Last year a @merrillcollege.bsky.social grad student told me she wanted to build a news app about evictions in DC. Given the schedule and amount of work, it was an ambitious project. Taylor Nichols not only did it but got it published by a DC news org! streetsensedc.github.io/evictions-ap...

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital,” she said. Extraordinary reporting and storytelling by Mel Leonor Barclay and @shefali.bsky.social for @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

New story: ICE is moving detainees faster and more frequently. “It’s about efficiency for ICE on their end, but with a total disregard for the people that they’re detaining and ripping apart from their loved ones” - Ghandehari of Detention Watch Network www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

'It's happening everywhere': 1 in 3 ICE detainees held in overcrowded facilities, data show

“People are sleeping on floors.” New analysis: One in three ICE detainees has spent time in an over capacity facility this year. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Private prison and detention contractor CoreCivic has reached an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to convert its 2,560-bed California City facility into the state’s newest and largest migrant detention center. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: The biggest DOGE-related layoffs are in and around Washington, D.C. In the week ending Feb. 22, unemployment claims in D.C. rose 25% from the week prior and were four times as high as one year earlier — and that’s only the beginning.

DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: www.latimes.com/california/l...

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

Oh you gotta be kidding me. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

"Our members—and all Times stffers—abide by a strict set of ethics guidelines, which call for fairness, precision, transparency, vigilance against bias, & an earnest search to understand all sides of an issue. Those longstanding principles will continue guiding our work" latguild.com/news/2024/12...

Ummm rude to mention this. But yes! Such a good song. Shaboozey deserves all the attention.

This is a jarring story about Tegna owned WUSA-TV pulling a story AFTER IT AIRED. The excuse is that the story needed a comment from the local gas company BUT that seems a bit fishy especially because 1) the local gas co isn't mentioned 2) the general industry complaints are included. HMMMM

Here is a gift article from The NY Times that also describes the disinformation-fueled measles epidemic in Samoa which killed over 80 people, most of them small children, and RFK Jr’s considerable role in fomenting it: www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...

DMV folks: 🚨 Thanksgiving Volunteers Needed! Food & Friends needs YOUR help delivering 4,500 Thanksgiving meals to seriously ill neighbors across the DMV. Delivery shifts are available at 8:00 am, 9:00 am, 10:00 am, and 11:00 am. Details at: foodandfriends.org/engage/thank...

Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/l...

While looking through campaign finance data, I noticed a strange pattern. Many people were donating small amounts, $1 or $5, to the same candidates and groups over and over again, dozens of times, every day. Why? Here's the story. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Seems like people like pets over here. This is Flops, a mostly good boy. Flops thinks the work day has gone on far too long.