Ken Schwencke
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Senior editor of
@propublica.org
's data journalism teams. Super gay. Sometimes printmaker.
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Last year I picked up printmaking and linocutting as a hobby, and yesterday I ran this giant 18x24 print of the sky over Fire Island. I was trying to translate that big and calming sense you get when it’s warm and breezy out and you’re just watching the clouds go by.
#linocut
#printmaking
#artsky
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Dan McCrum
about 4 hours ago
"Although the judge noted numerous irregularities on Ice’s court documents, she ultimately sided with the agency." Irish man has a work permit, US business, American wife, almost finished Green card application, and has paid a bond to be released. ICE, implausibly, claims he agreed to be deported.
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ProPublica
about 2 hours ago
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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ProPublica
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Eliot Higgins
1 day ago
I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here:
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Jesse Eisinger
1 day ago
Yes of course this couldn’t have happened to a nicer Wide Boy but we all know that there’s another guy, the one who okay’d all of Will’s decisions while gazing from the poop deck at his yacht’s yacht and clasping the hand of his plasticine second wife, who made all of the relevant decisions, right?
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Joshua Benton
1 day ago
In my 30 years in journalism, I don't believe I've seen anyone beclown himself as thoroughly and as profoundly as Will Lewis has. Good riddance.
www.ft.com/content/5fa6...
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Will Lewis steps down as Washington Post publisher and CEO after job cuts
British journalist’s tenure was controversial after being appointed by Jeff Bezos to turn around the newspaper
https://www.ft.com/content/5fa62c89-ebf2-4e2e-beb0-d09cfce22d81?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a#myft:notification:instant-email:content
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Fenit Nirappil
1 day ago
“Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post guild, said: “I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.””
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
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Steve Cavendish
3 days ago
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
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Bring Me The News
4 days ago
Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter, filmed himself destroying an anti-ICE ice sculpture made by military veterans in St. Paul.
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-jake-lang-destroys-prosecute-ice-veterans-sculpture
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Gersh Kuntzman
3 days ago
BREAKING: Streetsblog NYC just posted a great job for a law-enforcement reporter:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Streetsblog Law Enforcement Reporter job description
Title: Law enforcement reporter, Streetsblog NYC Location: New York City Salary: $70,000-$75,000 annual salary plus benefits Date Posted: February 6, 2026 Application Due: March 6, 2026 Stree...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a-geoOD2faiNEvPNSXfVIZMEFNjXrA2_Xy6FJvd7jlw/edit?usp=sharing
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Ingrid Burrington
4 days ago
www.ft.com/content/90aa...
the amount of debt and financialization behind the scenes of the data center boom seems not great
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Banks seek out new buyers for Oracle data centre loans
Rare investment-grade rating helps attract insurers and private credit funds to construction debt
https://www.ft.com/content/90aa74a5-b39d-4131-a138-367726cb18fb?shareType=nongift
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Nicole Foy
5 days ago
our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
5 days ago
Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership
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Courtney Milan
5 days ago
I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
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Daniel Suitor
6 days ago
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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Investigative Reporters & Editors
6 days ago
Congratulations to
@thebaltimorebanner.com
for earning first place. Their investigation chronicled students’ experiences on public transit and the impact that transit had on their academic futures. Read:
bit.ly/4rrGyw2
By:
@lizbowie.bsky.social
@invisibae.bsky.social
@ryanlittle.bsky.social
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Investigative Reporters & Editors
6 days ago
Congratulations to
@propublica.org
for earning second place.“Life of a Mother” examines the impact of a Texas state abortion ban on pregnancy loss in the first or second trimester. Read their investigation:
bit.ly/3FroqAh
By:
@sophiechou.bsky.social
Lizzie Presser
@andreasuozzo.com
Kavitha Surana
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Aaron Rupar
6 days ago
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Chris Geidner
7 days ago
Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
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ProPublica
8 days ago
A note from our editors:
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Eric Umansky
8 days ago
The Trump admin wont name the agents who killed Alexi Pretti. So we are.
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Radley Balko
8 days ago
This was a 31-point swing for Democrats. I’m not a politics reporter, but that seems like a pretty big number.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
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Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/democratic-upset-texas-district-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Absolutely. Call people! It's so much nicer than texting endlessly.
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9 days ago
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Chris Ingraham
10 days ago
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
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Mina Kimes
10 days ago
Jesus Christ
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sixpenceee none the richer
10 days ago
xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
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Joe Sonka 😐
10 days ago
OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in. *Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
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Joe Sonka 😐
10 days ago
Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch
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Christopher Mathias
10 days ago
Last week a border patrol agent was filmed pepper-spraying a detained protester at point-blank range.
@pacantifa.is
identified agent as Tyler Gramlin. For
@us.theguardian.com
I asked Gramlin for comment. His response? He sent me a weird far-right "Amelia" meme. "DEFEND YOUR HOMELAND," it said.
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Julian Sanchez
11 days ago
This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.
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Nolan Hicks
11 days ago
It’s has been ridiculously cold for a ridiculously long period of time.
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Chris Geidner
13 days ago
"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
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MinnMax
13 days ago
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city.
youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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Dom Ervolina
13 days ago
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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dan sinker
13 days ago
the thing about all this is that ALL these people, at the end of the day, have no loyalty to anyone but their own ambitions and if they get a sense that there's a knife headed for them they're going to stab whatever back they can reach on their way down.
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I finally used claude code and holy shit.
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Will Oremus
13 days ago
New: Unsealed court docs detail Big Tech’s yearslong, secret race to ingest the collective works of humanity, including Anthropic’s project to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” Gift link:
wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
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How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and destroying millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
https://wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
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Eric Umansky
14 days ago
Last year, I reported on a problematic NYPD unit led by a particularly problematic commander. The commander once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him. Well, that commander, Kaz Daughtry, has a new job. He now works for Trump's DHS.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/n...
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Adams Aide Who Acted as ICE Liaison Is Set to Join Trump Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/nyregion/kaz-daughtry-ice-dhs.html
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Kyle Cheney
15 days ago
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ivan the K ™☑️
16 days ago
The reporting I've seen from
@startribune.com
over the last few days is a great endorsement of the need for quality local journalism, which is suffering from fiscal setbacks across the country.
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Brendan Nyhan
16 days ago
"What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open. “I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.'"
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Jay Kirell
17 days ago
They were eventually allowed one phone call as a thanks for saving the agent’s life. They used it to call their lawyer, who called their state representative, who ultimately got them released on the condition they tell people they were “treated kindly.”
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sarah jeong
17 days ago
I feel like everyone who followed this story carefully knew that this was the role Canary Mission was playing but didn't have definitive proof yet. It's a weird feeling to just finally have something to point to.
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Adam Sawyer
17 days ago
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
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Ken Klippenstein
17 days ago
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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Corey Johnson
17 days ago
Following I and
@shaw.al
's investigation, an ethics watchdog group is seeking an investigation into whether Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche broke federal conflict-of-interest law.
www.propublica.org/article/todd...
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Complaint Accuses Trump’s Criminal Attorney of “Blatant” Crypto Conflict in His Role at DOJ
A watchdog group is seeking an inspector general investigation into Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after ProPublica reported that he had ordered changes to crypto prosecutions while owning more ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-complaint-conflict-of-interest
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