Divya Karthikeyan

Ahead of Mayor Race, Noncitizen New Yorkers Grapple with a Voting Policy Failure to Launch For a brief moment, it seemed some noncitizen New Yorkers may gain the right to vote locally. But with the law struck down earlier this year, they remain at the margins.

Several other municipalities have passed noncitizen laws, including Washington, D.C. and several towns in Vermont. But in New York City, noncitizen voting has remained as a policy failure to launch.

Tuned in and he's literally dressed like Mr. Rogers

Introducing the Solutions Journalism Network’s 2025–26 Youth Building and Belonging Fellows When we talk about youth mental health solutions, we probably picture better screeners for distress, better methods of crisis response and…

excited to join the new cohort of @soljourno.bsky.social‘s Youth Building and Belonging fellowship! I’ll examine how restorative practices and affinity groups help Black girls in Louisville build self-esteem and stronger relationships. thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/introducing-...

Tweet that says “i do not want to save to onedrive. i want to save to the documents folder. on my computer. that i have. in my house.” And it’s quote tweeted by @old_ric with a still of Hank hill talking to someone at the counter of a computer business center

Flyer titled "Call for Research Participants" with a photo of a girl in headphones. It seeks Black girls aged 10-24 for a hip hop music influence study by UNC Greensboro. Participants complete surveys and can win Amazon gift cards. Includes contact info and a QR code link to the survey. Tone: engaging and informative. Email s_fantanhun@uncg.edu

For my friend's dissertation: Looking for Black girls between 10-24 years old to take a dissertation survey on positive messages they hear about themselves in general and in hip hop. Chance to win a gift card. 20-40 mins to complete. Please see the flyer for info! #Blackademics

by the way — everything is off record

any good alternatives to Signal for encrypted messaging? I don’t really know any and I’m not sure how good they are but considering. (DM pls)

Oh man these are always great

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

May have spotted the Worst Opinion

How To Stay Safe At a Protest, According To An Attorney As people head to the streets this weekend in LA and elsewhere, protesters should be informed about their constitutional rights and safety options. On the latest episode of The Intercept Briefing…

Watch this before going to a protest.

Looool

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

Last week, my colleagues @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @mariamelba.bsky.social had this stunning story about people trying to follow President Trump's directive to self-deport... but finding that the program to help immigrants do so is mired in chaos www.propublica.org/article/trum...

India is forcibly deporting Muslims, including its own citizens, after Kashmir violence In the aftermath of a deadly militant attack in Kashmir in April, authorities have expelled more than 1,500 Muslims from India, often at gunpoint.

In the aftermath of a deadly militant attack in Kashmir in April, authorities have expelled more than 1,500 Muslims from India, often at gunpoint. n.pr/473MnY4

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Could dementia be the key to saving endangered Jewish languages? Sometimes when people's short-term memories begin to falter, they recall the first languages that they learned.

I wrote about how dementia is helping some people preserve rare Judeo-Iranian languages. It's a story of intergenerational partnerships and how family bonds can get stronger even in the face of an awful disease. Check it out! @forward.com @jewishlanguageproj.bsky.social forward.com/culture/7739...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

"Antifa-led hellfire"

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CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried. She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

Priced Out of Phone Calls Home The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

Prison telecom companies and more than a dozen red-state attorneys have challenged imposing limits on the cost of phone calls from prison, arguing that they would deprive lockups of necessary funding.

Jury finds Roebling protest journalist guilty of 1 misdemeanor, not guilty of 3 others Covington Police arrested CityBeat photo intern Lucas Griffith during a march on the Roebling Bridge in July. The case has made national headlines and drawn protest from press freedom groups.

Covington Police arrested CityBeat photo intern Lucas Griffith during a march on the Roebling Bridge in July. The case has made national headlines and drawn protest from press freedom groups. www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

We had @steveinskeep.bsky.social in our Louisville studio today, hosting Morning Edition. He came to Kentucky to interview Gov. Beshear👇

i hope you're all excited to learn more about the many November elections!

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Digging In: Trump admin tries to deport longtime Indiana businessman suffering from a brain tumor Federal authorities want to deport an Indiana resident who has a green card, which grants permanent residency in the U.S. They kept him in custody after a judge said he could be released on bond.

For the new ep of KyCIR's Digging In series, I brought @divyakrthk.bsky.social back on the @lpm.org airwaves to talk about an immigration case w/ KY & IN ties. U.S. authorities say an Indiana man was convicted once for forgery & should be deported. But Divya's reporting found a lack of evidence.

Story here: bsky.app/profile/divy...

Digging In: Trump admin tries to deport longtime Indiana businessman suffering from a brain tumor Federal authorities want to deport an Indiana resident who has a green card, which grants permanent residency in the U.S. They kept him in custody after a judge said he could be released on bond.

Was on alma mater station 89.3 WFPL @lpm.org talking to KYCIR’s @morganwatkins.lpm.org about my recent reporting in the Intercept on a horrific case of ICE detention in KY and a family‘s legal battles to stop his deportation. You can listen and read more updates here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...