If Baldwin County, Alabama sounds at all familiar, it's because it's also where this U.S. citizen keeps getting detained by immigration agents This is why talking about immigration enforcement solely in the context of flashy surges into major cities is misguided bsky.app/profile/eric...

We have overwhelmingly voted to go on STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with McClatchy Media and its five Pacific Northwest newspapers. Our demands are simple: Protections against AI and wages that keep up with inflation.

Congrats to the Texas Tribune Guild for getting a contract with meaningful AI guardrails and common sense seniority order in layoffs. If TT's management can agree to these very basic things, so can @propublica.org's. Lets go @propublicaguild.org!

Imagine for a moment yr car is towed (facepalm). But then 15 days later the tower SELLS your car (what?!) And THEN 2 local reporters get wind of it & report on it for YEARS. That's the latest Paper Trail ep (produced by me!) @propublica.org. A satisfying listen. www.propublica.org/podcast/conn...

listen up graduates

ProPublica’s board and senior management hide when asked to engage with bargaining. The board meets today, but they won’t meet with us. We will make our voices unavoidable until they agree to a fair contract, so, today, we welcomed folks to our office with flyers about our fight.

My latest: This Gun Shop Stayed Open Despite Repeated Violations. Then a Chicago Cop Was Killed With One of Its Guns. www.propublica.org/article/rang...

As it turns out, this was not the best month to read Parable of the Sower. (All this El Niño news is stressing me out!)

Forget shark week -- It's climate solutions week y'all This year the theme is LOCAL solutions - ways that cities and states and neighborhoods are stepping up when the federal government backtracks on climate action. I'll thread the stories here as the week goes on... Here's our intro ⬇️📻🎧

Really hope the Board will step up and help us get to a fair contract. We've been fighting for a contract for 2+ years and it really shouldn't take that long.

At the outset of the crisis, the family had pinned most of their hopes on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the regulatory agency responsible for overseeing oil and gas — including pollution from the industry and plugging old wells... It did not take long for their hopes to transform into anger.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Yesterday, we handed out flyers at a @propublica.org panel discussion in Brooklyn. We’re making sure management knows we are not shutting up about a fair contract! Learn more about our fight for a fair contract: www.propublicaguild.org

Thanks to The Stranger for covering our fight for fair wages. We are READY TO STRIKE. Donate to our fund at the link in bio or bit.ly/pnwnewsstrike

“Having people like ICE treat people the way we were treated 61 years ago, it’s horrible,” Mauldin said. “What tear gas does, it makes your skin burn, it forces you to run away from it — it makes your lungs seem to implode,”

The Watertown, Wisconsin school board voted 7-1 to ban students from playing a orchestral piece honoring Marsha P Johnson. This is a blatant attack on the first amendment. www.tmj4.com/news/dodge-c...

Support @propublicaguild.org workers by contacting the board and demanding a fair union contract now! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

🎧 It's launch day! 🚀 Our VERY FIRST EPISODE of "Paper Trail" is now live. You can listen at the link below or subscribe in all the normal podcast places: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

"Estelle told the officer during questioning that she thought she could vote in local elections because a state motor vehicles department employee had told her when she renewed her driver’s license that she was eligible."

We asked @propublica.org's board to agree to a fair contract. Chair Paul Sagan replied that they support management, whose last offer includes weak job security, minimal guardrails on AI & wages that don’t keep up w/ rising costs. We know you stand with us. Tell Mr. Sagan: shorturl.at/MkUbQ

NEW: Graduating humanities students were told that AI is the “next industrial revolution” in a speech. It was met with thousands of booing graduates.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

Don't mind me, I'm just watching this on repeat, for...reasons. Anyway I love how the singers who aren't performing are watching their colleagues with such awe and admiration, like they're hearing the music for the first time. www.npr.org/2026/05/06/g...

I, too, would like to get out of stuff by just sending an email, but that option isn't open to me. Important reporting by Mark Olalde:

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

painful but so important story from @lisalsong.bsky.social @mayatmiller.bsky.social and @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social today www.propublica.org/article/kids...

Seeing little kids get gassed by their own governmnent in Portland is up there with the most traumatic things I've witnessed as a journalist

Odysseus was the first man to refuse to ask directions

NEW: @ProPublica has launched a podcast, hosted by @jlussenhop.bsky.social! Give the trailer a listen, send to your families and friends, warn the enemies of the good and the true, like and subscribe. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

These weapons are toxic, especially to children, who breathe more rapidly, pulling in more contaminated air than adults relative to their body weight. --> my latest, with @mayatmiller.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social

#PedSky #MedSky #Pulmsky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 🌍⚖️ Outstanding investigative reporting by @propublica.org on children hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during recent federal raids in US cities. Thanks @lisalsong.bsky.social for facts checking with me.

This is going to be amazing! Congrats Jessica and the whole team on the launch!

It’s coming!! Paper Trail drops May 14. Listen to the audio trailer of @propublica.org’s new podcast, hosted by @jlussenhop.bsky.social

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Yesterday, our members chanted and marched through @propublica.org’s NYC office demanding a fair contract now. We delivered a stack of more than 4,000 petition signatures and 300 comments from our supporters to management.

shout out to my much-missed colleagues @sophiechou.bsky.social & @harucoryne.bsky.social for their incredible work on this project!! Btw this is the second project Sophie worked on that’s won a Pulitzer! And she’s job hunting! Someone hire her ASAP! 👀👀

4/ I’m no longer at ProPublica and am looking for what’s next — open to journalism, data science, or research/consulting roles (NYC/hybrid/remote). prioritizing good management + fair pay. read the full series @ctmirror.org (it’s their first Pulitzer!!): ctmirror.org/series/on-th...

1/ I’m honored to share that I’m officially a Pulitzer Prize winner 🥹 Our series on Connecticut’s unscrupulous towing laws, in partnership with @ctmirror.org, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting.

Feds were hot on a drugs-for-votes scheme inside Puerto Rican prisons. And then the rug got pulled. It was “like you’re watching a puppet show, but you can’t see the strings ... There was some kind of invisible hand.” Fascinating investigation by @raquelrutledge.bsky.social

This is the most appropriate gif for what I suspect you’re talking about, Jessica. Well done 😂

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Huge congratulations to all our current and former members who won or were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes today! All journalists deserve a fair contract that provides the job security necessary to do this work. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

ProPublica also received two other finalist designations: Our “Rx Roulette” series about how the Food and Drug Administration has for years allowed risky drugs to enter the United States was named a finalist in the investigative reporting category. www.propublica.org/series/rx-ro...

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...

So proud to be a Pulitzer winner along with my friends @harucoryne.bsky.social and @ginnymonk.bsky.social who all worked so hard on this messy data together!

So proud of data reporters @sophiechou.bsky.social and @harucoryne.bsky.social, who are Pulitzer Prize winners today. They made sense of tens of thousands of scanned, hand written forms to uncover how the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars www.propublica.org/article/prop...

1/ Happy International Workers' Day to all our fellow workers and unions! ✊ ICYMI, our bargaining unit exercised our collective power to walk out on a one-day strike last month, as we fight for a fair contract.

New nightmare fuel