"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.

"Boo hoo"

NEW: What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid, by @annamaria.bsky.social

I went to Albany, Ga., 5 years ago to write about Covid-19, but I realized there was a bigger story to be told about the unchecked power of our health care system and who benefits from its growth. Spoiler: Far too few of us. @propublica.org projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply, by @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Amazing work by @gingerthompson.bsky.social This is what journalism should be. Thorough, objective and illuminating. This country needs far more tenacious reporters like Thompson and her colleagues at ProPublica.

Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care. By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

8/ If you have tips about new ICE enforcement tactics in courts, my colleagues and I want to hear from you. Reach out to me on Signal (tilleckert.90) or via propublica.org/tips.

7/ ICE has previously said its officers “use only the level of force that is objectively reasonable.” But across America, what’s “reasonable” has changed.

6/ This isn’t the first time ProPublica has reported on ICE under Trump 2.0 acting in unprecedented ways. In July, my colleagues @mckenziefunk.com and @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented ~50 incidents of officers shattering car windows to make arrests. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

5/ The Trump administration has continually escalated its immigration crackdown. And oversight groups that would typically keep them in check, such as the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, have been dismantled in DOGE’s sweep: www.propublica.org/article/home...

4/ Congressman Dan Goldman promised to follow up on the incident, which he called another example of “secret police officers who are attacking our communities with excessive violence…and they just think that they can do it with impunity, because nobody is holding them accountable.”

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

American citizens keep getting rounded-up by ICE. And it's gonna keep happening. During the first Trump admin, 70 Americans were mistakenly **deported.** From March, by @nicolefoy.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/more...

For weeks, Panama held hundreds of migrants removed from the U.S. against their will under pressure by the Trump administration, in what critics say was a breach of international law. By Perla Trevizo, @lomikriel.bsky.social ‪‪& @micarosenberg.bsky.social

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives @zey.bsky.social

As the Trump administration goes about expelling asylum seekers without due process and against federal court orders, international groups charged with upholding basic protections for migrants buckle under the pressure. From @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“I don’t want the system to collapse,” Social Security head Dudek said, according to a recording obtained by @propublica.org He also said it “would be catastrophic for the people in our country” if DOGE were to hit SSA with changes like those made at USAID or Treasury.

NEW: Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers, by @lomikriel.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social and Perla Trevizo

📣 D.C., our truck is back. Today at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired workers were given just 15 minutes to pack up their desks. As always, we're here to listen and meet people where they are. 👉 Reach out at propublica.org/tips or on Signal at 917-512-0201.

Valere Public Schools Superintendent Makes Up to $870,000. His District Serves 1,000 Students.

“As a measles outbreak expands in West Texas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, on Tuesday cheered several unconventional treatments, including cod liver oil, but again did not urge Americans to get vaccinated.”

DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead @fahrenthold.bsky.social @sangerkatz.bsky.social @jsvine.com

NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment @heathervogell.bsky.social

Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

NEW: President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk sweeping authority to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy and its operations around the globe. ProPublica confirmed the identities and roles of more than 20 key people affiliated with Musk.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing. 👇

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. And thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. 👇

Trump appears eager to both scale back the EPA, which has more than 15,000 employees, and align what remains of it with the companies it regulates. Here's what it feels like to work there now: www.propublica.org/article/epa-... @fastlerner.bsky.social @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

Massive NEW team effort: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew The Key Figures Working Alongside Elon Musk at DOGE and in the Trump Administration

“I’ve been here for five administrations and each administration continues to build upon the bad policies of the other,” Mayer said. “No new ideas.” Immigration in a nutshell. @AZLuminaria and @Propublica www.propublica.org/article/aid-...

A few weeks ago, I was talking w/ a community health worker in Central Wisconsin, who works with immigrant families in her area, and was startled to hear her say they were packing up all their belongings in enormous boxes and sending them to Nicaragua - ahead of their own deportations.

Box by box, the Nicaraguans who work across Wisconsin are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations. In the contents of the boxes is a portrait of a community under pressure. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

NEW: Facing Mass Deportation, Immigrants Pack their Belongings and Send Them Back Home @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

Elon's Boring Company twice installed tunnels without permits to work on county property. Environmental regulators documented it dumping untreated water into storm drains. Workers filed Nevada OSHA complaints about “ankle-deep” water in tunnels and severe chemical burns.

This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad. They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen? @lizweil.bsky.social (from 2020)

Family Separations Persist. In Some Cases, the Government Doesn’t Say Why. www.propublica.org/article/fami...

New from me: As they prepare to cut trillions in government services, Trump + team are planning to test a radical legal theory which claims the president can unilaterally choke off funding from programs he opposes. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

It didn’t feel fair. Her friend, and dozens of other undocumented Latino immigrants and their citizen relatives we talked to in the past few months, echoed this resentment. It’s a feeling that helps explain some of what happened in the election. www.propublica.org/article/immi...