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Theodora Ruhs

@theodoraruhs.bsky.social

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PhD holder and teacher of journalism at a CT university. Currently too tired to be any good at social media-ing. (She/Her)

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Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · Feb 15

3/4 My chapter explores the control of and access to news and information and the role of journalism in both democratic and authoritarian societies. (I know I went overboard on footnotes.) Some of the content may have seemed dated last year but is now highly relevant again. #journalism

Ch 10-Ruhs-I'm Ravenous for News.pdf

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 42m

NEW on @indicator.media:

I found 101 accounts impersonating Telemundo, Televisa, CNN and other media outlets spreading clickbaity falsehoods to millions on TikTok.

The company took them all down after I reached out.

101 TikTok accounts masquerading as real news spread misinformation to millions

Shallow impersonations of Telemundo, CNN, Fox News and other media got more than 200 million views posting fake ICE arrests and bombastic AI slop about geopolitics

indicator.media

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 1d

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

nymag.com/intelligence...

What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

nymag.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Diane Marie Ford @listentothyself.bsky.social · 2d

🥒🥒Please help save Mister Pickles life today. 💚 Do whatever you can to lend a hand. He needs our help big time. I thank you and Mister Pickles thanks you. 🥒🥒

Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 2d

This precious boy who also loves Taylor Swift - needs more than 76 reposts if he’s going 2find his human! #Swifties #nycacc Will kill him! We can stop that! We have the power to help find him a foster ! Pls REPOST HIM! Let’s get him over 100 reposts so we can save his precious life!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.

For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

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Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 2d

Student’s grandmother died…. again.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 2d

PowerPoint files are corrupted.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 2d

Finish listening to @chrislhayes.bsky.social talk with Richard Grinker about the long, convoluted history and changing understanding of autism diagnosis and why it has become an inflection point. Food for thought on why and how we categorize and name mental health issues.
Highly recommended.

How Autism Became Political with Richard Grinker

Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 10/07/2025 · 55m

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Christine Kinser @ckinser.bsky.social · 2d

DO NOT KILL KANGA 💔🐾

This sweetheart is very very afraid in the shelter. Her owner lost their home & Kanga has been bounced from place to place b4 arriving at the shelter, sad & also sick

She lived happily w/ her family, including kids &dogs

She needs the ❤️ she once had

🙏repost to find a #foster

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Christine Kinser @ckinser.bsky.social · 2d

DO NOT KILL LOVE 🐾💔🐾

A dog named Love should never be given a death sentence

That he was so scared coming in to the shelter that he peed on himself makes him all the more lovable

Love enjoys belly rubs, is crate trained, knows his commands

Save Love; get love ❤️

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tap4accdogs.bsky.social @tap4accdogs.bsky.social · 3d

Love 236076
Kill Command
#NYCACC #RescueOnly
A cute 2 yr old boy
Has CIRDC 🚑
In prev home was affectionate, lovable, active & loved being with his humans
Fearful & dog reactive in care
Help save Love!
#Pledge4Rescue #foster #adopt

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Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 3d

My thoughts exactly.

Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 3d

Efforts by students to reach out to Meta have been unsuccessful.

Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 3d

Not from what I heard. It seems pretty random, but one student said they got a notice that they were banned for child exploitation even though nothing on their account could even remotely be interpreted that way and there wasn’t any specific post given as an example.

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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CT Community News @ctsjc.bsky.social · 3d

@scsu.bsky.social student Brandon Cortés published the very first article ever on CT Community News, an in-depth data dive on the real impact of re-imposing bus fares in Connecticut after a pandemic hiatus.

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Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 3d

Should’ve remembered to add the hashtags to get this in front of the right crowd. #AcademicSky #AcademicBlueSky See above.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d

“For more than 3 hours, officers can be seen walking past while he lay on the floor in his urine in obvious distress…noting he was foaming at the mouth & having seizure-like activity…mistaking his medical emergency for a drug overdose…”

Except a drug overdose is also a medical emergency...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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