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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What do Papa Johns, Putin & a Dutch ship company have in common? One man: Tom Dans, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission. The role is typically held by science/public policy experts. That’s not Dans. We dug into how he could be leveraging the role for his own interests 🧵
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: Papa Johns, Propaganda and Putin: How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: Trump’s pick for a tiny federal agency that advises Congress and the president on Arctic research policy is a MAGA venture capitalist with no science background. The job put him on a global stage, where he’s pushed for closer ties with Russia. www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
We’re excited to announce that our editor in chief and founding managing editor, @sengelberg.bsky.social, is receiving the 2026 Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award! Under his leadership, we’ve won 9 Pulitzers and grown into the largest investigative newsroom in the country: bit.ly/4d5l1EG
Stephen Engelberg, editor in chief of ProPublica, wears brown glasses and a dark suit with a collared blue shirt. He has gray hair, a mustache and a beard.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026
At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars.
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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I'm asking for help covering the IG community. Please reach out if you have info and/or share with anyone you think might be receptive. Thanks 🙏 www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community
If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we need your insights to do important journalism.
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Trump administration is dropping a rule aimed at stopping commercial space companies like SpaceX from abandoning rocket bodies in orbit. Experts say the practice threatens public safety and telecommunications. www.propublica.org/article/faa-...
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Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk
The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rock...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NEW: Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2026
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The FAA last month issued a warning to pilots that rocket failures can pose risks to airplanes and warrant "extreme caution." The alert came the same day our investigation showed how pilots scrambled for safety when SpaceX Starships exploded last year. www.propublica.org/article/faa-...
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FAA Warns Airlines About Safety Risks From Rocket Launches, Urges “Extreme Caution”
The agency’s official safety alert comes as SpaceX looks to ramp up Starship tests. A recent ProPublica investigation found that explosions during previous Starship launches disrupted air traffic and ...
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
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Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care
Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/01/2026
Documents, recordings and interviews reveal that, by authorizing SpaceX to test its rockets over busy airspace, the FAA accepted the inherent risk that the launches might put plane passengers in danger. By @heathervogell.bsky.social and Agnel Philip, graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social
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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
NEW for @propublica.org: We analyzed flight data to see how passenger planes were affected by SpaceX's starship explosions. We identified 21 planes that appeared to make sudden turns to exit the debris zone in the minutes after the explosion. www.propublica.org/article/spac...
A map of the northern Caribbean shows a large red area north of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico labeled "FAA's Debris Zone". The flight paths of 21 different planes show those planes making sharp turns or circling to avoid the debris zone.
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Three SpaceX rockets exploded unexpectedly last year – twice raining down debris over busy airspace. “It literally looked like the sun coming out,” one passenger said. Such midair scrambles could become more frequent as launches increase, experts say. www.propublica.org/article/spac...
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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/12/2025
#ICYMI: The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
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DOJ and RealPage Agree to Settle Rental Price-Fixing Case
The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like beh...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/11/2025
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
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“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2025
NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We reported in July that Trump was poised to slash regs protecting the public and the environment during rocket launches by companies like SpaceX. Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order making it happen. Here’s our story. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change El...
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The biggest landlord in the US will stop using rent-setting algorithms that critics say can result in price-fixing. Greystar settled after federal prosecutors sued it, other landlords and the software’s maker. We first wrote about the practice in 2022. www.propublica.org/article/grey...
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America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2025
NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
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America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2025
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/07/2025
The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by USAID
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US to burn $9.7 million worth of USAID-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas | CNN
The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carrie...
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We learned the Trump admin is moving to slash regs on launch companies — like Elon Musk’s SpaceX — that aim to protect people and the enviro. The changes come despite explosions that sent debris raining on the Caribbean and Gulf. www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @tophersanders.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change El...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/07/2025
NEW: A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.
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Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change El...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/07/2025
Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2025
🎧 Our reporter @abrahm.bsky.social was on @npr.org's Fresh Air today to talk about how Trump's undermining of science — at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common — is "extraordinarily concerning":
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'ProPublica' climate reporter calls Texas floods an 'early warning' of future chaos
Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The pressure is building on health providers who offer gender-affirming care for trans kids: Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
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Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
NEW: The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled. The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come. By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org
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The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/06/2025
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.
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Kennedy names 8 vaccine committee replacements, including COVID shot critic
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.
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CNN @cnn.com · 10/06/2025
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump administration. They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH.
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NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies | CNN
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump...
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hooray! The new encrypted tips form Ive been working on with @phiffer.org is now live! Very, very proud and delighted with this effort. www.propublica.org/tips/#submit
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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 30/05/2025
White House report re “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma. By Dani Blum and Maggie Astor www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The 2-year-old, native-born U.S. citizen, removed by ICE in February, is now stuck in Poté on a soon-to-expire tourist visa without a Brazilian citizen’s access to routine pediatric checkups, day care or school @terrencemccoy.bsky.social and Marina Dias report www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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This 2-year-old American girl was ‘deported’ with her undocumented parents
Since being flown to Brazil in February, Manu has become all but stateless — removed from her place of birth and not yet adopted by her parents’ home country.
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Late Wed., Sen. Amy Klobuchar told us there is bipartisan support for AI rules and bipartisan oppo to the moratorium: “By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
In 2022, @propublica.org found landlords were using RealPage software to raise rents — potentially in violation of laws against collusion. Cities then moved to ban such pricing algorithms. But now, @wsj.com reports that House Republicans are seeking to “muzzle” those local efforts. THREAD
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
A tweet from HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it's common sense and it's good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS's promise to Make America Healthy Again.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/05/2025
SpaceX's Starship 9 is scheduled to launch tonight. The last two Starship launches resulted in explosions and rained debris over the Caribbean, which will also be in flight path for this launch. UK officials tried — to no avail — to get the FAA to change the rocket's flight plans.
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After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2025
Update: Shortly after we published this story, the FAA announced it had approved Starship 9's launch, pending the completion of an investigation into the previous explosion.
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Worried about 2 SpaceX Starships that exploded over British territories, the UK sent a letter Wed expressing safety concerns abt the next rocket. Late today, FAA approved Starship 9's launch anyway. It will occur at non-peak times but could disrupt 175 flights www.propublica.org/article/spac...
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After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earl...
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
NEW: Behind closed doors, the Trump administration has mounted a “maximum pressure” campaign on a poor African democracy. The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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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...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New from PP: The US has been pressuring countries in Africa to grant licenses to Musk’s Starlink. “If this was done by another country, we absolutely would call this corruption,” said a former Bush official. “Because it is corruption.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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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...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
DOGE cuts to the IRS: -Auditors: Down 31% -Revenue officers who oversee challenging tax cases: down 18% -Tax examiners: Down 10% blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories... The thing is: They have to know that the result will be more tax cheating. So how can that not be the intent?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/05/2025
Experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s proposal to slash roughly 43 percent of funding for federal housing programs, like Section 8 vouchers, could have devastating effects for millions of Americans.
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Proposed cuts to housing programs could affect millions, experts warn
The White House proposed slashing funding for Section 8 and other federal programs by about 43 percent, saying it will “fix our broken federal housing policy.”
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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
You might be wondering how the Trump administration is shutting the Education Department -- something only Congress can do. Look to ED's Office for Civil Rights for the answer: Render it "useless," then subvert the core mission. This story takes you inside OCR and how students are being harmed.
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A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing i...
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