DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages. Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta… -take a screenshot. -send it to their work computer -run the file through a program there -repeat www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Modern cars are collecting more data than ever, raising privacy concerns. The Mozilla Foundation says cars are the worst product category for privacy.

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

Bad news for billionaires. Great news for the rest of is. @jeisinger.bsky.social is going to be envisioning and executing far more journalism. Including into the super-sized businesses that have wormed their way into our lives. www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer. By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained." - . FACTS: "Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear." www.propublica.org/article/immi...

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

"At one steel industry plant near Pittsburgh, a potent carcinogen was found at levels more than 30 times higher than estimated." If you read to the end you'll find an asthmatic cat photo 😭 My latest, 📸 by Annie Flanagan. Shocking pics that look like pre-EPA days www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

"The occupancy side...gets less attention than the construction side, in part because the latter has multiple...allies... especially builders, contractors and real estate agents. Few are motivated to speak up for occupying tens of thousands of empty bedrooms." themainemonitor.org/maine-buildi...

Bumble bee hanging on. Late fall in Maine.

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Why give the White House anonymity for *this*? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon! ➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

Last week, a federal judge ordered immigration agents in Chicago to use body-cams: "That is not a suggestion." Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him* They had body-cams -- that weren't on I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing

Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents. “Abject lies,” he wrote. Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases. Because...we do our homework. propub.li/4o2eeiL

So a few months ago, we detailed how immigration agents were breaking car windows to grab the people inside. Well, it turns out one agent just did that *with his gun* and mistakenly shot the person inside and a U.S. marshal. www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/u...

Congratulations to all Monitor reporters, editors and staff who picked up awards at the Maine Press Association awards! Pictured: @emilykbader.bsky.social, Emmett Gartner, Rose Lundy, Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, Sean Scott, George Harvey, Daniel O'Connor and @krstnimg.bsky.social. Photo by Erin Rhoda

Pingree referred to the delay in publishing the report as part of “a growing pattern of interference with the Agency’s scientific work” www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

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

VIDEO: Reporter @andykroll.bsky.social explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of trillions of dollars and millions of federal workers.

🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America. Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought. Here is the story. A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This passage from @andykroll.bsky.social’s revelatory profile of Russell Vought, tells you everything you need to know:

An unelected life-long bureaucrat attempts to wipe out the federal government and policies that he personally disagrees with. Great reporting by @andykroll.bsky.social with research by @kirstenberg.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/russ...

"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear". @propublica.org's @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/immi...

"Critically, there is no way to know the complete scope of these stops since the government itself does not track them." An astonishing amount of work that went into shining a light on the details in this remarkable void.

This reporting is so important, and also just wanted to say that I love @propublica.org's How We Did This notes. I think it does so much for transparency and context, and helping people understand how a story is told.

NHANES! The source of so much critical health info! www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

"'Maine is grappling with such a shortage of dentists that some doctors are adapting to treat early tooth decay themselves.'" via @themainemonitor.org

A nice write up in @usa.streetsblog.org! usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/t...

They are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them. How a little-known appeal could force your insurer to pay for lifesaving care www.propublica.org/article/heal...

Bukele wanted the contractor on the corruption investigation gone, according to a report obtained by @propublica.org. In Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson, he had a powerful American friend—and a friendship that lasted long after Johnson left his post: www.propublica.org/article/amba...

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data. (Published May)

The Midwest newsroom at @propublica.org is amazing. Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it. Come join us! This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**

New craft class coming up quick. I've dreamed of teaching this one for years! We'll explore the porous boundaries of investigative literature, from Gwendolyn Brooks in Montgomery to Lynn Nottage in Reading, PA., to Patrick Radden Keefe in Northern Ireland. Online + open to all, incl. all genres.

NEW: Records show that Uvalde school leaders initially planned to defend Police Chief Pete Arredondo after the Robb Elementary shooting. The details were revealed in over 25,000 pages the district released after a legal fight with news outlets. With @texastribune.org

2/ As the story also makes clear, having two such mortgages is not on its own evidence of wrongdoing. But it is a standard the Trump administration has been using to go after its political foes. Read our full story:

1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)

"Pulte did not respond to a request for comment from ProPublica." @justinelliott.bsky.social @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social for @propublica.org. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Pearl, always in sunshine.

Throwing my cat into the ring for my city’s extremely fake “bike path mayor” race.

So the Trump appointee to head the precious jewel of American economic data collection is: -a J6er -who has a nazi ship photo -and can’t get the math right to back his belief that the economy was in recession under Biden and then soared when Trump took over

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. With @texastribune.org