Grieving a parent while being a parent is one of the hardest thing that I continue to deal with.

Beyond building the technology itself, Running Wolf has focused on building a system that communities can take ownership of. This means training local members to document languages and learn tools so that preservation and development remain self-governed and, eventually, locally driven.

"I think it's important to be on the record here, given the scale of the consequences that we are speaking about,” Mamdani told us today when asked if he's concerned Trump may punish NYC for his rebuke of the Iran strikes. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

BREAKING: The death toll from a strike that hit a school in southern Iran has risen to 85 people, an official says on Iranian state TV. Follow AP's live updates for more.

BEIRUT (AP) — Death toll from strike that hit school in southern Iran has risen to 85 people, an official says on Iranian state TV. 💔

Housing officials are warning New Yorkers about how to tell a real city inspector from someone who may be impersonating one amid “increased immigration enforcement,” according to a recent PSA-style video from the agency.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.

"A guard said 'Happy James Earl Ray Day" on Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s holiday. Another asked whether Black people even celebrate Father’s Day — because 'they don’t know their fathers.' I was raised in Detroit, baptized in Black history. Entering a Texas prison was a cultural collision."

Columbia University says federal immigration agents entered a residence hall under the guise of searching for a missing person and then arrested Ellie Aghayeva, a student from Azerbaijan. n.pr/3OAlkhD

As President Donald Trump touts his accomplishments in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, one woman in the audience is meant to serve as a reminder of how his immigration policies have taken a toll on families and school communities.

[Serious voice] We need to make some sensible, precision adjustments to NY's Raise the Age Law so that the little rascals who threw snowballs at cops yesterday can get taught some respect at Marcy Correctional Facility with terrorism enhancements on their sentences. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-officer...

such a vital piece from Brendan, unearthing where DHS/ICE — agencies actively engaged in disappearing people to concentration camps — are operating in new york city, where some 600,000 of our neighbors and friends and loved ones are undocumented

Spoke on NPR's Morning Edition on terrible situation at BAFTA awards where Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan had the n-word shouted at them by a man w/Tourette syndrome; the BBC didn't initially edit it out of the broadcast. My take: BAFTAs and the BBC failed everybody. LISTEN: loom.ly/IXOwSFA

The only passenger in the car when an ICE officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting. But the passenger, Joshua Orta, died in an unrelated car crash on Saturday. Read more: nyti.ms/4qTVeDO

That part!

I've heard many people say we'll need another Reconstruction after Trump, so I decided to dive into the history and look at what that would mean. The latest from my newsletter:

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

This can’t be real!!

Powerful op-ed by incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby (@joinjeremy.org) in @truthout.org on how journalists unjustly jailed by ICE are exposing the horrors of incarceration from the inside.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

“I always believed that once the bombing stopped, everything would become easier as long as we stayed alive. But the wounds we carry with us will not heal.” Months after a ceasefire was declared in Gaza, the first day of Ramadan still feels like a miracle, Dalia Abu Ramadan reports.

No one would ever call boys who were trafficked and raped "underage men."

In the Age of ICE, when democracy is threatened & justice is hard to find, photojournalism is as important as ever. Here's a good read (not only because I'm quoted 😄). karshinstitute.virginia.edu/news/visual-...

The 22-year-old became the first Black woman to win an Olympic hockey title on Thursday. Those she grew up alongside couldn’t hide their delight

Again, maybe the most depressing aspect of the past decade has been that it’s made it impossible to avoid recognizing that a terrifyingly large minority of our fellow citizens are just flat out evil.

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. n.pr/46PHPVX

I don’t remember taking this photo, but I can always tell when a picture is mine.

I wish they would stop it with all these remakes and just make new creative and amazing games!!

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

ICE is arresting people at school dropoffs, on the way to church, and at routine check-ins at immigration offices as the Trump administration pursues its goal of deporting millions of people. 🎧 Listen on Reveal:

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A special-education teacher was killed on Monday when a man fleeing immigration agents in Savannah, Georgia, crashed a car into the teacher’s vehicle, according to the local police. nyti.ms/4rMI64a

I found it! For #BlackHistoryMonth, here are some Black journalists you should follow, including yours truly. Thanks for creating this @cvbell.bsky.social . go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

In last week's First 100 Days newsletter, our weekly deep dive into what's actually going on in the Mamdani administration, we crunched some budget numbers as the rubber meets the road in the Mamdani administration.

"Palestinians look to salvage Gaza’s history from the ruins of Israel’s military offensive." "...organizations are trying to save what they can at historical sites, even as full-scale restoration — and the broader reconstruction of the territory — face major obstacles." apnews.com/article/isra...

Video footage appears to contradict key aspects of a federal indictment’s descriptions of former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s actions at a protest last month inside a church in Minnesota, according to a review by The Post.

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

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"Several planned ICE office spaces are located near schools and early-childhood care centers. ...Many other planned locations are near hospitals and medical offices." Crucial journalism from @leahfeiger.bsky.social (that took me a few days to get to):

Yes but honesty this is a great idea because a lot of families live in food deserts where getting to supermarkets is not an easy thing to do. So making sure that local stores have healthy and affordable products is a great way to make sure that families can be healthy.

ICE task force arrest at Manhattan courthouse fuels dispute over NYC sanctuary laws https://gothamist.com/news/ice-task-force-arrest-at-manhattan-courthouse-fuels-dispute-over-nyc-sanctuary-laws

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

The woman's attorneys say evidence in her case underscores how DHS has lied about her.

A group of Buddhist monks walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in the name of peace. The 108-day pilgrimage captivated Americans. n.pr/4cnpTWb

Meet the Hell Cats: Four women veterans, all Democrats, running for Congress. They hope their backgrounds in the military and national security will be exactly what their party needs in their swing seat races.

That photographer is Kent Nishimura and incredibly talented photographer!