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And our 2025 "Stories You May Have Missed" list is an excellent cross-section of what our investigative reporters covered this year, independent journalism funded by your donations: from prescription drug safety to mental health to immigration to Nike to reality TV www.propublica.org/article/prop...

Thrilled that our investigation into child sexual abuse in a Minnesota church made @propublica.org's "Most Read" stories of 2025. So many stories on this list represent a first draft of history — future generations will be grateful to my colleagues, as am I: www.propublica.org/article/prop...

This is a tired strategy: accuse journalists seeking response and more information of "stalking" and "harassment"... rather than engage even to simply offer a "no comment." People in power, especially taxpayer-funded ones, should have to answer questions: www.propublica.org/article/prop...

@erinmayequade.bsky.social calls for stronger laws after our investigation into child abuse in OALC: “Honestly, we should have looked at it before... These victim survivors coming forward and sharing their stories — it would just be wrong to not respond to that.” www.propublica.org/article/minn...

People are always like “you’re from Minnesota, you must be used to the cold” and it’s like, sir, I was a teen in the late 90s and early aughts, I believed if I wore bulky clothes I’d look fat, so I’ve been freezing my ass off for 40 years

Andy Mannix and @jeremykohler.bsky.social have a new installment in what we've been calling our "Forgive and Forget" series. It asks the question, why don't adults with concrete knowledge of child abuse face consequences when they fail to report it to authorities? www.propublica.org/article/minn...

Wait, I did this wrong... and the actual result feels much more plausible

The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. ... we defeat an evil empire? 🤔

Cases of Black students being called the N-word, taunted by classmates saying "white power" are being ignored by the Trump administration. @megomatz.bsky.social, @jodiscohen.bsky.social and I found the Ed Dept has not acted on any racial harassment cases since Jan. 21 to hold districts accountable.

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug. We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake. In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak. Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

We've reached a critical point in our contract fight. Take a look and support us if you can by following, sharing, liking and/or with a signature on our petition! ❤️

What happens to copy editing

Please come on a little journey with @megomatz.bsky.social's latest story about how WI Sen. Ron Johnson has endorsed a book that advocates chlorine dioxide (a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching) as a treatment for cancer, malaria, autism and COVID: www.propublica.org/article/ron-...

“After years of extraction, journalism’s relationship with the tech industry has become abusive. Something else is needed.” — @werd.io has some uplifting predictions for 2026 www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

My New Year's resolution is not to have "Golden" stuck in my head 24 hours a day

On an inside-baseball media note, writing three features for Businessweek has been an absolute highlight of my 2025, and there are more to come next year! Writers, I highly recommend pitching them — they pay well, cover travel expenses, and love big ambitious ideas.

...and speaking of this volatile industry, I know a lot of super talented folks are looking for work so reminder that we have SIX open positions right now across different departments, including a reporting job in Texas: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica

In this volatile, threatened journalism industry, ProPublica is one of the few places that does months-long investigations. In this case, @gingerthompson.bsky.social spent five YEARS reporting this story. When you donate, this is what you're making possible: projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

“This was like a fucking machine,” said assistant St. Louis County attorney Mike Ryan, “that was basically trying to roll over these girls.” A bit of BTS on the reporting of my story about the abuse of children in a little-known church community in Minnesota: www.propublica.org/article/minn...

This marks the official end of my time with ProPublica's Midwest bureau. I'll be turning my attention to my new role as the host of ProPublica's forthcoming podcast. The thing about leaving the Midwest, which I've done MANY times, is that you always come back. See you around the bend, Minnesota ❤️

I shared some reporter's notebook-thoughts on my latest story on child sexual abuse and a little-known church in northern Minnesota: www.propublica.org/article/minn...

"The governor's office pointed out that states don't handle immigration cases. 'These comments are puzzling, seeing as the federal government is solely responsible for immigration and visas,' a spokeswoman said." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

Strib has a live blog following what seems like the imminent targeting of Somali migrants in the Twin Cities by ICE: www.startribune.com/live-minneap...

"Although one doctor documented in her medical record that she was at 'high risk of clinical deterioration and/or death,' she was told over and over again that she didn’t need to worry, her relatives say. More than 90 doctors were involved in Walker’s care": www.propublica.org/article/texa...

If you donate $40 to @propublica.org for Giving Tuesday, you can get this awesome Tips Tote: ‘Someone reading this tote has the next big story. Is it you?’ give.propublica.org/campaign/749...

"Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, 'Don’t cry. I don’t know how, but I’ll get you back. Understand?'" www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

End of the year coming up which means it's almost time to close out all my 2025 expenses. I HATE doing my expenses, every time I can't find a $10 receipt from Potbelly I feel like I robbed a bank or something

Spoke about our most recent investigation on MPR yesterday, alongside my co-reporter Andy Mannix. Side note: Andy and I met 15 years ago working at the alt-weekly City Pages. We almost sound like we've grown up in this interview (but trust me, we never will): www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Reporter Andy Mannix from the @startribune.com and I have been speaking to women all over the country about allegations of child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. This is the story of how one perpetrator in Minnesota escaped consequences for years: www.propublica.org/article/sexu...

What in the world: "The stunning courtroom disclosure — cinematic in its intensity — came in a hearing ostensibly to hear Comey’s motion to dismiss the case... it was overshadowed by the revelation that there may have been no indictment at all." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/due-to-...

"The stories Lizza and Nuzzi tell give you the extremely wrong idea of what it means to be a journalist. We, despite what every Hollywood property from 'House of Cards' to 'The West Wing' would have you believe, do not date our sources... We’re not rich, guys." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

I hate that I can't Google a word and quickly find out the definition because there are 500 tech startups who've chosen that word as their stupid name

An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

I'm not sure that even I, a transparency nut, could flawlessly follow this policy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Zow. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Titles for books I’ll probably never write: “Darkened Midwest Kitchens”

Often I receive an email and even though I want to respond immediately, I wait for a while so that I don't seem "too eager." I am infected with malignant Midwesterness please halp

Although this story focuses on the education system in Oklahoma, my brilliant colleague @jsmithrichards.bsky.social makes it plain that this is a vision for education, a blueprint really, for the entire country: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Trump administration continues to claim that this story — in which @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration authorities — is fake, lies, etc. without ever saying what we got wrong. It's easy to throw insults, it is NOT easy to do this reporting:

Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Child abuse pediatrics is a subject of particular interest to me, so I'm VERY excited for this three-episode podcast series from Serial: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So @propublica.org did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer." www.propublica.org/article/immi...

We are so grateful to everyone who signed our petition (1,300 OF YOU!) asking our management to agree to a fair contract with basic job protections for us! THANK YOU!!! We keep doing fearless journalism because you make us fearless 😍

Don't even know where to start sharing the most recent stories on ProPublica.org — if you're not waking up and checking every morning, you're missing out. Let's start here: due to an "extraordinary number of violations" the penalty is going to be... reduced? www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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