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Deputy editor, audience at @propublica.org. Prev: The 19th, Reveal. Get in touch: propublica.org/tips

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This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

09.02.2026 11:21 👍 1501 🔁 679 💬 21 📌 79

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. 🧵

09.02.2026 12:25 👍 11565 🔁 7422 💬 197 📌 827
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

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1-28-26 Fulton Warrant

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.

Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

28.01.2026 22:56 👍 1757 🔁 1065 💬 100 📌 136
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'Poorly trained, overwhelmed and inexperienced': Who are the newest ICE agents? The number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has doubled over the past year -- driven by a massive recruitments campaign. Who the new recruits are and how they’re being trained.

I was on @wbur.org's On Point today, discussing what I witnessed the past few days while reporting on ICE raids for @propublica.org in Minnesota www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

27.01.2026 23:56 👍 199 🔁 70 💬 12 📌 5

And read Cengiz's thread from over the weekend:
bsky.app/profile/ceng...

27.01.2026 21:47 👍 74 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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'Poorly trained, overwhelmed and inexperienced': Who are the newest ICE agents? The number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has doubled over the past year -- driven by a massive recruitments campaign. Who the new recruits are and how they’re being trained.

My ProPublica colleague @cengizyar.com was on @wbur.org's On Point today, talking about the ongoing events in Minneapolis. Listen to the whole episode here:

27.01.2026 21:45 👍 137 🔁 43 💬 10 📌 4
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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

www.propublica.org/tips/

24.01.2026 21:51 👍 123 🔁 80 💬 0 📌 1
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

I've been thinking about how many videos I've watched that started like Renee Good's & Alex Pretti's. People pulled from cars & accused of obstruction, grabbed after filming agents, accused of punching agents, ramming cars despite video evidence. Shot.

They survived. But the arrests were brutal

25.01.2026 02:40 👍 101 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 0

The @propublica.org visuals team is in Minneapolis. Follow @cengizyar.com, who is reporting on the story as it develops.

24.01.2026 22:43 👍 251 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 3

LIVE NOW: Our reporters Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social and photographer @peterdicampo.bsky.social are taking your questions on Reddit about how Trump’s gutting of USAID exacerbated a cholera epidemic and created an American-made hunger crisis 👇

22.01.2026 20:08 👍 314 🔁 124 💬 3 📌 2
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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...

Can't help thinking about the many citizens detained by immigration agents & held at gunpoint or had guns/less lethals pointed at them

Some (thinking of George Retes) reported attempts to move out of the way per agents' requests, but were violently detained anyway
www.propublica.org/article/immi...

07.01.2026 21:31 👍 328 🔁 134 💬 6 📌 4
Card with the words, “Hiring: Visual Designer”

Card with the words, “Hiring: Visual Designer”

I’m hiring for a visual designer! Come work with me for a very cool org doing very cool work: grnh.se/943kjeba6us

Some examples →

12.11.2025 20:45 👍 99 🔁 62 💬 8 📌 1

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

11.10.2025 22:54 👍 2192 🔁 877 💬 37 📌 33

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

12.10.2025 17:24 👍 4470 🔁 1778 💬 137 📌 45

Last year, when @propublica.org published 14 hours of Project 2025 training videos, Trump was still denying any connection to PJ2025.

But we pointed out that 29 of the 36 speakers in these clips had already worked for Trump in some capacity:

02.10.2025 15:24 👍 370 🔁 119 💬 6 📌 6
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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.

30.09.2025 18:37 👍 9515 🔁 4519 💬 431 📌 392
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social

27.09.2025 11:00 👍 3200 🔁 1682 💬 151 📌 124
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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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.

26.09.2025 01:06 👍 1252 🔁 549 💬 24 📌 15
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“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...

5/ The Trump administration has continually escalated its immigration crackdown. And oversight groups that would typically keep them in check, such as the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, have been dismantled in DOGE’s sweep:
www.propublica.org/article/home...

26.09.2025 01:06 👍 1540 🔁 426 💬 10 📌 8
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4/ Congressman Dan Goldman promised to follow up on the incident, which he called another example of “secret police officers who are attacking our communities with excessive violence…and they just think that they can do it with impunity, because nobody is holding them accountable.”

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2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital.

“Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

26.09.2025 01:06 👍 3626 🔁 1094 💬 41 📌 44
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

26.09.2025 01:06 👍 7479 🔁 3878 💬 731 📌 544
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NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a long-neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was...

This is EXTRAORDINARY impact, driven by the Pulitzer Prize-finalist journalism of @deldeib.bsky.social. At a time when so much is being dismantled, it is incredible to see something like this launching to improve health outcomes for moms and babies: www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

25.09.2025 15:37 👍 181 🔁 38 💬 8 📌 2

👋 Whether it’s via truck or @wmata.com train, we mean it when we say: *We want to meet people where they are.*

Current and former federal workers.: Reach out at 917-512-0201 on Signal or propublica.org/tips 👇

23.09.2025 19:48 👍 771 🔁 181 💬 7 📌 4
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Vernal Coleman, Reporter I’m a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter based in Chicago who writes about, among other things, law enforcement and veterans’ issues.

If you have information you can share about the VA, reach out to our reporter @vernalcoleman.bsky.social directly at vernal.coleman@propublica.org or on Signal at vcoleman91.99 👇

19.09.2025 17:06 👍 303 🔁 74 💬 4 📌 1
Screenshot of post on X from VA Secretary Doug Collins. The text reads: @ProPublica is an extreme liberal news outlet that will do anything to make the Trump Administration look bad. But this week, the far-left editors there reached a new low by sending @VernalColeman to stalk @DeptVetAffairs employees at their homes. This creepy behavior will discourage good people from coming to work at VA. @ProPublica, please do better and stop letting your hatred of the Trump Administration continue to warp your judgment.

Screenshot of post on X from VA Secretary Doug Collins. The text reads: @ProPublica is an extreme liberal news outlet that will do anything to make the Trump Administration look bad. But this week, the far-left editors there reached a new low by sending @VernalColeman to stalk @DeptVetAffairs employees at their homes. This creepy behavior will discourage good people from coming to work at VA. @ProPublica, please do better and stop letting your hatred of the Trump Administration continue to warp your judgment.

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.

Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

19.09.2025 17:06 👍 1536 🔁 378 💬 81 📌 39

There are 600,000 of you who now follow us on Bluesky 🦋

As journalists ourselves, we understand that regularly reading stories about broken systems can take a toll, and we never take the community here for granted.

Thank you to all of you who care deeply about the work we do.

16.09.2025 01:15 👍 5251 🔁 713 💬 105 📌 17
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Do you work at the Office of Management and Budget? Do you know someone who does? Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought?

If the answer to any of these is "yes," please contact @andykroll.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/tips/

22.08.2025 18:39 👍 2998 🔁 1591 💬 103 📌 61
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New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to rele...

New Uvalde school shooting records — nearly 12GB — come as part of a settlement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and @texastribune.org, brought against state and local governments.

We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.

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