Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

Prison telecom companies and more than a dozen red-state attorneys have challenged imposing limits on the cost of phone calls from prison, arguing that they would deprive lockups of necessary funding.

Covington Police arrested CityBeat photo intern Lucas Griffith during a march on the Roebling Bridge in July. The case has made national headlines and drawn protest from press freedom groups. www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

We had @steveinskeep.bsky.social in our Louisville studio today, hosting Morning Edition. He came to Kentucky to interview Gov. Beshear👇

i hope you're all excited to learn more about the many November elections!

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

For the new ep of KyCIR's Digging In series, I brought @divyakrthk.bsky.social back on the @lpm.org airwaves to talk about an immigration case w/ KY & IN ties. U.S. authorities say an Indiana man was convicted once for forgery & should be deported. But Divya's reporting found a lack of evidence.

Was on alma mater station 89.3 WFPL @lpm.org talking to KYCIR’s @morganwatkins.lpm.org about my recent reporting in the Intercept on a horrific case of ICE detention in KY and a family‘s legal battles to stop his deportation. You can listen and read more updates here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

👏👏👏(This is real cool - always good to see investment in investigative journalism in Kentucky.)

"Over the weekend, asylum seekers in New York were flooded with messages — some from their lawyers — telling them to pay a $100 fee to the Trump administration by Tuesday or risk deportation." "In the end, you don't know what's true or not." #NewYork #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The People’s Patrol is one of many volunteer rapid-response networks countering a Trump administration deportation blitz in the Chicago area. The idea is to locate immigration enforcement activity, record it, document abuses and, right on the spot, voice community opposition.

Update: after today’s prelim removal proceedings, a contested hearing is scheduled for mid Oct. DHS‘ lawyers will have to submit substantiating evidence and cause — the alleged forgery/larceny conviction — to justify Singh’s deportation. Singh will remain in ICE custody.

ICE fired a chemical weapon at a TV reporter in Broadview. The "unprovoked" attack is now under investigation. blockclubchi.co/4mHRQd8

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

This is great.

latest TRAC immigration data report shows a troubling trend of DHS having no legal basis/proof of criminal convictions or record for locking up individuals, just like Paramjit Singh’s case. ”the number of detainees without any criminal charge or conviction grew by 1,016.“

What the fuck?

A wild story from Kentucky Public Radio alum Divya Karthikeyan about a man being detained by ICE based on a legal case his lawyers can't even find the existence of. theintercept.com/2025/09/26/i...

Automatic stays allow DHS to effectively ignore immigration court orders. “It was intended to be used in really extreme cases, and instead, ICE is using it just everywhere," our senior litigation attorney Suchita Mathur told @divyakrthk.bsky.social.

Paramjit Singh is going blind in ICE detention. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

Paramjit Singh is going blind while in ICE detention in Kenton County Jail, KY. He’s been a green card holder since 1994. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists. story for The Intercept: theintercept.com/2025/09/26/i...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

President Donald Trump’s administration announced the start of a deportation campaign in Chicago. We spoke with experts who shared what businesses and workers should know. trib.al/ylCukSD

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Yesterday Massie was tying a major donor to the PAC that's airing $2M of attack ads against him to Epstein's black book. www.democracynow.org/2025/9/4/ro_...

This story about a venture capitalist who made it her mission to go after her surrogate after a miscarriage is horrifying. It sounds like the community of "intended parents" with whom she was sharing what was happening validated her throughout. And maybe ChatGPT too. www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached. The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.

The “propaganda” in this case being telling college students about the existence of LGBTQ people

New Orleans residents reflect on rebuilding their lives 20 years after Hurricane Katrina.

Next Friday, Aug 29, we'll be at the World Affairs Council's inaugural WorldFest Kick-Off Reception. We hear it's already sold out, but you can come see us at WorldFest mainstage on Saturday at 3-4pm! www.sawpeep.com/events/ @silpayamanant.bsky.social @divyakrthk.bsky.social

Photo studios in India are a dying business. A photographer set out to commemorate them in style.

NEW: Tarrant County, TX officials said the move to cut more than 100 polling sites was to save money as they historically see low voter turnout in nonpresidential elections. But fewer voting sites means fewer voters, a political science expert said. @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org

let your haters become taters in the chip bag of success

The New Orleans police is currently constrained from partaking in almost all immigration enforcement activities by a federal consent decree. But in January, a judge granted a request to wind down this monitoring.

American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the outcome of a board vote in the Mason, Tennessee that would enter the town (pop: 1300) into a detention facility contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/18/a... @cstephenson.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com

"The annual income needed to afford monthly payments on a median-priced home in the US was $126,670 in 2024—a 60% jump from $79,330 in 2021, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Meanwhile the US median household income was $80,610 in 2023"

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

Keep writing that stupid book

Despite several attempts to export the idea, Seattle remains the only U.S. city with a democracy vouchers program, which provide money to residents to donate to the local candidates of their choice. boltsmag.org/seattle...

Some psychiatric symptoms may actually be the result of autoimmune conditions. Rachel Aviv reports on the case of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia who was cured after two decades of psychosis.

if there's any truth to this, it's worth remembering that Gen Z grew up with leveled reading "benchmarks" and ELA assessments and and were for years asked to produce answers about "the main idea"/conflict/resolution/etc. instead of being encouraged to engage with & love literature on their own terms

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. Now, their stories will begin to be told. Starting here 👇

President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

“Closing the cases would allow the local governments in question to continue allegedly mistreating minority communities.” www.propublica.org/article/trum... By @propublica.org’s @jessecoburn.bsky.social #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

NPR Editor-in-Chief to Step Down After Trump Defunding www.thewrap.com/npr-editor-i...