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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

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JW @wheeldoittogether.bsky.social · 5d

I genuinely don't know what we'd do this year without @51st.news and @maustermuhle.bsky.social. Why is a scrappy worker-owned outlet always the first to get to the crux of an issue? This caliber of reporting used to be normal but profit-greedy hedge funds have been slowly sucking it out of our lives

The 51st @51st.news · 5d

Reading local news 🤝 Plugging into local organizing

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Your weekly roundup of ways to get involved in D.C.

Plus, plenty of chances to plug into Free DC this week.

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t stop thinking about it.

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404 Media @404media.co · 5d

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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The 51st @51st.news · 5d

DCPS reneged on its promise to help hundreds of international teachers secure a green card. Many may now be forced to leave the country. Read the full story from @maustermuhle.bsky.social 51st.news/dc-green-car...

DCPS promised them green cards. Now, these international teachers have nowhere to turn

More than 200 teachers may soon have to leave the country because of what they say are broken promises from the city's school system.

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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 5d

“Even after the D.C. Council set aside additional funds to continue green card sponsorships, DCPS says it simply won’t spend the money.”

The 51st @51st.news · 5d

DCPS reneged on its promise to help hundreds of international teachers secure a green card. Many may now be forced to leave the country. Read the full story from @maustermuhle.bsky.social 51st.news/dc-green-car...

DCPS promised them green cards. Now, these international teachers have nowhere to turn

More than 200 teachers may soon have to leave the country because of what they say are broken promises from the city's school system.

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 6d

The accounts of D.C. kids losing their parents to ICE detentions, parents facing deportation, unsure when or if they'll see their children again... there really are no words. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Federal surge has taken a toll on children of immigrants in Washington

An immigration crackdown in Washington has taken a toll on children attending the district's schools. Some children have had their parents swept up in the law enforcement surge.

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 6d

‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown @19thnews.org
"This is what she lives with every day now: “The fear of leaving your family and letting them know, ‘If I don’t return, it’s not because I am abandoning you.’”
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‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown

In Washington, D.C., where close to 40 percent of child care workers are immigrants, fear has taken hold amid a crime crackdown that has raised ICE presence. Many are missing work, deepening a staffin...

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Robert Shalett @rshalett.bsky.social · 6d

Love @51st.news
They picked up where @washingtonpost.com dropped off. Thing is, they’re covering DC better,imo

The 51st @51st.news · 6d

Only 34 people away from reaching our goal of 11,000 subscribers by tomorrow! Make our dreams come true *and* get local news in your inbox: 51st.news/signup

The 51st @51st.news · 6d

Our worker-led nonprofit newsroom has now been publishing for a year!

Today's special shutdown update went out to 10,951 (!) subscribers. Help us get to 11,000 by the time we send tomorrow's weekly email?

💌 Sign up — or share this post with a friend who should!

More on our team's past 12 months ⤵️

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 6d

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The 51st @51st.news · 7d

Put your $ where your values are, help our worker-led, independent newsroom reach 551 new members by the end of October! ➡️ 51st.news/signup

Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 7d

Guys @51st.news is one year old 🥲 What a bright thing during a dark time.
"Being an independent news source, able to cover this historic moment — free from billionaire owner meddling — has been vital. We’re only beholden to readers like you." @christurdisani.bsky.social 51st.news/one-year-of-...

One year of publishing The 51st

And what a year it's been!

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Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Nigeria Freedom from British Colonialism Day!

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 7d

On Monday on Alabama Avenue SE, an MPD SUV was racing southbound with sirens blaring when the officer driving smashed into a private vehicle and then a tree (1/3)

A Metropolitan Police Department car is crumpled against a tree. Airbags are deployed and the car's doors are all open. The car is totaled and pieces of debris are scattered across the street.

The back of a light blue Nissan Altima with its bumper on the ground and doors open. Firefighters are in the foreground looking away from the camera.

The forward part of a light blue Nissan Altima. Its front bumper has been ripped off the car and hangs at an angle on the ground. A firefighter in the foreground has their back to the camera.

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 7d

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 7d

Guys @51st.news is one year old 🥲 What a bright thing during a dark time.
"Being an independent news source, able to cover this historic moment — free from billionaire owner meddling — has been vital. We’re only beholden to readers like you." @christurdisani.bsky.social 51st.news/one-year-of-...

One year of publishing The 51st

And what a year it's been!

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 7d

Want to get legally married or do some renovations on your historic Georgetown home? Well, you can't during the federal shutdown. There's plenty of quirky and profound ways that these shutdowns impact D.C. residents and the city's economy. For @51st.news: 51st.news/the-federal-...

The federal government has shut down. Here’s what it means for D.C.

You can’t legally get married, for one, and the city’s economy will take a hit.

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The 51st @51st.news · 7d

For all of their quirks and faults, this morning the D.C. government and its 35,000 employees got to work.

The much larger federal government we share a city with, though, is a different story.

How will the federal shutdown affect us in D.C.? @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports ⬇️

The federal government has shut down. Here’s what it means for D.C.

You can’t legally get married, for one, and the city’s economy will take a hit.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 7d

Academic workers from the AAUP and AFT won a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration's actions against noncitizen students and faculty for pro-Palestine speech.

The case underscores the power of unions to resist authoritarianism and shows workers' rights = civil rights = immigrant rights 🧵

Adam Quinn @adamquinnphd.com · 7d

Judge Young (a Reagan appointee) ruled in favor of the AAUP/AFT and against Trump for punishing immigrant students for pro-Palestine speech.

His decision remarks that the government's campaign goes "beyond its closest analogues in the Red Scare."

Here's how he starts the decision off:

A photocopied letter reads "Trump has pardons and tanks.... what do you have?" The judge responds "Alone, i have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, we the people of the united states - you and me - have our magnificent constitution. Here's how that works out in a specific case.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow activists are launching a novel rent debt strike against one of the largest corporate landlords in the country.

I report on their strategy and national goals

Vox @vox.com · 8d

A small group of former Equity Residential tenants is launching a first-of-its-kind back rent debt strike that will go public in early October. The campaign's broader strategy is to challenge what organizers see as systematic abuse of renters.

Tenants say it’s time for landlords to cancel back rent debt

Tenants are going on strike against their landlords.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 7d

Not long after the agent who violently shoved a woman to the floor was reinstated, ICE officers shove two press photographers, causing a third to fall and hit his head against the wall. He was taken out on a stretcher.

www.amny.com/immigration/...

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

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