ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?

Our “The End of Aid” series about the fallout from the destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development was named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category. www.propublica.org/series/the-e...

JUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.

"The ProPublica tips truck was a key component for generating sources." www.propublica.org/article/prop...

So incredibly proud of @texasmonthly.bsky.social and @freshparsley.bsky.social, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. His gutting, first-person account of last summer's Texas flooding is one of the most powerful stories I've ever read. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Austin friends! Join me, @liseolsen.bsky.social, and Kate Winkler Dawson this Saturday, at the KUT Festival. I'll be interviewing Lise and Kate about their extraordinary investigative work. Location has changed to East Austin. RSVP for free tickets. More info: cvent.utexas.edu/event/kutfes...

This book is amazing, everything I thought it would be and more. Can't wait to celebrate it in July!

I'll be kicking off my book tour in Austin at @bookpeople.com, in partnership with @texasbookfest.bsky.social. Join me and the brilliant @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on 7/13! From there, I'll head to Houston, Dallas, NYC, DC & Florida. More details to come. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

As more states enact survivor-justice laws, it remains to be seen if the criminal justice system is capable of perceiving someone like Wilkens not just as a perpetrator who must be punished but also as a victim deserving of mercy. Read the full story by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social:

ICYMI: A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real @robert-faturechi.bsky.social did some reporting of his own.

Join DIRTBAG, MASSACHUSETTS author Isaac Fitzgerald on June 2nd discussing AMERICAN RAMBLER: WALKING THE TRAIL OF JOHNNY APPLESEED with Pamela Colloff. 🥾🍎 More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

The paperback edition of WITHOUT CONSENT (with a very different cover) isn’t out till November 3 but pre-orders are welcome right now! www.harpercollins.com/products/wit...

When Bondi took over, the DOJ declined to prosecute a staggering 23,000 criminal cases, including those stemming from yearslong investigations into charges of terrorism, white collar crime and drugs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“Whatever this bundle of personal-brand rights McConaughey is asserting morphs into over time … we might one day look back and see that [he] has trademarked something else entirely: A prototype for personal agency in a world of AI."

Was Sam Houston's signature a little much? Sure. But yours could be a little more.

Please read this enraging @mississippitoday.org investigation into the practice of striking prospective Black jurors from Mississippi juries. Prosecutors cited "strange hair" or a bad "vibe"--and appeals courts upheld it. SCOTUS looks at one such case on 3/31: mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

The iconic Cesar Chavez mural in East Austin...is gone.

Would you look at that... I won the New York City Book Award! www.nysoclib.org/2025-2026-ne...

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

When my mother died, I wrote a letter to the name plaintiff on her case—who was serving a life sentence for an unthinkable crime—to talk about grief. When he passed, his daughter reached out said she’d like me to tell her story too. My latest for @rollingstone.com: apple.news/A7c7VYYnrTc6...

My latest, a collaboration between @propublica.org + @nytimes.com, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine. The gift link leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by Julia Whalen: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social shares stories that one incarcerated woman collected inside prison. The accounts speak to what they see as a link between domestic abuse and their convictions. Powerful. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

It’s awful to force these victims to recount their abuse decades later (and get cross-examined by a DA) for a wisp of hope for release when they should never have been in prison www.propublica.org/article/okla...

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Like everything @pamelacolloff.bsky.social writes, this is well worth your time: www.propublica.org/article/okla...

ProPublica's investigative reporting is amazing! We need independent, reader supported journalism like never before. Please support ProPublica if you can, as I do.

Obviously reading any Pam Colloff piece is a must but also be on the lookout for Justine van der Leun’s outstanding new book, UNREASONABLE WOMEN, which will be published in June. Criminalized survival is a scourge.

Phenomenal and powerful article, highlighting the limits of legislative reform in reforming a system that fails survivors of abuse, over and over.

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Scoop from @keribla.bsky.social on how Orlando was released decades early from prison and delivered to the Waldorf Astoria:

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

"Every Day, a Leaf Blower," a memoir of working from home.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

But it's not at all limited to elites, and so much of the psychology of Epstein and especially the people who enabled him comes up in @pamelacolloff.bsky.social's forthcoming book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665293...

I reviewed a very good book, and got some thoughts out of my system. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/b...

Here’s a bullet point in the guidebook of American journalism: If Pam wrote it you need to read it.

The Visual Storytelling Team at @propublica.org had an incredible year. Check out some of our favorite work: www.propublica.org/article/year...

Some personal news, as they say: My first book, CATCH THE DEVIL, comes out July 14! I’m hugely grateful to @nytimes.com for naming it as one of the books everyone will be talking about in 2026. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

Our Local Reporting Network is open again for proposals! We're looking for accountability journalism projects from around the country. We cover your salary (up to $80k plus a stipend for benefits) plus provide editing and other support. Apply here:

For @rollingstone.com, I wrote about the making of the myth of sheriff Buford Pusser, and how recent revelations that he was likely responsible for the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline, undercuts that myth -- and begs for a new narrative about intimate partner violence and family trauma.

Look at the lengths that my incredible @propublica.org colleagues @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy went to in order to report this story. Please take a moment to read what they found about the effect of USAID cuts on the world's most vulnerable people: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Florida used expired execution drugs, lower doses, lawsuit claims www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Rubio has repeatedly insisted the govt is restarting life-saving foreign aid. My colleagues found that’s bullshit. www.propublica.org/article/usai... By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

@pamelacolloff.bsky.social said my story on Jennifer Pan in Toronto Life in 2015 was "really beautifully done" and she was "astonished" it was my first crime feature because I "write like a pro" and I "balanced empathy and accuracy perfectly." It made my year.

It's @keribla.bsky.social's first story for @propublica.org! But it won't be her last on the Bureau of Prisons. Do you work for BOP and have tips, documents, or data you can share to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on inside? You should contact Keri. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

This is seismic news. It's hard to overstate how big the implications are for both future prosecutions and wrongful convictions. This NJ decision could reshape how courts across the country treat shaken-baby expert testimony. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...

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