You use ChatGPT to write your cover letters, I send whiny texts to other writer friends begging them to "make this stupid line less stupid." We are not the same.

A few months ago, ICE agents shot a TikToker. The govt then charged him, alleging he tried to ram agents Well guess what? Body-cam footage -- which the gov't delayed disclosing -- shows that's BS. The agent shot by mistake. And a judge just dismissed charges. www.latimes.com/california/s...

In a profile of Stephen Miller with @swin24.bsky.social, we reported he’s privately laughed off immigrant families’ “sob stories.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Speaking last night on Fox about the spiked CECOT story, Miller laughed about how ‘60 Minutes’ is “trying to tell sob stories."

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed? This is what they led to. www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)

Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle

what a coincidence

The head of 60 Minutes: "I stand by our story." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions. There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues. Not even a “no comment.” www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...

DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.” But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises. My story:

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

sharing this again for no reason www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but @propublica.org talked earlier this year to those who Trump had sent to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

AI is welcome to try to take my job. You think a glorified chatbot is going to rewrite the same sentence 34 times? Exactly. Amateurs.

Protecting immigrant journalists should be an industry-wide priority — @niemanlab.org niemanlab.org/2025/12/prot...

If you followed immigration news this year, please support the many, many local journalists who made it possible. Nonprofit media needs support! I kept returning to @lataco.bsky.social @calmatters.org @wbez.org @blockclubchi.bsky.social @documentedny.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com & so many more

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this sounds like every newsroom Slack channel from Thanksgiving on. not sure what else we expected to happen here

As Greg Bovino returns to Chicago, this story looks at children detained by ICE, including one 5-year-old swept up in Operation Midway Blitz earlier this year. “We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her. The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Still stuck on the fact that, after all that, they told him to walk home in the snow. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

"One citizen recalled that federal agents pointed guns at her youngest children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a pickup and zip-tied her. The citizen ... told investigators that an agent threatened to 'fucking blow your head off.'"

Idaho immigrants detained in raid moved far from home — and from their attorneys www.investigatewest.org/idaho-immigr...

Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that it only detains immigrants. @nicolefoy.bsky.social

5 citizens are in DC today sharing how immigration agents detained them DHS still denies it is arresting citizens Dayanne Figueroa of Chicago agrees. What happened to her wasn’t an arrest, she told House & Senate Democrats just now “It was an assault & kidnapping of a U.S. citizen.”

Read @nicolefoy.bsky.social's investigation that prompted the congressional probe. We found that agents had detained >170 Americans this year. More than 20 citizens said they were held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their loved ones.

NEW: Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, congressional investigators find that immigration agents have often grabbed and mistreated US citizens, by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment. /my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected] www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

What happened when a hospital gobbled up its competitor & became town's only player "We had soiled beds, mounting sepsis issues & had just laid off 200 nurses. But we had a new logo” It's the tale not just one of one hospital, but of healthcare in America projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

That thing Trump has accused his enemies of? He did it himself. “Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” said one expert. We got the receipts. 👇🏻

reminder that as activity picks up in places like Twin Cities, Louisiana, Alabama etc, my @propublica.org colleagues & I are still investigating immigration enforcement I'm particularly interested in use-of-force & am still tracking the detention of citizens Reach out ⬇️ if you have info to share

"Staff were left shaking their heads when one student asked to be excused from class so he could attend a court date on a gun charge. Other recruits were even discovered to have tattoos associated with gangs and white supremacists when they stripped off their shirts during workouts."

With so many nonprofits making a year-end push for donations, it helps to do some research before deciding where to give. @propublica.org's Nonprofit Explorer tool has details on millions of orgs (including ProPublica) with helpful info like executive compensation, revenue, and expenses.

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

highly recommend one of my favorite 2024 reads "Brought Forth On This Continent" by Harold Holzer for anyone interested in Abraham Lincoln, his views on immigration, and how we're very clearly repeating America's past in endless circles

She was first in her family to go to college. She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven. They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving. They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

yet another case of U.S. Citizens arrested by immigration agents on serious charges — then the government drops those charges A common trait in many cases of citizens detained by immigration agents that @propublica.org reviewed www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

In April, state + fed police raided a bday party near Austin, arresting ~50 people including nine kids. Cops claimed w/o evidence they’d busted a Tren de Aragua gathering, + only charged two people w/ a crime. Now, the local DA has dropped both charges www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

In Sept, @homelandgov.bsky.social raided a Chicago complex and took dozens of immigrants — under the cover of darkness. Officials called it a victory against terrorism. A team @propublica.org set out to check the claims, and find and talk with the Venezuelans: www.propublica.org/article/chic...