Dara Lind
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer. You have a right and a duty to know what the government is doing in your name.
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Dara Lind
@daralind.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Anyway, this is your regular reminder that my Signal is available in my bio, and that if you have something you want publicly known I'm happy to chat with you about it and come up with a plan.
Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.
Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.
Samantha Hancox-Li is the most essential thinker of 2025 and anything that supports her is good.
Something that definitely happened last year is that @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com got on CNN. It's true—we have video.
And, that happened because of an article she landed in a larger publication.
Big platforms lead to big audiences for liberal ideas. Build one: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
And, that happened because of an article she landed in a larger publication.
Big platforms lead to big audiences for liberal ideas. Build one: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Gorilla Channel Governance
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Samantha Hancox-Li is the most essential thinker of 2025 and anything that supports her is good.
BE A MINDFUL CONSUMER IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
For every second you spend thinking about Nuzzi et al please donate a dollar to an indie media outlet that is actually doing good shit on a shoestring budget!
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
BE A MINDFUL CONSUMER IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
What’s the “dudes rock” equivalent for older white women
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What’s the “dudes rock” equivalent for older white women
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“28% of contractors, as of late August, say they’ve been either directly or indirectly impacted by enhanced ICE enforcement... Complete Roofing Solutions in D.C. closed... the company said its crews were terrified of working in the city.”
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
In Washington D.C., contractors face labor shortages due to ICE raid threats
The same fear is hitting job sites nationwide.
www.marketplace.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“28% of contractors, as of late August, say they’ve been either directly or indirectly impacted by enhanced ICE enforcement... Complete Roofing Solutions in D.C. closed... the company said its crews were terrified of working in the city.”
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
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Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
PSA: It’s a Monday night in November and FS1 is showing the 109th running of the Indy 500.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
PSA: It’s a Monday night in November and FS1 is showing the 109th running of the Indy 500.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
For the next 45 laps this is an Oliver Bearman fan account.
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
For the next 45 laps this is an Oliver Bearman fan account.
Reposted by Dara Lind
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
THIS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT ALL.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
THIS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT ALL.
I love Rose Lavelle my hometown queen but damnit Hersh
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I love Rose Lavelle my hometown queen but damnit Hersh
I’m really expecting the 51st minute to be a game changer vibes-wise. This crowd seems like they have it in em.
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I’m really expecting the 51st minute to be a game changer vibes-wise. This crowd seems like they have it in em.
Okay I do appreciate the Spirit holding off an aggressive attack in the first half but I do need them to score at SOME point, some of us also have a race to watch tonight
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Okay I do appreciate the Spirit holding off an aggressive attack in the first half but I do need them to score at SOME point, some of us also have a race to watch tonight
I get what the broadcast directors are doing, but surely there are also women rooting for the Spirit at this game.
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I get what the broadcast directors are doing, but surely there are also women rooting for the Spirit at this game.
A revelation from some grant applications in 2006; a few key breaks from prominent writers (starting with @attackerman.bsky.social who will never get the credit he deserves for launching my and @jamellebouie.net ‘s careers in the same weekend); [structural factors forcing me out of journalism]
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A revelation from some grant applications in 2006; a few key breaks from prominent writers (starting with @attackerman.bsky.social who will never get the credit he deserves for launching my and @jamellebouie.net ‘s careers in the same weekend); [structural factors forcing me out of journalism]
for the next 90 minutes of playing time (+needed) this is a Washington Spirit fan account
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
for the next 90 minutes of playing time (+needed) this is a Washington Spirit fan account
Hi, vroom expert here! This is not funny. Ferrari drivers only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
Saw this over on the other site. Absolutely phenomenal graphic. Much meme potential.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Hi, vroom expert here! This is not funny. Ferrari drivers only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
So we’ve all memorized the lyrics to “La Perla” by now right
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So we’ve all memorized the lyrics to “La Perla” by now right
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
Reposted by Dara Lind
After 27 years in the U.S., Don Lupe was detained by ICE at his New Jersey workplace. His family and community fought to bring him home. His story shows the quiet, devastating toll these detentions take on families, and the growing rise of raids at NJ bonded warehouses. @documentedny.bsky.social
A Family's Fight to Bring Their Father Home - Documented
Don Lupe had been living in the U.S. for 27 years when he was detained by ICE agents during a worksite raid in New Jersey. Then his family fought to have him freed.
documentedny.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
After 27 years in the U.S., Don Lupe was detained by ICE at his New Jersey workplace. His family and community fought to bring him home. His story shows the quiet, devastating toll these detentions take on families, and the growing rise of raids at NJ bonded warehouses. @documentedny.bsky.social
MY TIME HAS COME
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
MY TIME HAS COME
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
Reposted by Dara Lind
Imagine getting my columns SENT TO YOU rather than having to hope you spot it on balkanized social media!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
My column will be going out every other week as part of @documentedny.bsky.social's (essential!!) Early Arrival newsletter, so you should probably sign up for it. documentedny.com/newsletter/
Join Documented's Newsletter - Documented
Sign up for Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter to get everything you need to know about immigration at the local, national, and policy level.
documentedny.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Imagine getting my columns SENT TO YOU rather than having to hope you spot it on balkanized social media!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
Reposted by Dara Lind
Judge says improperly deported man now missing in Venezuela
Judge says improperly deported man now missing in Venezuela
The Trump-appointed judge stopped short of launching contempt proceedings against the administration.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Judge says improperly deported man now missing in Venezuela