I got a tip yesterday that migrants in detention are having a hard time using ICE’s hotline to report sexual assaults happening within detention facilities. So I decided to call up the hotline myself. Here’s what I learned. [THREAD]

Just a casual summer 2016 lunch with senior advisor to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, the former PM of Israel, then-Russian rep to the UN, and Jeffrey Epstein

In a House hearing yesterday, AG Pam Bondi was questioned about Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. We reported on these ties last week.

Yet ANOTHER senior White House official (and billionaire) in the Epstein files: 100s of docs show financial ties btw Pentagon Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg’s company Cerberus and Epstein www.pogo.org/investigates...

Emails in the Epstein files suggest that Jeffrey Epstein maintained a business relationship with Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm formerly led by Dept. of Defense Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg. Read the full story at POGO Investigates: https://bit.ly/46sUWMD

BREAKING: Pentagon Dep. Sec. Feinberg and the company he co-founded appear in 100s of docs in Epstein files, including personal emails sent by Epstein & whistleblower emails alleging a vast money laundering scheme involving Feinberg’s company. www.pogo.org/investigates...

Great scoop on Trump’s #2 official at the Pentagon from the #EpsteinFiles by my @pogo.org colleague @ziembavision.bsky.social www.pogo.org/investigates...

NEW FROM POGO’S INVESTIGATIONS DESK: Hundreds of documents in the newly released Epstein files shed light on Epstein’s connections with a private equity firm formerly led by Dept. of Defense Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg. Read @ziembavision.bsky.social's latest: https://bit.ly/46sUWMD

BREAKING: Pentagon Dep. Sec. Feinberg and the company he co-founded appear in 100s of docs in Epstein files, including personal emails sent by Epstein & whistleblower emails alleging a vast money laundering scheme involving Feinberg’s company. www.pogo.org/investigates...

what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism

Newly obtained texts between Border Patrol agents reveal their strategies for how to get away with using force against migrants. Absolutely vital new investigation by my colleagues @schwellenbach.bsky.social @marenmachles.bsky.social www.pogo.org/investigates...

ICE Inspections Plummeted as Detentions Soared in 2025 - by my @pogo.org colleague @ziembavision.bsky.social & Isabel Del Mastro www.pogo.org/investigates...

🚨READ @pogo.org's FIRST INVESTIGATION OF 2026🚨: ICE detention facility inspections plummeted in 2025, even as detention rates—and deaths in ICE custody—surged. By @ziembavision.bsky.social and Isabel Del Mastro www.pogo.org/investigates...

As ICE detention numbers skyrocketed last year, oversight inspections of detention centers dropped sharply. Read my new investigation, authored in collaboration with American University’s investigative reporting workshop. www.pogo.org/investigates...

Some actual facts about fentanyl traffickers for no reason in particular: 86.2% are U.S. citizens 43.1% have little or no prior criminal history Data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

New letter from lawmakers raises alarms on diminished trust in the Pentagon’s ability to conduct meaningful oversight of privatized military housing.

New national survey of more than 3k military families at 57 installations confirms many of the problems in privatized military housing I’ve identified in past reporting persist and are widespread. changetheairfoundation.org/mold-in-the-...

"Somehow calling a female reporter 'piggy' was only the second-most offensive anti-press utterance to come out of the president’s mouth in recent days." Read our statement: freedom.press/issues/press...

Congrats to our senior investigator @ziembavision.bsky.social for winning an EPPY in community service reporting for her investigation on mold in military housing! https://www.eppyawards.com/

Whomsoever follows me on here for the musical bizness, please know that I am playing so many new songs tomorrow night in the city of angels with an actual backing choir of angels. Very serious about this.

Baby’s first national journalism award

NEW: A DHS "self-deportation" contract worth up to ~$1 billion was "unlawful, rushed, and noncompetitive," per a lawsuit. It went to a firm w/ no prior fed contracts whose CEO earlier worked w/ a top DHS official involved in the award www.pogo.org/investigatio...

POGO investigator @ziembavision.bsky.social discusses surveillance and how it could be used to target people based on gender identity and sexual orientation on the TransLash podcast:

This week on TransLash Podcast, @imarajones.bsky.social sits down with @kredburn.bsky.social and @ziembavision.bsky.social to discuss the DHS rolling back limitations on surveillance based on gender identity and sexual orientation. 🎧 Listen now: linktr.ee/translashmedia

NEW! A top White House official has a $2 million to $10 million stake in Palantir. That official's office is playing a key role in the gargantuan Golden Dome missile defense program, which Palantir is seen as likely to benefit from - more @pogo.org www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed worldwide in the preceding three years. Now we add 6 more to that total. Palestinian journalists are #NotATarget. They are the last eyes and ears for the world in Gaza, and must be protected. cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Seeing a lot of coverage about the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s deadly aid sites, but no coverage so far that mentions that GHF’s exec chairman, Johnny Moore, is the former assistant to Jerry Falwell, the father of Christian Zionism

As Gaza faces a humanitarian catastrophe, Palestinian journalists are among those being deliberately starved. CPJ urges global leaders to act now: to protect the Palestinian press, ensure accountability, allow international media access, and finally allow them to eat and rest. cpj.org?p=499042

It still blows my mind that Israel has barred any foreign journalists from entering Gaza and reporting on what is happening for over 20 months.

🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns Read it @pogo.org: www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Poem by Parnia Abbasi, born 2002, killed today by Israeli strikes on the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran, along with her family, all civilians. Poem obtained via Pamenar Press, translated by Ghazal Mosadeq.

Big news! After our reporting from @ziembavision.bsky.social about the "clearly neglected" state of barracks at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, renovations to improve the housing there are now in the works:

An update! The Air Force has now announced $53 million in planned barracks improvements at Andersen AFB following our coverage of the poor conditions service members are living in there.

A reminder, researchers have consistently found that undocumented immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1...

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

I think it’s worth noting that the same dire barracks conditions that prompted the Navy Secretary to evacuate sailors and Marines did not elicit the same response from the Air Force: 430 airmen and soldiers continue to live in these barracks. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

🚨BREAKING: Top House Homeland Security Democrats led by @benniethompson.bsky.social launch probe of ICE deportation flights contractor CSI Aviation and its subcontractors citing reporting by @pogo.org & @propublica.org

Thank you to @starsandstripes.bsky.social for picking up the story!

❗LEAKED U.S. Navy pics and emails of "clearly neglected" conditions inside military barracks in Guam made their way to my colleague @ziembavision.bsky.social who's out with a banger @pogo.org investigation this A.M. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Internal photos and emails by Navy leadership reveal the dire conditions in Guam barracks that sparked an uproar. “I actually thought the buildings were condemned when we pulled up to them,” Navy Secretary John Phelan told me. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Much much MUCH rarer

Incredible investigation by my colleagues @ziembavision.bsky.social and Julienne McClure analyzing publicly available CBP data to show, despite rhetoric from politicians trying to create a link between migration and a drug crisis, that only 11 people out of 5.8 million were caught carrying fentanyl.

To put it another way, the odds of dying from a bee sting are FAR greater than the odds of Border Patrol finding a migrant carrying fentanyl across the border.

AYYY “We have nothing to hide,” ICE acting director says, committing to full transparency on migrant deaths in detention AS they ignore my multiple FOIAs about deaths in detention AFTER dismantling the main oversight body at DHS that would have investigated them. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Important new investigation by my colleagues @ziembavision.bsky.social and Julienne McClure: www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Out of the 5.8 million migrants stopped by Border Patrol during a three year period, only 11 were caught carrying fentanyl. Our new investigation for @pogo.org shows just how INCREDIBLY RARE it is for migrants to bring drugs across the border. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

EXCLUSIVE from our investigations desk: Migrant Drug Seizures by Border Patrol Incredibly Rare, Data Shows

🚨This new @pogo.org investigation by @ziembavision.bsky.social & Julienne McClure finds that: "Of the over 5.8 million migrants stopped by Border Patrol between fiscal years 2022 and 2024, drugs were seized from only 249 people" www.pogo.org/investigatio...

"These three deaths are alarming and demonstrate inadequate health care screening and treatment by ICE," POGO said. @law360.bsky.social covers @pogo.org new lawsuit against ICE over migrant deaths in custody: www.law360.com/articles/233...

Yesterday, @pogo.org filed a lawsuit against ICE to demand they share urgent and potentially life-saving information with the public about recent migrant deaths in ICE detention. See the full complaint here and read on for more info: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...