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Molly Redden

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Reporter covering legal affairs for ProPublica. Have a tip? molly.redden@propublica.org or find me on Signal at mollyredden.14

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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵
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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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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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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today is my last day at HuffPost. Like many others, I was hit by mass layoffs at BuzzFeed. I've done my best to hold power to account and tell complex stories with care, and I'm going to keep doing that. So please keep sending me tips! Contact: mattshuham@protonmail.com, 646-397-4678 (cell/Signal)
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
After 3 years, it's my last day at HuffPost. I was laid off as part of the larger cuts at BuzzFeed. I'm not sure what comes next but I'm proud of our union for holding it down. If you’re an editor or lit agent looking for someone to write about trans rights and politics, hmu at levikalish@proton.me
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Jess is the best investigative reporter ever to work at HuffPost. Her journalism has saved lives! Everyone in the newsroom looked to her for guidance and leadership because she never fails to show up for her colleagues. Whoever hires her next is truly winning the lottery. Jess forever ❤️❤️
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kalibomeli.bsky.social @kalibomeli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildfires, while still owning stock in the company. @abestreep.bsky.social
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A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One
Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/06/2026
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
After a decade+ of nonstop pollution offenses, GOP Sen. Jim Justice's coal empire learned earlier this year that it was under federal criminal investigation. But before prosecutors could gather crucial evidence, Todd Blanche's office told them "pencils down."
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison. Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared. How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.
A man's suit lapel with two pins on it. One is the DOJ seal, the other is in the shape of a thumbs-up and says "Trump" on it.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In today's Laurels/Darts, I interview Jessica Schulberg, the Huffpost reporter who has extensively covered an unjust Oklahoma death-penalty case. She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
She was able to obtain permission to view the execution, so she flew to Oklahoma City and woke up at 4am last Thursday to drive the two hours to the penitentiary in McAlester. She and others close to Wood then waited in a “gathering zone” in the predawn hours, where “very nice, friendly” staff from the Department of Corrections made small talk while offering them “chips and crackers and coffee.”

They expected to be loaded into a van about an hour before the 10am execution, but nothing was happening. “I just kind of obsessively was refreshing my phone and trying to get in the mental headspace of ‘You’re here—you’ve got to do your job.’” Then, at 9:58, a message popped onto everyone’s phones: the governor had stopped the execution. Said Schulberg: “To experience that level of relief, and to see other people experiencing that level of relief—it was the most intense happiness I’ve ever felt in my life. I was like, this is ecstasy. Like, I’m never going to feel this happy again.”

Schulberg’s decision to go to Oklahoma for the execution hadn’t come easily. Her brother and mother advised her not to. “You’re never going to be able to unsee this,” her brother told her. But when it was over, her brother said, “Your willingness to witness the worst thing ever meant that you got to see the most wonderful thing ever.”
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You know one sign of sophisticated intelligence is the ability to integrate new information and not lose your job twice for essentially the same reason
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor. You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
BREAKING: In a 3-2 vote Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole board recommended clemency for Tremane Wood, a man sentenced to death for a killing his brother admitted to committing www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...
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Tremane Wood, Who Was Never Proven To Have Killed Anyone, Gets Clemency Recommendation
The 3-2 vote was a stunning outcome in a case where the Oklahoma attorney general has personally intervened to try to secure Wood’s execution.
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Tremane Wood is facing execution on November 13. I revisited his case to investigate how a group of judges and prosecutors have secretly coordinated in ways that have undermined Tremane’s final chance to live. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...
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A Red State Is Preparing To Execute A Man Who Was Never Proven To Have Killed Anyone
Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.
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Joel Jacobs @joeljacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
NEW from me: The CFPB's consumer complaint system is more popular than ever, fielding over 2.7M complaints last year. But Republican lawmakers still voted to slash the CFPB's budget, even after referring thousands of their own constituents' issues to the agency. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...
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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.
Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Do you have information about Big Law spurning clients who might incur Trump's anger? Get in touch: molly.redden@propublica.org or on Signal at mollyredden.14
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New from me: Big Law is fearful of representing anyone Trump sees as his enemies, and it's thwarting challenges to his agenda. “There are cases that aren’t being brought at a time when civil rights abuses are maybe at the highest they’ve been.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration
Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and...
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
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‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death
"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tips are *very* welcome. Are you in Big Law or a Trump-aligned firm? Struggling to recruit pro bono partners to sue the administration? Former or current DOJ/OCR? Leonard Leo? Get in my DMs!
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I'm launching a new @propublica.org beat! Legal affairs under Trump: his assault on Big Law, his judicial nominees, his defiance of the courts, the politicization of executive branch legal offices, favor-trading for dropped investigations, White House legal strategy—you name it.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.
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Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Mothers, hide your Overton Windows! A secretive effort is at work to convince courts the US is legally under "invasion." MAGA loyalists have pushed this fringe legal theory for years. Now, it's the linchpin of Trump's mass deportation campaign and his extraordinary threats to suspend habeas corpus.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/03/2025
An October 2024 story about Russell Vought captured the breadth and ferocity of the coming attack on the federal government. So why didn’t this story drive more of a national conversation when it appeared?
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The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story…
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“In response, the employees refused their requests and called sheriff's deputies.“
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Richard Kim @richardkimnyc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If a nakedly corrupt and anti-constitutional DoJ won't hold Eric Adams to account, here's who could. How Other Prosecutors Could Pick Up the Case Against Eric Adams www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/15/e...
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How Other Prosecutors Could Pick Up the Case Against Eric Adams
Both Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and NY Attorney General Tish James could pursue charges, and Gov. Hochul could also remove the mayor.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I wrote about how the Trump administration's assault on the civil service draws from the same playbook used for decades against public school teachers. A nation that devalues its public servants devalues its future www.vox.com/donald-trump...
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Elon Musk is using the anti-teacher playbook against the entire civil workforce
This didn’t start with DOGE.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants to Guantanamo Bay. Perla Trevizo and I identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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U.S. Claims Immigrants Held at Guantanamo Are “Worst of the Worst.” Their Families Say They’re Being Unfairly Targeted.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have identified nearly a dozen immigrants who have been flown to Guantanamo Bay. Government officials have refused to release the names of detainees or provide details...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/02/2025
NEW: Under the Trump administration, the Office for Civil Rights has shifted its focus to removing gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from women’s sports and prioritizing complaints alleging discrimination against white students.
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“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NEW from me: Why has Patrick Soon-Shiong touted RFK Jr repeatedly and run interference for him at his paper, the LA Times? Maybe because his biotech company has 3 applications pending at the FDA, whose parent agency Kennedy is about to be running. prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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L.A. Times Owner Has Financial Motivations for Boosting RFK Jr.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s biotech firm is preparing three applications needing approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Buckle up
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it. It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump Day One executive order is an illegal deferral under the Impoundment Control Act. It also seems as though Trump is (accidentally? purposefully?) demanding the US break its contracts for funding that has been obligated but not yet outlaid in saying no funds shall be disbursed.
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Sec. 7.  Terminating the Green New Deal.  (a)  All agencies shall immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169) or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), including but not limited to funds for electric vehicle charging stations made available through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program, and shall review their processes, policies, and programs for issuing grants, loans, contracts, or any other financial disbursements of such appropriated funds for consistency with the law and the policy outlined in section 2 of this order.  Within 90 days of the date of this order, all agency heads shall submit a report to the Director of the NEC and Director of OMB that details the findings of this review, including recommendations to enhance their alignment with the policy set forth in section 2.  No funds identified in this subsection (a) shall be disbursed by a given agency until the Director of OMB and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy have determined that such disbursements are consistent with any review recommendations they have chosen to adopt.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hegseth has said that he got into West Point but didn’t attend. We asked West Pt public affairs, which told us twice on the record that he hadn’t even applied there. We reached out. Hegseth's spox gave us his acceptance letter. We didn't publish a story. That's journalism.
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
NEW: There have been internal concerns that Trump Media has misled investors about Truth Social's performance, a source said. But with Donald Trump, $DJT's largest shareholder, about to be president, will the SEC be up to the job of investigating? www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Controls a Publicly Traded Company. Now He Will Pick Its Regulator.
There have been internal concerns that Trump Media could be misleading investors, a source said. But with its largest shareholder about to be president, experts doubt the SEC is up to the job of inves...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Excellent piece from my buddy Paul Kiel on an obscure loophole that allows billionaires to avoid Medicare tax: www.propublica.org/article/medi...
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Get ready for a much more aggressive Civil Rights Division on behalf of conservative causes/interests in Trump DOJ 2.0.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Today, as Tennessee defends its ban on trans youth care at SCOTUS, it will rely on testimony from four roundly discredited experts—including one who said some children may be “born to suffer and die” I wrote about their lucrative role in pushing misinformation here: www.huffpost.com/entry/paid-e...
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These Paid 'Experts' Are Crisscrossing The Country To Defend Anti-Trans Laws
Their purpose is to convince judges that gender-affirming care is scientifically controversial, unnecessary and dangerous — and they're increasingly having an impact.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New from me: As they prepare to cut trillions in government services, Trump + team are planning to test a radical legal theory which claims the president can unilaterally choke off funding from programs he opposes. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the po...
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Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I burst into tears when I got here. The speaker is a bereaved husband. “We all know pregnancies can come out beautifully or horribly,” Hope told ProPublica. “Instead of putting laws in place to make pregnancies safer, we created laws that put them back in danger.” www.propublica.org/article/pors...
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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reupping my and @andykroll.bsky.social story on Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, on the news he is joining the next Trump administration. We got private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors… 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Do you work at HHS? The Education Department? The DOJ's civil rights division? I'm reporting on the Trump administration's sweeping cultural agenda and I want to hear from you! See below for how to reach me securely.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/11/2024
Why? Concerned public servants are some of our most important sources. We rely on you to help us identify stories, report and fact-check. We appreciate the difficult situations people weigh as they decide whether to reach out. All of our reporters take privacy very seriously...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/11/2024
As the second Trump White House takes shape, our reporters are already digging into some issues that will require scrutiny in the coming years. We want to share some details, including how you can help inform future reporting. 👇
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