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Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he says. propublica.org/article/immigr…

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“There was no reason to do me like that,” Tolulope Akinsulie, whose legs and wrist still bear the scars from dog bites suffered during the midnight raid, told ProPublica. He is one of more than a dozen who’ve filed claims against the government. propublica.org/article/chicag…

NEW: A Noncitizen Says She Was Told She Could Vote. Then Customs Detained Her at the Airport and Threatened to Deport Her. propublica.org/article/noncit… @JenAFifield

1/ Last fall, as we were interviewing immigrants detained during a dramatic immigration raid at an apartment complex in Chicago, we kept hearing about a Nigerian man whose leg was mauled by a police dog. 🧵:

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Really important story: How California Allows Teachers Reported for Sexual Harassment or Misconduct to Keep Teaching, by LRN partner @HollyMcDede @KQED and @mrsimon22 propublica.org/article/califo…

Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people. propublica.org/article/mike-c…

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when we started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, we wondered how often it was happening. We began to count 🧵

Dozens of kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. propublica.org/article/kids-t…

ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.

ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown. propublica.org/article/kids-t…

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NEW: At Least 79 Kids Have Been Harmed by Tear Gas or Pepper Spray During Trump’s Immigration Crackdown propublica.org/article/kids-t… by @lisalsong @mayatmiller @msanchezMIA @mariamaelba

Members of Salvadoran investigative news outlet El Faro, which has exposed gang negotiations an corruption in Bukele's government, have had their assets frozen, the outlet announced today apnews.com/article/el-sal…

Sebastian Gorka just told the Foley Foundation dinner that Trump has signed Gorka’s long-awaited national counterterrorism strategy and says it’ll be released tomorrow morning. He held it up & read aloud from a section saying US hostage return is top priority & received applause

That is precisely what I saw play out over and over again in Albany, like here. Take a look. propublica.org/article/samari…

And this: The physician and scholar Jay Katz spent his career writing about how vulnerability, fear and gratitude make it difficult to hold doctors and hospitals to the kind of scrutiny that we apply to other powerful institutions. We lean on hospitals when our children are born, when our parents get sick and when we approach life’s end. That kind of reliance requires trust.

We like to blame insurance companies for our high health care costs. @zackcooperYale writes about the real culprit in the @nytimes. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opi… via @NYTOpinion