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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

In the chats, officials mocked immigrants and discussed video edits that might help legitimize the administration’s stance. The team also knowingly used copyright-protected music without permission, among other techniques designed to boost their online attention.

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

New from me & @drewharwell.com: We got access to thousands of internal chat messages from ICE showing how the agency is working to satisfy the White House’s “insatiable” demands for videos of arrests 🎁 wapo.st/4s6YnC5

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‘It’s a war’: Inside ICE’s media machine

Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

With the best reporting team @megkelly.bsky.social, Rael Ombour, Sarah Blaskey, @abtran.bsky.social, @arturgalocha.bsky.social, Eric Lau, Katharine Houreld, Arlette Bashizi, Elisha Iragi + beautiful design from Irfan Uraizee + patient & brilliant editing from Eric Rich, Nadine Ajaka & Manuel Canales

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

These health supplies, as well as Gilbert’s medication, were deemed “lifesaving” by the Trump administration. That means that, despite cuts, the aid should have been distributed to the world’s most vulnerable populations. Our reporting shows that this did not happen. 8/

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

$190 million worth of health supplies were scheduled to arrive at in-country warehouses by late June. But, we found orders worth nearly $76 million were not delivered. Supplies valued at $63 million were delivered but late. Those shipments were delayed on average by 41 days. 7/

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Our data analysis shows that 60 percent of USAID pediatric antiretroviral medications meant to be delivered in the first half of the year were late or did not arrive at all. 6/

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The local warehouse where USAID HIV medication is housed is less than four miles from the hospital where Gilbert got his medication. Though Rubio issued a "lifesaving" aid waiver, the contract to bring HIV meds. from warehouses to clinics was cancelled, leaving them stranded. 5/

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The head nurse at Dimercia Clinic told us that Gilbert had grown weak from the lack of medication. “The deep breathing, the fast death, that was the malaria, but the big problem was HIV,” the nurse said. 4/

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Without it, he began to get sick. Then, on March 15, he tested positive for malaria. A week later, he was admitted to Dimercia Clinic with severe malaria and a 103-degree fever. He passed away in the early hours of March 24. 3/

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Gilbert was HIV positive and lived in Lualaba, a southern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo where USAID provides free HIV medication. He was scheduled to get a refill of his HIV medication in February but only received a partial supply because medication was scarce. 2/

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Marco Rubio has repeatedly said no one died because of the foreign aid cuts. But seven-year-old Gilbert Kayombo did. Our team of reporters analyzed data from the first half of this year and reported across two continents to prove the fatal consequences of these cuts. 1/ wapo.st/46GSwcv

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The government’s final report in July identified 74 burial sites while acknowledging that the numbers are incomplete. Overall, The Post documented 66 additional cemeteries where students were buried at or near former boarding schools. Here’s our detailed methodology --

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Fire swept through the wooden dormitory of St. Joseph’s Mission School in Idaho in 1925 and killed six students, according to reports. Their death certificates indicate that they were buried right beside the school at the mission cemetery.

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

We used historical maps, death certificates and census rolls to locate students and possible burial sites, and used cartographic regression, a process comparing maps over time, to help identify graveyards.

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Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. wapo.st/3DnIr9q Here’s how we found our evidence.

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More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures

The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.

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