“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think ... in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.”

Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct

ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.

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These two cities with the same name are among the oldest settlements in North America (est. 1668). And they sit across an increasingly fraught US/Canada border. I wrote about it:

As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice

Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...

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Reader, I snorted.

Andrew Quemere@andrewqmr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

My son is an aspiring physicist just starting college next month. I'm afraid for his future.

Lisa Song@lisalsong.bsky.social · last wk.

Two physicists won the Nobel Prize for the 2012 discovery of the so-called “God particle.” Under a new rule proposed by the Trump administration, American scientists might be forced to watch similar discoveries from the sidelines. www.propublica.org/article/fede...

whole lotta men subtweeting one of the world's foremost experts on the odyssey today 😬

President Donald Trump promised to put veterans first. Current and former VA hospital workers: Help us investigate whether he’s doing so 👇

Is Your Veterans Affairs Hospital Short-Staffed? Have You Seen Setbacks in Care? Help ProPublica Investigate.

We want to understand the consequences of cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. If you have firsthand information about conditions at your local hospital, we want to hear from you.

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A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports. www.wired.com/story/the-ac...

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

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As private schools proliferate in Florida and across the country, fueled by taxpayer dollars, states are choosing not to closely regulate who is operating them or to oversee student safety and achievement, a ProPublica investigation found. Read this ⬇️⬇️ www.propublica.org/article/priv...

My colleagues and I are also holding a virtual discussion next week with more on our reporting about children caught in the immigration crackdown. Click to join us: events.propublica.org/trump-deport...

ProPublica Event: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

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Friendly reminder that I'm looking for tips on this topic. Signal is nicolefoy.27 www.propublica.org/article/amer...

How American Kids Have Been Collateral Damage in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Democrats in the House and Senate are digging into the treatment, detention and sometimes even deportation of American children at the hands of immigration agents. Families featured in ProPublica’s re...

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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. 🧵👇

The Trump administration wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have over their retirement. “What they have done is lower the standard for everything,” said one former senior official at the Department of Labor.

Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.

Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...

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I wrote about the irony of Platner and his campaign trying to convince journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it:

We didn’t need a rape accusation to know Graham Platner was unfit

Despite months of red flags, his allies insisted he was the vision of positive masculinity the party needed.

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Sometimes I marvel at the lack of basic understanding of rape non-survivors have.

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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Wearing my @propublica.org hat to the pool, answered some questions about our work, and got some new members. 🥰

Who is happier than a pile of rescued pitties sleeping through a broiling day in a cool air-conditioned room? No one. (Currently waiting on a 107 degree train platform myself... )

Seems....suboptimal

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The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica

Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

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working hard on a webinar presentation for the critters in my yard What Is A Ripe Tomato?: Learn The Signs So At Least Somebody Here Gets A Fucking Tomato

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Just uploaded my kiddo's vax records for college and was extremely satisfied by the extensive list. Grateful too that his college requires full meningitis vaxes....

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2mo ago

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

Congratulations to ProPublica's @g-dvalle.bsky.social, a winner of the 2026 Livingston Award for international reporting for the documentaries “Nightmare at CECOT” and “Surviving CECOT,” made w/ @texastribune.org, Alianza Rebelde Investiga & @cazadoresdefakenews.info: https://propub.li/43UI2W2

NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...

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NEW: An Indian billionaire was in Trump’s crosshairs. Then he poured millions into an obscure startup secretly backed by Donald Trump Jr. www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...

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So *thrilled* to have a kid heading off to college to study astrophysics at this amazing time for science 🙄

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Another episode of @propublica.org’s podcast is out and it’s really good. Honestly. How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial With a Little-Known Tool, featuring reporting by @deldeib.bsky.social

How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial With a Little-Known Tool

This is the story of one couple’s long fight with their health insurer — and the little-known tool that helped them finally win.

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