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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/

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

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.

The Midwest newsroom at @propublica.org is amazing. Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it. Come join us! This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**

Periodic reminder: student journalists in Appalachia, young writers in Appalachia, young folks in Appalachia who see something happening in their community they want to write about! Please pitch. (If you need pitch advice, message me! There's guidance in the link below but glad to brainstorm.)

Legend. To this day, when I hear Bob Woodward speaking in a radio interview, I picture this guy in rumpled newsroom wear (khakis, button-up).

We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract. The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible. You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Come join us at @propublica.org! 🔎 We are looking for the next Ancil Payne Reporting Fellow to uncover powerful immigration investigative projects. It's a two-year fellowship based in DC (deadline is 10/13 9am ET). Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Some rare good (local) journalism news as the (Baltimore) Banner launches its Montgomery County edition this week with seven new hires who are all real human beings!

NEW: After the @northdakotamonitor.com and ProPublica reported on how oil companies take millions in royalties from mineral owners, more than a half-dozen lawmakers are now proposing a committee to study the issue and suggest solutions. “Something has to be done,” one legislator said.

"The number of tariff-free vehicles dropped from 91% to 21% percent in July, increasing the likelihood of price increases." "Adding to the uncertainty: the inability so far to pass a state budget." via @bridgemi.com

The Trump administration is asking a court to kill drinking water limits on four types of PFAS. They are part of the Biden-era rule that set the EPA's first enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water.

"Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, did not respond to questions about his client’s email correspondence with Epstein, her facilitation of gifts and cash and some of the contradictions between her email exchanges with Epstein and her recent statements to the DOJ."

The latest sign yet that @propublica.org's forthcoming podcast is going to KICK ASS.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss, a move that could affect some of the country’s most vulnerable students.

An incredible story.

New craft class coming up quick. I've dreamed of teaching this one for years! We'll explore the porous boundaries of investigative literature, from Gwendolyn Brooks in Montgomery to Lynn Nottage in Reading, PA., to Patrick Radden Keefe in Northern Ireland. Online + open to all, incl. all genres.

Two exciting new roles on @propublica.org's audio team: audio producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... senior audio producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Who owns ProPublica? Spoiler: No one. We don’t answer to corporate interests or advertisers, just 80,000+ readers like you who power fearless investigative journalism. Join us during our Fall Member Drive: https://propub.li/41FsQeL

Our partner public media station WEKU in Richmond, Kentucky, is looking for a reporter to cover Lexington and eastern Kentucky. Reach out if you are interested! careers.eku.edu/jobs/8266b2f...

"... CFPB leaders appointed by the president are awaiting final court approval to fire the majority of the bureau’s remaining staffers, a move that would leave just a skeleton crew in place and likely end dozens of investigations into alleged corporate malfeasance."

"In the name of school reform in the 2000s, Chicago officials under Mayor Richard M. Daley and later Mayor Rahm Emanuel enacted a series of policies that contributed to the shrinking of neighborhood schools, like those in North Lawndale."

"The U.P. — bigger than at least six states — is left with six places to have a baby other than your home or car.”

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Please, people, don't ever be this guy. Don't let your kids grow up to be this guy. Don't be friends with this guy. #USOpen.

Nearly eight months after U.S. Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet left her seat in the Michigan Senate to serve in Congress, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called a special election to fill the vacant seat. See reactions and analysis @michiganadvance.com: michiganadvance.com/2025/08/29/w...

NEW: How did Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey get picked for a top post at the FBI? In part by bringing criminal cases against local and state Democrats. Smart story from @jeremykohler.bsky.social of @propublica.org. www.propublica.org/article/miss...

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The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

There’s always a local angle. #journalism

Hurricane Katrina forced more than 1 million people from their homes. Were you one of them? We want to hear your experiences for an upcoming story: https://bit.ly/3JrYx53

"Dan Gilbert and other developers have taken advantage of" tax incentive and other subsidy programs, "but the Michigan Department of Treasury is refusing to release documents that would show whether these developers are keeping the promises they made."

"Normally, in the final month of school, students were worried about moving to the next grade or graduating. This year, he said they wondered: 'Is a masked person going to grab me off the street?'" via @chalkbeat.org / @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social

Data centers, critical mineral mining, and agricultural irrigation threaten to deplete the water-rich Great Lakes region of groundwater, according to a new report.

"On a per-capita basis, embezzlement is more common in many rural Michigan communities than in big cities." via @bridgemi.com

As federal authorities sweep homeless encampments in D.C. , I want to resurface the reporting we @propublica.org did last year on the possessions people lose, which include the things they need to survive: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...

UPDATE: 🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B. 😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.

Mich. lawmakers blew past the budget deadline. Schools are starting the year without knowing their funding. One district said it would stop offering free meals to all students, "a move the superintendent blamed on a lack of guaranteed funding from the state." Another ended after-school tutoring.

This Sunday, I'm offering a class on setting and description online through the @shipmanagency.bsky.social. Class will be recorded, and available for a month after. ASL available on request. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

Texas is about to give more than $1 billion in public money to private schools. We found that they routinely engage in nepotism and enrich insiders in ways that would be illegal for public and charter schools. Just out @propublica.org @texastribune.org: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/t...

ProPubli-paws love Just Cause 🐾

Our New York members took their lunch outside today to demand that @propublica.org management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system ✊

Members in Chicago, Seattle, Berkeley and across the country are lunching out to show support for Just Cause protections that apply to every ProPublica Guild worker, every time.

Whoa. So many of the city’s totemic vacant buildings are no more. This one wasn’t as famous as, say, the Packard plant. But it just dominated a busy west side intersection. I do wish I’d seen it in its heyday.

“It’s ridiculous ... The industry has an incredible amount of influence in North Dakota.”

"... records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier." by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

One striking thing about the NYer for me is that, while preserving a tone of status-quo decorum (and luxury ads), it has published some of the most radical and impactful journalism in this country's history, "Hiroshima," "Silent Spring," 1/3

One thing that makes the Baltimore Banner such a great publication is that the newsroom is focused on delivering what readers want to read. That might sound pat but a lot of independent newsrooms lost their way by focusing too much on how they could serve as a platform for their subjects