Heather D Hill
@hdhill.bsky.social
Teach & research poverty, social policy, and family wellbeing. Here for cats, community, policy takes, real pics of real mountains & oceans, advocacy for women's health, immigrant families & children, and democracy.
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From the ever insightful @bencasselman.bsky.social with analysis by former BLS Commissioner & Friends of BLS co-chair Bill Beach and others
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Trump Names ‘Data Nerd’ to Lead Labor Statistics Agency
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:28 PM
From the ever insightful @bencasselman.bsky.social with analysis by former BLS Commissioner & Friends of BLS co-chair Bill Beach and others
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/b...
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"Trump Picks Veteran Staffer to Head Bureau of Labor Statistics: Brett Matsumoto, the next chief, has worked as an economist at the BLS since 2015."
Excellent choice! www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Excellent choice! www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Exclusive | Trump Picks Veteran Staffer to Head Bureau of Labor Statistics
Brett Matsumoto, the next chief, has worked as an economist at the BLS since 2015.
www.wsj.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:26 PM
"Trump Picks Veteran Staffer to Head Bureau of Labor Statistics: Brett Matsumoto, the next chief, has worked as an economist at the BLS since 2015."
Excellent choice! www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Excellent choice! www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.
January 31, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.
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I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.
If not, why not?
If not, why not?
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.
If not, why not?
If not, why not?
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Please never forget all these powerful and wealthy men (and a few woman) didn't care at all that Epstein raped girls. Just like now, they only cared about their own interests, bottom line and pleasures.
The girls remain an afterthought. A disposable toy or simply a "cost" of doing business.
The girls remain an afterthought. A disposable toy or simply a "cost" of doing business.
January 31, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Please never forget all these powerful and wealthy men (and a few woman) didn't care at all that Epstein raped girls. Just like now, they only cared about their own interests, bottom line and pleasures.
The girls remain an afterthought. A disposable toy or simply a "cost" of doing business.
The girls remain an afterthought. A disposable toy or simply a "cost" of doing business.
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Rest in peace to a legend.
Catherine O'Hara, 1954-2026
Catherine O'Hara, 1954-2026
January 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Rest in peace to a legend.
Catherine O'Hara, 1954-2026
Catherine O'Hara, 1954-2026
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Alert: Twin Cities reporter Georgia Fort was taken into custody.
January 30, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Alert: Twin Cities reporter Georgia Fort was taken into custody.
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The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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‘Why Is This Happening to Us?’ Daily Number of Kids in ICE Detention Jumps 6x Under Trump. Advocates: ‘It’s only a matter of time before we see a child die.’ Immigration Attorney: “It’s an unmitigated horror show, and there’s no other way to put it.” www.themarshallproject.org/.../ice-kids....
www.themarshallproject.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:48 PM
‘Why Is This Happening to Us?’ Daily Number of Kids in ICE Detention Jumps 6x Under Trump. Advocates: ‘It’s only a matter of time before we see a child die.’ Immigration Attorney: “It’s an unmitigated horror show, and there’s no other way to put it.” www.themarshallproject.org/.../ice-kids....
ICE will take away your pre-check 🤷🏻♀️
US companies are helping ICE to suppress constitutionally protected peaceful assembly & speech. 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
US companies are helping ICE to suppress constitutionally protected peaceful assembly & speech. 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:52 PM
ICE will take away your pre-check 🤷🏻♀️
US companies are helping ICE to suppress constitutionally protected peaceful assembly & speech. 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
US companies are helping ICE to suppress constitutionally protected peaceful assembly & speech. 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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Kids taken yesterday
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
I would beseech the national media to stop writing sentences like one I just read that said basically "ICE's time in Minnesota is almost up." That is NOT an established fact. Please do not turn away. Please check the readily available information from people on the ground and local journalists.
From everything I’m hearing and reading, nothing in the ground in the Twin Cities has meaningfully changed.
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Kids taken yesterday
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
🤢 this is absolutely indefensible
The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.
Children in ICE Detention Skyrocket in Trump’s Second Term
With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 29, 2026 at 10:11 PM
🤢 this is absolutely indefensible
Grateful for the resistance vibe of John Richards set this morning on KEXP www.kexp.org this morning.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Grateful for the resistance vibe of John Richards set this morning on KEXP www.kexp.org this morning.
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Star Tribune does a better job of being on the ground and talking to ICE watchers and doesn’t see any sign of a Tuesday slowdown: www.startribune.com/ice-minnesot...
Is ICE rolling back operations in Minnesota? It’s hard to tell.
Federal agents are still on the streets of the Twin Cities a day after the Trump administration announced a change in immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Star Tribune does a better job of being on the ground and talking to ICE watchers and doesn’t see any sign of a Tuesday slowdown: www.startribune.com/ice-minnesot...
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I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
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(New piece)
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Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
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January 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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Rand Paul: "When people watch that video and the government tells them, 'Well, he was assaulting the police officers,' nobody with any objectivity believes that. No American believes he was assaulting the officers. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. So we have to get some rules of the game."
January 28, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Rand Paul: "When people watch that video and the government tells them, 'Well, he was assaulting the police officers,' nobody with any objectivity believes that. No American believes he was assaulting the officers. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. So we have to get some rules of the game."
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ICE is in Ypsilanti waiting at bus stops for parents to drop off their kiddos
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM
ICE is in Ypsilanti waiting at bus stops for parents to drop off their kiddos
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
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Hearing ICE targeted the parents at bus stops as they waited for their kids to arrive in -10 cold.
ICE reportedly takes Ypsilanti Community Schools parents into custody
ICE agents were reported to be present near an Ypsilanti Community Schools campus Jan. 27, taking several parents into custody while off school grounds.
www.michigandaily.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Hearing ICE targeted the parents at bus stops as they waited for their kids to arrive in -10 cold.
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Worth knowing.
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The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown
How Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Worth knowing.
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