Congratulations to @sahanjournal.bsky.social for winning the February Sidney Award from @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. π
The Sahan Journal is based in Minnesota and have extensively covered Operation Metro Surge - the largest immigration operation in American history.
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13.02.2026 23:10 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The Sahan team has also tackled ICEβs use of surveillance technology, the historic general strike, the arrests of activists who protested at Cities Church (which is pastored by a high-ranking ICE official), and Operation PARRIS (which targets refugees).
11.02.2026 15:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sahan has covered the killings of RenΓ©e Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents and the federal stonewalling of state-level investigations into their deaths.
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@sahanjournal.bsky.social wins the February Sidney for agenda-setting coverage of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota.
11.02.2026 15:18 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1The Sahan Journal is a small nonprofit newsroom that has been telling the stories of immigrants in the Twin Cities. They have been telling the stories of residents targeted by ICE, misconduct, coverups, shootings, detentions, and resistance.
11.02.2026 15:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the practical effect of arresting lemon et al is to spark widespread condemnation, especially since these arrests will certainly be thrown out. this doesn't mean the action isn't a dangerous escalation, it does mean the white house doesn't know what to do but spam its only attack
30.01.2026 16:40 β π 5077 π 791 π¬ 68 π 46the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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It's not just Don Lemon! Journalist and BLCK Press Founder Georgia Fort was arrested for reporting on a Minneapolis church protest.
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President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
16.01.2026 17:35 β π 11629 π 5281 π¬ 522 π 371CalMatters wins the January Sidney Award for outstanding investigative journalism for Anat Rubin's article, βThe WalMart of public defense: How justice gets sold to the lowest bidder in rural California.β
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Anat Rubin of @calmatters.org wins the January Sidney for exposing California's flat-fee do-nothing public defender system.
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βItβs not at all surprising that this is happening with these ICE [removal] officers being sent out to basically treat people terribly,β a one-time deputy chief counsel with the agency told me, anticipating more escalation of violence. My latest for @motherjones.com:
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
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"Officers are being handed petitions where value is framed almost entirely through algorithm-based metrics, Abachi said. "Once that becomes normalised, the system moves towards treating artistic merit like a scoreboard." This means traditionally trained artists, whose work is central to America's cultural ecosystem but who do not necessarily benefit from social media algorithms, will find it harder to make their case. Immigration officials are being tasked with deciding who can turn online traction into a meaningful career in the US, Abachi said.
US artist visas are now given based on your number of social media followers
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