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NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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I hear versions of this from people a lot. And some describe not knowing how to plug in when they do seek info out—literally not being sure where to look for information about what's happening locally, aside from nightly news, or nationally, or what to trust as they try to find different outlets.

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Happy tax day, a day we celebrate by paying taxes to the hackers who have our home addresses

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As Trump and Musk dismantle whole agencies + freeze federal hiring, college seniors have been terminated from government internships + had job offers rescinded. "I am worried about losing an entire generation of people that will not want to serve in government." www.teenvogue.com/story/elon-m...

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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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“The majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements long dedicated to curbing access to information and ideas.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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BREAKING: The United Mineworkers and United Steelworkers unions are suing the Trump admin over its decision to delay enforcement of a lifesaving new silica rule meant to curb the black lung epidemic in Appalachia. My exclusive for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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Legal complaints from 20 workers in California, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas allege that sexual harassment has continued at McDonald’s locations, and when employees reported it, nothing was done. 1/ www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...

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Translation is critical for getting information about weather events into communities and cutting this will absolutely kill people.

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It has been over two months since OVW withdrew all grant opportunities. Losing this funding stream would devastate nonprofits supporting domestic violence survivors. If you have any info about what's going on, I'd love to hear from you. DM me for Signal, or email me at jmithani [at] 19thnews.org

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Feels weird to barge in with good news, but The Onion is hiring two more fellows: Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Here's a link to our Video Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.

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cw: suicide @hencarnell.bsky.social and I spent the last 3 months speaking to families with trans kids. I'd ask you click to through & listen to Renee tell the story of her daughter's coming out. It's so important to know that parents like this are out there. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

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"A few teachers talked about seeing acute fear among Hispanic students and their families. One educator said she accompanied a parent who packed a suitcase to go to a non-criminal court hearing, afraid ICE would arrest her."

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I’ve long said space is none of my damn business and the Blue Origin stunt has only solidified my resolve.

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"A few teachers talked about seeing acute fear among Hispanic students and their families. One educator said she accompanied a parent who packed a suitcase to go to a non-criminal court hearing, afraid ICE would arrest her."

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A really emotional, powerful piece on how trans kids and families are handling the total assault on their right to exist www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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This is such a cool concept and I look forward to following these stories:

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icymi, @motherjones.com is accepting apps for early-career fellows, who will fact-check our most ambitious investigative stories and learn what it takes to produce a national magazine and radio show. apply here by April 20! www.motherjones.com/careers/fell...

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we need each other to get through this. it’s not gonna get any less horrifying in the immediate future. we will have to have to risk things to protect each other. and that’s always been the case. have to keep reminding myself

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Essential journalism, by @hannahallam.bsky.social. Outrageous and heartbreaking. “It was like a relay race, and she was the baton,” Öztürk’s attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.

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A Seattle lab lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance while waiting for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

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Libraries play a critical, if informal, role in employment & training by providing internet access and connecting people with career resources in their communities. Plus, obviously, materials that help people improve their knowledge! So it's extra gross the deputy secretary of labor is gutting IMLS.

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Homeless workers now have to submit proof of employment to be allowed to sleep in their cars in one of the richest counties in the U.S. Welcome to America: people shivering overnight in subzero temperatures, steps from luxury ski resorts, for the privilege of keeping the local economy booming.

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Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

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Marco Rubio argued that Mahmoud Khalil should be deported based more or less on vibes alone, and a Louisiana judge said she had no authority to question that argument www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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NEW: The Social Security Administration Is gutting regional staff and shifting all of its public communications to Elon Musk's X read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:

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A 19 y/o who fled Iran w/her family is being held at an ICE facility in Texas. She's the primary caregiver for her mom + autistic brother, but is being held in custody w/deportation orders after the rest of her family was released More from @raicestexas.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

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BREAKING: A judge has ruled that a letter from Secretary Rubio is enough to make Mahmoud Khalil deportable, a decision with momentous implications for free speech. As she read out her decision, a supporter in the courtroom began to cry. My first for @zeteo.com

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“I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.” — Mahmoud Khalil, after a Louisiana judge ruled he could be removed from the United States

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This is an overgeneralization but lately it feels like every time I have a conversation with a high schooler I'm having to explain something terrible that's happening to them or they're having to explain something terrible that's happening to me.

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From earlier this week: 2/3s of girls ages 13-17 live in states that ban or severely restrict their abortion access. This comes as anti-abortion lawmakers increasingly test new, ever-more restrictive abortion laws on minors, claiming to protect while actually placing them in further danger:

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Hell yeah, youth should be able to vote in (and IMO run for) school board elections!!

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“Librarians are speaking out about what communities could lose, including internet access and workforce development in Kentucky, the Talking Book and Braille Center in New Jersey, digital hotspots in North Carolina, and much more” @rainesford.bsky.social

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NEW: Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY had much of its vast archive of Appalachian media damaged in historic 2022 flooding, but received federal grants to restore them. Now those grants are likely to be zeroed out with DOGE cuts to NEH and IMLS, putting the archives and other humanities programs at risk.

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Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

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Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

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students are being deported for writing op-eds, not vandalizing a library. Taking part in a protest, not taking over a campus. Rubio is making claims about guilt without offer any evidence.

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I wrote for @msnbc.com about the HHS cuts dismantling the Administration for Community Living, which works to help disabled and aging people keep living with dignity in their homes and communities rather than in institutions—and about my mom, whose experience highlights the human cost.

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meanwhile, the Teen Vogue Politics landing page (cc @allegrak.bsky.social)

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"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement." labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

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It's been 15 years since the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia. Family members and others from the community gathered over the weekend to remember those who lost their lives in one of the worst mining accidents of the past half century.

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I was one of a few journos inside the Columbia encampment last year. a new documentary focused in part on Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner, the expelled student union president, was released in theaters early, after Khalil's abduction. my interview with a director and student organizer @teenvogue.com

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NEH staffers say DOGE is recommending up to 80% cuts to staff and possibly canceling all grants made under the Biden Administration that have not been fully paid out.

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Voters in Missouri and Nebraska overwhelmingly backed paid sick leave and minimum wage measures. Now state lawmakers are working to undo them. capitalandmain.com/democratic-a...

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