Ken Schwencke
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Senior editor of
@propublica.org
's data journalism teams. Super gay. Sometimes printmaker.
pinned post!
Last year I picked up printmaking and linocutting as a hobby, and yesterday I ran this giant 18x24 print of the sky over Fire Island. I was trying to translate that big and calming sense you get when itās warm and breezy out and youāre just watching the clouds go by.
#linocut
#printmaking
#artsky
about 1 year ago
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BeijingPalmer
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CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.
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Jameel Jaffer
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Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
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Carla Astudillo
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Updated the
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habeas tracker for the week. While the number of new habeas cases every week has begun to slow from the peak earlier this year, there are still thousands of cases being filed nationwide ā higher than it was even a year prior.
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Razzball
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his excuse is they wouldnāt put the starving children on the phone with him.
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MS NOW
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NOW: Workers appear to be erecting a fence around the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. Watch LIVE:
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LIVE: See Trumpās Reflecting Pool DISASTER as crews race to fix MESS
YouTube video by MS NOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gngep8YGt00
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Jay Willis
3 days ago
You rarely see a perfect headline in the wild like this
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ProPublica
6 days ago
Our analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said itās going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isnāt endemic:
https://propub.li/3QAKxK1
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Chris Morran
9 days ago
Imagine if France said they'd help the US with urgently needed medical aid and relief after a disaster, but only if we turned over sensitive medical data for millions of Americans. That's what Trump's State Dept. is doing across Africa. By
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āDigital Colonialismā: U.S. Demands to Access Africansā Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-africa-uganda-aid-medical-data-privacy
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Chris Morran
14 days ago
I'm not an optimist, but i want to believe there's some hope for this world when a vaccine skeptic doctor with millions of followers can publicly admit he was wrong about lifesaving vitamin K shots for babies. Share the latest from
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A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now Heās Changed His Tune.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. āThe da...
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies
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ProPublica
15 days ago
3/ ProPublica has no other business but journalism in the public interest. Join 90,000+ members keeping us fueled. Donate today:
propub.li/4fywDCz
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Donate to ProPublica
Donate today to support ProPublica's singular mission: to produce deep-dive, well-researched, nonpartisan journalism that spurs real-world change.
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ProPublica
15 days ago
1/ At ProPublica, our funders have zero say in what we cover. That is a foundational, nonnegotiable rule. In a media landscape increasingly controlled by corporate owners, our nonprofit newsroom stands apart because our primary stakeholders are our readers.
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Jason Koebler
17 days ago
In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial:
www.404media.co/judge-learns...
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Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/
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Kathleen Bachynski
17 days ago
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence āIāve put a couple kids in the hospitalā would ever be followed by the phrase: āBut hereās the thing.ā
@jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Jesse Eisinger
17 days ago
NEW: Donald Trump Jr. invests in a co. trying to build an oil refinery in the U.S. Then the richest man in Asia invests... in the same company. Then... his co. gets policy concessions from the Trump Admin.
@josh-kaplan.bsky.social
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@natlash.bsky.social
compared samples of measles from the US and Canada and found that the Texas out leak last year and the ongoing Utah outbreak strains are very closely related. Just out
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Charles Ornstein
18 days ago
āThat is a serious, serious gap in safety.ā A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Companyās Federal Safety Record. By
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@joeljacobs.bsky.social
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A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Companyās Federal Safety Record.
A national system tracks serious bus crashes so regulators can keep roads safe. But the process fails to identify most of a major companyās fatal collisions, WBUR and ProPublica found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/boston-school-bus-crash-record-lens-joseph-transdev
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@natlash.bsky.social
compared samples of measles from the US and Canada and found that the Texas out leak last year and the ongoing Utah outbreak strains are very closely related. Just out
@propublica.org
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projects.propublica.org/measles-outb...
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ProPublica
18 days ago
NEW: Our analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said itās going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isnāt endemic.
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What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America's Measles Outbreaks -- ProPublica
The U.S. eliminated measles a quarter century ago, but to keep its āmeasles-freeā designation, officials will have to make a strong case that measles is not continuously spreading within its borders. Our analysis shows how difficult that could be.
https://projects.propublica.org/measles-outbreak-analysis-utah-texas/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1780921804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Judd Legum
24 days ago
George Santos: 1. Posted a video the day before Trump's State of the Union saying he was going to be there 2. Bet on Kalshi that he would not attend the SOTU 3. Did not attend the SOTU
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
24 days ago
Here was DHSās statement at the time.
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Christopher Mathias
25 days ago
the trump official ā who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis ā admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!
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God
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www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...
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I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html
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SE Gyges
25 days ago
according to the spacex filings, their valuation is justified entirely by grok, which will be 90% of enterprise ai, and ai will be 90% of the us economy
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I am late to this but the google docs icon becoming nearly indistinguishable from the calendar icon is wreaking havoc on my tab situation
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Annie Waldman
28 days ago
In 2023, we found dozens of doctors were making millions of dollars performing risky ā and possibly unnecessary ā vascular procedures on patients. Earlier this month, a government watchdog broadly confirmed our findings, recommending CMS take action.
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More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds
A newly released report, which was based on a study that launched in 2024 following a ProPublica investigation, flags nearly 140 doctors across the country with "concerning" billing patterns.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vascular-procedures-medicare-inspector-general-report
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Something kinda neat I've been working on: I used Claude over the past month to iterate on an app to generate halftones and color separated images for screen printing. It works pretty well, and it's helping me make real live prints!
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Amanda Mull
about 1 month ago
You can tell that the audience for this is, like, Mamdani obsessives who do not live in or near NYC bc everyone here knows $700 is like the least you could hope to possibly pay to get into a Knicks eastern conference finals game at the Garden and heās in TERRIBLE seats
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Mamdani quietly attends Knicks game ā sitting in section where tickets cost around $700 or more
Mamdani, who didnāt list his attendance on his public schedule, posted a smiling photo inside the Garden with the caption āKnicks foreverā only after the teamās win.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/us-news/mamdani-quietly-attends-knicks-game-sitting-in-section-where-tickets-cost-around-700-or-more/
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Popehat
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/7 This encapsulates how Trumpism and Trumpist prosecutors have destroyed, probably for a generation at least, the reputation of DoJ and federal prosecutors.
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New York Magazine
about 1 month ago
As the senator isolates himself from the Democratic Party and his staff, a little-known writer has become one of Fettermanās closest confidants and a key adviser on Israel.
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The Man Who Explains Israel to John Fetterman
As the senator isolates himself from the Democratic Party and his staff, a little-known writer has become one of Fettermanās closest confidants and a key adviser on Israel.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-israel-palestine-david-safier-aipac.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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Alex Shultz
about 1 month ago
Unanimous verdict from the jury: All three claims brought by Musk are barred by statute of limitations. Elon Musk loses.
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Judd Legum
about 1 month ago
1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.
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AwwDHD š„¹
about 1 month ago
Kash Patel went snorkeling around the sunken hull of the USS Arizona, a battleship that still houses the remains of over 900 Americans killed during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Not even the families of those killed are allowed to do what he did.
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Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel's Hawaii trip included 'VIP snorkel' at a Pearl Harbor memorial
Government emails obtained by The Associated Press show that FBI Director Kash Patel went on a āVIP snorkelā session last summer at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-kash-patel-snorkel-hawaii-pearl-harbor-192a81cde7a5879aab747bc0ba4b78b9
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Eric Umansky
about 1 month ago
New from PP: You know those 'Kavanaugh stops,' where justice allowed racial profiling but said they'd be no big deal? Well, ICE agents have now stopped and held this American *3 times* Earlier this month, they *shackled him* He's thinking of moving to Mexico
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Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time ā and shackled. āI just want to live in peace,ā he say...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-leo-garcia-venegas-arrests-detentions-citizens-ice-dhs
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molly taft
about 1 month ago
btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now
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Parker Molloy
about 1 month ago
I've been watching these terrible Washington Post podcast clips on YouTube, and dear god, this is bleak. Also, the view counts are just... how are they so low?
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Nolan Hicks
about 1 month ago
Say what you will about tabloiding, it is usually pretty good about cutting right to the quick of the nail
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The DOJ Amtrak example here š
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Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing
A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text.ā¦
https://jilltxt.net/genre-glitches-and-unexpected-promotional-phrases-as-a-sign-of-ai-writing/
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Blind spots.
A satellite company popular among journalists issued an indefinite blackout in the Middle East. Open-source investigators got to workāand challenged official narratives.
https://www.cjr.org/feature/blind-spots-satellite-osint-open-source-middle-east-iran-blackout-planet-labs-vantor-maxar.php
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Kyle Cheney
about 1 month ago
NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database:
www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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Jesse Eisinger
about 1 month ago
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know weāre numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/trump-suit-irs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Chris Morran
about 2 months ago
šØ JOURNALISM JOB ALERT! šØ
@propublica.org
is launching a dedicated California office and we need a skilled editor to develop and lead this new team. Details and application here š
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Senior Editor, California
California, United States
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4666221006?gh_src=fpeo2dqn6us
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Charles Ornstein
about 2 months ago
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driverās licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
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A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making Americaās Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driverās licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that kille...
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A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making Americaās Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driverās licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that kille...
https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-collins-georgia-senate-truck-crashes
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Nate Schenkkan
about 2 months ago
In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.
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Democracy Docket
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.
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Sam Cole
about 2 months ago
well... well... WELL
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ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to āSupplementā Its Facial Recognition App
A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.
https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/
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Derek Willis
about 2 months ago
"The Government suggests that there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPTās doing, rather than the Governmentās. There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT."
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