Lauren Wolfe

My pinned tweet seems to have disappeared, so here is the story I worked on for 6+ years, upon arrests, pre-convictions for crimes against humanity, for the rape of ~50 little girls, aged 18 months-11 years theguardian.com/world/2016/aug…

A WHO expert warned Ebola would kill more women because they were expected to care for the sick at home. She was right — and the world still didn’t listen. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/she-predicte…

A new report documents an ICE deportation flight that lasted 51 hours across Poland, Moldova, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Georgia. The people onboard reportedly remained physically restrained the entire time. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/they-were-sh…

They thought they were taking jobs in Russia. Weeks later, they were in trenches. A new investigation suggests some foreign recruits may not be mercenaries at all—but victims of human trafficking sent into “meat assaults” as disposable soldiers. On Chills: chills.substack.com/p/they-thought…

I survived 9/11. Years later, I took a job reporting on the attacks for The New York Times — before I realized I was running back into my own trauma. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/i-ran-toward…

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time. wapo.st/4cNY7Cm

I asked AI for an exact, sourced quote from a rape survivor in Sudan. It gave me a devastating first-person testimony. Then I asked where it came from. Answer: nowhere. As a journalist, this was the moment I stopped trusting AI. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/i-asked-ai-f…

Deported from the U.S. to Congo, migrants describe what they say is human trafficking: no guidance, no support, and no safe path — only pressure to choose between risks. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/sent-to-cong…

Three-quarters of the journalists at the White House correspondents dinner kept standing after the shot, like the journalists they are. Batshit

I wrote about this yesterday, but now Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 Afghans who aided U.S. forces to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A travesty. nytimes.com/.../afghan-ref…

The U.S. is deporting migrants to countries they’ve never been to. Some were just sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo — thousands of miles from home, with no guarantee of safety. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/america-is-d…

Sign CPJ's petition to free Ahmed Shihad-Eldin: cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait-rel…

They’re flying people like cargo. 1,794 ICE enforcement flights in March alone, moving people through detention centers and staging hubs. These are removals on a massive scale. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/theyre-flyin…

Every time Trump talks about "acing" a cognitive test he's revealing something important: Doctors don't just give these tests regularly. They're monitoring his decline.

Ghada Dayekh, a presenter and reporter at the privately owned Sawt Al-Farah radio station, was killed when an Israeli strike hit her apartment building, completely destroying it cpj.org/2026/04/lebane…

@HexPositive And it only gets better from there...

I’m really happy/relieved to be in my 30s. I looked so chopped in college compared to now. Back then I worked three jobs to stay in NYC, I had no money and was legit malnourished, so I don’t romanticize it at all

A Vietnamese immigrant, Tuan Van Bui, 55, is the 46th person to die in federal custody during the current Trump administration abcnews.com/US/death-vietn…

@alexplitsas Thank you for all your work, Alex

@Wolfe321 Thank you

And while the video is public, I am not posting it. It was made under duress and no one should have to make or see such a thing. #freeshelly

@EdKrassen I am Jewish. I say that because I’m scared. chills.substack.com/p/i-am-jewish-…

I am Jewish. I am an American. I have family in Israel. I support Israel’s right to exist. I do NOT support this war. I do not support Netanyahu. I do not support Trump. I do not support the Iranian regime. I do not support Hamas. I support the people of Israel. I support the people of Iran. I support the people of Gaza. I support the people of America. I support the people of all these nations. I don’t support the leaders of any of these nations.