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Yes, totally second that advice!

Nothing too bad for me! Feeling a little under the weather/like I have a cold today, but that’s it. (I got both at the same time last year too and had no side effects.) Good luck!

For a column, looking to chat with earlyish-career workers about whether you’re struggling to focus on work/job-searching amid…well, everything else happening in the world. Would love to talk to experts, including organizers, on actions we can take at work or beyond to help. DMs/inbox always open.

In Chicago, immigrants who thought they were following the legal path are also facing deportation under Trump crackdown If immigrants entered the country illegally or are without granted status, attorneys say they have no protections under a second Trump administration.

Important story: In Chicago, immigrants who thought they were following the legal path are also facing deportation under Trump crackdown. By @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/05/i...

I always bake pumpkin bread the first week of October and it’s just a bit depressing to do when it’s still 85 degrees outside. (Still delicious, though.)

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities in Brighton Park Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman on Saturday morning in Brighton Park marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month, the @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Also: very nice pharmacist who asked if I needed a note/paperwork for school, god bless her soul ✔️

Flu shot ✔️ COVID vaccine ✔️

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

‘Can I just be a kid?’ Students shaken by immigration raids seek help from school counselors Kindergartners repeat worries heard at home. Older kids text to check on parents during class. Therapists say mental health is at risk now and in the long term.

A whole generation of kids will be shaped by this experience of authorities harassing children and their parents at school and at home

That will be school for them

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An extraordinary piece by @nicolechung.bsky.social. The depth of this reporting and beautiful writing will stay with me for a long time.

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.

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World" "Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

Plestia Alaqad’s new book features her diary entries reporting on the ground in Gaza for 45 days after October 7. after a hospital is bombed on day 10, she uses the word genocide.

2 years later—as the UN has finally called it one—she says, “turns out, that's only the beginning.” @teenvogue.com

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.’”

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

On trial for journalism in Kentucky. Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.

Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt.

Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

The journalist cracking the TikTok code Mia Sato was tired of watching news influencers steal her work.

I chatted with Kate Lindsay over at Embedded about how I use TikTok to share my reporting 🤳
embedded.substack.com/p/mia-sato-t...

UK Police Say 2 Victims Have Died And 3 Others Are In Serious Condition After Synagogue Attack The incident took place as people gathered at the synagogue on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.

Two people were killed and 3 others seriously wounded in an attack on a UK synagogue during the Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur

Feds find University of Kentucky's link to Ph.D Project violated Civil Rights Act  • Kentucky Lantern University of Kentucky signs agreement with U.S. Education Department to end investigation into program that seeks to diversify business leaders.

Feds find University of Kentucky’s link to Ph.D Project violated Civil Rights Act 
@sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/01/f...

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

NEW: Federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the shutdown. Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies, and pop up banners across different agencies blame Democrats too.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Diagnosis: Debt - KFF Health News Featured Stories Debt At A Glance Tell Us About Your Medical Debt Have you been forced into debt because of a medical or dental bill? Have you had to make any changes in your life because of such debt...

More than 100 million people in America — 41% of adults — are saddled with medical bills they can't pay.

kffhealthnews.org/diagnosis-de...

when they tell you publishing is slow they mean S L O W

i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!

Need the preorder link ASAP!!! Biggest congratulations!

Inside the Prison Heat Crisis Dispatches from Florida, Maryland, and Washington

proud of this edition of the jump line, which features incarcerated writers talking about their experience of heat in their respective prisons. my favorite line, from summertime in a women's prison in Maryland: "if we were orchids, we'd thrive." thejumpline.substack.com/p/inside-the...