We obtained the first publicly released satellite image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran, after it was struck by Israel/US. There are several destroyed buildings. Current whereabouts of Iran's supreme leader are unknown; compound used as his official residence. 🛰️📸: @airbus.com

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Deputy Research Editor Remote, United States

Our award-winning research team at @propublica.org is growing! Ideally you'll have years of experience in investigative journalism, but we're open to candidates with deep government or academic research and management skills:
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A Journalist Who Looks for Clues in Plain Sight

A nice article about how my Friesonesian namesake — and cousin, if you didn’t know yet — @trbrtc.bsky.social combines social media sleuthing and traditional reporting to piece together complex stories for the Times’s Visual Investigations team.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

"I have covered civil wars in countries across the globe. Not so long ago, I would have rolled my eyes at the notion that one could erupt anywhere in America, much less in my once placid home state of Minnesota. And yet..."

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

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Here's the Washington Post investigation:
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New York Times:
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And Bellingcat's video
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Bellingcat Stage Talk, Thursday 4/12, 5pm CET/11am EST. discord.com/invite/bellingcat "Digging for gold in import-export data"

Trade data can reveal everything from money trails to illicit networks. 📊
Bellingcat’s Katherine De Tolly will walk us through how to use these databases for investigations in our final Stage Talk of the year. Join live & bring your questions:
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We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Kristi Noem sits on a horse wearing a cowboy hat. In the background is Mount Rushmore.

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.

It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/r...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)

View Lawfare’s new Domestic Deployments Tracker here:

Surveillance under Surveillance: Weltkarte der Videoüberwachung gerettet Das Projekt

The 'Surveillance under Surveillance' project visualises video surveillance on a world map. For a short time, its continued operation was in jeopardy but now it is continuing under the umbrella of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Hamburg.

netzpolitik.org/2025/surveil...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran.

Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

ICE Turns Required Check-Ins Into Arrest Dragnet in Lower Manhattan Reporters for THE CITY witnessed vehicles hauling away 16 people in handcuffs from an office where immigrants in deportation cases were summoned to sudden appointments.

ICE Turns Required Check-Ins Into Arrest Dragnet in Lower Manhattan www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/03/i...

Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.

Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Judge Orders White House to Restore AP’s Access to Trump A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet’s access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Trump Filed a FOIA Request. We FOIAed His FOIA. When the then-former president was under investigation for unlawfully retaining classified documents, he filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the National Archives for a wide range of recor...

Trump filed a FOIA request with the National Archives about his classified documents case. So we FOIAed Trump's FOIA to find out what he asked for.

Taxpayers Spent Billions Covering the Same Medicaid Patients Twice When recipients signed up in two states at once, insurers often got paid by both. “It definitely is wasteful,” said one former state Medicaid director.

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."

In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.