Jon Ayon

My love languages are “fuck ice” and “free Palestine.” 🤎❤️🖤💛

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

2/ This outbreak has been raging uncontrolled for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But the federal government has brushed off the issue, and Utah has prioritized the fur industry’s interests.

More than 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools have been filed with the Education Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once.

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández credited our reporting as the catalyst for the Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act. We revealed that 500+ U.S. citizens have been detained in warrantless arrests since Trump returned to office.

Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia to demand their unredacted voter rolls. Again and again, the cases have been thrown out: propub.li/4zG7n3T

140 days of protests triggered by a corrupt kushner/trump family luxury island deal… yet 🇺🇸 media is essentially crickets 🦗 🦗

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)

In Los Angeles today! ✊🏼 #california

Reporter Molly Hensley-Clancy has already identified eight youth sports coaches who are still working with kids despite having been banned by SafeSport, a center created by Congress to protect kids from abuse in sports. She's not done. Here’s how you can help.

We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:

"Israel strikes Lebanon and kills kids. They continue to strike Gaza and kill kids," said US Congressman Mark Pocan. "More and more members of Congress are saying it's time to #BlocktheBombs."

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)

Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section. (Published March)

We identified the top 100 sprayers of the controversial weedkiller Roundup in California—a state that produces more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts and nearly half of its vegetables. Check out our new searchable database to find out who’s at the top of the list. bit.ly/3SqKXDZ

We are being tracked, monitored, and profiled 24/7 by a corporate-state complex that treats our private lives as raw data to be harvested and monetized.

A heartbreaking tragedy. Driven by racism and cruelty. Historians looking back on this shameful period will wonder how this was allowed. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/springfield-ohio-haitian-student-dies-suicide-ice-mandates-ankle-monit-rcna595552

We met the Domingo family. 18-year-old Wendy has been left to take care of her siblings after their parents were detained and sent back to Guatemala.

NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.

Protesters in Danbury are demanding ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in four days. Goons tasing neighbors, breaking windows, arresting parents in front of their children.

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

Moderation isn’t the answer — progressive populism is. I don’t understand how some members of my party hate the DSA and Hasan Piker more than literal white supremacists in our government. Especially if Democrats actually want to win.

NEW: 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row. Despite his overturned conviction, Louisiana could force him to go back. with @veritenews.org

The National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer

NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

A proposed policy, echoing Los Angeles and San Diego, would forbid students from using devices during their free time and require district leaders to create guidelines for next year.

"I'm absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda." Activist Autumn Hill has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for attending a protest outside a Texas ICE facility where a police officer was shot and wounded — even though Hill had already left the protest when the shooting occurred.

Despite sanctuary policies in Illinois that prohibit law enforcement from collaborating with ICE, local cops and prosecutors across the state routinely help federal agencies detain and deport immigrants.

AI expert Connor Leahy of ControlAI says governments should "criminalize the creation of superintelligence the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb." https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/20/ai_superintelligence_connor_leahy_controlai

"Folks are going bankrupt simply because they are trying to stay alive. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy,” says @angieforfl.bsky.social. She's a Democratic Florida state representative and U.S. Senate nominee who will face off against Republican Ashley Moody in November.

“The United States needs to practice diplomacy, and regardless of which group is in power, we should be exercising diplomacy and having a relationship” with Afghanistan, says Aisha Wahab, congressmember-elect from the Bay Area who will be the first Afghan American to serve in the House.

Montreal is set to vote on suspending ties with the Israeli government. “The tide has turned definitively, and Canadians want to see their governments and their elected officials stand up on the right side of history,” says @avilewis.ca, leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party.

I hope you read this one. I wanted to capture how…angry I am about this one and dug a little bit harder into how it isn’t treated by too much of our media and politics like the scandal it is Lying a nation into a destructive, pointless war with no end in sight is supposed to be considered a scandal

“We want water!” Protesters chanted outside the governor’s fundraiser, condemning official inaction amid a crippling water crisis. Having lived three years in PR and forged deep bonds with its incredible people, I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with PR. Boricua pride, resilience, and resistance! ✊🏽 💪🏽

While most kids begin back to school, 5-year old Liam is spending his second week in Dilley Detention center where people are mistreated, malnourished, and kept in conditions made to break their health and spirits. He was detained along with his dad on their way to his soccer practice.

Allegations of sexual misconduct against AAU coaches are handled by a board whose names are not made public. Asked about written guidelines for when to ban coaches, a former board member said the group “just decided on our feelings.” with @washingtonpost.com

"Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for all." Sounds good to me, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Let's ALL get out there on November 3rd & beat the machine!!! Go to: iwillvote.com ☑️ or vote.org 🗳️

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

Coach Richardson required his teen players to hug him after practice, former players said, sometimes pulling girls down onto his lap and telling them, “I love you.” He also kept a bed in a back room at the gym, purportedly for player recovery.

Five years after the Taliban retook Afghanistan, women and girls have vanished from public life, banned from school, work, even public parks. "Women and girls of Afghanistan are suffering the most darkest situation in the world," says activist Negina Yari.

Israeli forces used phosphorus shells and carried out airstrikes and heavy artillery fire across several areas of southern Lebanon overnight and early Saturday, Lebanese state media reported. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260822-isr...

NEW: Oregon has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.

🚨 👇 🚨 👇 🚨 👇 🚨 A $158M contract for the care and feeding unaccompanied migrant children has been awarded to a group run by an ex-ICE agent accused of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking.

A former Justice Department attorney has filed a complaint claiming that the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism allegations pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence.

Hundreds of Tyson workers are gathering to take a stand against the company's illegal, abrupt layoffs. We stand with the workers against Tyson's corruption, which is demonstrated by the fact that their CEO makes 293x the average worker. And yet they can't afford to keep their Joslin plant open?

not saying federal immigration enforcement in any form should disappear tomorrow but if you leave this entity intact, and tinker at the edges and give them a stern talking to, however well meaning you are, you’re leaving these weapons and this orgy of abuses and masked thuggery intact for the next…

Four people have died at Adelanto since Sept. 2025, yet the facility keeps passing ICE inspections. ImmDef attorney Alison Steffel says the system meant to keep people safe is failing. Read Project On Government Oversight's investigation: 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vn4ve6b

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

The new documentary "American Doctor" tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel's genocide, with local medical staff risking their lives in the process. We speak with the film's director and two of the doctors featured in it.