Emily Bazelon

My latest book is CHARGED. (Find it at Staff writer NYT Mag. Co-host Slate Political Gabfest. Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School.

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

Applications are open through June 12 for The New York Times Corps. It’s a talent-mentorship program for college students pursuing journalism to receive career guidance from @nytimes journalists. https://t.co/HRIIfucZxC

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

Great to be part of the kickoff for this excellent book. @ProfOsseiOwusu is giving law schools and lawyers a powerful tool for self-reflection.

[Shaun Ossei Owusu (@profosseiowusu.bsky.social) @ProfOsseiOwusu]

Had a fun conversation with @emilybazelon yesterday. We discussed law school, firms, & public interest law. We also talked about how law takes messy human problems and turns them into smaller, technical ones—& what that means for how we understand this moment and inequality.

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

@Arosaflores agree — many of the quotes I think show why it's the harshest immigration crackdown since the 1950s.

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

@SpeakSamuel @rachelposer @mattbpurdy Hi Sam, I hear you -- there was so much to cover! And we didn't have sources with first-hand knowledge of everything.

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

What's it like inside DHS during the harshest crackdown on immigration since the 1950s? @rachelposer & @mattbpurdy & I interviewed 80+ ICE and HSI agents, lawyers, analysts, officials. They tell the story of Trump 2 at DHS in their own words. (Gift link)

https://t.co/PaDgJuzw70

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"Trump Has Cut Legal Immigration More Than Illegal Immigration" https://t.co/lIaXsj908Z via @CatoInstitute

[Jia Lynn Yang @jialynnyang]

My latest is on self-deportation, the growing shadow zone of our immigration system, in which fear operates where the law cannot or will not go. https://t.co/A5gkebuPab

[Andrea Castillo @andreamcastillo]

In September, DHS started advising immigrant children that they could either self-deport or expect long term detention. This week, a California judge ordered the agency to stop. https://t.co/dXaiCsG2Tj

[Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa]

We spent months documenting how the Trump administration transformed the immigration court system from the inside out. 85+ interviews. Judges, federal officials, and the families caught in the gears. Huge props to @NickNehamas for steering the ship. https://t.co/VhRNRmqjH0

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

The Law & Justice Journalism Project is taking applications for our Pennsylvania fellowship — check it out if you're an early or mid-career journalist in PA looking for mentoring & training! https://t.co/z5pLw04hw5

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

@elainejgodfrey @JillFilipovic )

[Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg]

Late last year I began speaking to children and their parents detained at Dilley to hear about their experiences in their own words. Parents told me some kids were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide. 2/
Read my first investigation: https://t.co/Jx5ZncxbFL

[Elizabeth Williamson @NYTLiz]

A look at the life of the best-protected aspiring country singer in America.
Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team https://t.co/vi7Wa8KQIu via @NYTimes

[lori aratani @loriara]

Packed house for tonight’s Farewell to The Washington Post’s Book World section event ⁦@PoliticsProse⁩ 📚😢

[Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush]

NEW: It's not just Minneapolis. U.S. attorneys offices around the country are in a free fall with 14% of employees fleeing last year, a catastrophic exodus.

Recruiting is stalled over Trump loyalty demands.

Me @alanfeuer @dvdwyer @londonoe @nytmike

https://t.co/iyQVqht5pd

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

NYT: FBI agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Renee Good's SUV received orders to stop, including from Kash Patel.

The fear? "a civil rights investigation would contradict Trump’s claim that Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle."

https://t.co/z6u2F2dkPx

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion

Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million

Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million

Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion

Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million

Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5

@JeffBezos

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The FBI agent who tried to investigate the ICE officer who shot Renee Good to death has resigned after the bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the killing. @alanfeuer @GlennThrush https://t.co/voTajIbAEa

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

Patel fired another group of agents this week. It's a pattern. There's a news event — this time, Jack Smith's testimony — and then a group of people lose their jobs. Usually they're employees who worked on cases that are now disfavored.

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

For the NYT, @rachelposer and I talked to 45 former and current FBI agents & analysts. Here's what they have to say about how the bureau has changed in the last year, in their own voices. For many of them, this was their dream job. (Gift link.) https://t.co/8EamU2WsR0