✊ 92% voted YES on this strike auth vote, with 99% of the unit voting ✊ @propublicaguild.org #solidarity

Thrilled for @caitlingilbert.bsky.social, Craig Whitlock and Lisa Rein for on being named finalists for the Goldsmith Awards for their coverage last year of VA disability fraud: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Congratulations to the @miamiherald.com's Alexandra Glorioso, the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social's Lawrence Mower & Justin Garcia on being named finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their coverage of Hope Florida! goldsmithawards.org/announcing-t...

Wow, sure would have been a great year for soy exports to not be cratered

Pretty rough month for #H5N1 More than 10M layers have been culled due to HPAI outbreaks in the last month. It's one of the worst months we've seen since H5 2.3.4.4b first started infecting U.S. flocks in 2022. 🧵 on what I'm seeing domestically

This og:image drives me absolutely insane every time I see it

Day 212 of trying to convince the toddler that Whitewater from Bela's 1988 album Drive is, in fact, his favorite song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfqn...

Been trying to write more music lately and hard to shake a sense that so much of music can be described thematically as a version of "Things ( are | aren't ) changing and I (do | don't) like it."

I missed this the other day: USDA NVSL finally updated GenoFlu 🎉 Confirms that D1.1 continues to reign supreme, though there are new EA3 reassortants out there that emerged this fall github.com/USDA-VS/Geno...

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

We did use lists of names from the excellent PLUM website (woo PLUM Act!), so doing something like this now is much easier than it was 10 years ago, but yes, we need legislation to finish the job.

But this Claude incident highlights another problem with AI: My story and the Post's work are carefully written and reported. We deliberately choose what we can and can't say. Editors review our language and challenge us on facts. AI summaries throw all that work into a copy blender.🫠

@grok is this true?

Polymarket still outdoing everyone making the case that extraterrestrial Polymarkets resolves the Fermi Paradox

Is Chunky Chimp in the Bluey universe cel animated, that unhinged Disney lifelike computer animation, or live action (suggesting another civilization of anthropomorphic chimpanzees that engage in cultural exchange with anthropomorphic dog civilization) Sincerely, the bazillionth snow day of 2026

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is 50 first dates a rougelike

Our members joined the #SaveThePost rally in D.C. today to protest the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. We stand in solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Support laid off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... + www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... ✊

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Two more Lancaster farms had confirmations of HPAI yesterday, including a 0.7M layer facility.

Egg layers hit by HPAI in Weld CO, 1.3M birds. Two Weld County farms above 1M layers have been hit at least twice since 2.3.4.4b arrived in 2022. Weld 04 (2022-11) / Weld 12 (2024-08) Weld 02 (2022-07) / Weld 06 (2022-12) / Weld 11 (2024-08) A quiet streak in egg layers seems to be over.

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.

An egg layer flock in Lancaster County, PA hit with HPAI this week. One to keep an eye on: In 2022, when an egg-laying flock in Lancaster around that size had an outbreak, the infection spread to other flocks in Lancaster and Berks, taking out over 4 million birds, mostly layers.

i don't wanna be overdramatic but we need to unplug the internet

Really appreciate this work from @malar0ne.bsky.social et al, making the case that assortativity of vaccine coverage is vital to understanding (and modeling) measles outbreaks / breakthrough infections

People have been asking, so we published it: The data linking generic drugs to the facilities that make them! You can download the data on GitHub. 👇👇 github.com/propublica/r...

saw someone in line with two gallon sized tubs of hummus. like, what?

A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison. Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared. How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.

The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.

Not the first to note the questionable carto in two different Board of Peace logos, one on stage at Davos (blue background) and one tweeted by White House (white background).

The right move. And an excellent, forceful statement: "We have asked the court to order the immediate return of all seized materials and prevent their use. Anything less would license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant.” wapo.st/4jUxQEe

Really excited our paper about how H5N1 rapidly adapted to cattle (and how these adaptations also increased its ability to infect cells from the human respiratory tract) is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

NEW from @lisalsong.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social: The Trump administration is directing employees at the USDA to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"We know how to prevent bird flu. So why aren’t we?" www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/a...

This is so impressive: See the photography, illustration, graphics and filmmaking that brought ProPublica’s journalism to life and helped hold power to account in 2025.

(major platform generating/distributing AI revenge porn, govt trying to convince ppl not to believe their eyes on footage they can clearly view for themselves, terminally online govt officials marshaling the resources of military in service of propaganda to perform for an imagined audience online)

More problems with #GISAID, the international database that is the key repository of #flu and #Covid viral sequences, @kakape.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...

The detection of HPAI on a WI dairy is the third detected spillover of D1.1 into cattle. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...

More amazing reporting from my colleagues @propublica.org @natlash.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DSBen-s...

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The visuals team at @propublica.org has put together an incredibly breathtaking piece of documentary journalism on a Venezuelan family newly arrived to the US and navigating their uncertain lives under the Trump admin. Watch and share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKSz...

Thrilled to talk with @neilbedi.bsky.social for this excellent deep dive into an emerging and alarming form of gambling www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@kingtides.bsky.social King tides at Petaluma river four and a half feet under the D St drawbridge.

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...