After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. @natlash.bsky.social did. www.propublica.org/article/bird...

👀👀👀 "Emails from UCLA’s fundraising department, obtained by FOIAball, show the school is steering money to the charity, with explicit notes that it be earmarked for football NIL."

This bird flu investigation is well worth your time. I got a little peek behind the curtain into the data analysis and it's truly impressive work from @natlash.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/bird...

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...

Spanberger ran up wild margins in the DC/Richmond suburbs, flipped 6 Trump counties, and cut her losses in the rest of the state — some SWVA counties moved 15-20 points to her compared to 2021 gov's race. My first election results for @washingtonpost.com ! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

American inspections of foreign food facilities — which produce everything from crawfish to cookies for the U.S. market — have plummeted to historic lows this year, a ProPublica analysis of federal data shows. Via @anniewaldman.bsky.social @bxroberts.org www.propublica.org/article/fore...

Want to attend #NICAR26 in Indianapolis? We're offering fellowships with complimentary registration, IRE membership, hotel nights and a travel stipend. 🗓️ Get details and apply by Jan. 5, 2026. https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2026/fellowships-and-scholarships/

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/...

This is what great, fact-based, investigative reporting can do. Please subscribe to your local paper or non-profit newsroom. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/lawm...

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨 Attention, emerging photojournalists! @propublica.org is looking for our latest photojournalism fellow. It's a two-year deal with full salary and benefits. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1. All the details and application here👇

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment. This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need. Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

In the spring, Trump cut $500 million from aid to food banks. But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled. People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups. We visualized it: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

"The readers are telling us sometimes pretty directly, we don’t want to use these tools, we don’t have an interest in them. But there continues to be this impulse from organizations to build them anyway." @andrewdeck.bsky.social ethicsandjournalism.org/2025/09/18/n...

There are less than 3 weeks left to apply! Join @propublica.org's team of news apps developers who imagine and build interactive databases and stories that hold power to account grnh.se/bwyr9f056us

Two exciting new roles on @propublica.org's audio team: audio producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... senior audio producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

We’re looking for a developer-journalist to join @propublica.org’s News Applications team. You would write code, analyze data, build interactives — all in the service of public interest journalism. Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

We are hiring a News Applications Developer @propublica.org. Members of the news apps team pitch, design and develop interactive stories and databases that hold the powerful accountable and have real-world impact. grnh.se/bwyr9f056us

I'm completely obsessed with this art treatment. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

We dug deep to answer this important question: How Many Federal Health Workers Have RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration Cut? @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

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. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

The administration wouldn’t tell @propublica.org — or anyone — who has been cut from federal health agencies. That’s fine. We’ve been analyzing their directories since Jan. Turns out, we’ve lost thousands of scientists, regulators and other crucial roles. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

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

Hooray! Welcome @ryanlittle.bsky.social @kevinuhrm.bsky.social! So glad you're here! ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors

Texas is about to give more than $1 billion in public money to private schools. We found that they routinely engage in nepotism and enrich insiders in ways that would be illegal for public and charter schools. Just out @propublica.org @texastribune.org: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/t...

*Huge* new feature in Datawrapper! You can now create locator maps using the globe (aka orthographic) projection. Makes small scale maps so much better compared to the Mercator projection! All thanks to the amazing folks at @datawrapper.de and @maplibre.org ❤️ www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-glo...

Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

Far from the most pressing issue right now, but it's disappointing that OPM has put their data dictionaries behind a gov login wall. There was nothing confidential in it, and it was super useful for working with gov HR data. cc: @digiphile.bsky.social @jacobharr.is www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

This chart, which is unnecessarily harsh on the great @markhamillofficial.bsky.social by neglecting his voice work, redeems itself with its x- and y-axis icons www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Last year was a busy one at the Post, happy to see recognized the hard work of the visual teams as World's Best (digital). Congrats to all the winners! snd.org/de-volkskran...

One of my favorites, in 2015 when Francis visited America: An illustrated 215-year history of the popemobile w Richard Johnson + @denisedslu.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/loc...

Pope Francis, 88, lived to be the second-oldest pontiff in modern history. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt of court (!) in flight deportations case, citing in part a Washington Post graphic I made outlining the timing of flights and his orders. Very cool to see this impact. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The 564 accounts Elon Musk interacts with most on X — and how they spark action from the government Stellar analysis and visuals from @ence.bsky.social @erxclau.me @azipaybarah.bsky.social and Talia Trackim www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

We asked 500 manufacturing workers what they thought about President Trump’s wide-reaching tariffs www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

New blog post: You need your own LLM evals. Here's how I set mine up. kschaul.com/post/2025/04... featuring some great test cases from @dwillis.bsky.social

The digital version works effectively using animations to explain the sneeze process, but seeing it on paper is something special. Both media are perfect for #infographics explanations wapo.st/4j38wL7 Great teamwork with @teddyamen.bsky.social and Artur Galocha for @washingtonpost.com

This is a helluva fast turnaround for this valuable piece. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The transformation of DC's Navy Yard neighborhood. (2000 -> Today)