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...

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people. Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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...

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" - Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political "hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3" - From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Part of the statement from the @transjournalists.org on reporting details of the the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation. Full statement here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...

I wrote about Anna Lange's case with @lucaswaldron.bsky.social back in 2023. Among the takeaways was just how taxing this judicial rollercoaster has been for Lange and other trans people hoping for coverage. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Gutted and honestly incapable of reading the decision right now. Anna Lange is one of the kindest, humblest, most easy-to-root-for people in the history of the world. Read this 2023 ProPublica story I helped @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social and @lucaswaldron.bsky.social tell about her case.

"The law as it’s written has also caused problems for those providing sexual assault exams on young people under 18. Under the law, a health worker would need to get consent from a parent to do the exam, but in some cases the perpetrator of the assault may be that parent"

Teens are calling Idaho's suicide hotline and being told that they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

NEW: 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.

Love these charts from @bxroberts.org in today's @propublica.orgstory about the gutting of HHS. These are specifically showing FDA cuts, but the story also includes CDC and NIH. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

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

I’m joining my @propublicaguild.org colleagues in a lunch-out to demand a fair process for performance reviews and discipline at @propublica.org. We can’t do our best work in a culture of fear. [Pictured: Murphy at my desk, NOT me because I'm out to lunch!]

We’re holding a lunch-out today to demand that @propublica management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system. Just today, a member of our Bargaining Committee and Unit Council was fired as a result of ProPublica's flawed system.

“In a report released this year, the Watson School of International and Public Affairs’ costs of war project said more journalists had been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.

NEW: After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

At a United Nations meeting on pollution, the U.S. delegate said the U.S. has a "national position" on gender. The position leaves no room for the existence of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, who face discrimination around the world. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

My story about the 2024 exoneration of Edgar Barrientos-Quintana and the hit reality TV show "The First 48" is the subject of the newest episode of Criminal — listen here: thisiscriminal.com/episode-327-...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway @mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

My colleagues @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social at @propublica.org (a “liberal rag hellbent on defending violent criminal illegal aliens”) with another haunting installment of their series on men deported to CECOT: www.propublica.org/article/vene...

This video is so, so powerful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZR...

7/ It’s not just about losing usable water, either. According to a new study based on 20+ years of NASA data, runoff from pumped groundwater, combined with moisture lost to evaporation and drought, is now one of the largest contributors of sea level rise.

You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

Excellent feature story on yesterday's Science Advances article (led by @hrishikeshac.bsky.social and myself) from @propublica.org. Kudos to @abrahm.bsky.social and @lucaswaldron.bsky.social for expert story and graphics. @wisegrouporg.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

"The majority of the earth’s population lives in the 101 countries that the study identified as losing fresh water... This suggests the middle band of Earth is becoming less habitable." @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social on the latest data: www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Incredibly scary new report and data viz: The Drying Planet, by @abrahm.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social

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...

In March the Trump administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, calling the men “some of the most violent savages on the face of the Earth.” @propublica.org went looking for the truth to their stories — one by one.

"A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“The press weren’t accidentally hurt at the immigration protests; they were deliberately hurt. It’s astonishing to me that we are at the same point with LAPD over and over again.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

More Stories from Space! Here are some of my favorite recent examples of data journalism that use satellite data as a key element. medium.com/@robsimmon/n... If you’re interested in exploring the possibilities, please get in touch. #dataviz #cartography 📊🗺️🛰️

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

New story from @propublica.org + @nysfocus.bsky.social: New York frequently paid more for hotels for people & families experiencing homelessness than fair market rent for a 2-bedroom apartment. A full 44% of payments were for more than DOUBLE fair market rent. www.propublica.org/article/new-...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

For @propublica.org's new story: "His Kidney Failed. He’ll Never Know if a Transplant Drug From a Banned Factory Was to Blame." ProPublica tested a patient's generic version of Tacrolimus. The results show his medication dissolved way too quickly.

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.

"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

If you're looking to background any LA sheriff's deputies this week to see if they have a history of bad behavior, here is a searchable collection I made of all the disciplinary and use of force (SB 1421/ SB16) records LASD has released so far: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

1. The NYT has released its newest anti-trans podcast. I listened to it all so you don't have to. The most striking part is when they found the first PB patient, who is living his life as a normal, happy dude. It's such a contrast to the rest of the podcast. Subscribe to support my journalism.

THREAD: An ex-DOGE engineer with no government or medical experience used AI to identify which Veterans Affairs contracts to kill, labeling them as “MUNCHABLE.” @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social and I got the code. Here’s what it tells us 1/

Protesters against NYT's new podcast got started early. fair.org/home/activis...