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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👇

This is a fantastic essay. Read it If you have any interest in satellite imagery. “Who to Trust, Google or the Russian MoD? In 2015, that was a rhetorical question. Not anymore.” By @henkvaness.bsky.social

Alison Killing@alisonkilling.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

"Some matches required planning an entire day in advance: finding a screen, securing electricity, arranging an internet connection, and deciding where it would be safest to gather."

What It's Like To Watch The World Cup From Gaza | Defector

The original version of this article was published in The Nation on July 13. When I first heard the 2026 World Cup was about to begin, I barely paid attention. This was partially because of the…

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Please see my latest: Brendan Carr and his wife sat in CEO David Ellison's private skybox at the Kennedy Center months after voting for Paramount's merger. Such seats sold for $125,000 a seat. Carr has accepted $63,000 in tickets from CBS or its parent since 2017 www.propublica.org/article/para...

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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Lotta smoke heading into NYC tonight

Reporter Lisa Song says that it “just doesn’t make sense” for ProPublica management to require a rigid RTO policy. Our members work long hours and need a flexible RTO policy to do their best work.

Not great! www.startribune.com/boundary-wat...

Putting this up against the live tracker of where the Tour de France is right now and hoo boy

Ben Welsh@palewi.re · 4w ago

🌡️ A twist on our Reuters Climate Monitor: This new homepage embed and standalone page tracking Western Europe's heatwave. It debuts real-time country rankings, which I suspect is a worldwide first. https://reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AUTOMATED/MONITOR/akpeykqqapr/western-europe/

if you want to fight back against these forces in your personal media diet, try as much as you can to visit, share and support your favorite and beloved publishers DIRECTLY (sign up for a newsletter, visit their homepage, etc.) and financially support them if you can

"The UCI banned ice socks ahead of the start of the race on the logic that they illegally alter a rider's aero profile. You can't be aerodynamic if you're dead, so every team in the race is flouting the ban"

The Tour de France's Infernal Present Portends Its Impossible Future | Defector

SAINT-GAUDENS, France — On Monday morning, the Tour de France’s media-wranglers sent us all a text announcing something genuinely shocking for such a French organization: They had banned smoking. The ...

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In a first-of-its-kind analysis, my colleague @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and I found that young people living in the U.S. who entered as unaccompanied minors, like Elder, are being detained and deported at about 3x the rate as during the final years of the first Trump presidency 2/

Happy Birthday, America. Once again, the OPM FOIA portal is down.

"But since Gotti’s done, we haven't had a dead body. It's a little boring, to be honest. I always look for the body. What do I look for now? Dead fish?" nygroove.nyc/guardian-of-...

11 Questions with the 'Guardian of Jamaica Bay'

90-year-old Don Riepe has been watching over the city's wildest places for decades, and has some wild stories too

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House Democratic subcommittee report outlines web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes

Trump hijacked US’s 250 anniversary to serve ‘political ideology and pet projects’, congressional report says

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Ruth Talbot works on the news apps team at ProPublica: “I work with absolutely incredible, driven, dedicated, talented people here, who I trust to get their work done wherever works best for them.” Support our fight for an RTO policy that preserves flexibility: www.propublicaguild.org

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

A seniority-based layoff system is the cornerstone of most union contracts and it ensures the company can't use layoffs as a shortcut around Just Cause, but @propublica.org management still isn't agreeing to this basic protection. Support us 👇

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · last mo.

Logan Jaffe edits and writes our newsletters and has been at ProPublica for almost 9 years: “This is a good job. Still, one of the things that concerns me is layoffs.” Support our fight for a strong contract with seniority-based layoff protections: www.propublicaguild.org

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

Even though injection wells are banned within a half-mile of public water wells in Oklahoma, we found 114 of them across the state, within public water districts more than 300k people rely on.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells. But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Lots of good times at The Big A, but I'll never forget putting $2 on Red Hot Tweet (cc: @jacquilough.bsky.social )

The last run for the Queens roses is today at 5:44pm post. THE BIG A IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE BIG A enjoy my last ride below if you please…

Defector@defector.com · last mo.

A final day at Aqueduct, New York's forlorn and forgotten racetrack: defector.com/a-final-day-...

Would you eat this guy? What if he were God, or a baby?

Would You Eat This Guy? What If He Were God, Or A Baby? | Defector

Imagine you are seated at a table. A guy sits across from you. He is vaguely humanoid, with a long torso and two arms raised in fist-like clubs. His full name is Edible Agent, but we will call him…

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ProPublica events manager Rocio Ortega has taken on Uber Eats and DoorDash deliveries to make ends meet. This shouldn’t be any of our workers’ financial reality. We need a contract that guarantees all our members fair pay: www.propublicaguild.org

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · last mo.

“We have disparities across teams, across regions. No one who works at ProPublica — where we say we hire the best — should be living paycheck to paycheck.” This is why we’re fighting for fair wages: www.propublicaguild.org

May is a big tax deadline month for nonprofit orgs, so we just posted 163k new 990 filings to Nonprofit Explorer. Have at it, nerds (complimentary)! projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

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Solid support for Rep. Espaillat in NY13 in upper Manhattan and the Bronx portion of the district, but not strong enough. We'll have to do a separate turnout map for this district (number of votes per ED).

Wow - NY7 unofficial results below.

Shout out to the @hellgatenyc.com election night livestream for reporting live from a citibike between the two Jessicas' HQ parties

This looks like an endorsement, but its not -- the wood of the Daily News should not be for sale! Our staff was mortified to wake up to a front page covered by a deceptive political ad for two days straight. Shame on Heath Freeman and Alden for selling our good name for a buck.