If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

It isn’t just the FBI. I reported last month that a significant percentage of federal air marshals—who are supposed to protect *commercial* air travel—have been reassigned since last summer to guard ICE charter flights. gillianbrockell.com/extremely-da...

BREAKING: Israel and Max Makoka are FREE, released from ICE and ORR custody to continue their legal battle to stay in the US at home in Diamondhead!

Today, the story of Israel and Max Makoka. Two brothers from the Republic of Congo, legally residing in the U.S. for years, snatched, zip-tied and detained by ICE agents at a school bus stop. Israel, who turned 18 only weeks ago, was swiftly sent to CLIPC in Jena. Max, 15, was secreted out of state.

"What may be a month long trial" he said, two months before closing arguments. God punishes hubris in everyone, but he starts with journalists.

We have the results of Trey Reed's autopsy from the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office. Consistent with the preliminary findings of the Bolivar County Coroner's Office, Reed's death has been ruled a suicide by hanging. An independent autopsy is expected to follow.

Cleveland PD has announced Trey Reed's autopsy results. "On September 17, 2025, the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy. Findings were consistent with the initial investigation, determining the cause of death to be hanging and the manner of death as suicide."

A response from the Grenada County Sheriff's Department on the initial confusion over where Trey Reed was found: Ricky Williamson, chief deputy, says that neither he nor his investigator Sonja Willis, who informed the family of Trey Reed of his passing on Monday, specified where he had been found.

Updates from Delta State University press event this morning. 1. DSU President Dan Ennis acknowledges that the University has yet to get in contact with Trey Reed's mother, explaining that Trey provided two names as next of kin, and the university was bound to respect that.

The family of Trey Reed is seeking an independent autopsy following the Delta State University student’s death on Monday, when his body was found hanging in a tree on campus.

These are two very similar stories of Mississippi families torn apart by ICE. But Kerlin Moreno-Orellana's story has gotten way less attention on social media than Kasper Eriksen's did, and thus his family's GoFundMe is getting WAY less support. It's a big disparity.

Two Mississippians were arrested for illegal dumping in Jackson on June 16. One, Christy Parker, was quickly released. Kerlin Moreno-Orellana was not. His arrest triggered an alert in a vast federal network of immigration enforcement. Now, it's unclear when and if he will see his family again.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

"In reviewing more than 300 sexual misconduct and assault complaints against Chicago police officers, the Invisible Institute and ProPublica found a pattern of the department failing to vigorously investigate accusations of sexual assault by officers" www.propublica.org/article/chic...

No major updates on Kasper Eriksen's status after today's hearing. Soon, Eriksen is seeking a reopening of his order of removal. If granted, he can request bond, which would allow him to be released from CLIPC while his case progresses. For now he remains detained in Jena.

This is a huge, huge deal. I can't think of many places in America more deserving of dedicated, in-depth coverage than the Mississippi Delta. Cannot wait to collaborate with this talented young journalist.

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

For two weeks, disabled Mississippians at risk of abuse had no agency capable of intervening on their behalf, due to delayed federal funding for Disability Rights Mississippi. Under a Trump budget proposal, those services may be lost permanently. www.mississippifreepress.org/disability-r...

Some concept arts from "The Twilight World" french/german animated feature project directed by Werner Herzog (Psyop / Sun Creature). Story: Michael Arias ("Tekkonkinkreet") & Luca Vitale. Visual development: Linnea Serte & Katsuya Terada.

THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

NEW: Who is *actually* running DOGE? Insiders told us @propublica.org that the named administrator Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run the show. The latest w/ @chrisbing.bsky.social + Avi Asher-Schapiro: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

George Lowe's Space Ghost was a continual presence in my childhood. He was my Carson-the only talk show I ever loved. I hope I'll carry a small piece of that wit with me forever.

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

A campaign of deliberate, targeted mass rape against a minority group. A blood debt.

It's not this simple, because international alliances in such a unipolar world are hard to come by, but still, every country should baseline understand that the US can never, ever be trusted. Zero upside from a relationship of trust with this country. Don't be stupid.

As the United States' poisoned relationship with Ukraine finally unravels, I'm thinking about the odd-but deep-Mississippi connections to the Ukraine lobby. Deeply curious what conversations Haley Barbour and Roger Wicker are having today. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

"We're going to end the EB-5 program, we're going to replace it with the Trump Gold Card, which is really a green card gold, so they'll be able to pay $5 million dollars to the U.S. government."

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann collapsed on the Senate floor today, immediately pausing the legislative session as medical staff rushed to attend to him. Staff indicate he is conscious, responsive, and "in good spirits." Updates coming soon.

Not a knock on Ken, because confirmation and reportage of facts matters, but if this shocks you I truly don't know how to help you.

Just as predicted, H.B. 1484, which would have set bounty hunters on undocumented immigrants, is now dead, failing to even pass out of its initial committee. Read our past breakdown of the bill's insurmountable hurdles here.

Elon Musk, who has not been elected or officially appointed to any office, successfully pushed the FAA Administrator to resign 9 days ago.

Masterful gambit, sir!

Mississippi, you are now in Silent Hill.

📌 This Friday at 3 p.m. ET, join our reporters as they demonstrate our new Private School Demographics database, which allows users to look up the demographics of private schools compared with the public schools nearby. RSVP: https://propub.li/4haYtm1

An effort to authorize bounty hunters to track down and detain immigrants in Mississippi is unlikely to become law, experts say.

A Mississippi House bill that proposes bounty hunters tracking and arresting undocumented immigrants is making national news. Advocates see it as a crude political stunt to spread fear, part of a torrent of harrowing attacks on migrant communities. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

NEW: All year, Biden set red lines for Israel in Gaza. Israel repeatedly crossed them. There were no serious consequences. Brett Murphy spent the last year examining how, why and what the costs were, for Palestinians, and American credibility. www.propublica.org/article/bide...

Well, how was your first quarter of the century? Mine was pretty good.

the situation is dire. Amazon's injury rate is nearly *twice* that at other warehouse jobs. support Amazon workers getting ready to strike for the pay and safety they deserve: www.amazonlaborunion.org/strike-fundr...

I was skeptical of the drone reports at first. I mocked people who reported them. I laughed at them. And then I saw one for myself and captured photographic evidence. They’re real.

I think the blinking-and-blaring warning signal that our society is too inured to bloodshed was the year of brutal, televised genocide in Gaza that both parties repeatedly pledged allegiance to, funded and backed internationally. That was pretty branzen.

The annoying dipshit on the cover of this book is a real type of person and you do not need to spend time arguing with them.

and another thing? im not mad. do NOT put in chosun ilbo that i got mad.

BREAKING: President Yoon announced the lifting of martial law at 4:30 AM, stating that the National Assembly had resolved to lift martial law, and accordingly, the military was withdrawn. 1/3

Tim Shorrock is an excellent follow for those looking for coverage of the Korean peninsula.

Little man thinks he's Park Chung Hee. apnews.com/article/sout...

I have seen this chart a lot and my crank opinion on it is that it is probably showing that people don't really think about percentages correctly more than it means they think there actually that many of each minority group. No large group thinks 1 in every 5 Americans is trans. They don't.