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Journalist from Germany in Brooklyn, Korrespondentin Feuilleton Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, she/her https://www.faz.net/redaktion/frauke-steffens-19540936.html

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ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

06.03.2026 01:06 👍 867 🔁 485 💬 13 📌 30
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The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an average of 1 foot or about 30 centimeters.

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are, a new study said.

04.03.2026 19:00 👍 101 🔁 52 💬 0 📌 8

Because it's so incredibly hard to believe I am saying it one more time: "Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V."

They are quite literally letting people die of an entirely preventable death. Most of them are men who have sex with men.

02.03.2026 17:54 👍 31 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

27.02.2026 01:01 👍 3967 🔁 1777 💬 72 📌 115
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Reassessing the People’s Hospital in the Bronx After a militant 1970 hospital takeover birthed a pioneering detox program in the South Bronx, New York City is now studying what it dismantled, and what redress requires amid an ongoing overdose cris...

dispatch from the south Bronx, where I heard from a few of the people who took part in the takeovers of Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords and their allies. they're still fighting for their people, who have some of the highest drug overdose rates in the city

19.02.2026 23:36 👍 36 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

18.02.2026 13:17 👍 1962 🔁 851 💬 35 📌 30
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Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”

Remember this history as we remember this man.

17.02.2026 13:12 👍 898 🔁 354 💬 2 📌 6
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Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House

NEW: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibits removed from the President's House in Philadelphia.

16.02.2026 18:48 👍 198 🔁 73 💬 4 📌 16
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

12.02.2026 04:00 👍 3154 🔁 1997 💬 85 📌 211
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Unions Can Win in the South Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, just struck an agreement that will instantly change their lives for the better. It’s a lesson for other workers in the region.

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, just struck an agreement that will instantly change their lives for the better.
trib.al/w1LweK6

08.02.2026 21:02 👍 128 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 1

“They are making preparations to stay inside … They are afraid for their children," said Dr. Carl Ruby, a pastor at Central Christian Church. "Just yesterday, I had some Haitians in our church give me power of attorney in case they become separated from their children so we can take care of them.”

02.02.2026 18:12 👍 81 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 1
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Children in ICE Detention Skyrocket in Trump’s Second Term With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...

02.02.2026 15:22 👍 46 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 3
30.01.2026 09:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Der Hervé im Film ist Hervé Pierre :)

01.02.2026 20:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

01.02.2026 16:19 👍 3274 🔁 1376 💬 31 📌 42
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Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"

01.02.2026 16:05 👍 8196 🔁 3475 💬 241 📌 141

Hervé Leger ist und war auch kein Mensch und tritt nicht in dem Film auf, aber das ist nur ein lustiger Randaspekt.

01.02.2026 16:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bloomberg Law reporting is about as staid and boring as it gets (complimentary). This is basically the equivalent of the A.P. calling for a coup.

31.01.2026 23:09 👍 444 🔁 167 💬 6 📌 3

Springfield’s mayor has been talking about this for days now.

A court decision is likely on Monday, and may halt the end of TPS. It’s unclear whether DHS is going into Springfield anyway.

31.01.2026 02:47 👍 659 🔁 213 💬 14 📌 1

A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.

30.01.2026 23:19 👍 657 🔁 353 💬 18 📌 19

Es ist grauenvoll. Obdachlose werden vertrieben (aus Innenstadt und ÖPNV), dürfen nicht betteln, finden keine Schlafplätze, müssen tags in die Kälte und im Sommer werden ihnen immer wieder Zelte und Habseligkeiten von der Polizei weggenommen. Diese rotgrüne Regierung ist die Hölle für Wohnungslose.

29.01.2026 14:25 👍 193 🔁 63 💬 7 📌 0
A massive crowd has gathered at UCLA as demonstrators protest against the nationwide ICE raids.

A massive crowd has gathered at UCLA as demonstrators protest against the nationwide ICE raids.

Thousands of students at UCLA have walked out in solidarity with Minnesotans protesting ICE and the killing of Alex Pretti, joining a growing wave of student activism against federal immigration enforcement.

www.foxla.com/video/fmc-27...

29.01.2026 01:08 👍 149 🔁 46 💬 4 📌 4
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Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

28.01.2026 12:45 👍 5707 🔁 2254 💬 270 📌 411
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There are long-lasting, negative effects for children like Liam Ramos who are detained, or watch their parents be deported Children with a parent or family member who is detained, or are part of a drawn-out immigration court case, are twice as likely to have anxiety as young adults.

Bad enough that we need a study to tell us this. Worse, what it tells. 1/

"Our research shows that exposure to severe immigration enforcement experiences during childhood carries long-term, significant consequences..."
theconversation.com/there-are-lo...

28.01.2026 14:42 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Werbegrafik des „WELT-Wirtschaftsgipfels“ von Axel Springer.
In der Mitte ein großer runder Konferenztisch mit Spitzenvertretern aus Politik und Wirtschaft.
Umgeben von Schlagworten wie „Exklusiver Zugang zur Politik“, „Nur für CEOs“, „Speed-Dating der Top-Entscheider“, „Austausch auf Augenhöhe“ und „Wirtschaft + Politik im Dialog“.
Überschrift: „Willkommen am Tisch der Zukunft“.

Werbegrafik des „WELT-Wirtschaftsgipfels“ von Axel Springer. In der Mitte ein großer runder Konferenztisch mit Spitzenvertretern aus Politik und Wirtschaft. Umgeben von Schlagworten wie „Exklusiver Zugang zur Politik“, „Nur für CEOs“, „Speed-Dating der Top-Entscheider“, „Austausch auf Augenhöhe“ und „Wirtschaft + Politik im Dialog“. Überschrift: „Willkommen am Tisch der Zukunft“.

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Gestern fand der ,WELT-Wirtschaftsgipfel, im Axel-Springer-Hochhaus statt.

Fast die gesamte Bundesregierung bis hin zum Bundeskanzler nahm teil.

Auch mit dabei: Palantir-CEO Alex Karp, Trump-Vertrauter Steve Witkoff, der Bundeswehr Generalinspekteur & diverse Investoren. 🧵

28.01.2026 06:22 👍 1877 🔁 1105 💬 83 📌 220

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

26.01.2026 18:39 👍 6205 🔁 3529 💬 121 📌 232
A headline reads: "How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History." An individual in a brown puffer coat stands with their back to the camera, taping notes onto a board on a brick wall. Each note says "learn all history." Photo by Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times.

A headline reads: "How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History." An individual in a brown puffer coat stands with their back to the camera, taping notes onto a board on a brick wall. Each note says "learn all history." Photo by Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times.

National Park Service workers across the U.S. are removing materials about slavery, climate change and labor history to comply with an order from President Trump. In some of the first legal pushback, the city of Philadelphia sued the Trump administration on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...

26.01.2026 01:26 👍 640 🔁 248 💬 56 📌 16

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

25.01.2026 19:10 👍 25870 🔁 4119 💬 399 📌 109

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

24.01.2026 17:30 👍 3383 🔁 921 💬 1 📌 54
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment
"I informed the ICE agents that l am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim.
At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
6. The scene was chaotic. Many civilians were screaming and honking. Over the noise, 1 informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim.

Post Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that l am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him." 6. The scene was chaotic. Many civilians were screaming and honking. Over the noise, 1 informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim.

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We are seeing ordinary citizens — a children’s face painter and a doctor — come forth with sworn affidavits to describe the killing of the Minneapolis nurse.

In case you were wondering what courage looks like.

Links threaded below

25.01.2026 02:17 👍 702 🔁 220 💬 8 📌 6