Makes sense. What is investigative journalism without official White House responses like "Your mom"?

"I know they killed him" Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3. I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.

NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

“I showed them our identifications, and they didn’t pay me any attention, they went straight to my sister because she’s darker than me.” She was born in Laurel, MD and has the documents to prove it but the government says they're fake. "It is something I’ve never encountered,” her lawyer says.

My grandfather spent years in the U.S. before returning to Colombia. He used to take us to the Kennedy Center at Christmas to see The Nutcracker. As a kid I especially loved the Hall of Nations, with its flags from all over the world. It hurts to see this place defaced and disrespected by a tyrant.

A local kc metro artist had their tío kidnapped by the secret police. His uncle was here on a work visa and was following the law when he was illegally kidnapped at an immigration court check in. Nunez is now asking for help. Please throw in $5 if you can afford it. www.gofundme.com/f/another-vi...

Biden and the dems had the chance to legalize recreational weed when they held the three branches and they fucked it up. Now look at what they've done. They've given a monster a good talking point. You absolutely HATE to see it.

ICYMI. This strange situation remains unresolved. The board says it's waiting on a judge before further action but, as of now, it could technically unsuspend the execution anytime, forcing everyone to scramble for a clemency hearing next week. The death warrant is good until noon on Christmas Eve.

Beautiful story with lots of new reporting on Michele Reiner, a woman in her own right in addition to half of a Hollywood power couple www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/e...

People who never stopped calling it "National Airport," this is our moment

Not to toot my own horn, but this story is perpetually relevant. theintercept.com/2025/02/22/t...

New @theintercept.com: Georgia was supposed to kill Stacey Humphreys last night. But his execution was abruptly called off by the clemency board after its newest member was exposed as the DA's victim advocate at Humphreys's trial.

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for

It's very funny that the Louisiana attorney general went crying to the media about this

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

You should read this story about deaths due to poor dialysis treatment at a federal women's medical prison. Medical neglect in prison is widespread and unimaginably barbaric. (I had to file a FOIA lawsuit for the mortality reports mentioned here too) www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/16/w...

The thing that really gets me is back in 2014 I think bigots in NC tried to pass a bathroom ban & it blew up in their faces & when these same people came back with "fairness in sports" too many people took them seriously when it was an obvious change in tactics!

Love to wake up after publishing a piece and think, “Gotta catch up on things” and the “things” are 1) splashy portraits of the white nationalists running the country, and 2) a white man’s longwinded complaint that women and people of color have messed things up for him

The most evergreen genre of hate mail I get is Furious Man Demands To Know Why I Write About The Death Penalty and I look forward to angering more men in 2026.

New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.

Look at the lengths that my incredible @propublica.org colleagues @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy went to in order to report this story. Please take a moment to read what they found about the effect of USAID cuts on the world's most vulnerable people: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

New @theintercept.com: I wrote about the oral argument in Hamm v. Smith, digging a bit deeper to trace how the case ended up at SCOTUS. It's another example of far-right conservatives leaning on the court to burn down its case law to advance their agenda (more executions, less 8th amendment).

Each day brings a flood of world-historical awfulness but this weekend was a lot. Take a little extra time today to get your bearings if you need to. We're not really programmed to absorb so much dark shit all at once.

Outside of Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville this morning, where the state will soon execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection. Background on the case here: nashvillebanner.com/2025/12/08/h...

“You want some chicken? You ain’t getting it here, bro,” There's more leadership and fight in a random gas station manager than in Schumer, Jeffries, or Maura Healey. But this is how we're going to win.

This is excellent. More of this please.

“It’s a crime to be a Latino right now in New Orleans,” he said. “I can be arrested just because of my face.”

The Supreme Court is the place where America's nine wisest judges gather in a room to decide that, under the law, state lawmakers get a free pass to racially gerrymander their states, as long as they wait until the election is a couple months away

“We will be able to confidently say this about Bill Cassidy’s committee vote to approve Kennedy. The question here isn’t if people will die, it’s what multiple of people will die. It will be more than hundreds. It will likely be tens of thousands. Worst case scenario, it could be millions.”

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It would be nice to get through a single week (a single day even) without some fresh new hell or horror on the horizon.

An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.

Sharing a verified gofundme to help Chris get back on his feet after over 30 years of wrongful incarceration: gofundme.com/f/help-chris... Chris has helped the people around him - on death row and off - in a lot of ways, and it would be very cool if he reached his goal in time for Christmas!

Good day to revisit this piece. Congrats Cassidy, this is your legacy.

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

Not sure why there's so much focus on the bogus rationale for the second strike when it's pretty clear they were just eliminating the witnesses.

just an utter joke of a court.

So this woman is being interviewed, gently, about the salacious memoir she wrote, and then can’t talk about what she wrote and falls back on the damsel in distress tactic? I cannot believe how do may people elevated her and continue to do so.

This makes perfect sense to me and I've often wondered how, say, lawyers who use AI to write briefs expect to effectively argue their positions in court.

A federal judge ruled that federal agents have to scale back the warrantless arrests of immigrants that have been happening in D.C. “They’ve been roaming around arresting people who appear Latino without any regard of who they are," says an attorney. 51st.news/dc-warrantle...

Whiteness ascendant even in the Pantone prediction markets.

Here are the people who stood and smiled and laughed as Trump went off on his racist rant. Shame on them. And shame on every last person who has spent the last decade downplaying and normalizing his obvious, constant bigotry.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Catching up on coverage from last night and, while it's hardly news, it's pathetic how little these MAGA cardboard cutouts have to say about themselves or what they offer beyond fealty to Trump. "'Tonight we showed running from Trump is how you lose,' he said ...'Running with Trump is how you win.'”

Men incarcerated at the notorious Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in the 1800s had more access to sunlight than people held at DCP now. And it can lead to lifelong health consequences. www.pennlive.com/news/2025/12...

It’s hard for a project like this to cut through the daily chaos & noise. But its value is in telling stories that many would prefer to forget, contextualizing our current moment & reckoning with the devastating human cost of the so-called war on drugs. Hard to imagine a more relevant time for this.

They dropped like $6 million to desperately defend an R+22 district by less than nine points against an unabashedly liberal crusader in mostly rural Tennessee. They should come unhinged. They are fucked.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Honestly wild how much Behn closed the 22-point gap from the past two 7th District races.