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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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If you need help making buttons etc I’m happy to take a shift!

Will you send our petition for a fair contract to your 5 closest friends?
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Why is it almost all decent news organizations, even the nonprofits, are so anti-union and so resistant to fairness?

@propublica.org, get it together. The organization isn't hurting for money. In 2023, you were sitting on $75 million in assets. #FairContractNow

(I ❤️ Nonprofit Explorer, btw!)

Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...

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Me:

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

My parents live in the projects and I think someone is going through a breakup bc I hear Adele blasting instead of the usual music. Rough 2025 ayyyyyyy

I’ve already made a few updates to this guide since publishing it, and will keep adding as I get more good suggestions!

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...

New:

The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants

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It’s time journalism moves beyond crisis reporting in immigrant communities. We need your help to do it. In partnership with The Objective, a new steering committee of engagement journalists will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities and share findings in a monthly newslet...

Kristine Villanueva @mango-stine.bsky.social, w/ a new steering committee of engagement journalists, in partnership w/ @objectivejournos.bsky.social, will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities & share findings monthly.

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From Newark to All: We Stand Together · Working Families Power On Friday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested in handcuffs after attempting to visit a recently re-opened ICE detention facility. ICE shoved members of the Congressional delegation which included…

Last week, Newark's mayor was arrested while visiting an ICE facility.

Trump is silencing those who hold him accountable.

At the same time, Congress is trying to pass a bill that increases ICE's capacity by $175 billion.

Hear what we can do to stop it: wfpus.org/fromnewark

Thread from VA Secretary Doug Collins’ X account. The posts include the following: “Last Friday, ProPublica sent us a host of questions and allegations regarding @DeptVetAffairs facilities around the country and set an unreasonable deadline of early Monday morning. Why the rush? Apparently, they wanted to publish their story before my Tuesday testimony in front of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. The story itself was a typical liberal-media hit piece that’s all too common nowadays. It seems as if the reporters decided what negative narrative they wanted to push, carefully cherry-picked their “reporting” to support that narrative, then ignored or minimized the facts we offered to defend VA. In this instance, ProPublica obtained some outdated reports from the internal system VA uses to quickly identify and fix issues across the department. ProPublica then used those reports to build a misleading case that our efforts to reform VA were causing massive problems.”

THREAD: We’ve reported that Veterans Affairs officials have warned that Trump’s cuts are hurting veterans.

VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.

Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.

Gun shots or fireworks? It’s that time of year.

The pattern did not match fireworks, but the noise did not match guns.

Sirens; but that can go either way.

We did have a murder last month.

Thursday, May 8, 2025 ProPublica management continues to deny steward representation Yesterday morning, ProPublica management confirmed that it will deny steward representation to at least two more bargaining unit members it plans to discipline next week through the issuance of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs). This is part of a larger pattern: management has denied steward representation in every meeting where members were placed on PIPs. The plans are the first step in a disciplinary process that often leads to termination. We have raised this issue repeatedly. Last Thursday, more than 70% of our unit sent an open letter to ProPublica leadership, urging them to stop resisting core union protections including steward access, just cause and accountability in the disciplinary process. This week, managers informed two employees that they would be placed on PIPs in meetings next week. Shortly afterward, ProPublica’s general counsel told Guild leadership that stewards will not be allowed in those meetings. ProPublica’s disciplinary process remains opaque, inconsistently applied and shielded from scrutiny. Blocking stewards from these meetings is out of step with our industry and the principles of fairness and accountability the newsroom claims to uphold.

1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Congratulations all!!!

“It’s rude to discuss your salary” No it isn’t. That’s something companies made up so they could pay some of your less than others with no one getting mad. Discuss your salaries. Find the discrepancies. Demand more. The workers are in the same team.

If I was still at PP, I would be bringing in cookies every week. 🍪 🫂 What a mad time

THINKING TOO MUCH CAN ONLY CAUSE PROBLEMS

Me trying to blend in with my philly friends

Go birds 🦅

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

@propublica.org I hope everyone is okay over there 😮‍💨🥺🫂 it’s been a year and it hasn’t even been a month

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.

By @alecmac.bsky.social