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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 5d

INBOX: an investigation by @annenbergmedia.bsky.social found that the United States Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 over the last seven years for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used specifically for Israel Defense Forces training at Los Angeles General Medical Center.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 4d

Journalist Mario Guevara has been deported. He spent three-plus months in ICE custody after livestreaming a protest, before being flown out of the U.S. on Oct. 3.

In a recent post, he wrote: “My dedication to my work cost me my freedom.”

Spanish-language reporter arrested at Atlanta-area protest; faces deportation

Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter who covers immigration issues, was arrested at an anti-Trump protest in Chamblee, Georgia, near Atlanta, …

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 4d

My dad's a statistician. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't want the credit.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 4d

OMB dir Russell Vought crowed that DOE cancelled clean energy grants in 16 states
Not included in Vought's list: Any of the 31 states that his boss won in 2024
Probability of that being an 'accident':
19!34!/50!3! = 3.93 x 10(-10) = .000000000393
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

Trump admin targets blue-state grants meant to ease US electricity…

But red states will also suffer from the rollback of billions in funding to help bring cheaper, more reliable power to regions across the country.

www.canarymedia.com

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 6d

The #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been running on backup generators for a week. That's supposed to be the last line of defence, not the only line of defence. Fukushima's diesels flooded.
www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine

Ukraine | The Guardian

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 8d

Wright must be referencing my uncle David Fairley and his groundbreaking work linking fine particulate levels to same-day mortality and morbidity, when David ran stats for the SF region's air quality regulator. Although, confusingly, David's always been more of a beer person.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine thinking affirmative action is a problem and then cheering for woke coal policies that will make your electricity and hospital bills skyrocket.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 8d

The IDF shelled the hospital stairwell again, nine minutes after striking the camera, "killing other journalists and emergency responders who had rushed to the scene."
This is the work of truly bad people.
As usual with the IDF there is no accountability.
www.tbsnews.net/world/visual...

Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital

The Israeli military had said they targeted a Hamas camera in an August strike, but a Reuters investigation found the device actually belonged to the news agency. An Israeli military official now says...

www.tbsnews.net

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 10d

Look how we treat our democratic allies. It's the big shakedown. www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/usa...

South Korea cannot pay $350 billion to US for tariff deal as Trump suggests: top aide

Since a handshake deal by the allies' leaders in July to lower US tariffs to 15% from 25%, as Trump earlier imposed, South Korea has said the $350 billion in investment would be in the form of loans a...

www.tbsnews.net

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11d

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

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Jenn. @missjennifer.bsky.social · 11d

Jewish protesters ordered to leave Phillies game after displaying pro-Palestinian signs share.inquirer.com/5MyesU 🎁

Jewish protesters ordered to leave Phillies game after displaying pro-Palestinian signs

It was Jewish Heritage Night at Citizens Bank Park and the protesters held up letter signs that spelled “Philly Jews say free Palestine and Go Phils!”

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 11d

It’s amazing how much Carbon is stored *underneath* forests

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01790-5

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 11d

@dgblankinship.bsky.social on what Washington is losing with the demise of Crosscut 🔽
My take: It's the entire region's loss. Crosscut was a crucial partner on @investigatewest.bsky.social's Decarbonizing Cascadia series, along with @thetyee.ca and others. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/24/l...

Last words: What Washington is losing with the demise of Crosscut • Washington State Standard

COMMENTARY | As a nearly two-decade venture in nonprofit news comes undone, it underscores the precariousness of public service journalism.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 11d

Protesters in Chicago harassing ICE. Reporter wearing PRESS markings shot in the face by ICE agents.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning.

Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off.

A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11d

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 11d

For and by Christians: How Idaho’s influential Christian Nationalist group wants to reshape the state www.investigatewest.org/for-and-by-c... @investigatewest.bsky.social

A Christian Nationalist group wants to reshape Idaho

With powerful allies in the pulpit and the Pentagon, the Idaho Family Policy Center seizes its moment

www.investigatewest.org

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 15d

we are on pace to bequeath a desiccated Cascadia to our children. their future is literally melting away. www.kuow.org/stories/glac...

Glacierless Peak? The icy realms of Washington’s North Cascades lose their cool

The ice fields that give Washington’s Glacier Peak its name are disappearing, though few people may have noticed.

www.kuow.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17d

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

www.propublica.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17d

Mike Johnson said this kind of rhetoric is highly inflammatory and incites people.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17d

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?”

Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 17d

In Victoria, ashes from wildfires that have ravaged communities across Canada were laid at the Legislature. One of over 70 #DrawTheLine actions nationwide.

@MarkJCarney time to pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction—or a just and safe future for all of us.

#ActOnClimate

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 19d

Double extra congrats to my good friend @gloriadickie.bsky.social, who won with a Reuters piece probing links bw glaciers and volcanic eruptions but has since seen the light and followed it back to freelancing. And to @sejorg.bsky.social president Halle Parker for tracking LNG from bayou to buyers.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19d

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 19d

“We’re gonna keep showing up till they stop abducting our neighbors” - @bradlander.bsky.social echoing his words @jfrejnyc.bsky.social gala once more after his arrest today.
Great clip

Jaysun Silver @jaysunsilver.bsky.social · 19d

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

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