I think someone is eating raw garlic on this flight

Another reason investigative reporting isn’t easy. Here’s evidence of why the author of this, @robert-faturechi.bsky.social, remains one of the best. www.propublica.org/article/impe...

Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus

We found that just 9 facilities of more than 200 accounted for half of the deaths that have taken place since Trump retook office. And we built an interactive tool for you to learn more about individual cases -- I hope you'll give it a read! www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Make sure to check out the graphics and charts from our colleague, Nami Sumida, and photos from photos from Santiago Mejia, Jenna Schoenefeld and Philip Cheung.

Members of the Ayala family and other relatives of the detainees described the fear and worry of their loved ones' detentions, of their concerns about lack of treatment, only to learn their loved ones' deaths. “I want justice,” Ismael's mother told me. “They’re not animals. … This was a sin.”

One detainee suffered a massive stroke, detention staff waited more than an hour to call an ambulance to take him to a hospital. Another, a 75 y/o heart attack survivor with cataracts and mobility issues, was so frail doctors said he never should have been detained.

We reviewed hundreds of pages of ICE death reports, autopsies, and other records from 32 deaths with a total of 14 doctors. Doctors determined that at least 17 times, people died after medical staff delayed or failed to provide critical care that might have saved their lives

Ismael Ayala-Uribe complained about rectal pain. ICE med staff gave him stool softeners, but didn't actually examine him, and never found the abscess that later flooded his body with toxic bacteria and killed him. A doctor who reviewed his death for us called it "absolute medical malpractice."

🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

“I don’t mean to be rude here but did you read any of the words in my prior email” is how today is going so far

Someone just sent me this and said it made them think of me and lolllll yes agreed

Excellent @houstonchronicle.com column on the real world impacts of Texas' new anti-THC regulations: www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...

This is WILD: A few months ago I wrote about how the ex-Honduran president was given special treatment after Trump pardoned his drug conviction Now a court ordered overturning the original conviction, after the ex-presiden'ts lawyer asked for it & the government did not oppose

It me! Ithacans, come see me live and in the flesh, talking about death. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

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LA jails just posted two more deaths, bringing the total for this year up to 13.

NEW: Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration, by @kbmorales.bsky.social and @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

Shortly after AG Bondi’s confirmation, the DOJ declined to prosecute more criminal cases in a single month than any other going back to at least 2004.

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

BREAKING: Sheryl Davis, the top S.F. official who led the city's Dream Keeper equity program has been charged with 17 felonies for ‘abuse of power’ www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

It isn't posted on the TDCJ site yet, but Texas has set another execution date - this time for Jamaal Howard, who is now scheduled to die on Oct. 7, according to prison officials.

So glad to see this anthology finally has a pub date - and a pre-order link! I wrote the chapter on LA jail history, a small portion of which previously appeared in @latimes.com... and this is probably a major selling point for some of y'all, but LASD HATED it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

BUT Y THO

LA jails just posted their 11th incustody death for this year. This comes after several weeks w/o any in custody deaths they are reporting, which has to be one of the longer breaks in deaths that I can recall since I've been following this

What are we doing here wtf

ok so when i fly out of houston now i have a choice between the ... airport an hour away with a four-hour wait and the airport with ICE patrolling inside?

A federal prison internal report from 2024 says that "excessive heat" is causing some prisons' aging cooling systems to fail climate change x mass incarceration = ....

Somewhere relatedly, here are some highlights from BOP's 5-year infrastructure plan that I received today

Another of the LASD deputies involved in the wild leg-lengthening crypto mogul extortion case has been decertified by the state (and thus can no longer be a cop in CA). Background (for that insane and wild sentence) here: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Wuttt www.latimes.com/california/s...

Oh my god I needed this laugh. Amazing.

Well that’s enough internet for today. Time to hurl myself out a window.

“If in the future, she can’t get access to birth control, then at least I’ll have myself taken care of, and I’ll be able to take care of her in that way,” he said.

Final statement from Cedric Ricks, who was executed tonight in Texas:

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

A Klan lawyer was assigned to represent a Black man, Rocky Meyers. Meyers is still in prison. How many other people did this Klan lawyer represent who languish in prison?

I just got back records from a records request I made to the BOP*! *three jobs ago. I made the request three jobs ago, in 2022. v helpful.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

well then www.latimes.com/california/s...

Incredible. 19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.

Oh hey guys look the LA Sheriff's Dept investigated itself and found no deputy gangs. WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT

LASD has not posted any new deputy disciplinary files to its portal since December so i guess that's it, no more problems in the department everything's good you guys

Update: The (very annoyed) federal judge issued an order to show cause, naming all the officers individually involved and telling them and ordering them to explain why they should not be held in civil contempt: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Citing my reporting for @propublica.org, 4 House Dems have formally asked the head of the federal prison system to explain how the agency will fix severe staffing shortages affecting safety and operations. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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NEW: The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director. By @keribla.bsky.social

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU: