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One of the jurors has requested to speak to the judge privately. The juror "has cold feet," Farmer says.
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
One of the jurors has requested to speak to the judge privately. The juror "has cold feet," Farmer says.
Trump election stuff. Ysl. Both live-streamed. Both in Fulton County Criminal Court.
The state doesn’t want anyone to see what’s happening inside this particular courtroom.
The state doesn’t want anyone to see what’s happening inside this particular courtroom.
Court is now in session. Judge Farmer ordered media not to live stream any video.
July 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump election stuff. Ysl. Both live-streamed. Both in Fulton County Criminal Court.
The state doesn’t want anyone to see what’s happening inside this particular courtroom.
The state doesn’t want anyone to see what’s happening inside this particular courtroom.
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At issue today will be whether to redo jury selection, which was held under Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams in December 2023.
Adams closed the courtroom to the public and media, an action that the Georgia Court of Appeals determined was in error, prompting a partial mistrial.
Adams closed the courtroom to the public and media, an action that the Georgia Court of Appeals determined was in error, prompting a partial mistrial.
July 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
At issue today will be whether to redo jury selection, which was held under Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams in December 2023.
Adams closed the courtroom to the public and media, an action that the Georgia Court of Appeals determined was in error, prompting a partial mistrial.
Adams closed the courtroom to the public and media, an action that the Georgia Court of Appeals determined was in error, prompting a partial mistrial.
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I really appreciate WaPo jumping off of reporting we did at Bolts in May to spotlight an ICE data-sharing program that many blue counties are part of.
Our story was focused on Oakland: boltsmag.org/alameda-coun...
@pbump.com graphs just how widespread this is: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
Our story was focused on Oakland: boltsmag.org/alameda-coun...
@pbump.com graphs just how widespread this is: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
June 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I really appreciate WaPo jumping off of reporting we did at Bolts in May to spotlight an ICE data-sharing program that many blue counties are part of.
Our story was focused on Oakland: boltsmag.org/alameda-coun...
@pbump.com graphs just how widespread this is: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
Our story was focused on Oakland: boltsmag.org/alameda-coun...
@pbump.com graphs just how widespread this is: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
ICE found GEO’s care of 57 year-old Sikh asylum-seeker deviated beyond safe limits and directly contributed to his April 15, 2024 death at GEO’s Folkston, GA detention center.
Now ICE is giving GEO $102M to nearly triple Folkston’s capacity to ~3k beds. open.substack.com/pub/detentio...
Now ICE is giving GEO $102M to nearly triple Folkston’s capacity to ~3k beds. open.substack.com/pub/detentio...
"Directly Contributed . . ."
Failures in GEO's medical care "directly contributed" to a 57 year-old asylum-seeker's death in the company's Folkston Facility, ICE found. Now ICE and GEO plan to nearly triple Folkston's Capacity.
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ICE found GEO’s care of 57 year-old Sikh asylum-seeker deviated beyond safe limits and directly contributed to his April 15, 2024 death at GEO’s Folkston, GA detention center.
Now ICE is giving GEO $102M to nearly triple Folkston’s capacity to ~3k beds. open.substack.com/pub/detentio...
Now ICE is giving GEO $102M to nearly triple Folkston’s capacity to ~3k beds. open.substack.com/pub/detentio...
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In 2019 after newly elected Black sheriffs in NC vowed to stop cooperating with ICE, the agency carried out wide scale enforcement in the state as retaliation, often posing as day laborers to nab immigrant workers in the early morning hours:
June 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In 2019 after newly elected Black sheriffs in NC vowed to stop cooperating with ICE, the agency carried out wide scale enforcement in the state as retaliation, often posing as day laborers to nab immigrant workers in the early morning hours:
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WATCH: “You stand in my church. You promised me.”
A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE
A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE
June 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
WATCH: “You stand in my church. You promised me.”
A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE
A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE
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This conversation between @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social is right on time.
I always appreciate that you can find the podcast and the transcript at the link, and use whatever works best for you
I always appreciate that you can find the podcast and the transcript at the link, and use whatever works best for you
Awareness Protests Won’t Threaten the Richest, Most Well-Armed People on Earth
“Making durable changes isn’t always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
truthout.org
May 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This conversation between @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social is right on time.
I always appreciate that you can find the podcast and the transcript at the link, and use whatever works best for you
I always appreciate that you can find the podcast and the transcript at the link, and use whatever works best for you
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marta's ending its May weekend service on a whimper: it will single track in all directions and turn back the Red and Green Lines Saturday
However, Atlanta is starting June strong with full service Sunday, according to data gathered by @thexylom.com!
However, Atlanta is starting June strong with full service Sunday, according to data gathered by @thexylom.com!
INBOX: @thexylom.com has obtained marta ridership data for each of its stations for the past five calendar years, and is making the data accessible to the public while we conduct our second phase of investigation into the embattled Atlanta transit system.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
2025-02-10 stations ridership data
www.documentcloud.org
May 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
marta's ending its May weekend service on a whimper: it will single track in all directions and turn back the Red and Green Lines Saturday
However, Atlanta is starting June strong with full service Sunday, according to data gathered by @thexylom.com!
However, Atlanta is starting June strong with full service Sunday, according to data gathered by @thexylom.com!
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INBOX: @thexylom.com has obtained marta ridership data for each of its stations for the past five calendar years, and is making the data accessible to the public while we conduct our second phase of investigation into the embattled Atlanta transit system.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
2025-02-10 stations ridership data
www.documentcloud.org
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
INBOX: @thexylom.com has obtained marta ridership data for each of its stations for the past five calendar years, and is making the data accessible to the public while we conduct our second phase of investigation into the embattled Atlanta transit system.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
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Good morning! Just a little reminder that writer Derek Trumbo could still use your help! Derek is a @prismreports.org columnist who was released from prison after almost 20 years, and then hit by the catastrophic storm in KY that flooded his home. If you can, please consider donating to him:
Writer Derek Trumbo is now free and he needs our help
It’s been two years since Derek Trumbo was first introduced to Prism readers as the author of “Never Eat the Candy on your Pillow.” The now bi-weekly column has a simple premise: to serve as a commons...
chuffed.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good morning! Just a little reminder that writer Derek Trumbo could still use your help! Derek is a @prismreports.org columnist who was released from prison after almost 20 years, and then hit by the catastrophic storm in KY that flooded his home. If you can, please consider donating to him:
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An investigation in Phoenix marked the first time the DOJ had found the rights of homeless people were routinely violated.
Now the department is closing its investigation and retracting findings of constitutional violations.
By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
Now the department is closing its investigation and retracting findings of constitutional violations.
By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
DOJ Abandons Effort to Address Phoenix’s Treatment of Homeless People
The Justice Department retracted findings of constitutional violations in Phoenix and five other jurisdictions. Advocates say the move could further embolden cities and police departments to…
www.propublica.org
May 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
An investigation in Phoenix marked the first time the DOJ had found the rights of homeless people were routinely violated.
Now the department is closing its investigation and retracting findings of constitutional violations.
By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
Now the department is closing its investigation and retracting findings of constitutional violations.
By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested a Pregnant Tennessee Woman — While in Detention in Louisiana, She had a Stillbirth nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
Detained immigrant's pregnancy fails while in ICE custody - Nashville Banner
ICE's treatment of undocumented immigrants raises concerns as a woman's experience highlights what she described as inadequate medical care while in detention.
nashvillebanner.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
ICE Arrested a Pregnant Tennessee Woman — While in Detention in Louisiana, She had a Stillbirth nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hi there! Love Southern Movement Journalism? Want to support an organization helping train, support, and protect storytelling from below? Please contribute to our PressOn fundraising drive:
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As a reminder, she didn’t even run a red light, something DHS harped on as her disobeying US laws. The cops eventually admitted they pulled over the wrong car.
NEW: 19 year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal who came to America at age 4 has finally been reunited with her family in Dalton, Georgia after ICE detained her for three weeks over a now-dismissed red light traffic ticket and was in the process of trying to deport her (Video: News Channel Nine)
May 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As a reminder, she didn’t even run a red light, something DHS harped on as her disobeying US laws. The cops eventually admitted they pulled over the wrong car.
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“At New York’s Varick Immigration Court, ICE agents on Wednesday began checking the documents of everyone who left, according to a source present … ‘They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court,’ they said.”
NEWS: ICE agents are camped outside immigration courts to arrest people after they've had their cases dismissed in court. Other agents spotted in AZ, CA, IL, MA, MD, TX. w/ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & Jose Olivares theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...
ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.
theintercept.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“At New York’s Varick Immigration Court, ICE agents on Wednesday began checking the documents of everyone who left, according to a source present … ‘They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court,’ they said.”
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It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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ICE still refuses to say where the plane landed.
The link is here. Chief DHS propagandist Tricia McLaughlin is talking now, beginning by emphasizing the serious criminal conduct of the people it has reportedly sent to South Sudan (murder and rape). She says South Sudan agreed to take them. www.youtube.com/live/p2U8Eh1...
DHS Press Conference on Migrant Flight to South Sudan
YouTube video by wwwICEgov
www.youtube.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
ICE still refuses to say where the plane landed.
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For the second time in less than a month, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s dubious use of the Alien Enemies Act.
truthout.org/articles/sup...
truthout.org/articles/sup...
Supreme Court Again Blocks Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations
The ruling is not a repudiation of Alien Enemies Act deportations and focuses solely on migrants’ due process rights.
truthout.org
May 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
For the second time in less than a month, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s dubious use of the Alien Enemies Act.
truthout.org/articles/sup...
truthout.org/articles/sup...
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Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do public libraries help mitigate crime? Evidence from Kansas City, MO - Journal of Cultural Economics
We examine the relationship between public libraries and local crime rates. Previous studies have looked at different factors that could account for changes in crime, but few have focused on cultural ...
link.springer.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
May 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
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“I have represented Kilmar Abrego Garcia for more than a month, and this bodycam video is the first time I’ve heard his voice…”
Tennessee police release video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia traffic stop in 2022
Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He's the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
apnews.com
May 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“I have represented Kilmar Abrego Garcia for more than a month, and this bodycam video is the first time I’ve heard his voice…”