Sarah Einselen
@saraheinselen.bsky.social
Award-winning journalist, now freelance news editor. Follows: US immigration, economics, #churchtoo (and #sbctoo), #yimby, the First Amendment.
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Sarah Einselen
@saraheinselen.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Am I on some editor starter pack or something? I keep getting random writers following me.
I'm a news editor, and sometimes reporter, working with select publications in the DFW area or in the American Christian space - check out my work in @julieroys.bsky.social or @sojo.net
I'm a news editor, and sometimes reporter, working with select publications in the DFW area or in the American Christian space - check out my work in @julieroys.bsky.social or @sojo.net
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A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said.
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said.
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
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trump made the prosecutor who gave epstein a pass the secretary of labor!
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
trump made the prosecutor who gave epstein a pass the secretary of labor!
Timeline cleanse - aurora edition
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Timeline cleanse - aurora edition
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Fascinating and well-written 2019 article on how a less successful strategy for teaching kids to read got rooted in schools. Phonics FTW
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Fascinating and well-written 2019 article on how a less successful strategy for teaching kids to read got rooted in schools. Phonics FTW
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This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
bsky.app/profile/mand...
bsky.app/profile/mand...
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Worth remembering that the Christian nationalism that fueled the empires in The Great War seeded Europe's turn away from Christianity for the next century.
Historically, Christian nationalism is the enemy of true faith. It is a false gospel whose fruits are known mostly in war.
Historically, Christian nationalism is the enemy of true faith. It is a false gospel whose fruits are known mostly in war.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Worth remembering that the Christian nationalism that fueled the empires in The Great War seeded Europe's turn away from Christianity for the next century.
Historically, Christian nationalism is the enemy of true faith. It is a false gospel whose fruits are known mostly in war.
Historically, Christian nationalism is the enemy of true faith. It is a false gospel whose fruits are known mostly in war.
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I keep yelling this at my phone when I see these photos and I’m going to start yelling it here:
NEVER. POINT. YOUR FIREARM. AT ANYTHING. YOU DO NOT INTEND. TO DESTROY.
NEVER. POINT. YOUR FIREARM. AT ANYTHING. YOU DO NOT INTEND. TO DESTROY.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I keep yelling this at my phone when I see these photos and I’m going to start yelling it here:
NEVER. POINT. YOUR FIREARM. AT ANYTHING. YOU DO NOT INTEND. TO DESTROY.
NEVER. POINT. YOUR FIREARM. AT ANYTHING. YOU DO NOT INTEND. TO DESTROY.
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
Keep in mind here: Tear gas is thought to be an abortifacient. I hope Ald. Ramirez and her baby are ok.
Ellis is walking through the testimony heard yesterday. She said Oak Park Township Trustee Juan Munoz's arrest made him a "prop" for DHS videos. Ald. Julia Ramirez "ran away from tear gas while eight-and-a-half months pregnant."
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Keep in mind here: Tear gas is thought to be an abortifacient. I hope Ald. Ramirez and her baby are ok.
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Two weeks ago, Texas AG Ken Paxton announced that his office had arrested 35 undocumented people they turned over to ICE.
So, I asked via an open records requests for arrest reports and any other relevant docs related to the apprehensions. The AG's office says there aren't any:
So, I asked via an open records requests for arrest reports and any other relevant docs related to the apprehensions. The AG's office says there aren't any:
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Two weeks ago, Texas AG Ken Paxton announced that his office had arrested 35 undocumented people they turned over to ICE.
So, I asked via an open records requests for arrest reports and any other relevant docs related to the apprehensions. The AG's office says there aren't any:
So, I asked via an open records requests for arrest reports and any other relevant docs related to the apprehensions. The AG's office says there aren't any:
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We experience these events through our media bubbles. So please take a little time to look at the details.
For example: here is how DHS described one incident in Chicago. Now watch the video, which tells a different story.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
bsky.app/profile/news...
For example: here is how DHS described one incident in Chicago. Now watch the video, which tells a different story.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
bsky.app/profile/news...
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We experience these events through our media bubbles. So please take a little time to look at the details.
For example: here is how DHS described one incident in Chicago. Now watch the video, which tells a different story.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
bsky.app/profile/news...
For example: here is how DHS described one incident in Chicago. Now watch the video, which tells a different story.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
bsky.app/profile/news...
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the bleakest moment in this article is the point where a heritage staffer, horrified by fuentes, discovers that "a growing number" of heritage interns are groypers
My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.
Exclusive | Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’
“I’m disgusted by this,” said one Heritage staffer.
nypost.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
the bleakest moment in this article is the point where a heritage staffer, horrified by fuentes, discovers that "a growing number" of heritage interns are groypers
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
Poetry.
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Poetry.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Damn. What a series.
Blue Jays fought until the end, heartbroken for them. 💔
Blue Jays fought until the end, heartbroken for them. 💔
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Damn. What a series.
Blue Jays fought until the end, heartbroken for them. 💔
Blue Jays fought until the end, heartbroken for them. 💔
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Brutal. I was cheering for the Jays. Just brutal.
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Brutal. I was cheering for the Jays. Just brutal.
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![two frames:
- first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?"
- second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vc7f4oafdgxsihk4cry2xpze/bafkreig5uzy6ezdmsey5ykembgorvrvib52jmdtskvbwgkv3vuccpks534@jpeg)
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If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE
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the real winner of the world series is bluesky
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
the real winner of the world series is bluesky
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I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
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I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.