As the Trump administration gutted USAID this year, officials, including Marco Rubio, said over and over that lifesaving operations would continue around the world and that nobody had died because of the cuts.

Such preventable death. Such powerful reporting. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

NEW: For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha. For decades, the government cleaned it up. But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer. Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

"Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 👀 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump sent the National Guard to fight what he called "violent radical left terrorism" in Portland. At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats. Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."

Trump sent the National Guard to fight what he called "violent radical left terrorism" in Portland. At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats. Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."

"They’re using a clearly vulnerable, clearly sympathetic population in a way that sends a powerful message to literally every other population ... that no one is safe.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Thanks, @oregonian.com, for front-paging our story about Fox News' misleading coverage of Portland before Trump ordered in the National Guard. www.propublica.org/article/port...

Grateful to @oregonian.com and @oregoncapitalchronicle.com for sharing our story about Fox News' misleading coverage of Portland before Trump ordered the National Guard. ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/port...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.” By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

And that's a permanent injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Immergut preventing the National Guard from being deployed in Portland. The judge says the president exceeded his authority. The opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF

President Trump claimed the National Guard was needed in "war-ravaged" Portland. But a @propublica.org review of protests in the months leading up to his claims -- including more than 700 (!!) videos -- show a different reality. via @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

Like ghosts, we’re all about transparency. 👻 Got a tip for us? Contact our team safely on Signal at 917-512-0201. **We always show our work. Use our stencils to make your own pumpkin: propub.li/43AXneD

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

The Trump administration isn't tracking how many American citizens have been detained by immigration agents. So ProPublica did. @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented citizens being dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot. A must-read. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with who’d been protesting at the ICE building for months. 1st was the sheer volume of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs used, seemingly unprovoked. 2nd was seeing so many videographers/live-streamers embedded with the feds as they marched out.

President Trump said conditions continue to deteriorate. Here’s what the newsroom saw.

A judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt its mobilization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect the ICE building in Portland and its officers amid nightly protests. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

The guy buying the Portland Trail Blazers is using a fortune "that was built on predatory lending. ... He made lots of profit ... on the backs of low- and poor-credit individuals.” And now the team is poised to ask for public money to stay in Portland. www.propublica.org/article/tom-...

NEW: Portland Trail Blazers buyer Tom Dundon created a company that Oregon sued in 2020, alleging it issued predatory loans to residents. He went on to invest in another subprime lender that’s come under regulatory scrutiny. With @opb.org

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When Oregon mapped wildfire risks to properties, some insurance brokers and homeowners blamed the map, without evidence, for policy cancellations and price hikes. Others called it part of a big plan to “depopulate rural areas.”

RFK Jr. in January: "If confirmed, I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines." Today:

This Oregon heroin bust was billed as having an "astronomical" amount of liquid heroin, what prosecutors called "enough for 50 million fatal doses." It was mostly water, not even enough for a single fatal dose. Via @maxbernstein.bsky.social. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Wow. Oregon repeatedly promised free cleanup to fire survivors who lost their homes this summer. Then yanked it without explanation. The state says: "Our intent was not to lie to people.”

The Idaho coroners' association president said his focus right now is on “low-hanging fruit” rather than major systemic fixes. A few of the coroners his association represents, though, say it's time for an overhaul of Idaho's frontier-era system. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

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: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With @opb.org

Aiming to thwart nuclear power development in the 1970s, Oregon created an onerous permitting process for new energy projects. Today, it's being used to stall green power. Meet the woman who's "on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape."

Grateful to @oregonian.com for sharing our story about the role misinformation played in killing Oregon's wildfire risk map. (And to @opb.org as well.) Thanks, also, to @klccoregon.bsky.social for having me on: www.klcc.org/podcast/oreg... ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires. Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.” By @robwdavis.bsky.social

In 2021, a year after Oregon endured its most destructive fire season on record, state lawmakers ordered a wildfire risk map for every property in the state. A cloud of misinformation and conspiracy theories swirled on social media. The anger quickly spread.

Lawmakers wanted to map which properties were most at risk to wildfires. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

ICYMI: How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map, by @robwdavis.bsky.social

In the end, what’s most remarkable about the campaign against Oregon’s wildfire map isn’t that misinformation found an audience. It’s that it worked. @robwdavis.bsky.social

New from me: 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. Misinformation got accepted as fact. In this telling, Oregon’s hotter, drier climate isn’t the problem; the map is.