Led to expect an “exit bonus,” migrants were left empty-handed in their home countries. ✍️ Delaney Nolan Full Story: thelensnola.org/2025/12/18/t... #ICE #selfdeportation #exitbonus

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

"But sometimes the money came & went while the immigrants were still… in… detention… in the US. Other payment information was given to the wrong person. And some immigrants were told to expect the $1,000 when they arrived home, though in fact they were never eligible." via @delaneynolan.bsky.social

Increasingly I hope hell is real

‘They tricked me’: illegally imprisoned non-criminal migrants were promised $1,000 to 'voluntarily' leave the or languish in US jail indefinitely. Some held in jail despire signing - months longer anyway. Most never received payment after 'self deport' happened www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am already getting hate mail and threats over this reporting, so: please share! It upsets the worst kind of people 💫

The administration reneged after promising them $1,000 to leave. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Noem is a LIAR and scam artist! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Color me shocked

"If there’s any blessing hidden in the apocalypse, it is that it cracks us open." buff.ly/Av9izNM

‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it

A rare one from me: a personal essay (gulp) about Hurricane Ida, loneliness, and burning ATMs

NEW: I spoke with half a dozen migrants who said ICE misled them with promises of a $1,000 "exit bonus" that never came. The company handling the payments? Linked to a former State Dept official. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I spoke w/ half a dozen migrants who said ICE misled them w/ promises of a $1,000 "exit bonus" that never came. The company handling the payments is linked to a former State Dept official. thelensnola.org/2025/12/18/t... Investigation co-published by @theguardian.com and @thelensnola.bsky.social

This is extremely important

Loving reminder that my debut novel, HAPPY BAD, got a starred review from Kirkus and makes a great gift for the reader/badly behaved woman/climate hound/border hater in your life: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327...

Reading this from the one room in my house with heating

The Trump-Vance admin has been committing illegal strike after illegal strike. They're trying to normalize it. They're counting on you to lose track, to be too overwhelmed to remember the gravity of what they're doing. But we're keeping track of every single strike. So far: 22 strikes. 87 killed.

News: today is my last as climate justice reporter for @theguardian.com - a publication I've read for >30 years & worked for in different capacities/countries for 12+ years. I'm immensely proud of the work I've done, & so grateful to my colleagues, communities and sources along the way. Solidarity 🖤

By me and @jgedeon.bsky.social US senator calls for insider trading inquiry over Trump donors buying $12m worth of shares www.the-guardian.com/business/202...

Favorite translation stumbles this week from my producer while in Ukraine: "Soldiers have dream destruction" = The soldiers are experiencing sleep disturbances "A squirrel that lives inside with you" = hamster

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

The Quarter is so quiet it’s giving Covid dead city vibes. Not even the musicians are out at cafe du monde

Not at home this week, missing this toasty gremlin

the guardian also had a White House correspondent weigh in and, ngl, I think our take is better

“Sometimes, when I’m stuck, I’ll pull books from the shelves and luxuriate in other people’s first sentences. It’s like taking a bite of every chocolate in the box, or wandering through a high-end hat store…” writes @delaneynolan.bsky.social, author of Happy Bad (Astra House). at.pw.org/WRNolan

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

So excited for this one tonight! Great to be back in Iowa City 🥰

At On the Seawall, I wrote about Delaney Nolan's HAPPY BAD! www.ronslate.com/on-happy-bad...

"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall bit.ly/43fQHT7

A new #cli-fi novel set in East #Texas from Astra Publishing House asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? Frances Madeson explores in an excerpt from Happy Bad and author Q&A w/ @delaneynolan.bsky.social. deceleration.news/new-cli-fi-n...

the government is giving me $10 billion because i made a phone app that reminds you to kill yourself

Our TSA delays for different reasons... New Orleans airport TSA lines briefly close as 'erratic' man strips to boxers, JPSO says www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

I loved this book, if you're free tomorrow night in Boston!

Boston! Tomorrow!

I think it's cool that I swapped a lot of texts with people last night - people outside NYC, people in the South - that just said "Zohran 🥹" His win is bringing hope to people far from New York. People in far more vulnerable places.

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality

Ah Boston: it is like someone had the vision to say "what if New York City, but colder and more racist"

Nice to be back in the city of my birth, i.e. everyone's most hated city, i.e. Boston. Have immediately started driving like an enormous bitch. I missed it here

Had so much fun at Thacker Mountain Radio Hour with @squarebooks.bsky.social in Oxford, MS! Catch it on the radio this week and snag a copy of HAPPY BAD here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327...

New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality

This is both racist and astoundingly incorrect When I had food stamps I couldn't even use them to get a rotisserie chicken, because you can't buy *hot* food with SNAP. They're very restrictive!

Israel already broke the ceasefire. Settlers have been beating Palestinians in occupied territory after the ceasefire. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

"The danger of AI is not that it will achieve consciousness & hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: ...resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness." www.thenation.com/article/envi...

"But the #AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first." Always better late than never when it comes to @delaneynolan.bsky.social's print #climatechange

Missed my flight *while at the gate* because I was so absorbed in this one

Had such a fun NYC launch of HAPPY BAD at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social last night with Julia Phillips! Snag a copy here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...