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The son "took his father's visa paperwork and Social Security card to the ICE Richmond Field Office off Arboretum Parkway. However, he was told it 'didn't matter.'"

The back story of the three sisters who left the retirement community they were forced to move into, and took back their home:

"The accelerating furor reflects how online outrage does not always emerge organically, but is often the result of a small number of prominent voices redirecting their audience’s attention."

OK, who plays Sister Bernadette, Sister Regina, and Sister Rita in the movie?

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

"These kids were literally praying," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said. "It was the first week of school. They were in a church. They should be able to go to school or church without the risk of fear or violence." https://bit.ly/4fZGEqo

"A survey by Common Sense Media published last month found that 72 percent of American teens have used A.I. chatbots as companions. Nearly one in eight said they had sought 'emotional or mental health support' from them." 😮

Read the whole thread.

A Minnesota county with fewer than 10,000 residents has three local, family-owned newspapers.

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

"So much of Pompeii is known that it is easy to forget how much is not known: one-third of Pompeii is still unexcavated."

On the State Department reports that portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We’re not books but we went from not having a newspaper to being one of the most subscribed to newspapers in America in less than a year, and our social media conversion numbers are attributable to Bluesky by a good plurality.

🪄✨️feed cleansing✨️

An extraordinary story.

Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration tell Gisela Salim-Peyer that they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison.

[324845-chilly-autumn-breeze].

I didn’t find any of the explanations for what’s going on with the bad job market for new college grads satisfying, so I spent a week trying to figure out what was up and what it means for the larger economy. Turns out it’s not AI! Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In the presence of police, a bondsman allegedly: -Forced his way into a home -Shoved and pointed a gun at the son inside -Threw the mother and her partner on the bed -Forced the partner into a car, where he was held for hours The man was deported without having a chance to speak to a lawyer.

Rubin's debut pictures are out today, and they're just gorgeous. This one, of nebulas, combines 678 images taken over seven hours—quick work for a telescope like this. My story on what we might find over the next 10 years of glittering views: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

One of the most disturbing things I've read in a long time.

What does America owe this family? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Looks like I'm going to live forever.

I wrote about Trump's surprise withdrawal of Jared Isaacman's nomination to lead NASA, and the future of the agency under an administration that wants to demolish space science, for @notusreports.bsky.social: www.notus.org/trump-white-...

One of the last places Emmilee Risling was seen was on the Yurok Reservation, in an area known as End of Road. More than three years later, she’s the face of a crisis: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

Boys and young men are struggling — in their educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood — even as their female peers surge ahead. Here's what data shows.

This is so beautiful.

Spotted in Georgetown:

If I could time-travel back to 2015, I'd tell myself "Stop trying to make f̶e̶t̶c̶h̶ Vine happen." But I can't, so instead I'm cruising through this amazing podcast: pca.st/podcast/12be...

Who is Pope Leo XIV? We've got you covered. bit.ly/4kdywDG

I'm a Catholic from Illinois, I used to work in the Catholic press, and my brothers were altar servers at the same parish Leo XIV was an altar server (decades apart, of course). So yeah, I've been getting a few text messages today. 😂

One of the big questions Catholics had is if the new pope will be one in the style of his predecessor, Pope Francis. Here's what then-Cardinal Prevost said in 2023, when @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social asked if his thinking had changed under Pope Francis. www.chicagocatholic.com/vatican/-/ar...

Best news day ever for the staff of Chicago Catholic. #allnewsislocal

The last pope named Leo is best known for writing a groundbreaking encyclical on social justice and the rights of workers.

How will the mind and faith of the new pope shape the Catholic Church and the world? Fitting popes into borrowed political labels like “left," “right,” “liberal,” and “conservative” doesn’t always age well, Luis Parrales writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

So pleased to share my new website: www.marystachyralopez.com It's a work in progress, but I'm excited to get it out there in the world!

Breaking News: The S&P 500 fell 4%, entering bear market territory, as President Trump doubled down on his trade war, raising fears of a global downturn. Follow live updates.

@ atlantic friends: thank you!!!!!! @ editors: let’s work together! I am keen to write features and essays about books, business, tech, consumerism, work, LIFE! Hit my line: [email protected]

My uncle, Frank Stachyra, was so impressed by a book he read in Italian that he decided, with the author's blessing, to translate it into English. From the description alone, I can see why. Just ordered my copy from @orbisbooks.bsky.social.

Edward R. Murrow used this microphone to broadcast from London during World War II. It's now on display at the National Press Club, where a plaque notes that his work "at this mic and from the bombarded city's streets...brought poetically spare, vivid descriptions of war into American living rooms."

Donald Trump’s instructions to his team are to attack Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic and not, as one source described it, to “produce a scalp” by firing any members of his Cabinet, Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social report: theatln.tc/tem2cpGG

I keep wondering why I have this growing urge to buy a Stanley, so I popped this @amandamull.bsky.social classic onto Atlantic homepage this morning. (And no, I'm not buying the Stanley)

A popular new podcast claims that some nonspeaking children with autism can read people's minds. @hannarosin.bsky.social asks @engber.bsky.social if this phenomenon is real—or if it just comes from a deep desire to connect.

"The president has encountered little resistance as he’s cut off foreign aid, kneecapped federal agencies, and attempted to fire thousands of civil servants...There’s good reason to think that will change, however, if Trump comes after the mail." Good read from Russell Berman:

The internet can still be gorgeously human, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. Reddit, of all places, suggests how: theatln.tc/131NB381

"Indulging the Tate brothers to own the libs is an act of pure nihilism...Denouncing them should be the easiest test of moral seriousness imaginable, and yet it’s a test that many online influencers are failing in real time." From Helen Lewis:

"The demise of independent journalism in the United States will be less spectacular than the notorious examples of other times and places—as much voluntary as coerced, less like a murder than a death of despair."