Nicky Spiva
@nickyspiva.bsky.social
Ultimate frisbee, education, public interest advocacy/policy, dad, games, books, cryptic writer Writers I like: LeGuin, Butler, Novik, Marlon James, Karen Russell, Arkady Martine, Maile Meloy, Katherine Addison, Maggie Nelson, Rothfuss, Lydia Davis, N.K.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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5 favorite genres: - spiraling series of bad decisions - last free day - dystopia w/ bureaucracy - Josephine Decker psychological horror - artsy animation
Marielle Hellraiser 💀@mags.colvett.online · 3mo ago5 favorite genres: — Adult siblings working it out — This professional woman is VERY competent! — Somehow surviving unbearable emotion — Being in your 30s or 40s and mostly interested in how your art is going — Body horror
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
big scandal in Atlanta - amid an ongoing housing crisis, the city spent over $100,000 of money FROM the affordable housing trust fund on…consultants. overall, they paid $370k to marketing/comms consultants who didn’t disclose they were being paid by the city! atlpresscollective.com/2026/06/09/a...
Atlanta spent $370K on consultants who promoted mayor's NRI
NRI consultants failed to disclose financial ties and were partially paid through Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
atlpresscollective.com
Curious about the impact of the impact of the Mayor's updated Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative (NRI) on Atlanta Public Schools? I built a #shinyapp where you can see how changing TAD closures impacts future Atlanta Public School revenue. Check it out here - nickspiva.shinyapps.io/tad_app/.
if i'm making this out right, at 0:30 the staffer points out where pop was watching from a suite for wemby to look up at him and that's then he starts to break down into tears and if that's not a reason to care about watching sports then there isn't one
Wemby👽Highlights@wembyhighlights.bsky.social · 4mo ago
This is what the Brave Of US do. Congrats to this phenomenal girl and the obviously brave parents who raised her.
Status Coup News@statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️
Pete Hegseth told Congress the Iran War has cost $25 billion. Hegseth lied — the US has spent at least $72 billion. My latest for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c...
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
More absolute, essential truth. And, yes, of course, this regime is incapable of shame or even recognition of their evils but speaking truth is how we call each other into a more sustained and vigorous fight.
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 5mo agoFeeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
15 top tv shows gut instinct (unordered) Andor The Wire Fleabag Friday Night Lights The Pitt Night Manager FLCL Chernobyl Planet Earth Abbot Elementary Cowboy Bebop Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit The OC Succession Watchmen
Micah@rincewind.run · 5mo ago15 top TV shows ever, gut instinct edition (in no particular order) The Wire Breaking Bad Better Call Saul The Good Place Farscape The Expanse Veronica Mars (S1) Reacher Cowboy Bebop Leverage Friday Night Lights Babylon 5 Justified Chuck Ted Lasso (S1)
I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x
The Pelicans traded the guy who has closed out the Knicks in back to back playoff games for Jordan Poole lol
This Hawks Knicks game is awesome! Can’t believe we traded away CJ!
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Housing is a human right. A lack of housing should never violate your civil rights. But here we are.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6mo agoRead that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”
So I ask again, two weeks later, where are the newspaper editorials calling for Trump to stop the war? presswatchers.org/2026/03/stop...
STOP THE WAR! How hard is that for an editorial board to say? | Press Watch
Iran War A survey of what editorials are saying, and a plea for them to say more
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 7mo agoTrump is going to get a lot more people killed to salve his disintegrating ego. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.
Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 7mo agoOudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Thanks to @templeuniversity.bsky.social students journalism for this amazing profile of @slacentercity.bsky.social Boys Ultimate! youtu.be/VqqWfn3P-3A?...
Science Leadership Academy Varsity Ultimate Frisbee Team Profile
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Trump paid the military during the last shutdown from DOD funds so not clear why he won’t do the same for TSA beyond the desire to create pain.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 7mo agoRep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.
Deliberately and explicitly targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the ICC. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...
If the people elected to oversee Atlanta Public Schools vote to give property tax growth to Invest Atlanta mere months after voting to close 16 schools they need to meet public outcry and be voted out at the first opportunity.
Sean Keenan@thatseankeenan.bsky.social · 7mo ago“The benefit has barely scratched the surface, and you’re asking me to support TADs for another 30 years? I’ll be dead before y’all do what you’re supposed to do.” I've heard this a lot over the past few weeks. A lot to unpack here:
As I've mentioned before the NBA & PA signed a "landmark CBA" in 1983 guaranteeing players 53% of gross revenue starting with the 84-85 season - and they've enjoyed somewhere around 50% ever since. Estimated 2022 W revenue similar to 1984 NBA & going up. So 40 years later why do the women get 20%?
Sarah Spain ✨@sarahspain.com · 7mo agoSuper excited for the major salary increases in the new W CBA, but I can't help but cringe at seeing the revenue share reported at "nearly 20% across the length of the deal." The PA started negotiations asking for 40% (already significantly lower than NBA players) & got forced down to less than 20?