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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2d

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried.

She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 5d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 4d

Prison telecom companies and more than a dozen red-state attorneys have challenged imposing limits on the cost of phone calls from prison, arguing that they would deprive lockups of necessary funding.

Priced Out of Phone Calls Home

The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 5d

Covington Police arrested CityBeat photo intern Lucas Griffith during a march on the Roebling Bridge in July. The case has made national headlines and drawn protest from press freedom groups. www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Jury finds Roebling protest journalist guilty of 1 misdemeanor, not guilty of 3 others

Covington Police arrested CityBeat photo intern Lucas Griffith during a march on the Roebling Bridge in July. The case has made national headlines and drawn protest from press freedom groups.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Morgan Watkins @morganwatkins.lpm.org · 6d

We had @steveinskeep.bsky.social in our Louisville studio today, hosting Morning Edition. He came to Kentucky to interview Gov. Beshear👇

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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear about his cross-party appeal in a state that has always overwhelmingly voted for Trump. bit.ly/4nZLeHS

In Trump country, a Democrat critiques Trump — and talks of succeeding him

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear about his cross-party appeal in a state that has always overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6d

i hope you're all excited to learn more about the many November elections!

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Morgan Watkins @morganwatkins.lpm.org · 6d

For the new ep of KyCIR's Digging In series, I brought @divyakrthk.bsky.social back on the @lpm.org airwaves to talk about an immigration case w/ KY & IN ties. U.S. authorities say an Indiana man was convicted once for forgery & should be deported. But Divya's reporting found a lack of evidence.

Digging In: Trump admin tries to deport longtime Indiana businessman suffering from a brain tumor

Federal authorities want to deport an Indiana resident who has a green card, which grants permanent residency in the U.S. They kept him in custody after a judge said he could be released on bond.

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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 6d

Story here: bsky.app/profile/divy...

Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 12d

Paramjit Singh is going blind while in ICE detention in Kenton County Jail, KY. He’s been a green card holder since 1994.

DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

story for The Intercept:
theintercept.com/2025/09/26/i...

He Has a Green Card and a Brain Tumor. DHS Wants to Deport Him for Forgery With No Proof.

Paramjit Singh is going blind in jail. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 6d

Was on alma mater station 89.3 WFPL @lpm.org talking to KYCIR’s @morganwatkins.lpm.org about my recent reporting in the Intercept on a horrific case of ICE detention in KY and a family‘s legal battles to stop his deportation. You can listen and read more updates here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Digging In: Trump admin tries to deport longtime Indiana businessman suffering from a brain tumor

Federal authorities want to deport an Indiana resident who has a green card, which grants permanent residency in the U.S. They kept him in custody after a judge said he could be released on bond.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Morgan Watkins @morganwatkins.lpm.org · 7d

👏👏👏(This is real cool - always good to see investment in investigative journalism in Kentucky.)

Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 7d

Everybody clap for @aacquisto.bsky.social & @taylorsixhl.bsky.social!!

Herald-Leader chosen by ProPublica for Local Reporting Network partnership

Reporter Alex Acquisto will spend the next year on a statewide investigative project that will have wide ramifications for Kentuckians.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 8d

"Over the weekend, asylum seekers in New York were flooded with messages — some from their lawyers — telling them to pay a $100 fee to the Trump administration by Tuesday or risk deportation."

"In the end, you don't know what's true or not."
#NewYork #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Asylum Seekers in Panic Over Trump’s Unclear $100 Fee

The Trump administration's lack of clarity about when and how to pay new fees sparked chaos and misinformation among immigrants with pending asylum…

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

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When food banks need bread, 900 home bakers answer the call

A Seattle-area nonprofit group called Community Loaves donates home-baked bread and cookies to food banks in four states.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

The People’s Patrol is one of many volunteer rapid-response networks countering a Trump administration deportation blitz in the Chicago area. The idea is to locate immigration enforcement activity, record it, document abuses and, right on the spot, voice community opposition.

Standing up to ICE in suburban Chicago, the People’s Patrol puts its faith in resistance

Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz.

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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 8d

Update: after today’s prelim removal proceedings, a contested hearing is scheduled for mid Oct. DHS‘ lawyers will have to submit substantiating evidence and cause — the alleged forgery/larceny conviction — to justify Singh’s deportation.

Singh will remain in ICE custody.

Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 12d

Paramjit Singh is going blind while in ICE detention in Kenton County Jail, KY. He’s been a green card holder since 1994.

DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

story for The Intercept:
theintercept.com/2025/09/26/i...

He Has a Green Card and a Brain Tumor. DHS Wants to Deport Him for Forgery With No Proof.

Paramjit Singh is going blind in jail. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 9d

ICE fired a chemical weapon at a TV reporter in Broadview. The "unprovoked" attack is now under investigation. blockclubchi.co/4mHRQd8

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14d

This is great.

Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 11d

latest TRAC immigration data report shows a troubling trend of DHS having no legal basis/proof of criminal convictions or record for locking up individuals, just like Paramjit Singh’s case.

”the number of detainees without any criminal charge or conviction grew by 1,016.“

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

What the fuck?

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents

The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

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Justin Hicks @justinhicks.lpm.org · 11d

A wild story from Kentucky Public Radio alum Divya Karthikeyan about a man being detained by ICE based on a legal case his lawyers can't even find the existence of.

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He Has a Green Card and a Brain Tumor. DHS Wants to Deport Him for Forgery With No Proof.

Paramjit Singh is going blind in jail. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

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American Immigration Council @immcouncil.org · 12d

Automatic stays allow DHS to effectively ignore immigration court orders.

“It was intended to be used in really extreme cases, and instead, ICE is using it just everywhere," our senior litigation attorney Suchita Mathur told @divyakrthk.bsky.social.

Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 12d

In Singh’s case, the Trump administration is using a dated mechanism — an automatic stay— to their advantage to override his immigration judge’s decisions, keep him locked up, and push for deportation. And it’s getting a lot more common, experts say.

theintercept.com/2025/09/26/i...

He Has a Green Card and a Brain Tumor. DHS Wants to Deport Him for Forgery With No Proof.

Paramjit Singh is going blind in jail. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 12d

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