@Tanvim

Migration etc. 2026 @typemediacenter fellow. Words @nymag @politicomag @thebafflermag @guardian etc. | teaching @newmarkjschool | Signal: tanvim.05

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JUST IN: A federal judge in California has barred DHS from conducting field interrogations of people they identify as potential noncitizen voters based on data sources that have proven unreliable and could improperly identify citizens. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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The Trump admin is asking a federal judge to agree to looser restrictions on standards at the ICE holding cells in Lower Manhattan. The feds say they don't want to provide pillows (security risk), a light dimmer at night (unclear why), or 24/7 medical services (too expensive).
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El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"
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We @propublica sued the U.S. Department of Education. We got the records. We are sharing them with you. propublica.org/article/civil…

Sexual Assaults on Campus No Longer Scrutinized as Closely Under Trump’s Education Department

ProPublica sued the federal government for records that show which schools are facing civil rights investigations — data that was public before Trump’s second term. Now you can use our database to...

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New: Mamdani will hand out campaign literature with Hochul in Brooklyn tomorrow — the mayor's first in-person appearance to boost the moderate Democrat’s reelection. They'll be back together in Brooklyn Sunday for a Hochul canvass launch. w/ @NickReisman politico.com/news/2026/10/22…

Mamdani to campaign with Hochul, cementing a fruitful alliance

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Detained immigrants with serious medical conditions were told they will be deported to African countries where they have no family or ties. Held at Krome detention center in Florida, they were told they were headed there this week, though not which country.miamiherald.com/news/nation-…

'He'll die there.' Gravely ill detainees face deportation to Africa

About a dozen detained immigrants with serious medical conditions have been told they will be deported to African countries where they have no family or other ties and, advocates fear, little hope of...

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Mamdani's on the City Hall steps to call for the passage of @tiffany_caban's Delivery Protection Act. It's a bit of an unusual dynamic, as Speaker Menin has yet to chime in on the bill. Mamdani hasn't done a lot of public pushing for Council legislation like this as mayor.
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When asked to comment on my recent @NewYorker story, ICE said it doesn't use white SUVs in York, PA. That contradicts multiple witnesses I intervened (as well as photos I had access to). But a reader pointed me to this footage from the York Daily Record: ydr.com/videos/news/local/20…

We saw SUVs leave ICE's facility in York City. Here's what we know

The York Dispatch saw nearly a dozen vehicles take off from the Clugston Road ICE facility on Jan. 20, 2026. Why is the gated parking lot filling up?

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Menacing workers with a baseball bat Threatening to call ICE Workers peeing on themselves Women on their period not allowed bathroom breaks Those are just some of the horrors of working at HelloFresh Read about it in my latest for @Documentedny 👇 documentedny.com/2026/10/22/…

No Pee Breaks, Harassment, and Threats With a Baseball Bat: Immigrant Workers Allege Abuse at...

A recent lawsuit filed in New Jersey alleges that HelloFresh engaged in forced labor and discriminated against Latino employees

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"As much as I love you, Brad, and I care about you, first and foremost, the Palestinian farmers who need to farm their land need access to their land, this needs to be the priority.” hellgatenyc.com/idf-palestin…

The IDF Released Julie Won and Brad Lander. Palestinian New Yorkers and Their Families Are Still in...

"I was released because I called the U.S. embassy. Regular Palestinians don’t have a get-out-of-jail card like that," Won told Hell Gate after being detained during an olive harvest.

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What is the New England Review of Boats and who is it for?
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Sent them an email yesterday with my co-professor. Still haven't heard back!
tanvi@TanvimOct 21
Hey @MTA any reason your press office has been treating student journalists like they're not real journalists? If your press team had time to send a condescending responses about how they don't deal with student journalists, surely, they could have just responded to the question.
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Really important work by my fellow @FSP_NWU members and @ObjectiveJrn —> objectivejournalism.org/p/fr…

Freelance journalism rates are worse than you think — they’ve barely changed since 2000

National Writers Union data reveals decades of stagnant freelance journalism rates, documenting the financial pressures faced by freelance writers.

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Hi, looking into a couple of stories at the intersection of immigration enforcement and food. If you're a lawyer or organizer who works with immigrant families in ICE detention or know groups/orgs who do, please reach out? I can explain more. I'm at tanvim.05 on Signal.
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Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-600…

Sentenced to death at 17, at 68, quilt artist receives solo museum exhibition

A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

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A 79-year-old Colorado pastor who lost 35 pounds and the strength to walk after being placed in immigration detention 13 months ago has been released by order of a federal magistrate judge. wapo.st/4Bk8KXH

Colorado pastor released from immigration detention after 13 months

A federal judge said the U.S. government had no clear plan to deport the Rev. Edward Nalwamba

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I'd like to know a lot more about what happened here. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t…

Catapult to Be Sold, End Operations

The independent publisher, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was notified that...

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Official French govt account:
French Response
@FrenchResponseOct 21
Every day we are fighting to prevent French stats from looking like this.
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Many people in India's capital, Delhi, are missing work as they try to get their names back on the voter list. Millions of Delhi residents have been removed in a nationwide revision of electoral rolls known as the Special Intensive Revision, or SIR reut.rs/4sidCs9

To vote again, some Indians have to prove that they're alive - News

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Something I find really interesting in the Big Bend wall injunction case –– the gov't has quietly shifted from insisting that the Big Bend is "an area of high illegal entry" urgently in need of wall to a long-term view, where no wall means it's vulnerable to future border crime
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