Gee, the two Senate candidates in Texas are getting scrutinized for voting at a different addresses than what is on their registration. Perhaps this mean our voting laws are confusing, restrictive if the white men in power don’t get them. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/05/t...

Talarico voter registration in question amid scrutiny of Paxton - The Texas Tribune

After hitting his GOP foe for voting under an address where he no longer lived, the Tribune and ProPublica found the Democratic Senate candidate also appears to have done so.

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They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

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There’s a rapid consolidation of media happening in the US and @coreygjohnson.bsky.social is uncovering some serious ethical issues at the FCC, which is supposed to oversee such deals with independence. Follow and read 👇🏽

Corey Johnson@coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.

The conflict of interest and behavior described in this story by @coreygjohnson.bsky.social would have been the scandal of the year a decade or two ago. Now I wonder if it will even be picked up by other news organizations. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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💵 A $75,000 salary minimum, up from about $62,000 when we formed our union in 2023.

💵 Many of our lowest-paid members will receive an immediate raise, followed by a 4.5% pay increase in 2027. All members are guaranteed a minimum general wage increase each year that averages above 3%. This deal will also help correct regional pay disparities.

Huge news today!!!

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 5d ago

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

More than 6 million Texans experienced hunger in 2024, the most of any state in the nation, according to the latest Feeding America report that tracks food insecurity. bit.ly/4bCOuFF

For third straight year, Texas hungriest state in nation as D-FW food insecurity rises, report shows

More than 6 million Texans experienced hunger in 2024, the most of any state in the nation, according to the latest Feeding America report.

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ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...

ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say

Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.

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WSJ’s Josh Dawsey got to see unreleased footage from years of a documentarian’s inside access to Lindsey Graham. It’s filled with giddy, war-hungry stuff like this: (Gift link below)

North Carolina’s Lawrence Academy has never reported Black enrollment higher than 3% in a county whose population hovers around 60% Black. It received $518,240 in vouchers in the 2023-2024 school year to fund 86 of its over 200 students. (Published Nov. 2024)

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars

North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

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In the last week, a GOP nominee for statewide office: -Apparently invoked the conspiracy theory that led to the Holocaust -Called to round up Chinese people -Quoted an obscure white nationalist novel -Called the nonworking "low IQ parasites" We asked GOP leaders to respond. None did. (Gift link).

A GOP Nominee for Texas Office Keeps Peddling Fascist Ideas

Bo French was once criticized by members of his party for his offensive posts. Now that he’s the nominee for the Railroad Commission, they’re silent.

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The Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global HIV program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...

1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds (Gift Article)

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

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This is the “cOvId ToOk My FrEeDoMs” guy, BTW.

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social · 2w ago

13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

NEW: @maxblau.bsky.social spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?

Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?

Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?

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We found that thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 kids were doused with chemical agents. 🗓️ On July 21, join us for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: https://propub.li/4fiHDSF

North Texas Latina among the latest casualties in the war against Iran. Isabella Gonzales was so young, just 19. www.keranews.org/news/2026-07...

Carrollton soldier killed in Iranian attack on Jordan, US military says

The U.S. military has identified two soldiers killed in action last week in the war with Iran. The Defense Department said Monday in a statement that 25-year-old 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, of Ewa Bea...

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Good morning. A new Federal News Network survey confirms what we federal employees have been saying for over a year: 76% report lower productivity after RTO, 83% say the experience has been negative, and most report worse work-life balance. We already knew. Now there's data.

After returning to the office, federal employees report low productivity, morale | Federal News Network

In a Federal News Network online survey, over three-quarters of respondents said they are less productive now than they were prior to returning to the office.

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This half time show is so damn fun.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Women amputees from several South American countries are training in Bolivia for the 2027 Women's Amputee Football World Cup.

Women amputees in South America train to be World Cup soccer contenders

Women amputees from several South American countries are training in Bolivia for the 2027 Women's Amputee Football World Cup.

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Thread from our reporter @dougbockclark.bsky.social 🧵

Doug Bock Clark@dougbockclark.bsky.social · 3w ago

1/ Wondering what the FBI has been doing with 2020 election materials it seized in a raid earlier this year, and how it figures into Trump’s plans for the midterm elections? Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out. 🧵👇

You had room, @politico.com, to add the words "Without providing evidence" to the beginning of this headline. Because that's what your story (which far fewer people will read) says. 1/2

We’ve seen this same explosive claim made many times that withers under scrutiny The game is played by making the accusation, having docile media report it, and then the media bury (or not report at all) the eventual resolution

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

DHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states

Ken Paxton recently bought 3 Utah luxury condos worth $1.6 million. He then put them in a blind trust that shares an address with the Dallas home he appears to be sharing with a woman who is not his wife.

Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio

The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.

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Mexican film icon Elsa Aguirre of the Golden Age passed away this week at 95. She was known for her striking beauty (right). I always thought my tia Estella (left) and her could have passed as twins. Rest in power, hermosa, Elsa!

NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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🎵🎵London Bridge is falling down Falling down, falling down London Bridge is falling down My fair lady🎵🎵

Our work wouldn't be as successful without all of the unsung heroes of this organization: copy, visuals, IT, our PR team, those who retain our donors, finance, etc. Management, por favor, let's close this contract out with good pay scales and GWI.

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 3w ago

“One of the things that I really care about is making sure that we have transparent pay scales,” says reporter Cassandra Jaramillo, “While I'm very grateful for what I'm able to earn as a reporter, it's not the same story for some of my colleagues in different departments.”

We saw something similar in the United States. RFK Jr. warned about an autism “epidemic” when really the CDC showed improved recognition was behind the rise in autism diagnoses

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)