Christopher Wiggins
@cwnewser.bsky.social
Washington, D.C.-based Senior National Reporter at The Advocate.
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Politics nerd and big fan of democracy. (he/him)
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I love sushi. Cilantro tastes good to me, and not like soap. My opinions are mine and obviously always correct. 🇩🇪🏳️🌈🇺🇸🕷
Politics nerd and big fan of democracy. (he/him)
Signal: cwdc.98
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Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.
HELP!
If you’re trans and have received gender-affirming care, and in particular, surgical care, at Mount Sinai in NYC, please DM me. I’d like to ask a few questions for a story I'm working on.
If you’re trans and have received gender-affirming care, and in particular, surgical care, at Mount Sinai in NYC, please DM me. I’d like to ask a few questions for a story I'm working on.
February 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
HELP!
If you’re trans and have received gender-affirming care, and in particular, surgical care, at Mount Sinai in NYC, please DM me. I’d like to ask a few questions for a story I'm working on.
If you’re trans and have received gender-affirming care, and in particular, surgical care, at Mount Sinai in NYC, please DM me. I’d like to ask a few questions for a story I'm working on.
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1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
When ticket sales are so bad and world-class entertainment acts keep pulling out, you decide to claim the Kennedy Center needs to close for renovations for the rest of your presidency.
February 2, 2026 at 12:08 AM
When ticket sales are so bad and world-class entertainment acts keep pulling out, you decide to claim the Kennedy Center needs to close for renovations for the rest of your presidency.
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This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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I'm pretty sure Attia will NOT be dropped from Bari Weiss' CBS News after this revelation.
Because the way this whole thing has been slow-walked suggests it's meant to show that the perps are untouchable.
Who has suffered any consequence from being discovered in these files?
Because the way this whole thing has been slow-walked suggests it's meant to show that the perps are untouchable.
Who has suffered any consequence from being discovered in these files?
And Peter Attia MD telling Epstein the biggest problem with being his friend is he can’t tell anyone about the life he lives. Nice.
January 31, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I'm pretty sure Attia will NOT be dropped from Bari Weiss' CBS News after this revelation.
Because the way this whole thing has been slow-walked suggests it's meant to show that the perps are untouchable.
Who has suffered any consequence from being discovered in these files?
Because the way this whole thing has been slow-walked suggests it's meant to show that the perps are untouchable.
Who has suffered any consequence from being discovered in these files?
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DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
January 31, 2026 at 3:51 PM
DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
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"I will not be silent," Don Lemon told reporters after he was released without bail from federal custody in Los Angeles.
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Don Lemon defiant in first remarks after arrest and release from federal custody
"I will not be silenced," the journalist said to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:54 PM
"I will not be silent," Don Lemon told reporters after he was released without bail from federal custody in Los Angeles.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
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“They arrested the wrong Don," Jane Fonda said outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles in support of Don Lemon, who was arrested by the Trump DOJ for reporting on a protest in Minnesota.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
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January 30, 2026 at 10:41 PM
“They arrested the wrong Don," Jane Fonda said outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles in support of Don Lemon, who was arrested by the Trump DOJ for reporting on a protest in Minnesota.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
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NEWS: Senator Dick Durbin and Representatives Sarah McBride and Robert Garcia joined advocacy organizations and press freedom groups in expressing outrage over the DOJ arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
White House celebrates Don Lemon’s arrest with meme, as press freedom groups and Dems outraged
Arrests of journalists are “naked attacks on freedom of the press,” Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
NEWS: Senator Dick Durbin and Representatives Sarah McBride and Robert Garcia joined advocacy organizations and press freedom groups in expressing outrage over the DOJ arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
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Errin Haines, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said that when journalists’ obligations “are met with detention or prosecution instead of protection, we must ask: what message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced?”
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
White House celebrates Don Lemon’s arrest with meme, as press freedom groups and Dems outraged
Arrests of journalists are “naked attacks on freedom of the press,” Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Errin Haines, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said that when journalists’ obligations “are met with detention or prosecution instead of protection, we must ask: what message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced?”
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
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NEWS: I’m told Jane Fonda, and perhaps Kerry Washington, will be at a rally happening at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles now in support of Don Lemon as he faces a judge for the first time since being charged by the Trump DOJ for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Don Lemon's arrest prompts Jane Fonda and LGBTQ+ rights group to rally for press freedom
The Human Rights Campaign, Stand Up for America and others join forces to protest government's targeting of journalists.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:37 PM
NEWS: I’m told Jane Fonda, and perhaps Kerry Washington, will be at a rally happening at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles now in support of Don Lemon as he faces a judge for the first time since being charged by the Trump DOJ for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
"I will not be silent," Don Lemon told reporters after he was released without bail from federal custody in Los Angeles.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Don Lemon defiant in first remarks after arrest and release from federal custody
"I will not be silenced," the journalist said to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:54 PM
"I will not be silent," Don Lemon told reporters after he was released without bail from federal custody in Los Angeles.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
“They arrested the wrong Don," Jane Fonda said outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles in support of Don Lemon, who was arrested by the Trump DOJ for reporting on a protest in Minnesota.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
January 30, 2026 at 10:41 PM
“They arrested the wrong Don," Jane Fonda said outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles in support of Don Lemon, who was arrested by the Trump DOJ for reporting on a protest in Minnesota.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
NEWS: I’m told Jane Fonda, and perhaps Kerry Washington, will be at a rally happening at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles now in support of Don Lemon as he faces a judge for the first time since being charged by the Trump DOJ for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Don Lemon's arrest prompts Jane Fonda and LGBTQ+ rights group to rally for press freedom
The Human Rights Campaign, Stand Up for America and others join forces to protest government's targeting of journalists.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:37 PM
NEWS: I’m told Jane Fonda, and perhaps Kerry Washington, will be at a rally happening at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles now in support of Don Lemon as he faces a judge for the first time since being charged by the Trump DOJ for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Errin Haines, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said that when journalists’ obligations “are met with detention or prosecution instead of protection, we must ask: what message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced?”
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
White House celebrates Don Lemon’s arrest with meme, as press freedom groups and Dems outraged
Arrests of journalists are “naked attacks on freedom of the press,” Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Errin Haines, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said that when journalists’ obligations “are met with detention or prosecution instead of protection, we must ask: what message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced?”
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
RIP Moira.
Catherine O’Hara has died.
Catherine O’Hara has died.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:56 PM
RIP Moira.
Catherine O’Hara has died.
Catherine O’Hara has died.
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NEWS: TWO Black journalists arrested by Trump’s DOJ this morning.
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Journalist Don Lemon arrested by federal agents after his coverage of Minneapolis protests
Lemon's attorney called it an attack on the First Amendment.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
NEWS: TWO Black journalists arrested by Trump’s DOJ this morning.
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
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Republicans are trying to undo every bit of progress that has happened in the U.S.
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Marriage Equality is back in conservatives' crosshairs as new coalition targets SCOTUS decision
“These are the same opponents of marriage equality that lost the first round,” Lambda Legal attorney Karen Loewy told The Advocate.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Republicans are trying to undo every bit of progress that has happened in the U.S.
www.advocate.com/politics/con...
www.advocate.com/politics/con...
NEWS: Senator Dick Durbin and Representatives Sarah McBride and Robert Garcia joined advocacy organizations and press freedom groups in expressing outrage over the DOJ arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
White House celebrates Don Lemon’s arrest with meme, as press freedom groups and Dems outraged
Arrests of journalists are “naked attacks on freedom of the press,” Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
NEWS: Senator Dick Durbin and Representatives Sarah McBride and Robert Garcia joined advocacy organizations and press freedom groups in expressing outrage over the DOJ arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for doing journalism.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Breaking: DAG Todd Blanche just confirmed that the DOJ has opened a civil rights investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
January 30, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Breaking: DAG Todd Blanche just confirmed that the DOJ has opened a civil rights investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
Right now, Todd Blanche announced that the DOJ will release 3 million pages of the Epstein files today.
This on the day journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested for their news coverage of protests against government killings of innocent Americans in Minneapolis.
This on the day journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested for their news coverage of protests against government killings of innocent Americans in Minneapolis.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Right now, Todd Blanche announced that the DOJ will release 3 million pages of the Epstein files today.
This on the day journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested for their news coverage of protests against government killings of innocent Americans in Minneapolis.
This on the day journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested for their news coverage of protests against government killings of innocent Americans in Minneapolis.
Republicans are trying to undo every bit of progress that has happened in the U.S.
www.advocate.com/politics/con...
www.advocate.com/politics/con...
Marriage Equality is back in conservatives' crosshairs as new coalition targets SCOTUS decision
“These are the same opponents of marriage equality that lost the first round,” Lambda Legal attorney Karen Loewy told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Republicans are trying to undo every bit of progress that has happened in the U.S.
www.advocate.com/politics/con...
www.advocate.com/politics/con...
NEWS: TWO Black journalists arrested by Trump’s DOJ this morning.
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Journalist Don Lemon arrested by federal agents after his coverage of Minneapolis protests
Lemon's attorney called it an attack on the First Amendment.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
NEWS: TWO Black journalists arrested by Trump’s DOJ this morning.
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
“This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand,” Lemon’s attorney Abbe Lowell said.
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Journalist Don Lemon arrested by federal agents after his coverage of Minneapolis protests
Lemon's attorney called it an attack on the First Amendment.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 PM
“This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand,” Lemon’s attorney Abbe Lowell said.
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...
BREAKING: Don Lemon was arrested by federal law officials last night in Los Angeles, his attorney Abbe Lowell confirms.
January 30, 2026 at 1:16 PM
BREAKING: Don Lemon was arrested by federal law officials last night in Los Angeles, his attorney Abbe Lowell confirms.