Ethan Corey
@ethanscorey.bsky.social
My job is to scroll through this spreadsheet and look for numbers that are scary?
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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
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New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
www.404media.co
January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
More people have died in ICE custody during the first three weeks of 2026 than died during the first three months of 2025
I posted about the fifth detained death less than 24 hours ago. Now, ICE reports its sixth detained death of 2026. Call your representatives in Congress now and tell them no more funding for detention. ICE clearly can’t handle it.
January 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM
More people have died in ICE custody during the first three weeks of 2026 than died during the first three months of 2025
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Update:
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Update:
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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In case you missed it, our investigation from earlier this week:
Amid a MASSIVE expansion in immigration detention in 2025, the number of ICE detention facility inspections dropped by 36.25%.
Read more in this collaboration between POGO and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop:
Amid a MASSIVE expansion in immigration detention in 2025, the number of ICE detention facility inspections dropped by 36.25%.
Read more in this collaboration between POGO and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop:
ICE Inspections Plummeted as Detentions Soared in 2025
The number of ICE detention facility inspections dropped by 36.25% in 2025, even as detention rates — and deaths in ICE custody — surged across the nation.
www.pogo.org
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
In case you missed it, our investigation from earlier this week:
Amid a MASSIVE expansion in immigration detention in 2025, the number of ICE detention facility inspections dropped by 36.25%.
Read more in this collaboration between POGO and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop:
Amid a MASSIVE expansion in immigration detention in 2025, the number of ICE detention facility inspections dropped by 36.25%.
Read more in this collaboration between POGO and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop:
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In Louisiana, a man drowned being chased by ICE agents.
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
Oystermen grieve Honduran deckhand who drowned fleeing feds during Louisiana immigration sweeps
Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera drowned in his white shrimp boots after 20 years working on oyster boats around Hopedale. He was 48. “They’re all good people, really good people,” said a longtime oys...
www.nola.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
In Louisiana, a man drowned being chased by ICE agents.
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
well, that's reassuring
January 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
well, that's reassuring
Combining state-backed racial violence with petty crime gives real Gun Trace Task Force vibes
Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?
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.
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.
January 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Combining state-backed racial violence with petty crime gives real Gun Trace Task Force vibes
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BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Eerie how much Greg Bovino looks like Col. Steven J. Lockjaw was hit by the shrink ray from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids"
January 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Eerie how much Greg Bovino looks like Col. Steven J. Lockjaw was hit by the shrink ray from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids"
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Gift link! (Dewan is a great reporter.)
Authorities Often Justify Motorist Shootings by Saying the Vehicle Was a Weapon
By Shaila Dewan
Federal officials said the Minneapolis driver who was shot by an immigration agent was using her vehicle as a weapon, a claim that local officials have disputed.
Authorities Often Justify Motorist Shootings by Saying the Vehicle Was a Weapon
By Shaila Dewan
Federal officials said the Minneapolis driver who was shot by an immigration agent was using her vehicle as a weapon, a claim that local officials have disputed.
Authorities Often Justify Motorist Shootings by Saying the Vehicle Was a Weapon
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Gift link! (Dewan is a great reporter.)
Authorities Often Justify Motorist Shootings by Saying the Vehicle Was a Weapon
By Shaila Dewan
Federal officials said the Minneapolis driver who was shot by an immigration agent was using her vehicle as a weapon, a claim that local officials have disputed.
Authorities Often Justify Motorist Shootings by Saying the Vehicle Was a Weapon
By Shaila Dewan
Federal officials said the Minneapolis driver who was shot by an immigration agent was using her vehicle as a weapon, a claim that local officials have disputed.
Genuinely disturbing that "America has an [INSERT ETHNICITY HERE] problem" has become this normalized in U.S. politics.
JD Vance: "I believe we're gonna have some very big announcements in the next couple of days. I don't want to get ahead of the president, but we believe there is a nationwide fraud ring that's rooted in illegal aliens and others taking advantage of the American welfare system."
January 8, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Genuinely disturbing that "America has an [INSERT ETHNICITY HERE] problem" has become this normalized in U.S. politics.
Not to be a RETVRN guy, but this just feels like the latest and most extreme in a series of increasingly incoherent dietary guidelines infographics. The original food pyramid may have been _wrong_, but at least it communicated its message clearly.
I know there’s a lot going on but it’s insane that rice and beans, a cheap and healthy and filling combo that has been a staple to countless different cultures for thousands of years, are pushed down here in favor of raw meat and a giant “Elf Needs Food Badly” ass turkey.
January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Not to be a RETVRN guy, but this just feels like the latest and most extreme in a series of increasingly incoherent dietary guidelines infographics. The original food pyramid may have been _wrong_, but at least it communicated its message clearly.
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via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
Check out this fascinating feature by @burness.bsky.social on an effort to criminally prosecute American Samoans living in Alaska for participating in local politics. Learn how colonialism, voter fraud myths, and small-town politics collided in rural Alaska: boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f...
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...
boltsmag.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Check out this fascinating feature by @burness.bsky.social on an effort to criminally prosecute American Samoans living in Alaska for participating in local politics. Learn how colonialism, voter fraud myths, and small-town politics collided in rural Alaska: boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f...
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Our first investigation of the year just landed, and it’s a doozy.
More than 1,000 children across Texas were affected by this.
Through interviews with more than a dozen former employees and the review of internal documents and court records, The Barbed Wire found:
More than 1,000 children across Texas were affected by this.
Through interviews with more than a dozen former employees and the review of internal documents and court records, The Barbed Wire found:
January 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Our first investigation of the year just landed, and it’s a doozy.
More than 1,000 children across Texas were affected by this.
Through interviews with more than a dozen former employees and the review of internal documents and court records, The Barbed Wire found:
More than 1,000 children across Texas were affected by this.
Through interviews with more than a dozen former employees and the review of internal documents and court records, The Barbed Wire found:
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NEW: A judge ruled Dec. 30 in my lawsuit that Northwestern DA David Sullivan’s office cannot block the public from seeing the names and case numbers of police officers who have been charged with crimes like possession of child pornography, assault and battery, and driving under the influence.
VICTORY: Northwestern DA must release names of cops charged with crimes, judge rules
DA’s office ordered to release accused officers’ names and case numbers—and pay The Mass Dump’s legal fees
andrewqmr.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
NEW: A judge ruled Dec. 30 in my lawsuit that Northwestern DA David Sullivan’s office cannot block the public from seeing the names and case numbers of police officers who have been charged with crimes like possession of child pornography, assault and battery, and driving under the influence.
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New in partnership with @invisible.institute and @phoenixnewtimes.com: Scotty Bach left the Seattle Police Department after an investigation found that he had attended Trump's rally at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Phoenix hired him anyway: theappeal.org/phoenix-poli...
Seattle Investigated a Cop for Attending Trump’s Rally on Jan. 6. Phoenix Hired Him.
Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe.
theappeal.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
New in partnership with @invisible.institute and @phoenixnewtimes.com: Scotty Bach left the Seattle Police Department after an investigation found that he had attended Trump's rally at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Phoenix hired him anyway: theappeal.org/phoenix-poli...
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Greg Bovino is headed to Minneapolis for a 30 day surge.
2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe
The Trump administration has begun a massive deployment of hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents to the Twin Cities area, officials tells CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Greg Bovino is headed to Minneapolis for a 30 day surge.
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The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
January 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Wurman's take is so hackneyed that in 1937 Justice Cardozo dismissed it with a single sentence. Keep beating that dead horse, I guess...
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Wurman's take is so hackneyed that in 1937 Justice Cardozo dismissed it with a single sentence. Keep beating that dead horse, I guess...
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I wrote this column about the aggressive pushback our reporters have received for doing their jobs.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I wrote this column about the aggressive pushback our reporters have received for doing their jobs.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Showing off my fave Xmas gift:
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Showing off my fave Xmas gift: