Our latest in this series is finally out! (A little publishing from beyond the grave)

After eight years at @propublica.org, today’s my last day. I’m deeply grateful for all the wonderful collaborators I’ve had along the way — especially my work wife @andreasuozzo.com. I’m so proud of the Pulitzer-winning work we did on Life of the Mother over the past two years.

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It’s been 5,000 years since I’ve thought about LLMs, which is where my research originally started, but this paper from the folks at @anthropic.com showing that a small, fixed number of documents is enough to poison any size LLM is really powering my brain on again www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

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...

We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

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

All of this is brought to you by a dream team of @jasonleopold.bsky.social , @jeffkao.bsky.social , @suryamattu.com, Ava Benny-Morrison , Harry Wilson, and Max Abelson. It’s also my first story for Bloomberg Tips: dmehro.89 on Signal or [email protected]

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

When the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. Here’s how reporters @pratheekrebala.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org did it.

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.

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...

ProPubli-paws love Just Cause 🐾

We took a collective lunch break today to protest @propublica.org management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system. Just this morning, a member of our Bargaining Committee was fired as a result of this system. Read more: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-d...

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

Reporting this story was mind boggling 😵‍💫 glad to see it make an impact!

Here's how we did this analysis: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

The latest in our series:

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.

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

Congratulations to @propublica.org, winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “Life of the Mother,” a landmark series that showed how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths and has spurred important reforms. nieman.harvard.edu/propublicas-...

5/ We will continue to fight for steward representation for our colleagues and call on management to change its position on this vital issue.

4/ Blocking stewards from these meetings is out of step with our industry and the principles of fairness and accountability the newsroom claims to uphold.

3/ Stewards are a critical part of a fair and transparent disciplinary process. They serve as witnesses, note-takers and advocates for our colleagues.

2/ Two of our unit members were just informed that they will be placed on Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) in meetings next week, the first step in a disciplinary process that often leads to termination at ProPublica. Management said stewards will not be permitted in those meetings.

Hey this is extremely not cool, just in case you didn’t know.

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

Congrats to our amazing team! 🥰🥰🥰

What we are seeking is simple: ProPublica management must uphold its values in its own workplace. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/prop...

Management has: - Denied stewards in performance meetings that could lead to discipline. - Rejected a standard approach to “just cause” and measures to improve transparency in the disciplinary process. - Blocked attempts to ensure jobs will not be replaced by AI.

Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to @sengelberg.bsky.social and @robinsparkman.bsky.social asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.

When we set out to do this analysis, we hoped to build on an existing methodology to study severe complications in early pregnancy — but there wasn't one. So, in consultation with dozens of experts, @sophiechou.bsky.social, Lizzie Presser and I developed our own. Here's how we did it:

After Texas' 2021 abortion ban, the rate of sepsis for women hospitalized with pregnancy loss increased by more than 50%, our analysis found.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...