Many Popes Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.

exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.

NEW: ICE facilities’ medical staff repeatedly failed to diagnose critical illnesses and misdiagnosed patients, @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I found, during a six month investigation that we have just published.

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GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?

SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

Measles in federal detention facility reaches the Texas public Most of the state’s measles cases reported so far this year are inside the West Texas Detention Facility in Hudspeth County, where four infected El Paso residents worked.

An explosion of reported measles cases in Texas’ federal detention facilities broke through to the public last month, infecting at least four El Paso residents who worked in one of the centers, according to emails obtained by The Texas Tribune.

Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

What do you need to know about birthright citizenship ahead of Wednesday's Supreme Court argument?

My @brennancenter.org teammates @sam-breidbart.bsky.social and Maryjane Johnson have you covered with a quick read...

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TribCast: Inside Texas’ massive ICE detention facilities The sprawling immigration lockups are serving as a national blueprint. What's life like for detainees?

I joined @eleanorklib.bsky.social + @serranoalej.bsky.social to discuss expanding ICE detention and record deaths, as well as the political fall out, for @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2026/03/24/t...

Ex-Uvalde school police chief sues CBP for testimonies Prosecutors and attorneys for Pete Arrendondo, who faces charges over the shooting’s botched response, have repeatedly requested U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to testify. The agency has re...

Years later, still no accountability and at best truncated transparency on the Uvalde mass shooting response failures, w/ DPS and CBP refusing to release records or testify about their officers/agents role there. Abbott failed to get the records closed this session, but DPS still won't release them.

Cannot wait to work with @taygoldenstein.bsky.social at @texastribune.org - watch this space!

As Trump pushes deportations, immigration data becomes harder to find The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is expanding, but the public data that tracks it is drying up.

I have had COUNTLESS convos where reporters ask me “okay but Trump hasn’t actually deported as many people as Biden (or Obama), right?” and what I try to stress in response is “the real story is how hard it is, and getting harder, for us even to know.”

Must-read.

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"I hate CoreCivic ☹️"

Not the main point of this piece, but: detaining a mom and 5 kids must cost U.S. taxpayers at least $400/day. (It was $319/family 5 years ago.)

At that rate, locking up this family for 9 months would run at least $108,000.

Family at Dilley ICE center details moldy food, medical neglect The family, including the mother and her five children, detail in letters what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious accommodations. They’ve been ...

"We have been here for nine months,” wrote the 9-year-old. “Please get us out.”

"I miss my bear," the 5-year-old said.

In letters & drawings, the longest-held family at the Dilley ICE detention center describe it as "slowly killing us on the inside."

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/11/e...

Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters.

Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.

Videos shows run-up to immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Texas man The clips, from multiple angles, don’t include everything, including key audio. But lawyers for the man’s family argue they refute the Trump administration's explanation that his killing was self-defe...

ICYMI: Good. Pretti. Two US citizens killed by immigration agents whose deaths spurred outrage. Before: Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23yo in South Padre Island last spring, who
a DHS agent killed, arguing his clenched hands on the wheel was a “pre attack indicator."

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/s...

Videos shows run-up to immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Texas man The clips, from multiple angles, don’t include everything, including key audio. But lawyers for the man’s family argue they refute the Trump administration's explanation that his killing was self-defe...

NEW: Renée Good. Alex Pretti. Before: Ruben Martinez. Friday
TX DPS released body cam + docs for the 23yo who DHS
agents killed while on vacation in South Padre. Videos shows him driving while brake lights on, before gunshots.

w/ @aydenrunnels.bsky.social

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/s...

Why Jasmine Crockett lost the Dem primary to James Talarico Crockett embarked on her primary bid with a makeshift operation that lacked a campaign manager, a developed fundraising strategy or comprehensive infrastructure for a ground game.

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett's loss in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate reflected both the strength of state Rep. James Talarico’s campaign and her own team’s inability to scale in time for such an expensive and hotly contested statewide race.

Remember this story from two weeks ago? A new lawsuit from @aclu.org aims to try, alleging fed agents abused search warrants and conspired with local police to violate civil rights of Latino families detained at an event last fall in Idaho:

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/10/i...

ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo

In Battle for Shriveled Soul of GOP, Congressman and YouTuber Will Face Off Again (Again) A repeat Republican runoff sure to degrade all who participate in it, or even think of it, might create a long-shot opening for Texas Dems.

This one raises the bleak prospect that Herrera, a professional gun fanatic & gun-rights extremist, could come to represent Uvalde, home to the worst school shooting in state history. Of course, there is another major political party in Texas, at least in theory www.texasobserver.org/shriveled-so...

Talarico leads Crockett in Texas Democratic Senate primary Tuesday’s primary is being widely watched as an indicator of the potential future of the Texas Democratic Party, with the two candidates putting forth vastly different visions of the kind of politics ...

New: State Rep. James Talarico takes a narrow lead over in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, according to early but incomplete returns.

Talarico’s early lead did not factor in results from Dallas County, the home base of his chief opponent, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

2) @texastribune.org is continuing to report on the record deaths in the state’s immigrant detention facilities and the conditions inside after the deadliest year in two decades. We take your confidentiality seriously, so please reach out!

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14 measles cases reported at El Paso ICE tent camp The latest outbreak comes after a spate of COVID-19 and tuberculosis cases were reported at Camp East Montana, which holds more than 3,000 immigrants.

1) Realize folks are on #Texas votes! But @repescobar.bsky.social confirmed 14 measles cases at El Paso ICE camp - an outbreak for the highly infectious disease, per the CDC. In addition to 3K people at camp, 'hundreds of El Pasoans employed there'
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/t...

Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

DHS should shutter the El Paso ICE camp, @repescobar.bsky.social & Dems said, noting at least one of the 3 deaths there was in part to 'poor medical care by staff.' Another a homicide involving staff. ICE alleged suicide in a third, but won't release the autopsy.

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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY.

In the middle of February.
A mile from a home where he no longer lived.
While his relatives were searching for him.

Cops found his body 5 days later

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

They're also taking tips in Spanish, too! bsky.app/profile/lomi...

Lina Hidalgo Was a Rising Democratic Star. She’s Leaving Office a Pariah. The Harris County judge rose to national prominence steering Houston through disasters. Then her second term became one.

"I heard a different story—of an ambitious politician who was undone not just by outside forces but by her own overbearing leadership style & reluctance to compromise." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

How We Unpacked Tennessee’s Cooperation with ICE Combining bodycam footage, police reports, and more than a million ICE records, this is how we investigated Tennessee Highway Patrol's collaboration with ICE

This investigation was a collaboration with
@motherjones.com, @nashvillebanner.bsky.social, News Channel 5, Nashville Noticias, and the Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis

You can find links to stories here + our methodology write-up:

www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

I can personally vouch for @lomikriel.bsky.social. She's the best.