Ryan Devereaux

Friday was my last day at Rest of World. I'm grateful to @mvzelenks for bringing me onto his ace team and for the cool stuff I worked on (links below). Hiring managers: Reporters tell me I'm a pretty great editor, and I'd like to keep editing investigations or other enterprise.

“There’s no vaccine for this one. When do we call it’s all clear? I have no idea.” theintercept.com/2026/02/12/tru…

My last piece from Minnesota, for now, on the underground army of locals who mobilized to make sure their neighbors were fed. Hope you’ll read,

These efforts also echo reporting by @kenklippenstein , which in recent months has revealed a growing network of government watchlists aimed at what the Trump administration has described as “the enemy within.” kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secret-…

This is trend is consistent w/ recent @Reuters reporting that ICE has been referring several people a day in Minnesota to federal prosecutors for charges of interfering w/ law enforcement, storing data on their activities in government databases. reuters.com/world/us/ice-i…

Here in Minneapolis, Trump border czar Tom Homan has announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, the largest immigration enforcement operation in history — with some important caveats. Thread to follow.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.” interc.pt/3O5sv1a

On Friday, three observers were taken into custody in three separate incidents in south Minneapolis in a span of less than 30 minutes. The arrests come as Homan has declared that full federal withdrawal is contingent on an end to “the resistance.” theintercept.com/2026/02/09/ice…

While much of the chatter around border czar Tom Homan’s takeover of ICE operations in Minnesota has focused on a relatively small reduction in numbers, another trend has emerged in recent days: intense focus on observers documenting the agency’s operations.

@ishaantharoor @washingtonpost Gutting. I’m so sorry, Ishaan. Your work has been invaluable

I have been laid off today from the @washingtonpost, along with most of the International staff and so many other wonderful colleagues. I’m heartbroken for our newsroom and especially for the peerless journalists who served the Post internationally — editors and correspondents who have been my friends and collaborators for almost 12 years. It’s been an honor to work with them. I launched the WorldView column in January 2017 to help readers better understand the world and America’s place in it and I’m grateful for the half a million loyal subscribers who tuned into the column several times a week over the years.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: washingtonpost.com/investigations… @JohnWoodrowCox

"It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago."