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EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known
Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.
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NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry
Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported.
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A private jet to hell
On Tuesday afternoon, when news broke that at least two immigrants in DHS custody were being deported to South Sudan, I hopped onto the flightradar24 app to see if I could find the plane. I am a former flight attendant, a journalist, and a bit of an av geek (I&
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Kidnapping again!!
I thought of this poster last night as I read journalist Bill Shaner's account of the kidnapping of a woman from her neighborhood in Worcester, Mass. In video taken by Shaner and others, Worcester police hold back a crowd attempting to the stop the abduction by federal officers
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Time is neutral. History isn't.
New platform, new subscriber options, and a new motto: “Time is neutral. History isn't.” Allow me to explain what that means to me, in two parts. First: Time is neutral. If you’ve been reading me for awhile, you know I’m big on busting the myth of
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Meta, AI minstrelsy and “edge cases”
Why are they still so bad at this.
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You should get into biathlon this winter.
It's fun to watch and happens to be the hardest sport. No really.
LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.
A solidarity post and reflection.
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Bezos should sell The Washington Post, but not to another billionaire
You can't stop a bad billionaire with a good billionaire, because there aren't any.
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What didn't make it into my WaPo Emmett Till story
More bias, background and the angel of history
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Trump can't laugh
The day after Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, I was scrolling through TikTok, trying to figure out the coconut thing, when I was served up a supercut video from the Daily Mail. I know these kinds of videos well; as a video editor for The Washington Post during the
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‘Why do you have to make everything about race?’
Square dancing, editing and history.