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Rachel Hatzipanagos
@rachelbianca.bsky.social
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National reporter at The Washington Post focused on race and identity. Latina & proud. she/her/ella
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 9h
"For some, the Trump administration’s Chicago assault was a shock. But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered." interc.pt/4h2hBUd
A photo of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Black People Knew This Would Happen," and the DEK, "Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us."
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 16h
There are too many rich white people who've had no challenges in life working in media...is a thought I had when one of them was saying recently they appreciate how Bari Weiss challenges their perspective. Babe, most folks don't need that, it doesn't make you open-minded and intellectually curious.
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 1d
Stephen Miller short circuits after saying Trump has "plenary authority" over sending troops into U.S. cities www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Stephen Miller Says Trump Has ‘Plenary Authority,’ Like A King
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 2d
An ICE agent in Portland, OR, targeted a frog-suited protester’s air intake valve with pepper spray — a tactic that medical experts say could have been life-threatening.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 1d
In normal times, the officer's name would've been named public by now, and journalists would be able to look up if he had any past incidents of misconduct.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 2d
I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy
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GovExec @govexec.bsky.social · 1d
OMB quietly removed language from its #shutdown guidance that referenced the 2019 law guaranteeing retroactive pay to furloughed federal employees. buff.ly/P0AsxeZ
OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance
An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 2d
Who else thinks Bari Weiss’ glasses aren’t even prescription?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d
JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 3d
Stubhub put Chris Brown’s name in a subject line and I unsubscribed so fast…
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 4d
TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 4d
Don’t show your kids Pixar if you want them to appreciate 2D animation. My daughter‘s rejecting Aladdin 😭
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 5d
New deep dive into the world of feuding Luigi Mangione supporters. Some are using alleged crime to push health care reform; others find that offensive, as they believe he's completely innocent. And most of them hate the media's fixation on the "thirsters": www.wired.com/story/inside...
Inside the Contentious World of Luigi Mangione Supporters
As Luigi Mangione is being tried legally and in the court of public opinion, tensions are growing between his supporters pushing health care reform and those who believe he is innocent.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d
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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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 6d
This happened in a predominantly African American area of Chicago, suggesting officials may be targeting other groups now.
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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 7d
A neighbor said she saw agents dragging residents, including children, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said.

“It was heartbreaking,” she said.

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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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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 6d
Detention lasted a couple of days, but the 3 and 8-year-olds involved will live with the trauma forever.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7d
A mother and her two children who were detained in Millennium Park on Sunday by immigration agents were released from custody Wednesday, bringing a moment of relief and renewed hope for the Chicago-area family caught in the crosshairs of aggressive federal immigration enforcement.
Mother and children detained in Millennium Park released from ICE custody, father flown to Texas detention center: ‘We’re praying for a miracle’
The move came after a federal judge ordered that Noemi Chavez and her 8 year-old daughter and 3-year-old are protected from deportation or removal from Illinois while the government responds to a h…
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7d
Pope Leo, "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants, they're not pro life"
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 6d
A local pumpkin patch has started posting AI images for promos on Facebook instead of, you know, photos of their harvest festival. We've lost the plot.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 7d
There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU
Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 7d
One downside of man-on-the street interviews is you thoroughly creep everybody out including yourself by the end of it.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 7d
We shouldn't normalize journalists being shoved to the ground, one of whom was seriously injured www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Journalists shoved by federal agents outside New York immigration court
Video of the incident shows masked agents pushing two journalists to the ground, the latest confrontation between immigration officials and those documenting their actions.
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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 7d
They've clearly never watched Jurassic Park
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NPR @npr.org · 7d
On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
Poll: Agreement that political violence may be necessary to right the country grows
On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
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