Eric Umansky
@ericumansky
Editor-at-Large @ProPublica. I ❤️ journalism and good trouble. Tips/ideas: eric.umansky@propublica.org and securely on Signal EricUmansky.04. More about me:
The govt'claims that the Houston man ICE shot had meth in his van. You know who says that's bullshit? the local district attorney. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
WTF, WaPo ”*Democrats say* [Trump] is recycling debunked claims.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The officer that ICE hired and who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...
The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it
The 17 drivers ICE has shot under Trump. By comparison, the year before, ICE agents fired their guns a total of three times. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The ICE agent who shot and killed Mainer Joan Sebastián Guerrero had just joined the force. And just like the 8,000 other newly hired agents, this (still unnamed) agent got little training on stopping cars. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Trump admin is still stonewalling local investigations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti's killings. They won't even let investigators see Good's car, or the windshield shattered by a bullet. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Number of people shot by ICE under Trump: 21 Number killed: 7 Number of people shot by ICE in 2024: 5 Number killed: 0 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...
ICE agents under Trump have shot at least 20 people who were inside their cars They did it again today, killing a father ICE said he "weaponized his vehicle" -- a claim they've often made & that often has turned out to be BS. The FBI is investigating...the dad. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
The Trump admin has been deporting huge numbers of kids who came into the country alone. Trump has been doing it at 3x the rate of his first admin. www.propublica.org/article/unac...
Another reason the Spanish broadcast is best: They don’t go to commercial during “hydration break“
Trump's DC airshow was nine hours long. It shut down DCA airport for part of Friday and most of Saturday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Paraguay and France are going to be playing on a field that‘s 110F. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
See this long list below? It's all the fly-overs happening tomorrow in DC. Taxpayer cost? Who knows. www.twz.com/space/this-i...
The WaPo describes Trump's aid to Venezuela as a "big, brash display" of disaster relief. More than $300M, the admin says. Except 20+ paragraphs down, we learn: -No aid has been handed out. -The figure includes lots of money donated long ago. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Gas lines are so long in Russia -- like 18hrs+ -- that local govt's are putting up porta potties. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/w...
Sick burn. Iranian official thanks Trump for making Iran realize it could throttle the world’s economy. “Our enemies — God created them fools — turned that potential into reality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...
Obama nuclear deal with Iran was negotiated over more than two years. Meanwhile, Vance on his way to Switzerland: “I can only be there for a day or two.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
BBC got a crew into southern Lebanon — Israel’s “security zone.” All buildings are gone. All houses are gone. All humans are gone. The only thing that stands above the rubble is an Israeli flag. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Let’s see what Trump loyalist Marc Thiessen has to say on the Iran deal. Oh: “This is like launching the Marshall Plan to rebuild Germany while the Nazis were still in power.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...