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Lisa Song

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Climate/environment reporter at ProPublica. Cartoon me by Laila Milevski. Pro-cats, anti-carrots. Contact: lisasong.42 on Signal

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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 13h
This is very wonky and utterly infuriating. Logging companies (w/help from IKEA!) say *literally cutting down trees* should count as carbon negative and be credited as good for the planet. And they might get away with it. newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.
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Indiana Local News Guild @inlocalnewsguild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We have some exciting news! We, the staff of @mirrorindy, @fpinews and FPI, are unionizing. We are taking this step with a supermajority of staff in support. Follow us to stay up to date.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The office that you sit in is obviously off campus and that’s for a reason...Our main obligation is accountability." If there is legitimate karma in the world, these women will be professionals feted and respected as Theo Baker was www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank goodness for student journalists: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. She got in contact with Jane Doe, the plaintiff, and built a relationship with Ms. Doe and her lawyer." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The way my blood pressure climbed with every sentence of this story 😱
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important story from @lisalsong.bsky.social out today. An idea that the White House Office of Management and Budget has quietly proposed will have far-reaching implications on voter registration drives www.propublica.org/article/disa...
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wherein my disability law world collides with my appropriations law world. “A Massive Power Grab”: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote www.propublica.org/article/disa...
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The proposed rule is from OMB, the office run by Russell Vought -- who has a history of opposing government efforts to expand access to voting.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is really smart, impressive reporting.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
This week, ProPublica revealed that a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding festivities. Join our reporters on Sept. 23 for a behind-the-scenes conversation. 🗓️ RSVP: events.propublica.org/don-jr-weddi...
Graphic titled "Bankrolled: How a Russian Oligarch Funded Donald Trump Jr.'s Wedding Weekend." Text below reads: The inside story of how ProPublica traced the lavish three-day party back to a secret benefactor. Wednesday, Sept. 23. 4 p.m. EST. An image shows dozens of people in a group wedding photo on a beach, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina; and Tiffany Trump. An arrow points to Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, labeled as "Don Jr.'s secret benefactor," in the back row.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Read to the end of the article for a 👀 cliffhanger
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New species alert! The tilcayo tiger cat, found in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Seems important if you care about democracy or voting:
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I recently learned the saying "OSHA regulations are written in blood" And I am sick and sad to learn this is the case for MANY regulations. Perhaps most. The FDA came about after evidence of poisoning and demands for change. The CDC started because too many soldiers were dying of malaria.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As far as I know, the weddings I have been to were paid for by a) the couple b) their parents. No one ever thought to get a foreign sponsor
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim's son: “I think the one parting thing I want to leave everyone with is that you do my dad’s legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate.” “I want to use the little platform I have to ask for that to please stop."
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9/11 victim's son says tragedy should not be used to 'spread hate'
In seemingly unscripted remarks at the ground zero memorial, the son of a Staten Island man killed on 9/11 urged people nationwide to “please stop” using
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"the firm is also implementing a 'pre-crime' approach" against anti-AI activists is not a sentence I want to be reading about Anthropic, or any company prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
McClatchy, controlled by a hedge fund, doesn't want you to talk about all the journalists they're laying off today around the country!
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is it strategic to publish my 2,000+ word manifesto about a UN climate report on Sunday night of a holiday weekend? Nope! Here ya go. Does the UN call for a “renewable energy revolution” and “transformational change” of our society? Yep! Here for it. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...
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I read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.
TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Forever grateful that Kris Hansen bravely shared her story with me — and the world www.propublica.org/podcast/fore...
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
THE story to read today:
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the best news: I love these clumsy, flightless birds www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/k...
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Record baby boom brings world’s heaviest parrot back from the brink
A record 90 chicks have been added to the population count of the kakapo parrot in New Zealand, delighting conservationists.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No words to describe how horrifying this is www.springfieldnewssun.com/tncms/asset/...
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required
ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
Pierre Damas Bel was a new student at Wright State University. He was fitted with an ankle monitor in July.
Pastor Carl Ruby of Central Christian Church wrote on social media that Bel threw himself in front of a semi "after being teased by fellow students at Wright State about his ankle monitor."
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are THRILLED to see @alexip718.com's thesis work being honored. Read his series here:
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What an amazing correction.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Would it be easier if someone just made a list of the foods that ARE safe to eat?
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is the result of grindset. This is perfection. You may not like it but this is what the ideal male body looks like. This chonky lil' furrito is going to make it through the winter. www.npr.org/2026/08/30/n...
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Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winner of Fat Marmot Week
Dawn was crowned fattest marmot by popular vote.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: ICE tased a man in Danbury on Thursday, sending him to the hospital. I got video and the 911 call. DHS says the man reached for a pocketknife. It comes after four days of ICE sweeps in the city and dozens of arrests. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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ICE agent uses Taser during Danbury arrest, sending man to hospital
ICE also criticized Sen. Chris Murphy Thursday, refuting reported arrests at a bus stop in Danbury.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And now I want to know where else this is happening (in which other national parks/forests etc.)
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is so good 💛.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/08/2026
In a first, Starbucks Workers United and its 12,000 members are calling for a boycott of the coffee chain, after spending nearly 5 years pressuring the company to negotiate a first contract since the first location unionized in 2021.
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In First, Starbucks Workers United and Its 12,000 Members Call for Boycott
“[I]t is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,” the union said.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"The E.P.A. has also proposed another sweeping change that would let developers start building data centers before their permits are approved." Um...Data centers are already super contentious. What do you think will happen if people wake up to a surprise data center being built across the street?
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We are digging into the proposed USPS rule on mail voting and want to know more about Trump's executive order on the matter. Contact our tip line at 917-512-0201 or reach out to me on Signal at jenafifield.01.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's what to expect after the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday related to the Trump administration's plan to try to restrict mail voting in the midterms. Efforts to either block the plan or implement it before November will now progress rapidly, sources tell @propublica.org 🧵
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Live your life in such a way that your acknowledgement in the New England Journal of Medicine for personally funding the vaccine for a devastating pandemic is just one in a long list of your many contributions to human health, joy and well-being.
Supported by the NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, under award numbers
UM1AI148373 (Kaiser Washington), UM1AI148576 (Emory University), UM1AI148684 (Emory University),
UM1AI148684-01S1 (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), and HHSN272201500002C (Emmes); by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH, under award number UL1 TR002243 (Vanderbilt University Medical Center); and by the Dolly Parton
COVID-19 Research Fund (Vanderbilt University Medical Center). Funding for the manufacture of mRNA-1273 phase 1 material was provided by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI).
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"In any Idaho household not steeped in faith-healing, those two deaths would be investigated as crimes." Guess what happened to the families who belong to faith-healing sects. Absolutely outrageous story by @audreydutton.bsky.social
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2026
We obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent by execs asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act rules. As of mid-July, the White House has approved ~200 requests. Tomorrow at 4 pm ET, join us for an event exploring the impact (w/ @chicagotribune.com @deepsouthtoday.org @latimes.com):
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Clean Air Act: Dismantling One of the Country’s Bedrock Environmental Laws
Join us for a discussion about the rollback of the Clean Air Act and what it means for public health in communities across America.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nightmare fuel. Wtf, this is the last thing we need 😭
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Corey Johnson @coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My latest story has some intrigue. FCC finally released Chairman Brendan Carr’s financial report for 2025 late Friday. The report states Paramount gave him tickets to the gala worth $12,390. But he and his wife sat in skybox seats that sold for $125,000 a piece. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 31/07/2026
Still, we’re proud of this contract. It will meaningfully improve our members’ lives and help make ProPublica a better place to work. We will remain vigilant to ensure the company fully follows this contract. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/prop...
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ProPublica Guild Ratifies First Contract — ProPublica Guild
Members of the ProPublica Guild, which represents more than 150 workers across the nonprofit investigative newsroom, overwhelmingly voted to ratify our first contract on Friday, exactly three years si...
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