@pratheekrebala.bsky.social sold me on it

Zap Gremlins! A thing that somehow still doesn't exist anywhere else.

I think my evolution has been BBEdit -> TextMate -> Sublime Text-> lost in the wilderness for a while trying to avoid using VSCode -> Zed

Bring back the first gen iPhone SE form factor

I knew if I just waited long enough I could just sit out VSCode. Anyway Zed feels like the spiritual successor to Sublime Text (my one true editor love, with the Railscasts theme, natch).

Concrete staircase coming down to the street from the new LACMA building in LA

Concrete staircase and escalator connecting the Silver Line and Green Line under the 105/110 interchange in LA

The new Zumthor LACMA building is the most LA thing I've ever seen. It's like a homage to the 105/110 interchange and the absolute worst transit station ever built.

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity We CAN have nice things - if we want them

RIP DirectFile

A bit early to be trotting this one out but

reminder: take a walk and look at trees today

Happy to answer any and all questions about the news app or the financial disclosure system after the strike ends. Signal in bio and email address on my PP bio page! We love doing this work and want to get back to it ASAP ❤️

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Hell yes to another worker-owned media org spinning up. Following!

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[[earnest alert]] THE CITY has been publishing for seven whole years as of this morning.

very proud to be one of the originals. journalists working independently on a nonprofit model without a paywall are endangered species these days, so each year we make it, I thank my lucky stars www.thecity.nyc

From the account in Mark Arax's The Dreamt Land, SF was absolutely worse in mid-1800s than it is now (for the same exact reasons).

Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...

Breaking News: The President fires Pam Bondi and inserts Todd Blanche as acting Attorney General of the Justice Department. ICYMI, we chronicled some of Blanche’s business and ethical dealings here. www.propublica.org/article/todd...

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And another big project today: We've analyzed millions of member records from the Nazi-Party NSDAP and made them searchable and browsable.

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We're doing some really fun stuff with @svelte.dev over here at @propublica.org. Our recent Trump Administration financial disclosures and FDA generic drug databases are built on SvelteKit and DuckDB.

I'm looking for excellent Svelte / SvelteKit contractors in the US with current availability. If that's you, slide into my DMs or email me at ben.werdmuller@propublica.org.

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

It’s kinda like saying something about north Brooklyn in 2026 if you lived there in the late oughts. Like sure it physically still exists in the same place but it’s a fundamentally different thing now.

It’s been dead and buried so long, I’ve been on the other side of all the stages of grief to the point that I now only occasionally think about the place where I met the people who launched my career and my entire professional community.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE)

www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I haven't used it in a while, but I wouldn't rely on email if you need truly secure/encrypted comms, I'd use @signal.org.

Can't say enough good things about @fastmail.com, which has zero AI features and is also faster and less cluttered than Gmail: join.fastmail.com/287bc112

As a @propublica.org alum, I urge its leadership to talk seriously with staffers about guardrails around the use of AI in the newsroom. This seems like a solvable issue.

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