1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

Exciting news: ProPublica's new podcast is about to launch! The incredible team behind PAPER TRAIL has crafted something truly special. And it's true: Investigative journalism *is* an act of optimism. Find out the truth; tell it well; see what's possible. 💫

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...

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

"...families continue to be inundated with advice from self-proclaimed experts using medical terms incorrectly and misunderstanding science to convince parents that getting the shot could put their newborns at risk of grave harm." Haunting, nuanced story by @deldeib.bsky.social / @propublica.org

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Let’s pay it forward. I’ll do a free pacer online training to the first 25 journalists who email me — Seamus at CourtWatch dot news

So proud to be a Pulitzer winner along with my friends @harucoryne.bsky.social and @ginnymonk.bsky.social who all worked so hard on this messy data together!

Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his heartrending, first-person account of his family’s fight for survival during last year’s devastating Central Texas floods.

JUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

We won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting @chicagotribune.com! Our entire newsroom covered Midway Blitz with everything we had. I’ve never been prouder of the Tribune or its commitment to the truth. It’s an honor to be part of this team.

"Increasingly, journalists are pushing back against attacks on our credibility by 'showing the work'... "In that spirit, I wanted to take this opportunity to show how basic beat reporting — fact-checking the assertions of a powerful figure — led to a broader story..." by @hannahallam.bsky.social

BREAKING: FEMA this week officially called back staffers who have been on administrative leave for *8 months* after signing a whistleblower letter last August. Some of the disaster workers started back today. Story @bloomberg.com, with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Outrageous.

A big update on my @thenewyorktimesrss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy story about Jessie Askew Jr. and prosecutor Kelly Burke. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/m...

"Republican Rep. Stephanie Gricius, who sponsored the bill that banned added fluoride from public drinking water, said people would still be able to access fluoride through supplements, which the law allows pharmacists to prescribe. "But some pharmacies aren’t participating ..."

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

“'... the First Amendment does not protect corruption, whose ​‘hallmark’ is ​‘the financial quid pro quo: dollars for political favors,’ lawyers for the Department of Justice wrote in their brief ..." via @canarymedia.com

"The E.P.A. 'just blew up a very well-performing organization that was making a difference, not only in the country but in the world,' said Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, who led the research office under the first Trump administration." Brilliant and enraging @nytimes.com story from fabulous Lisa Friedman

New solar installations in the U.S. dropped by 14% last year. Among the challenges: pushback from critics who claim, without evidence, that solar panels pose a health threat.

OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.

Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat. Despite little reputable evidence for this, their fears have helped undercut efforts across the U.S. to broaden energy sources, slowing installations even as customer costs are rising. ☀️ My new story at @propublica.org -

That's our girl. Grateful to @detroitnews.com for bringing forth so much of Path's story.

Sahan’s analysis of court records and federal deportation data represents the most thorough accounting yet of the Minnesota children detained during Operation Metro Surge. By @bzosiad.bsky.social and @cynthiatu.bsky.social

Got an idea for an investigative project in your community? Apply to ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network by May 1: https://grnh.se/drjy98fq6us Our editors are eager to help. Email us your ideas or draft proposal at [email protected] for feedback before the deadline.

NEW: Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine.

NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.

"He told me Prestige was named after the fictional do-nothing company in the Will Ferrell comedy 'Step Brothers.'" "'It’s just stupid,' he said. 'I’m not like some big serious whatever.'” This type is bone-chillingly familiar to everyone living in a disinvested shrinking city. By Molly Parker:

Ownership disputes, aging design add to Cheboygan dam’s failure threat by @kellyhouse.bsky.social / @bridgemi.com

Tennessee finally adjusted its school threats law, which had led children as young as 6 to be charged with felonies for jokes and rumors. Once signed by the governor, the bill will require school officials to only report "credible" threats to police. www.propublica.org/article/tenn...

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I love my job. I believe in ProPublica's mission. I have so much work to do today on a story that should publish soon. But today, I'm on strike with my colleagues at the @propublicaguild.org. Hoping we get over the finish line SOON on our very first contract -- and a fair one.

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BREAKING: Artemis II completes record-breaking trip around the moon filled with lunar far side views and a total solar eclipse.

And now another reason not to touch the stuff: the strong possibility that you will end up plagiarizing, whether you know it or not. But it was the "that is going to go away" attitude that rankled the most. That's the tech credo: anything that takes time or I don't understand must be obsolete.

When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

I told him that, for this piece, I went to the library and took out four or five books on Orson Welles. He balked, like I was from the Stone Age. I told him that not everything's online and I actually LIKE that part of the job. But more importantly - / www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Summit County jurors were unable to reach a verdict on whether former FirstEnergy executives committed bribery in what’s been called the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history. Ohio Atty Gen Dave Yost said the state will retry the case ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/31/f...

On the anniversary of the "Liberation Day" tariffs, re-upping this: "Pete Hoekstra once testified that 'the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.' But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Michigan district."

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

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First crewed launch to cislunar space in 54 years.

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.