Alice Herman
@aliceherman.bsky.social
Investigative reporter @suncosearchlight.bsky.social Signal: @aliceherman.22 Email: alice@suncoastsearchlight.org
Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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The State Department’s Office of Remigration is taking a concept celebrated by neo-Nazis and embedding it in U.S. policy. “Remigration, touted by neo-Nazis, and now our own government, is nothing more than an ethnic cleansing plan,” said @wendyvia.bsky.social. More from @davidgilbert.bsky.social:
The State Department Really Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Office of Remigration
The office was created a year ago and seemingly named for a far right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. It now works, a source says, with little to no oversight.
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Sharyn Alfonsi releases the following statement on CBS News essentially ghosting her: "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom."
“The time I find hardest of all is at night, when the house falls still, and there is nothing left to do and no one left to call. This was our time, when we talked without haste, when we discussed anything and everything” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...
Opinion | My Wife Disappeared Into El Salvador’s Prison System. When Will She Come Home?
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ProPublica has set the industry standard for rigorous investigative journalism, & it will too for the adoption of AI in newsrooms, for better or for worse. As journalists, we should be watching their union's contract negotiations closely and offering our colleagues there our full support
We asked @propublica.org's board to agree to a fair contract. Chair Paul Sagan replied that they support management, whose last offer includes weak job security, minimal guardrails on AI & wages that don’t keep up w/ rising costs. We know you stand with us. Tell Mr. Sagan: shorturl.at/MkUbQ
Tell ProPublica’s board that you stand with its workers
We asked ProPublica’s board to agree to a fair contract, but Chair Paul Sagan replied that they support management, whose latest offer includes weak job security, minimal guardrails on AI and wages th...
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Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Prince Andrew's Arrest
Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter
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As ICE and CBP testify in Congress, we have updated our tracker of deaths at the hands of immigration enforcers. 25 have been killed with another 18 seriously injured, and there have also been 44 deaths in ICE/CBP custody. Wondering if this will come up at the hearing. prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...
A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
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Here's the original investigation that brought light to this scheme, from @aliceherman.bsky.social and @skirchy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege
Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers
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Uline – a company owned a MAGA mega-donor – brought in workers from Mexico who earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hour... Now one worker from Mexico who was badly hurt on the job has spoken to the Guardian about his experience working for the company.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner@skirchy.bsky.social · 6mo agoPlease read our latest of the Maga donors at Uline and their reliance on Mexican labor. For the first time, one worker who was badly hurt on the job has spoken to us and told us his story (with @maanvisingh.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
was locked out of bluesky and am now back...not sure if this is a good thing
A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story. This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.
New College was quick to signal support for Trump's higher ed "compact," which dozens of schools (incl conservative ones) rejected as an attack on academic freedom. Just weeks later, NCF moved to raise tuition - apparently contradicting the agreement: suncoastsearchlight.org/new-college-...
New College tuition hike may contradict Trump ‘compact’ - Suncoast Searchlight
The planned hike, which would take effect in fall 2026, raises questions about whether New College would still qualify for the ideologically driven agreement.
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"The records the Times/Herald have been able to obtain show that to pay for ads, DeSantis officials repeatedly tapped into money meant to help vulnerable Floridians. The money came from federal grants...By spending public money on a political effort, several agencies bent the rules."
Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 8mo agoHOLY COW! #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous diverted $36M in child welfare & medical funds to pay for consultants & ads to defeat an abortion rights amendment & one for legal weed. Much of the state $$$ was intended to assist the needy. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social
The election conspiracy group Defend Florida has lost sway with lawmakers, but their message still spreads, @aliceherman.bsky.social reports. “There are some very powerful amplifiers of election lies, including the president," @beckerdavidj.bsky.social said. suncoastsearchlight.org/defend-flori...
Florida election skeptics lose power in Tallahassee, but their message still spreads - Suncoast Searchlight
The mood was grim on Defend Florida’s mid-November Zoom call. Members of the Sarasota-founded election conspiracy theory group traded frustrations over Florida Republicans who no longer seemed intere...
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Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
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A look at how sheriffs in FL are joining Trump's immigration crackdown -- and the regional role the Sarasota sheriff has taken on: suncoastsearchlight.org/sarasota-she...
Sarasota Sheriff cashes in on ICE crackdown - Suncoast Searchlight
Sarasota County stands in sharp contrast to neighboring agencies, which have neither participated as extensively nor benefited as much from partnering with ICE.
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NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
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I have never heard of a reservation being "cancelled" (for no stated reason) after a person checks in a receives a boarding pass. Highly suspicious and disconcerting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
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"No single experience can fully contain the agony of Gaza, the near-obliteration of a society and a place." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)
We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?
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Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June. He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
OMG! Mychal did it. Anyone who first caught this wonderful human gaining an audience on TikTok knew there was something special happening. What an incredible journey and story. Promoting reading and libraries is so damn important right now, and I can't think of a better ambassador.
Reading Rainbow Returns With New Host and Celebrity Guest Stars
Reading Rainbow is back after almost 20 years! The beloved children's TV program — which ran for 26 years before wrapping in 2006 — is celebrated for fostering childhood reading and literacy.
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4/ Some ICE officers on the scene reacted emotionally to the incident. One said: “What the fuck?” Another told me: “This is a real problem.“
3/ An agent then appeared to shove people away from the elevator entrance, which led to Elibol falling to the ground, as footage captured by photographer Stephanie Keith shows.
2/ Journalist L. Vural Elibol and other photographers apparently wanted to understand why ICE agents were following a woman into a public elevator. As they tried to enter the elevator, a supervisor from the ICE team at the New York Field Office shouted, “Get out the fucking elevator!”
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
Short thread 🧵 1/ In Florida (and nationwide) under Trump's 2nd admin, ICE has expanded its use of "detainers," the controversial and longstanding practice of holding people in jail -- many on minor charges -- past their release date to turn them over to ICE custody for possible deportation.
