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@chava.bsky.social
Rootless cosmopolitan. I report on the oligarch class at and occasionally go off in 🇲🇽 🇮🇱 🇰🇷 🥯. Past contributions to @columjournreview.bsky.social @thisamericanlife.org @newyorker.com @atlasobscura.com.
FAITH is a “last-dollar, full cost of attendance” award, specifically designed to support Mississippi students who need the help to attend college. Because of a funding gap, 170 foster students are left without scholarships they were previously approved for.
‘Soul-Crushing’: 170 Foster Students Denied Scholarships at Last Minute Across Mississippi
The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships weeks before classes begin due to lack of funding.
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🧊😲 KIDS IN CAMPS ⛓️👧🏻 What could drawings from children possible be evidence of?
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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🚨 ‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention through force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws. Reporting by José Olivares at The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws
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This article is based on interviews with three execs who sell these products: the head of Nanit, the CTO of Nanit and the head of Owlet there is one (1) note of caution from a pediatrician, and the FDA's concerns are raised only so that Owlet can defend itself that's just bad journalism, sorry
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago“It is the Eye of Sauron, but it also knows when we enter our daughter’s room in the morning and joy hits her face — and it sends us intelligently edited montages of these moments.”
those europeans in america world cup videos were obviously propaganda
I just saw the World Cup translated as "velt becher" in Yiddish and... what? languages are so weird
The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...
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the picture is doing way too many words here
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.The "Wall Street Journal" has a column accusing Mayor Mamdani of antisemitism, and they've chosen to illustrate it with just about the most blatantly Islamophobic illustration of Mamdani one could find. This is the equivalent of illustrating a Jewish politician with moneybags and puppet strings.
The Gordie Howe bridge is open between Detroit and Windsor, about a year late thanks to the US shenanigans -- but the good news, it has a bike lane and a pedestrian path, the only one between Detroit and Canada! www.archpaper.com/2026/07/aeco...
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this is textbook "the failure of the gov we defunded is proof that gov is bad" without even an attempt at logic www.wsj.com/opinion/cycl...
the only time I can think in Korean or Hebrew is when I try to think in Spanish
substack has "automatically translate" automatically turned on in settings WHY? this is so wrong and I can't articulate why
if they're shocked they haven't been paying attention
Reverend Genes@reverendgenes.com.au · 2w ago"Well this is awkward". The US used to to make 95% of international cars. Now about 18% and falling. ICE cars are low tech, high pollution & too expensive to buy & run. US makes 5% of EVs. China makes 75%. Oops. #Time4ChangeUSA #TheTankIsEmpty #2026MidTerms ⚖️ 🇺🇸
I kind of love how blatant this is lol
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoIndustry executives have balked at the fee and the potential legal risks of a new data service that would provide ‘faster’ access to posts from the top accounts on Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social. ft.trib.al/4gn0otB
cute Olson Kundig house in Seattle for sale (the price is less cute) www.urbnlivn.com/listing/1701...
Urban Living > Luxury Single Family Residence For Sale in Madrona, Seattle, King, WA, $2,650,000, 2 beds, 3 baths, 2,210 sqft, 1701 33rd Avenue
An Olson Kundig masterpiece in Madrona, the "Hammer House" pairs no-expense-spared construction by Dowbuilt with iconic Pacific Northwest design. A commercial-grade steel moment frame eliminates the n...
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Tyrone West’s death among 36 Maryland cases that should have been ruled homicides, audit finds baltimorebeat.com/tyrone-wests...
Tyrone West’s death among 36 Maryland cases that should have been ruled homicides, audit finds
An independent audit of Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner found three dozen deaths in police custody that should have been ruled homicides during the nearly 20-year tenure of Dr. David…
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In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
"Who’s going to be the priority—is it gonna be the computers or the people?” www.mansionglobal.com/articles/hom... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHx...
Homeowners Rally to Buck an AI Data Center Project in Florida’s Wealthy Horse Country
A community in western Palm Beach County rejected a hyperscale development this week, as a backlash from homeowners against such projects grows
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A bill called Orlin’s Law was filed to prohibit ICE from detaining or deporting immigrant parents unless they pose a public safety threat. The bill is named after 3-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes, a U.S. citizen slain after ICE deported his mother to Honduras.
New bill would prohibit ICE from separating parents from children
The proposal is named for a 3-year-old Florida boy who was killed after ICE deported his mother.
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ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w agoICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?
Missourians since 2020 have voted to expand Medicaid, legalized marijuana, raised the minimum wage, repeal the abortion ban, and legalize sports betting. Under a new constitutional amendment that'll be voted on in a month, these would ALL have failed. boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...
Under this August Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed - Bolts
Republicans have dominated Missouri’s legislature for over two decades, but they haven’t entirely controlled state lawmaking, in large part because Missouri empowers citizens to petition for ballot re...
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Remember all the banks who financed the American concentration camps. They will pretend they just slipped into providing billions to put kids in cages otherwise.
Jersey City to divest from Citizens Bank over $2.5B in ICE detention financing - Hudson County View
The City of Jersey City has announced they will divest from Citizens Bank over them providing $2.5 billion towards ICE detention financing
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