Nicholas Kerr
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Comments are like wow great journalism, TikTok influencer, whose “rabbit hole” consisted of screenshotting someone else’s article
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Comments are like wow great journalism, TikTok influencer, whose “rabbit hole” consisted of screenshotting someone else’s article
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a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
allow me to take you on a journey where, once again, we learn we have no idea what’s in our food. at least we know corporations are pure of heart so I’m sure it’s fine🫶🏼🤡
TikTok video by kaelin
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December 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
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Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
August 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
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Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis
Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis
The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.
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May 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis
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Trump's tariffs target the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands.
April 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trump's tariffs target the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands.
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The stories shared by ICE Air flight attendants paint a different picture of deportations from the one presented to the public, especially under President Donald Trump.
@mckenziefunk.com
@mckenziefunk.com
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
www.propublica.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The stories shared by ICE Air flight attendants paint a different picture of deportations from the one presented to the public, especially under President Donald Trump.
@mckenziefunk.com
@mckenziefunk.com
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China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar
While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
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“…people in unmarked clothes swarmed her car. They busted her window and dragged the 4-foot-10, 49-year-old mother of two out of her driver's seat, scratching her arm in the process. She has been detained ever since.”
March 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“…people in unmarked clothes swarmed her car. They busted her window and dragged the 4-foot-10, 49-year-old mother of two out of her driver's seat, scratching her arm in the process. She has been detained ever since.”
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"A Boston Municipal Court judge has launched an inquiry after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a man in the middle of his criminal trial — allegedly with the advance knowledge of the case’s prosecutors." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/28/m...
Boston judge launches inquiry after ICE agents apprehend defendant mid-trial - The Boston Globe
ICE has arrested hundreds of people across Massachusetts in recent days, sending shockwaves through the state’s immigrant communities.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"A Boston Municipal Court judge has launched an inquiry after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a man in the middle of his criminal trial — allegedly with the advance knowledge of the case’s prosecutors." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/28/m...
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A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
March 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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This generation gets stumped by questions that were answered by Medieval Persians a thousand years ago. We are so cooked.
March 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This generation gets stumped by questions that were answered by Medieval Persians a thousand years ago. We are so cooked.
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Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.**
"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
March 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.**
"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
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Note: If this flies, there is absolutely no safeguard against the Trump Administration doing this to any one of the 340,000,000 people who live in the United States.
Rubio’s position seems to be:
- We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us.
- Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges.
- After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
- We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us.
- Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges.
- After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
On Hugh Hewitt’s show, Marco Rubio says El Salvador is “housing” people sent by the US. But he never says on what possible legal authority? These people haven’t committed any crime in El Salvador and by their own admission “many” have never committed a crime in the US. It all seems entirely lawless.
March 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Note: If this flies, there is absolutely no safeguard against the Trump Administration doing this to any one of the 340,000,000 people who live in the United States.
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I wrote back in 2023 why designating fentanyl as a WMD was a dangerous stepping stone to illegal US military action in Mexico.
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March 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I wrote back in 2023 why designating fentanyl as a WMD was a dangerous stepping stone to illegal US military action in Mexico.
www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...
www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...
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One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
'Move Fast': Inside Team Trump's Furious Defiance of the Courts
Donald Trump's advisers are attacking judges for daring to “control” him. Trump wants the one objecting to his deportation plans to be “IMPEACHED!!!”
www.rollingstone.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
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In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit:
freedom.press/issues/wired...
freedom.press/issues/wired...
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit:
freedom.press/issues/wired...
freedom.press/issues/wired...
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Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes.
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apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...
apnews.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues.
Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.
Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.
My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience
VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes.
open.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues.
Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.
Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.
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Latest information suggests main storm threat may not come through DC region until 7 to 11p tonight or so. There is a chance these storms will be severe. We'll have the latest at cwg.live
March 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Latest information suggests main storm threat may not come through DC region until 7 to 11p tonight or so. There is a chance these storms will be severe. We'll have the latest at cwg.live
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During the Chernobyl disaster, VOA radio was often the only source of genuine news the Soviet population had. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
March 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
During the Chernobyl disaster, VOA radio was often the only source of genuine news the Soviet population had. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
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Iranian officer tells N12 News: Revolutionary Guards believe Hamas & Hezbollah will not be able to recover from the war.
March 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Iranian officer tells N12 News: Revolutionary Guards believe Hamas & Hezbollah will not be able to recover from the war.
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I've written about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Fun trivia: When the administration that signed it tried to stop what it xenophobically called an "invasion" of French immigrants, James Madison argued deportation was unconstitutional absent war: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol120/i...
March 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I've written about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Fun trivia: When the administration that signed it tried to stop what it xenophobically called an "invasion" of French immigrants, James Madison argued deportation was unconstitutional absent war: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol120/i...