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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 1h

Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 1d

I’m involved in two searches right now for leadership of news organizations and Bari Weiss would qualify for neither.
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CBS buys The Free Press website, installs founder Bari Weiss as CBS News editor-in-chief

Paramount announced Monday that it has bought the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI
“South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'”
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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 4d

More extrajudicial killings. Like some rogue state.
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U.S. kills 4 alleged drug smugglers near Venezuela, Hegseth says

The U.S. strike near Venezuela is the latest in the Trump administration’s nebulous campaign targeting Latin American drug cartels.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 6d

Never forget what Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director pledged:
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected…we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down…We want…them in trauma.” #shutdown

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 6d

This was the SBA website today . h/t @npr.org on its first day w/o fed funds
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Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 7d

This is the HUD website today. This is the Trumpist who runs it (it’s the admin’s Black job). And Black households remain over represented in relying on HUD.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 8d

CPJ joins legal effort to support detained journalist Mario Guevara cpj.org?p=524918

CPJ joins legal effort to support detained journalist Mario Guevara - Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined four press freedom groups—including Freedom of the Press Foundation, PEN America, and Reporters Without Borders—in an amicus brief supporting detained Spani...

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 8d

“The political narcissist lives only in the present where, almost by definition, lies don’t exist so long as there’s another interview, another media hit, another chance to keep spinning, another chance to be radiant before an audience.

Column | More than two decades after her death, Leni Riefenstahl is still lying

A new documentary offers bracing lessons about demagogues and the people who serve them.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 9d

Me @postsports on how sports didn’t have to avail itself to remember Charlie Kirk but in doing so took part in cleansing him of any ignominious repute www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Column | Sportswashing works both ways when teams and leagues are complicit

Sports’ power to cleanse images should be used sparingly and prudently.

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Post Sports @postsports.bsky.social · 11d

Sportswashing works both ways when teams and leagues are complicit, @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social writes: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Column | Sportswashing works both ways when teams and leagues are complicit

Sports’ power to cleanse images should be used sparingly and prudently.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 14d

ICYMI because of state media...

Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 14d

Jimmy Kimmel is back full monologue

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Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 14d

Classic Mitch!🤣

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 19d

Me @postsports.bsky.social: What if Black college athletes considered the Trumpist anti-DEI politics etc. of states where colleges are recruiting them like women athletes are of schools in states with reactionary restrictions on their reproductive health? www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Column | Do state abortion laws affect women’s recruiting? That’s up to athletes.

A recent study on the college choices of high school basketball players suggests a correlation with states’ positions on reproductive rights.

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Post Sports @postsports.bsky.social · 19d

A study of women's basketball recruiting shows the impact of state abortion laws, writes @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social.

Column | Do state abortion laws affect women’s recruiting? That’s up to athletes.

A recent study on the college choices of high school basketball players suggests a correlation with states’ positions on reproductive rights.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 20d

“ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing.”
This from Trump’s FCC dude who supported Trump’s EO against censorship, online. Free speech the bedrock of democracy is facing an existential threat from Trumpists that many warned of.
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ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing

The decision to indefinitely pre-empt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” follows backlash to comments he made about Charlie Kirk.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 23d

Eswatini, South Sudan, Rwanda and now Ghana are African countries complicit in Trump’s human trafficking.
“Lawsuit says U.S. deported migrants to Ghana to sidestep restrictions”

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Lawsuit says U.S. deported migrants to Ghana to sidestep restrictions

A lawsuit alleges that five migrants were unlawfully deported to Ghana to circumvent restrictions against sending them back to their home countries.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 25d

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ICE officer fatally shoots man during traffic stop in Chicago suburb, authorities say

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were conducting “targeted law enforcement activity” in Franklin Park when they stopped the vehicle, according to a statement from the agency.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 26d

From the legendary political writer David Broder almost a quarter century ago:
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Opinion | Jesse Helms, White Racist

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 28d

Taney, as ghastly as he was, didn't take a jackhammer to as many key components of our Constitutional system.

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 28d

The only difference between Roger Taney and John Roberts is 161 years

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 29d

To be clear, the gov’t says skin color can be used to arrest us but must be ignored when it comes to education and employment.

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Supreme Court lifts limits on immigration raids in the Los Angeles area

The raids sparked major protests in Southern California. President Donald Trump deployed troops from the California National Guard and Marines in response.

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