Allen Tan
tealtan.bsky.social
Allen Tan
@tealtan.bsky.social
design director at propublica
“Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Running starting this week!
A good ad on the DC Metro
September 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reposted by Allen Tan
The journalism inside baseball here is what an amazing hire Carol Leonnig has been for MSNBC (part of the mass exodus from the Washington Post)
“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.”

Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Guillaume Lethuillier is working on a project to decompile the original Riven (1997) and explore the data set, like he did for Myst.

glthr.com/riven-naviga...
The Riven (1997) Navigator
A New Way to Explore the Original Riven
glthr.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract.

The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible.

You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
September 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions.”
Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector
“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in ...
defector.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Yesterday #CDC posted an extraordinary (also thorough & very useful) pre-buttal of claims about thimerosal in flu vaccines that will be made tomorrow at #ACIP. #HHS made CDC take it down.
Never a dull moment these days.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations
A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.
www.statnews.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Waiting for the push notification like media.tenor.com/1B8vjIqzmtEA...
June 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Wild time flipping back and forth between NYT coverage and Hell Gate coverage rn
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Your CPSC "Beat the Heat" safety starter pack.
June 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I will never understand why people will agree to be interviewed and get self-owned like this www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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CDC's always had a lot of gutsy, committed people in the mix and today's decision is proof they still do.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

archive.is/202505302213...
C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
please sirs don’t make me redesign another homepage
the problem with careers in your 40s is that by then, you've seen basically every business challenge (there's only like 12) and there are diminishing returns on what's to be gained from going through that challenge yet again, meanwhile your adhd brain demands to be feed something new
May 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Janelle Monae!!!!
May 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I aspire to this Walter Goggins suit
May 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So, so proud to be part of the team receiving this award:
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
woof woof
Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to @sengelberg.bsky.social and @robinsparkman.bsky.social asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.
May 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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All colors of bananas from Donkey Kong 64 can be found in real life. Note that real-life blue and purple bananas only have a subtle coloration and are either unripe or inedible; beware of false images of cartoonishly saturated bananas spread online.
April 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is going to extend into purgatory just like the TikTok ban isn’t it
April 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Walter…Bloomberg…
April 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Are you a graphics editor or otherwise work in data-viz? Come work with meeee job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
Graphics Editor
New York City, United States; Remote, United States
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April 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“It came from reporter Brett Murphy, who was covering the destruction of USAID with his reporting partner Anna Maria Barry-Jester. They’d been tipped off about the desk cleanouts; was there any chance, they asked Tobin, that they could send a billboard truck out on the morning of the 27th?”
ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck.
“It's funny how you can know nothing about something like LED billboard trucks and then suddenly become an expert in them."
www.niemanlab.org
March 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“In the art world, silica gel packets are slipped into exhibit cases and used for their ‘buffering capacity,’ helping maintain a stable (and relatively high) humidity inside the case while conditions in the rest of the gallery might vary.” www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/
How Silica Gel Took Over the World
Silica gel packets seem like the only thing keeping our packaged food crispy and our belongings free of mildew. How on earth did they all get here?
www.scopeofwork.net
March 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM