Jessica Schulberg
@jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
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senior reporter at HuffPost covering prisons/jails/courts • HuffPost Union + WGAE Councilmember
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kalish.bsky.social
The Supreme Court will hear arguments about Colorado's conversion therapy ban tomorrow. In Chiles v. Salazar, a Christian therapist - repped by the Alliance Defending Freedom - claims that CO's 2019 ban on conversion therapy infringes on her freedom of speech.

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Supreme Court To Hear Major LGBTQ Case That Could Have Devastating Effects On Youth
A Christian therapist is challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, claiming it violates her right to free speech.
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wgaeast.bsky.social
Today, we leafleted audience members in line for The View, Good Morning America, and LIVE with Kelly & Mark to encourage them to join the fight to show ABC/Disney no president or corporation can deny our right to free speech.
Two WGAE members passing out flyers to the audience “Help us get Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on the air” in front of ‘The View’ audience poster “Defend the 1st amendment” picket sign Two WGAE members holding Bring Kimmel Back flyers
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In the days before the admin. tried to deport unaccompanied Guatemalan children in the pre-dawn hours of Labor Day weekend, many of their immigration cases were abruptly closed.

I'm now hearing that this is happening to some Honduran kids.

This says 300 kids may be vulnerable:
Lawyers fear 1,000 children from Central America, dozens in California, are at risk of being deported
Lawyers and advocates fear the U.S. government is now expanding their list of hundreds of children across the country, which started with children from Guatemala, to include those from Honduras and El...
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kalish.bsky.social
Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE

@jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report

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This School District Is Preparing ‘Lockdowns’ — But Now It’s Not Just For Shootings
They’ve spent years preparing for natural disasters and school shootings. Now, they are ready to do lockdowns in response to immigration raids.
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mattshuham.bsky.social
President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda has a surprising stakeholder: Bill Gates.

The multibillionaire tech mogul and philanthropist owns a large portion of a key service provider for immigration flights.

w/ @gnobes.huffpost.com

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Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Has A Surprising Stakeholder: Bill Gates
One of the billionaire's investments has become a linchpin in the day-to-day machinery of Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.

Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
7. At all of the shelters visited in the middle of the night, ProBAR staff witnessed children who had been pulled out of their beds. They were confused and scared. At Hands of Healing Los Fresnos, one young girl was extremely distraught, crying and repeatedly saying that she could not go back to Guatemala. At New Hope McAllen, one young girl was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician. At Urban Strategies Alamo, one young teenager was scared that he might end up murdered like one of his family members. At Compass Connection in Harlingen, an attorney was able to meet with only one child. None of these children’s parents in their home country had requested their return. ProBAR’s client and named Plaintiff ARMD was at Compass Connection, but he was transported to a plane without notifying me as his attorney of record.
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kalish.bsky.social
Yesterday’s raid at an LA Home Depot, dubbed “Operation Trojan Horse,” suggests that DHS may not be complying with court orders blocking indiscriminate arrests based on race, language or place of work, immigration advocates told me and @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
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Trump’s Border Patrol May Have Violated Court Orders In Immigration Raid
Border patrol agents raided a Los Angeles Home Depot on Wednesday weeks after a court blocked officials from racially profiling people to carry out immigration enforcement.
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taniel.bsky.social
NEW: An Alabama teenager was prosecuted and convicted of murder over the death of his friend, whom he didn't shoot or kill.

Bolts worked on this important read by the Yale Reporting Lab to illuminate the little-understood ramifications of the 'felony murder' doctrine:
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A Friend's Death to Mourn, and to Serve Time for - Bolts
An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. His case highlights a particularly harsh doctrine in American criminal punishment: felony murder.
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jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
Black was also intellectually disabled, meaning he should not have been eligible for execution
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utterly barbaric — Byron Black's lawyers unsuccessfully fought in court for his defibrillator to be disabled before his execution, arguing it could cause painful shocks as he died. Witnesses to the execution say he groaned in pain and said, "It's hurting so bad." www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.
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mattshuham.bsky.social
Trump sent Jerce Reyes Barrios to CECOT without charge, indefinitely, over a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock&roll" hand signal. Jerce told us his story. (& he wants the world to know: “I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid”)

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Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There
“Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.
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At the end of a very intense interview, we asked Jerce if there was anything else he wanted our readers to know. He smiled and said, "Just that even with everything I’ve gone through, I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid.”
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Jerce was accused of being a gang member based on a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock-and-roll" hand gesture he made on social media years ago.

For this, he was disappeared from the US and sent to one of the most infamous prisons in the world, where he endured "countless" beatings
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pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life

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Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There
“Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.
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gzornick.bsky.social
After 6 incredible years, today is my last day at HuffPost.

I was blessed with the very best team - reporters who covered the hell out of a pandemic, mass civil rights movement in the streets, an election, an insurrection, and then the return of Trump.
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alannavagianos.bsky.social
FCI Dublin, a CA federal prison, closed in 2024 amid allegations of rampant sexual abuse. 10 prison guards, including warden & chaplain, are charged w sexually abusing inmates; many weaponized immigration status to abuse inmates.

Now, Trump is reportedly looking to reopen Dublin as an ICE facility.
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alannavagianos.bsky.social
NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.

She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.
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joolia.bsky.social
I’m certainly not an expert on this story but for months now, people who are experts have said again and again and again that the plans to replace UNRWA with the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” were unacceptable, and they have been tragically correct again and again.
Israel, please let aid organisations do our jobs in Gaza | James Elder
Four hundred distribution points have dwindled to four under this private and militarised ‘aid’ system. This is not how to avert a famine, says Unicef’s global spokesperson James Elder
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joolia.bsky.social
I think it’s important for Americans to understand that the current famine in Gaza is a joint US-Israeli production. We are not “failing to stop this”. We did this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
US confirms plan for private firms to deliver Gaza aid despite UN alarm
UN agencies say they will not co-operate with the proposed system because it appears to "weaponise" aid.
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