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Ruby Cramer

@rubycramer.bsky.social
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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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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thanks for reading. So many avenues. Especially agree about long-term chronic health issues.
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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the definitive piece on what happened in Minneapolis, by @embits.bsky.social, who was there from the beginning and has stayed with the story long after most reporters left. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Happened in Minneapolis
Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/09/2026
More harrowing reporting on this from Springfield via @rns.org's @kathrynpost.bsky.social: Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE Note the header image: That's the people praying over Pierre Damas Bel's grieving family. religionnews.com/2026/09/01/t...
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Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — ‘All I want is to see my husband back,’ said Denise Gedeon, whose pastor-husband, Joubert Adrien, was detained by ICE — one of two pastors arrested during a weekend that also...
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick. The Scare: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The MAHA Custody Battle
A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
IT'S ME. save us from ourselves!
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
After the shooting, the agent received supportive and even congratulatory messages from colleagues and superiors. "You are a legend among agents you better f--in know that," wrote one. "Beers on me when I see you at training."
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
He testified about traversing the city incognito, because officers had been followed to their hotels and restaurants. On the day of the shooting, he'd had a light-up Uber decal in his windshield of his vehicle and had been "playing shirt," wearing an overshirt to not draw attention.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This C.B.P. agent, like others, had been lifted from his regular duties and placed in an unfamiliar interior city. In Maine, he was responsible for hundreds of miles of partially remote border and coastline. In Chicago, he was among people protesting and exercising their constitutional rights.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
One thing that makes the Martinez shooting a valuable case study is the insight it provides into the mindset of the agent involved. We see his texts with other federal agents, hear his court testimony, and listen in to conversations with fellow federal agents immediately after the shooting.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The process was disorienting. While recovering from injuries, she also fought to restore her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality. “I don’t anticipate this Administration ever retracting their statements. The truth does not matter,” a lawyer in another shooting case said.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Later, she saw Kash Patel share a video an SUV aggressively ramming an agent’s car. He attributed the video to her case, but the SUV wasn’t hers. She saw Tricia McLaughlin attribute a quote to her, “Hey to all my gang let’s f— those mother f—-s up,” but she had never written it.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
While Martinez was still being treated for her wounds, D.H.S. called her a domestic terrorist. She learned this two days later when she was released from a jail. The phrase made her think of “someone who builds bombs,” or “Osama bin Laden’s daughter.” “Literally the opposite of me,” she told me.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Martinez, who is 31, stumbled into a truck stop on the South Side of Chicago after being shot five times by a federal immigration officer. About a mile away, the agent who shot her was standing on the side of the road with a group of other agents. “I’m good, bro,” he told one of them.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The case of Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen and preschool teaching assistant who was shot by a federal agent in Chicago, offers the most complete picture yet of a D.H.S. shooting and its aftermath: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thank you Barry!
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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 29/01/2026
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
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‘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.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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...
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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.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
An ICE deal, a threat, and the story of a small town in 2025: wapo.st/47FDvtm
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On edge in small-town America
In a divided nation, one Wisconsin village feels everyday life begin to fray.
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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"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
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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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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.
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Longreads @longreads.com · 30/04/2025
"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." @rubycramer.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com:
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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.
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Ruby Cramer @rubycramer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
belatedly - thank you!!!
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