Jessica Lussenhop

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Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigrat...

“If the Trump administration gets to use a law against him that was intended to protect children, they will lose their dad to a foreign country for good.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

“Sebastian’s journey is one of the strangest wrongful-detainment petitions to emerge from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It’s also illustrative of the administration’s new approach to the ‘unaccompanied minor’ system.” www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

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If you've spent the morning watching footage of Kash Patel celebrating in the Team USA locker room, thank (and follow and send tips to) ProPublica reporter @williamturton.bsky.social www.propublica.org/people/willi...

Occasionally I like to commit a gigantic faux pas at a party just to remind myself that I am still young enough to want to die of embarrassment

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

"Hernández did not just walk out of the prison. Despite persistent budget and staffing shortages, prison officials paid a specialized tactical team overtime to drive Hernández from a high-security facility in West Virginia to the famed 5-star Waldorf Astoria hotel" www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

"In the resistance we drive minivans, we take ’em low and slow down Nicollet Avenue, our trunks stuffed with hockey skates and scuffed Frisbees and cardboard Costco flats."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

Imagine being a child, thinking you're going to the "Most Magical Place on Earth" ...and instead you and your mom end up in “Dilleylandia”: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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Between this and James Van Der Beek I've blown my daily quota on yelling WHAT in the office thehill.com/homenews/med...

High-speed car chase involving federal agent ended with multi-car crash at Nina’s in St. Paul • Minnesota Reformer A high-speed car chase that witnesses said involved a young man and a federal agent on Wednesday ended with a multi-car crash outside Nina’s Coffee Cafe in St. Paul. The man was transported away from ...

This happened outside the Reformer's office. Reporters don't even have to leave the office to find news in this environment: minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/11/h...

Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastat...

"In a dreadful era for journalism jobs, the Post’s bloodbath stands out: last week may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation."

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The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...

A conservative researcher — who was once described in a court filing as “a goddamned fraud” and “a known fabricator” — may have fueled the recent seizure of 2020 voting records in Fulton County, Georgia.

New from @dougbockclark.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

In ICE’s War, the Public Is Winning Feds stockpile 35,000 munitions in Minneapolis - but suddenly withdraw

Over 35,000 munitions have been sent to Minneapolis "intended to battle protesters":

“Fucking overkill,” a homeland security official said of the inventory. “I’ve never seen this amount of shit being used.”

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Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin responded to my colleagues' story on X, repeating that they arrested "2 confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members" in the raid and that ProPublica "conveniently" left that out. @jodiscohen.bsky.social responds to that response:

The building owners are now under investigation by the state of Illinois. From one tenant: “We were paying our rent, doing things the right way... Then suddenly, boom, the government comes in and takes us out. I don’t understand." dhr.illinois.gov/content/dam/...

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

The Minnesota Star Tribune is hiring an investigative reporter — it's an incredibly important time for this kind of journalism (like, no doy). Apply here: recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1013/JobB...

ProPublica editors explain their decision to publish shooter names

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ICYMI

1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views.

It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🔊 Listen Now: A Minnesota Dad Takes on ICE Question Everything from KCRW on NPR One | 23:33

“Is America gonna to get bored and bail on us?” one.npr.org/i/fis-125854...

At least two letters in EGOT required. You will work for exposure.

Love Emanuele. And as someone who seen both sides of it, I have sympathy for national reporters and understand they don't have a choice when they get called away. But what I DON'T understand is news of a drawdown being reported as fact when there is no evidence that it's really happening (yet?).

I would beseech the national media to stop writing sentences like one I just read that said basically "ICE's time in Minnesota is almost up." That is NOT an established fact. Please do not turn away. Please check the readily available information from people on the ground and local journalists.

Hey, what did I just say? www.startribune.com/mark-anderso...

From everything I’m hearing and reading, nothing in the ground in the Twin Cities has meaningfully changed.

‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.