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This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Yesterday, hundreds of WGA members and allies rallied outside Disney/ABC's offices to demand Jimmy Kimmel Live! be reinstated. Thank you to everyone who showed up in the name of protecting free speech and union jobs ✊

Interviews with 40+ current or recent employees throughout NIOSH, and dozens of others, detail how Trump’s cuts have upended safety research on everything from fracking to opioids, along with chemical risks in nail salons, electric-vehicle fires and terror attacks www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Software should come in a box that I get from a physical store. It only updates or charges me when I go out to buy the next version.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

we used four decades of Landsat imagery, from 1985-2025, to identify newly developed areas in the West Bank. our analysis shows that since Oct. 7, Israeli controlled areas have grown 5 times faster compared to the past two decades. read more 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

What happens when government disinvests from public transit? Commutes get longer & more frustrating. A NJ Transit case study from me, @suryamattu.com and @mariepastora.bsky.social : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Today, we sent a letter to @themarshallproject.org‬ leadership expressing concern about their denial of bargaining obligations. Management has repeatedly denied members Weingarten rights, engaged in an illegal layoff, and more — we need your help to demand that management bargain in good faith.

How was Trump BLS nominee EJ Antoni identified in the crowd at Jan. 6? He was spotted in one of the many Parler videos archived by @propublica.org You can see him cross through the bottom-center portion of the screen starting at around 1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

Proud to join my coworkers lunching out today for Just Cause!

While other cities like LA are being put through outdoor ICE raids, NYC is the nation's capital of ICE immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

We're really in the sawdust-and-lead-in-food era of regulation with this stuff aren't we

Now even the software is doing the zoomer space before the exclamation point. Does anyone else hear sentences with these in a very specific tone in their minds?

"I used the LiDAR data to create a composite viewshed of locations where both the middle and the top of the Tower are visible. I won’t bore you with how I did this, but just trust me that it was very cool and fun."

Nothing like a Friday afternoon to drop a big graphics projects! If you're still online, check out our new @propublica.org story "The Drying Planet" -- you'll learn that groundwater depletion has become a bigger & bigger part of sea level rise (among other things!) www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Deportation numbers haven't risen as drastically as arrests, but one pattern has emerged from the data: The Trump administration is trying to send more people to countries where they are not citizens. We found 8,100 people sent to third countries. The biggest group? Venezuelans deported to Mexcio

Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Just don’t suspend your disbelief and it’ll be fine!

Llama keeps trolling me by calling things, "a classic problem!" then getting the answer wrong.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

How to FOIA a Fictional Government Entity

I'm not reading any more free bus discourse that doesn't grapple with the fact that traffic and parking laws just aren't enforced anymore. Saw a 53' truck parked in a no standing zone all weekend. Big trucks block the box for 2 cycles. What's the cost to society vs. a single $2.90 boarding?

If Customs and Border Protection takes your phone at an airport/border, they can run it through tech that analyzes your texts, pictures, and social connections. Now, CBP says it wants to “expand” and modernize that tech: www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...

Remember the awarding of COVID contracts in 2020? www.propublica.org/article/a-cl...

Far from the most pressing issue right now, but it's disappointing that OPM has put their data dictionaries behind a gov login wall. There was nothing confidential in it, and it was super useful for working with gov HR data. cc: @digiphile.bsky.social @jacobharr.is www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

1. A government official has informed us that the Trump administration is likely intentionally not complying with a trans passport ruling in an Erin In The Morning exclusive. One person was told, "We don't answer to courts." Subscribe to support our journalism.

I recently revisited my home state, West Virginia, to report on one of the biggest environmental pollution problems you may not have heard of and the incredible work being put in to clean it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is one of the most horrifying things I've ever read. "Our form of communication is gunfire." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

For a REAL detailed map of how NYC voted, check our map out 😎 www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

I love the Wayne's World-meets-CNN energy of the Hell Gate live stream hellgatenyc.com/primary-live...

“Nearly 25% of early voters had not voted in a Democratic primary at any point between 2012 and 2024.” In 2021, that number was 3%.

"In either case, a U.S. government officer must have read my work and decided that I was not fit to enter the country. Because Officer Martinez had apparently read all of my material so long ago, he didn’t even know that I had taken all this material down."

Every journalist should have a sign in their cubicle that says, "Don't punch down." If you find yourself writing something that blames a victim or portrays an unfair fight as an equal battle, think about who is invested in that framing and why you're helping them. Hold the powerful side accountable.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Rank the candidates in the order you like them, fill up all 5 slots and don’t rank anyone you can’t stand. There’s no other “strategy” to it.

1. Trans troops are now being separated from their jobs, and we have learned what discharge code they are being given: "JDK," a code that was used to remove communists and gay people, and can be seen as a "black mark" on their service. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.