NEW: Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

Although Tom Ragsdale’s oil companies owe New Mexico more than $3.5 million for pollution and unpaid fees, the state has recovered only about $50,000. Drillers across the industry have employed similar tactics in what is known as “the playbook.” (Published Dec. 2024)

"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

Ed Martin was reportedly a key figure in this week's ouster of a US Attorney who wouldn't bring baseless charges against Trump enemies. In April @propublica.org detailed Martin's role in an online smear campaign of a judge handling a case involving Martin:

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

“I am familiar with the history of authoritarian leaders disappearing people they don’t like in Latin America, the part of the world that my family comes from. I wanted to think that doesn’t happen in this country. But what I had just witnessed felt uncomfortably similar”

A Fort Lauderdale, Florida, couple wanted to stop pursuing their claim against Citizens Property Insurance this year. But they weren’t able to voluntarily dismiss their case from mandatory arbitration, and they were ordered by a judge to pay $10,677 in court costs. By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

For the past several years, I’ve taught with work by @annaleighclark.bsky.social and her writing is an excellent tool for getting undergrads to read more closely, to question sources more carefully, and to see themselves as agents for civic and scientific engagement. This piece is in the same vein!

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

Grand Rapids was the first city to add fluoride to drinking water. There’s even a sculpture commemorating its role in what was long seen as a public health success story. Now, communities in Michigan and elsewhere are turning back the clock. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Angela Paxton filed for divorce from Texas AG Ken Paxton in July, accusing her husband of adultery. The records were placed under seal, but a group of 8 news organizations—including ProPublica, @kutnews.bsky.social and @texastribune.org—are arguing in court that the records are of public interest.

Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)

In 2021, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in forced labor as part of a federal investigation that exposed widespread abuses of H-2A workers across Georgia. This is the story of what one of those workers endured. By @maxblau.bsky.social

The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories. So we made that list for you 👇

In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas. (Published Jan. 2025)

NEW: Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its deportation case against the children's hospital chaplain. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

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The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

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NEW: Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica in a call just after his release. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.

After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled, according to the World Meteorological Organization. (Published July) By @abrahm.bsky.social

NEW: Senators Demand Names of Foreign Drugmakers Skirting FDA Import Bans Citing ProPublica's reporting, Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said they had “urgent concerns” about the agency’s oversight of foreign drugmakers and whether medications coming into the U.S. are safe.

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

It's hard to write about a complex visa program in a way that can resonate with everyone. But @maxblau.bsky.social and Zaydee Sanchez did it with the narrative of a single woman, told with such respect and care. Read the thread and the story below: projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...

Fluoride in drinking water has widely been heralded as a public health triumph. But this year, with the rise of RFK Jr., legislation has been introduced in *at least 21 states* to roll back provisions related to it. Critical reporting @annaleighclark.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/fluo...

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Half of all cases resolved during Citizens’ mandatory arbitration process between March 2024 and July 7, 2025, settled for $500 or less to the policyholder. An additional 28% were settled by Citizens for an average of $30,000. By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

NEW: The Defense Department has tightened cybersecurity requirements for its cloud services providers. The changes come after ProPublica revealed how Microsoft’s use of China-based engineers left sensitive government data vulnerable to hacking. By @reneedudley.bsky.social

Two years ago, our reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years. At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years. At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Drinking water fluoridation is widely heralded as a public health triumph since it was pioneered 80 years ago in Grand Rapids. While once largely on the fringes, fluoridation skeptics now hold sway in government, and their arguments have seeped into the mainstream. @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Emboldened by the Jan. 6 pardons and the administration’s laser focus on mass deportations, which is redirecting authorities’ attention, far-right extremists have rejoiced at the idea of having more space to organize. (Published Feb. 2025)

Before his MAGA conversion, the head of Trump’s antisemitism task force racked up a list of financial troubles, including nearly $400K in unpaid federal taxes, a personal bankruptcy filing, and a trail of court judgments and liens brought by small businesses that worked for him. W/ @chronicle.com

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State & local officials are pulling back on fluoridation in MI, FL & elsewhere, even though it is the most cost effective method to prevent tooth decay, especially for vast numbers of people in the US without insurance or access to a dentist. / by @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Texas AG Ken Paxton and Trump’s DOJ have moved to a “new level” of using the courts to change policy, said one legal expert. Paxton is working to “challenge Texas’ own laws. There are no statutes that allow, or even anticipate, this behavior.”

"All of those [punitive] approaches are designed to create the illusion that the problems are getting better, when ... it's just sweeping human beings under the rug without regard to their humanity, without regard to what really happens to them."

NEW: I wrote about how drinking water fluoridation has long been heralded as a public health triumph, but skeptics increasingly hold sway in government. Most notably: RFK, Jr. And customer notice requirements are patchy, so people may not even know about it when their fluoridation stops.

A group of eight state and national media organizations, including @propublica.org @texastribune.org ‬⁩ and the Texas Newsroom, are arguing that Ken Paxton’s divorce records are of public interest, especially in light of his bid for a US Senate seat.

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NEW: RFK Jr. has dubbed fluoride “industrial waste,” and federal agencies are reviewing their approaches to fluoridation amid a backlash that has seen state and local governments upending a decadeslong public health success story. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

“They want to get Christians in office to change the ordinances, laws, rules and regulations to fit the Bible,” said one GOP activist who knows the Wilks family personally. (Published Oct. 2024)