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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 2d

Just in terms of - when there is a will there is a way, that is. Not a possibility in the sense that that is something this government would do.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 2d

I have actually thought about this - how the animating fear on the far right has been federal agents going door to door to take away guns, and how absurd it seemed. But this has introduced that kind of thing into a realm of possibility that I never previously credited.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 2d

WBEZ and Sun-Times reporters also found a map crumpled up on the floor in the entryway of an apartment. It labeled each unit inside the five-floor building as “vacant,” “tenant” or as “firearms.” Some units appeared to be marked as both “tenant” and “firearm.”"

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 2d

"Days before the raid, the man who sheltered the mother and her daughter saw someone he believed to be a worker from the building taking pictures of the units “where the Venezuelans lived.”

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 10d

I was asked to speak at the Journalism Is Not A Crime rally yesterday to share some of what journalists have experienced in Chicago while covering the Broadview ICE processing facility.

To be honest, I am pretty uneasy with all the attention! 1/

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Aug 9

Sure! We should be able to Dm now

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Aug 7

"When I talk about it, I get one of two reactions. One is, 'That can never happen to us because we have parental controls, the screen time [limits]... Or two, 'I had no idea that something like this could happen. Please tell me more.’”

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How some online networks target and radicalize kids

Podcast Episode · Consider This from NPR · 08/07/2025 · 13m

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today, Brandon Russell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for his involvement in a plot to destroy Baltimore area power plants. He encouraged others to do the same through a loose, violent neo-Nazi network, Terrorgram

Read my coverage of his trial from earlier:

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · Mar 21

In January, I spent a few days in federal court for the trial of neo-Nazi Brandon Russell, who was convicted of conspiring to damage an energy facility.

It provided a glimpse into how the government dismantled a loose, international neo-Nazi network.

Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Neo-Nazi network ‘Terrorgram’ goes to court over planned attack on substation

A federal criminal court case against Atomwaffen Division co-founder Brandon Clint Russell provided a glimpse into the sources, tools and tactics that the Biden administration used to penetrate and di...

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you. Yes, we were aware and Dana is comfortable with her depictions in this story.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Aug 6

"The whole time period that he was into these things online, it was like he was taken hostage and brainwashed," she said.

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Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them

When Dana's son was hospitalized last year, it led her to a path of discovery about predatory online networks that groom children into harming themselves and others. Their reach is global and growing.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · May 30

That was what he believed when he went to the Unite the Right rally in 2017. Eight years later, the State Department is considering an Office of Remigration. www.axios.com/2025/05/30/s...

State Department seeking to create an "Office of Remigration" in wide restructuring

Critics note that the term "remigration" has been used by far-right groups in Europe.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · May 30

When interviewed a regional leader of Identity Evropa a few years ago, I asked how he thought the U.S. would become a white ethnostate without violence. He said he figured non-whites would "remigrate."

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · May 29

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“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States

As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork app...

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · May 16

Wow - this is so insightful! Thank you!

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Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social · May 16

After reading excellent reporting from @oyousef.bsky.social on NPR about the violent gender ideology behind the anti-abortion movement, we (@brooklynwalker.bsky.social + I) had to dig into our data to see whether this exists in the mass (Christian) public. 1/2

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The Gender Ideology Behind Christian Nationalism and the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: Tennessee Lookout] A recent story from NPR helps make the connections between extraordinarily restrictive anti-abortion policies and a broader mo…

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · May 15

Hardline anti-abortion movement leans into 'manhood' debate to broaden appeal.

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Hardline anti-abortion movement leans into 'manhood' debate to broaden appeal

A small network of anti-abortion rights activists has been making progress pushing for bills that would classify people who get abortions as criminals.

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NPR @npr.org · May 8

Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.
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Once-fringe activists are fighting to be the voice of the anti-abortion movement

Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Apr 18

The State Department is changing its mind about human rights

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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · Apr 17

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · Apr 14

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Feb 7

One can only imagine what the experience of people within the Springfield Haitian community must have been. This complaint details how a campaign, purportedly against one minority group, ended up terrorizing a whole city.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Feb 7

It's illuminating to see that none of the plaintiffs named here are, themselves, from the Haitian community. All of them are just residents of Springfield who publicly stood against the vitriol that was directed at immigrants.

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · Feb 7

Some of this was already well-reported at the time. But some details are chilling. One that jumped out: plaintiffs' homes were visited in the middle of the night by strangers who appeared, expecting sex and drugs. In one case, they'd been told to enter the house without knocking.

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