Liliana Segura

Well my day started with some random dude accosting me & yelling in my face that only “Americans” should be allowed to live in the U.S. as I was walking to the lake in my bathing suit to go for a swim, in case anyone is wondering how things are things are going in Chicago…

Spanish-language reporter arrested at Atlanta-area protest; faces deportation Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter who covers immigration issues, was arrested at an anti-Trump protest in Chamblee, Georgia, near Atlanta, …

Journalist Mario Guevara has been deported. He spent three-plus months in ICE custody after livestreaming a protest, before being flown out of the U.S. on Oct. 3.

In a recent post, he wrote: “My dedication to my work cost me my freedom.”

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Mario Guevara To Be Deported After Appeals Court Denies Stay | American Civil Liberties Union The government detained him for over 100 days in retaliation for his reporting on law enforcement

"When I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2021, it was my dad who centered me, who drove me to my medical appointments and who lifted me up. Now I will have to manage my health care on my own...My family has been torn apart for no good reason, and I can only hope that we can one day be reunited.”

Mario Guevara To Be Deported After Appeals Court Denies Stay | American Civil Liberties Union The government detained him for over 100 days in retaliation for his reporting on law enforcement

“I am in utter shock and disbelief the government has punished my father for simply doing his life’s work of journalism,” said Oscar Guevara...“My father should have never had to face over 100 days in detention. He is the center of our family. He is the reason our home feels like home.”

US Citizen Detained At Work Files Class Action Suit to Stop Raids “I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,” said U.S. citizen Leo Garcia Venegas.

A U.S. citizen detained by federal agents during anti-immigrant raids of construction sites has filed a class action suit against the Trump administration. “I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,” said Leo Garcia Venegas. truthout.org/articles/us-...

There is no bottom with this guy

For over a decade I was lucky enough to work side by side with my journalistic role model-turned partner in crime, the truly badass @jordansmith.bsky.social. There's no reporter in the country like her & I miss her terribly. But I'm also so proud & excited for what's to come. #WrongfulConvictionDay

Since today is Wrongful Conviction Day, it seems like an appropriate time for a brief thread re a bit of news: As of the end of August, I am no longer with The Intercept.

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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Introducing Collateral Damage | Collateral Damage from The Intercept The Intercept is launching a new podcast series reported and hosted by investigative journalist Radley Balko.

I've been writing about the war on drugs for more than 20 years. There are some cases that have stuck with me -- names that have never left my head. For the last couple years, I've been working with The Intercept on a podcast to tell their stories. It launches in a week.

This has been in the works for a long time & it’s thrilling to see it out in the world. Radley’s reporting has a lot to teach us about how we got to our present moment in the US. (Shoutout to my stellar colleague, producer Laura Flynn, who has taught our household everything we know about podcasts.)

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

‘We’re In Danger’: Leonard Peltier Has A Warning About Trump In a sit-down interview, the Indigenous rights activist reflects on his nearly 50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to free him, and how tribes are “in danger” under Trump.

NEW: I interviewed Leonard Peltier at his new home in North Dakota.

Now 81, he has a LOT to say about his ~50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to finally release him, how Indigenous people are "in danger" under Trump, and his next chapter. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires.

The Trump administration is trying to hold a DACA recipient and activist in immigration detention indefinitely, even after a judge dismissed her case.

Read my latest for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/29/t...

ICE agents point guns at bystanders during violent arrest in Maryland “What’re you gonna do? Shoot me?” one witness yelled. “Go ahead. Shoot me.”

"At one point you can hear the man on the ground yell 'I live in America! I love you America!' ... When one witness asks why the man was arrested, the officer shouts 'Because he’s a criminal, how bout that?' He justifies his actions by telling witnesses 'I have to protect my people.'”

A person in a gas mask plays guitar at a chaotic protest scene.

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

This is incredible. Even I have never done this. (Why have I never done this? 🤔)

In the early morning light, a wooden fence spans along a sloping path with yellow wildflowers and a lake in the distance

Ducks swim toward the bank of a lake in the early morning

The morning sun casts its light across a lake and through trees, illuminating a path on the other side

Another terrifying week in this nightmare country. Deadlines kept me from my walks but I made up for it this morning. Can’t recommend enough.

MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure As students push for MIT to drop projects tied to the Israeli military, the school has obscured information about the funding.

SCOOP: An MIT professor canceled an Israeli military funded research grant after pressure from students. “This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency." theintercept.com/2025/09/22/m...

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.

Scoop: DHS is trying to unmask Instagram accounts that named and shamed federal agents. One activist just filed a motion to quash the subpoena which was sent to Meta in early Sept. theintercept.com/2025/09/18/d...

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is not about one comedian who said something he should not have said. The Trump administration and its enforcers want to control your speech, your behavior, even your public expressions of mourning. You are not allowed to criticize the president’s associates. You do not even retain the right to remain silent; you must make public expressions of emotions demanded by the administration and its allies or incur its disfavor, which can threaten your livelihood. This is the road to totalitarianism, and it does not end with one man losing his television show.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thanks Nick!!

Utah Was Shifting Away From the Death Penalty. Then Came Trump and Tyler Robinson. The immediate calls for the execution of Charlie Kirk’s killer mark a resurgence of pro-death penalty politics in Utah and beyond.

Utah Was Shifting Away From the Death Penalty. Then Came Trump and Tyler Robinson.

Another must-read @theintercept.com by the indomitable @lilianasegura.bsky.social

theintercept.com/2025/09/18/c...

How Trump Twisted DEI to Only Benefit White Christians With Trump’s crusade against DEI, the Christian right is co-opting the language of the civil rights movement to undo its legacy.

I wrote about the weaponization of the Justice Department to exclusively protect white christian conservatives earlier this year. Feels very relevant right now in light of everything we've seen from AG Pam Bondi theintercept.com/2025/02/22/t...