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Tyler Hicks
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Writer. Recent bylines in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Inkstick, Al Jazeera, NYT + more.
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This story details that the teen they detained for six months was just about to graduate high school early at the age of 16.

Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.
Meriden teen is back home for Christmas, after six months in detention at an ICE facility
The Meriden community welcomes home a teen who was detained for six months at a federal ICE facility.
www.ctpublic.org
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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jonnyauping.bsky.social
if you don’t want to spiral about current goings on, i’ll bump this one more time. 5 min of your time back if you click and read
jonnyauping.bsky.social LeeAnn Wombat @jonnyauping.bsky.social · 6d
for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about @colsonwhitehead.com ‘s Zone One, but mostly i wrote about seeing a man die at a Cecile Mclorin Salvant concert mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/zone-one?u...
Shock might not be the right word for the audience. Discomfort. If anything, they seemed uncomfortable with the silence, and I think that's what I was rebelling against, but you can't drown out muffled chatter with your own Silence. More than once, I heard some version of, "You couldn't ask for a better way to go" with the implication being that dying while hearing Salvant sing in-person is a preferable way to die. You can say a lot of things when you are uncomfortable, but I think you should try not to say something that is deeply offensive.
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
This well-written piece by @jonnyauping.bsky.social will make you think, which is just what I want on NYE! mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/zone-one
Zone One
And the time I saw a man die at a Cécile McLorin Salvant concert.
mytimeback.beehiiv.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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jonnyauping.bsky.social
real quick yall send an xmas subscription to a friend to:

-don’t rock the inbox ( @natalieweiner.bsky.social + @marissarmoss.bsky.social)

-welcome to hell world ( @lukeoneil47.bsky.social)

-basketball feelings ( @wtevs.bsky.social)

they’ll be like whoa what is this it rules
December 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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iamalexashley.bsky.social
I reported this Sunday feature for @rollingstone.com on the federal push to use immigration enforcement as a gateway to biometric surveillance. Read the full story here:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's DNA Dragnet: The Law That Turns Us All into Suspects
Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches far beyond the border.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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inkstickmedia.com
A new Amnesty International report concludes, 'What we are seeing in Florida should alarm the entire region.'
Deep Dive: At Alligator Alcatraz, 'Torture' and 'Disappearances'
A new Amnesty International report concludes, 'What we are seeing in Florida should alarm the entire region.'
inkstickmedia.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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propublica.org
Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
For my latest story in @inkstickmedia.com, I dug deeper into how the lack of AI regulation leads to more harmful conditions for our immigrant neighbors
inkstickmedia.com/what-will-un...
What Will Unchecked Artificial Intelligence Mean for Immigration?
Critics say the Trump administration’s immigration agenda is a “nightmare” brought about by mass surveillance and artificial intelligence.
inkstickmedia.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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inkstickmedia.com
Critics say the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is a “nightmare” brought about by unfettered mass surveillance and artificial intelligence.

By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

inkstickmedia.com/what-will-un...
What Will Unchecked Artificial Intelligence Mean for Immigration?
Critics say the Trump administration’s immigration agenda is a “nightmare” brought about by mass surveillance and artificial intelligence.
inkstickmedia.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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propublica.org
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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hannahcrileyy.bsky.social
every crisis we talk about nationally - policing, housing, public health, environmental harm - shows up first at the local level, and the only reason the public ever learns about many of these issues is because a local journalist put in the hours. it is an actual survival tool for all of us.
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
Thanksgiving is Wael’s favorite holiday. He loves making meals with his dad, Maher. But as of today, Maher has been in ICE detention for nearly a month.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health declines: ‘Don’t forget about me’
Maher Tarabishi was arrested at a routine visit despite decades in the US, leaving his son with Pompe disease
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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inkstickmedia.com
Inkstick's @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social takes a hard look inside the fight against the ever-expanding American surveillance state :
Inside the Fight Against the Growing US Surveillance State
As the Trump administration's immigration crackdown expands the surveillance state, local activists are fighting back across the US.
inkstickmedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · Nov 25
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
@tkbarnes.bsky.social reports: “Raytheon was allowed to claim about half a million dollars in tax refunds for jobs it did not create due to a loophole in its economic development contract with Buncombe County.”
Exclusive: We Followed the Money to Raytheon in North Carolina
We got hundreds of pages of public records about a controversial deal to offer tens of millions of state and local subsidies to a new Raytheon/Pratt & Whitney plant in Asheville.
inkstick.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
Essential work by @tkbarnes.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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inkstickmedia.com
The American surveillance state is growing rapidly. Activists and experts say immigrants and people of color are most at risk.

By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

inkstickmedia.com/inside-the-f...
Inside the Fight Against the Growing US Surveillance State
As the Trump administration's immigration crackdown expands the surveillance state, local activists are fighting back across the US.
inkstickmedia.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · Nov 20
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.

One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about the professors who’ve faced 18 months of retaliation from their own university after being arrested at an anti-genocide demonstration.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Texas professors arrested at campus protest sue university, alleging retaliation
Ben Wright and Rosemary Admiral say UTD severely restricted campus access after arrests at peaceful protest
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM