it is my dream to have the top spot on /r/dataisugly and /r/dataisbeautiful at the same time

The Trump admin claims they have been arresting the worst of the worst. But the Guardian, working with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the govt for docs that show that isn't true. 77% of people who entered deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal conviction My latest:

Extremely frustrating that peacock doesn't have the spurs arsenal game apparently....

The Trump admin claims they have been arresting the worst of the worst. But the Guardian, working with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the govt for docs that show that isn't true. 77% of people who entered deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal conviction My latest:

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

They are from Azerbaijan. One has a green card, the other had an asylum claim. Both have agreed to leave the U.S. if the Trump administration would just free one of the husbands from custody after more than a month in detention. ICE won't act. www.advocate.com/politics/imm...

Beyond thrilled to have Kai Wright and @cartersherman.bsky.social on board for our new @us.theguardian.com podcast

I saw a staged version of Ulysses, where the actors acted out scenes directly reading from the book, and now I really want to read Ulysses

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

Is it normal to revise CPI figures going back several years? Like, four or five year?

Huh. Big drop since mid-January when CBS reported a peak over 73,000.

ICE just released new detention statistics. As of February 7, 2026, ICE is detaining 68,289 people across the United States. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

1) One thing we here at the Guardian are eager to understand is the impact of the ICE escalation in Minnesota. Noticeably, there was not a spike in arrests in January: There were thousands of arrests, but not a spike compared to Dec, Nov, and Oct. Granted this data is not _exactly_ arrests ...

New ICE detention data is out, through February 7: The latest data: 397,880 arrests 396,400 ICE deportations 68,290 people in detention Read the latest at @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I'm willing to bet money that the issue with the other hospital is that they got hacked and shut down. This will lead to The Pitt getting hacked and the doctors will have to do medicine with no computers. What use is your AI if your computers aren't there anymore

I love Adrian Chiles so much

1/ Our members are practicing picketing @propublica.org offices in multiple cities right now to demand job security protections and guardrails around AI. We are ready to do what it takes to get a fair contract.

A look at the families in Minnesota stuck inside for their safety, from @maanvisingh.bsky.social: "They’ve played hide-and-seek and tag in the wide hallways of their building – but they won’t go past the lobby." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Watching the Superbowl is a fun way to see which celebrities are fine doing gambling ads

Long one of the strongest public media outlets in the country, MPR has reached new traffic highs amid the ICE raids and protests there. Here’s our regular ranking of the top 25 public radio websites in the United States. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/as-t...

Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...

“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

Wait what this is crazy. Will Lewis is out the same week that WaPo laid off 300+ people??

Incredible work!

The Guardian redesigned our ICE trackers this week, see the new graphs here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... The number of people in detention continues to rise. With each data release, there is a new record high number of people in immigration detention

The Guardian and the AP: Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines. US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

RFK Jr said during his Senate confirmation hearings that his trip to Samoa in 2019 ahead of a devastating measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines." Documents obtained by @us.theguardian.com and @apnews.com undermine that testimony. Details here, by me and @aliswenson.bsky.social ⬇️

Just want to flag that we have observed something similar to what @obtusatum.bsky.social noted below. ICE has ~tripled the detained population at Dilley over the last 4 months. Oct. 01-Nov. 10: 457 avg. detainees per day Dec. 27-Jan 22: 1,332 avg. detainees per day bsky.app/profile/obtu...

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

Please contribute to this GoFundMe to support the hundreds of my talented Washington Post colleagues laid off today. I am heartbroken. I stand with them in their fight for fair treatment through the layoffs. I am honored to have worked alongside them. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

The layoffs at WaPo also hit their software engineers. Its a tricky situation because they were negotiating their first contract. They worked diligently for years and organized the second largest software engineering union in the country. Just awful

Everyone who works at the Washington Post does so because they believe in the mission of journalism. This shit sucks so much

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Our latest, which follows the Guardian investigation we did in 2024. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

The average daily population at Dilley, the family detention center that held 5-year-old Liam Ramos, is up to 867, according to new federal data. There's currently active cases of measles at Dilley and lawyers say their clients are on lockdown. (h/t @geoffhing.bsky.social who pulled data)

Also worth remembering what it means for those who fall into the category of having prior convictions. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/15/i...

And, while it's important to continue to understand who's in immigration detention, I often worry that continuing to point out the percentages of those with no past or pending convictions galvanizes a conflation of the immigration and criminal legal systems.

After a few weeks delay, ICE just released new detention statistics. They show 70,766 people in detention as of 1/26/2026. I believe this is the first time this data source has reported a detained population over 70k.

I mean, have you read the news recently?

It seems like DHS hasn't updated the detention management statistics page since Jan 8. Outside of the government shutdown, DHS updated that page every two weeks

Don't use biometrics to lock your devices. All media organizations should ban for all employees

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com