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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Gus Garcia-Roberts @ggarciaroberts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New for @propublica, how MLB created perfect the market conditions for predatory moneylenders in Dominican baseball, and David Ortiz’s hidden role bankrolling the most notorious prestamista in the DR www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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How the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False Promises
Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 31/07/2026
🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇
A graphic poster reads "We have a deal! The ProPublica Guild has reached a deal with ProPublica's management on our first contract and has voted to ratify it. Swipe for the highlights [pointing emoji].
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 24/06/2026
ProPublica events manager Rocio Ortega has taken on Uber Eats and DoorDash deliveries to make ends meet. This shouldn’t be any of our workers’ financial reality. We need a contract that guarantees all our members fair pay: www.propublicaguild.org
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
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Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
“We're fighting for fair pay because people deserve to be able to afford to stay in the jobs that they love. We're fighting for protections around AI because this work is done by humans. We love this place. We believe in this work, and we are not backing down.” — Katie Campbell, video journalist
A woman wearing a "ProPublica Guild" shirt is interviewed with a microphone.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2026
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 19/03/2026
1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.
A graphic reads “92% of participating ProPublica Guild members voted YES to authorize our bargaining committee to call for a strike.” The “92%” is very large. A ProPublica Guild logo is under the text.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/03/2026
NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/03/2026
Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said. They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Brandon Roberts @bxroberts.org · 05/03/2026
THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees. Here’s how it works 1/
Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/12/2025
Phoebe Memorial, the sole hospital in Albany, GA, was founded on the idea that all patients be treated, regardless of their ability to pay. So why do some residents — including many hospital staffers — turn to a free clinic for care? THREAD 🧵
A green sign outside a red brick building says "Samaritan Clinic" in large bold letters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/12/2025
1/ It was the height of the pandemic, but Phoebe Putney Memorial had good news: At 99 years old, Maude Burke was the oldest COVID-19 patient they were discharging. In a video, staff waved balloons, celebrating Burke beating the disease. There was one issue: It wasn’t true. 🧵
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/12/2025
How did a century-old community hospital in a small Georgia city grow into a sprawling healthcare system that dominates the local economy? By waging a years-long battle to eliminate its competition and become the only game in town. (THREAD)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/12/2025
THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right. Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying. “That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/11/2025
NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again. With @startribune.com
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A huge thanks to @otisrtaylorjr.bsky.social & Holly McDede for being the best hosts! @propublica.org audience editor @busyisby.bsky.social (my fellow Bay Area gal) and I loved visiting the @kqednews.kqed.org newsroom and talking shop with reporters & editors.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/10/2025
On Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. ET, ProPublica reporter @andykroll.bsky.social will be on Reddit answering your questions about his investigation of Russ Vought’s rise from the Senate mail room to Trump’s “shadow president.” Set a reminder: www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...
ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll, wearing a backwards baseball cap, is holding a piece of paper that says: “AMA about Project 2025 architect and Trump budget chief Russ Vought. r/fednews Oct. 22 @ 6 p.m. ET. u/propublica_”
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james @hashtagjames.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
new via @objectivejournos.bsky.social -- @jewishcurrents.bsky.social reporter emily wilder & 15 other journalists with the freedom flotilla to gaza intending to cover its efforts to break israel's siege were detained by israeli military forces this morning: objectivejournalism.org/2025/10/jewi...
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 16/09/2025
We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract. The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible. You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
People wearing union shirts stand outside a red carpet at the entrance of an event as people walk in.People wearing union shirts and stickers smile and hand out ProPublica Guild buttons.Five people sit at a table for an event wearing stickers and buttons supporting the ProPublica Guild.Two people walking into an event wear stickers in support of the ProPublica Guild.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 12/08/2025
We’re holding a lunch-out today to demand that @propublica management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system. Just today, a member of our Bargaining Committee and Unit Council was fired as a result of ProPublica's flawed system.
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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 05/08/2025
It was a pleasure meeting so many media professionals at #AAJA25 @aajaofficial.bsky.social in Seattle last week. We invite you to stay connected with @niemanreports.org: 📑 Read our latest issue: niemanreports.org/issues/sprin... 🖥️ Explore our latest stories: niemanreports.org/articles/
A collage of 12 pictures; each frame shows one or two AAJA conference participants. Each person is holding up a print magazine copy of Nieman Reports and smiling.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The number of people arguing with this number because “Alt National Park Service said it was 11 million” is kind of staggering to me. Folks, Alt NPS is not real, okay? None of the “alt” accounts are. They don’t have special knowledge. They pulled that number out of thin air/their ass
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere
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NPR @npr.org · 27/04/2025
For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.
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Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts
For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 21/03/2025
Our podcast producer @hashtagjames.bsky.social is looking for folks living with Long COVID (& other COVID-realist folks) to submit voice memos reflecting on LC, the pandemic, and their experiences for a 5-year-anniversary (of the public health emergency declaration) episode tinyurl.com/TST5yearspod
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Journalist use alt text on your text screenshots challenge
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/02/2025
Current and former federal workers: We’re here in D.C. sending out our signal 🚨 Contact us confidentially on Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips.
A black mobile billboard truck parked near the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in D.C. On the side and back of the truck, a LED screen reads: Are (were) you a government worker? ProPublica journalists want to hear from you. Signal: 917-512-0201. propublica.org/tips.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Today’s millennial product of excellence. You’re not making spaghetti at home, you are a sophisticated culinary expert who spends 8 dollars for only the finest of Italy
Rao’a homemade sauce
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
people really need to take this as an antidote to doomerism. how people react genuinely changes things. it's not lol nothing matters, even if that's how it feels.
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages
A photo of groundcherries (Alkekengi) in a garden in winter. The round, orange, cherry tomato-like fruits are suspended in the center of pendulous, vaguely heart-shaped husks made of networks of dried beige veins. The husks have a delicate, skeletal, lattice-like structure, reminiscent of laser-cut papercraft.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/12/2024
One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. propub.li/3BQjJ1e
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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power. New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/12/2024
Read other stories of people affected by encampment "sweeps" here:
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/12/2024
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote.
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Amy Kaufman @amykinla.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
👀 moments from the Blake Lively lawsuit:
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Struggling to find the words for just how disturbing this is. But suffice it to say that at one point, even Baldoni’s own publicist essentially says “thank goodness people hate women.” nyti.ms/3DoqZSq
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Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’
Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists. What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers. My latest:
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AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I went long on the sack creature without an anus whose visage has haunted me since Aug. 2022
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Was This Half-Billion-Year-Old Wrinkled Sack With No Anus, Previously Believed To Be Our Earliest Ancestor, Actually A Baby Penis Worm? | Defector
Researchers wondered how a bag with a mouth but no anus could have moved around its environment or managed to eat.
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J. David McSwane @davidmcswane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
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