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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 21h

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CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

Six network employees expressed a mix of emotions over the appointment in conversations with the Guardian

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 5d

Shouting it from the rooftop: Apple is among the companies that has protected civil society around the world from spyware used by authoritarian and some democratic governments. What happens when it's the US government who has access to spyware that can be used on journalists, political rivals, etc

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 5d

lol

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 5d

Our latest in our Ice Air investigation is by @oliverlaughland.bsky.social, which tells the story of one family's deportation, including two US citizen children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation

Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 5d

This from June was a much, much better conversation/interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates, exploring the same themes he was raising with Klein, but with a host who was listening podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Natural Human Reaction

Podcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 06/09/2025 · 1h 20m

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 6d

The latest in the @us.theguardian.com investigations team work on deportations: family separation

@maanvisingh.bsky.social reveals how the admin is coercing families into giving up, by forcing them to give up their kids if they want to fight their deportations

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 6d

In the first Trump administration, systematic separation of immigrant families was shut down due to public pressure. Now the practice has returned. Here is our latest in the Ice Air series, a heartbreaking look at family separation 2.0 by @maanvisingh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 7d

Pope: You're not pro-life is you mistreat immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Pope Leo criticizes Trump’s hardline immigration policies: ‘I don’t know if that’s pro-life’

Pope questions what it means to be ‘pro-life’ amid the ‘inhuman treatment of immigrants’ in the US

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 7d

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 7d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 7d

or sexual assault or sexual harassment

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8d

NEW from @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: it's the SEPTEMBER episode of our Project 1933 -- wherein @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I talk all about the cultural field, and how the new regime displayed itself to a broader populace. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 98 -- Project 1933, Part VII: September 1 - September 30

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 09/30/2025 · 1h 15m

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 7d

So smart and appreciate (as a German-American dual national myself) his refusal to accept that Cracker Barrel logo is a cultural fight.

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 7d

I liked that @moiradonegan.bsky.social pointed out a divergence (Kimmel back). I would add the selection of Bad Bunny for halftime to that short list. But everything else (Hegseth talking about body size) is spot on 1933.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8d

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder the Pentagon has previously said the climate crisis is an existential threat www.war.gov/News/News-St...

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 8d

Moira is a feminist columnist. It is not a 'reporter fail' for her to not mention Leo.

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 9d

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Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats

Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 9d

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Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny to headline 2026 Super Bowl half-time show

Latin trap and reggaeton artist to lead NFL half-time celebration on 8 February, following Kendrick Lamar’s record-breaking 2025 show

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13d

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13d

“You’re not allowed to call us Nazis,” says guy who went to work for Trump after calling him Hitler.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14d

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com.

I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.

Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 14d

Never thought I would be moved to say that I am thankful for Tylenol and every time it has miraculously made me or my children feel better, but it's true. Here is @moiradonegan.bsky.social on the latest absurdity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s absurd Tylenol claims heighten the suffering of pregnant women in the US | Moira Donegan

There is no evidence to support the president’s assertions about autism. But they exploit fears that already come with pregnancy

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