NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
It was such a pleasure to interview attorney Bryan Stevenson about the photography of Gordon Parks as he curates a new showing in London.
His vivid and intimate colour images from 1956, showing the daily disgrace of the segregated South, remain extremely pertinent to this day:
NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.
*see next post in thread
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Here's a video about my recent investigation into more than two dozen accounts using AI-generated doctors and health professionals to push dubious advice and sell products on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube: indicator.media/p/ai-generat...
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
Read our full story that details how we got inside the Dilley detention center for immigrant families here: www.propublica.org/article/life...
As the crisis in Minneapolis unfolded and we saw the feds thwart local efforts to independently investigate the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, it was hard not to think about the Mexican man killed by ICE agents a few miles from my house in Chicago.
www.propublica.org/article/why-...
Are we back??? #COYS
What a stunner!!! #COYS
NEW: Tennessee’s speaker of the House took steps that allowed the owners of a payday lending company, Advance Financial, to keep using their stores to boost a now-defunct online sports betting enterprise.
W/ @tennesseelookout.com
NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
People have been asking, so we published it: The data linking generic drugs to the facilities that make them! You can download the data on GitHub.
👇👇
github.com/propublica/r...
Some shocking, and revealing, quotes in this piece:
"Mothers of 3 can be terrorists as well."
"Well she chose to be in that place."
Critical and important reporting from @oliverlaughland.bsky.social + @tomsilverstone.bsky.social on the streets of Minnesota. Well worth a watch:
Our latest episode of Anywhere but Washington is from Minneapolis.
We observed ICE’s racial profiling during traffic stops in the suburbs, embedded with neighborhood watch groups, spoke to folks at a GOP gubernatorial forum, and spent time with Somali-American community leaders:
A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison.
Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared.
How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.
NEW from @lisalsong.bsky.social and me:
The Trump administration is now asking USDA workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens
All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
couldn't agree more! 🎉
As some of you know, I've switched roles from covering Minnesota to hosting ProPublica's forthcoming podcast (launch date TBD). It gives me great, great, great, GREAT pleasure to announce that my replacement is none other than the inimitable Andy Mannix: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
Targeting by the FDA. Toothpaste investigations. Medicaid changes that threaten to limit access.
Even as critics of water fluoridation point to other sources of fluoride as an alternative — usually in the name of individual choice — many are creating barriers to these same products.
My new story:
NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy.
But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult.
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
Wisconsin officials have filed felony murder charges in the 2012 killing of Corey Stingley, an unarmed Black teen asphyxiated by white customers at a convenience store after attempting to shoplift. / A @propublica.org exclusive: www.propublica.org/article/wisc...
A new lawsuit alleges that an insurer’s ghost network hindered New York City employees from accessing the mental health care they sought — and harmed the reputation of psychiatrists wrongly listed as being in-network. My latest for @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/embl...
Three SpaceX rockets exploded unexpectedly last year – twice raining down debris over busy airspace.
“It literally looked like the sun coming out,” one passenger said.
Such midair scrambles could become more frequent as launches increase, experts say.
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
It doesn’t matter if decades have passed or new information has emerged --
If the EPA goes through with this, it won't be able to revise hazardous air pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.
My latest:
www.propublica.org/article/air-...
Our Local Reporting Network is open again for proposals! We're looking for accountability journalism projects from around the country. We cover your salary (up to $80k plus a stipend for benefits) plus provide editing and other support. Apply here:
NEW: Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths
Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hurting patients.
I went to Albany, Ga., 5 years ago to write about Covid-19, but I realized there was a bigger story to be told about the unchecked power of our health care system and who benefits from its growth.
Spoiler: Far too few of us. @propublica.org
projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...
