Joe Neff
@josephneff.bsky.social
Investigative reporter at The Marshall Project
great piece by someone close to me www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Black lands, Mexican bands: how a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub
As the Latino population of North Carolina booms, opportunities abound – and Donal Gooch is capitalizing on changing nature of his home region
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A hat trick of Kavanaugh stops www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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 — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he say...
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In this clip, Kash Patel says the grand jury heard evidence that Comey deleted the '8647' post and apologized. Neither fact appears in the indictment. Hmm. Did the FBI director just disclose evidence presented before a grand jury?
"What is especially galling, some victims said, is that their compensation for years of fighting for justice will boil down to a day’s pay for a Purdue attorney like Huebner, who charges $2,935 an hour." www.propublica.org/article/purd...
“A Punch in the Gut”: After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement
Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation.
propublica.org
To be clear eyed about this: It's not just that this is the most anti-science crew ever to head the federal government. It's that they view both the people who produce science & those who think it ought to guide & constrain policy as their *enemies*, so destroying US science is a blow against them
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo agoMore details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
When a white state trooper killed a black man in a traffic stop, law enforcement reacted: comfort and aid the shooter, harass and investigate the shooting victim. The only people detained? The parents entering the ER to see their dying son www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/22/n...
How the Truth About a North Carolina Police Shooting Stayed Hidden
In 2019, a state trooper killed Brandon Webster, claiming self-defense. Evidence contradicted that account but wasn’t made public — until now.
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In 2020 Alysia Santo & I wrote how private prison company Management & Training Corp. was ripping off Mississippi taxpayers by billing for ghost workers, making more profits MTC and making prisons more dangerous for staff and prisoners. Now the state auditor is demanding MTC pay back $7.4 million.
Especially considering that ProPublica is a non-profit that was founded to create a professional home for investigative journalists.
Audrey Dutton@audreydutton.bsky.social · 4mo agoI genuinely do not understand management's refusal to agree to basic protections, like that they won't replace us with AI. It's baffling. Makes no sense. We're on strike to show management how serious we are about this, and how eager we are to get a contract done!
I took a lunch break with my @marshallprojectguild.org colleagues in support of @propublicaguild.org's strike. No comrades in Durham, so I took my lunch at the house where Pauli Murray grew up. She would support the guild's action! @paulimurraycenter.bsky.social
$20 at CVS. Pay in cash and make calls (to a reporter, say) that are totally untraceable. You can also take photos of documents or emails and text them. Just make sure to buy your minutes in cash too.
In case you think losing 95k scientists in a year is normal, it's decidedly not.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.
Those of us in NC who've been represented by Thom Tillis for years wish we'd seen this version earlier. Perfect example of how not running for re-election freed him. Also a perfect example of how cowed he was for all the years before.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agowow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
propublica.org
nysfocus.com/2026/02/17/h... Gov. Hochul wants to eliminate all state funding for the Correctional Association of New York - $3 million is six one-hundreths of one person of the prison budget
Hochul Moves to Pull the Plug on Prison Oversight Funding
Last year, after prison guards were caught beating an incarcerated man to death, Governor Hochul allocated millions to a prison oversight body. This year,…
nysfocus.com
This could be a big step in Mississippi following great work by @calebbedillion.bsky.social @dajaehenry.com www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/04/m...
Mississippi Lawmakers Push Prison Reform After Dozens of Deaths Exposed
A reform bill that would set up an oversight committee to review each prison death comes after a joint news investigation by several local outlets.
themarshallproject.org
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Local reporting at its best www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/25/l...
How One Parking Ticket Cost Hundreds of Drivers Their Licenses
A Marshall Project - Cleveland investigation has prompted city officials to stop issuing parking citations that, for years, led to license suspensions.
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The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 11mo agoSome personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?
Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org · 11mo agoIn the 20 years following 9/11, the U.S. spent over $21 trillion on militarization. Yesterday, the House passed an NDAA bringing us closer to a $1 trillion Pentagon budget. For too long, hawks have used the tragedy of 9/11 to supercharge militarism at the cost of our needs and safety. Enough.
I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah. Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence. Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.