Lisa Song

Mamdani Will Move Into Gracie Mansion The mayor-elect plans to leave his rent-stabilized Astoria apartment for the historic Upper East Side residence.

Was not expecting the 👻 at the end of this. A little levity for your day.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/08/z...

When I first saw the photos Annie took during the inversion, I immediately thought of historical photos from pre-EPA days.

But these were taken in 2025. The Trump EPA has halted rules meant to reduce pollution in this community and others. Here's what we found:

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...

NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer.

Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

"Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 👀

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.

“This was like a fucking machine,” said assistant St. Louis County attorney Mike Ryan, “that was basically trying to roll over these girls.”

A bit of BTS on the reporting of my story about the abuse of children in a little-known church community in Minnesota: www.propublica.org/article/minn...

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.

Two reference books on a desk. Both books are open to a page in the Ns with one stacked on top of the other.

Sometimes this is what goes into changing one word.

"Poor life choices"

actually he looks more relaxed than most of us right now, so I applaud his choices

We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

Fine, take my money you ruthless marketing geniuses!!!

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

"Today, family separations are back, only now they are happening all across the country."

Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails.

Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging

A week inside the opaque court where CT immigrants learn their fate The courtroom often resembles an assembly line, with many cases taking less than five minutes.

NEW: I spent a week in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where thousands of people each year learn if they can stay in the United States.

The court doesn’t allow photography, so I took an illustrator.

My latest for @ctinsider.bsky.social —

www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.

“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.

So ProPublica did.

Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined

FEMA chief Richardson departs agency

thehill.com/policy/energ...

"They spent a month in detention before she gave up on her asylum case and asked to be sent back to Venezuela. Mejías later told me her son cried for his father and refused to eat the food served in jail. He lost weight."

Always read @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

“He believed in the rule of law and due process,” Martha White said of her grandfather.

(Charlotte's Web, btw, has the best opening sentence of any book. 'Where's Papa going with that ax?' will haunt me forever)

This lede is an entire article on its own. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I detest everything about them. The taste, the texture, the smell, their very existence. I have no idea why!

How Kendra feels about mayo is how I feel about carrots ❌

Looking forward to future episodes on food textures, climate change and cute animal stories.

So much to unpack here. But importantly: the first rule of journalism is to get the name of the cat, or dog. Or in this case, the horse.

"The ad’s aesthetic sits somewhere between a political campaign ad and a Jeep commercial..." is ✨ writing

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Flooding at the COP30 venue...that's not too on the nose, or anything...

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert Pulaski News is a fixture of the community, a tool to prepare students for the workforce and the last official source keeping residents informed about hyperlocal happenings.

Love this. Teens keeping the town informed in Pulaski, WI wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...