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 it’s warm and breezy out and you’re just watching the clouds go by.
#linocut
#printmaking
#artsky
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Peter DiCampo
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The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at
@propublica.org
, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇
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ProPublica
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NEW: After we documented children crawling through trains to get to school, the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said train company Norfolk Southern pledged to help fund an overpass. Now the project is dead after the company reneged, he says. Norfolk Southern denies making a commitment.
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Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says
The mayor of Hammond, Indiana, says the rail company had promised to help pay for a pedestrian bridge after ProPublica and InvestigateTV documented dozens of children crawling through trains to get to...
https://www.propublica.org/article/norfolk-southern-train-crossing-hammond-indiana-school-pedestrian-overpass?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1774458069&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Marisa Kabas
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O'HARE (Chicago): "There are dozens of ICE agents at TSA checkpoint, almost all of them doing the jobs of the TSA agents. They are the ones checking IDs and passports and verifying flight info, while TSA agents stand there and do nothing."
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ProPublica
3 days ago
NEW: This Louisiana prosecutor... • Was forced to resign from the DA’s office for submitting false paperwork. • Withheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases. • Compared a Black teen to a dog & told the jury to “get rid of it.” Now he’s running for judge. With
@veritenews.org
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He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge.
Holland, who once compared a Black child to a dog, has had a career mired in controversy. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner of his judicial race.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hugo-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1774354202&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
3 days ago
justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted
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Al Shaw
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We're doing some really fun stuff with
@svelte.dev
over here at
@propublica.org
. Our recent Trump Administration financial disclosures and FDA generic drug databases are built on SvelteKit and DuckDB.
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Bradford Pearson
3 days ago
ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now
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Michelle Goldberg
3 days ago
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Mark Joseph Stern
4 days ago
The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent:
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Nolan Hicks
4 days ago
“2 pilots killed after Air Canada plane collides with vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport 'I messed up,' controller on air traffic audio says after Flight AC8646 crashes into firefighting vehicle”
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2 pilots killed after Air Canada plane collides with vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport | CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/air-canada-crash-la-guardia-airport-9.7138217
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids
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Taniel
5 days ago
when sheriffs bring in massive surveillance equipment with zero public oversight or even approval, because private surveillance corporations say they’ll just pay for it:
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Kyle Cheney
6 days ago
NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court. A look at this emerging trend.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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The Onion
6 days ago
Bari Weiss Claims Ideological Diversity Begins And Ends With Her
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They Have A New Popehat
6 days ago
You have to dig through a bunch of links to find out what she was accused of, and it will surprise nobody: most of the complaints were that she ruled in favor of criminal defendants and against prosecutors.
apps.legislature.ky.gov/CommitteeDoc...
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Casey Newton
6 days ago
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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment
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Audrey Dutton
6 days ago
The Trump administration's demands go against the ethos of "keep your federal hands off Idaho," former Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa said. I teamed up on this story with
@jenafifield.bsky.social
and
@zachdespart.bsky.social
who are tracking the DOJ's efforts.
www.propublica.org/article/idah...
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As Trump Demands Voter Data, This Fiercely Independent Red State Says No
Wary of federal intrusion, Idaho passed a law three decades ago allowing it to sidestep so-called motor-voter laws. The exemption and the sentiment behind it are fueling resistance to President Donald...
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-voter-data-trump-justice-department
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ProPublica
7 days ago
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. Read more:
https://propub.li/4rBUJOV
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Chris Geidner
7 days ago
The NBC News story about Corey Lewandowski is very important. The GEO Group-related claims are astounding, and later reporting in the story suggests that those allegations were not some one-time thing.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Nolan Hicks
7 days ago
“Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski: Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.”
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Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski
Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-contractors-told-white-house-officials-asked-pay-corey-lewandowski-rcna263744
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Charles Ornstein
8 days ago
This is horrifying. How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues, by
@sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues
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Chris Morran
8 days ago
Why is a PAC for a Florida high-speed rail line helping to fund an inexperienced Congressional candidate in Wisconsin? Might have something to do with his father-in-law, MTV reality star-turned-Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. New from
@megomatz.bsky.social
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Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of tr...
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation
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Jessica Lussenhop
9 days ago
Wow this investigation identifies 5 federal agents who "engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis"
calmatters.org/investigatio...
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Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force
A visual investigation shows how five agents moved from city to city, with their tactics becoming more brazen at each stop.
https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/03/agents-of-chaos-border-patrol/
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Carla Astudillo
9 days ago
Small but important update to our
@propublica.org
habeas tracker: By clicking on the little icon in our table, you can download all habeas cases for each state or court district since Jan. 2025, inc. case names, docket number along with Court Listener link.
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Cengiz Yar
9 days ago
The Trump administration turned vast expanses of federal land along the southern border, like this stretch in southern New Mexico, into national defense areas, but their attempts to prosecute "trespassers" are floundering in court.
@propublica.org
reports:
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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lauren
11 days ago
These Pernicious Gambling Apps Will Embed Themselves Deeper and Deeper Into Public Life, Disintegrating Social Trust In Unpredictable and Dangerous Ways vs. No It Won't
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The U.S. keeps charging border crossers with trespassing on a military base with no evidence they've done so, and in many cases are insisting they want to fully prosecute the misdemeanor. Judges....are not so happy about it.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps p...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-military-trespassing-charges-pam-bondi
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Ingrid Burrington
11 days ago
"Nearly 10% of roughly 1,600 residential buildings that have opened since 2016 have at least one housing code violation per apartment...each building included in the review had received a property tax abatement through the state’s 421a program"
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'Crappy luxury': Inside NYC's brand new apartment buildings that are falling apart
Many of the city’s newly constructed buildings, including swanky digs with top-dollar rents, are mired in violations and complaints.
https://gothamist.com/news/crappy-luxury-inside-nycs-brand-new-apartment-buildings-that-are-falling-apart
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Greg Sargent
11 days ago
There's also this: Netanyahu badly played Trump and now he's ignoring Trump's demands:
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Brandon Roberts
13 days ago
UPDATE: We just added more info to the Trump Team Financials app! Now including President Trump's most recent financial transactions, which were filed late + released the same day we published our app. You can now see his transactions up until late Jan 2026.
projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
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Donald J. Trump - Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/appointees/trump-donald-j
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Joseph Cox
13 days ago
Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed:
www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
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DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery
The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.
https://www.404media.co/doge-deposition-videos-taken-down-after-judge-order-and-widespread-mockery/
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VoteHub
13 days ago
Boca Raton, FL Mayor (Trump +13) Thomson leads by 1 vote following a machine recount, flipping the seat to Democrats. 🔵 Andy Thomson – 7,568 (39.62%) 🔴 Mike Liebelson – 7,567 (39.61%) 🔴 Fran Nachlas – 3,967 (20.77%)
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Ryan McNeill
14 days ago
🚨Reuters investigation by
@pearswick.press
& me: Iran school struck on 1st day of war had yearlong online presence, including many photos of children & their activities, before it was bombed with at least 6 other buildings along 325m axis.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence
An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a yearslong online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities, before it was bombed along ...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/bombed-iranian-girls-school-had-vivid-website-yearslong-online-presence-2026-03-12/
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Prem Thakker ツ
14 days ago
The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.
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404 Media
14 days ago
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by
@acls1919.bsky.social
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@modernlanguage.bsky.social
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Dara Kerr
15 days ago
Lots of new campaign filings coming out in California with tech billionaires spending big. One new filing I hadn't seen reported on yet was Google's Eric Schmidt donating more than $1M to a committee combating the proposed billionaire tax
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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it is very funny to imagine there is some sort of central boycott that a single person could end (unless that person is the CEO of target and by "end" you mean "completely changes course from its capitulation to the Trump administration and begs people to return")
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Ken Vogel
15 days ago
An ongoing US military investigation has determined that the US is responsible for the Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school because of a targeting mistake. It’s likely to go down as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades.
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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.ieJk.Tya5La7QpDv9&smid=url-share
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ProPublica
16 days ago
NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.
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DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims...
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-trump-child-support-federal-parent-locator-service-immigration?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1773230428&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Lisa Tozzi
16 days ago
“For the sake of journalistic objectivity, I ordered exactly what Manz said he had: one carne asada taco, one pollo asado and one adobada pork.”
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'There's a problem with the sauce': Times Square taqueria's salsa sparks lawsuit
A German man says he suffered from unlabeled spicy salsa. It's not his only claim.
https://gothamist.com/food/theres-a-problem-with-the-sauce-times-square-taquerias-salsa-sparks-lawsuit
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Chris Murphy
16 days ago
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Tim Marchman
16 days ago
I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened
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Michael Morisy
16 days ago
Apply now! Like, later today! If you're interested.
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Charles Ornstein
17 days ago
Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB.
www.propublica.org/article/cred...
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ProPublica
17 days ago
NEW: TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
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Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB
TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cfpb-experian-transunion?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Catherine Rampell
17 days ago
Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
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Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros Discovery , ac...
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/trump-bought-netflix-warner-bros-bonds-height-bidding-war-with-paramount-2026-03-09/
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Michael Squires
18 days ago
About half the jail population in Albuquerque is homeless. The county spends about $169 per night to jail inmates without significant medical or mental health needs. Housing individuals in the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44 a night.
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Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed.
Under Tim Keller’s leadership, the city has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness, causing a growing number of people on the streets to be arrested and jailed.
https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homelessness-citations-surge-tim-keller
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