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Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 9d

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from families if one household member is in the country illegally. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman to the Floor Inside a New York Courthouse

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 11d

Moreta-Galarza is an immigrant from Ecuador who has been living in Coney Island since last year. Speaking in Spanish, she said the government routinely beat people in her home country. “I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me.”

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive beha...

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman to the Floor Inside a New York Courthouse

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 11d

“I began recording and captured the agent barking back at the woman. “Adios,” he said, over and over, pressing toward her as if warning her to back away. When she didn’t, he grabbed her. The rest — including her children’s screams — has been memorialized online.”

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 11d

“At the end of the hallway, I saw the woman, Monica Moreta-Galarza, standing in front of an agent. She was crying because her husband had been detained. She told the agent she was afraid her husband would be hurt. She wanted to go with him.”

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 11d

“When I emerged from the elevator on the 14th floor, I heard a woman’s pleas. She sounded terrified. I walked around the corner to see what was happening.”

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 11d

“During that time, I’d seen ICE drag several immigrants away from their families, all of them sobbing and pleading with the officers not to separate them from their loved ones.

But what happened Thursday was a shocking escalation.”

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 11d

Till, an investigative reporter from Germany, arrived in the U.S. just eight weeks ago for a fellowship with @propublica.org.

“I’d been alarmed by videos of masked ICE agents sweeping immigrants off the street, scenes I never thought I’d see in the United States.”

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 11d

My @propublica.org colleague @tilleckert.com filmed the ICE officer who shoved a distraught mother to the floor inside a New York courthouse.

ICE says the officer has been “relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation.”

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive beha...

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 12d

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by @propublica.org point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

Failed Root Canals, Lost Implants: How a Utah Dentist Accused of Substandard Care Was Allowed to Keep Practicing

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 12d

Utah’s dentistry board urged the state to revoke Nicholas LaFeber’s license after repeated reports of poor dental work. Instead, regulators reinstated it. Now new patients say they’ve been hurt by his practice.

Read @jessicamiller.bsky.social latest investigation for @propublica.org + @sltrib.com

Utah’s dentistry board urged the state to revoke Nicholas LaFeber’s license after repeated reports of poor dental work. Instead, regulators reinstated it. Now new patients say they’ve been hurt by his...

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 12d

I remember the escaped red panda! It was spotted in Adams Morgan!

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 12d

They’ve been practicing since kindergarten. Back then his school was by the National Zoo so the drill was a tiger escaped and the kids were trained to hide, stay still and be really quiet.

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 12d

He also says that at the start of every school year, he maps out the building for short cuts not only to get to class faster but also so he can find good places to hide. “Just in case.”

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 12d

Entering the high school choice process with our 8th grader and you know what he’s taking into considering when ranking schools?

Whether he can jump out the window and run home in the event of a school shooting.

That’s fucked up.

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 14d

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027.

A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk frequently dismissed concerns about climate change, even as polling showed that young conservative voters prioritize the issue. He said incorrectly that there was no scientific consensus on global warming.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk has used the First Amendment to sue universities that tried to block his presence. Critics have argued that Kirk’s promotion of free speech was tinged with hypocrisy, pointing to Turning Point USA’s “Professor Watchlist,” in which students were asked to list professors with leftist positions.

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk called Islam a danger to the United States, railing against what he saw as the religion’s “conquest values" that “seek to take over land and territory.”

“America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank,” he said. “Large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America."

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk was a proponent of “replacement theory,” a once-fringe conspiracy theory positing that Jews are trying to replace white Americans with nonwhite immigrants. That ideology motivated the gunman who killed 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk said it would be impossible to avoid gun deaths in a society with an armed citizenry.

“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk was critical of gay and transgender rights and the separation of church and state.

He encouraged students and parents to report professors whom they suspected of embracing what some on the right refer to as gender ideology.

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 16d

Kirk believed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a destructive force in American politics, calling its passage a “mistake” that he said has been turned into “an anti-white weapon.”