Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Shouting it from the rooftop: Apple is among the companies that has protected civil society around the world from spyware used by authoritarian and some democratic governments. What happens when it's the US government who has access to spyware that can be used on journalists, political rivals, etc

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‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

Our latest in our Ice Air investigation is by @oliverlaughland.bsky.social, which tells the story of one family's deportation, including two US citizen children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Natural Human Reaction Podcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 06/09/2025 · 1h 20m

This from June was a much, much better conversation/interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates, exploring the same themes he was raising with Klein, but with a host who was listening podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’ Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

The latest in the @us.theguardian.com investigations team work on deportations: family separation

@maanvisingh.bsky.social reveals how the admin is coercing families into giving up, by forcing them to give up their kids if they want to fight their deportations

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’ Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

In the first Trump administration, systematic separation of immigrant families was shut down due to public pressure. Now the practice has returned. Here is our latest in the Ice Air series, a heartbreaking look at family separation 2.0 by @maanvisingh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Pope Leo criticizes Trump’s hardline immigration policies: ‘I don’t know if that’s pro-life’ Pope questions what it means to be ‘pro-life’ amid the ‘inhuman treatment of immigrants’ in the US

Pope: You're not pro-life is you mistreat immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

or sexual assault or sexual harassment

Episode 98 -- Project 1933, Part VII: September 1 - September 30 Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 09/30/2025 · 1h 15m

NEW from @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: it's the SEPTEMBER episode of our Project 1933 -- wherein @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I talk all about the cultural field, and how the new regime displayed itself to a broader populace. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

So smart and appreciate (as a German-American dual national myself) his refusal to accept that Cracker Barrel logo is a cultural fight.

I liked that @moiradonegan.bsky.social pointed out a divergence (Kimmel back). I would add the selection of Bad Bunny for halftime to that short list. But everything else (Hegseth talking about body size) is spot on 1933.

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Reminder the Pentagon has previously said the climate crisis is an existential threat www.war.gov/News/News-St...

Moira is a feminist columnist. It is not a 'reporter fail' for her to not mention Leo.

Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny to headline 2026 Super Bowl half-time show Latin trap and reggaeton artist to lead NFL half-time celebration on 8 February, following Kendrick Lamar’s record-breaking 2025 show

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

“You’re not allowed to call us Nazis,” says guy who went to work for Trump after calling him Hitler.

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com.

I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.

Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

Trump’s absurd Tylenol claims heighten the suffering of pregnant women in the US | Moira Donegan There is no evidence to support the president’s assertions about autism. But they exploit fears that already come with pregnancy

Never thought I would be moved to say that I am thankful for Tylenol and every time it has miraculously made me or my children feel better, but it's true. Here is @moiradonegan.bsky.social on the latest absurdity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

President Trump Job Approval | RealClearPolling President Trump Job Approval | RealClearPolling

Trump's poll numbers: www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approv...

Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

How a top MAGA donor privately joked about Trump not having the upper hand when it comes to China www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump mega-donor privately mocked his claim to have upper hand with China Liz Uihlein sent staff email with cartoon of Trump saying ‘I hold the cards’ to which Xi says ‘the cards are made in China’

My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Abortion pill providers targeted by new Texas law refuse ‘anticipatory obedience’ Greg Abbott’s latest move fuels clash between US red states and blue-state shield laws protecting abortion care

There's SO MUCH going on that I'm sure this news will get lost, but: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that lets private citizens to sue abortion providers who ship pills into the state.

Providers basically told me: Bring it on.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".