NEW: While covering round-the-clock protests at Delaney Hall’s parking lot, my colleagues and I decided we wanted to know what it was like inside the immigration detention facility. For months, inmates had pleaded for help
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ICE Agents to Leave Site of Volatile Protests at Detention Center Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/n...
ICE Agents to Leave Site of Volatile Protests at Detention Center
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A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ
Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”
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Washington Post news alert: "Former staff photographer Jahi Chikwendiu also won the prize for feature photography."
Jahi Chikwendiu just won a Pulitzer for his photos that told this incredible story. The Post laid off all its staff photographers in February 2026 (Chikwendiu left in 2025). www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...
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Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...
Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization
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"[16 year old] Fernanda’s father was deported to El Salvador. In her messy bedroom, piled with stuffed animals, makeup brushes and Polaroids, she keeps the gifts he sent from detention — a bracelet that he spooled together with broken rosaries and a necklace made out of beads shaped from bread."
"ICE agents have turned Nassau County’s fire stations into rest stops, pulling into parking lots to take a break from patrolling.... agents park outside schools after classes are released." “Children of Republican parents have intimidated our kids.... They showed up to school with American flags.”
Trump's immigration crackdown has come to the suburbs. On Long Island, expansive roads are fertile terrain for ICE agents to capture migrants without the critical eye of observers that has often accompanied officials’ actions in big Democrat-led cities. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/n...
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Pervades Long Island Suburbs
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"State prosecutors face formidable practical and legal obstacles in pursuing criminal charges against federal agents. State officials say the federal government has refused to provide local investigators with information as basic as the name of agents." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
ICE Agent Charged With Assault in Rare State Prosecution
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Two weekends, two cities. I’ll be in San Antonio first, then Los Angeles. If you’re in Texas or California — come through. Thank you to @sabookfestival + @latimesfob + De Los Angeles Times for the invitations. ❤️🔥
““Bare due diligence would have shown that the agents were lying,” Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account
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It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
A heartwrenching but beautiful must read from @la-ley.bsky.social on grappling with the Cesar Chavez fallout as a Mexican American and a granddaughter of a farmer worker in Hidalgo County, where the movement helped change lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...
Cesar Chavez Was a Voice for Mexican Americans Like Me. Now, We Grieve.
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Stephen Miller raised the idea of ending public education funding for undocumented children in a closed-door meeting with Texas lawmakers last week, a move that would challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent, according to two people who were in the meeting.
Stephen Miller Asks Why Texas Pays to Teach Undocumented Children
Citing gridlock in Washington, President Trump’s top immigration adviser encouraged Texas lawmakers to lead on conservative priorities.
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<<wolf whistle>>
“The ICE warehouse jail in Merrimack is not opening. For the people who would have been detained there and their loved ones, this is a real win. It also proves something larger: detention expansion is not inevitable. Everyday people can stop these facilities.” afsc.org/news/how-sma...
The Trump administration has portrayed protesters as left-wing terrorists, time and again, in cities that have borne the brunt of Trump's immigration crackdown. Here’s how the Justice Department has relentlessly pushed to pursue and prosecute protesters. nyti.ms/4sXUezT
Dylan Lopez Contreras, the NYC high school student who spent almost a year in immigration detention, held a press conference today and called for the release of others who remain confined. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/n...
Student Freed From ICE Detention Worries About Those Left Behind
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NEW: Dylan Lopez Contreras, an NYC high school student whose arrest foreshadowed a stark escalation of President Trump’s deportation tactics, has been released from federal custody. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/n...
N.Y.C. High School Student Freed After 10 Months in ICE Detention
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This was hard to read. My grandpa was a Mexican farm worker who toiled in Texas fields before I was born & I was raised with images of Cesar Chavez in my home. I knew about the Delano grape strike before I learned anything else about American history in public school. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents. Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Jayapal to Noem: "None of these four US citizens were charged with a crime, none had their citizenship questioned, and all were lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights. Do you have anything you want to say to them?"
NEW: Kristi Noem showed up in New York City to tout gang-linked arrests in the city and defend the officer in the Minneapolis shooting. She had sharp words for Mamdani, but stopped short of calling for an escalation in NYC. W/ @la-ley.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...
Noem Defends Officer in Minneapolis Killing and Attacks Mamdani
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Red meat is very much back in the new US dietary guidelines, with a bright red steak and a packet of ground beef atop the (inverted) food pyramid. My latest for @bloomberg.com unpacks what that means for the climate
New US Dietary Guidelines Are Heavy on Meat and Carbon Emissions | Emma Court
Red meat is very much back in the new US dietary guidelines, with a bright red steak and a packet of ground beef atop the (inverted) food pyramid. While health oriented, the recommendations also hav...
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ICE officers in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman in a car, but details of the shooting remained unclear, with conflicting accounts from local and federal officials. The shooting took place about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Follow updates.
Live Updates: Minneapolis Mayor Disputes Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting
Immigration officers opened fire on a 37-year-old woman in a car, who a federal spokeswoman said was trying to kill them. City officials disputed that account, describing the shooting as an overreaction.
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shutting down a 100-year-old newspaper (with roots dating to the 1700s!) rather than pay fair wages and engage in fair labor practices
NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.
NEW: Yuanxin Zheng, the 6-year-old boy from Queens whose separation from his father drew outrage in New York City, has been deported to China with his dad. With @haleaziz.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
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NEW: this morning the Trump admin moved to terminate legal status for ~20,000 people: - Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, in place since 2022, with ~5,000 beneficiaries - Family Reunification Parole Programs, in place since 2023 and some legacy cases from earlier, covering ~15,000 people.