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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 14h

Zohran Mamdani has mobilized working class South Asians in his campaign. This week, Prajwal Bhat of our partner @documentedny.bsky.social shared his reporting on the potency and diversity of this community on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social with @errollouis.bsky.social. youtube.com/shorts/QyXb1...

Who propelled Zohran Mamdani's campaign win? Working class South Asian voters

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 19h

Marching creates momentum, but legislation creates lasting change. The hardest work begins after the cameras leave. url-media.com/from-the-str...

From the streets to seats: Turning activism into real policy change

How to go from protests to policy that sticks.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 2d

How do you react when a politician doesn’t vote your way? Instead of rage tweeting - try these strategies to reach your local representative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUSF...

Try These Three Hacks to Actually Reach Your Representative

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 2d

California’s catastrophic wildfires have taken a heavy toll, yet they’ve also sparked lessons in rebuilding and renewal (via our partner @palabranahj.bsky.social). www.palabranahj.org/archive/burn...

Burned Out Latinos: How Fire Disasters Leave One of LA’s Largest Communities Behind — palabra.

How have California's catastrophic wildfires disproportionately impacted Latino families and businesses in LA? Discover the untold story of recovery, the lessons in rebuilding, and a crucial guide on ...

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 3d

You may have missed these five stories. Here's a chance to catch up. url-media.com/stories-you-...

Stories you missed: Who this shutdown hits hardest, a reckoning on hazing and more

Here are five stories you missed from Black and Brown America this week.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 5d

The question isn’t whether grassroots organizing works, but whether you’re ready to do the patient work of building lasting change. url-media.com/how-ordinary...

How ordinary people build political movements from the ground up

This is a long game of making political change happen

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 7d

An agricultural economist and professor answers questions on the agency’s decision to halt data collection (via our partner @capitalb.bsky.social). capitalbnews.org/usda-ends-fo...

USDA Pulls Plug on Report That Measured Who Goes Hungry in America

LaPorchia Collins, an agricultural economist, professor and researcher, answered five questions on the agency’s decision to halt data collection.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 9d

How to run for office, and win, without big money. url-media.com/your-communi...

Your community needs you to run for office. Here’s how to do it.

How to run, and win, without big money.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 13d

Previously, while not being able to work as staff, Chinese-born people could contribute to research at NASA as contractors, university scientists or students (via our partner @asamnews.bsky.social). asamnews.com/2025/09/24/n...

NASA bans Chinese nationals from working on space programs – AsAmNews

Chinese citizens who hold U.S. work were blocked from NASA's systems, banning them from working on space programs.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 14d

History teaches us that survival requires strategy, not just rage
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How to build power when the system is working against you

Tips for how to go from survival mode to movement building.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 14d

Attention: local and independent newsrooms, digital and small publishers, and civic innovators who are experimenting with generative AI or want to do so (via our partner Epicenter NYC) epicenter-nyc.com/epicenter-fo...

Epicenter Foundation launches latest AI cohort - Epicenter NYC

Epicenter Foundation – a Queens, N.Y.-based nonprofit created to advance and expand programming across arts and culture, education, health, media and civic engagement – is launching the Epicenter Civi...

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 15d

Should California's gun violence restraining orders be a model for other states? (via our partner @indiacurrents.bsky.social) indiacurrents.com/7-key-insigh...

7 Key Insights: How California's Gun Violence Restraining Orders Are Saving Lives

California's Gun Violence Restraining Orders: A Model for Other States?

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 16d

If you want to contact and influence your elected officials effectively, these tips can help url-media.com/how-to-make-...

How to make politicians actually listen to you

If you want to contact and influence your elected officials effectively, these tips can help.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 16d

The start of nontribal recreational sales comes more than two years after Gov. Tim Walz signed the law legalizing recreational cannabis use across the state (via our partner @sahanjournal.bsky.social). sahanjournal.com/business-wor...

Recreational cannabis sales start in Twin Cities

For many customers who have bought recreational cannabis in other states, the change feels long overdue.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 20d

Ghana and other African nations have begun accepting deportees with no ties to their countries, raising legal and human rights questions (via our partner @thehaitiantimes.bsky.social). haitiantimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

What to know about the US deportations to non-citizen African countries

Ghana accepted 14 migrants deported by the U.S. despite none being Ghanaian, sparking legal and human rights concerns.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 21d

Zohran Mamdani faces Islamophobic attacks from Hindu nationalist groups determined to paint him as anti-Hindu ahead of November's general election (via our partner @documentedny.bsky.social). documentedny.com/2025/09/15/z...

Will Zohran Mamdani's South Asian Support Hold? - Documented

Zohran Mamdani scored big in South Asian immigrant neighborhoods in the Democratic primary elections in June, but now he faces Islamophobic attacks from Hindu nationalist groups determined to paint hi...

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 22d

The research group advocates for expanding tax credits and making payments to Medicaid-eligible families to relieve growing childhood poverty (via our partner @trentonjournal.bsky.social). trentonjournal.com/nj-group-pla...

NJ research group pitches multibillion-dollar plan to reduce childhood poverty

A New Jersey progressive research group says expanding tax credits and making payments of $5,000 to Medicaid-eligible families would relieve growing A New Jersey progressive research group says expand...

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 23d

Latino pride rises amid immigration crackdowns. url-media.com/why-hispanic...

Why Hispanic Heritage Month hits different this year

Latino pride rises amid immigration crackdowns.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 24d

From the newsletter: Why that ICE raid caused special outrage. Plus: The war on street tacos. tinyurl.com/2s3macte (Subscribe to URL Media newsletters here: url-media.com/newsletters/)

Why that ICE raid caused special outrage

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 25d

Many Black Americans probably never heard Charlie Kirk's name before this week. This is especially true for those not deeply plugged into right-wing college politics or the culture wars of Turning Point USA. Upon hearing the news of his death, some may ask: So what? url-media.com/charlie-kirk...

Black America should care that Charlie Kirk was murdered. Here's why.

Charlie Kirk wasn’t a household name in Black America. And after hearing of his death, some may ask: So what?

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 25d

Here's a look at stories you missed this week from across the URL Media network. url-media.com/stories-you-...

Boycotts are different now, NYC subway riders, Drake vs. UMG and more stories you missed

Here's a look at stories you missed this week from across the URL Media network.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 29d

If you're attending the Online News Association conference this week, please come to our panel, moderated by our cofounder Sara Lomax and featuring panelists from our partners @documentedny.bsky.social, @eltecolotesf.bsky.social, @scalawagmagazine.bsky.social & @trentonjournal.bsky.social.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · 29d

How a Pennsylvania county is uniting vacant properties with willing buyers (via our partner Pittsburgh Latino Magazine). pitlatinomag.com/from-vacant-...

From Vacant to Vibrant - Pittsburgh Latino Magazine

Allegheny County’s Vacant Property Recovery Program has become an effective tool to create breathing room and community spaces.

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · Sep 8

Critics say the absence of diversity in a prosecutor’s office, like the AG, can aggravate the state’s incarcerated racial disparity even further. (via our partner @blackgirltimes.bsky.social) www.loveblackgirls.org/post/mississ...

Mississippi AG has Few Black Lawyers on Staff in State with Highest Black Population

Black Girl Times information requests to the Mississippi Attorney General’s office revealed a total of 26 attorneys working in three of Fitch’s biggest departments in June. These include the Consumer ...

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URL Media @url-media.bsky.social · Sep 7

From the newsletter: On the importance of research and relationships in the job hunt. tinyurl.com/y4h8has7

New Jobs and Advice for Job Seekers

Check out the jobs we're recruiting for, plus advice on finding your next role.

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