"He name drops 'Marco,' 'Kash' and other friends in senior roles: 'They ask me as I bump into them in the West Wing: Have you killed more jihadis today?'
...His team’s custom lanyards are printed with 'WWFY & WWKY' in honor of a Trump line: 'We will find you and we will kill you.'"
The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan
by @hannahallam.bsky.social @propublica.org
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"Nearly a year ago, Gorka declared a national #counterterrorism strategy “imminent.”
"To date, no strategy has appeared, and no explanation for the delay."
“This will go down as one of the most egregious failures in targeting and civilian harm-mitigation in modern U.S. history.” @wesjbryant.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Two crumpled pieces of paper have various notes on them written in black sharpie. Some of the legible notes read: “hurry” and “I need it.”
Four years after her double lung transplant, 21-year-old Hannah’s body was at war with itself.
“Hurry,” she wrote, unable to speak.
The generic drug she took to prevent organ rejection should have been working. She didn't know the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case. 🧵
Community health centers were created to be medical safety nets for people who struggle to afford primary care.
But we found that several are suing patients and garnishing their paychecks – which experts say contradicts their mission.
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“In photos of his bedroom shared by the police, the swastika on his wall appears alongside children’s wallpaper featuring construction vehicles.”
Important reporting on a worrying neo-Nazi plot in the United Kingdom by @lizziedearden.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com.
"Staff at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
According to a draft of the announcement obtained by The Washington Post ahead of Parnell’s tweet, the coalition of signatories includes the cable network Real America’s Voice, streaming service Lindell TV (started by MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell), the websites the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events, the National Pulse, and RedState. It also includes Turning Point USA’s media brand Frontlines, as well as influencer Tim Pool’s Timcast, and a Substack-based newsletter called Washington Reporter. The memo said that “many independent journalists” also signed, but did not specify who they were.
The new Pentagon press corps appears to be a who's who of pro-Trump propagandists. And a security nightmare. At least one of these—Tim Pool's Timcast—was tied to a network of influencers that received money as part of a Russian influence operation. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
NEW: Trump’s DHS appointees have:
• Dismantled civil rights guardrails,
• Protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks,
• Threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests & tactics.
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
This reporting is so important, and also just wanted to say that I love @propublica.org's How We Did This notes. I think it does so much for transparency and context, and helping people understand how a story is told.
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
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
NEW: Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica in a call just after his release. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.
The Ancil Payne Reporting Fellowship at @propublica.org is open for applications. The two-year fellow will report on the many federal agencies that have been pulled into immigration enforcement. The role is based in DC.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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Trump's airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean crossed lines not even the worst War on Terror drone strike did. Never before did the US deliberately hit a nonthreatening target, in an area where the US military freely operates, when arrest was easily doable.
My latest (first in @foreignpolicy.com!!):
Ayman Soliman is beloved by NICU families he served as a hospital chaplain. Outraged to see him painted as a terrorist, the families have been a vocal part of the campaign demanding his release from ICE detention
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"Voices calling for Soliman’s release include parents who met him in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit...Clergy members make up another bloc of support — so many that they built a spreadsheet to divide visiting hours among imams, rabbis and pastors."
Wrote about Ayman Soliman, a children’s hospital chaplain now in ICE custody after losing his asylum. His story shows the long legacy of post-9/11 laws, and his case is a test of Trump’s ability to merge the sweeping powers of immigration and counterterrorism
www.propublica.org/article/ayma...
NEW: The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism.
If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump administration a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
SCOOP: The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE www.propublica.org/article/trum...
EXCLUSIVE/BREAKING Gregory Sanabria Tarazona, a Venezuelan activist tortured inside Nicolás Maduro's notorious El Heliocoide prison, is seeking asylum in the U.S. Weeks before his initial hearing, he was making a routine check-in when ICE detained him @schmidtsam.bsky.social reports
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ICE detentions of people with no criminal records are up nearly 900 percent over the same period last year. Gift link: wapo.st/43DxcEB