The Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border has become a graveyard for migrants. In the latest episode of Backlight, we speak to @mdelbosque.bsky.social about the human toll of US border militarization and untold stories of those who drowned. 🎙️ Listen now: www.lighthousereports.com/investigatin...

Investigating border deaths in the shadow of US election

In this episode we take you behind the scenes of our latest U.S.-Mexico border investigation, Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande.

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amazing work by my colleague @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social in a series that exposes the racism built into algorithms used by govt agencies and its real, human consequences.

Gabriel Geiger@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 2y ago

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

In Greece, a jailed Kurdish refugee named Mehmet Çelik is reportedly on hunger strike as he faces the threat of deportation to Turkey www.efsyn.gr/ellada/koino...

Παρέμβαση Ρουβίκωνα στο τουρκικό προξενείο

Eκφράζοντας την αλληλεγγύη του στον Κούρδο πολιτικό πρόσφυγα Mehmet Çelik

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Hello Bluesky friends! We'll be posting here more often going forward In the meantime, sharing a starter pack of current/former staff and contributors to Lighthouse Reports investigations. Will update as we go! go.bsky.app/J6a68Yg