I’m grateful to have been part of @washingtonpost’s coverage on the Maui wildfires, & honored to have spent time w/ the Cascos. They’ve spent days&weeks wading through grief, fear, uncertainty, exhaustion since the fires. The path forward is still unclear: https://t.co/kFWBIEml13

NEW: In September @bri_sacks exposed the fissures within @fema due to the unorthodox management style of its acting director, David Richardson. Today, he resigned.

Federal complaints allege a GEO Group guard at a California facility harassed, threatened and coerced immigrants into sexual acts. The complaints also allege other facility staff knew about and facilitated abuse, perpetuating a culture of impunity.

Alessandro Negrete allowed me to follow him through his final hours in the U.S. and his first days in Mexico. He calls it self-repatriation -- not self-deportation -- to a land the now 43-year-old left at just 3 months. Please read my latest:

This attack includes only a Washington Post headline. Here's the actual story, laying out detailed reporting with receipts: https://t.co/jDlmY5msBL

Breaking news: An Illinois sheriff’s deputy was convicted of fatally shooting Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman after she called 911 to report a prowler in her home in 2024, her family's lawyer said.

A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed Black woman after she called 911. The July 2024 case upended the local community, drew White House condemnation, & renewed outrage over police conduct against Black Americans:

Former Illinois sheriff’s deputy convicted of murder for shooting Sonya Massey. Massey called 911 from her home in July 2024 to report a prowler. Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson was 1/2 deputies to respond to the call. From @anumitakaur https://t.co/KrywcJ8dvu

Howard University’s homecoming collided with conservative politics when the Turning Point USA-backed Blexit movement showed up uninvited as part of the organization’s tour of historically Black campuses.

@sbg1 on @MeetThePress yesterday: "Read The Washington Post story about what it would take if you wanted to renovate your front door in Georgetown, okay, in a historic district." 👀➡️by @oliviacgeorge & @anumitakaur:

The freshman class at Harvard University has fewer Black, Hispanic and international students than last year, a change in diversity that comes after the Trump administration launched a wide-ranging attack to try to force the school to end DEI policies.

Some patrol neighborhoods and raise phones when arrests unfold. Others pass out whistles, sell out vendors or attempt to be “holy nuisances” for ICE. Inside Chicago’s grassroots resistance to an intense immigration crackdown w/ @bellwak & @benjstrauss https://t.co/W9CeiYeNJJ

Millions of Americans are at risk of losing food stamp benefits before the end of this month if the government shutdown continues, officials in several states have warned.

NEW: The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall refugee admissions over the next year set as low as 7,500. w/ @mradamtaylor https://t.co/fktWrdmksz

EXCLUSIVE: Several North Carolina counties have blown through their budgets as they've worked to recover from Hurricane Helene. They're still waiting for @fema to pay them back, slowing reconstruction, reports @brady_dennis @bri_sacks and @kcrowebasspro

Breaking news: A federal appeals court said that it would allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, blocking a judge’s previous ruling that forbade his administration from sending troops into the city.

If anyone wants to chat with me about applying to the NYT fellowship (I did it a few years ago), please feel free to text or email me. My info is in my bio.

A Squalid Building, a Tip to the Feds, and Then 'Straight-Up Chaos' An immigration raid in Chicago targeting Venezuelans also swept up dozens of U.S. citizens. It followed years of neglect at an apartment complex. (no paywall)

Worth noting that journalists didn't make up their minds whether to sign in a vacuum. Lawyers at all kinds of outlets -- from Fox News to the New York Times -- all saw legal red flags to doing so. This is partly why a journalist shouldn't be making this decision on their own.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

University of California & Cal State campuses have together shared the names of thousands of employees with the Trump admin as it probes antisemitism allegations. Faculty are demanding schools, which say they are legally required to share data, push back: