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Laura Conaway
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oleta.bsky.social
She's 23. She's a mom. She's a citizen.

Her father says he thought someone was trying to kidnap her: "We’re Brown — they assume we live illegally here, so that's why I'm concerned."

www.nola.com/news/border-...
Young Marrero mother, a US citizen, recalls being chased by Border Patrol in viral confrontation
Jocelynn, 23, was walking home on Wednesday when an SUV approached. At first, she thought it was an Uber. The woman was still shaken Thursday when she recalled the incident caught on home security vid...
www.nola.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
oleta.bsky.social
Louisiana Illuminator:

>>“This is not America. This is not who we are,” Krivjanick said. “We don’t have masked men running up to us, grabbing us, throwing us into unidentified cars, you know or to beat us up on the street.”

lailluminator.com/2025/12/05/n...
A hub of New Orleans' Latino community is quieter as people fear immigration raids • Louisiana Illuminator
Long an epicenter of Black-owned businesses, Broad Street is now also a commercial hub for the city’s Latino community.
lailluminator.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
oleta.bsky.social
Christmas in Chicagoland, 2025.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/o...
Operation Midway Bliss redefines blitz with gift drive for families affected by immigration enforcement
More than 100 children affected by immigration enforcement in the Chicago-area will be receiving gifts this holiday season as part of a community gift-giving effort.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Laura Conaway
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Take a moment to read this @kerryhowley.bsky.social piece in @nymag.com.

It'll absolutely infuriate you, but you really need to read this.
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12h
This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
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Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr.
What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?
nymag.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
oleta.bsky.social
Newport pushed back. Newport won.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Trump Returns Coast Guard Helicopter to Oregon Fishing Town After Uproar
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
oleta.bsky.social
Plane nerds, Alaska nerds, database nerds, this one is for you.

www.adn.com/arts/books/2...
Author and pilot Colleen Mondor continues to shine a light on Alaska’s aviation industry
Mondor’s email newsletter Probable Cause covers a range of aviation-related subjects, with accidents a particular focus.
www.adn.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
oleta.bsky.social
Minnesota Reformer:

>>“Right now, as I speak to you, someone who was a patient, they dragged out, and the nurse just sent me a text message saying that that individual who she was providing services to was abducted,” said State Rep. Mohamud Noor

minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/03/a...
As ICE presence escalates in Minnesota, Somali leaders push back • Minnesota Reformer
As state Rep. Mohamud Noor approached the podium in a community center gym to address reporters, he glanced at his phone.  “Right now, as I speak to you, someone who was a patient, they dragged out, a...
minnesotareformer.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
oleta.bsky.social
Minnesota Reformer:

>>Over a hundred people rallied in 17-degree weather for over an hour outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to protest deportation flights that regularly fly out.

minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/03/o...
Over a hundred people rally against ICE flights outside MSP • Minnesota Reformer
Over a hundred people rallied in 17-degree weather for over an hour outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to protest deportation flights that regularly fly out. Nick Benson, a photogra...
minnesotareformer.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
oleta.bsky.social
NOLA Times-Pic:

>>Protesters said they want New Orleans to adopt a measure similar to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's executive order prohibiting federal use of city-controlled parking lots, vacant lots and garages for civil immigration enforcement.

www.nola.com/news/politic...
30 protestors ejected from New Orleans council meeting after calling for 'ICE-free' zone
A ferocious protest over federal immigration sweeps disrupted the New Orleans City Council meeting for about half an hour on Thursday, ending when police officers forced about 30 protesters out the ba...
www.nola.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
oleta.bsky.social
Chicago Trib:

>>Mother Mary wearing a respirator mask to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands, wrapped in a thin blanket that looks like aluminum foil. Masked centurions with sunglasses and green vests labeled “ICE.”

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/e...
Evanston church’s Nativity depicts baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents
Lake Street Church of Evanston depicted baby Jesus’ hands zip-tied, Mary with a gas mask and ICE as centurions in its Nativity scene.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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thecity.nyc
ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
oleta.bsky.social
The thing about vaccines is they save lives and improve health.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/11/30/r...
The vaccines and autism myth was debunked years ago | GUEST COMMENTARY
The CDC’s recent decision to link autism to vaccines disrespects the extensive science showing that vaccines are not connected to autism, writes A.J. Russo.
www.baltimoresun.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Laura Conaway
akbumpkin.bsky.social
Seth Kantner is my favorite Alaska writer, and his piece on the flooding in NW Alaska and along the Kobuk River is so moving
Life and death on the coast
What the flooding in Northwest Alaska took and left behind.
www.adn.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
oleta.bsky.social
"Her decision to open her son's casket was not an act of despair but of fierce faith — faith that seeing would lead to understanding, and understanding to change. That faith still calls to us. The barn carries her same charge: to help the world see."

www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2...
Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed to open as memorial site
The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will be open to the public as a "sacred" memorial site by 2030.
www.clarionledger.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
oleta.bsky.social
Newport, Oregon, seems like a fascinating place. Much respect.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Where the Waters Are Rough, a Fishing Town Confronts Trump’s Priorities
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Reposted by Laura Conaway
safestreetsaustin.bsky.social
Join us 12/4 8pm for a special Austin live panel with War on Cars podcast hosts Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon!

Panelists also include Austin Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes and Black History Bike Ride's Talib Abdullahi. KUT's Nathan Bernier will moderate.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-war-on...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow." "She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right." "We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued. We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."| • "I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said. "We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that our case was straight forward." "He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it… "Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything." Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon. "She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.” "They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on." As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed. "My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Reposted by Laura Conaway
radleybalko.bsky.social
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
oleta.bsky.social
Advice for living.
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
oleta.bsky.social
“We aren’t the criminals they said they would target," Laura Murillo told her fiance ... before masked agents arrested her at her tamale stand in Back of the Yards. Even after hearing “la migra” was close, she kept working the morning of Sept. 25.

Gift link:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/c...
As ICE detains longtime Chicago street vendors with no criminal history, neighbors rally with emergency funds
As longtime vendors quietly disappear from the corners they’ve held for years, community organizations and neighbors are scrambling to support those taken, their families and those still working on…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
oleta.bsky.social
Heard in North Carolina:

“I didn’t believe it would happen to me,” Vazquez said. “I was born here.”

ncnewsline.com/2025/11/20/t...
‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary • NC Newsline
As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.
ncnewsline.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
oleta.bsky.social
From Batavia, Illinois, in Chicagoland:

“I think this is an urgent situation,” Ald. Tony Malay added. “We heard loud and clear from our … constituents that they want something done about this.”

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/b...
Batavia City Council approves ordinance banning federal immigration actions on city property
After a lengthy debate, Batavia’s City Council in a split vote recently approved an ordinance banning federal immigration enforcement actions on city property, as President Donald Trump’s administr…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Reposted by Laura Conaway
chanda.blacksky.app
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.

I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.

#GiftLink

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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM