María Inés Zamudio

Former Chicago Cop Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Battery of Two Female Colleagues Eric Tabb is one of 14 Chicago officers accused of sexual assault in the past decade with at least one other alleged incident of sexual misconduct. The cases reveal how the department failed to vigoro...

NEW: Former Chicago Cop Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Battery of Two Female Colleagues. The cases reveal how the department failed to vigorously investigate such allegations involving police.
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A photo of a Chicago Police Education and Training Academy.

Reporters @mizamudio.bsky.social & Dana Brozost-Kelleher spent months investigating this story: reviewing police records, court filings, and conducting interviews. They found that police officials repeatedly failed to intervene and head off potential harm. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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Help Us Report on Sexual Assault and Misconduct by the Chicago Police Department We want to talk to people who have experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct — which includes sexual harassment and unwanted, inappropriate touching or comments — by Chicago police officers, on ...

Help Us Report on Sexual Assault and Misconduct by the Chicago Police Department

We want to talk to people who have experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct — which includes sexual harassment and unwanted, inappropriate touching or comments — by Chicago police officers, on or off duty.

A team of my colleagues at @invisible.institute have been working hard on this reporting for months, and I’m excited to see it out in the world today. Please read below, and congratulations to @mizamudio.bsky.social and Dana Brozost-Kelleher, among many others, on this story.

Chicago Police Dismissed a Recruit’s Claims That a Colleague Sexually Assaulted Her. Then He was Accused Again and Again. The Invisible Institute and ProPublica reviewed over 300 complaints accusing Chicago officers of sexual assault and misconduct. Time and time again, the police department downplayed or ignored claims,...

NEW and IMPORTANT: Chicago Police Fail to Investigate Officers Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Assault, from our partners at @invisible.institute @mizamudio.bsky.social and Dana Brozost-Kelleher

🚨 The Bukele dictatorship is preparing arrest warrants for my colleagues @elfaro.net, after the outlet exposed details of President Bukele’s secret ties to gangs.

Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff Laid-off employees ranged from those working in firefighter health programs, to those approving new respirators.

THE entire NIOSH engineering group has been fired among most ALL of NIOSH. It is devastating. www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

Congratulations! Well-deserved.

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥

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A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Pope Francis waves to a large crowd of people, some of whom are waving Cuban flags or holding up their phones to take photos. Photo credit: Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times

Pope Francis died on Monday at 88. His papacy promoted inclusivity, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members; LGBTQ Catholics; Muslim and Orthodox clerics; and leaders of developing nations, where he believed the church’s future was rooted.

See Francis' life in photos: nyti.ms/4lEHXNZ

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding. Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.

News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity."

Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.

At least 23 killed by Israel this morning in south Gaza attacks Medical sources say total death toll today is at least 31, as mother and her child killed in latest strike on Gaza City.

In a rare rebuke to Israel, Germany criticised the Israeli military's air attacks on Syrian territory and called on Israel to halt actions that are not permitted under international law.

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DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.

DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity

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Come join me in this session on "Introduction to Reporting on AI", part of the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series!

My hometown of Waterloo, Iowa canceled its African American Read-In after Trump’s anti-diversity directives. So i got together some writer friends and I’m holding it instead.

Happy birthday, Chicago!
I celebrated running in the rain in Little Village with the Viento running club 🌬️💨 💙

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban.

In devastating but expected news: Legal service providers nationwide were instructed by the Trump admin today to stop work on the Office of Refugee Resettlement's unaccompanied child legal services program. This means that every migrant child in federal custody will be without legal information.

City drinking water closeness to sewer lines poses concerns, watchdog warns Chicago’s Inspector General says that sewer lines are too close to water mains, a problem the city has known about since 2019.

Chicago watchdog warns that many of the city's drinking water pipes run too close to sewer lines, creating a contamination risk and violating the law. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Dr. Phil wants to sell you mass deportations Blending cop propaganda and trash TV, Phil McGraw wants in on Trump’s immigration crackdown

Better known as the TV personality Dr. Phil, who rose to fame on the Oprah Winfrey Show during the 90s, McGraw appears to have positioned himself as a willing narrator of our dystopian immigration policies.

Meet reality TV mass deportations.

In-person and Online: Illegal evictions in Chicago - Chi Hack Night An eviction with no notice is extraordinarily disruptive, straining budgets with unplanned expenses, risking job loss for adults and missing school for kids. Yet lockout complaints to Chicago police h...

Join us in person or online tonight to hear from Cecilia Reyes, Senior Reporter at @businessinsider.com! She’ll discuss her investigation into illegal evictions or lockouts. Doors open at Tech Nexus at 6pm, livestream starts around 6:35pm CT. chihacknight.org/events/2025/...

Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA's is even worse. Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics." The health impacts could reverberate long after the fires are out.

Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA’s is even worse.

Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."

grist.org/health/wildf...

#LA #CA #California #Climate #Wildfires

Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI Civil rights advocates may well file suit immediately against the Justice Department to secure an injunction.

They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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ProPublica Newsroom Partners Select Journalists to Work on Investigative Reporting ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Congratulations to these new @propublica.org reporting partners, including @mizamudio.bsky.social of @invisible.institute. Looking forward to all of the exciting journalism we'll do together.

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