NEW #SUBSTACK: 11 MILLION Americans Stand Up! #Trump 's Sad, Flaccid Parade Can't Get It Up
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It's that time of year again: Submissions for the 2025 MOLLY National Journalism Prize for Investigative Journalism are now open!
Submit your entry and/or help us spread the word! 🤠 Deadline for entries is Friday, April 11. https://www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards/the-molly-awards-submissions/
Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year
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Before ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, the names of committee members had been publicly released. Now, Georgia says releasing the identities would be a violation of state law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-maternal-mortality-committee-members-names-not-released?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.
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Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primarily serve Indigenous children.
#News #Alaska #Education #School #Native #Indigenous #NativeNews
Exclusive: Six sources who worked for the Air Force or in Congress told ProPublica that they had heard about Sen. Joni Ernst’s relationship with a top military official and there had been concerns about it for years.
#News #Congress #Military #ConflictOfInterest #USPolitics #JoniErnst
U.S. agents suspected Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.
#News #ElSalvador #Trump #Bukele #USAID #Politics #Government #Crime
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Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers
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Evangelical pastor Steve Berger’s political influence campaign operates out of his D.C. townhouse. In addition to House Speaker Mike Johnson living there, a prominent Trump ally, Rep. Andy Ogles, has the keys.
https://www.propublica.org/article/roommates-steve-berger-mike-johnson-andy-ogles-right-wing-influence-townhouse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Little Bits: Issue #22 for February 2025
Exciting times are ahead, a motivational message and loads of new curated bits found in February 2025 while surfing the Internet for you to enjoy.
Another busy week (maybe one day there’ll be a quiet one) in which independent publications have been doing sterling work on politics, science, tech, the environment and more. Please check out these stories from newsrooms with a fediverse presence, which cover subjects from antifascism to EVs in Zimbabwe. Oh, and Canadians, there’s a special treat for you at the end.
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#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes
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Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-pregnancy-resource-centers-anti-abortion-tax-credit-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
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A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-loophole-sun-pharma?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A high-ranking NASA official warned his employees to “use discretion” in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers — part of an effort, the agency says, to protect its staff amid “stories of possible harassment.”
At tribal colleges, scholarships funded by a USDA grant have been suspended amid the Trump administration’s widespread cost-cutting.
Now some students are facing their final weeks on campus.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-usda-scholarships-suspended?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Native #Indigenous #Education #College #Students #USDA
Connecticut Lawmakers Seek Overhaul of Towing Laws
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A new bill addresses nearly all of the issues raised in a Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica investigation that found people’s cars were being sold shortly after they were towed.
One Community Response Team officer swerved into a motorcyclist, killing him. Another needlessly stopped a pedestrian, then shoved him into a car window. A third hit a man and then kicked his head.
https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-adams-nypd-community-response-team-police-nyc-misconduct-transparency?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NYC #Police #EricAdams #Crime #Violence #PoliceBrutality
He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway.
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Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man still awaits execution based on their testimony.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-jimmie-duncan-bite-mark-analysis-death-row-junk-science?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience.
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Maine said it wouldn’t break state law to follow President Donald Trump’s order barring transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats targeting the state’s federal funding.
#News #Maine #Trump #Trans #Sports #Girls #USPolitics #Government #LGBTQ #TransRights
“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump
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In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”
Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division
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Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.
#News #Education #CivilRights #Trump #Discrimination #Students
Migrants detained in Panama expressed fear of returning to their countries.
“They will execute me without hesitation,” one texted.
“I am LGBT. My country harass these people. I cannot live a normal life in my country,” said another.
When Joe DeMayo’s donated kidney started to fail earlier than expected, he didn’t know that the drug he was taking could’ve left him vulnerable — and that one of the most formidable drug regulators in the world may have failed to protect him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-tacrolimus-kidney-transplant-patient?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
☀️This Week In Global Museum.
A Daunting Museum Mission | Madrid Museum Ordered To Remove Mummy | Guggenheim Tightens Its Belt Again | Museum Investigate Whales Keeping A City Awake | Nailed-Head Rituals & Advocacy With Urgency | More Museum News.
http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery
Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future
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For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate, the region faces the prospect of decline.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
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When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
https://www.propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #AI #Tech #Journalism #Media #Research #Data #Technology
