Forever a fan of @emilysweeney22.bsky.social & @bostonglobe.com!!! 🙌
When I started at The Globe in 2004, half the newsroom talked like this. I especially loved overhearing Shelley Murphy pressing her mob sources from her corner of our pod.
One pastor says he often recognizes his parishioners being detained at traffic stops. “Hey, that’s not ‘the worst of the worst,’" he said he has told officers, rebutting the Trump administration’s characterization of immigrants. “I know him. He goes to my church. He’s a good man.”
Shuttered businesses. Declining church attendance. Parents afraid to drop kids off at school.
Trump’s task force isn’t a crime-fighting campaign, Latino advocates and civil rights leaders say, but a cruel crusade keeping a community in fear.
www.propublica.org/article/memp...
This powerful collaboration between @mlk50.com's @wendicthomas.bsky.social + @kathsburgess.bsky.social & @propublica.org data journalist @nmcmillan.bsky.social takes us inside Parkway Village, where more immigration arrests occurred than any other part of Memphis.
Of the task force’s immigration arrests, about 4 out of 5 followed traffic stops, often for minor violations such as a broken taillight or windows tinted too dark — leaving many immigrants in fear.
www.propublica.org/article/memp...
Swept up in the law enforcement surge: 800+ immigrants deemed to be unlawfully present in the U.S.
Of those, just 17 also were also arrested for violent crimes, our analysis found. Being unlawfully present on its own is a civil, not a criminal, offense.
Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force was supposed to target violent crime.
A @propublica.org + @mlk50.com analysis shows that just over a quarter of the more than 5,200 arrests made by the task force in its first 4 months have been for violent crimes.
Maize says GO BLUE! 💪🏾
CONGRATULATIONS @savmargaret.bsky.social on SABEW's Best in Business recognition of your Broken Pathways series for @propublica.org + The Current! Very proud of your work on how the nation's only Medicaid work requirement experiment fails Georgians.
Say hello to our Local Reporting Network reporters! 👋
• Luis Valentín of Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
• Jenna Carlesso of @ctmirror.org
• @jacobmargolis.bsky.social of @laist.com
• Paige Pfleger of @wpln.bsky.social
• @wmariano.bsky.social of @wbur.org
More on their investigative projects ⤵️
🫶 Minnesota forever.
Thank you, @peterdicampo.bsky.social, for capturing your neighbors’ voices so beautifully on why they continue to stand up against ICE. To protect each other.
Even as national media coverage has largely moved on, @propublica.org is there.
He secured the conviction of a Black 16 y.o., comparing the boy to a dog & telling the jury to “get rid of it.” And withheld evidence in at least three death penalty cases.
Now Hugo Holland is running for judge in Louisiana.
@richardawebster.bsky.social for @veritenews.org + @propublica.org
Noem's one-minute $220 million ad cost more than nearly every film nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming 2026 Academy Awards:
* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners
* Bugonia
* Hamnet
* Train Dreams
* Sentimental Value
* The Secret Agent
The deadline is MARCH 30!!!! (Not today! Apologies for the typo.)
Yes, March 30!!!! My bad!
Thanks to that program, I landed my dream job last year as a senior editor at ProPublica, partnering with local newsrooms on investigative projects around the country — from criminal justice with @veritenews.org in Louisiana to oil & gas with @readfrontier.bsky.social in Oklahoma and more!
I was part of the inaugural class in 2023, when I was a deputy health & science editor at @washingtonpost.com steering coverage of public health & medical misinformation.
ProPublica’s program inspired me to want to focus full-time on accountability coverage — & equipped me with the skills to do so.
Are you an editor who wants to up your game guiding investigative stories and projects?
Apply to @propublica.org’s investigative editing program, which includes a weeklong bootcamp in New York to kick off a year of virtual training.
Deadline: March 3
www.propublica.org/article/prop...
A warm welcome to @gsealey.bsky.social! Excited you're joining @propublica.org's Local Reporting Network editing team!
So happy that @williamturton.bsky.social is officially joining @propublica.org! His work is vital.
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Mits has a wood working shop in his garage. He likes to carve people’s names and gift his work “to make people smile.”
He gave me two — one for my home office, the other for the newsroom. He also made names for my son and husband. 🫶
No one smiles as big as Mits!
I'm forever grateful that Mits and his family allowed me to share their story in @washingtonpost.com for a project on reparations.
Please read his story and that of the Syphax family, whose ancestors were enslaved at Mount Vernon -- as relevant today as ever.
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Happy 100th birthday to Mits Yamamoto, a living legend!
I had the privilege of meeting Mits when he was 93 and learning about the years he spent imprisoned by the U.S. government, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, during World War II.
Happy to see him looking so well on local TV!
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.
Why?
For 2 yrs, Oklahoma oil regulators delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
Read @nickbowlin.bsky.social latest for @propublica.org + @readfrontier.bsky.social!
You need to read this heartbreaking @propublica.org account from inside Dilley Detention Center, where hundreds of children are being held.
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter,” Jefferson wrote.
A Lament for the Washington Post, by Peggy Noonan
Saluting Marty, a WaPo legend who walked through the newsroom every day before the pandemic greeting everyone by name. By the time he got to me, in the far reaches of the financial section, it would be close to 6 pm and I’d know it was about time to leave to pick up my son from daycare.
