In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Comments are like wow great journalism, TikTok influencer, whose “rabbit hole” consisted of screenshotting someone else’s article
a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.
I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
Trump's tariffs target the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands.
The stories shared by ICE Air flight attendants paint a different picture of deportations from the one presented to the public, especially under President Donald Trump.
@mckenziefunk.com
China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
“…people in unmarked clothes swarmed her car. They busted her window and dragged the 4-foot-10, 49-year-old mother of two out of her driver's seat, scratching her arm in the process. She has been detained ever since.”
"A Boston Municipal Court judge has launched an inquiry after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a man in the middle of his criminal trial — allegedly with the advance knowledge of the case’s prosecutors." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/28/m...
David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story? Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.
A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
This generation gets stumped by questions that were answered by Medieval Persians a thousand years ago. We are so cooked.
"the president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.**
"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
Note: If this flies, there is absolutely no safeguard against the Trump Administration doing this to any one of the 340,000,000 people who live in the United States.
I wrote back in 2023 why designating fentanyl as a WMD was a dangerous stepping stone to illegal US military action in Mexico.
www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit:
freedom.press/issues/wired...
Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes.
apnews.com/article/trum...
It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues.
Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.
Latest information suggests main storm threat may not come through DC region until 7 to 11p tonight or so. There is a chance these storms will be severe. We'll have the latest at cwg.live
During the Chernobyl disaster, VOA radio was often the only source of genuine news the Soviet population had. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Iranian officer tells N12 News: Revolutionary Guards believe Hamas & Hezbollah will not be able to recover from the war.
I've written about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Fun trivia: When the administration that signed it tried to stop what it xenophobically called an "invasion" of French immigrants, James Madison argued deportation was unconstitutional absent war: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol120/i...
Statement from the director of the Voice of America (who has been placed on administrative leave).
In emergency Alien Enemies Act hearing before Chief Judge James Boasberg happening now.
On first question from judge, government attorney says he doesn't know when the Proclamation was signed.
Here's the Proclamation, saying it was signed yesterday.⬇️
(Important to issue of date of effectiveness)
(AP) — Trump invokes Alien Enemy Act of 1798, assuming wartime authority to speed up mass deportations.
Screenshot of a McConnell tweet declaring “this week in the Senate proved that clumsy partisan jams will not work” after he filibustered a Democratic spending bill and Democrats agreed to allow a McConnell-preferred clean bill to pass to avert a shutdown.
In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
