Hearts go out to everyone at the Washington Post today.

A note from our editors:

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Incredible utility marking choices here

This is my voicemail now

Kicking off a week of book talks across the U.S. beginning Monday, Feb 23 at 6:30 pm at the BDC in NYC. Come out and bring a friend. Space will be limited. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

“In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-... "the Dominion Voting System strategy for journalism" sounds a lot cooler when you don't know that Dominion Voting Systems was eaten and sold for parts by private equity following the successful lawsuit

And Chris's graphic depiction of how little food refugee families received in Kenya after USAID cuts www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Next @zisiga.bsky.social's excellent design for this story about how nonprofits have removed any mention of words like "diversity" or "racism" from their mission statements. www.propublica.org/article/dele...

The @propublica.org graphics team contributed fantastic graphics/design to not one, not two, but THREE stories already this week. First, Chris Alcantara's gorgeous maps for a disturbing investigation into the impact of USAID cuts in South Sudan. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

every person I’ve talked to today is sick lol

I only just noticed that my favorite local pho place has a shelf of 50s-era marine helmets spray-painted with antiwar slogans, holy shit

humans have been trying to do this shit forever and it's never worked out

Remember that December 8th is Nighthawk's Solstice: the shortest day of the year for those of us who stay up late. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/12/nigh...

A new investigation from @propublica.org & @highcountrynews.org finds that government programs for grazing on public lands help the wealthiest of ranchers while harming the environment. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

I’ll just be here watching a 30m youtube video about how singapore tried and failed to achieve food self-sufficiency, in ignorant bliss

no, just no

I’m hiring for a visual designer! Come work with me for a very cool org doing very cool work: grnh.se/943kjeba6us Some examples →

“Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Running starting this week!

The journalism inside baseball here is what an amazing hire Carol Leonnig has been for MSNBC (part of the mass exodus from the Washington Post)

Guillaume Lethuillier is working on a project to decompile the original Riven (1997) and explore the data set, like he did for Myst. glthr.com/riven-naviga...

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...

“My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions.”

Yesterday #CDC posted an extraordinary (also thorough & very useful) pre-buttal of claims about thimerosal in flu vaccines that will be made tomorrow at #ACIP. #HHS made CDC take it down. Never a dull moment these days. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...

Waiting for the push notification like media.tenor.com/1B8vjIqzmtEA...

Wild time flipping back and forth between NYT coverage and Hell Gate coverage rn

Your CPSC "Beat the Heat" safety starter pack.

I will never understand why people will agree to be interviewed and get self-owned like this www.propublica.org/article/insi...

CDC's always had a lot of gutsy, committed people in the mix and today's decision is proof they still do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h... archive.is/202505302213...

please sirs don’t make me redesign another homepage

Janelle Monae!!!!

I aspire to this Walter Goggins suit

So, so proud to be part of the team receiving this award:

woof woof

All colors of bananas from Donkey Kong 64 can be found in real life. Note that real-life blue and purple bananas only have a subtle coloration and are either unripe or inedible; beware of false images of cartoonishly saturated bananas spread online.

I just CAN NOT www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

This is going to extend into purgatory just like the TikTok ban isn’t it

Walter…Bloomberg…

Are you a graphics editor or otherwise work in data-viz? Come work with meeee job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

“It came from reporter Brett Murphy, who was covering the destruction of USAID with his reporting partner Anna Maria Barry-Jester. They’d been tipped off about the desk cleanouts; was there any chance, they asked Tobin, that they could send a billboard truck out on the morning of the 27th?”

“In the art world, silica gel packets are slipped into exhibit cases and used for their ‘buffering capacity,’ helping maintain a stable (and relatively high) humidity inside the case while conditions in the rest of the gallery might vary.” www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/

“In the 1960s, Switzerland had among the dirtiest water in Europe, blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. For decades, swimming was banned in some rivers […] on health grounds, and people could get ill if they swallowed the water.”

I resent having to learn what an autopen is, so much has happened in 24 hours

The picture that emerged shows that Mr. Yoon began nurturing a military takeover much earlier than commonly believed, and hatching emotionally driven plans to hamstring his political opponents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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