Will Craft
@wcraft.bsky.social
Data and Graphics Editor at the Guardian US, used to be words and sounds on In The Dark, Sent Away, APM Reports, and your local public radio station.
ICE agents harassing a child and her family in Bushwick. Macing a woman in Inwood. Threatening a witness in a Lower Manhattan ER. These are just 3 examples of ICE agents targeting New Yorkers the past days, in what advocates are calling an uptick in ICE activity the past week.
With all the attention paid to the feelings of a small, wealthier subset of New Yorkers, you may have forgotten that some 70 percent of New York City residents rent their homes. Here's what four of them think of the pied-à-terre tax rollout: hellgatenyc.com/nyc-tenants-...
NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
wired.com
🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇
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Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
inquirer.com
this is excellent defector.com/how-tadej-po...
How Tadej Pogacar Got The Joy Back | Defector
PARIS — Every story has a beginning and an end, but the best stories have worthwhile middles. Narrative stakes are established and then resolved. It’s what happens in between that makes a story. This ...
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This is a really, really, good story
New York Magazine@nymag.com · last wk.The billionaire Justin Sun put $45 million into World Liberty Financial, Trump’s cryptocurrency company, and became an adviser. Over the next year or so, he came to believe he’d make a colossal mistake. Read our latest Cover Story: tinyurl.com/4xvczhmt
The price hikes and the product disappearances were not the blips of supply and demand – they were the results of behind-the-scenes pressure by Amazon, according to internal emails reviewed by the Guardian and court claims against the world’s largest company. From @georgejoseph94.bsky.social:
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
theguardian.com
Step 4: Amazon returned the ice-cream maker to the site and raised the price.
Step 3: Maxi-Matic responded by taking its inventory away from Best Buy and offering Amazon 90 days exclusivity.
Step 2: Amazon froze sales after a price drop to $17.99 to match Best Buy caused them to lose money. Amazon told Maxi-Matic that it could make a "straight payment" to bring it back "live".
Step 1: A Maxi-Matic ice-cream maker was listed at a lower price at Best Buy.
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵
What did Christopher Nolan do to be so obsessed with guilt? What great secret does he hide?
ICE published updated arrest and detention statistics for the first time since April 4. - 43,138 arrests in June: the highest number in Trump's second term - 65,765 people in detention as of July 11 - 590k + deported since Jan 2025 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
They could consider adopting his attitude of resigning after evidence of criminality surfaced
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w agoThe kids are “Nixonmaxxing”: More than half-a-century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late president. 🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/ric...
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data. After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,474 a day. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...
ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
austinkocher.substack.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Our latest on the newly released ICE enforcement data. Over 100,000 new arrests since April
Some other interesting data from this new report. From October 1, 2025 through April 4, 2026, ICE reported an average of 1,266 ICE removals per day. From April 4 through July 11, that number ticked down slightly to an average 1,246 daily ICE removals. Either way, FY26 is on pace to set records.
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · 2w agoICE just published updated detention statistics for the first time since early April. As of July 11, ICE was detaining 65,765 people. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
ICE includes 208 detention centers on the facility list. These are facilities where ICE has held an average of 1 person in detention since Oct. 1, 2025 (the beginning of FY 2026). This list excludes hold rooms, medical facilities, and ORR locations.
This is an increase from the previous release in early April, when ICE reported 60,311 people in migration detention.
ICE just published updated detention statistics for the first time since early April. As of July 11, ICE was detaining 65,765 people. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
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World champs x2 🇪🇸🏆🏆 Spain is the first nation to simultaneously hold the men's and women's FIFA World Cup crowns!
I do not think the offside rule is that complicated but that has not stopped me from explaining it twice to my family