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US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petition

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia sues to stop Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Washington.

The majority of our newsrooms are cis-white serving. And what we actually need for journalism to be effective and for people to care about it is for it to be everyone-serving.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Kendrick Lamar’s Multilayered Halftime Show Was About Far More Than Just a Rap Beef To dismiss the performance as the squandering of a global platform in service of nursing a petty grievance is to miss the significance of exactly what he is saying.

this that grey poupon that evian that ted talk

Exclusive | Biden Commutations Angered His Own Justice Department The DOJ’s career pardon attorney told prosecutors that some of Biden’s moves to shorten sentences were “very upsetting.”

I want to add some context to this piece: The Office of the Pardon Attorney at DOJ is notoriously, indefensibly stingy with clemency recommendations. Biden was forced to go around it because otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to make a real impact with his commutations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

A professional headshot of a woman in a navy suit with long black hair.

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.

Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.

I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.

What an immense loss

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Donald Trump by phone Tuesday to recommend one of his former law clerks for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned. "William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position," Justice Alito confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. "I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon." The call occurred just hours before Trump's lawyers on Wednesday morning filed an emergency request with the justices asking them to block a New York judge from moving forward with sentencing Trump on Friday in his criminal hush money case. Alito said that he and Trump did not discuss that matter. "We did not discuss the emergency application he filed today, and indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed," Alito said. "We also did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President-elect."

So I am to believe that Trump's top priority right now is filling low-level legal roles in his administration, AND he needed to talk to Alito specifically about this one, AND neither man said ANYTHING else in a private call of which there is no record, got it, great abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...

this is media now.

Louisiana's Brand New Majority-Black Congressional District Is in Peril A group of “non-African American” voters could deny Black residents another champion in Congress.

NEW: Self-identified non-Black voters could deny Black Louisianans another champion in Congress. In our story, @adamlmahoney.bsky.social and I explore what the case could mean for Black political power and why Black Southerners feel like they're "always going back." capitalbnews.org/black-louisi...

Chris Brown, the alleged serial abuser and R&B singer, got $10M for his company. He pocketed $5M personally, and spent $80K on a birthday party featuring nude models.

whew! "Simien sometimes cringes when a studio wants to put out a release about a show of his in development. 'I just think, Oh, you need to announce a Black project right now! They are seen as a more diverse place ... behind the scenes, it doesn’t feel like the project’s being taken seriously.'"

This could have easily been written about the journalism industry

How rich musicians billed American taxpayers for luxury hotels, shopping sprees, and million-dollar bonuses Pop stars took advantage of the SVOG grant, using COVID relief funds for luxury spending. Lil Wayne bought Balenciaga and flew private.

the way this article filled me with rage www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...

Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.

“Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

I'm so sorry this happened to you, Hunter.

A generation of journalists moves on "Instead of rewarding these things with fair pay, job security and moral support, journalism as an industry exploits their love of the craft."

This is good but very sad

Apparently this is a controversial view now, but I agree with the NYT editorial board that Tom Daschle should have paid taxes on his private equity consulting work.

The Revolutionary Column: There’s no democracy in America without Black women • The TRiiBE Let’s talk about how the thankless and tenacious work of Black women gave y’all the freedom and enfranchisement that you enjoy today.

“I don’t care how you feel about the Black woman who was at the top of the 2024 Democratic ticket, this election was about the Black women at the bottom of the totem pole, who will inevitably suffer most from Donald Trump’s policies.”

thetriibe.com/2024/12/the-...

= December 5, 2024 LAT Guild statement: Our commitment to journalistic integrity Journalists of the Los Angeles Times are committed to shining a light on injustice, exposing wrongdoing, and seeking the facts. We speak truth to power, regardless of which party is in power. Recently, the newspaper's owner has publicly suggested his staff harbors bias, without offering evidence or examples. The statements came after the owner blocked a presidential endorsement by the newspaper's editorial board, then unfairly blamed editorial board staffers for his decision.

The statements of Dr. Soon-Shiong in the press and on social media reflect his own opinions and do not shape reporting by our member-journalists. Our members — and all Times staffers — abide by a strict set of ethics guidelines, which call for fairness, precision, transparency, vigilance against bias, and an earnest search to understand all sides of an issue. Those longstanding principles will continue guiding our work. The Guild has secured strong ethics protections for our members, including the right to withhold one's byline, and we will firmly guard against any effort to improperly or unfairly alter our reporting. - Los Angeles Times Guild Unit Council & Bargaining Committee

A statement by the journalists of the L.A. Times. I don’t work there anymore, so I will happily add my own opinion that the owner is embarrassing himself and everybody else right now.

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This is frustrating (the coverage, not Jong-Fast's response), and partly why I think people are turning away from cable news in droves. Not every answer is a quick soundbite and to interpret someone saying they need to process their thoughts as being "stunned" or "speechless" is asinine.

Team Trump Debates 'How Much Should We Invade Mexico?' The idea America should invade Mexico has become increasingly mainstream among Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers.

“That is the question”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

it's so good omg 😭

How Trump’s Cabinet Picks Could Harm Black Americans His selections for his Cabinet and administration include a “great replacement theory” proponent and an alleged white nationalist.

Trump’s selections for his Cabinet and administration include a “great replacement theory” proponent and an alleged white nationalist. capitalbnews.org/trump-cabine...

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Democracy’s ultimate verdict on these prosecutions was rendered by voters on Election Day. The charges were front and center in the campaign. The president-elect made a central feature of his candidacy that the cases were political and calculated to stop him from being elected again. Despite the prosecutions, more than 75 million people, a majority of the popular vote counted so far, decided to send him back to the White House.

Elections do not—cannot—act as a substitute for criminal prosecution of a single person. That’s not what they’re meant to do. A campaign is not the same as an evidence- and rules-bound trial. The voters are an electorate, not a jury, and someone who runs a law blog should know the difference.

Trump doubles down on eliminating Education Department, vows to give ‘restitution’ to ‘victims’ of DEI Trump intends to fulfill his promise to eliminate the Education Department, which would have impacts on public education and students.

reparations for any failson forced to endure the indignity of competing for a job with a black person thegrio.com/2024/11/12/t...

I'm happy to find that obtuseness isn't tolerated on this app nearly as much as it is on X.