Emmanuel Dzotsi
@emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social
Reporter telling stories at This American Life. Used to host Reply All and once upon a time, Serial.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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The neighborhoods won by Sliwa sound like Stardew Valley locations.
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The neighborhoods won by Sliwa sound like Stardew Valley locations.
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The West has Fallen. The Mayor of New York City is an Arsenal fan.
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The West has Fallen. The Mayor of New York City is an Arsenal fan.
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After we uncovered a pattern of altered data, CCRB officials confirmed the police watchdog is deliberately miscategorizing some NYPD misconduct allegations in public data to protect officers' reputations, at the request of unnamed "stakeholders."
The City's Police Watchdog Is Burying Allegations That Cops Lied, at the Request of Unnamed 'Stakeholders'
Board officials confirmed that the practice, which had not been publicly disclosed until Hell Gate revealed it earlier this month, is meant to protect NYPD officers' reputations.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
After we uncovered a pattern of altered data, CCRB officials confirmed the police watchdog is deliberately miscategorizing some NYPD misconduct allegations in public data to protect officers' reputations, at the request of unnamed "stakeholders."
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it's crazy they trying to run the 80s black welfare mother narrative on snap benefits rn with a constituency in need that has already run up on a government building once
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
it's crazy they trying to run the 80s black welfare mother narrative on snap benefits rn with a constituency in need that has already run up on a government building once
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Hi, I’m Alex goldman. I used to host a podcast called Reply All that some people liked. For the past year I have been making a show called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. We now have 25 episodes (50 if you count premium episodes). You might enjoy it! Listen if you liked reply all
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hi, I’m Alex goldman. I used to host a podcast called Reply All that some people liked. For the past year I have been making a show called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. We now have 25 episodes (50 if you count premium episodes). You might enjoy it! Listen if you liked reply all
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I have a small thing on the show this week about me and my dad. Have a listen!
Emmanuel explores the phenomenon of people lying on first dates to project a better version of themselves, including a very personal example from his own life.
My Other Self
What happens when people create alternate versions of themselves and release them into the wild?
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Prologue: Host Ira G...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I have a small thing on the show this week about me and my dad. Have a listen!
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Why doesn’t anybody in the movies driving a getaway car ever just drive a black Toyota Corolla? They’d never find you!
October 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Why doesn’t anybody in the movies driving a getaway car ever just drive a black Toyota Corolla? They’d never find you!
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
not these commentators trying to make out like Partey is being booed rn because he's a former arsenal player. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Thomas Partey: Why is he playing against Spurs before rape charge court appearance?
Thomas Partey is
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September 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
not these commentators trying to make out like Partey is being booed rn because he's a former arsenal player. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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very funny that some of the same people who spent years calling anyone sympathetic to BLM a “racial essentialist” are now up in arms that a ugandan-born south asian man would describe himself as african and asian because, of course, you can only choose one
July 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
very funny that some of the same people who spent years calling anyone sympathetic to BLM a “racial essentialist” are now up in arms that a ugandan-born south asian man would describe himself as african and asian because, of course, you can only choose one
I’m guest hosting the show this week! 😎
On the radio this weekend: People on a mission to achieve their goals before their window of opportunity closes. www.thisamericanlife.org/863/champion...
June 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’m guest hosting the show this week! 😎
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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At this point Arsenal can simply do nothing, let the contract expire & live with this stain on the club’s history. Or they can make it much much worse.
The player we can’t write about and football’s ‘systemic failure’ to deal with sexual violence
A Premier League player is representing his club despite facing accusations of sexual violence. And nobody can talk or do anything about it.
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
At this point Arsenal can simply do nothing, let the contract expire & live with this stain on the club’s history. Or they can make it much much worse.
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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Have a small thing on the radio this week, and a rather large piece of concrete on my desk.
For our "Museum of Now" episode this week, @emmanueldzotsi.bsky.social brings a chunk of concrete with some yellow paint on it, an artifact from the demolition site in DC where the giant Black Lives Matter letters were dug out of the street.
Museum of Now - This American Life
Artifacts and exhibits of this particular moment we are living through.
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April 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Have a small thing on the radio this week, and a rather large piece of concrete on my desk.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
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lots of you said "good vibes only" but the vibes are pretty bad...how do you account for that....explain yourself
March 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
lots of you said "good vibes only" but the vibes are pretty bad...how do you account for that....explain yourself
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NEW: Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil filed their amended and significantly expanded habeas petition tonight seeking his release. Among the most significant additions is a challenge to Sec. Rubio's "determination" about Khalil.
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March 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
NEW: Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil filed their amended and significantly expanded habeas petition tonight seeking his release. Among the most significant additions is a challenge to Sec. Rubio's "determination" about Khalil.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
March 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.