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Less than a week ago, Trump said he "brought back free speech." Tell that to Mahmoud Khalil, currently in ICE detention. Read more: interc.pt/3Dvhxgk ✍️ @natashalennard.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

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Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

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Adnan Syed, whose case received international attention in 2014 with the release of the podcast “Serial,” will not have to return to prison, a judge ruled this week.

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Immigrant news leaders: sign up to be part of our LION 2025 peer learning group, led by yours truly! 💓 The deadline to apply is March 21st, 2025. lionpublishers.com/sign-up-to-j...

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A day after Mayor Eric Adams faced a phalanx of questions in Washington about the city’s sanctuary city policies, his immigrant affairs commissioner faced a barrage of his own, this time from city councilmembers.

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Democrats, and not even just those from New York, used the hearing to grill the mayor over the (likely) dropping of his federal charges over a quid pro quo with the Trump administration, which he steadfastly refused to talk about. hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-...

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Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

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"In the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, you can learn that the first animals with backbones evolved during the early Cambrian Period, 525 million years ago. Outside of that museum, few backbones can be found in Washington, DC." —Hamilton Nolan's latest Substack, giving me life.

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2023 was "the deadliest year for construction workers in New York since NYCOSH began tracking the data in 2013." More from @thecity.bsky.social:

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The city will end an initiative that provides short-term hotel room stays to migrant families with children in need of shelter—the latest as City Hall scales back its response efforts for new immigrant arrivals, as numbers decline. bit.ly/3FcYEPy

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I appreciated the opportunity to speak about how immigrant journalists are uniquely under attack right now — for their identities as immigrants, and also for their chosen line of work.

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At the airport this morning, I was hearing every TSA worker discussing how to respond — or not to respond — to Musk's email. Wild.

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Just saw the house from "Anora" in Mill Basin on the way to JFK. Whoa.

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NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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I'm wrapping up my week at the #KnightMediaForum in Miami, where @fi2w.org alumni and collaborators @martinaguzman.bsky.social , @valeriafernandez.bsky.social, @maritzafelix.bsky.social, and Alfredo Corchado were showing up for immigrant journalism.

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Thank you @anntastic.bsky.social for sharing this! Being an immigrant or child of immigrants lends nuance, specificity, understanding, and empathy to journalism. And talking about one's lived experience can often enrich our reporting.

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This work by @palabranahj.bsky.social is so important, especially in our current political climate, when journalists of color will need our support more than ever. Please share the survey! ✍🏼

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“In this community, we are all immigrants, and no one understands each other more than we do.” —Enisa Ljecaj, one of the volunteers for Allerton Allies Community Fridge. For @fi2w.org, reporter Fahima Degia paints a portrait of immigrant-led mutual aid in the Bronx:

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Okay, this is sweet. The Greater Good Science Center is soliciting proposals for nonfiction and reported stories related to love. 💓 Submit your ideas through March 24, 2025: ggsc.berkeley.edu/what_we_do/m...

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Dean Spade's new book is so needed for these times. I loved hearing this conversation tonight at the Brooklyn Heights library. 💓

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Stay informed, have “the will to fight,” How LA is dealing with the threat of ICE. Immigrant advocates are educating Angelenos and building networks to fight off Trump’s mass deportation threats. lapublicpress.org/2025/02/los-...

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Mass deportations are vile, and ongoing ICE raids are stoking fear in immigrant communities across the country. This policy is bad for everyone. Deportation and detention will likely shatter New York state's economy.

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“It’s a dangerous authoritarian attempt to scare students from speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza."

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Educators say campus immigration enforcement will traumatize "all students attending public schools." School attendance is already reportedly down www.the74million.org/article/from...

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Advocates say the bill will put domestic violence survivors who face false allegations from their abusers at greater risk of deportation.

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"When you have food waste being put into the smart bins and the brown bins that the city takes away, they’re taking it out of our community," says @brosis512.bsky.social's Nando Rodriguez. "So having local community compost, to me, is empowering our community." bit.ly/40wbUWy

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"Like dollar pizza slices, or quarter waters, New Yorkers named dollar vans for their price." 🚐🍕 Listen to Andrés Pacheco-Girón's story about dollar vans in NYC on @citylimitsnews.bsky.social and @fi2w.org:

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SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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It's pretty magical on my block in Brooklyn.

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Come work with me and my team!

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"The dollar vans come from the Caribbean, the islands, the West Indies, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, Grenada, even in Haiti." —Hilltop Boss, a dollar van driver in Brooklyn, NY As a huge transit nerd, I'm thrilled to share Andrés Pacheco-Girón's @fi2w.org story on dollar vans in NYC. 🏙️🚌📻

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