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ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows The figures do not include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Without today’s jobs report, next-best data indicate a weakening labor market In normal times, today would have been a jobs day. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has been forced to delay the release until December 16 due to the lingering impacts of the Trump admini...

In normal times today would have been a jobs day. But these are not normal times and BLS won't release labor market data for JOLTS until December 9 and jobs on Dec 16. And we will never have household survey data for October, no unemployment rate for that month, not ever.
www.epi.org/blog/without...

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

Social Security numbers. Driver's licenses. Party affiliation. The wolves are back in the hen house and feeling reinvigorated.

@ariberman.bsky.social + @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social report on the Justice Department's unprecedented campaign to intimidate states into handing over voters’ private info.

The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.

Tragic: Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country.

www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Wikipedia Wrapped 2025

An end to SNAP? Why it may happen in a couple of years in some states Millions of Americans may see a cut in SNAP benefits or lose them all together if states can't lower their error rates or pay for their mistakes.

An end to SNAP? Why it may happen in a couple of years in some states

Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.

Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it

School enrollment drops amid ICE raids. 'We just don't know what happened to them.' Schools across Southern California are facing steeper enrollment declines as Trump immigration enforcement actions discourage or prevent students from enrolling.

The Los Angeles Unified School District lost about 7,000 more students than projected this year due to immigration crackdowns. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-29/school-enrollment-plummets-lausd-amid-trump-immigration-raids?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.

“When I first got home, I felt relieved. But the next day, I had to face reality. I was telling myself, ‘You have to leave the house and see your baby.’ But I had this horrible fear that they would detain me again."

An absolutely gutting story by Mel Leonor Barclay + @shefali.bsky.social.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...

Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leaving the children behind.

YouTube video by Janeese for DC The DC I know

The DC I know is worth fighting for.

I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.

youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM

“Democratic candidates won three high-profile races in part by championing a care agenda. These victories are proof of what many families have known for years: That the U.S. affordability crisis is, at its core, a care crisis.” - @kashenj.bsky.social and Anna Wadia www.salon.com/2025/11/30/c...

Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.

"Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing."

But the Trump administration cut the money (granted to pursue the research), claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology. bit.ly/3Kq348R

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.

A Babson College freshman was detained at Logan Airport and deported without warning.

Our Policy Director, Nayna Gupta, has been working with the family and local attorneys to piece together what went wrong. Like so many others, this young woman had an old removal order she never knew existed. 1/2

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.

me waking up and opening this app

Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation - The American Prospect The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.

NEW from me: the proposed executive order to block states from regulating AI is indicative of the purchase of our government by tech overlords, & likely to spread to shield any business able to persuade Trump that because they use an algorithm or a computer, they're part of the AI revolution too.

Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...

“When they saw me, they knew something wasn’t right,” Sandra said in Spanish. “Are we never going to see our mom again?” they asked. @chabeli.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-...

it won't get as much attention because the U.S. press doesn't care about infrastructure, but the Trump admin is also threatening to withhold billions of dollars in infrastructure bill broadband grants if states pass laws focused on making broadband affordable or try to enforce net neutrality

Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee: Certify DC's contingency list to fund essential social programs! Let DC's Chief Financial Officer know that DC residents want him to certify the contingency budget: In his September revenue forecast, Chief Financial Officer Lee revealed that has an unexpected surp...

DC residents, please take a minute to get DC’s budget office to follow the law and help people out in these hard times!
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

I’m howling.

Finally, the first #JobsDay since the shutdown! The latest data out today is for September before the shutdown began on October 1.

Highlights:
- payroll employment up 119k for Sept while August change was revised down to below zero
- unemployment rate ticked up 3 months in a row to 4.4%

#EconSky

In New England, only one state offers universal pre-K. What will it take for the rest of the region to do the same? - The Boston Globe “When our kids enter kindergarten ready to learn, it changes the course of their lives,” said Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera. Funding is the biggest impediment.

In New England, only one state offers universal pre-K. What will it take for the rest of the region to do the same?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/m...

Tierra Walker Kept Getting Sicker — and Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion The 37-year-old mother was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Tierra Walker had known that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she had thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was at risk. The reality: In states that ban abortion, patients with high-risk pregnancies often have nowhere to turn.

YouTube video by The Century Foundation A Better, More Caring World Is Possible

What if everything weren’t so hard? What if we built a better, more affordable world for us all? A new video from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social imagines what life could be like if we invested in a care economy that supported our families and communities. #CareCantWait www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sdK...

The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for

A vibrant vision for America’s economy must put public investments for care at the center. Read @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @caringacross.org’s new report to learn more about how investing in care can secure a brighter future for families everywhere go.tcf.org/TheCareImperative