Alicia Montgomery
@arenee998.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, American, mom of a beautiful autistic kid. Ex-NPR, ex-Slate. She/her. All opinions mine. All facts matter.
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Alicia Montgomery
@arenee998.bsky.social
· Jan 20
The truth needs to be protected, even when it’s ugly, or upsets people, or compels us to let go of things that make us comfortable. And the truth is that today represents the failure of the systems, institutions, and individuals responsible for keeping our nation free.
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I really wish people learned without having to actually touch the hot stove.
Liberal towns backtrack on license plate trackers amid concerns about privacy — and Trump
As Trump’s return to office brought an increased and forceful presence of federal agents to states across the country, some local officials now argue the cameras themselves pose the bigger danger for ...
www.politico.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I really wish people learned without having to actually touch the hot stove.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
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“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.”
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.”
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
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The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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ProPublica reports that Tierra Walker, who had a history of preeclampsia, had asked for an abortion—but was refused care. She died of preeclampsia.
www.jezebel.com/another-woma...
www.jezebel.com/another-woma...
Another Woman Died Because of Texas' Abortion Ban
ProPublica reports that Tierra Walker, who had a history of preeclampsia, had asked for an abortion—but was refused care. She died of preeclampsia.
www.jezebel.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
ProPublica reports that Tierra Walker, who had a history of preeclampsia, had asked for an abortion—but was refused care. She died of preeclampsia.
www.jezebel.com/another-woma...
www.jezebel.com/another-woma...
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NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
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in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
What Happens When an Empire Falls? This Novel Has Some Ideas.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
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A pre-dawn multi-agency raid in Georgetown left Latino residents handcuffed, homes torn apart, and now being told to vacate without proper notice. No warrant shown. Racial targeting alleged. This is what state violence looks like.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-lati...
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-lati...
SCOOP: Latino Tenants Told to Vacate After Georgetown ICE Raid
Witnesses describe multi-agency sweep at Wisconsin & O St. NW; 10–12 taken; Latino units “tossed;” ammunition left in the hallway, and tenants told to vacate.
migrantinsider.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A pre-dawn multi-agency raid in Georgetown left Latino residents handcuffed, homes torn apart, and now being told to vacate without proper notice. No warrant shown. Racial targeting alleged. This is what state violence looks like.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-lati...
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-lati...
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The three white men were found guilty of murdering the 25-year-old Black man after chasing him in their trucks through a Georgia neighborhood.
www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit...
www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit...
11th Circuit upholds hate crime convictions for Ahmaud Arbery's murderers
The three white men were found guilty of murdering the 25-year-old Black man after chasing him in their trucks through a Georgia neighborhood.
www.courthousenews.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The three white men were found guilty of murdering the 25-year-old Black man after chasing him in their trucks through a Georgia neighborhood.
www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit...
www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit...
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"For what it’s worth, McLaughlin’s statements justifying horrific ICE arrests have ranged from missing essential details to contradicting witness testimony and straight-up lying about every single detail of an arrest." newrepublic.com/post/202593/...
Federal Agents Crash Into Woman’s Car, Drag Her Out by Her Legs
Dayanne Figueroa, a U.S. citizen, was held for hours before being released without charge.
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
"For what it’s worth, McLaughlin’s statements justifying horrific ICE arrests have ranged from missing essential details to contradicting witness testimony and straight-up lying about every single detail of an arrest." newrepublic.com/post/202593/...
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Our essay: Hunger is not an emergency: substack.com/profile/5411...
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Our essay: Hunger is not an emergency: substack.com/profile/5411...
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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About 70 Alaskans who were seeking shelter while their villages recovered from the remnants of Typhoon Halong arrived in Bethel, a shelter hub, in three separate flights of Alaska National Guard helicopters as the evacuation winded down.
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Western Alaska evacuation effort winds down, transitions to damage assessments and repairs
www.stripes.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
About 70 Alaskans who were seeking shelter while their villages recovered from the remnants of Typhoon Halong arrived in Bethel, a shelter hub, in three separate flights of Alaska National Guard helicopters as the evacuation winded down.
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian share.google/SN0eaWTTFNdp...
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian share.google/SN0eaWTTFNdp...
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"Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show." #journalismmatters www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2007 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...
www.miamiherald.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show." #journalismmatters www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
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And a look back at our feature:
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.
“For five months we were instructed to bring in our own toilet paper. I literally kept two rolls at my desk. I wish I were joking."
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.
“For five months we were instructed to bring in our own toilet paper. I literally kept two rolls at my desk. I wish I were joking."
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
And a look back at our feature:
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.
“For five months we were instructed to bring in our own toilet paper. I literally kept two rolls at my desk. I wish I were joking."
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.
“For five months we were instructed to bring in our own toilet paper. I literally kept two rolls at my desk. I wish I were joking."
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UPDATE: Cornell Drops Its Discrimination Case Against a Pro-Palestine Professor After Public Outcry:
“I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
UPDATE: Cornell Drops Its Discrimination Case Against a Pro-Palestine Professor After Public Outcry:
“I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
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Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers. n.pr/4obhR5w
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers. n.pr/4obhR5w
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“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
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Any journalist of color, I know working at a major institution like this, would instantly be reprimanded or possibly even fired.
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
October 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Any journalist of color, I know working at a major institution like this, would instantly be reprimanded or possibly even fired.