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taco.cat @taco.cat · 21h

Incredible reporting by @sfstandard.com on the non-profit legal team representing people in SF's immigration courts.

Their work to secure same-day release and avoid transfers to remote immigration jails via on-site intake and immediate habeas petitions is life-saving. sfstandard.com/2025/10/20/c...

The pro bono attorneys performing miracles at immigration court

Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. Bu...

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · 1d

Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. But what comes next surprises them all.

New longread from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell @sfstandard.com:

The pro bono attorneys performing miracles at immigration court

Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. Bu...

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · 5d

Another thing they don’t tell you is that Play Doh does not in fact come in dozens of colors. This is but the transient state of Play Doh before it matures into its true and only color: brown.

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · 5d

Something they don’t tell you about parenthood is how many different types of small batteries you will be forced to own. Sizes and styles you never would’ve dreamed of, each of them bespoke for just one toy, but only sold in packs of 144.

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · 26d

This post-disaster angle always perplexes me. We should do everything possible to support people after a community-destroying fire, but slow rebuilding isn’t necessarily failure. Where I’ve seen towns fast-track rebuilds, they’ve guaranteed the same future hazards. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The LA Fires Destroyed 11,000 Homes. Less Than 10% Have Permits to Rebuild

Of the thousands of residents needing to rebuild after this year’s California wildfires, Andy Weyman would seem especially well positioned. The TV and stage director had remodeled his Malibu home just...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Sep 11

The U.S. relies on undocumented workers to clean up and rebuild after disasters but will not help when those undocumented people are the disaster victims. bsky.app/profile/zoes...

Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · Sep 11

DHS is barring disaster-relief orgs that receive FEMA money from offering assistance to undocumented people. Shelters, food assistance, search and rescue. A lot of these groups are faith-based, which "could create constitutional concerns." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants

Disaster aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Sep 7

Read this gut punch by Hannah Dreier and you might better understand some of the genuine moral impulse behind a gold rush to fight fire with more tech and fewer people. But you still have to care for the people before the robots can do the job (assuming they ever can). bsky.app/profile/broo...

Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · Sep 7

Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Sep 3

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Aug 29

“The more Mr. Jones screams at the judge, the more visitation time he gets.”

In SF, 9 out of 10 domestic violence survivors represent themselves in court cases that drag out for twice as long as the state average.

New from Anya Schulz: sfstandard.com/2025/08/28/s...

Survivors tethered to their abusers: An SF court’s lockdown on lives

“The more Mr. Jones screams at the judge, the more visitation time he gets.” In SF, domestic violence survivors seeking safety find themselves trapped in family court for years, co-parenting with th...

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've been wanting to draw immigration court in SF for years but could never get the assignment. Now I'm an editor so I could make the assignment.

A heartbreaker from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell and Dan Bransfield. sfstandard.com/2025/08/11/a...

The children facing quick deportation, alone, in SF immigration court

At rarely seen hearings, unaccompanied teenagers and families with toddlers face lawyers for the government.

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Aug 11

Baby’s got opsec

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Aug 10

Journalist Anas al-Sharif with his daughter Sham and son Salah.

Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...

Anas al-Sharif, smiling, sits outdoors holding his young daughter Sham on his left and his infant son Salah on his right. Both children are smiling; rubble is visible in the background.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 10

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital

Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

www.bbc.com

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Aug 4

Of all the houses to be quickly reassessed. I'll take what I can get.

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Aug 4

Prop 13 ground zero, Howard Jarvis' old house in L.A., available again after selling just last June but priced so high the sellers took it off the market in May, now for rent at $14,900: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

515 N Crescent Heights Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 | Zillow

This 3020 square feet Single Family home has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It is located at 515 N Crescent Heights Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.

www.zillow.com

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Jul 23

"Ramon and Susana planned to wait things out, hoping the immigration raids would fizzle out. ‘But things just got more intense,’ Ramon says. ‘So we decided, no, let’s get out of here.’"

New from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, on the people hiding, and leaving, before ICE: sfstandard.com/2025/07/23/s...

Bracing for the ICE storm: SF immigrants go underground

Empty shops, workers staying home, and some even self-deporting. This isn’t the calm before the storm, but an anxious scramble — a collective rush to bar the doors, board up the windows, and get the h...

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Jul 22

These are the kinds of places that need temporary refuge areas and education around them. Studies showed those zones saved between 1,000 to 3,000 people in the Camp Fire. But it’s a difficult policy to sell to the public.

My story from 2023: www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/18/1...

The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes

With climate change making more communities vulnerable to fire across the world, adaptation may require more social change than materials engineering.

www.technologyreview.com

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Jul 22

There are wildfire scenarios that would see Berkeley’s narrow roads filled to capacity before all residents could evacuate. It’s why the city has suggested preemptive evacuation in past fire weather. Walking is a bad idea imho but there aren’t many good ideas to be had here. bsky.app/profile/rebe...

Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · Jul 22

Here's the language recommending not walking or biking to evacuate.

Too many people have died in California fires because there's not enough road capacity to quickly evacuate everyone by car.

For folks who are able to evacuate by walking or biking, we should encourage that when it's safe.

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Jul 3

The internet reminded me that I drew this ten years ago.

Now everyone seems even more certain that the robots are taking our jobs imminently, but UBI seems further away than ever.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Jun 14

hard to predict the vibes tomorrow, but historically the instigators most likely to disrupt a protest with violence are the police

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Trevor Timm @trevortimm.bsky.social · Jun 12

Come work at @freedom.press, and help us keep journalists and whistleblowers safe!

We have an important job opening for the manager of our SecureDrop team. Apply in the next week, and reach out if you have questions:

Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · Jun 10

Are you a software engineer with management experience and a passion for open-source projects and press freedom?

@freedom.press is hiring an engineering manager for its @securedrop.org team.

Learn more and apply here: freedom.press/careers/job/...

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · Jun 9

Me, weakly, pleading, cold and near death on the hill:

“No more ‘clashes’ in headlines”

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Jun 9

Polite request to please credit the photographers whose L.A. photos you’re sharing. They’re out there risking getting their shins exploded by police munitions to get those shots.

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