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...

Matt's Weather Rapport: NOAA confirmed that August in #Vermont was the driest on record, along with two other states. The drought continues and rivers are now at record low levels. Lots of details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/09/conf...

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ICYMI: our data analysis on the rise in sepsis rates in Texas after the abortion ban won an ONA award 🏆 @andreasuozzo.com

“Burlington, the state's largest city, has hired specialized workers and started new programs in response. But smaller towns with far fewer resources are struggling to respond.” www.sevendaysvt.com/news/vermont... By @sevendaysvt.bsky.social’s @clamdin.bsky.social #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

There aren't very many books that I'd grab from a Little Free Library more than a mile from the end of a run, but it turns out this is one. Absolute flashback to middle-school me combing the YA shelves at every library branch near my house for more John Bellairs books.

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

"Just a week after Scott arrived in Vermont, while in the middle of a mental health crisis, he was shot and killed by a state trooper inside the apartment he and his mother had just moved into. They hadn’t even finished unpacking all the boxes."

ProPubli-paws love Just Cause 🐾

I love working at ProPublica. I would love it more if it could guarantee us just cause protections. Go union.

We’re holding a lunch-out today to demand that @propublica management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system. Just today, a member of our Bargaining Committee and Unit Council was fired as a result of ProPublica's flawed system.

Breaking: Vermont Green FC took their first-ever national title Saturday evening in a 2-1 victory over Seattle’s Ballard FC in front of an electric Burlington crowd. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

UP THE GREEN 🏆

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You can stream tonight's USL League Two Final LIVE from Virtue Field on SportsEngine Play. 🏆📺 Kickoff at 7:00pm! Tune in to support the Boys in Green!

Building *slows* gentrification; and *not* building makes it much worse: "The findings suggest that not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents, making it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods." -- www.pew.org/en/research-...

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway @mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Me: I will make this small Nonprofit Explorer change. It will be an easy win for the day! Narrator: It was not, in fact, an easy win for the day.

"We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew that at least 197 of the men had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.... The truth of all their stories—one by one—will begin to be told." Astonishing reporting from my colleagues: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

On Thursday morning, after 11 days behind bars, Esther Ngoy Tekele, 23, was granted bond during a hearing in a Massachusetts immigration court. She was expected to be released later in the day.

NEW: Only a few companies make nearly all the vaccines kids receive. Only 1 manufacturer makes chickenpox vax. And 2 or 3 make the shots against more than a dozen diseases, including polio and measles. If any were to drop out, the US could find itself in a crisis it hasn't seen in 40 years.

1/ Local journalists: There are just ten days until the next deadline to partner with us and apply for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network! Do you have an idea for the program? Here’s how it works. 🧵

As numerous women recounted losing dangerous amounts of blood during miscarriage, our reporters searched for a way to gain a broader understanding of how abortion restrictions have impacted care. Here's how we conducted our analysis. By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

After Texas made performing abortions a felony, miscarriage became more dangerous. The number of blood transfusions in ED visits for first-trimester pregnancy loss shot up by 54%. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous. Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

Come work with me, supporting in-house technology and security to help a vital non-profit investigative newsroom work more safely and effectively using technology. This is one of those roles where you can truly make a difference. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

Hooray! The new encrypted tips form Ive been working on with @phiffer.org is now live! Very, very proud and delighted with this effort. www.propublica.org/tips/#submit

NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The craft beer market, like its consumers, is "maturing." The latest in my series of stories tracking the decline of products I liked in my 20s. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

Three of my colleagues are being placed on PIPs today, and they will go into those meetings without union representation. We're not shutting up about this — having stewards in disciplinary meetings is a basic union right, and @propublica.org management should do the right thing.

Three of our colleagues are being placed on PIPs today and @propublica.org management has refused to allow stewards in those meetings. We're not shutting up about this — our colleagues deserve better and we're extremely disappointed in management for denying us this basic union right.

I'm calling on management to change their minds. Stop blocking Stewards from PIP meetings. We're not backing down. open.spotify.com/playlist/5tl...

I really hope management changes their mind and does the right thing. We're not asking for the moon here — having stewards in these meetings is a basic union right.

1/4 UPDATE: This week, @propublica.org management informed a third bargaining unit member that they will be placed on a performance improvement plan and denied steward representation at the meeting where it is discussed. Our full statement 👇

Like cicadas emerging every 13 to 17 years, every 2 or 3 years or so Silicon Valley emerges to reinvent the bus.

As Elon Musk laid waste to the federal government, the Department of Transportation quietly met with and consulted his tunneling firm, the Boring Company, a $6 billion Amtrak tunnel project connecting Baltimore, DC and Virginia. Our latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...

Under Texas’ abortion ban, the rate of sepsis shot up by more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost a second-trimester pregnancy. Our new analysis shows the risk varies widely between the state’s two largest metro areas. By Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and @andreasuozzo.com

So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight. THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY. "Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

I hope management hears our members and reconsiders this anti-union position.

Really disappointed in @propublica.org management for this decision, which is out of step with both industry standards and ProPublica’s mission of accountability.

1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇

After Texas banned abortion, the rates of sepsis in 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations shot up by more than 50%, @sophiechou.bsky.social and I found. But that jump wasn't equal across the state; women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

The latest in our (Pulitzer-winning 😏) series: More stark findings on the rise in sepsis after Texas banned abortion

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

We're not stopping with the Pulitzer. @andreasuozzo.com is out with a new analysis showing how decisions hospital leaders made in Dallas vs. Houston shaped outcomes for women after the ban.

At UVM, the office of "Equity, Belonging and Student Engagement" is now the office of "the Advancement of Our Common Ground" vtcynic.com/uncategorize...

Was double-checking the name of a researcher before I cite her on the show and Google's AI reinforced my incorrect recollection!