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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 29/09/2026

Fresh update to our Habeas case tracker: More than 83,000 immigrants have filed cases challenging the legality of their detention so far since Jan. 2025. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

A screenshot of the ProPublica Habeas tracker showing a big 83,328 — the number of cases filed since Jan. 2025.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 26/09/2026

We're working on getting into the Chrome and Firefox add-on stores, but for now you can download it and load it into your browser temporarily, and upload the resulting file(s) to us on this page. Also, we named it Collector Gadget. 🔍

A screenshot of a browser extension called Collector Gadget on a FanDuel page showing a "Collect my history" button.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 25/08/2026

There was a flyer posted on our door the other day for a meeting about the block party and I fear I must use this crop of it as a work meme

A colorful crop of a flyer with balloons that says
IMPROMPTU
MEETING

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 19/08/2026

Good morning to this beautiful #longchart showing DoD funding versus a bunch of other agencies. We're investigating the Pentagon's $1 trillion "black box" budget: www.propublica.org/article/mili...

A screenshot of the top of an article, showing a headline of "The $1 Trillion Black Box," framed by a downward-facing bar chart showing the DoD appropriations against agencies like the EPA. The bar goes to $1 trillion, with an extension to 1.4 trillion showing a proposed increase next year.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 01/07/2026

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 08/06/2026

@natlash.bsky.social compared samples of measles from the US and Canada and found that the Texas out leak last year and the ongoing Utah outbreak strains are very closely related. Just out @propublica.org: projects.propublica.org/measles-outb...

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 01/06/2026

this little border is such a dead claude giveaway and I see it everywhere now.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 26/05/2026

Something kinda neat I've been working on: I used Claude over the past month to iterate on an app to generate halftones and color separated images for screen printing. It works pretty well, and it's helping me make real live prints! github.com/schwanksta/H...

A screenshot of an app showing a halftoned closeup of a disco ball

A photo of 16 disco ball screen prints in different colors

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 08/04/2026

Got a little mp3 player, installed Rockbox and used Claude to patch some of the code so it could write a theme that has a spectrum visualizer

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 08/04/2026

Nearly half of Arizona’a SNAP participants have been booted off. www.propublica.org/article/ariz...

More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their
SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The drop represents nearly 47% of the state's participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the
program.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 30/03/2026

Now, given the first letter there, I don't think that's what "J-pilled" likely means, is it?

NYT screenshot: "Just outside the hall, 20-somethings in rumpled suits were gathered in clusters, debating the merits of a ground invasion in Iran, the conservative backlash against those who were “J-pilled” (far-right slang for skepticism of Israeli influence), the backbreaking costs of American life, and what they saw as the slow demise of the Trump era."

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 24/02/2026

Update to our Habeas cases tracker: We're now at nearly 23,000 cases filed since Jan. 2025 -- but the number of new cases filed each week is finally starting to slow down. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

A weekly chart of habeas cases filed over time, showing a steep week by week rise in filed cases, followed by a drop off in the past two full weeks.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 18/02/2026

The number of habeas cases filed has gone up about 2,000 since we published our tracker last week. After the recent 5th circuit ruling on detention though, the number of cases filed in Texas dropped off quite a bit. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

A screenshot showing 20,659 Habeas cases filed since Jan 2025

A screenshot showing a chart of cases filed by week by state. Texas was the highest, but the most recent trend line is pointing sharply down.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 10/02/2026

We’re keeping tabs this rise and will be updating a tracker regularly with new case data: projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

A weekly chart of Habeas cases, showing a steep and consistent rise.

A chart of habeas cases by state, showing Texas, California and Minnesota with the steepest week by week rise.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 10/02/2026

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 08/01/2026

Exploding SpaceX rockets cause chaos over the Caribbean www.propublica.org/article/spac...

A map of planes making emergency maneuvers away from an exploding SpaceX rocket

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 19/12/2025

@nymag.com @alexshultz.bsky.social reporting that while Eleanor Holmes Norton has been showing steep signs of mental decline, she is suddenly loaning a large amount of money to her campaign — which only pays her campaign manager / treasurer / confidant and one adviser. nymag.com/intelligence...

Screenshot: “Over the same period that Norton's decline became readily apparent, she started loaning significant amounts of money to her campaign for the first time in her political career. Between October 2023 and June 2025, according to a review of documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, shes given her campaign $110,000. The campaign is essentially out of donors and cash on hand and is regularly paying only two people: Pelt and a man named Jeremiah Pope, an adviser for the campaign since 2015.
(He did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
Pelt has apparently assumed some degree of oversight regarding Norton's private affairs.
When Norton was scammed at her home in October, the ensuing police report described a
"caretaker/power of attorney" — Pelt, according to NBC4 Washington — as the person who headed to the residence and alerted police after discovering the scammers by remotely accessing a security camera.”

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 17/12/2025

New @propublica.org: @emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year. www.propublica.org/article/dele...

A screenshot that says “UNICEF USA, which supports the United Nations' humanitarian children's mission, no longer wants a more equitable world for every child - just a better one.” With their mission statement and “more equitable” struck out and replaced with “better.”

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 14/11/2025

Just passed an apartment in Brooklyn with what appears to be comic sans address lettering

A photo of the front of a building with 1470 eastern parkway in comic sans font

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 10/10/2025

For some reason the ticket website thinks I'm Swedish and honestly, A+ language. BORJAR SNART.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 23/07/2025

While this isn't great, the AI summary isn't usually summarizing the page I'm looking for (and the links aren't that obvious) -- the more relevant stat from the report is that is cuts all link clicks in half.

Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 27/06/2025

As mayor he certainly never asked for a handout! His employees even made sure he paid “somewhat real” prices for Turkish Air flights!

How much does he owe?
Please, let them call me and I will make the paym It is very expensive because it is last minute. I ar on a discount
Okay.
Thank you.
I am going to charge $50
No
That would work wouldn't it
No, dear. $50? What?
Quote a proper price.
How much should I charge? :)
His every step is being watched right now $1,000 or so
Let it be somewhat real.
We don't want them to say he is flying for free At the moment, the media's attention is on Eric.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 18/05/2025

Last year I picked up printmaking and linocutting as a hobby, and yesterday I ran this giant 18x24 print of the sky over Fire Island. I was trying to translate that big and calming sense you get when it’s warm and breezy out and you’re just watching the clouds go by. #linocut #printmaking #artsky

A photo of a large print with a textured blue sky and three smallish birds flying across it

A photo of the print on a drying rack, showing the scale and paper’s edges.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 16/05/2025

At some point reddit started recommending me a subreddit about sandwiches and it's just this stuff with little commentary and I love it.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 07/05/2025

a lot of steps to end up with the wrong answer

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 22/04/2025

Jesus, now when you do a simple hashtag search on instagram you get LLM output describing what you’re searching for

A screenshot from instagram showing LLM output describing Linocut after a search for “#linocut”

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 14/04/2025

The top news from the visit for Fox is about trans people playing sports. Below that, they twice call Abrego Garcia, a man the government admitted in court it has no reason to remove and did so mistakenly, an "MS-13 leader."

A screenshot of the Fox News homepage with the large headline "El Salvador leader’s raw response when Trump asks if men belong in women’s sports" and the smaller headlines, "AG Bondi addresses MS-13 leader deported to El Salvador" and " WATCH: El Salvadoran president on if he'll return MS-13 leader to America" below it in smaller text.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 11/04/2025

ICE is using military funds to build tent complexes at the border. This company stands to profit: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“In March, one of the company's tent complexes in El Paso, Texas, was handed over to ICE, CBP and ICE spokespeople said. In an unusual move, the Trump administration tapped funds from the Department of Defense to pay Deployed for the facility, citing the president's declaration of an emergency at the southern border, a DOD spokesperson said.
The nearly $140 million contract wasn't posted publicly and was given to Deployed as the "incumbent contractor," the spokesperson said, without further explaining why ICE would use military funds. ICE said it started transferring detainees to the site - which currently has the capacity to house 1,000 adults - on March 10.”

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 09/04/2025

Unhinged illo for the WSJ but I love it

A bald eagle claws and swipes an iPhone against the background of an American flag

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 10/03/2025

@cnn.com has this "Fear & Greed" market index that is currently pointing firmly to EXTREME FEAR www.cnn.com/markets/fear...

A gauge of market sentiment with EXTREME FEAR highlighted

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 13/02/2025

hold on, I hear we're getting a preview of next year's flu vaccine...ok yes, here it is

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 29/01/2025

Unimportant but apparently I had a stopwatch timer running for 35 days without realizing it at some point

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 24/01/2025

The DOJ's list of Jan. 6 Capitol breach cases has been taken down www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capi...

A screenshot from the DOJ's site saying that the page is not found

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 10/01/2025

Finally got around to finishing @kissane.bsky.social’s clear and damning post on why mega platforms with centralized governance will always be a bad idea, no matter how many moderators or fact checkers we throw at them. Well worth your time. www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

A screenshot that says: “So sure: Protocols over platforms.
Then we have to actually do the inelegant, un-heroic, expensive work of rebuilding the essential structures of human civilization on top of the protocols, because it turns out we just have the one world, online or off, no way out.”

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 09/01/2025

Cal Fire's 3D map viewer of the fire extents and evac zones helpfully includes building footprints, which really drives home the extent of destruction here in Altadena in the Eaton fire (orange is the extent of the fire, red is evac zone.) calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/home/webscen...

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 09/01/2025

Much has been written about the policy change here, but it’s also…strikingly poorly written, right?

A screenshot from Facebook saying: “Transparency Center
• Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and
unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent
intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or
abnormality when based on gender or sexual
orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious
usage of words like
"weird."”

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/01/2025

Huh, saw a lot of traffic from Hacker News, which dropped off fast -- turns out, the post was removed / moderated from the front page! There is a neat little tool that checks, and sure, enough it's the last thing listed as removed: github.com/vitoplantamu...

A screenshot showing "What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol" was removed from the front page of Hacker News

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 27/12/2024

The headline is gutting, in the handwriting of one of the people we spoke to:

A handwritten headline. that says "I have lost everything"

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 19/12/2024

We @propublica.org are currently hiring for a bunch of newsroom jobs, from reporters to editors to audio roles! boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g...

A screenshot that lists
Deputy Texas Editor
Executive Producer, Audio
Florida Reporter
Reporter, Climate
Southwest Reporter

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 21/11/2024

Apple AI notification summaries continue to be so so so bad

A screenshot that summarizes an NYT alert by saying Netanyahu was arrested.

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