ICYMI: My colleague Lizzie Presser joined MS NOW to discuss the heartbreaking case of 37 year old Tierra Walker. Walker is now the fourth woman in Texas we have reported on who died under the state's abortion ban youtube.com/watch?v=n24ySupfK2E&index=5

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Trump's secret police wages violent war on journalists... journalists are being shot intentionally with bean bags, chemical munitions and at least one was arrested for no reason. DHS spokesmen deny it's happening. But it's on tape and has been witnessed by dozens of citizens.

A graveyard outside a state juvenile detention facility has been neglected by Maryland officials for decades. A Post investigation found that state officials had grossly undercounted the number of Black children who died while in the facility's care. https://wapo.st/4gFjINr

He wanted to die. His wife fought for him. A psychiatrist was their last hope. www.propublica.org/article/ment...

GOOD NEWS. Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said. Specifically, @deldeib.bsky.social's reporting.

Two major law firms accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation this week of violating the privacy rights of millions of gun owners by running a decades-long program that sent their information to political operatives without consent. The complaint seeks class-action status & financial damages.

Wondering if you live somewhere in the United States where Nexstar or Sinclair owns your ABC affiliate? Here are the TV stations pre-empting your Jimmy Kimmel Live! and inserting their own politics for the displeasure of your local advertisers who didn't ask for lower-rated programming.

And @reuters.com has been running circles around NYT, Washpost et al on this story. This piece ran last week. www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

And the coup de gras: Cook “never requested a tax exemption for the Georgia home as a primary residence, according to property records and a Fulton County tax official”

The gun industry's secret project fundamentally transformed the American lawmaker. In a span of a few years, state and federal politicians morphed from actively seeking solutions to "thoughts and prayers." Read these two stories to find out how. www.propublica.org/article/guns...

‪After watching and reading comments about the horrific Minnesota shooting, it appears most Americans people missed our stories about the secret roots to the madness. I pray this repost helps. www.propublica.org/article/gunm...

At least five states rely entirely on federal dollars to pay for their maternal mortality reviews. Committee members expressed alarm that this money may evaporate. “If we get defunded, I suspect it would be devastating,” one said. By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people in South Carolina group homes. Biden filed the lawsuits after investigations concluded that they had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division suits against Louisiana's prison system and South Carolina's group homes are both now on hold.

Shocking reporting by @nicolefoy.bsky.social and McKenzie Funk. Immigration officers are using escalating tactics to make arrest quotas. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Trump's DOJ just dropped a major antitrust case against American Express Travel. This comes after Amex hired lobbying firm Ballard Partners — the former employers of Pam Bondi — to lobby the DOJ on "antitrust issues." Funny how that works.

New: A DOJ investigation had determined that South Carolina officials illegally denied community-based services — required by federal law — to over 1,000 people diagnosed as seriously mentally ill. The lawsuit over these allegations is now on hold. It's not alone. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social

NEW: Under Trump, the DOJ has halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social

Damn. A big loss for the WaPo.

Several election officials, including Republicans, have criticized the DOJ’s move as federal overreach. Federal law does not expressly give the agency the authority to review the voter rolls themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What a happy day!! 🎉🎉 ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Selects Five New Partners for Its 50 State Initiative

A @propublica.org investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

The legislation comes three years after @propublica.org & @chicagotribune.com found that thousands of Illinois students had been ticketed in recent years for adolescent behavior once handled by the principal’s office. So proud of @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social 🥰🥰

Today is the 40th anniversary of the MOVE bombing, an aerial attack that killed five children and six adults in a Philadelphia neighborhood. If you haven't done so, now is a good time to read Bronwen Dickey's 2022 story about how the bones of one of the victims ended up at a museum.

In today's Unabridged newsletter, I shared outstanding narrative and investigative journalism, including @nadiareiman.bsky.social @rumblestrip.bsky.social @karinaelwood.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @andreasuozzo.com @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @livaaben.bsky.social

🌟 IRE NEWS: Investigative Reporters and Editors is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a gala in New York City! The fundraiser, the first of its kind in IRE’s history, will honor some of the top names in investigative journalism today. Read the full announcement ⤵️ www.ire.org/50th-anniver...

UPDATE: The DOGE aide was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that agency employees are barred from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally. Days later, he helped fire 90% of CFPB staff anyway.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Our “America’s Mental Barrier” series, which examines how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was also named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category: www.propublica.org/series/ameri... Via @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

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New from my ace @coreygjohnson.bsky.social . Following his 2024 investigations into how decades of sensitive gun owner data (like underwear sizes, children’s info) was turned over to political operatives, there are calls for federal investigations: www.propublica.org/article/gun-...

The Batten Medal, for exceptional journalism that serves the public, is awarded to Kavitha Surana, Cassandra Jaramillo and Lizzie Presser of ProPublica for "Life of the Mother." 🏆 (Sponsored by editors from the former Knight Ridder.) Read about The Poynter Journalism Prizes: www.poynter.org/prizes

A gun owners group has called for a federal inquiry Into the firearms industry’s secret sharing of customer data with political operatives. @propublica.org's @coreygjohnson.bsky.social revealed details about the industry's program last year www.propublica.org/article/gun-...

NEW: Gun Owners Group Seeks Federal Probe of Industry’s Secret Sharing of Data @coreygjohnson.bsky.social

RFK Jr. said he will rehire thousands of people he mistakenly fired — and claimed the erroneous cuts were "always the plan."

A judge dismisses former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant's defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Today; Bryant sued in 2023 over reporting about a welfare scandal (Ashton Pittman/Mississippi Free Press) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

I recently reported that a secretive NYPD unit close to Mayor Adams had not been sharing body-cam footage w/ defense lawyers or even others at NYPD. Now Legal Aid says what they did was illegal. The group just wrote city, demanding an investigation Orig story: www.propublica.org/article/eric...

Rampant pollution caused thousands of manatees to starve & conditions in #Florida waterways are getting worse. A special investigation by @tampabaytimes.bsky.social project.tampabay.com/investigatio...

I won’t stand for this Leonard Leo erasure.

As part of IRE's 50th anniversary and spring member drive, we’re sharing some of the biggest moments in investigative journalism since 1975 — beginning with Watergate and the founding of IRE. www.ire.org/join-the-leg...

This is a good time to re-up @coreygjohnson.bsky.social ‘s incredible investigation into the psychological warfare and game that gun manufacturers, Cambridge Analytica and politicians have played in this country: www.propublica.org/article/gunm...

When I started my newsletter last month I promised that among several things , it would combat erasure. 1) TY to the 439 readers who have joined me thus far. 2) Misty Copeland at Emory made me dig through the archives this week. Read/Listen/Subscribe to Fortify: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

This is me. Rocking my new beak.

It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.

BUCK WILD and also probably illegal, if the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and the directives from the National Archives still mean anything.

Gentle, gay DJ by day. Nazi advocate for race violence by night. Here’s James Bandler’s portrait of one of the big influencers in a very dark corner of the Web. www.propublica.org/article/matt...