📍 El Paso

wear your helmet kids, those mountain trails can get tricky

Big wins last night for @propublica.org's Immigration and Video teams 🏆🏆

"It’s easy to flee the friction of the real world for the comfort of our feeds and to confide in chatbots rather than friends. In doing so, we enable our leaders to leverage our fears and displace our anxieties onto the meme version of a foreign country." ~ Yi-Ling Liu

important story from photographer Juan Arredondo

Cluster munitions are indiscriminate and often fail to explode on impact, sitting dormant for decades until unsuspecting civilians (frequently children) trigger them. Essentially landmines from the sky.

Pin it to the @propublica.org IMPACT board: www.propublica.org/article/albu...

"They’ve pivoted between howling about humanity’s flaws and extolling Satan’s torture methods, but they have always spoken to a generation living in fear of impending apocalypse. …Beginning of the End is their first album that unites every strain of their malaise under the same roof."

The Visuals Team at @propublica.org had such an incredible couple days presenting our work at Photoville and Dysturb in NYC. Thanks for coming out to spend some time with us and hear about the work behind our projects. More soon. Watch this space.

Journalist in the borderlands? Join us for this safety training with IWMF in El Paso on June 4th. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was misattributed or misappropriated. Rafa and Gabe report for @propublica.org & @azluminaria.org

In some incredibly exciting news, @propublica.org is hiring a Senior Editor to launch and lead our new investigative unit in California. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s office has argued that if a company has a website, it can be sued anywhere. Legal experts said that would obliterate state law on where suits can be filed. Zach Despart reports for @texastribune.org & @propublica.org

“Firing squad executions strip away the veneer of medical theater.”

Alexey Yurenev’s 2018 essay on Brighton Beach still stands as my favorite neighborhood-focused photo essay. I continually bring it up to photo students.

"In almost every case, the deaths could have been prevented with a simple shot of vitamin K at birth." @deldeib.bsky.social @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/vita...

Join @propublica.org’s Visuals Team this afternoon in Brooklyn Bridge Park for a walking tour of our two Photoville exhibits and hear from our teams on their work. Where: beer garden at Photoville When: 3:30PM Why: photos & beer?

Wonderful first event last night for @propublica.org’s Visuals Team. Thanks for coming out!

join @propublica.org’s Visuals Team tomorrow in Brooklyn Bridge Park at 3:30 for the launch of this year’s Photoville festival with two (!!) exhibits www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The mistaken detention of Americans continues despite congressional inquiries and denials by senior immigration officials. @nicolefoy.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org

Get your headphones out! @propublica.org’s first (ever!!) podcast episode just dropped. Can you follow the Paper Trail?

what a lede

La Mexicana Bakery & Taqueria in Fresno, CA. Best plate of tacos I’ve had in years, possibly ever.

important story out today on @propublica.org from Mark Olalde: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities a pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules with little more than an email. www.propublica.org/article/clea...

stop what you’re doing and read this

Our new @propublica.org podcast is almost here!

brilliant visualization

Uprising was excellent, another notch in Park Chan-wook's belt.

"NPR documented the three-day recovery mission at the site of the Abu Naser family massacre... They aren't looking with their eyes. They're using their noses, leaning into the cracks and smelling the air to get closer to the corpses." www.npr.org/2026/05/06/n...

Photographer Brenda Bazán's work for @propublica.org & @texastribune.org looking at flooding in Texas, what's left behind, and those who lost so much. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

NEW: Lawmakers in Texas have repeatedly rejected bills that could protect residents in the state’s most dangerous, flood-prone areas, an investigation by @propublica.org and @texastribune.org found.

2026's most controversial brand redesign is here!

'The package, with visual editing by Cengiz Yar, full-size maps by Lucas Waldron, design by Allen Tan and illustrations by Shoshana Gordon, is immersive and personal, reflecting both the people being affected by this abuse and the landscapes they impact.' 🫡

We're hiring a reporter for @propublica.org's Southwest Team. Come work with us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Is your blue my blue?

Very cool to see SND award @propublica.org & @highcountrynews.org's collab on grazing in the West a Bronze Medal. "The judges praised the cohesive, minimalist design, highlighting the elevated use of typography, illustration, and photo-stitching..." tinyurl.com/8tsjhfxp

Thanks to @realphotoshow.bsky.social for having me on to talk about my photobook, This Alabaster Grave. Watch or listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/25Ox...

Estimates suggest the war against Iran is costing the U.S. just under $1 billion a day.

10/10, no notes

Can a solar farm make you sick? A medical director in Michigan claims they pose a health risk, but scientific evidence says otherwise. @annaleighclark.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org

*Journalism Jobs* The @nytimes.com is hiring a Photo Editor for their DC office. 5+ yrs experience.

“The repeated strikes on the same location, the targeting of an area where journalists were sheltering, and the obstruction of medical and humanitarian access constitute a grave breach of international humanitarian law. CPJ holds Israeli forces responsible..." @pressfreedom.bsky.social

"those who profit from chaos rarely get to control it for long"

"Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

"He set the photographs aside for two decades, figuring he needed more data to make sense of them. But recently, after reviewing them again, he realized he “had the whole story in the pictures.”"

"The obscuring of Lebanon and its civilians is no accident." ~ Zahra Hankir for @columjournreview.bsky.social

Chatted with @realphotoshow.bsky.social about life, war, and photography. Catch it here: open.spotify.com/episode/25Ox...

“They bring in the military. They say the border’s closed 100%, and that’s why Border Patrol can go into the interior. It’s the illusion of national security.”