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Sarah Einselen

@saraheinselen.bsky.social

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Award-winning journalist, now freelance news editor. Follows: US immigration, economics, #churchtoo (and #sbctoo), #yimby, the First Amendment.

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Sarah Einselen @saraheinselen.bsky.social · Nov 23

Am I on some editor starter pack or something? I keep getting random writers following me.

I'm a news editor, and sometimes reporter, working with select publications in the DFW area or in the American Christian space - check out my work in @julieroys.bsky.social or @sojo.net

Sarah Einselen @saraheinselen.bsky.social · 8h

(He's rebooked and hanging out at a hotel in the meantime) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

Sarah Einselen @saraheinselen.bsky.social · 8h

Ahh. Not a huge leap to think the bad actors targeting him could've done that too, then. That's disappointing, about the lack of security. Thanks for the reply.

Sarah Einselen @saraheinselen.bsky.social · 10h

This is super weird. @wandrme.paxex.aero or other aviation writers, is this a thing that happens? Tickets suddenly canceled *after* check-in and security?

OP was headed to Spain after getting death threats incl his US home address. He's a historian of opposition to fascism around the world.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Sarah Einselen @saraheinselen.bsky.social · 12h

Got my longest and most valuable freelancing gig off a Twitter post actually. And met my husband using okcupid 😆

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 18h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Sarah Einselen @saraheinselen.bsky.social · 2d

Something I'd note - tho I'm no expert, my understanding of HR stuff is that a company has a legal obligation to provide a working environment free from, like, death threats. There's no way a social media platform *isn't* going to permaban someone who posts like this toward a platform employee.

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

jay posts this first thing, he quotes this with the second thing which has that alt text, his appeals

nice and tidy

Sarah Einselen @saraheinselen.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah the post was pretty indefensible.
bsky.app/profile/segy...

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

jay posts this first thing, he quotes this with the second thing which has that alt text, his appeals

nice and tidy

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

That immigration agent who threw a woman to the ground, prompting DHS to declare his conduct "unacceptable"?

He's back at the courthouse.

And DHS still won't tell us his name.

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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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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RNS @rns.org · 3d

OPINION: Evangelicals are reclaiming the moral and prophetic dimensions of their faith — centering it not on political loyalty or territorial claims, but on principles of justice, mercy and human dignity.
religionnews.com/2025/10/03/i...

In the Middle East, evangelicals are abandoning politically centered theology for peace

(RNS) — Recent leadership changes in the Middle East show the evangelical world outside the US moving away from Christian Zionism toward a politics of mercy.

religionnews.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

CATO has been consistently good on the issues they're good on for some time.

It's one of the reason I caution people abt conflating right with bad -- principled right is right on key issues.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 5d

After the passage of the notorious 1924 immigration law, HIAS started looking for alternative countries of refuge for people who needed it. We are back there.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the creator of The Punisher specifically mentioning challenge coins using the Punisher logo as a huge problem and a sign of a law enforcement agency that doesn't understand its mission.

/this is a Reddit comment reproducing a statement supposedly included in a SyFy article now offline.

What are your thoughts on the Punisher symbol being co-opted by police or the military?

I've talked about this in other interviews. To me, it's disturbing whenever I see authority figures embracing Punisher iconography because the Punisher represents a failure of the Justice system. He's supposed to indict the collapse of social moral authority and the reality some people can't depend on institutions like the police or the military to act in a just and capable way.

The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice sysytem, an eample of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they're basically sides with an enemy of the system. They are embracing an outlaw mentality. Whether you think the Punisher is justified or not, whether you admire his code of ethics, he is an outlaw. He is a criminal. Police should not be embracing a criminal as their symbol.

It goes without saying. In a way, it's as offensive as putting a Confederate flag on a government building. My point of view is, the Punisher is an anti-hero, someone we might root for while remembering he's also an outlaw and criminal. If an officer of the law, representing the justice system puts a criminal's symbol on his police car, or shares challenge coins honoring a criminal he or she is making a very ill-advised statement about their understanding of the law.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

"They hated immigrants more than they loved their own country's freedom" would make a hell of an epitaph.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d

An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee.

As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Detailing the reality of ICE and immigration enforcement, Young wrote:

ICE has nothing whatever to do with criminal law enforcement and seeks to avoid the actual criminal courts at all costs. It is carrying a civil law mandate passed by our Congress and pressed to its furthest reach oy the President. Even so, it drapes itself in the public's understanding of the criminal law though its "warrants" are but unreviewed orders from an ICE superior and its
"immigration courts" are not true courts at all but hearings before officers who cannot challenge the legal interpretations they are given.

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Mika Edmondson @mikaedmondson.bsky.social · 7d

“You’re the cause of my suffering” (Gen 16:5) — Sarah, after exploiting Hagar.

Oppressors cry “violence” when their injustice backfires. Instead of repenting, they double down.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

YES! This is the site where links still work and people read articles.

Link your thing! Read the link!

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 8d

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8d

what would you say if you saw this in another country? gothamist.com/news/journal...

Journalist taken to the hospital after shove by officer outside immigration court in NYC

The journalist, who works with a Turkish news agency, was put in a neck brace and transported to the hospital.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 8d

Just an extraordinary decision. Never seen anything like it.

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

50 Let’s be honest. In our secret heart of hearts, many of
us are tiny Trump wannabes. After all, who does not feel the
urge to stride about, “sticking it to The Man,” wrecking
institutions and careers simply because we find them irksome?
Most of us, however, ascribe to Shakespeare’s famous adage:
“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is
tyrannous To use it like a giant." MEASURE FOR MEASURE, act 2, scene
2.66.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

Judge Young then proposes that maybe Americans just don't care because there aren't many immigrant Palestinians among us and Gaza is far away. He then concludes this section with a robust defense of WHY people should care about what this admin is doing, which I'm reproducing in full.

Read it all.

Finally, perhaps we don't much care. After all, these Plaintiffs, a group of non-citizen pro-Palestinians are relatively small compared to the much larger interest groups who have every right vigorously to espouse the cause of the State of Israel. Palestine is far away and its people are caught up in the horrors of a modern war with heavy ordinance wreaking massive indiscriminate destruction, a war that is not one of our making. Why should we care about the free speech rights of their compatriots here among us?

Here's why: The United states is a great nation, not because any of us say so. It is great because we still practice our frontier tradition of selflessness for the good of us all. Strangers go out of their way to help strangers when they see a need. In times of fire, flood, and national disaster, everyone pitches in to help people we've never met and first responders selflessly risk their lives for others. Hundreds of firefighters rushed into the Twin Towers on 9/11 without hesitation desperate to find and save survivors. That's who we are. And on distant battlefields our military “fought and died for the men [they]

marched among.” Frank Loesser, “The Ballad of Roger Young”, LIFE, 5 March 1945, at 117. Each day, I recognize (to paraphrase Lincoln again) that the brave men and women, living and dead, who have struggled in our Nation's service have hallowed our Constitutional freedom far above my (or anyone’s) poor power to add or detract. The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.

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