Ruby Cramer
@rubycramer.bsky.social
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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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
‘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.
barry-yeoman.beehiiv.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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
This is a portrait of Minneapolis as told through a small city government that is, its officials say, "underwater." Jacob Frey, the mayor, has been trying to put words to what it feels like to be in the city under an "occupying force" and an "invasion."
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The Mayor of an Occupied City
Jacob Frey, of Minneapolis, is governing a city under siege by its own federal government.
www.newyorker.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:35 PM
This is a portrait of Minneapolis as told through a small city government that is, its officials say, "underwater." Jacob Frey, the mayor, has been trying to put words to what it feels like to be in the city under an "occupying force" and an "invasion."
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
An ICE deal, a threat, and the story of a small town in 2025: wapo.st/47FDvtm
On edge in small-town America
In a divided nation, one Wisconsin village feels everyday life begin to fray.
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
An ICE deal, a threat, and the story of a small town in 2025: wapo.st/47FDvtm
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"Hannah Dreier and @rubycramer.bsky.social's latest pieces bring human scale drama to often-difficult-to-grasp discussions of wildfires and immigration, full of details you could nearly reach out and touch." - @jacobfeldman.bsky.social on his top picks
September 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Hannah Dreier and @rubycramer.bsky.social's latest pieces bring human scale drama to often-difficult-to-grasp discussions of wildfires and immigration, full of details you could nearly reach out and touch." - @jacobfeldman.bsky.social on his top picks
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
A 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.
wapo.st
August 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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
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"Lisa didn’t know what happened to her patients after they left the hospital. Her concern was the short time she did have with them."
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In the NYC subway: Rising assault, mental illness and a nurse who decides when to intervene
Amid calls to make the transit system safer, her mission is to treat people with severe mental illness whom many riders have come to fear.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"Lisa didn’t know what happened to her patients after they left the hospital. Her concern was the short time she did have with them."
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