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policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
a few days ago, i made a stupid, careless joke. i wasn’t aware of who i was quote-tweeting, which is on me. this hurt a lot of people, and i am extremely sorry and will be more careful, both with my words and who i engage with online, going forward
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
taking pictures of this pynchon book like it’s a concert
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
exactly 😭
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
wait i mean up a hill. whatever
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
i feel like i’m pushing a rock up a boulder fr
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
the feeling is SO mutual (and the book is… i’m writing as fast as i can 😭 if you have any tips please lmk)
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
some of the most fun i’ve ever had is writing about how much i love lana for hell world <3
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
luke ♥️♥️♥️
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
be the change you want to see in the world fr!!
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
jessica!! thank you so much :’)
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
everyone eat more pastries NOW!!!!!
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
i never lost mine. perhaps due to all the croissants
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
no weapon formed against me shall prosper
ham and cheese croissant bitch!!!! iced latte also
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
i am partial to the bladee version but i find this beautiful as well
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
eight people ahead of me in bakery line. only two ham and cheese croissants remain in the case. i am praying to every deity imaginable right now
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Maybe it’s worth highlighting that this is/has been project of ending legal immigration because legal immigration since 1965 has been less white. It’s never been about “enforcement of laws” although restrictionists found that focus on undocu ppl helped legitimize their ethnic cleansing project.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
if you think about it i’m kind of exactly like wren provenance, girl anthropologist
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I am sure I will regret weighing in here but this piece also uses the profile structure to get at what some of what really matters: how movements stay together and fracture, what goes into organizing, online v offline, how activism sometimes calls for annoying earnestness, etc.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
thank you kelsey!!
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
thank you :)
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Please do not let Will’s tantrum over getting the attention he wanted distract you from the amazing Minneapolis coverage Gaby has been producing all month (all while also writing a book because she’s just that good)
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
for that series, i reported on CBP’s. ash surveillance apparatus in the sonoran desert, and its “prevention through deterrence” strategy, which funnels migrants onto dangerous routes—and which predates DHS by more than a decade: www.theverge.com/c/23203881/b...
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The Most Surveilled Place in America
“The idea is that if enough people get hurt, they’ll stop coming.”
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
most of all, i’m proud to work somewhere that knows the problems with ICE don’t begin and end with trump. in 2022 we published a series on DHS’s origins and history, looking at every component agency from CBP to TSA to FEMA www.theverge.com/c/23055922/h...
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Homeland: a special series from The Verge
An exploration of two decades of American life under the Department of Homeland Security.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
i’m very proud of @theverge.com’s ongoing minneapolis coverage. i’m insanely lucky to work somewhere that takes immigration reporting seriously and did so even before trump’s reelection. we took many different approaches to DHS’s operation in MN, maybe they’re not all to your taste. that’s okay!
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
or @miasato.bsky.social’s incisive look at the far-right slopaganda machine that got us into this mess in the first place: www.theverge.com/news/873400/...
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Nick Shirley sets his sights on California
Shirley is looking for content in San Diego
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
or @kristenradtke.bsky.social’s heartbreaking essay on growing up with alex pretti: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
or my forever fave @sarahjeong.bsky.social’s report on ICE tear-gassing children in portland www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
or @seanhollister.bsky.social’s brilliant piece on 3D-printed whistles: www.theverge.com/policy/87495...
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This whistle fights fascists
I print whistles now. You can too.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
or my interview with someone who was detained at whipple after protesting alex pretti’s killing: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...
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‘I was detained by federal agents in Minneapolis’
The story of a man who spent 10 hours in a freezing federal building while his friends and family feared for the worst.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
or perhaps my report on ICE ramping up activity in suburbs and small towns despite announcing a “drawdown” www.theverge.com/policy/87871...
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The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
if you’re mad that i profiled will instead of writing about what “really matters” in minneapolis, may i direct you to my 6,500-word feature on the mutual aid networks there: www.theverge.com/policy/87710...
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ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Scenes from a city under siege
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
i told you i was doing a mini-profile of you as part of a broader series out of minneapolis. and that’s what i did!
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
riding in cars with stancil (i rode in a car with stancil) www.theverge.com/policy/88102...
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Will Stancil is agitating in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis, he pursues ICE and annoys some of his neighbors.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Even though refugees CANNOT apply for green cards until one year after arrival, DHS now claims that the 1980 Refugee Act actually *requires* ICE to “detain and inspect” refugees who don’t have a green card at year one. Reaching this conclusion required overturning decades-old interpretations.
III. Prior Policies
Past policies on this topic include a Memorandum from James Chaparro, ICE Director of Detention and Removal Operations, titled Detention of Refugees Admitted Under INA § 207 Who Have Failed to Adjust to Lawful Permanent Resident Status (May 10, 2010) (Chaparro Memorandum).
Under those policies:
Failure by a refugee to obtain LPR status, by itself, was not treated as a basis for removal and was not considered a proper basis for detention.
If an unadjusted refugee was arrested, DHS was required, within 48 hours, to either: (1) release the individual or (2) initiate removal proceedings by issuing a Notice to Appear. If it became apparent earlier that no ground of inadmissibility or deportability applied, the individual was to be promptly released.
IV. Rescission
DHS rescinded the Chapparo Memorandum on December 18, 2025.2 While ICE believes the December rescission is valid, DHS has undertaken a fresh look at the past policies and rescinds them anew. For the reasons stated below, we rescind the Chaparro Memorandum and any other policies that conflict with the policies stated in this memorandum.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
talking to a college journalism class today thinking about the best advice i ever gave a group of journalism students (if you're the person at a party who's looking around the room for more important people to talk to everyone will notice and they WILL hate you <3)
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/02/2026
There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
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The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
[starship troopers VO] would you like to know more? via @gabydvj.bsky.social thebaffler.com/salvos/land-...
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Land Ho | Gaby Del Valle
The tradwife life is based on lies of omission. Is that what makes it so appealing to such a broad swath of followers?
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 18/02/2026
Back in 2023, @gabydvj.bsky.social wrote on the magazine’s weird schtick in a longer essay on tradwives, conspiracies, and nostalgic kitsch: thebaffler.com/salvos/land-...
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
😈😈😈
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.
Mohsen Mahdawi gestures as he is escorted by immigration authorities in handcuffs during his arrest in Colchester, Vermont, on April 14, 2025. Photo by Christopher Helali via Reuters
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Hope you'll read my report the upcoming trial — I'll be watching closely. www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
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Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 13/02/2026
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/LRrOesS
Verge headline: ICE moves out to the suburbs
by Gaby Del Valle

Photo: Queen Anne Courts mobile home park where there ICE activity has been reported in Lakeville, MN on February 5th, 2026. Lots of snow but no people around.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
border czar tom homan said DHS is ending its surge in minnesota. but minnesotans i spoke to (literally yesterday!) said ICE had ramped up its presence in st. cloud and surrounding small towns www.theverge.com/policy/87871...
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The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I find it hard these days to read too much about what's happening but I try always to stop what I'm doing to read @gabydvj.bsky.social and this is great. Stay for the history at the end.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
carly 😭😭😭 thank you
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Really grateful for @gabydvj.bsky.social's in-depth reporting, especially crucial in finding the continuity amidst the new chaos and cruelty, and clearly showcasing the lines between what people can do for each other on their own, and what government needs to do. www.theverge.com/policy/87710...
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ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Scenes from a city under siege
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
kelsey!!!! thank you thank you thank you
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