“If you’re doing immigration law, you’re protecting the livelihood of individual people — but you’re also working inside a very broken system.” @andreaflores.bsky.social reflects on helping create #DACA and how she holds lawmakers accountable. New podcast episode —> www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXe5...

‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story via @washingtonpost.com

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40 editions of PressingIssues.org!

This @thelatinonewsletter.org episode with @andreaflores.bsky.social is one of my favorites. The team did a fantastic job with this one.

The work that @thelatinonewsletter.org San Juan Bureau Deputy Editor @vaquero2xl.bsky.social has been stellar. Here is Carlos' latest.

Cool to see my @freepress.bsky.social colleague @attorneynora.bsky.social in my hometown paper.

tired: a federal moratorium blocking states from regulating AI wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...

New from @juliorvarela.com for @thelatinonewsletter.org Puerto Rican Nonprofit Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Jersey City Free Public Library The Boricua Community Building Center alleges discrimination after its executive director was banned from all library branches

During questioning, FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked whether the FCC is an independent agency. Sen. Luján specifically cited the FCC website calling it “independent.” I took a screenshot of the site at 11:54 am I took another at 12:22 pm and the word “independent” was gone. #FCCOversight

For the latest edition of PressingIssues.org from @freepress.bsky.social, we connected with @rooseveltinstitute.org about its new report, The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis.

I believe Carr said it about 30 times today?

Kim-Cruz exchange showed some consensus.

Important distinction that @mattfieldwood.bsky.social mentions.

Simple question from @lujan.senate.gov: "Is the FCC an independent agency?" FCC's Carr: "The FCC is not an independent agency." Trusty: "I have not seen the FCC website." Gomez (correctly): "Yes, and it should be."

Here are all GOP critiques against Carr's actions that (as of now) are not being brought up by GOP Senators during FCC Oversight hearing today. Only Senators who have really dug into this are Democratic members of the committee.

The FCC chair is accused by his own party of "unconstitutional coercion" while running corrupt shakedowns of media companies, harassing and censoring broadcasters, etc. And the Democrats lead with ... Salt Typhoon and spectrum?

Perfect summary of that Cruz-Carr exchange this morning during today's Senate hearing.

What @mattfieldwood.bsky.social says.

Follow my @freepress.bsky.social colleague @mattfieldwood.bsky.social, who is in the room today during the Senate FCC Oversight hearing bsky.app/profile/matt...

Happening this morning live. Should start in a few minutes. Senate FCC Oversight Hearing with: Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Olivia Trusty, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission Anna M. Gomez, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission

My @freepress.bsky.social colleague @mattfieldwood.bsky.social will be posting about this morning's Senate FCC Oversight Hearing. I will also be following it and posting.

New from @notaaroncraig.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Watching this right now from House GOP Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC’s Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy

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Thanks to @niemanlab.org for including me in its Predictions for Journalism 2026. What I am predicting: Audiences are sick of being treated as consumers “High-quality reporting must be free and open, supported by collective models that value impact over manufactured growth.”

Really kind of @senorbarragan.bsky.social to recommend @thelatinonewsletter.org

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This is the end of The Latino Newsletter’s 79th week, and as we begin to focus on our year-end tasks, I wanted to share some wins that met and surpassed our 2025 strategic plan.

Follow Puerto Rico-based journalist and @thelatinonewsletter.org San Juan Bureau Deputy Editor @vaquero2xl.bsky.social. Carlos is doing excellent work.

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Democrats are bringing in deported US veterans via Zoom and in the room to the Noem hearing. Wow.

Federal judge orders Kilmar Abrego García’s ‘immediate release’ via @washingtonpost.com

This is in the background as I work today, and why have we accepted the false claim that "15 to 20 million" people entered the US during the Biden admin?

Are we days away from another Gulf of Tonkin moment, but this time in the Caribbean? How did that turn out for the US?

“He’s saying, Impress me—nobody’s my friend yet, but they could be.” Much of the analysis from Wall Street, Aaron said, comes down to “Who does Trump like best? It’s an almost unfathomable way of doing business.”

Thank you, @elpaisamerica.bsky.social, for the feature in English Julio Ricardo Varela: ‘Latinos are the future of this country’

U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says via @washingtonpost.com

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Good to be back writing a new opinion piece. My first under @ms.now. Critics of this anti-ICE Boston nativity scene have totally missed the plot

More from @notaaroncraig.bsky.social on @democracynow.org

It's always a good day when I get to work with @attorneynora.bsky.social to publish her words in PressingIssues.org.

Hey, I know this person who was on @democracynow.org this morning.

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship oath ceremony at Faneuil Hall, group says via @bostonglobe.com

Mijente, a national Latino organizing group focused on immigrant rights and political empowerment, is escalating its “Apaga el odio” campaign against Univision and Telemundo by launching a national Week of Action that started this past weekend.

“While this chilling campaign is vastly unpopular and often loses in court, its speed and scale are unprecedented in U.S. history. The effect is palpable as millions may think twice about core First Amendment and associational habits." - @attorneynora.bsky.social @cnn.com @brianstelter.bsky.social

Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew granted bond after ICE arrest via @washingtonpost.com

This critical report on free speech imperiled comes from THE @freepress.bsky.social (NOT Bari's so-called Free Press). Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

By @brianstelter.bsky.social Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social of the nonprofit advocacy group Free Press @freepress.bsky.social set out to catalog the Trump administration’s First Amendment infringements. She soon had a list of almost 200.