Raymon Troncoso
LightNews LightNews
raytroncoso.bsky.social
Raymon Troncoso
@raytroncoso.bsky.social
110 followers 44 following 0 posts
Journalist. Combat sports hobbyist, gamer and pop-culture nerd.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
propublica.org
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

(Published Oct. 2025)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
nicolefoy.bsky.social
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year

My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
southsideweekly.bsky.social
Several Chicago newsrooms spent two months collecting and analyzing evidence of ICE & Border Patrol's use of tear gas and pepper spray in Chicago.

They found that agents deployed chemical agents nearly 50 times. Most uses occurred after a judge ordered federal agents to restrict their use.
Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
southsideweekly.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cjciaramella.bsky.social
Latest: An 8th Amendment lawsuit challenging extreme heat in a South Florida prison put sensors around the prison.

Data show the place is a heat sink. The heat index almost never dropped below 88 degrees. One room recorded a peak heat index of 119 ... at 10 p.m. reason.com/2025/11/17/h...
Heat index inside a South Florida prison hit 119 degrees, report says
A lawsuit challenging extreme heat in a Florida prison collected temperature readings during the summer. It found brutal heat day and night.
reason.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cjciaramella.bsky.social
Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record.

But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...
A Portland family says their dad was wrongly arrested by ICE. Now he's lost in immigration detention.
ICE arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland. Now he's lost in immigration detention as his family fights for answers.
reason.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cjciaramella.bsky.social
Inevitable: plaintiffs in Chicago lawsuit against DHS ask why the feds can put together fashy video edits for social media but not give them any of the raw footage through discovery storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cjciaramella.bsky.social
Latest: Florida scrubbed arrests of U.S. citizens from an online immigration enforcement dashboard after a reporter for the @miaminewtimes.com asked about it reason.com/2025/10/24/f...
Florida scrubs arrests of U.S. citizens from immigration enforcement data
After the 'Miami New Times' asked why nearly two dozen U.S. citizens showed up on a Florida immigration enforcement dashboard, those numbers disappeared.
reason.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
jackjenkins.me
Big year for photos of clergy enduring pain while protesting ICE.

· Rev. David Black, Chicago Sun-Times: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

· Rev. Jorge Bautista, SF Chron: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

· Rev. Hannah Kardon, Chicago Protest Photography: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
Rev. David Black being pepper sprayed by ICE/DHS agents. Rev. Jorge Bautista squints in pain after being shot with apparent pepper balls by ICE/DHS agents. Rev. Hannah Kardon is arrested by three Illinois State Police outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility.
October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cjciaramella.bsky.social
Once more with feeling: "It matters when the government lies, because a democratic government that destroys the presumption that it's accountable for its actions will soon either stop being democratic or stop being a government." reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
Homeland Security won't stop lying about who immigration enforcers are arresting
In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.
reason.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
nicolefoy.bsky.social
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.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
charlesornstein.bsky.social
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cjciaramella.bsky.social
Inbox: Friends of the Everglades has filed a public records lawsuit for financial records on the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp after Florida ignored its requests www.everglades.org/wp-content/u... #FOIA
www.everglades.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
tktk.bsky.social
NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing

Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate
More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.
www.nbcnews.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
hunterw.bsky.social
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp
Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cjciaramella.bsky.social
Latest: A judge ruled the New York State Police must disclose the names of officers it redacted from misconduct records sought by the NYCLU.

It's the latest in a five-years-and-running FOIA battle over police misconduct records in New York reason.com/2025/07/24/c...
Court rules New York State Police must disclose officer names in misconduct records
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York State Police have been fighting for years over misconduct records that the state legislature made public in 2020.
reason.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
cnn.com
George Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and father of two, had been planning his three-year-old daughter’s Minnie Mouse birthday party at the park for weeks.

Those plans fell apart last week when Retes – a US citizen – was detained by federal immigration agents. cnn.it/3GUP3hB
July 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
propublica.org
Among the waste uncovered by ProPublica and @cbsnews.com: Texas reimbursed anti-abortion groups $14 each time they handed out donated goods or materials, regardless of cost.

Thus, handing out one pamphlet reaped the same payment as a pack of diapers.

(Published July 2024)
July 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
washingtonpost.com
The Justice Department said “no incriminating ‘client list’” exists in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case, contradicting claims by top Trump administration officials that the public could expect thousands of pages of evidence.
What Trump officials said about releasing the Epstein files
“It is sitting on my desk right now,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in February of Epstein’s alleged client list. On Monday her agency said the list doesn’t exist.
wapo.st
July 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
propublica.org
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives.

By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
www.propublica.org
May 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
nytimes.com
President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the U.S.'s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its consequences.
The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
propublica.org
NEW: Car mechanic Luke Seaborn was the de facto face of Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the governor’s health insurance program for impoverished residents.

Then technical glitches and red tape caused him to lose his coverage — twice.

By @savmargaret.bsky.social
He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice, burea...
www.propublica.org
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
propublica.org
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reposted by Raymon Troncoso
zivabranstetter.bsky.social
So humbled that our project, "The Life of the Mother," has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. Thank you Mayron Hollis and the families of Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, Josseli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain and Porsha Ngumezi for trusting us to tell their stories. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The award, for exposing the fatal consequences of abortion bans, marks ProPublica’s 8th Pulitzer; investigation into mental health care access is named a Pulitzer finalist.
www.propublica.org
May 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM