Ben Elgin
Climate reporter for Bloomberg News
- Ten years of fentanyl: How the deadly drug still has San Francisco in its grip sfstandard.com/2026/02/05/s...
- Reposted by Ben ElginA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Reposted by Ben ElginFucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
- Reposted by Ben Elgin"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Ben Elgin“This has to be the most expensive documentary ever made that didn’t involve music licensing.-- said Ted Hope. "How can it not be equated with currying favor or an outright bribe? How can that not be the case?” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
- Reposted by Ben Elgin"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X
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- Reposted by Ben ElginUnrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ben Elginjust amazing work by my colleagues at @wsj.com - a frame by frame analysis of the shooting incredible that some continue to rationalize this www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
- Reposted by Ben ElginThis was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
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- Reposted by Ben ElginICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
- Reposted by Ben ElginSometimes it takes a bit for national (or really, any) media to catch up with a story but now the New York Times is noting the video did not show Alex Pretti brandishing a gun as ICE has claimed. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
- Reposted by Ben ElginAfter the first shots are fired, the man collapses on the ground. Agents back away. At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.
- NYT breaks down ICE's brutal assaults. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Ben ElginTomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
- Reposted by Ben ElginA coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
- Reposted by Ben ElginIt’s so cold but there are tens of thousands of people out here
- Reposted by Ben ElginThis video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
- Reposted by Ben ElginAn observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- Reposted by Ben ElginHere’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
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- Will Bunch nails it, again: "Weiss’ handpicked anchor, Tony Dokoupil, set the tone when he declared the new CBS News wanted to listen to everyday Americans and not put so much stock in experts — presumably like the doctors who could have told them the “internal bleeding” story didn’t make sense."
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- Reposted by Ben Elgin1. It's been more than a day since 2 of America's most storied newsrooms, CBS and ABC, reported that killer ICE agent Jon Ross suffered "internal bleeding" based on unnamed sources Since then - No other news org has confirmed the story - No evidence (photos, medical records) has been produced
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- Reposted by Ben ElginYes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...
- Reposted by Ben ElginNew: The @aft.org, which represents some 1.8 million education workers, is ditching X over the proliferation of Grok-generated indecent images of children. www.reuters.com/business/med...
- Days after Target employees (US citizens) were hauled away from their jobs and injured by ICE, the company still hasn't said a word in defense of its workers.
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- Reposted by Ben ElginI can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
- Reposted by Ben ElginYesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
- So heartbreakingly horrific.
- Reposted by Ben ElginNPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
- Indeed, this ultra-softball interview is as bad as "state TV"...watch the whole thing, first segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvR...
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- How Elon Musk's DOGE became a fiasco of deception and accounting gimmicks -- failing in its mission to slash government waste Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
- Reposted by Ben ElginNow seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
- Rick Steves is a national treasure
- Jesus, this story... Refugees starved to death on 420 calories or less after Trump cut aid overnight, leaving no time to find alternative support.
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- Uber has recently dialed back its climate efforts (including slashing EV incentives for drivers), even as its profits soar...and its green goals look increasingly out of reach. Paywall-free link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Ben ElginNEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Ben ElginA reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
- Reposted by Ben ElginGoogle is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
- This is such important reporting. How Fox News warped reality to create a false narrative of violent protests in Portland.
- Reposted by Ben ElginThere are no words for how evil this is
- I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
- Air monitoring works -- and it isn't expensive. Folks living in towns like Clairton, Penn, got a boost when EPA required industrial plants to measure pollution. Trump nixed it, leaving many of his voters breathing fumes. Great piece by @lisalsong.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...
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- Outside court, ICE agents lay in wait. Inside, these lawyers are immigrants’ last hope. A powerful read by SF Standard: sfstandard.com/2025/10/20/c...
- Yep, says the story ran on pg 25 of the print edition. After what appears to have been the biggest day of protest in the country in 55 years
- To put it plainly: The US successfully kills international effort that was one step towards leaving a hospitable planet for future generations. A jarring read (and good reporting) from @akshatrathi.bsky.social and @daniellebochove.bsky.social Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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- Reposted by Ben ElginExtraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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