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"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
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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...
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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.
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Chris Morran
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"Boo hoo"
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Charles Ornstein
2 months ago
NEW: What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid, by
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kakuma-kenya-matenity-ward-foreign-aid-cuts
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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
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Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
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.
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-one/
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Charles Ornstein
2 months ago
Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply, by
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Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply
Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. Utah Republicans’ hard turn against solar mirrors President Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the...
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox
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Hamed Aleaziz
2 months ago
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...
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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Meg Jackson
3 months ago
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.
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ProPublica
3 months ago
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
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Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1765159206&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
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.
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Chris Morran
5 months ago
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.
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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Till Eckert
5 months ago
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.
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Till Eckert
5 months ago
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
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Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
https://propublica.org/tips
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5 months ago
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.
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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...
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
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Till Eckert
5 months ago
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...
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“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem
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Till Eckert
5 months ago
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.”
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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.
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5 months ago
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 👇
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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 👇
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Eric Umansky
10 months ago
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...
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12 months ago
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
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@micarosenberg.bsky.social
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Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers
The administration’s moves to expel asylum-seekers to third countries put the International Organization for Migration at the center of a policy critics have called illegal.
https://propub.li/3DxeF2H
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Tim Onion
12 months ago
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.
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained
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Charles Ornstein
12 months ago
We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives
@zey.bsky.social
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Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid
The same dangerous mistakes. The same lack of candor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?smid=bs-share
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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...
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Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers
The administration’s moves to expel asylum-seekers to third countries put the International Organization for Migration at the center of a policy critics have called illegal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-panama-asylum-aid-groups
12 months ago
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Chris Morran
12 months ago
“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.
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“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump
In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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Charles Ornstein
12 months ago
NEW: Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers, by
@lomikriel.bsky.social
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
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Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers
The administration’s moves to expel asylum-seekers to third countries put the International Organization for Migration at the center of a policy critics have called illegal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-panama-asylum-aid-groups?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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ProPublica
12 months ago
📣 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.
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Charles Ornstein
12 months ago
“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.”
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As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies Like Cod Liver Oil
In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but did not mention vaccination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/health/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Charles Ornstein
12 months ago
DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
@fahrenthold.bsky.social
@sangerkatz.bsky.social
@jsvine.com
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DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-errors.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Charles Ornstein
12 months ago
NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment
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NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment
The Trump administration has used strong language to disparage the federal workforce. A NASA official urges staff to “please use caution” in public amid the increasing “negative rhetoric” toward gover...
https://www.propublica.org/article/nasa-official-warns-staff-trump-harassment-federal-workers?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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Chris Morran
about 1 year ago
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.
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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines th...
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-trump-musk-funding-foia-congress-transparency?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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about 1 year ago
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.
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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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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Charles Ornstein
about 1 year ago
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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about 1 year ago
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.
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
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.
https://propub.li/40MD0cf
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Charles Ornstein
about 1 year ago
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. 👇
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
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.
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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ProPublica
about 1 year ago
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. 👇
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about 1 year ago
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
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“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump
More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-workers-resign-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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Charles Ornstein
about 1 year ago
Massive NEW team effort: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew The Key Figures Working Alongside Elon Musk at DOGE and in the Trump Administration
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
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.
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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“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-...
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“We Will Fight Back”: Aid Workers Fear Closing a Camp on the Arizona Border Will Endanger Migrants
For the past two years, religious and humanitarian organizations have provided food and aid to migrants at a camp near Sasabe, Arizona. Just before Donald Trump took office, volunteers were told to cl...
https://www.propublica.org/article/aid-workers-migrant-camp-arizona-trump
about 1 year ago
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Melissa Sanchez
about 1 year ago
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.
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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...
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How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-wisconsin-trump-mass-deportations-nicaragua
about 1 year ago
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Charles Ornstein
about 1 year ago
NEW: Facing Mass Deportation, Immigrants Pack their Belongings and Send Them Back Home
@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
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How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-wisconsin-trump-mass-deportations-nicaragua?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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Chris Morran
about 1 year ago
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.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight
Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Charles Ornstein
about 1 year ago
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
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They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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Family Separations Persist. In Some Cases, the Government Doesn’t Say Why.
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She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the Border. The Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why.
U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 o...
https://www.propublica.org/article/family-separations-biden-russian-immigrants
about 1 year ago
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Molly Redden
about 1 year ago
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...
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How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the po...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget
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Melissa Sanchez
about 1 year ago
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...
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Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters
Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman fr...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-latino-trump-election-resentment-asylum
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