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Carissa Quiambao

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✿ social video editor @ProPublica.org ✿ formerly USA Today, CNN, VICE, Refinery29

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📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.

Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.

Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6

13.02.2026 02:02 — 👍 961    🔁 563    💬 29    📌 34
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

12.02.2026 04:00 — 👍 3156    🔁 1998    💬 85    📌 211
Collage of ProPublica reporter Anna Barry-Jester (top left), photographer Peter DiCampo (top right) and reporter Brett Murphy holding up pieces of paper about an upcoming Reddit AMA on the downfall of USAID. The AMA is to be held in r/IAmA on Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET. The account answering questions is u/propublica_.

Collage of ProPublica reporter Anna Barry-Jester (top left), photographer Peter DiCampo (top right) and reporter Brett Murphy holding up pieces of paper about an upcoming Reddit AMA on the downfall of USAID. The AMA is to be held in r/IAmA on Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET. The account answering questions is u/propublica_.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

On Thurs., Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET, we’ll be on Reddit taking your questions about the continued fallout of slashing aid for some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.

📌 Save the date:

20.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 907    🔁 331    💬 30    📌 17

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...

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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

13.01.2026 22:20 — 👍 9012    🔁 5059    💬 360    📌 688
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use

A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.

A 16-year-old citizen

DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"

w/ @mckenziefunk.com

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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.

“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.

The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

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Inside a New York City federal immigration courthouse, ProPublica reporter @tilleckert.com watched an ICE agent slam a woman, Monica Moreta-Galarza, to the ground as she begged for her husband to not be taken away.

Listen to Eckert tell what happened.

27.09.2025 23:01 — 👍 795    🔁 267    💬 43    📌 13
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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📽️ Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.

Agents broke the window and slammed Daniel Flores-Martinez to the ground while his wife and children sobbed: https://propub.li/3IbPftA

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Are you someone who has been or could be affected by imminent ICE raids in Chicago?

Do you have friends, family members or neighbors who have been or could be?

If you have information you can share, please reach out to @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social on Signal or WhatsApp at 872-444-0011.

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Do you work at the Office of Management and Budget? Do you know someone who does? Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought?

If the answer to any of these is "yes," please contact @andykroll.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/tips/

22.08.2025 18:39 — 👍 2997    🔁 1591    💬 103    📌 61

Endless gratitude to Scott for letting us share his story. ❤️‍🩹

Produced and edited by moi

23.06.2025 22:52 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such…

NEW: Since Trump took office, immigration officials have more than quadrupled the number of 287(g) agreements with law enforcement agencies across 40 states, giving local officers authority to function as deportation agents in jails and the streets.

With @azluminaria.org‬

09.06.2025 13:45 — 👍 529    🔁 294    💬 50    📌 19
Behind the Art: Why Is Cancer Drug Revlimid So Expensive?
When ProPublica reporter David Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer, he set out to understand why a single pill of his medication, Revlimid, cost the same as ... Behind the Art: Why Is Cancer Drug Revlimid So Expensive?

For our story on a cancer drug that costs nearly $1,000 for each daily pill, art director Lisa Larson-Walker handmade several pill-shaped ceramic piggy banks, stuffed them with cash — then smashed them with a sledgehammer in the middle of the office.

Go behind the scenes with this short video:

26.05.2025 00:05 — 👍 316    🔁 73    💬 10    📌 5

One of my fave productions to date. Run don't walk to watch Jake break down his complex investigation into DOGE and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a super accessible, digestible and illuminating way. ⤵️

19.05.2025 18:17 — 👍 137    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 1

Congrats to these Pulitzer Prize-winning rockstars!

🎥: Katie Campbell
✂️: yours truly

08.05.2025 15:51 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

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#ICYMI: Under Wisconsin law, transgender people who want to change their names have to publish their old & new names in a newspaper.

@phoebepetrovic.bsky.social explains why families & advocates worry the requirement now poses a risk as Trump has attacked trans rights.

📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social

22.04.2025 01:31 — 👍 466    🔁 130    💬 22    📌 11

Farewell to the GOAT 😭🫶👋

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Wisconsin’s Name-Change Law Raises Safety Risks for Transgender People A 167-year-old statute requires trans people to publish their old and new names in a newspaper. Families and advocates worry the requirement now poses a risk as President Donald Trump has attacked tra...

ICYMI: I reported on how Wisconsin's 167-year-old name change law endangers trans people in today's digital age and political climate. 🚨 Extra news 🚨 this is my last story for @wisconsinwatch.org & @propublica.org, and my last day, as I leave for a new opportunity. www.propublica.org/article/wisc...

18.04.2025 14:57 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 0

Listen to @propublica.org reporter @tchristianmiller.bsky.social break down his investigation on this groundbreaking verdict that exposes how insurers try to wield power over doctors and other health care providers.

🎥 by yours truly

17.04.2025 16:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

NEW: Of the 7,837 disputed procedures in the lawsuit, involving 1,680 patients, Blue Cross paid this breast cancer center about 9 cents on the dollar, paying $43M on invoices totaling $500M.

Some 60% of the claims weren’t reimbursed at all.

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Workers at one of the US's largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Labs facility is engaging in unsanitary practices.

Tbt to my vid on @heathervogell.bsky.social's investigation into Abbot & Mead Johnson's efforts to protect the US's formula biz abroad at the cost of young children's health.

04.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 693    🔁 207    💬 7    📌 5
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Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.

In 2018, Trump tweeted: "Because of Tariffs we will be able to start paying down large amounts of the $21 trillion in debt that has been accumulated."

That’s not how it played out.

(Published 2021)

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How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.

#ICYMI: One Community Response Team officer swerved into a motorcyclist, killing him. Another needlessly stopped a pedestrian, then shoved him into a car window. A third hit a man and then kicked his head.

31.03.2025 11:37 — 👍 256    🔁 66    💬 4    📌 6

Great video on abusive and secretive NYPD unit led by "the mayor's besties"

22.03.2025 18:08 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Read the full story by the man the myth the legend @ericumansky.bsky.social ⤵️

22.03.2025 19:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Read and watch the brilliant @emilyschwing.bsky.social show us just how bad things are inside Alaska's rural public schools, and how it's impacting the predominantly Alaska Native students they serve. ⤵️

📰 KYUK, @propublica.org, @npr.org
🎬 produced & edited by moi

14.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 283    🔁 71    💬 6    📌 5

Only tripped once filming this 😌🎥

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