Sandhya Dirks
@audiosand.bsky.social
Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive" signal: sandhya_.96 Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.
Huge shout out to @prisoncast.bsky.social -- part of @wbez.org)-- the most recent show was an incredible piece of radio. You can listen here: www.wbez.org/prisoncast/2...
Building emotional intelligence, one cellblock at a time
The latest episode of Prisoncast! shows how men locked up in Illinois River Correctional Center built the program they needed to improve themselves — and each other.
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Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?
Note of gratitude to Gillian Brockell for staying on the beat and keeping visible systems behind heartwrenching videos. That purple line is a plane likely full of families being broken, people who'll be lost to others & themselves, even young ICE employees who'll bring their violence home to others.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 17h agoThird long-range private jet ICE flight in one day. This one is headed for Africa, possible third-country nationals onboard.
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
FOIA records obtained by Type Investigations and In These Times raise questions about evidence presented in Prairieland case. typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
Exclusive: FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas “Antifa” Trial - Type Investigations
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New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots
The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.
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"It was unclear how much additional cost or time the latest changes would add to the $5 million-plus project, which is being paid for by Lockheed Martin. It owns the company that manufactures the helicopters."
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterdayScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
"The lawsuit alleges that Texas A&M canceled an LGBTQ literature course that Reddy and Sadler were scheduled to teach this fall and required Sadler to remove the Academy Award-winning film 'Moonlight' and a poem titled 'Trans-Generation' from another course."
Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender
This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.
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There’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/david-elli... CNN reporters were not amused by David Ellison's op-ed in the NYT.
![The piece was "insulting," one CNNer told Status, adding, “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS. You can’t just write an op-ed and erase that.” Another CNNer said it was obvious to them Ellison "says whatever is best for him to get the merger through."
"The thing David Ellison seems to be missing is the wild mismanagement and disrespect that Bari [Weiss] has displayed at '60' and CBS," a third CNNer told Status. "These people just simply do not know what they are doing. We see it. And we don’t want it here."
Indeed, several CNNers said that Ellison's stewardship of CBS News had caused them to lose confidence in his ability to run a news organization and sour on his repeated assurances about respecting the independence of newsrooms. In The Times essay, Ellison wrote, "I understand that promises from an executive in the middle of a merger invite skepticism. So judge us by the year we just had."
But the last year at CBS News has been an unmitigated disaster. Most notably, Ellison allowed his handpicked news chief to take a sledgehammer to "60 Minutes," firing multiple correspondents and senior executives from television news' most prestigious broadcast—in most of the cases, without ever stating a cause for the dismissals. Beyond that, Weiss' tenure has been defined by her expunging those she is not ideologically aligned with, presiding over the worst ratings of the century for flagship programs like the "CBS Evening News" and "CBS Mornings," establishing a cozier relationship with an overtly corrupt White House, and sending employee morale cratering to astonishing lows.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicybrw5xm7wnrleduxjtlfwlrcvjzs7qwwjijswwlluzh5x67iadi)
Nurses at Maine Medical Center are calling for the release of Debora Kapisha, a registered nurse there. She was detained by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement and remains in ICE custody. Her colleagues plan to protest outside the Portland hospital Wednesday morning. www.wmtw.com/article/ice-...
ICE detains Maine Medical Center nurse, prompting protest
Nurses at Maine Medical Center are calling for the release of a colleague detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and plan to protest outside the Portland hospital Wednesday morning.
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"Bruce Menin, husband of New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, appears to own a jet once used by the CIA to transport suspected terrorists to "black sites" around the world." URL of post x.com/nkulw/status...
TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...
The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"
I try not qt Rupar, as much as I value what he does, because I know so many others will so mine isn't needed, but... this is full on Man in a High Tower stuff. We have gone through the portal and we live in the world in which hitler won.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoSen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists
Climate change is why everything else sucks. But it's also why these fuckers have grabbed up so much power everywhere they can
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 23h agoit's not why *everything* sucks, but having all three branches of the federal government captured by thieves, abusers, bigots, and cowards is definitely why a lot of things suck
“Haitians in Ohio lost their work permits when TPS expired on Monday. More than 1,000 children born in Springfield with American citizenship have Haitian parents.” MORE: columbusunderground.com/ohioans-prep...
Ohioans Prepare for Resurgence of ICE - Columbus Underground
Ohio cities with big Haitian populations are preparing for a possible uptick of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement after temporary protected status for Haitians ended this week.
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as low as my expectations have become I still didn't think an abuse story about somebody breaking a little girl's bones would get worse but that appears to have been naive of me
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agowhoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation
Horns, plus cross as tbullet point besides “faith.” This straight-up fascist antisemitism. It’s been noted this won’t get 1/10 attention as non-antisemitic statements by Mamdani. That’s part Islamophobia, & part media market. Very few who aren’t from there or very online know what state this is.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterdayDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
New: police are being explicitly told to hide the fact they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them. Basically, do not mention this in official police reports. If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it? www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Fun fact: I just published the full story on this topic mere minutes ago. By my count, at least 12 pastors, seminarians & former clergy have launched campaigns for federal office this year, and 5 are already nominees. In response, the GOP is attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith
(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...
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Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · 23h agoHighly recommend listening to @jackjenkins.me in conversation with Dr. Amanda Henderson:
Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints
Soldiers can no longer make anonymous reports of discrimination, and commanders can more easily dismiss complaints they disagree with.
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But Sophie Cunningham is trying to do what Riley Gaines did to herself, the lucrative bigot-hate-fascism grift
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterdayAbsolutely nobody knew who Riley Gaines was when she was swimming for Kentucky -- there wasn't a whole arena booing her at that time.
This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterdayDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
