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Teddy Amenabar

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Audience editor @ProPublica.org Previously @washingtonpost.com Based in Minneapolis #COYS

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Cool Hand Nuke LaLoosh @coolhandnuke.bsky.social · 13h
I like ProPublica’s new gonzo stance: “We’re not problem gamblers, but we can pretend to be one.” “We’re not teachers, but let’s say that we wanted to pretend we are.”
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay, this Senate hearing Hawkeyes thing makes me miss D.C. I’m homesick.
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration initially floated an idea that would have virtually shut down mail voting: Requiring voters to be home and sign for delivery of their ballots through certified mail. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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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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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Make it exist first. You can make it good later. Says Skeletor thinking this octopus staff needs some more work.
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
lol honored Chris live tweeted our wedding (Louisa and I got hitched last night)
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The result of the Supreme Court order is that nothing has changed for states." What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms by @teddyamen.bsky.social @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/mail...
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What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new rules on mail-in voting before the November midterm elections. That means nothing has changed for voters — and mail-in voting can p...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
News you can use! What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms, by @teddyamen.bsky.social
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What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new rules on mail-in voting before the November midterm elections. That means nothing has changed for voters — and mail-in voting can p...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New for @propublica.org: I called a few experts on mail-in voting and asked them to explain what you should keep in mind if you plan to vote by mail in November. The result of the SCOTUS order on Monday is that nothing has changed for states ahead of the midterms. www.propublica.org/article/mail...
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What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new rules on mail-in voting before the November midterm elections. That means nothing has changed for voters — and mail-in voting can p...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026
NEW: The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new rules on mail-in voting before the November midterm elections. That means nothing has changed for voters — and mail-in voting can proceed as planned.
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What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new rules on mail-in voting before the November midterm elections. That means nothing has changed for voters — and mail-in voting can p...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. 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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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me, buying lemons from Trader Joes now that the U.S. Open is over.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: 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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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m an angsty mess watching this Spurs match.
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 First video from @propublica.org’s new YouTube team is here: youtu.be/MzyxHW5OuZ8?...
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The Supreme Court Changed. What Now?
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow I love this. www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...
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Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: I obtained a draft of the Trump administration plan to roll back the Biden EPA rules on methane pollution. I reported previously on the little-known oil-industry campaign to deregulate “stripper wells” — which is finally coming to fruition: www.propublica.org/article/meth...
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EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly p...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
Sept. 21, 2020: Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz is involved in a car crash in the Dominican Republic that kills three people. This is how Cruz avoided prosecution — with the help of a local fixer who would go on to become a Red Sox legend’s business partner. THREAD:
Oneil Cruz photographed in his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform. Credit: Icon Sportswire/Getty Images
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: Evidence that became public only in the last two years raises new questions about a Saudi man who assisted two 9/11 hijackers. “Somebody needs to explain to the American people why we didn’t see this information before,” a former FBI agent said. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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25 Years After 9/11, Questions About the FBI’s Pursuit of Saudi Suspects in the Case Have Only Grown
FBI agents quickly identified a Saudi suspect who helped two of the 9/11 hijackers. But families of the victims are demanding to know what happened in the bureau’s investigation of Omar al-Bayoumi.
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The podcast of how Kris Hansen discovered ¸— or, really, rediscovered — PFAS in the blood of the general public
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NEW: In Mississippi and Louisiana, judges usually take three months or more to decide if someone should be released from detention. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, which experienced a surge in appeals early this year, courts often decide in less than two weeks. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's great to work in a newsroom that understands the importance of translating its reporting into video. The YouTube + short-term video teams here are a smart, creative group doing some of the best work in the industry. www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
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ProPublica Launches YouTube Team and Expands Social Video Efforts
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Exclusive from @propublica.org, details from inside USPS planning meetings that corroborate the whistleblower report warning of potential for mass disenfranchisement if mail voting regulations move forward for the midterms NEW: www.propublica.org/article/mail...
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: In internal meetings, top USPS officials expressed concerns about new mail voting rules. One repeated concern regarded how to avoid invalidating an entire batch of ballots if one voter among thousands couldn’t be confirmed as eligible. www.propublica.org/article/mail...
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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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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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
corn dog!
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This argument is so absurd that I want to know if the lawyers felt embarrassed writing it. Nobody (except people who bought the NFT hype 🫠) thinks they own an *exclusive* copy of a digital product. They think they own A copy. A copy that can't be yanked off their device later.
Sony’s argument is that because digital copies of games are not a finite resource, and that because multiple people can buy a digital copy of the same game, that means nobody actually ‘owns’ it – if they did, nobody else would be able to have it.“As plaintiffs admit, Section 1 of the SPLA likewise explains that ‘the Software is licensed to you, not sold’, Sony’s filing reads. “This makes sense. In the digital age, it is not plausible to allege that reasonable consumers believed they were obtaining ‘ownership’ of a digital game.

“Were that the case, then Plaintiff Edward Heycock would not have been able to obtain the game Resident Evil Requiem on February 25, 2026 for $69.99 from the PlayStation Store after Plaintiff Jason Mendoza had obtained Resident Evil Requiem on February 14, 2026, because Mr Mendoza, not Sony, would have owned it then.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We asked readers to share their annual 401(k) disclosure. In the process, people also sent in questions about the funds and fees in their employer’s plans. To find the answers, we spoke with eight economists, lawyers and retirement benefit experts. www.propublica.org/article/401k...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My first byline here @propublica.org! Three months into the new role and it's been a real blast working with everyone. I'll be writing/reporting articles that answer practical question people have based on ProPublica's stories. This one comes from Paul Kiel's project on 401(k) funds and fees.
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
@citycasttwincities.bsky.social is really great local podcast. I love the approach. I enjoy every episode. They’re doing it right.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/08/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s @jessecoburn.bsky.social chronicled how a Texas artillery factory failed to produce a single usable shell. The fiasco ended up costing the Army half a billion dollars. Here are the lapses in planning and execution our reporting uncovered.
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The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ProPublica’s @jessecoburn.bsky.social chronicled how a Texas artillery factory failed to produce a single usable shell. The fiasco ended up costing the Army half a billion dollars. Here are the lapses in planning and execution our reporting uncovered. www.propublica.org/article/army...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Can I ask my wedding D.J. to play "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" but specifically from Sister Act 2?
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Spray your shoes with permethrin to ward off ticks. My interview with Thomas Mather at University of Rhode Island is a year old but the advice hasn't aged a bit. That's the best first step before you take any step outside in tick country. wapo.st/4ipEIur
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Here’s a smart way to fight ticks, according to a tick expert
According to tick expert Thomas Mather, spraying shoes with permethrin can help prevent tick bites and reduce the risk of tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What a broken system. Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.
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This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?
Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ProPublica’s latest Impact Report is a must read and a huge validation of our local journalism. And it’s beautiful too. www.propublica.org/atpropublica... Kudos to partners @ctmirror.org and @readfrontier.bsky.social for prominent billing!
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ProPublica is undertaking a project examining U.S. military spending, budgeting and contracting. Help us report this story: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Do You Know About U.S. Military Spending? Help ProPublica Understand Where the Money Goes.
Many Pentagon projects face delays, budget increases and performance issues. The causes of these problems are often opaque to the taxpayers who foot the bill. Help point us to the most important stori...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spending. www.propublica.org/article/mili...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My first job in journalism I was the comments editor at The Washington Post and it's become pretty foundational to how I work. The conversation about journalism matters almost as much as the reporting itself. This is great research and I hope we get more of it. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/we-a...
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We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information
The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced <em>less</em> conversation.
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
NEW: Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations after Trump’s Justice Department charged the group with fraud. We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
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Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“It got to the point where I was not surprised by anything that happened there.” New banger from @jessecoburn.bsky.social: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New: Robot arms kept catching on fire. Machines kept ruining artillery shells. A $533 million General Dynamics project failed to produce a single usable shell. “It was a waste of government money, and it was a waste of our time,” one former technician said. www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026
1/ On Tuesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., read our reporting into the congressional record during a committee hearing on Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.
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Carla Astudillo @carla-astudi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
HABEAS UPDATE: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has now resulted in more than 67,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. There’s been a recent uptick in cases with 8,478 reported in July. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
A line chart shows the number of detention challenges filed per month since President Obama was in office. The number of new habeas cases peaked in March at 9,112 and there's been a recent uptick with 8,478 in July.
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Brandon Roberts @bxroberts.org · 31/07/2026
I just published an update to our 527 Explorer of political nonprofits. We added over 500k new records since our last update in June. It's an election year, meaning I will be updating this every month until the election. Happy Friday! projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/
A table with a title of '527 Explorer Update Summary' and two columns: Report Type and Rows Added. The table body contains the count of new rows added per type of record available on the site:Contributions with 231,624, Expenditures with 295,487, Initial Filings with 335, Periodic Reports with 590, Directors/Officers with 955, EAIN Numbers with 94, Related Entities with 133, and New Records Total with 529,218. The table ends by showing the most recent record date of: 2026-07-01.
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One parent said it was like "we had a son who was on meth." www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
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Why Kids Can’t Quit Roblox
The mechanics of many games on the platform are nearly identical to those of slot machines and sports-betting apps.
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