So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though

oh my god

Finally went to the new Tokyo Central in Emeryville and something amazing happened

“EPA played no role in the determinations set out in the statute and specifically vested in the President. Any requests sent to the EPA’s electronic mailbox were forwarded to the White House.” https://www.propublica.org/article/clean-air-act-exemptions-trump-emails

These weapons are toxic, especially to children, who breathe more rapidly, pulling in more contaminated air than adults relative to their body weight. --> my latest, with @mayatmiller.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social

Today we are launching a new podcast! As a certified cynic, the line “investigative journalism is an act of optimism” got me.

Excited to unveil a new look for @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/why-...

Very cool to see SND award @propublica.org & @highcountrynews.org's collab on grazing in the West a Bronze Medal. "The judges praised the cohesive, minimalist design, highlighting the elevated use of typography, illustration, and photo-stitching..." tinyurl.com/8tsjhfxp

Nagel is fine, but I will just say, with no trace of exaggeration, that if something tries to cite Mark Fisher at me, I’m shooting it with a gun

I’m still stuck on “We love you from the moon” 😭

Very funny that you can get a Pokemon to start working in Pokopia by staring at them

me

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

“When they published their paper in early 2025, Kiang and Lo emphasized the outcomes from less extreme drops in vaccination rates, in part because the peer reviewers suggested those were more realistic. Back then, Kennedy was in his earliest days at HHS.”

GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime

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...