Cassandra Jaramillo

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells FDA to review safety of mifepristone Years of scientific evidence from rigorous studies have overwhelmingly established the safety and effectiveness of the abortion pill.

Anti-abortion advocates are pushing for review of the drug’s safety, claiming there’s “new evidence to consider” based on new junk science reports that were put up on the internet.

pennsylvaniaindependent.com/reproductive...

Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a...

Impact! www.propublica.org/article/lawm...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.

NEW: When Russ Vought told Trump in 2021 about his new plan to keep MAGA going, the president asked him to find a way for conservatives to push back against Black Lives Matter.

“This was an assignment I was given from President Trump,” Vought later recalled. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Leo stands at the front porch of a newly built home, with his hands in his pockets of his jeans, while looking toward the camera. There is bright orange soil on the ground to prepare for grass to be laid around the new development. Leo has a serious expression on his face.

Leo sits inside a newly built home. He has a reflective expression on his face while glancing out of a window. Fresh green grass and bright orange dirt is seen outside of the window with new homes in the background.

Leo holds his brown leather wallet containing his gov. issued real ID. His ID photograph is visible, in which he has a smile on his face, but the wallet is folded to conceal the portion of his personal information.

Leo sits on wooden steps of his home’s front porch in rural Alabama surrounded by lush green trees and grass. He looks off into the distance with a serious expression and wears slip on shoes with a pair of work shoes on the step in front of him before leaving for work in the morning.

Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was working at a construction site in coastal Alabama when ICE agents tried to take him to the ground as he yelled, “I’m a citizen!” They held him handcuffed for more than an hour and dismissed his REAL ID as fake. Two weeks later, he wrongfully held by ICE agents again.

FRFR, because refusing to seat a duly-elected member of Congress is anti-democratic and a species of election interference.

Nory Doesn’t Go to School Here Anymore

Nory could have been a coach, nurse or engineer in the US. So much ahead of her.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Feds revoke Dallas activist’s DACA status, detain him over social media posts Earlier this month, Yaa’kub Vijandre was detained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents. Despite his clean record, the government said his legal...

“The life he has built in Dallas is now in jeopardy, his lawyers said, because he exercised his First Amendment right to free speech.”

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments

The difference in economic reporting now vs. a year ago is jarring. Inflation remains high. Default rates on auto loans are high but have been steady all year. We’ve stopped reporting on inflation and we haven’t adequately discussed the deteriorating labor market.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

I’ve never played about my hoops or fashion 😆💅🏽

Portfolio: The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza Every day in downtown Manhattan immigrants arriving for routine hearings are targeted by ICE agents and taken from their families.

“Even in the best of times, the process of deciding who gets to stay in the U.S. and who has to leave is dysfunctional. Now, it’s been injected with cruelty.” These stories are horrific. nymag.com/intelligence...

A Year Before Trump’s Crime Rhetoric, Dallas Voted to Increase Police. The City Is Wrestling With the Consequences. Leaders at Dallas HERO argued the city was descending into anarchy despite falling violent crime rates. Residents, including some law enforcement officials and at least one prominent Trump supporter, ...

The year before Trump announced he was sending National Guard troops and federal agents into D.C. and Chicago, a Dallas nonprofit used similar rhetoric — claiming Dallas was descending into anarchy — to argue for more police.

The city is wrestling with the consequences.

w/ WFAA, @texastribune.org

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

I’ve been concerned for a decade.

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

This is getting concerning..
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Screenshot of an October 16, 2025 tweet by the Department of Homeland Security claiming that ProPublica's reporting that more than 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested by immigration authorities since January was "fake news" and that DHS enforcement operations are "HIGHLY TARGETED"

Over on Twitter, DHS just questioned @nicolefoy.bsky.social's vital @propublica.org reporting on American citizens arrested by immigration agents, calling her story "fake news." But—whoops!—they conveniently forgot the link. Here it is. Check the receipts. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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...

Sobering reporting by my colleague Nicole Foy.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Hey @propublica.org - It's time you listen to the 1,300-and-climbing who have signed the petition for a fair contract NOW for our @propublicaguild.org

ProPublica Guild Secretary Jeff Ernsthausen presents CEO Robin Sparkman with our petition signatures.

ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.

ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.

ProPublica Guild members gather in the hallway outside CEO Robin Sparkman’s office, delivering petition signatures.

Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.

A Year Before Trump’s Crime Rhetoric, Dallas Voted to Increase Police. The City Is Wrestling With the Consequences. Leaders at Dallas HERO argued the city was descending into anarchy despite falling violent crime rates. Residents, including some law enforcement officials and at least one prominent Trump supporter, ...

Important story by ProPublica, WFAA in Dallas and the Texas Tribune

www.propublica.org/article/poli...

This house is ready for the Texas OU game 👏🏽🐂

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial With an External Appeal, by @deldeib.bsky.social

This week I learned I’m the first woman and person of color from the University of Texas at Austin to have ever received the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for Public Service reporting.

When I realized that in UT’s Pulitzer Hall of Fame, I got chills.

My heart is so full after talking to classes of my former professors and fielding so many great questions about investigative reporting from UT-Austin students.

Yeah, there’s a lot to worry about in the US right now, but I’m optimistic about the next generation of journalists. 🙏🏽

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role to Wage a Culture War Andrew Bailey’s nearly three-year term as Missouri’s top lawyer was marked by splashy fights over gender, schools and diversity that often fizzled but boosted his political profile. Now he’s co-deputy...

Andrew Bailey’s tenure as Missouri AG is marked by clashes on culture war issues, like when he sought medical records of transgender minors or when he sued Starbucks, claiming its diversity programs illegally discriminated against white men.