Ethan Corey
My job is to scroll through this spreadsheet and look for numbers that are scary?
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyDOJ: The death rate among state prisoners increased 47% between 2019 and 2024 ... The deaths include homicides, suicides and violence, and the report concluded that understaffing and high turnover “likely contribute” to the increase
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNew: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyIn the Bay Area, local prosecutors have charged student protesters who participated in pro-Palestine demonstrations with felony-level charges that critics are warning are setting a dangerous template for law enforcement responses. @psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyAmong the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
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- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNEW in Bolts: How are neighbors jumping into action and what powers do state and local officials have to restrict ICE or hold agents accountable? Send us your questions.
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyThe federal judge overseeing Rikers has finally chosen someone to run NYC's jails, wresting control from the city - a former CIA officer and former head of Vermont Department of Corrections: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/n...
- Keith Rabois has been a Thiel acolyte since they were both at Stanford. Rabois infamously harassed a gay instructor, shouting slurs and telling him to "die of AIDS" outside his home. (Rabois is also friends with Sam Altman--Altman officiated Rabois's wedding to Jacob Helberg, a Trump tech advisor.)
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNews: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports. “The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNEW: I spoke with the Texas inmate who was put in solitary confinement after a GoFundMe for her sick prison cat went viral. While she's since been returned to regular housing, she and her longtime friend worry that more retaliation could be on the way. www.chron.com/culture/arti...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNEW: I've updated the Third-Country Removal Tracker with new info on Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Israel. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all... 1/
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- Reposted by Ethan CoreyPeople are dying in ICE detention at highest rate in decades. Including three since August at a new camp in Texas. ICE is blocking attempts to get answers. They haven't let lawmakers visit. Quote -> www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u... Chart -> www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyBreaking WaPo: The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
- In 2024, Gavin Newsom sent a "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers to combat crime in Oakland. But in the first year of the surge, state troopers arrested very few violent criminals. Instead they stopped 15,000 Black and Latino drivers. oaklandside.org/2026/01/21/n...
- Khawla somehow manages to _understate_ the amount of time and effort she put into this piece. Please give it a read!
- NEW FROM ME: for @theappeal.org. After a year of: ✅ Sifting through more than 200 pages of records. ✅ Sifting through more than 3,000 court document searches. ✅ Interviewing many sources. ✅ And filing many public records requests. My story is finally published today. theappeal.org/pepper-spray...
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- Reposted by Ethan CoreyIn one of his final moves before leaving office today, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed bills aimed at protecting immigrants out of fear it would invite legal challenges from the Trump admin. Immigrant advocates decried the decision: "ICE is already here, kidnapping people." boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...
- Reposted by Ethan Corey1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNew from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
- More people have died in ICE custody during the first three weeks of 2026 than died during the first three months of 2025
- And 2025 was one of the deadliest years on record!
- If deaths continue at this pace, we would be on track to have roughly **three times** more deaths in ICE custody than any other year in ICE history. I'm hopeful that it won't be quite that high, but less than a month in 2026, we already have twice as many deaths compared to _all_ of 2022.
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyUpdate: The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die. They say the man was just trying to get his meds. ICE guards shackled him Then they choked him. The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyICE confirms 5th in-custody death of 2026. www.ice.gov/news/release...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyIn case you missed it, our investigation from earlier this week: Amid a MASSIVE expansion in immigration detention in 2025, the number of ICE detention facility inspections dropped by 36.25%. Read more in this collaboration between POGO and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop:
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyIn Louisiana, a man drowned being chased by ICE agents. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
- well, that's reassuring
- Combining state-backed racial violence with petty crime gives real Gun Trace Task Force vibes
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyBREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...
- Eerie how much Greg Bovino looks like Col. Steven J. Lockjaw was hit by the shrink ray from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids"
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyGift link! (Dewan is a great reporter.) Authorities Often Justify Motorist Shootings by Saying the Vehicle Was a Weapon By Shaila Dewan Federal officials said the Minneapolis driver who was shot by an immigration agent was using her vehicle as a weapon, a claim that local officials have disputed.
- Genuinely disturbing that "America has an [INSERT ETHNICITY HERE] problem" has become this normalized in U.S. politics.
- And fwiw, scamming the government is as American as apple pie www.pogo.org/investigates...
- Not to be a RETVRN guy, but this just feels like the latest and most extreme in a series of increasingly incoherent dietary guidelines infographics. The original food pyramid may have been _wrong_, but at least it communicated its message clearly.
- It all started going down hill when we ditched the original for the MyPyramid abomination.
- Reposted by Ethan Coreyvia Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
- Check out this fascinating feature by @burness.bsky.social on an effort to criminally prosecute American Samoans living in Alaska for participating in local politics. Learn how colonialism, voter fraud myths, and small-town politics collided in rural Alaska: boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f...
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- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNEW: A judge ruled Dec. 30 in my lawsuit that Northwestern DA David Sullivan’s office cannot block the public from seeing the names and case numbers of police officers who have been charged with crimes like possession of child pornography, assault and battery, and driving under the influence.
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- Reposted by Ethan CoreyGreg Bovino is headed to Minneapolis for a 30 day surge.
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- Reposted by Ethan CoreyWH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Wurman's take is so hackneyed that in 1937 Justice Cardozo dismissed it with a single sentence. Keep beating that dead horse, I guess...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyI wrote this column about the aggressive pushback our reporters have received for doing their jobs. Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
- Showing off my fave Xmas gift:
- I already knew about the regional divide in immigration depicted by the map in the fourth image above, but it's pretty remarkable to see it on paper like that.
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- Full video of the speech here: youtu.be/ilE4lr9Qb3A?...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyCBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- Editors, don't you just hate it when a writer turns in a draft full of Nazi imagery?
- Honestly, what's most troubling is that these students show no contrition, shame, or even embarrassment. They genuinely seem to think their behavior is socially acceptable.
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyImpressive student journalism by Harvard Crimson reporters about some of their absolutely vile classmates.
- Reposted by Ethan Corey“Four detainee deaths in one week is a red-hot crisis,” said Eunice Cho, senior counsel at the @aclu.org National Prison Project. “There is no question in my mind that this represents a clear deterioration of medical care and the worsening conditions in ICE detention.”
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyNEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:
- The Avignon U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyFOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyHenry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care. The bill passed only 216 to 214. 4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyYes, the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-obscenity law that Alliance Defending Freedom has been trying to revive and weaponize as a nationwide abortion ban since fall 2022 after the fall of Roe v. Wade More: www.jezebel.com/the-wtf-is-h... www.jezebel.com/the-telling-...
- Faced with evidence that cognitive dissonance is debunked, proponents of the theory double down and insist that the skeptics' studies are flawed, thereby exhibiting cognitive dissonance!
- The fact that winter has not yet started notwithstanding, I am ready for it to be over.
- Either that, or employers should make hibernation leave a standard part of compensation packages. I'll gladly work harder April to November if I can just sleep from December to March.
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyJust a devastating investigation by Anat Rubin @calmatters.org on the impact of flat-fee defense contracts, as told through the lens of one firm in the state. One stat: of 2,000 cases resolved, they investigated just 9. calmatters.org/investigatio...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyI remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off. prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
- I recently started playing with qute browser, which is a lot of fun as long as you're willing to spend several hours configuring it, lol (though arguably that's _part_ of the fun!)
- Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
- I'll share my config at some point once it's finished, but it's also somewhat tightly coupled to my particular system set-up since it has to delegate a lot of features to other applications...
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyAll told, almost 13,000 people left jobs at the Justice Department between January and October. That's about 50% more than left the department in all of 2024.
- This analysis of the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter's Discord chats reveals that he was indistinguishable from literally every other Discord user in the universe.
- Revealing the number of hours he spent playing a game on Steam, however, strikes me as an unforgivable invasion of privacy. Not the number one reason, but a major reason why I will never become a political assassin: The world must never know how many hours I've spent playing Civ 6.
- Reposted by Ethan CoreyHere’s how to spot double counting in your data story — and what to do about it. onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/12/16/d... #ddj
