Is it really only “some” legal experts who say this? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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Is it really only “some” legal experts who say this? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
“They are signing death warrants.” -one policing expert summing up federal agents’ approach here.
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Cc ICE
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I ran into RFK’s Harley.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
These are often "security detainees," Palestinians who Israel holds indefinitely without charges.
What I learned from @thisamericanlife.org on West Bank -At least 93 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since Oct. 7. That compares to 2/x year before. -Nobody knows what happened to them. Israel has blocked Red Cross from entering the prisons. www.thisamericanlife.org/865/the-othe...
"These guys are the best in the business. They know their stuff,” said one CDC staffer who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. “I’m stunned how fast this all happened.”
ICE raided a farm in upstate New York where workers just happen to be unionizing. documentedny.com/2025/08/27/l...
Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al Upshot: The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8% Avg Americans: 30.2% Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us. www.nber.org/papers/w34170
Nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza, more than in any other conflict or any single place since CPJ (@pressfreedom) began keeping track in the '90s. Nearly all were Palestinians managing their own family struggles while bearing witness amid danger. @rudoren www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
The Trump admin is now investigating critics for "mortgage fraud." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Oy. that's all i can say.
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The International Rescue Committee asked Israel for permission just to send food to its own staffers. The request was denied. IRC is a well-respected, 80-year-old aid org. It was created at the behest of Albert Einstein to save Jewish refugees during WWII. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Not into this: Slack has a thing where it turns on Smooth Jazz after video meetings.
So I now need three different streaming subscriptions to watch the NBA? Yuck
Trump, who says he wants “honest and accurate” BLS data, is moving to cut the agency’s budget by about eight percent, $56 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
ARE THOSE FIGS?
Absolutely. We know some Aurora, CO had issues with this a few months ago. We mentioned it here www.propublica.org/article/trum...
If you have experience with what's going on at the VA -- either as a vet or insider -- please get in touch. My contact info is eric.umansky@propublica.org and Signal Ericumansky.04. Contact info below for my reporting colleagues @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social.
“The IDF has struck several journalists' tents next to hospitals in recent months.” - Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
“The IDF has struck several journalists' tents next to hospitals in recent months.” - Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Bibi today: "If we wanted starvation, two million Gazans would not be alive today," he declared. "If we wanted to carry out genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon. there was a shortage that needed to be stopped. And that is exactly what we are doing." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
A two-year-old Palestinian child, today. He name is Sham Qudeih. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
The gunshot wounds doctors are seeing among people who try to get aid. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
A reminder: Israel has been making it very hard to get aid trucks into Gaza -- while people are getting crushed by air-drops. wapo.st/3HmuRp4
Yesterday, a 14-year-old was killed when an aid drop landed on him. The same thing happened to a man on Friday And to an 11-year-old boy on Wed And to a nurse on Monday All killed this week by air drops that deliver a tiny fraction of the aid that trucks can www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
If you have information about the VA we should know, please contact us,. You can also share your experience here: airtable.com/appQN55Zo0V5...
Trump admin says everything is hunky-dory at the VA. But we found that the number of doctors at VA has dropped each month since Trump took office. Nurses are way down too We got the records. www.propublica.org/article/vete... by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social and me.
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Absolutely. I'm at eric.umansky@propublica.org or here on Signal signal.me#eu/9FeeZ1BCD...
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Prez Trump has said, "We love our veterans. We're going to take good care of them." We got internal docs showing VA cuts & chaos have doctors and others to flee. In one hospital, lack of staff has led to delays in acquiring *hundreds of prosthetics.* www.propublica.org/article/vete...
If you have information about the VA we should know, please contact us,. You can also share your experience here: airtable.com/appQN55Zo0V5...
Trump admin says everything is hunky-dory at the VA. But we found that the number of doctors at VA has dropped each month since Trump took office. Nurses are way down too We got the records. www.propublica.org/article/vete... by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social and me.
NEW: While Trump admin says the VA is "headed in the right direction." we found VA hospitals are, increasingly, short doctors and nurses. “He has no person in charge of his health care,” the wife of one disabled vet told us. “It was never like this before." www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Population of Beit Hanoun before the war: Somewhere between 52,000 and 60,000
Bibi is considering ordering the military to take over all of Gaza--which the military itself is opposed to. B/c it would endanger the hostages. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
A famine expert told @ichotiner.bsky.social that an increasing number of kids in Gaza are so malnourished "their bodies can’t digest food." "Those kids need to be in intensive care." But there aren't enough ICU beds for them. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
When talking about the space where detainees are being held, Lindsey said it look like “an oversized kennel.” ... On rainy days, she said, water pours into the tents.
NEW: Big law is abandoning potential clients who might anger Trump. @mtredden.bsky.social has your story: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Famine expert ranks Bibi with Bashar in using starvation In Gaza "you have a capable international system that could respond at a moment’s notice. If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to be fed tomorrow, he could just give that instruction and it would happen." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
A famine expert told @ichotiner.bsky.social that an increasing number of kids in Gaza are so malnourished "their bodies can’t digest food." "Those kids need to be in intensive care." But there aren't enough ICU beds for them. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
So half of Israel thinks starvation in Gaza is BS. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
This is Israeli government's own data on food for Gaza. Look at the last few months. govextra.gov.il/cogat/humani...
How Israel blocks food from Gaza — without a formal blockade. wapo.st/3HmuRp4
How Israel blocks food from Gaza — without a formal blockade. wapo.st/3HmuRp4
“Only in NYC can you have a pedicab driving down the street with tourists blasting Billy Joel’s music — and Billy Joel pulls up next to them.” 💕 - @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
It’s getting worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
The view of Gaza, from an aid flight. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...
Photos of an Israeli hostage, Evyatar David, from 2023 to now. x.com/bringhomenow...
Do we know what that means for programming?
So the govt has moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison and no one will say why. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Here is one of ~50 cases we documented of federal agents--usually masked and unidentified--smashing car windows to grab the person inside. “She is pregnant!” a man screamed, as his citizen wife sat, terrified The agents break three windows and grab the man projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
The guy who helped kill USAID is "a 28-year-old with no government experience."
Each detail is more horrific than the last -More than 600 Gazans have been killed at the Israeli-controlled sites -Which give less than 30 mins notice of opening--via FB--and then close 15mins after -American guards have fired teargas at people w/ nowhere to go www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read this paragraph, please. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
ProPublica has broken enough stories about immigration abuses that the DHS spokesperson has a stock quote describing it as a “left wing rag”, which ProPublica dutifully reprints each time because it isn’t a left wing rag and it follows journalistic standards bsky.app/profile/prop...
The reporters who did this terrific work are @nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mckenziefunk.com If you know something about the admin's immigration crackdown, get in touch: nicole.foy@propublica.org or on Signal at nicolefoy.27 and mckenzie.funk@propublica.org or on Signal at 212-379-5757.
Bye bye reliable economic info. "The cutbacks meant that the agency suspended collection on about 19 percent of its data in June." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b...
So we explored this! Turns out you don't have same protections inside your car as you do inside a home.
Here is one of ~50 cases we documented of federal agents--usually masked and unidentified--smashing car windows to grab the person inside. “She is pregnant!” a man screamed, as his citizen wife sat, terrified The agents break three windows and grab the man projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
On Mother's Day, a man was driving to church w/ his wife, a citizen, their disabled 12-year-old daughter, & their baby Federal agents stopped them, smashed their window and shoved the dad to the ground. “All I could hear was kids crying,” witness said projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Gaza: Baby formula $51 Diapers $149 Sack of flour: $305 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...
NEW visual investigation: ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records Insiders told us this used to be rare projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
A whole big airdrop provides about half of what one truck can. And Gaza right now, needs more about a 120 trucks/day just to survive. Airdrops are aid "theater," said one expert. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
i reallyt would if i weren't vacationing with my family.
Anyone keeping a Loomer's List? That is, a list of public servants she's gotten fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...
Uh what?
“The Proud Boys are the guys who went and fought antifa.” - our likely counter-terrorism czar.
This mother is giving her toddler water mixed with salt or cornstarch. The UN estimates 100k woman and children in Gaza are "severely malnourished." www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Helpful summary of the other candidates: "a bully, a crook, a nut and a nobody."
Two minutes before midnight, the Trump DOJ meets its deadline to explain why it wants to unseal Epstein / Maxwell grand jury records. Signing the brief: AG Bondi, Todd Blanche, and SDNY U.S. Attorney Clayton. No line prosecutors who prosecuted the cases. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It’s just surprising given MAGA’s position these days.
You know who voted to limit military aid to Israel? Marjorie Taylor Greene! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...
Trump says he split with Epstein over the poaching of employees. including Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre left Mar-a-Lago for Epstein in 2000. But Trump and Epstein split sometime around 2004. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
This DHS tweet tells undocumented immigrants: "Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the United States." The video says: "The wicked flee when no man pursueth. But the righteous are bold are as a lion." - Proverbs 28:1 x.com/DHSgov/statu...
Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
We've reached the point where a naturalized citizen won't speak on the record "out of concern for her safety." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/t...
We recently reported DOGE created AI tool. It didn’t go well “I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
So DOGE is building AI thing kill up to half of all federal regulations. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Read these two together.
Remember the makeup artist with no criminal record who Trump banished to CECOT? This is what happened to him there.
In paragraph 23: “One person close to the European negotiating team said it would be vital to stabilize a written agreement as soon as possible.”
TLDR: -The Trump admin is hiding how much the Qatari-747 will cost. -But it’s likely about $1 billion. -The U.S. government will use it for one year. One. -Yup, then the “Trump library” gets it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
"The three had fought in Gaza for several months and claimed they were experiencing a 'deep internal crisis.'" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israeli soldiers are rarely punished for misconduct. Except... www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Just read this paragraph. Israel cut off electricity to Gaza in March. Not even water plants could operate. Diseases took off. The flow restarted yesterday, no one knows for for how long. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
In May, @freepress.bsky.social ran a Gaza Famine Truther piece
The price of flour in Gaza. One sack. Before Oct. 7 -$14 Jan. 2024 - $100 Jan. 2025 - $150 Feb - March (ceasefire): $21 April: $150 May: $525 Past few days: $1,125 www.thefp.com/p/the-price-...
These deadly kid pools were recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Trump fired the majority of its board. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/b...
In The Only Democracy in the Middle East™️, a protester is threatened with arrest because she’s holding a “Stop the Starvation” sign www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
