I will never forgot the all-staff meeting after layoffs were announced where someone asked Moog whether he considered taking a pay cut himself (no, of course) — and why reporters and producers had to pay for CPM’s financial woes, instead of the people (ahem, him) who caused them. This is so gross.

Question for the historians and public historians on here: Who teaches you how to write history for various audiences? Serious Q. Are there classes in academic programs? Residencies? Working groups?

My sister is an incredible leather worker. She just launched her new collection of bags, belts and jewelry. Everything is designed and hand made by her. Just in awe and wanted to share. (I have a prototype of a small tan bag from years ago and take it everywhere) huntersavoy.com/collections/...

The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump Administration from deploying National Guard troops in the Chicago area. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/s...

The majority of archival material out there has NOT been digitized. So if you really want to figure something out, odds are that you have to go to an archive and dig. Historians are trained to dig.

This is the one to watch.

A group of Black Maryland lawmakers plan to propose a bill that would create a commission to investigate the deaths of hundreds of Black children who died at a segregated juvenile detention facility during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Their stories surfaced in fragments, often only within families. A coalition led by Asian American women is pushing Congress to make them part of the official record. This piece is published in partnership with More to Her Story:

Do these guys not know who their readers are?

Disturbing. We must keep ProPublica authentic and transparent to its readers.

So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again. It's going on a week now. Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.

For over a year I’ve been gathering documents from the Washington state department of archaeology, trying to understand why it’s so hard for tribal nations to protect their cultural heritage, even when the state archaeologist is trying to help. Here's what I found. www.hcn.org/articles/was...

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All of this. “The anger isn’t about the goods. It’s about the breach of contract. The American Deal was that Effort ~ Security. Effort brought your Hope strike closer. But because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.”

Newsrooms have made online maps of where ICE has arrested people. What would it look like to mark these incidents in physical places?

Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails. Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

"American Colonists and founders thought Native American societies were simple and primitive... [but they] were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power." theconversation.com/before-the-a...

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

Both of my parents (who exclusively attended segregated schools) are only a few years older than Ruby Bridges. Economists could do much better work on segregation if they took the time to understand what it was and what it did to people who are still here.

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

"They spent a month in detention before she gave up on her asylum case and asked to be sent back to Venezuela. Mejías later told me her son cried for his father and refused to eat the food served in jail. He lost weight." Always read @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

In Saturday morning’s @propublica.org newsletter, Melissa Sanchez wrote about her recent story on an immigration raid on a Chicago apt building. She was able to locate and speak with detained and deported people who experienced it. Here’s what they told her: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

I'm really proud of this story and my colleagues -- @jodiscohen.bsky.social @tchristianmiller.bsky.social Sebastian Rotella and @mariamelba.bsky.social ... best collab ever. We got help from A LOT of people @propublica.org and beyond, including Ronna Risquez, and Andrea Morales from @mlk50.com

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

And Illinois State Police provides access to gang database info to DHS. In June, I found that DHS Enforcement and Removal Operations signed a data sharing agreement with ISP in *2024*. news.wttw.com/2025/06/02/i...

High Country News is another independent journalism outlet that does great work, focusing on the American West (public lands, indigenous affairs, climate change, water, arts & culture); a digital subscription is only $25/yr.

Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...

“There were about seven other day laborers on the corner there that scattered, and [the agents] seemed to just grab the first person they could get their hands on,” a witness told @katieprout.bsky.social. Horrifying reporting on unhoused people disappearing: chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...

At least 26 unhoused Chicagoans have been kidnapped by federal agents since September, including a man I'm calling Theo, a quiet day laborer who lived near Gompers Park. Two other people were also recently taken from this community. chicagoreader.com/news/ice-bor...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months. Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy. "Liberty once lost is lost forever."

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Lawyers play a video that was played for Bovino. In it, he tells agents "everybody fucking gets it if they touch you." "This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Some airlines are stepping in to help feed air traffic controllers and other unpaid federal aviation workers who missed their first full paycheck on Tuesday, Day 28 of the government shutdown.

Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief in charge of operations in Chicago, told a judge today the government needs more time to submit use-of-force reports to the court because of the "sheer volume" of reports

The judge is now walking Bovino through the TRO. Ellis: "Section 1A means, essentially, that you've got to leave journalists alone. If they're doing their job, they need to be left alone to do their job."

This morning’s Big Story newsletter from @propublica.org: 📌 Oklahoma’s shift toward conservatism and Christianity in public schools has come amid abysmal test scores and high dropout rates. www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

FULL STORY: A Border Patrol agent pointed a gun at state Rep. Hoan Huynh while he warned North Side residents that immigration agents were conducting enforcement operations, said Huynh, a Vietnam refugee who is running to represent Illinois' 9th District in Congress. @wttw.bsky.social

In 1861, abolitionists in Chicago claimed no “fugitive slave” had been arrested in Chicago in 8 years. But after Lincoln was inaugurated, the new U.S. Marshal for the territory started making arrests. The more progressive papers howled and a vigilance committee was formed: (1/)

“They don’t tell us a lot of things, man,” said an officer in a marked Chicago police SUV. “We’re just little pawns.”

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇 (Published Dec. 2024)

Feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park as neighbors respond to them detaining people. One person was taken, though another was freed. “I was afraid to go over there. I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back."