“Yes, Epstein was a heinous pedophile and convicted sex offender. Also, the internet is awash in fake, traumatizing slop that’s being used to score points in an ongoing information war. Happy holidays” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

always love Booooooom's yearly wrap-up www.booooooom.com/2025/12/22/f...

"The agency’s inventory has ballooned to more than 450 drones, and nearly 400 employees are trained to remotely operate them, according to DPS records obtained by the @texasobserver.org. DPS says the fleet is valued at around $3.7 million." www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-dr...

5 years ago @gingerthompson.bsky.social went to Albany, Ga. to write about Covid-19 for @propublica.org, but she soon realized there was a bigger story to be told, one about our health care system and those who benefits from its growth. projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Powerful report from photojournalist Ivor Prickett in Chad www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...

The Northman has such brilliant cinematography

"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy." defector.com/two-nights-p...

"This is a classic case of being able to drink the local paper’s milkshake, partly because your threshold for meaningful revenue is lower than that of a big business or even a full-blown staffed indie news site." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

WSJ put together a brilliant ad for Anthropic www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

“The game becomes a medicine. There’s a built sense of belonging.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. They did it anyway. So @propublica.org's @annamaria.bsky.social Brett Murphy & @peterdicampo.bsky.social traveled to South Sudan to see the results. They found shuttered health clinics and death.

ProPublica is hiring a copy editor! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Utah's fight over solar is more complicated than you think. @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org

"This generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment. They’re taking advantage of an ecosystem uniquely susceptible to fraud..."

"All of these companies still dominate their categories. Degrading the user experience isn’t costing them. The motivating belief that these companies had to optimize, or else they would be out-competed, no longer drives Silicon Valley behavior. Optimization was an era. That era has ended."

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has endorsed a book that claims chlorine dioxide—a disinfectant and deodorizer—has therapeutic powers. @megomatz.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ron-...

The @tulsaflyer.bsky.social and Oklahoma Eagle are hiring a visual journalist in Tulsa. tulsaflyer.org/visual-journ...

“They’re basically getting away with it and terrorizing the community. What else are they going to do? It makes me very scared about what’s going to come next.”

In October I brought 500 copies of my photobook back to Iraq and distributed them in Mosul. Filmmaker Savva Svet documented that journey and made this short film.

“I saw this video of a girl eating sand in Gaza, and I was like, ‘I would do anything if I could just wash a little bit of this off of me.’” Austin Koenigstein to @imleor.bsky.social on pulling their music from Spotify chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

"I found a country that was still coming to grips with the collective nightmare and grief of its civil war." - photographer Victor Blue

Reuters is hiring a photojournalist for their DC desk to cover the White House, Capitol Hill, U.S. politics, and government affairs.

A new congressional investigation prompted by @nicolefoy.bsky.social's @propublica.org reporting finds that immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

"Trump hung up on a @propublica.org reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 🥲 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"I thought of the terrified pair, struggling helplessly in the water before the next missile ended their lives. But I also thought of the men or women who fired those missiles. How does their conscience speak to them now? How will it speak to them in 10 years?" @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social

National Geographic is hiring a Photo Editor to research, curate, and edit visual content for their platforms, with a focus on digital stories and short form print & digital features. disney.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/disneycareer...

"These photographs don’t aim to document the damage as much, but the people living in the aftermath — their stubbornness, their grief, their humor and their determination to remain rooted in the place they call home." — Roger May wvpublic.org/story/arts-c...

“What we’re seeing in this country is some of the most awful, if not the most awful, blatant racism and pain and brutality, and it has to just be taken on, head on.”

“As a matter of plain reality, an unarmed speedboat, even if it is carrying cocaine, is not a warship. And none of the 11 people aboard — not merely the two initial survivors, but also the nine people the U.S. military killed in its first strike — were fighting anyone.”

“That is at the height of anguish. It's going to make people feel something. And that’s, for me, the whole point of doing photography. It’s to make people feel something.”

New @propublica.org & @invisible.institute investigation on Chicago's police

Two big roles on @propublica.org's growing Youtube team 📹📹📹 ~ YouTube senior producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... ~ YouTube producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

“When a narrative becomes what people buy into, even when it’s counterfactual, it justifies actions that would otherwise be unacceptable, and once that happens, the consequences can be really drastic.” more great reporting from @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/04/h...

Reuters is hiring for a Global Director of Photography careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...

A new investigation from @propublica.org & @highcountrynews.org finds that government programs for grazing on public lands help the wealthiest of ranchers while harming the environment. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

U.S. ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is supporting Trump trade policies linked to job losses in his former congressional district. @annaleighclark.bsky.social reports from Zeeland, Michigan, with photography by @jamiekelterdavis.bsky.social for @propublica.org

"As always, our “Year in Pictures” is not just a showcase of the best images of the year but also an acknowledgement of the tireless work photographers do daily to provide audiences with visual evidence of what is going on around them." www.cnn.com/interactive/...

"When local journalists can’t safely document what’s happening in your community, you lose the ability to hold power accountable. And right now, that’s the calculation we’re all making." @zenagrossa.bsky.social @lapublicpress.bsky.social @poynterinstitute.bsky.social www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Join the Lens on Life team on December 4th for "Another Chance," a photography exhibition celebrating the vision and creativity of seven young artists from across New York City. www.lensonlifeproject.org

“Decker was held in custody for more than 30 hours before being released on bond with two charges.” pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

“My sense is that they essentially created this phony war, and they’ve gone so far down the road with it that they now kind of have to have a real one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

It's the last week to apply for ProPublica's Photojournalism Fellowship on our Visuals Team. The fellowship will begin in early 2026 and last two years. The role is based in our New York City office. Applications are due December 1st. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

“He really chronicled what war was like, and what bodies looked like when they are abandoned on a roadside for three weeks, and what a field hospital looks like, not the ‘M*A*S*H’ version.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...

“Las Vegas, no matter what happens to it, will continue to make a lot of money. The city might be dying, but it will never be dead.” slate.com/business/202...

The Lucie Photo Book Prize exhibit is tonight at The Reef in LA. My book, This Alabaster Grave, is a finalist in the Independant category. Stop by if you’re around!

“Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Listen to @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix discuss their @propublica.org @startribune.com investigation into child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community on @mprnews.org. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...