Thank you to my editors, fellow staff, vendors and volunteers, and most importantly, our readers. I couldn’t have done it without all of you. Read my full farewell letter here: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/12...

Incredible @matinastevis.bsky.social story about an asylum-seeker kept apart from her son and family as she ping-ponged back and forth between U.S. and Canadian immigration officials has a telling detail about ICE Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

"A cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document: The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways." From our story out today: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

1. This year traffic stops by Florida cops have led to at least two dozen immigrant kids being separated from their family or caregivers and placed in federal shelters. For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield.

NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/ www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Amazing research by @natlash.bsky.social on how the wind helped spread the bird flu virus around Ohio and beyond. Scary — and terrifically nerdy www.propublica.org/article/bird...

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew. “It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet." For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Stunning report.

War ravaged” Portland? @robwdavis.bsky.social , Steve Suo, and Joanna Shan watched hundreds and hundreds of videos to find out. (And the federal government, apparently, did not.)

Veterans with cancer struggling to get VA benefits... because it's breast cancer... because they're men... because "gender ideology extremism" caused this cancer?

So a few months ago, we detailed how immigration agents were breaking car windows to grab the people inside. Well, it turns out one agent just did that *with his gun* and mistakenly shot the person inside and a U.S. marshal. www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/u...

Idaho's new "law runs against one of the hallmarks of modern public health: that a person’s full participation in society depends on their willingness to follow certain rules." By the great @audreydutton.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/idah...

Panicked kidnapping reports during immigration raids in Santa Ana: “He’s bleeding,” one 911 caller said. “They dumped him into a white van. It doesn’t say ICE”... Another: “Should we just run?” New story by @davidmcswane.bsky.social and @hannahallam.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Over on Twitter, DHS just questioned @nicolefoy.bsky.social's vital @propublica.org reporting on American citizens arrested by immigration agents, calling her story "fake news." But—whoops!—they conveniently forgot the link. Here it is. Check the receipts. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back. DHS did not respond to a request for comment. Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... Photos: Carol Guzy

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Trump texts OR governor Kotek on Sunday: "They attacked our ICE Patriots last night... I won’t let that happen in America!" Staffer texts Kotek after talking to police: "There was one misdemeanor arrest. Also a report of a laser pointer at a helicopter and that’s it.” www.opb.org/article/2025...

“I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

8/ If you have tips about new ICE enforcement tactics in courts, my colleagues and I want to hear from you. Reach out to me on Signal (tilleckert.90) or via propublica.org/tips.

For those folks posting about South Korea's angry response to Trump's ICE raid on Korean companies in Georgia, this interview & post from me helps explain why: in part, national PTSD from 40 years of military dictatorship. I've covered Korea since 1980. 🌺 timshorrock.substack.com/p/my-intervi...

The Midwest newsroom at @propublica.org is amazing. Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it. Come join us! This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**

We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract. The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible. You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

Good morning friends, I've got some ✨ news ✨ www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

Next Week! We can't wait to welcome @npr.org’s Andrea Hsu to deliver the 38th Graham Hovey Lecture. The event is named in honor of the late Graham Hovey, director of the fellowship program from 1980 to 1986 and NYT journalist. RSVP: https://loom.ly/xX4qF08

Lawyers for one of the wildland firefighters arrested by Border Patrol are demanding he be released, saying his detention was illegal and that he was on track for a special visa that was still being processed. apnews.com/article/immi...

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.

After a catastrophic rookie season, then years of lobbying by its politically connected owner, he icebreaker Aiviq—now the Storis—was commissioned as a Coast Guard vessel in Juneau, AK on Sunday. Great report from the scene by @alaska.bsky.social: alaskabeacon.com/2025/08/10/u...

THREAD: All over the country, immigration officers are smashing car windows to get at the people inside. As we began tracking incidents, my @propublica.org colleague @nicolefoy.bsky.social and I had two questions: First, is this legal? Second, is it, well, normal? Was this happening before? 1/

Our colleagues at ProPublica, together with a talented team of video journalists in Venezuela, put together a powerful video of the nightmare three men and their families went through after Trump call them gang members and sent them to a foreign prison. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

Thanks to @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social for featuring @propublica.org reporting from @mckenziefunk.com and me about immigration officers breaking car windows around the country, and having me on to answer questions! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1d...

The Venezuelan men we sent to El Salvador, in their own words. Powerful. Horrifying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZR...

1/ Early on in President Trump’s second term, I spent a few weeks observing Chicago’s immigration court to get a sense of how things were changing. One afternoon in March, the case of a 27-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker caught my attention. I want to tell you his story 👇

The immensity of this reporting cannot be overstated. @propublica.org made an archive of reported, fact-checked info on each of the individuals sent to prison in El Salvador. Trump admin knew that only *six* had been convicted of violent offenses.

Clayton Strong showed up at the funeral home in Idaho, said he wanted his wife's body cremated, opened a lunch box full of cash and paid $2,310 on the spot, according to our reporting. Three months later, he was in another state and remarried. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

Big new story from @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social: WIRED got 911 records from a number of immigrant detention centers and the results, which may not be surprising, are shocking. Audio included www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

In the basement of LAX:

NEW from me and @lisalsong.bsky.social EPA just withdrew a complaint against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor that runs ICE detention facilities. The allegations — use of a disinfectant w/o proper protections — came with a maximum fine of up to $4 million www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

THREAD: An ex-DOGE engineer with no government or medical experience used AI to identify which Veterans Affairs contracts to kill, labeling them as “MUNCHABLE.” @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social and I got the code. Here’s what it tells us 1/

✈️👀 MAY ICE AIR:  1/7 plane eyes May: 1,083 total flights - highest level since I started recording in Jan 2020. Over prior high of 856 in Aug 2023 by 227 (27%). Jump started after the first 1/3 of the month with trimesters of 284, 368, and 431, respectively. Exec Summary Pages 3-11.

“The data indicates that the government knew that only six of the immigrants were convicted of violent crimes…[and] that more than half, or 130, of the deportees were not labeled as having any criminal convictions or pending charges.” Repeat: They knew this before sending them to the mega prison.

🧵 As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurricane Helene. In 1999, I spent 13 hours in a car on a gridlocked interstate with my 3-week-old baby during the disastrous mass evacuation from Hurricane Floyd.

The Pulitzer for public service for the Life of the Mother series is so deserved -- and made even better by this: www.propublica.org/article/prop...

1/ Earlier this year, I flew to Phnom Penh to talk to workers about wages at a garment factory that had supplied Nike with baby clothes. In one interview, I asked a longtime employee: Was the factory hot? “It’s so hot,” she said. Hotter than outside. So hot, she said, that workers fainted. THREAD

SCOOP: A Treasury inspector general has asked the Internal Revenue Service to provide details on any instances where President Trump or DOGE tried to obtain taxpayer data and other sensitive information. www.propublica.org/article/trum...