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YouTube video by MS NOW 'Clearly what would have saved her life': Texas mother dies after she couldn't get an abortion

ICYMI: My colleague Lizzie Presser joined MS NOW to discuss the heartbreaking case of 37 year old Tierra Walker. Walker is now the fourth woman in Texas we have reported on who died under the state's abortion ban youtube.com/watch?v=n24ySupfK2E&index=5

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ICE Fires Chemical Weapon At TV Reporter In Broadview; 'Unprovoked' Attack Under Investigation The attack came one day after ICE arrested another working journalist. "Absolutely unprovoked," the TV news reporter said. "My window was open and chemicals went all over my face. Been puking for two ...

Trump's secret police wages violent war on journalists... journalists are being shot intentionally with bean bags, chemical munitions and at least one was arrested for no reason. DHS spokesmen deny it's happening. But it's on tape and has been witnessed by dozens of citizens.

A graveyard outside a state juvenile detention facility has been neglected by Maryland officials for decades.

A Post investigation found that state officials had grossly undercounted the number of Black children who died while in the facility's care. https://wapo.st/4gFjINr

“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...

He wanted to die. His wife fought for him. A psychiatrist was their last hope.

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NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a long-neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was...

GOOD NEWS.

Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a neglected public health concern.

“There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said.

Specifically, @deldeib.bsky.social's reporting.

A New Lawsuit Alleges the Gun Industry Exploited Firearm Owners’ Data for Political Gain The federal court complaint filed this week closely mirrors the findings of a ProPublica investigation that detailed a decades-long secret program operated by the gun industry’s largest trade group.

Two major law firms accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation this week of violating the privacy rights of millions of gun owners by running a decades-long program that sent their information to political operatives without consent.

The complaint seeks class-action status & financial damages.

ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group Alabama — Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston, WDBB and WBMA Alabama/Florida — Mobile/Pensacola, WEAR Arkansas — Little Rock, KATV California — Chico-Redding, KRCR California — Eureka-Arcata, KAEF DC — WJLA Georgia — Macon, WGXA (ABC/FOX) Michigan — Traverse City-Cadillac-Cheboygan-Sault Ste. Marie, WPBN, WTOM, WGTU, WGTQ Missouri — St. Louis, KDNL North Carolina — Asheville, WLOS (also Greenville/Spartanburg, SC) (ABC/MyNetwork TV) North Carolina — Greenville-New Bern-Morehead City, WCTI North Carolina — Winston Salem-Greensboro-High Point, WXLV Nebraska — Hayes Center-McCook, KWNB Nebraska — North Platte, KHGI New York — Rochester, WHAM (ABC/The CW) Ohio — Columbus-Chillicothe, WSYX (ABC/MyNetwork/FOX) Ohio — Dayton, WKEF (ABC/FOX) Oklahoma — Tulsa, KTUL Oregon — Portland, KATU Pennsylvania — Johnstown-Altoona, WATM (ABC/FOX) South Carolina — Charleston, WCIV (MyNetwork/ABC) South Carolina — Florence-Myrtle Beach, WPDE (ABC/The CW) Tennessee — Chattanooga, WTVC (ABC/FOX) Texas — Abilene, KTXS (ABC/CW+) Texas — Amarillo, KVII (ABC/CW+) Texas — San Angelo, KTXE (ABC/CW+) Virginia — Lynchburg-Roanoke, WSET Washington — Seattle-Tacoma, KOMO West Virginia — Charleston-Huntington, WCHS (ABC/FOX)

ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar Media Group Alabama — WDHN, Dothan Connecticut — WTNH, New Haven (Hartford) Florida — WMBB, Panama City (jointly ABC/The CW) Georgia — WJBF, Augusta (ABC/MeTV/The CW) Illinois — WTVO, Rockford (ABC/MyTV) Indiana — WEHT, Evansville Indiana — WAWV, Terre Haute Iowa — KCAU, Sioux City Kansas — KTKA, Topeka (ABC/The CW) Louisiana — WGNO, New Orleans Michigan — WOTV, Battle Creek Michigan — WLAJ, Lansing (ABC/The CW) Missouri — KSNF, Joplin Montana — KSVI, Billings (ABC/The CW) New York — WTEN, Albany-Schenectady New York — WIVT, Binghamton New York — WSYR, Syracuse New York — WUTR, Utica-Rome (ABC/MyTV) New York — WWTI, Watertown (ABC/The CW) Ohio — WYTV, Youngstown (ABC/MyTV) Pennsylvania — WJET, Erie Pennsylvania — WHTM, Harrisburg Tennessee — WATE, Knoxville Tennessee — WKRN, Nashville Texas — KAMC, Lubbock Texas — KMID, Odessa-Midland Utah — KTVX, Salt Lake City (ABC/MeTV) Vermont — WVNY, Burlington Virginia — WRIC, Richmond West Virginia — WBOY, Clarksburg-Fairmont-Morgantown (NBC/ABC)

Wondering if you live somewhere in the United States where Nexstar or Sinclair owns your ABC affiliate? Here are the TV stations pre-empting your Jimmy Kimmel Live! and inserting their own politics for the displeasure of your local advertisers who didn't ask for lower-rated programming.

Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.

And @reuters.com has been running circles around NYT, Washpost et al on this story.

This piece ran last week.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

And the coup de gras:

Cook “never requested a tax exemption for the Georgia home as a primary residence, according to property records and a Fulton County tax official”

How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives Documents obtained by ProPublica detail the sophistication and intrusiveness of Cambridge’s work for the gun industry in 2016. The firm’s campaign aimed to help elect Donald Trump and keep industry-fr...

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Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of...

The gun industry's secret project fundamentally transformed the American lawmaker. In a span of a few years, state and federal politicians morphed from actively seeking solutions to "thoughts and prayers." Read these two stories to find out how. www.propublica.org/article/guns...

Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...

‪After watching and reading comments about the horrific Minnesota shooting, it appears most Americans people missed our stories about the secret roots to the madness. I pray this repost helps. www.propublica.org/article/gunm...

“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”

At least five states rely entirely on federal dollars to pay for their maternal mortality reviews. Committee members expressed alarm that this money may evaporate.

“If we get defunded, I suspect it would be devastating,” one said.

By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

Trump Admin Halts Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses in Prisons, Group Homes Biden’s DOJ concluded that Louisiana and South Carolina had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings.

The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people in South Carolina group homes. Biden filed the lawsuits after investigations concluded that they had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings.

Trump Administration Halts Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People - Truthdig The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division suits against Louisiana's prison system and South Carolina's group homes are both now on hold.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division suits against Louisiana's prison system and South Carolina's group homes are both now on hold.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Shocking reporting by @nicolefoy.bsky.social and McKenzie Funk. Immigration officers are using escalating tactics to make arrest quotas.

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Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive gro...

It's endemic. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump's DOJ just dropped a major antitrust case against American Express Travel.

This comes after Amex hired lobbying firm Ballard Partners — the former employers of Pam Bondi — to lobby the DOJ on "antitrust issues."

Funny how that works.

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive gro...

New: A DOJ investigation had determined that South Carolina officials illegally denied community-based services — required by federal law — to over 1,000 people diagnosed as seriously mentally ill.

The lawsuit over these allegations is now on hold. It's not alone.

By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive…

NEW: Under Trump, the DOJ has halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law.

By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social

Damn. A big loss for the WaPo.

DOJ hits states with broad requests for voter rolls, election data Election clerks in both parties, who have been subject to harassment and lawsuits over Trump’s 2020 false election claims, worry about efforts to examine their voting machines.

Several election officials, including Republicans, have criticized the DOJ’s move as federal overreach. Federal law does not expressly give the agency the authority to review the voter rolls themselves.

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ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Selects Five New Partners for Its 50 State Initiative ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

What a happy day!! 🎉🎉 ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Selects Five New Partners for Its 50 State Initiative

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

A @propublica.org investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

Trump races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School The legislation comes after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that even though state law bans schools from fining students directly, districts skirt the law by calling on police to i...

The legislation comes three years after @propublica.org & @chicagotribune.com found that thousands of Illinois students had been ticketed in recent years for adolescent behavior once handled by the principal’s office.
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She Was Killed by the Police. Why Were Her Bones in a Museum? (Published 2022)

Today is the 40th anniversary of the MOVE bombing, an aerial attack that killed five children and six adults in a Philadelphia neighborhood. If you haven't done so, now is a good time to read Bronwen Dickey's 2022 story about how the bones of one of the victims ended up at a museum.

Second draft of history Narrative and investigative journalism worth your time. Plus, tunes that help keep me sane.

In today's Unabridged newsletter, I shared outstanding narrative and investigative journalism, including @nadiareiman.bsky.social @rumblestrip.bsky.social @karinaelwood.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @andreasuozzo.com @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @livaaben.bsky.social

IRE hosts golden gala celebrating spirit of investigative journalism - Investigative Reporters & Editors Investigative Reporters and Editors will host its 50th Anniversary Gala in New York City on Sept. 15, 2025.

🌟 IRE NEWS: Investigative Reporters and Editors is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a gala in New York City!

The fundraiser, the first of its kind in IRE’s history, will honor some of the top names in investigative journalism today. Read the full announcement ⤵️ www.ire.org/50th-anniver...