Ruby Cramer
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Thrilled to join The New Yorker and so grateful for four wonderful years at The Washington Post.
News from @NewYorker! Welcome to @zengerle @rubycramer @jon_allsop. New beat for @emilynussbaum. Also, belated welcome to @RuthMarcus @lsjamison and Manvir Singh.
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Man @KerryHowley is so very very good
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What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?
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BILLIONAIRES are spending more money than ever on elections...Our project on their political power launches today...more stories to come
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The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, is incredibly brave to publish this piece @newyorker.com. She writes beautifully and thinks clearly. God grant her and her family strength and peace.
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When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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An ICE deal, a threat, and the story of a small town in 2025:
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In a divided nation, one Wisconsin village feels everyday life begin to fray.
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MTG has had many iterations in Congress: this may be her most interesting one yet. Her major splits with Trump reveal a fraying of the MAGA coalition. And it’s earning her some bizarre new respect from the left that is not mutual.
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The right-wing Republican congresswoman from Georgia has grown disillusioned with her own party and with President Trump, and increasingly willing to say so.
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UT Gov on the impact of watching videos of the murders of Kirk & Zarutska: “We are not wired as human beings, biologically, historically, we have not evolved in a way that we are capable of processing [that] violent imagery ... “This is not good for us. It is not good to
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Riots and abuse troubled these former prisons. ICE plans to reopen them. @dmac1 + @marianne_levine report:
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The same operators that closed facilities plan to reopen them to hold immigrants. Advocates say that puts detainees at risk of violence and mistreatment.
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‘Nowhere to go’: What happened after Trump ordered homeless encampments cleared
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The White House said 50 homeless encampments in D.C. have been cleared in recent weeks and more action is forthcoming.
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Surrounded by ICE facilities in rural Louisiana, one immigration lawyer tries to keep up with the churn of Trump’s deportation operation. A gift link to read and share via the @washingtonpost: https://t.co/Si2dWbKwKo
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Most of immigration lawyer Christopher Kinnison’s clients in rural Louisiana are detainees. Every week, more calls come in, and Kinnison hasn’t been able to process what his days at work are becoming.
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Fascinating: At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal. White and Black descendants have come together where their ancestors once lived, working to address the plantation’s legacy and promote healing. By @emmanuelfelton
https://t.co/CwcQ7sXGXO
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The descendants of enslavers and enslaved have come together where their ancestors once lived, working to address the plantation’s legacy and promote healing.
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A powerful project by The Post analyzing the list of more than 18,500 children killed in Gaza, and fleshing out their names, ages and in some cases how they died and how they lived
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SCOOP ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings by @CarolLeonnig & me
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A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
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My latest, from Camp Mystic: The story of one teenage counselor's extraordinary courage amid so much loss. Deeply grateful to Ainslie Bashara for sharing. https://t.co/87FHYGQO06
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As the Texas floodwaters rushed into their Camp Mystic cabins, the teen counselors braved the unknown.
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I can’t believe Aaron Parsley @FreshParsley of @TexasMonthly had the strength to write this story about what his family endured in the #GuadalupeRiver flood. It will leave you frozen. https://t.co/ufXdSewSoH
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The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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My friend and star @tylerpager and his two incredibly talented co-authors @iarnsdorf + @jdawsey1 have a book out today filled with definitive, illuminating reporting. Everything I read about it is another thing I learn about what happened in 2024.
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The effort by Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inner circle to limit access to him helps explain why it took him more than three weeks to drop his re-election bid after his disastrous debate performance.
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.@mccrummens has been writing powerfully and eloquently for the last several years on the dangers posed by far-right Christian movements that speak of demons and an epochal battle between good and evil on US soil.
The man accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker had spiritual roots in a Christian movement whose leaders speak of demon-possessed politicians and that proved its ability to mobilize followers during the January 6 insurrection, @mccrummens writes:
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Scoop: ICE has reversed its guidance from Thursday that exempted farm, hotel + restaurants from immigration raids. In a call today, DHS said agents should continue those raids. w/ @CarolLeonnig @marianne_levine @LaurenKGurley
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ICE agents have been told to continue conducting enforcement operations at agricultural businesses despite concerns about effects on the food industry.
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Thinking about this piece I wrote last year, exploring whether political violence should be treated as a contagion.
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Treating political violence as a contagion could help safeguard the future of American democracy.
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Day laborers who witnessed an ICE raid outside a Los Angeles Home Depot say officers arbitrarily detained migrants in a parking lot. “They were just grabbing people,” one said. @arelisrhdz reports: https://t.co/GbZBtMgIcd
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Workers who witnessed the ICE raid outside a Los Angeles Home Depot say officers arbitrarily detained migrants. The sweep was one of several that sparked protests.
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