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A non exhaustive list of organizations doing particularly good reporting right now:
@propublica.org
@wired.com
@404media.co
@chicagotribune.com
@inquirer.com
@motherjones.com
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
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Marisa Kabas
about 14 hours ago
New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!
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We won our FOIA lawsuit for body cam footage of DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace
The judge ruled DC Metropolitan Police must share all un-redacted footage from the March 2025 raid.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/foia-lawsuit-body-cam-footage-mpd-doge-raid-usip-we-won
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ProPublica
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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1771387204&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Rachel Maddow
4 days ago
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
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Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies
The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/chicago-teen-fought-cancer-dies/
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The Intercept
6 days ago
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
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The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
https://interc.pt/4aNO9Q6
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Jen Fifield
6 days ago
NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters,
@zachdespart.bsky.social
and I found. đź§µ
www.propublica.org/article/save...
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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
6 days ago
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
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Meet the Press
6 days ago
Donald Kinsella was appointed and sworn in as the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York and fired by the White House the same day.
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White House immediately fires U.S. attorney chosen by judges to replace Trump's pick
Donald Kinsella was appointed and sworn in as the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York and fired by the White House the same day.
https://nbcnews.to/4raHWDG
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Iron Spike
7 days ago
I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.
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Adam Klasfeld
7 days ago
BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc
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Senator Tammy Baldwin
7 days ago
Once again, Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. are putting Americans’ health on the line just to play petty politics and punish those who’ve spoken out against him. Just shameful.
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Robert Reich
8 days ago
Trump is threatening to block construction of a publicly owned bridge connecting Detroit and Canada, despite supporting the project in his first term. A billionaire who privately owns a competing bridge met with Howard Lutnick just days before Trump announced his opposition. Funny how that works.
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Kim Kelly
7 days ago
🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America
@cwaunion.bsky.social
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
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Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent
In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-workers-at-pahrump-brothel-are-unionizing-alleging-unfair-contracts-and-conditions
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Jason Koebler
8 days ago
Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them.
www.404media.co/government-l...
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Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/
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ProPublica
8 days ago
“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.
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Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Chris Hayes
7 days ago
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Rep. Ana-MarĂa RodrĂguez Ramos
9 days ago
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss.
#txlege
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Ryan Goodman
8 days ago
I just published: The Taken Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas Documented through court records. Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.
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The Taken: Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents From Minnesota to Texas
We document these patterns through the use of sworn declarations and court filings.
https://www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-minnesota-texas-pipeline/
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Aaron Rupar
8 days ago
Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."
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Ron Filipkowski
8 days ago
Pirro should be impeached just for attempting to get an indictment against members of Congress for speech. Her incompetence is actually useful right now because it negates her malevolence.
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Wajahat Ali
9 days ago
Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein. He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse. Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million. Both men are alive. How come they've never been asked to testify?
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Rachel Maddow
10 days ago
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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Utah voter roll review finds no evidence of noncitizens casting a ballot, Lt. Gov. says
An ongoing Utah review of 2.1 million voter registration records has found one noncitizen who registered to vote and zero examples of any noncitizens actually voting.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/01/23/are-non-citizens-voting-utahs/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
10 days ago
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight.
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/02/ice-to-begin-detaining-immigrants-inside-social-circle-warehouse-in-april/
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Tim Onion
10 days ago
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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Sarah Wood
11 days ago
My almost 105 year old abuelita-in-law is VERY excited for Bad Bunny. She came from the island, and for her entire life, she’s been an American citizen! Voted for FDR! 🇵🇷🇺🇸
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the Mountain Goats
11 days ago
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
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Ron Filipkowski
12 days ago
It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.
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Tim Onion
12 days ago
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
12 days ago
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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Aaron Rupar
13 days ago
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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Ryan Goodman
14 days ago
We just published database:
@aclu.org
plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota Devastating Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles Mostly US citizens A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
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Marisa Kabas
15 days ago
we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.
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Asha Rangappa
16 days ago
Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
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ProPublica
16 days ago
"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist
@cengizyar.com
writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home." More:
https://propub.li/4acxEeY
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
20 days ago
Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.
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jamelle
20 days ago
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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404 Media
20 days ago
SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:
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Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
https://www.404media.co/here-is-the-user-guide-for-elite-the-tool-palantir-made-for-ice/
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Keep calling your senators.
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Aaron Rupar
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Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."
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Governor Tim Walz
22 days ago
I made a promise to Alex’s parents to continue to tell his story. An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.
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Sandra đź—˝is abolish ICE!
24 days ago
Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup
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Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP
The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/21/giants-star-jung-hoo-lee-detained-cbp-forgetting-documents/
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Max Berger
24 days ago
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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John Picacio
25 days ago
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊.
dreamhavenbooks.com
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Chris DeLeon ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev collabs
25 days ago
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
25 days ago
HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.
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Marisa Kabas
25 days ago
pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
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Aaron Rupar
25 days ago
Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
25 days ago
Operation PARRIS is one of the most heinous things this administration has done yet. Trump’s people ordered ICE to round up 5,600 legally present refugees, people who have done NOTHING wrong, with no warning, and jailed them in Texas to be interrogated about their status.
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Mehdi Hasan
25 days ago
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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