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.

Investigative journalism with a moral force is a public service that we take seriously, and we need a strong contract to do our jobs effectively. That’s why we are ready to strike! Our GoFundMe will help offset the cost of missed pay: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...

NEW: Chicago's top cop said he backed an effort to give the agency charged with probing police misconduct the authority to investigate whether officers have violated city law by helping ICE agents because no one would “trust” internal affairs probes. @wttw.bsky.social

Last night, @repbonamici.bsky.social and 70 other House members sent a letter to Linda McMahon and Kimberly Richey, the head of the Office for Civil Rights, urging them to address the backlog of discrimination complaints. "We are deeply troubled by these reports, and so is the public," it said.

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As the crisis in Minneapolis unfolded and we saw the feds thwart local efforts to independently investigate the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, it was hard not to think about the Mexican man killed by ICE agents a few miles from my house in Chicago. www.propublica.org/article/why-...

1/ Federal records show how a dramatic raid in Chicago was facilitated by a landlord who was apparently concerned about immigrants squatting in the building. The government claimed a Venezuelan gang had taken over the apt complex, but that’s not what docs say. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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I love this organization and hope management can come to the table with a real willingness to reach a deal. Like all of us at ProPublica, I would much rather be focused on doing the journalism than negotiating our first contract.

You remember the big flashy raid on a Chicago apartment complex? The one where DHS claimed Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. @jodiscohen.bsky.social and I got records showing that's not what the government said in its own arrest reports from that night.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

I’m really looking forward to this, and especially to talking about some of our reporting on immigrant dairy workers which began just a few miles from Madison… please come if you can make it!

I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.

Join us and the Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies program in welcoming @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, @propublica.org immigration reporter, to this free and public event at UW-Madison: "Reporting on Immigration in Times of Crisis: Wisconsin & Beyond." Register here: forms.gle/Zv3smRYA7CEf...

3/ Management has rejected basic layoff protections, including the use of seniority, which is a nearly universal element of union contracts that ensures layoffs cannot be used to target specific workers.

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child. A 16-year-old citizen DHS calls this "utmost professionalism" w/ @mckenziefunk.com

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

What's it like to come w/ permission then have it taken away? "To tell them their safety has an expiration date while their home country remains mired in the same crisis they fled — and is now in the crosshairs of the U.S. military — is a painful contradiction. " www.propublica.org/article/stat...

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Started reading this story by @gingerthompson.bsky.social as soon as I woke up this morning and am gripped. Have now switched to the beautifully narrated audio version on Spotify. Here’s the link: projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims, by @propublica.org Editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social

We need to talk about this nightmarish week. Join me Saturday on WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social with: + Lavora Barnes + @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social of @propublica.org + @bbkogan.bsky.social of @americanprogress.bsky.social + @rachelleingang.bsky.social 🤳Stream 1-4 CT bit.ly/3DAcG8s

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In Congress, Pete Hoekstra warned of tariffs causing job loss + price increases. Especially for furniture makers in his Michigan district. One of them is citing tariffs as it closes after 99 years. 195 jobs will be lost. But Hoekstra — Trump’s ambassador in Canada — now sings a different tune.

NEW: With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening wildfire risk.

1/ It should be forgiven. It should be forgotten. If she spoke of it again, the sins would be hers, she was told. But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls. This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇 [content warning: sexual abuse]

We updated this story to add that DHS acknowledges at least 4 of the Venezuelans detained in raid are a low public safety risk. A judge the. ordered them released. We were about to publish a story about this… then an appeals court stayed order. The men will remain in detention or may be deported

Reporter @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social speaks to @npr.org about @propublica.org's report on the South Shore Chicago apartment building raid. www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...

Meet one of the Venezuelans detained in the South Shore raid www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMo89D5n/

1/ The night of the raid, Jonahyker López awoke to the sound of a helicopter over his building and federal agents yelling, “Open the door!” López told me he sat on the edge of his bed, wishing that his own door would become invisible. But the door came down and agents burst in. 🧵

16/ I hope you will read the full story. It was a team effort by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, @tchristianmiller.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social, Sebastian Rotella, me and many more, part of a collaboration between @propublica.org/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/chic...

15/ A Chicago judge decided the building was too unsafe. She appointed a new property manager and said the tenants should be relocated. All the people who lived at 7500 S. South Shore Drive when the raid began — immigrants and U.S. citizens — may soon be gone.

14/ She was among the tenants who attended a recent online court hearing about the future of the building. Tenants and city inspectors described ongoing horrible conditions: mice and gnats, exposed wires, leaking pipes, squatters.

12/ As for the U.S. citizens living in the building? Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander of the Chicago operation, said it would make their lives safer. But tenants told us that building conditions have only gotten worse.

13/ We met a woman living in a 3rd floor apartment whose legs are amputated. She relies on a wheelchair. The building elevators were broken — again — last week, and she said she is unable to leave the building. “I am trying to move out,” she said.

11/ The Department of Homeland Security did not answer our questions about the raid. In a statement, it said the operation was “performed in full compliance of the law.”

10/ A woman and her three young daughters are in a shelter in Chicago while her husband is detained in Kentucky. She has been given a few months to get U.S. passports for two of her kids, who are citizens, before they leave the country.

9/ Some are now back in Venezuela. Others remain detained. Several have described being hungry, lonely and sick. At least one man has been diagnosed with tuberculosis since being locked up, his attorney told me this week.

8/ We have observed immigration court hearings for 8 of the men. Not once has a government attorney mentioned any pending criminal charges or membership in a gang. Judges have granted some voluntary departure — reserved for people not considered a safety threat.

7/ During a video call with Jean Carlos Antonio Colmenares Pérez, from a jail in Kentucky, he showed us the room where he was being held with other men. There were 10 sets of bunk beds and 2 toilets. One of the toilets didn’t work. Video from @frontlinepbs.bsky.social:

6/ She spoke with Ludwing Jeanpier Parra Pérez, whom the government identified as a gang member. He denied it. Our review showed arrests for drug possession and driving w/o a license, charges that were dropped. “I’m very worried. I don’t know why they are saying that,” he said.

5/ We sent letters to the men detained in Indiana and in Kentucky, where some were transferred. They began calling. Over the past few weeks, @propublica.org reporter @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social has communicated in Spanish with a dozen Venezuelans taken that night.

4/ We learned that at least 17 men were bused to a county jail in Indiana — 3 ½ hours away. Records show they were booked by noon the day of the raid. The women and children were taken to an immigration processing center in suburban Chicago.

3/ So far, we have identified 21 of them. That allowed us to examine their backgrounds and search for any criminal history. There are limitations to this kind of search because there is no universal database of charges or convictions, but this is what we found:

2/ Their names were not made public, yet @dhsgov said it had detained terrorist gang members and called the operation a success. We @propublica.org set out to determine whether that was true. To do that, we needed to figure out who they were.

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

We at @propublica.org looked into the immigration raid that happened in Chicago's South Shore in late September. We found many of the Venezuelans detained in that raid, looked into them, and spoke to several of them.