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Jonathan Blitzer

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Jonathan Blitzer

@JonathanBlitzer

Staff writer @newyorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, from @penguinpress.

New York, NY

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Joined July 2013

Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Nov 2, 2024
Leaked recording of GA county election official Julie Adams, on possible post-Nov 5 plans: “Maybe we all find discrepancies & we file an immediate injunction. Maybe we go to the press. Maybe, when we’re certifying, we say we’re certifying under protest.”
How Pro-Trump Activists Hijacked Georgia’s Election Board
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Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Jun 9, 2020
Stephen Miller, an actual white nationalist, is writing the President's speech on "race relations."
AprilDRyan
@AprilDRyan
Jun 9, 2020
Stephen Miller, who crafted @realDonaldTrump immigration policy at the southern border, including separating families and caging children, is preparing a @WhiteHouse speech on race relations. @AURNOnline #AURN report bit.ly/3dZNGdK
Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Sep 16, 2020
We're at DefCon1 levels of *gross mismanagement* @DHSgov at this point, where each day brings another massive scandal. So many of these scandals are unfolding at once, in real time, that it's worth highlighting the basic chronology of a few of them from past couple of weeks. 1/
Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Aug 22, 2018
Replying to @JonathanBlitzer
Did the outcry over family separation surprise the Administration? Yes, official said. “The expectation was that the kids would go to Office of Refugee Resettlement, that the parents would get deported, & that no one would care.” end/
Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Aug 22, 2018
A few pieces of news from my latest. The lesson of family separation debacle wasn't that govt went too far separating families, an Admin official told me. Rather it was that “we need to be smarter if we want to implement something on this scale” again. 1/
Will Anyone in the Trump Administration Ever Be Held Accountable for the Zero-Tolerance Immigration...
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Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Sep 10, 2020
The DHS whistle-blower complaint provides even more evidence of how the dept has simply become a cesspool of Trumpism. There's one set of details concerning Central America that seems worth calling attention to, since it may get overshadowed by all the other scandalous stuff. 1/
Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
May 5, 2021
In 2017, she was one of the first parents to be deliberately separated from her children at the border under Trump. Yesterday, she became the first parent to enter the US under a parole granted by the Biden reunification task force. This is her story:
A Mother, Separated from Her Children at the Border, Comes Home
From newyorker.com
Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Feb 7, 2022
For the @NewYorker's Anniversary Issue, I profiled Caetano Veloso:
How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit
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Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Sep 16, 2020
Replying to @JonathanBlitzer
(iv) Arguably the most scandalous of all and woefully under-covered: This summer "ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests. A huge coronavirus outbreak followed inside the VA detention center." 7/
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ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests. A huge...
One current and one former official said the transfers were arranged to skirt rules about who can travel on “ICE Air” flights.
Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Feb 22, 2020
Justice Sotomayor is sounding a major alarm in her dissent yesterday (on public charge), abt conservative control over SCOTUS & how the Trump Administration is skipping over the federal judiciary and running straight to SCOTUS for backing on its most controversial policies. 1/