This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

"The hospital was understaffed, and people in the camp were so anemic that they couldn’t get enough blood donations. [Dr.] Otieno had twice donated himself while he was midsurgery in order to save a pregnant woman’s life." @annamaria.bsky.social on the real-world damage done by Trump's aid cuts:

It's like the 12 days of Streisanding.

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

I went to Albany, Ga., 5 years ago to write about Covid-19, but I realized there was a bigger story to be told about the unchecked power of our health care system and who benefits from its growth. Spoiler: Far too few of us. @propublica.org projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

The @fda.gov only sporadically tests generically drugs to ensure quality and efficacy. So @propublica.org did so. Read on to see what we learned. www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

ok yeah people got mad, but this is also a public danger because it can cause wrecks, block emergency vehicles, and scatter pedestrians all over the city streets in dangerous weather conditions…

sharing this again for no reason www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but @propublica.org talked earlier this year to those who Trump had sent to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

The State Dept. painted humanitarian aid cuts as a necessary “disruption.” For the World Food Program, that disruption meant telling 300,000 refugees half of them would receive a meager portion of rice, lentils and oil. The rest would get nothing.

"When Hannah died ... eight years had gone by since the FDA's first study raised questions about Accord. Two years had passed since the FDA had definitive results that Accord didn't match the brand-name medication. Two months after her death, in September 2023, the FDA finally took public action."

Four years after her double lung transplant, 21-year-old Hannah’s body was at war with itself. “Hurry,” she wrote, unable to speak. The generic drug she took to prevent organ rejection should have been working. She didn't know the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case. 🧵

@19thnews.org is hiring two editors!! We're looking for folks who live and breathe for finding distinct angles, shaping stories and editing across platforms. I want to see a creative mind amid rigorous standards — someone who wants to grow *with* us. 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

Not the Epstein files Ticketmaster queue

Cases of Black students being called the N-word, taunted by classmates saying "white power" are being ignored by the Trump administration. @megomatz.bsky.social, @jodiscohen.bsky.social and I found the Ed Dept has not acted on any racial harassment cases since Jan. 21 to hold districts accountable.

It is legitimately hilarious that they couldn't figure out what to do with the "The" before JFK's name so it looks even more tacked on.

My spouse is on tacrolimus for his transplant. I'd never heard of this, how terrifying and heartbreaking.

When Hannah’s pharmacy began filling her tacrolimus prescription with a generic version, the lung transplant patient didn't know something very important: Months earlier, an FDA-commissioned study concluded that this generic was not equivalent to the brand drug -- and that her life was at risk.

If you followed immigration news this year, please support the many, many local journalists who made it possible. Nonprofit media needs support! I kept returning to @lataco.bsky.social @calmatters.org @wbez.org @blockclubchi.bsky.social @documentedny.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com & so many more

If you read nothing else today... just make sure you have some time to grieve

This is basically the Platonic ideal of a penny stock scam www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Trump says that 100% of jobs added this year were in the private sector. That's true — but only because he's overseen a massive drop in government employees. The rate of new job addition is way under 2024. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Must-read series from @propublica.org painstakingly unravels what happened on the ground after Trump's foreign aid cuts This story describes one mother's struggle to keep her children from dying of malnutrition after the US abruptly cut aid to her refugee camp

This is a blow to the conservative effort to embed Christian teachings in state standards in Oklahoma. There have been a number of efforts to push education in the state to the right, which I detailed in this story. It has been a testing ground and remains an interesting state to watch.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down the controversial state social studies standards -- but not because of the many Biblical references and skepticism about the 2020 election and origins of Covid-19. The court ruled the state board of ed violated the Open Meetings Act. Nondoc explains here.

NEW: Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis in the world’s third largest refugee camp. After the U.S. failed to fund the World Food Program in Kenya, we went to the Kakuma refugee camp. This is what we found:

When, after many months of withholding funds to the World Food Program's Kenya operation, the Trump administration finally extended a grant to the organization, it did so at a decreased level. As a result, most people will receive 20% - 60% of the recommended MINIMUM daily calories.

When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t. This is her story... and the story of too many others. New, @propublica.org

Susie Wiles So Mad At Vanity Fair She Might Not Give Them 11 Interviews Next Time Whatever Wiles was aiming for with this interview, we're pretty sure she got it. By @marciej.bsky.social www.wonkette.com/p/susie-wile...

Introducing ProPublica Narrated: Our best long-form investigations, read out loud. Our first story is an epic reading of a 5-part investigation, produced with Theater of War: Why are the people of Albany, Georgia, so sick in a town dominated by its sole hospital?

Notice that JD Vance is doing his speech that at a Uline warehouse? It's not a coincidence. Read this 2022 @propublica.org piece on how the online shopping boom made the family behind Uline into one of the bigger backers of far-right politics:

You can delude yourself into thinking you’re on X to change peoples’ minds all you want, but that platform is now intentionally structured to prevent that. You’re there because you don’t want to lose your reach.

As the Trump administration gutted USAID this year, officials, including Marco Rubio, said over and over that lifesaving operations would continue around the world and that nobody had died because of the cuts.

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

"The property went up for sale in April 2024 for $475k... It sat on the market for one year with no takers. Then real estate agent Patrick C. Fay got involved. In April 2025, the house was re-listed for $875k. The very same day, it was listed as a pending sale, with Fay representing the buyer." 🤔

Trump kept talking about how when the "real polls" came out, you'd see how excited everyone was about the economy. I assumed it was smoke-blowing or that he'd glom onto some Rasmussen nonsense. But the WH doing their own hyper-low-quality polls also makes sense. bsky.app/profile/trum...

NEW: The FDA rarely uses its authority to recall dangerous medical devices and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies, according to a new GAO report.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

When asked who holds him to account, Phoebe CEO Scott Steiner said, “I hope that our consumers do, right? ... They can do that by electing to get care elsewhere.” Except in Albany, they don’t have anywhere else to go. This is Part 5 of "Sick in a Hospital Town" ⬇️

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

Still stuck on the fact that, after all that, they told him to walk home in the snow. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

A special new position at @propublica.org: Come be my partner in editing our crowdsourcing and engagement reporting team! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy

NEW: Christopher Dawson won hundreds of millions in federal contracts, promising to help Native Hawaiians. Documents suggest he pocketed the profits to invest in a beachfront horse farm and luxury homes. With @civilbeat.bsky.social

As a community hospital, Phoebe’s mission is to care for people no matter their ability to pay. But in a town where the uninsured rate is twice the national average, even some Phoebe employees are unable to afford treatment. Read Part 4 of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:

1/ It was the height of the pandemic, but Phoebe Putney Memorial had good news: At 99 years old, Maude Burke was the oldest COVID-19 patient they were discharging. In a video, staff waved balloons, celebrating Burke beating the disease. There was one issue: It wasn’t true. 🧵

Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac. McDonald's: That'll be $5.75 Me: *sigh* paywalled

Come work with me! Salary range $85,000-$100,000. Benefits include a union, fairly low insurance premiums and so many cat photos. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...