Ruby Cramer

Ruby Cramer

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Staff Writer, The New Yorker. Formerly at The Washington Post, Politico Mag, and BuzzFeed News. Email me! ruby_cramer@newyorker.com.

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Ruby Cramer
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The alleged assailants were doxed. So was the victim. And the man who published her name. And people not tied to the case at all. A young Cornell alum falsely accused of being in the Chi Phi Snapchat asks, “How many have seen my name and view me as someone I’m not?” www.newyorker.com/news/america...

newyorker.comThe Doxing of Jane DoeThe alleged perpetrators in the “Cornell Seven” case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all.
Ruby Cramer
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Emmanuella is one of the thousands of Haitians who were living and working in the U.S. legally when Trump revoked their TPS. She left her job, desperately tried to find a husband, and began to disappear. Going Underground: www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...

newyorker.comThe Quiet Unravelling of a Haitian Life in AmericaEmmanuella was the only one in her family on Temporary Protected Status. Now that it’s gone, she’s leaving her job without a word, desperately dating to find a husband, and beginning to go underground...
Ruby Cramer
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IT'S ME. save us from ourselves!

Gremliny Nussboo@emilynussbaum.bsky.social

I FOUND ANOTHER PERSON WHO DOES THE SAME SELF-DESTRUCTIVE OCD-ESQUE OBSESSIVE TURNING OF HER FIRST DRAFT PARAGRAPHS INTO WIDOW-FREE CUBES I AM NOT ALONE IN THE WORLD

Ruby Cramer
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He testified about traversing the city incognito, because officers had been followed to their hotels and restaurants. On the day of the shooting, he'd had a light-up Uber decal in his windshield of his vehicle and had been "playing shirt," wearing an overshirt to not draw attention.

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After the shooting, the agent received supportive and even congratulatory messages from colleagues and superiors. "You are a legend among agents you better f--in know that," wrote one. "Beers on me when I see you at training."

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One thing that makes the Martinez shooting a valuable case study is the insight it provides into the mindset of the agent involved. We see his texts with other federal agents, hear his court testimony, and listen in to conversations with fellow federal agents immediately after the shooting.

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This C.B.P. agent, like others, had been lifted from his regular duties and placed in an unfamiliar interior city. In Maine, he was responsible for hundreds of miles of partially remote border and coastline. In Chicago, he was among people protesting and exercising their constitutional rights.

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Later, she saw Kash Patel share a video an SUV aggressively ramming an agent’s car. He attributed the video to her case, but the SUV wasn’t hers. She saw Tricia McLaughlin attribute a quote to her, “Hey to all my gang let’s f— those mother f—-s up,” but she had never written it.

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The process was disorienting. While recovering from injuries, she also fought to restore her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality. “I don’t anticipate this Administration ever retracting their statements. The truth does not matter,” a lawyer in another shooting case said.

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Martinez, who is 31, stumbled into a truck stop on the South Side of Chicago after being shot five times by a federal immigration officer. About a mile away, the agent who shot her was standing on the side of the road with a group of other agents. “I’m good, bro,” he told one of them.

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While Martinez was still being treated for her wounds, D.H.S. called her a domestic terrorist. She learned this two days later when she was released from a jail. The phrase made her think of “someone who builds bombs,” or “Osama bin Laden’s daughter.” “Literally the opposite of me,” she told me.

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Barry Yeoman
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There's been so much important writing about Minneapolis recently. I have compiled some of the most stirring, informative, beautiful, and surprising. @kristenradtke.bsky.social @rubycramer.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social @chashomans.bsky.social @kellymcb.bsky.social @philipkennicott.bsky.social

barry-yeoman.beehiiv.com‘I live in a city of heroes’A collection of some of the best writing about the federal occupation of Minneapolis and the local resistance. Plus, a song for the moment.
Ruby Cramer
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Surrounded by ICE facilities in rural, remote Louisiana, an immigration lawyer tries to keep up with the churn of Trump’s deportation operation. New in @washingtonpost.com’s Deep Reads today: wapo.st/41W1NMa

wapo.stA last lifeline in ‘detention alley’Most of immigration lawyer Christopher Kinnison’s clients in rural Louisiana are detainees. Every week, more calls come in, and Kinnison hasn’t been able to process what his days at work are becoming.

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