Sometimes at @propublica.org, we try to answer a seemingly simple question and... hit a wall. But then we ask: why is this unanswerable and why does it have to be this way? First time I've seen it done this beautifully though! By @maxblau.bsky.social projects.propublica.org/blueberries-...

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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Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training. Daniella Zalcman, a leading photojournalist, assesses the stakes. www.cjr.org/analysis/exp...

Exposure to Risk: Freelance photographers vs. the Wall Street Journal.

Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training.

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I would love to see more reporting like this, tracing the products made by incarcerated labor through our daily lives—a lot of people are not aware of how many things they use/consume that are made by incarcerated people.

Made in America: The Products of U.S. Prison Labor Are All Around Us

A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces.

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Made in America: The Products of U.S. Prison Labor Are All Around Us

A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces.

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A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/p...

Today we're taking a collective lunch break in solidarity with @propublicaguild.org's strike for a fair contract. You can support ProPublica Guild by not clicking on or sharing PP stories today, and telling management why you're honoring the digital picket line: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell ProPublica you’ll honor a digital picket line

Unionized staff at ProPublica have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after more than two years of bargaining their first contract. ProPublica management has: Refused to agree to basic jo...

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I love working at @propublica.org. I'm on strike for the day because I want it to be a better place to work, for everyone. Please support our fight for a fair contract.

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo ago

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Taking a lunch break with my @marshallprojectguild.org colleagues in Seattle today in solidarity with @propublicaguild.org ✊

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo ago

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org · 8mo ago

Analysis by The Marshall Project of ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project found that the Trump administration’s revival of family detention has swept thousands of children into ICE custody. At least 3,800 children under 18, including 20 infants, have been booked since Trump took office.

Once one person trusted me enough to talk, my number spread through the Mohican Young Star Academy network. Over and over, I heard the same thing about the residential treatment facility for boys: someone is going to get hurt. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/06/r...

How an Ohio Youth Treatment Center Tried to End Escalating Violence

A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and neighbors about its direction.

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Today, we sent a letter to @themarshallproject.org‬ leadership expressing concern about their denial of bargaining obligations. Management has repeatedly denied members Weingarten rights, engaged in an illegal layoff, and more — we need your help to demand that management bargain in good faith.

Please do share the DIY Web Archiving zine & make copies! The more the merrier :) It's free and CC BY-NC (=please credit, can't ask $ for/use in non-free resources). zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

Invisible Histories@invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 2y ago

Is it okay if we share this on our various social media sites and email list? We've been doing a ton of web preservation of state controlled DEI sites and have some more advanced folks who would love this. With proper credit of course.

I edited this comic for poet Jehad Abu Dayya and artist Esraa Elbanna, currently displaced in Deir alBalah. They wrote and drew it together from their tents. It is a very intentional work with many layers to it, I hope you read it (1/5)

In this photo essay, our art director @ash.thetriibe.com learned of the challenges that families experience, down to the strict requirements implemented for those sending holiday cards to their incarcerated loved ones. thetriibe.com/2023/12/fami...

Families of incarcerated people have to go the extra mile to spread holiday cheer • The TRiiBE

Photo essay: A family man finds hope this holiday season through Restore Justice Foundation

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Ask “Why Does This Story Need to be Told?” Sarahbeth Maney is @propublica.org's first visual fellow. I'm hugely lucky for getting to collaborate with her and see firsthand her generous, intentional and persistent approach. Now, you can get a peek at it too. www.propublica.org/article/tips...

Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone

Photography is a powerful journalistic tool, providing visual evidence and evoking emotions that urge us to understand the experiences of others. Here, ProPublica’s Sarahbeth Maney offers suggestions ...

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I miss when @ashponders.bsky.social was my only Bluesky friend but here we are

Grinch fingers.

Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!

N. K. Jemisin@nkjemisin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Poor people use libraries. Rich people shut them down because they don't *want* poor people to read.

Tomorrow on Movement Memos, I talk with Lewis Raven Wallace about the parallels between copaganda and corporate media coverage of Israel, the "just asking questions" approach to attacking trans people, mask bans, and more. I am looking forward to sharing this episode with you all. ❤️

We spoke to CBS New York about the issues we’ve had with NYPD trying to disrupt our distros. Said a lot more than what got included here but the main message is: we’re here to stay.

Mutual aid organization members defend distributing food in Harlem without permit

Members of a mutual aid organization were arrested this past weekend for distributing food in Harlem without a permit. They tell CBS New York's Kristie Keleshian they're standing by their message of helping others.

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The number of artists, writers, creators killed, displaced, demoralized in Gaza and the West Bank...is by design.

‘You could be looking at the last surviving works by Gaza’s artists’

An exhibition in the West Bank attempts both to capture and counteract the erasure of Palestinian life and culture in Gaza, even as its artists are killed.

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For Kholood Eid, “the act of documenting is a way to resist erasure—to assert that we exist, that we have a history, and that our lives are important enough to be seen and remembered.”

The View from Palestinian America

In Kholood Eid’s photographs of Missouri, taken six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure.

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Florida is charging formerly incarcerated people $50 a day even if they’re no longer in prison. The “pay to stay” fee is based on the length of the original sentence, so even when they're released they must keep paying for a prison bed they’re not using. www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-n...

Pay to stay: Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration

It's a common saying: You do the crime, you do the time. But when people are released from prison, freedom is fragmented. It marks the start of new hardships, impacting families and communities.

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