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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 21h

was putting off some healthcare stuff until next year bc I was planning on buying better insurance but now I’m like welp I’ll be lucky to be able to afford my current plan (already bottom tier Obamacare) next year

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 1d

Georgia depends on GFAF!

Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the board of the GA First Amendment Fdn, a tremendous space for defending open gov't, press freedom & the First Am. It's been a generative place in these contentious times. Oct 28, we're hosting our annual awards honoring some 1st Am. heavyweights. Join us! membership.gfaf.org/event-6288981

Georgia First Amendment Foundation - 2025 Georgia First Amendment Foundation’s 23rd Charles L. Weltner Freedom of Information Celebration

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 4d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara has reunited with family members and media colleagues after being deported to Olocuilta, El Salvador.

"GOD IS GOOD FRIENDS, Ready to continue working double time from my land, that's what my God wanted. Thank you very much to ALL," he wrote in Spanish on his Facebook page.

Mario Guevara enjoying an orange Fanta and pupusas

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting.
cpj.org/2025/10/jour...

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Atlanta Civic Circle @atlantaciviccircle.org · 4d

Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara set to be deported Friday

Mario Guevara, an Emmy award-winning, Spanish-language journalist who has served Atlanta’s Latino community for over two decades, will be deported Friday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to his family.

Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara set to be deported Friday

Mario Guevara, an Emmy award-winning, Spanish-language journalist who has served Atlanta’s Latino community for over two decades, will be deported Friday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to his family.

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 4d

ah so that’s why I feel like shit

Screenshot from Apple Weather app showing the current barometric pressure is 30.31inHg, which is on the high end of the scale.

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ACLU of Georgia @acluofga.bsky.social · 4d

ICE will deport Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained in retaliation for livestreaming a metro Atlanta protest, to El Salvador.

Mario had the right to work in the U.S. He and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press. bit.ly/4mQD2sy

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 5d

So he was first arrested in DeKalb County while covering a protest. He was 1 of 30 people arrested & the only journalist. He was charged with pedestrian in the roadway, obstruction & a third misdo charge I can’t remember. All dropped.

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 5d

at the ASG presser, I had mentioned in my question that Atlanta is the only city in the US where a journalist has been detained by ICE for doing his job. this is cruel and unnecessary and, plainly, a violation of human rights. it was the case months ago and still is the case now. fuck ICE.

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 5d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

www.wabe.org/family-says-...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

Journalists should never have to fear government retaliation for reporting on government activity, and showing up to work shouldn't result in your family being torn apart.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June.

He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

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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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 5d

Oscar Guevara said he and his younger brother will head to El Salvador to bring their father cameras, clothes and other personal belongings.

“At least he is not dead, and that’s the only thing giving us hope,” Oscar Guevara said in Spanish.

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 5d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

www.wabe.org/family-says-...

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 5d

As a disabled person and journalist, such vile ableism makes me sick when I think of this article. I'm not linking, but you're welcome to Google.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 5d

These are the type of articles that are published under Bari Weiss.

CBS News employees deserve better than to have her as EIC.

The Free Press

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 5d

I will be live tomorrow morning w/ @democracynow.org talking about the state of free speech, press freedom & Mario Guevara, whose freedom we @freepress.bsky.social have been fighting for. Please tune in, 8am eastern. www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now!

A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.

www.democracynow.org

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 5d

“Mario Guevara’s deportation is a troubling sign of the deteriorating freedom of the press under the Trump administration,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “Make no mistake, this is not a simple immigration case."

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Journalist Mario Guevara to be deported from US in unprecedented case - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., October 2, 2025—In response to news that journalist Mario Guevara will be deported on Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador, the Committee to Protect Journalis...

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 5d

Weird. I still can't access it directly through PACER. At any rate, problem solved. TY!

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 5d

@shawnmusgrave.bsky.social any thoughts?

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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 5d

Like Mahmoud Khalil's case, Mario Guevara's shows how courts will let the Trump administration use facially legal, bureaucratic mechanisms in unconstitutional ways. In a concurrence, Judge Kidd stresses that the First Amendment protects Guevara. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 5d

Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt.

Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.

On trial for journalism in Kentucky.

Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.

www.cjr.org

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Sam @samatl.bsky.social · 6d

The federal gov't has now filed a motion to dismiss Mario Guevara's habeas claim, which isn't surprising. What is surprising is that the filing is not publicly available on PACER, despite a previous motion from the judge making the docket public. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71204...

Motion to Dismiss – #59 in Guevara v. Sterling (S.D. Ga., 5:25-cv-00086) – CourtListener.com

*******First MOTION to Dismiss and Response to Petition by Pamela Bondi, LaDeon Francis, Todd Lyons, Kristi Noem, George Sterling, Warden. Responses due by 10/15/2025. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 11th C...

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Atlanta Civic Circle @atlantaciviccircle.org · 6d

11th Circuit denies Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara’s bid to block deportation order

Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara’s last ditch appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to block his deportation was denied on Wednesday.

11th Circuit denies Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara’s bid to block deportation order

Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara’s last ditch appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to block his deportation was denied on Wednesday.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

ICE in Chicagoland today:

CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown.

Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

Kidnappings across Chicago’s Northwest Side, Bronzeville, Cicero and suburbs; DHS confirms 37 arrests in South Shore apartments raid • The TRiiBE

A day after federal officers swarmed an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, agents returned to the South and West sides on Wednesday

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