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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 6m

Really vital reporting from @streetsensedc.bsky.social

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16m

"Everything else was thrown away."

"[F]eeling pushed, feeling forced, feeling like I didn't count as a person in D.C."

"Thankful he'd worn two layers of clothes, Kingery looked at his now-empty street corner with nothing but the bruises on his back."
#WashingtonDC #USA #Policing #Housing

Two months after the federal takeover began, these homeless D.C. residents are still in hiding - Street Sense Media

Here are the stories of 6 people who were affected by Trump and D.C.’s crackdown on people sleeping outside.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 19h

"The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act" by the incomparable @natashalennard.bsky.social
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The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 20h

Looking to speak with families with young children in Chicago for a story on how the ICE raids are impacting them. Reach out to [email protected], if you're interested.

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 1d

Don't love the "use AI so you can more efficiently delete records and not provide as many documents in response to FOIA" angle

Agencies Increasingly Applying AI in Processing FOIA Requests, Says Report

Almost a fifth of federal entities that process FOIA requests are using AI and machine learning, and those “early adopters are demonstrating the ability

www.fedweek.com

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news on a story I covered for once!

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El Paso DACA recipient Catalina 'Xóchitl' Santiago freed by ICE Wednesday on federal judge's order

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled that ICE must release El Paso DACA recipient Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, who has been detained since Aug. 3.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 4d

Amid the Republican-Democrat shutdown blame game, a federal judge’s extraordinary ruling is taking on Trump’s unlawful detentions of pro-Palestine protesters.

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Inside the Government Shutdown and Free Speech Showdown

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely could not stop talking about this story all weekend.

Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the political marriage between crony capitalism and fringe health conspiracism in the Trump administration, and its many many contradictions. theintercept.com/2025/10/02/r...

MAHA Slams “Corporate Capture” by Food and Pharma Giants — While Trump Strips Regulations

RFK Jr.’s rhetoric can appeal to desperate parents in a broken health system. But experts say his policies only hurt children.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

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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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 6d

Went to the Hill yesterday to cover the shutdown. The anger from Republicans about Dems picking this healthcare fight is really interesting given the last decade.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 7d

A judge just smacked down the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian speech, comparing it to the Red Scare.

The Reagan-appointed judge kind of went off.

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This Judge WENT OFF On The Trump Administration's Targeting Of Pro-Palestine Speech #politics

YouTube video by The Intercept

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 7d

What a time to be covering the White House and health care.

Axios @axios.com · 7d

Trump orders $50M for AI in pediatric cancer research

The move is part of a broader embrace of artificial intelligence across federal agencies but comes as the administration is slashing biomedical research spending and pausing grants.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 8d

Based on some of my conversations with veteran groups about the culture of military sexual violence under Hegseth, this feels deeply concerning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 8d

Ohhh this was significantly weirder than I thought it would be.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump administration is trying to hold a DACA recipient and activist in immigration detention indefinitely, even after a judge dismissed her case.

Read my latest for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely

Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely

More must-read reporting by @jesswash.bsky.social

theintercept.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely

Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 11d

A thing no one prepares you for in political journalism is the extent to which you have to ask the government questions like they're a wily trickster who can only answer if it's phrased a specific way.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 12d

“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.

Pete Hegseth Orders Top Military Leaders to Attend Mystery Meeting

“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13d

Kash Patel says the suspected Texas ICE shooter "searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents."

DHS recently sent subpoenas to Meta for information on social media accounts that track ICE actions, on broad immigration enforcement authority grounds. Worth watching what happens here now.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 13d

I went on @pbs.org To The Contrary for a really interesting conversation on the widening political and cultural divide between young men and women.
www.pbs.org/video/womens...

To The Contrary | Women's Rights; Young People & Parenting | Season 34

Women’s rights today & youth views on marriage/parenting

www.pbs.org

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 14d

The efforts to paint Blackness and Black people as somehow in opposition to the left is really fascinating to me. It provides a moral cover for centrists that is often divorced from, or a deep misinterpretation of reality.

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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 14d

NEW: Approval of an old generic to treat autism symptoms upended the FDA's usual process. Some experts worry that the limits of the drug will get lost in the hype.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

F.D.A.’s Approval of Drug for Autism Upends Review Process

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 18d

Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times got tossed onto the trash heap by a federal judge in just four days, reconfirming the well-known concept that it doesn't take long to recognize pure bullshit www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Judge throws out Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against New York Times

A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times for not being a short, plain statement of complaint.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 19d

"These institutions at their top echelons are run by people in public relations, they're run by pollsters, they're run by mercenaries, they're run by lawyers, they're run by people who have no institutional sort of pedigree in solidarity as a concept."