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“Sports betting is where alcohol was in the ’50s and cigarettes were in the ’40s. In the Mad Men era, everybody had a bar in their office, and little kids were given drinks at the family table.” But now, “fathers are placing sports bets with their 10- and 11-year-old sons.”

Starting next week I’ll be giving a whirlwind stint of talks across the U.S. on my photobook, This Alabaster Grave, alongside my friend and producer/fixer Sangar Khaleel. See locations and dates below in thread. Hope to see you out there!

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"Why would you bomb a city if you are trying to take the city? You would just be taking a bombed city." ~ my 5yo daughter on war

"Boldness is baked into this band, and that’s what leads them to dizzying new compositions and refreshing shifts in perspective. Love may no longer be enough, but I hope Converge realize that their fundamental DNA always will be."

🚨Journalism Job🚨 (on my team!) @propublica.org is looking for a creative, empathetic and ambitious Visuals Editor. This role will work closely with the art director and the rest of the visuals team to find compassionate, incisive and original approaches to story presentations. grnh.se/v3pi5tuq6us

*Journalism Jobs* @propublica.org is hiring an Audience Writer to adapt our investigations into multiple formats, including short-form newsletter sections and standalone pieces. Open to remote candidates. Learn more here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Journalism Jobs: @themarshallproject.org is hiring a reporter to cover the immigration system and its intersection with the criminal justice system in the U.S.

“A Reuters review of federal court records found that the Trump administration has prosecuted at least 655 people under that charge across the U.S. since a series of city-focused immigration crackdowns began last summer. That’s more than double the prosecutions during the same period in 2024-2025..”

“How do you justify terrorizing an entire community? It is the most un-American thing I’ve ever experienced in my entire life.” Ryan Devereaux reports for the @theintercept.com in MN

Journalism Jobs: The @startribune.com is hiring an investigative reporter at their headquarters in Minneapolis MN, a state increasingly at the center of national news conversations including policing, immigration, public safety, business, politics and fraud.

A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings found in handwritten letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. Read them today on @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

This morning at @propublica.org, we published a pair of stories about the children held at the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/life...

"a campaign against blue cities ... has burned through the president’s political capital faster than the money could be spent. ICE is now flush with cash right at a moment when public backlash is turning the agency into a pariah." @nickmiroff.bsky.social

"Now we’re left on our own."

This is what @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I saw in Minneapolis

"I think it would be more accurate to say they’re cutting costs because they want to cut costs. I don’t think anyone outside of maybe Will Lewis sees any strategy here. No one has shared anything with us about this supposed reorientation towards particular coverage or different formats."

"Instead of investigating a crime by identifying a suspect and then pursuing information about him or her, officers instead begin with someone they want to treat as a criminal and then use the technology to find a justification." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

“the difference between an object and an image of an object isn’t minor. It’s the difference between encounter and representation – something that exists once, and something that has no unit.”

I do not make this comparison lightly.

"Mr. Trump isn’t a nationalist. He’s in league with transnational elites who lack allegiance to this or any country. While distracting voters with anti-immigrant rhetoric, he is laying the groundwork for the disenfranchisement of working people across the Americas." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

“People are running out to buy more PPE for people, driving things out to the scene for people who need food, water, a warm car to sit in for a few minutes. They’re finding ways to support each other.” www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

The Seattle Times is hiring a photojournalist for their newsroom; to cover a variety of assignments, from major league sports to spot news to magazine features. seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/GeY4AJ...

In this weekend’s @propublica.org Dispatches, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I wrote about our experiences in Minnesota in the days surrounding the killing of Alex Pretti. www.propublica.org/article/minn...

"The helplessness continues at home, where his 7-year-old daughter is asking questions about her classmates who haven’t come to school lately. They looked at a class picture together, and she pointed to the faces of those missing." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

GQ is hiring Visuals Editor, responsible for all aspects of photo shoot production and picture research across print and digital platforms.

“The records viewed by ProPublica list Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, as the shooters during the deadly encounter last weekend that left Pretti dead and ignited massive protests and calls for criminal investigations.”

What @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I saw in Minneapolis www.propublica.org/article/minn... @propublica.org

“I know some of you think you’re not qualified, or that you’re waiting for someone to tell you how to do this right. But let me tell you that the person who is going to do that is you. You’re on this call, you have five neighbors right now who are waiting for you to talk to them and get organized.”

My @propublica.org colleague @peterdicampo.bsky.social & I reported from Minnesota last week, amid the federal immigration crackdown. This is what we saw: www.propublica.org/article/minn...

"two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

'One of the tools.. lets people take control of phones or remotely hack into them to read messages or track locations. The others... use social media data scraped from the web and information from data brokers to help build dossiers of anyone with a social media account.'

"Shirley and his ilk are not just content creators with a right-wing twist — they’re algo hounds. And he was not just making plain old propaganda; he was making internet slop." @miasato.bsky.social @theverge.com

"Here is what I know: My daughter died alone, pleading for someone to come get her. I couldn’t." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

Service journalism in 2026. Adding that if you've got a budget to burn, something like the AVON C50 or Mestel Safety SGE 400 are top tier options.

Kicking off a week of book talks across the U.S. beginning Monday, Feb 23 at 6:30 pm at the BDC in NYC. Come out and bring a friend. Space will be limited. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

“This is my first occupation. Welcome to the underground, I guess.”

🚨 Journalism Jobs 🚨: The @apnews.com is hiring a photojournalist in Minneapolis www.reportforamerica.org/newsrooms/th...

I was on @wbur.org's On Point today, discussing what I witnessed the past few days while reporting on ICE raids for @propublica.org in Minnesota www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

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.

“The surge of federal forces into Minneapolis isn’t about law enforcement at all. It is about an administration declaring — explicitly, at times — that the purpose of federal law enforcement isn’t to uphold the rule of law or promote public safety but to enforce the will of a single man.“

"They do not want to see mothers drinking wine or writing poetry. They do not even want to see mothers behind the wheel of a SUV, their child’s stuffed animals visible in the glove compartment, because they do not want to see mothers in public spaces at all."

“when I landed in Minneapolis on Monday and saw the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood that Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance of Trump’s dark vision of America.”

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“I don’t know how you can write about food or travel or hospitality on any level and not stand for immigrants against the balaclava-wearing federal kidnapping squads that are attempting to terrorize huge swaths of the population.” - Nathan Thornburgh, co-founder of Roads & Kingdoms

“This agent, an elite Border Patrol officer who was masked but identifiable through the uniform number patch EZ-17, was captured on camera firing his B&T GL06 40mm less-lethal launcher at protesters five times in five minutes as he travelled down a street adjacent to where Good was killed.”