Ginger Thompson
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Managing Editor at @propublica. Former Mexico City Bureau Chief at @nytimes. Raised in El Paso. At home on both sides of the border.
New York, NY
Joined June 2014
Reporter: what did you say to your mother when you first saw her?.Jimena: That I love her and I missed her a lot. #zero tolerance. @ProPublica
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RT @zahiratorres: An investigation by @propublica and @TexasTribune found 60+ instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of intere….
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state...
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RT @propublica: The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.….
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Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of...
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RT @charlesornstein: Fantastic story. “You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owne….
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Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the...
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RT @propublica: Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-secu….
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Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to...
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RT @propublica: Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadora….
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Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released...
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RT @TexasTribune: Venezuelan deportees say they endured months of abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. With @propublica, @cazamosfakenews and….
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Trump framed the deportation of more than 230 Venezuelan men as a long-overdue campaign to rid the country of immigrants who have committed violent crimes. The facts tell a different story.
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RT @propublica: The government releases no statistics on immigration officers smashing car windows, but we identified nearly 50 recent inci….
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a...
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RT @GregJaffe: Jen Easterly’s rise in elite policy circles over three decades and her sudden fall at the hands of Laura Loomer tell the sto….
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Jen Easterly, who had served in Republican and Democratic administrations, was headed to the academy. Then a right-wing activist stepped in.
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RT @charlesornstein: My @propublica colleagues @nicoleMfoy and @McKenzieFunk examined dozens of videos of ICE officers smashing car windows….
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RT @g_dvalle: Yesterday at @propublica, we published the testimonies of three of the more than 230 Venezuelan men who were sent to the CECO….
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RT @charlesornstein: WILD STORY: A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives. https://t….
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Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy...
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RT @charlesornstein: $3,780 an hour. That's the hourly fee for a lawyer handling a lawsuit on behalf of Texas attorney general's office. T….
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Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney...
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RT @micarosenberg: You can look through our full database here and reach out if you have information to share 10/:.
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On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been...
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RT @micarosenberg: This work is the result of a big team of journalists and editors in the US and Venezuela @msanchez @Perla_Trevizo MIA @….
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RT @micarosenberg: We are also publishing our database in Spanish 8/:.
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El 15 de marzo, el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump envió a más de 230 inmigrantes venezolanos a una cárcel de alta seguridad de El Salvador. La semana pasada, fueron liberados con la misma...
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RT @micarosenberg: We asked the Trump administration about each of the men. The White House and DHS did not respond to questions about the….
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RT @micarosenberg: We spoke to the families of more than 100 of the men; those men range in age from 18 to 46. They and their families are….
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RT @micarosenberg: Trump said they were all part of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. How were they identified? We found at least 166 of….
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RT @micarosenberg: Our analysis of U.S. immigration court data found nearly half of the men, or 118, were in the middle of their cases, inc….
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