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...

Unlike in poultry, USDA has only been counting newly infected dairy herds as new cases (many herds have gone out and back into infected status). Will be interesting to hear from officials where in the state this herd is.

One Health expert Dr. John Korslund (@hogvet51.bsky.social) shares his thoughts on our recent investigation on his blog. Worth a read if you're interested in #h5n1 #birdflu (and #h5n5) hogvet51.substack.com/p/a-grim-wee...

New @propublica.org & @startribune.com investigation from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix out today looking into allegations of widespread child sexual abuse within the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church in Minnesota, with photography by @leilanavidi.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/sexu...

In AIR-BORNE, I wrote about the reluctance many scientists had to acknowledge Covid can float to new hosts. Now it looks like something similar may be happening with bird flu, which may be blowing from farm to farm. Story in @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/bird...

1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs. And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵

NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did. By @natlash.bsky.social

Tracking the spread of bird flu using genetic markers, satellite imagery, property records, and more reminds me of John Snow’s Cholera investigation/map. Howe’s Hens is the modern day Broad Street Pump. Amazing work from @natlash.bsky.social & @chrisalcantara.com. www.propublica.org/article/meth...

Great to see a new FluView post from #CDC today after weeks without updates. It's not yet flu season in the US, but activity is starting to pick up. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

oh fun www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_othe...

“No one will speak to your reporter!”

And this isn't meant to be an ad. I think there's sometimes a tendency, at least among journalists working with satellite imagery, to immediately go for the highest resolution possible. But there's an awful lot of stories inside those daily 3.5m multispectral collects.

New #H5N1 genotypes reported! Minnesota's recent turkey cases were reported as a mix of D-type reassortants, including the D1.1 strain that was prevalent in wild birds last year, along with two newly named strains, D1.5 and D1.6. #H5N1

VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate. Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss and toenail fungus. Read the full investigation here:

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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. 🧵

please just read Laura Reiley's words here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Life news: Thrilled to be joining @propublica.org as deputy news applications editor! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

We took our lunch outside today to demand: ✅ Just Cause that covers everyone ✅ A fair, transparent discipline process ✅ No loopholes for @propublica.org management We’re united for a contract that protects us all.

AI video is almost there: no amount of post-hoc squinting can tell fake from real. Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

I mean, these are exactly the winemakers I'd be buying if I had money to throw around in Sonoma County, so, www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/d...

Working on a project and made this image of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption. Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.

We did ask NYT if they knew about the hacker's X account, or that their bylined freelancer followed the hacker. We did not get a response aside from getting linked to Healy's old thread about the sourcing of the article.

After discovering a "very sophisticated" Iranian hack of his office's website, Arizona's secretary of state notified federal and state authorities — but not CISA, in which he said he's lost faith. archive.is/B47dV (h/t @derekbjohnson.bsky.social)

Unreasonably psyched about ARS posting this sample. 🪰 🐄 🥛 #h5n1 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PV92...

Our I-team partnered with several desks across the @washingtonpost.com newsroom to tell this important story www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

consulting dozens of counselors, emergency officials, parents and experts, we recreated what made these floodwaters so deadly. gift link: wapo.st/40fITPL 📊

Sunport is the absolute GOAT airport and importantly the only US airport where you can buy red & green Bueno chile.

❤️❤️❤️ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/m...

🥲 🦷 www.pulitzer.org/winners/tim-...

Very glad to see NYT shining the light on the Kafkaesque ways Illinois cities enforce their "Crime-Free Housing" ordinances www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

Just the San Francisco Chronicle casually being a finalist for the NATIONAL REPORTING PULITZER (so proud of @jennifergollan.bsky.social and @susien.bsky.social! Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social!) pulitzer.org/finalists/22...

NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social bloom.bg/43am95w

Final form of the press release reading "cops seized enough fentanyl to kill X people Y times"

Awful. I was a daily reader of Polygon. Super smart staff with an incredible understanding of so many weird, fun corners of culture.

Another bulk tank isolate sequence published as the AZ D1.1 cattle spillover continues to simmer.