Joshua Eaton
banner
joshuaeaton.bsky.social
Joshua Eaton
@joshuaeaton.bsky.social
"I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."

Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider. New Havenite.

Signal: jeaton.04

[email protected]
Pinned
NEW: I spent a week in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where thousands of people each year learn if they can stay in the United States.

The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.

My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social

www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
A week inside the opaque court where CT immigrants learn their fate
The courtroom often resembles an assembly line, with many cases taking less than five minutes.
www.ctinsider.com
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
CNN - The suspect in today’s shooting of National Guard members in DC applied for asylum in 2024 and it was granted earlier this year. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Washington DC shooting leaves two National Guardsmen shot | CNN
Two members of the West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, DC, today, according to the state’s governor. Follow for live updates.
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I’m an investigative reporter. Who would I even be sleeping with for scoops, a filing cabinet?
I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
Out there at the journalist reserve watching them hunt down scoops with their cats.
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
5:45 pm on Thanksgiving Eve?

Now THIS is how you news dump.
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’m late to this, and nothing matters, but I have to say something:

Desire doesn’t exist outside the act of desiring. To desire desiring and to desire desire itself are the same thing!
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
the script writers are doing extra this season, using such a small cast of characters to do so much. the naked portrait painter being the same person to secretly record the president? come on bro
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
These are getting a little niche.
CHOTINER: You said the 2001 song "For Lovers Only" was "for those ... that want but have no need."

MAXWELL: Right.

CHOTINER: A verse later, you said, "Ever since the way that you looked at me / Love is not a want, love is now a need."

MAXWELL: Hold on ...

CHOTINER: I'm just trying to understand.
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
*extremely Maxwell voice*

🎶For fry lovers only / Fry lovers only, yeah / Strictly for fry lovers only / Who are lost and lonely🎶
I wasn't aware that in end stage America, one must closely read the frozen pizza box to ensure one is in fact purchasing a frozen pizza and not proof that we have been abandoned by the old gods and the new
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
I AN BABY AGEN
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This bb! Also dear friends, my small extended family, meaningful work (even if it’s frustrating sometimes).
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
A big problem in urbanism: getting enough family-sized apartments built in dense areas. Without them, people come when they're young & then flee to the suburbs when they have a family.
Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing
Can cities learn to love kids again?
www.vox.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is about my oat milk budget, isn’t it?
Bluesky would be a lot better if people on here were more self-conscious about being unintentional parodies of Bluesky users.
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown of double Zs until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
CT refugee resettlement groups fear effects of Trump 'review' order... https://go.ctcapitolreport.com/4odf7nL
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
The governor of West Virginia is now walking back his initial post, where he stated two National Guard members died after being shot
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
provable facts > speculation, every time
TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
Cornbread
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Joshua Eaton
UPDATE: Two National Guard members from West Virginia were shot and killed Wednesday afternoon near the White House in Washington, D.C., according to that state’s governor.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM