom's reporting. www.npr.org/2024/10/25/n...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Statement on The Atlantic agreement with OpenAI from the Atlantic Union. www.nyguild.org/front-page-d...

The unionized members of The Atlantic Editorial and Business and Technology units are deeply troubled by the opaque agreement The Atlantic has made with OpenAI, and especially by management’s complete lack of transparency about what the agreement entails and how it will affect our work. Atlantic staffers have largely learned of this agreement from outside sources, and both the company and OpenAI have refused to answer questions about the terms of the deal. Instead, they’ve directed staffers to the very same outside reporting.

The Atlantic has defended the values of transparency and intellectual honesty for more than 160 years. Its legacy is built on integrity, derived from the work of its writers, editors, producers, and business staff. OpenAI, on the other hand, has used news articles to train AI technologies like ChatGPT without permission. The people who continue to maintain and serve The Atlantic deserve to know what precisely management has licensed to an outside firm and how, s

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

This is why it's important to support local news. While this: www.wsj.com/politics/ele... focused on the issues motivating tech millionaires to get involved in city politics, @missionlocal.bsky.social followed the money and dug into the relationships instead: missionlocal.org/2024/02/expl...

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

The LA Times Guild has walked off the job. ✊ I’ll be joining my colleagues for a rally today at noon in Grand Park. ✊ Please support us by not crossing the digital picket line and feel free to join us for a rally in Grand Park at 12 pm noon. ✊

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

The LA Times Guild is asking supporters to not cross the picket line as the staff walks out tomorrow. As a subscriber, I'm standing in solidarity with them ✊🏼 Local news is vital and newsroom cuts not only hurt the reporters but end up hurting the local community.

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Every year friends and I share a list of our fav films. This is my 2023 list, with a special shout-out to The Roxie in SF, which screened most of these! 1. Joyland 2. Four Daughters 3. Afire 4. Fremont 5. Barbie 6. Godzilla Minus One 7. Enys Men 8. You Hurt My Feelings 9. Showing up 10. Broker

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Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com · 20/12/2023

80% – EIGHTY PERCENT — of Americans are concerned about news organizations using AI. The only task a majority felt comfortable with AI performing was translation. But by all means, let's continue down the spiral of shit with Silicon Valley. futureofnews.computerhistory.org/measuring-th...

A chart of a poll question. The question was: Overall, how concerned are you about the use of artificial intelligence by news organizations? 80% of all respondents said they were concerned. The chart then provides a demographic breakdown: 86% of women and 76% of men were concerned. 72% of 18-34 year olds, 79% of 35-49 year olds, 84% of 50-64 year olds, 88% of 65 and older. 84% of white people, 73% of people of color. 87% of Republicans, 77% of Democrats, 72% of independents. 81% of those familiar with AI, and 80% of those not familiar with AI.

A chart of a poll question. The question was: How comfortable are you with news organizations using artificial intelligence in the following ways?

In response to "write and publish news articles", 81% were not comfortable. "Produce images to include in news articles": 74%. "Write news stories for human review": 72%. "To create headlines for news articles": 67%. "To fact-check information for news articles": 64%. "Recommend news content that is most relevant or interesting to you": 59%. "Produce audio versions of news articles": 55%. "Translate news content into other languages": 42%.

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

"Yet when layoffs come, those who sold us the false business ideas of “pivot to video” or “get me their emails” or “put on live events” or “we need new podcasts” ... aren’t the ones paying the layoff price." - THIS, from @webjournalist.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-...

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The wrong people will be laid off…again

"When layoffs come, those who sold us the false business ideas of 'pivot to video' or 'get me their emails' or 'put on live events' or 'we need new podcasts' or 'let’s get IP to sell to Netflix' are...

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/12/2023

Last week, I testified about AI in journalism in front of the California Senate Judiciary Committee. Bottom line: There’s no journalism without journalists.

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

From the report: "None of the evidence indicated the presence of any military objective near the journalists. The attack on the journalists’ position directly targeted them, with two consecutive strikes within 37 seconds."

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 07/12/2023

I'm walking out with the rest of my 700+ colleagues at the Washington Post as we demand fair pay after 18 months with no contract. Please consider joining us in collective action: actionnetwork.org/letters/work...

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Workers at the Washington Post deserve a living wage!

The Washington Post says it supports writers. So why won't it pay its workers a living wage? We've been bargaining with the Washington Post for over a year. Journalists, copy editors, designers, mark...

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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

This week brought wonderful news on the labor front The UAW—fresh off a historic, victorious strike against Detroit's automakers—announced plans to unionize more thanr a dozen of the remaining non-union auto companies in the US: Tesla, Toyota, Honda, VW and more www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I'm not a Post Guild member but am proud to support journalists as a reader by not crossing the Dec. 7 picket line. The Guild asks that supporters not read or listen to post content & instead share info about the strike & send letters of support to Post leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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