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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · Apr 18

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Sports Journalist Jim Trotter Launches Success Fund for Aspiring Reporters Including $300k to Help Howard Students

School of Communications graduate, Jim Trotter, founded an organization to increase the number of African American professionals working in sports journalism. He is launching the Sports Journalism Suc...

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 45m

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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泣鬼虫A R T🌻🎸 @nakimushiart.bsky.social · 12h

Y’all if you in Florida, ICE is driving around the Black and Latino neighborhoods playing Ice Cream Truck music from their white vans, keep your children inside and safe this shit ain’t a joke.

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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 1h

Vance: “young boys” = mid-20s. 🤔

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 8h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 22h

It is alarming that the Trump Admin & rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child from Everett, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away & reportedly subject him to harrowing conditions.

They must stop violating our constitutional rights.

My full statement:

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“It is absolutely alarming that the Trump Administration and its rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away without his family, lawyer or a court knowing, and reportedly subject him to harrowing, inhumane conditions, including inadequate nutrition and sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket while still healing from a broken foot.

“He is a 7th-grader who should have been met with compassion and care, not criminalized and sent to an adult prison.

“The Trump Administration must stop violating the constitutional rights of our constituents. I join the chorus of community voices demanding basic adherence to due process, preservation of this child’s constitutional rights, and his immediate return to his family.”

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 22h

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has sent a formal demand letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, ordering him to swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately. More ⬇️

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

"News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defense Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon."

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Christina Kahrl @christinakahrl.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want to work in Sports at the San Francisco Chronicle? Our summer internship application has opened up & we'd love to see yours. The previous 4 sports interns all landed jobs in the industry; we gear this internship to help make sure you will too! eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Sports Reporting Intern, Summer 2026

Would you like to work with world-class journalists at a digital media company seeking to reinvent the way it covers news and reaches readers? The San Francisco Chronicle is looking for a reporting in...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Hamas has released all 20 remaining living hostages.

The Israeli military says it has taken custody of them and will transport them onward to Israel. Follow AP's live updates.

Live updates: Israel says Hamas hands over first 7 hostages to Red Cross as part of Gaza ceasefire

The key exchange follows a breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war. U.S. President Donald Trump was also arriving in the region along with other leaders to discuss the U.S.-proposed deal and postwar plans.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 4d

It’s truly an honor to be able to witness the greatness that is A’ja Wilson. #Respect

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4d

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…”

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A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

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Jim Trotter @jimtrotter.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, sir. Hope you’re well. I left LinkedIn when I retired.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6d

You’d think a decade into all of this, the NYT would have figured out how to stop lauding the arsonist for helping to extinguish the fire.

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 6d

there was a ceasefire when trump came in. he let israel blow that up, let famine spread, let his goons murder starving people, before using the power he'd had since he took office. grotesque to call this peacemaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-mideast-visit-israel-gaza.html

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7d

Canada vs. America

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Coach Mustard (aka velospence) @velospence.bsky.social · 9d

3 separate news websites and not a single one mentions the house of a female judge that was burned to the ground just days after being criticized and harassed by Stephen Miller.

seems like a pretty big story, ngl

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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