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Tyler Hicks
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Writer. Recent bylines in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Inkstick, Al Jazeera, NYT + more.
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Thanksgiving is Wael’s favorite holiday. He loves making meals with his dad, Maher. But as of today, Maher has been in ICE detention for nearly a month.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health declines: ‘Don’t forget about me’
Maher Tarabishi was arrested at a routine visit despite decades in the US, leaving his son with Pompe disease
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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inkstickmedia.com
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By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
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inkstick.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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inkstickmedia.com
Inkstick's @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social takes a hard look inside the fight against the ever-expanding American surveillance state :
Inside the Fight Against the Growing US Surveillance State
As the Trump administration's immigration crackdown expands the surveillance state, local activists are fighting back across the US.
inkstickmedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Tyler Hicks
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
@tkbarnes.bsky.social reports: “Raytheon was allowed to claim about half a million dollars in tax refunds for jobs it did not create due to a loophole in its economic development contract with Buncombe County.”
Exclusive: We Followed the Money to Raytheon in North Carolina
We got hundreds of pages of public records about a controversial deal to offer tens of millions of state and local subsidies to a new Raytheon/Pratt & Whitney plant in Asheville.
inkstick.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
Essential work by @tkbarnes.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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inkstickmedia.com
The American surveillance state is growing rapidly. Activists and experts say immigrants and people of color are most at risk.

By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

inkstickmedia.com/inside-the-f...
Inside the Fight Against the Growing US Surveillance State
As the Trump administration's immigration crackdown expands the surveillance state, local activists are fighting back across the US.
inkstickmedia.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7d
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.

One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about the professors who’ve faced 18 months of retaliation from their own university after being arrested at an anti-genocide demonstration.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Texas professors arrested at campus protest sue university, alleging retaliation
Ben Wright and Rosemary Admiral say UTD severely restricted campus access after arrests at peaceful protest
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Via ProPublica, Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune, led by a reporter who was an @rns.org reporting fellow last year: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
Fort Worth’s Mercy Culture Church aims to get more conservative Christians elected through its online Campaign University.
fortworthreport.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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newyorker.com
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.

Read that again.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
NYT headline: Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month The Justice Department later said it would appeal, leaving the program known as SNAP in limbo.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
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inkstick.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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david.noll.org
I'm really glad @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social put together this piece working through Stephen Miller's objectives in branding perceived enemies of the regime terrorists. As I observe, "branding your political enemies as terrorists is a classic fascist move."
inkstickmedia.com/trumps-terro...
Trump's 'Terrorism' Narrative Puts Dissent in the Crosshairs
Donald Trump's administration is accusing its opponents of supporting terrorism, but cities around the US are fighting back.
inkstickmedia.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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inkstickmedia.com
Despite threats of a crackdown, cities around the US are rallying against ICE, deportations, and domestic troop deployments.

By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

inkstickmedia.com/trumps-terro...
Trump's 'Terrorism' Narrative Puts Dissent in the Crosshairs
Donald Trump's administration is accusing its opponents of supporting terrorism, but cities around the US are fighting back.
inkstickmedia.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Tyler Hicks
gregsargent.bsky.social
DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times

newrepublic.com/article/2019...
October 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...
He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.
Thanks, SCOTUS.
slate.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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djangowexler.bsky.social
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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letsgomathias.bsky.social
missed this really good @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social piece on an under-reported trend: the MAGA-fication of the military/federal agencies being deployed to American cities inkstickmedia.com/lets-go-bash...
‘Let’s Go Bash Some Skulls’: Inside the Militarization of Trump’s America
As the Trump administration expands its push to militarize US cities, critics rail against the heavy-handed impact on marginalized groups.
inkstickmedia.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch." That, Taher says, "is a lie."
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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redford.bsky.social
I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
defector.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM