lucaswaldron.bsky.social
@lucaswaldron.bsky.social
Graphics, maps, etc. at ProPublica
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Hello to my new followers 👋 I'll be using this space to share projects from @propublica.org's graphics team. We make maps, data viz, interactives, explainers, and more! I'll thread a few examples of what we do...
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The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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1/ Last week, we delivered a letter to @propublica.org's board members, urging them to direct management to agree to a fair contract now. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/to-t...
To the ProPublica Board: We Need a Fair Contract Now — ProPublica Guild
Last week, we reached out to ProPublica’s board of directors to raise serious concerns about ProPublica’s harmful disciplinary process as well as our collective interest in getting a fair contract now...
www.propublicaguild.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Once again, rules aimed at blocking healthcare for trans people also blocks healthcare for cisgender people.
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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NEW: Of the over 170 cases where American citizens were detained this year, more than 20 reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer.

@nicolefoy.bsky.social & @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social report for @propublica.org
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...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.
October 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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we used four decades of Landsat imagery, from 1985-2025, to identify newly developed areas in the West Bank. our analysis shows that since Oct. 7, Israeli controlled areas have grown 5 times faster compared to the past two decades.

read more 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
September 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people.

Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them.

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Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People
Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help.

Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
actionnetwork.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah
September 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman

"Notices bulges, OWO whats this?"
- Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political

"hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3"
- From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb
September 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
www.denverpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Part of the statement from the @transjournalists.org on reporting details of the the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation.

Full statement here:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I wrote about Anna Lange's case with @lucaswaldron.bsky.social back in 2023. Among the takeaways was just how taxing this judicial rollercoaster has been for Lange and other trans people hoping for coverage.

www.propublica.org/article/geor...
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Gutted and honestly incapable of reading the decision right now. Anna Lange is one of the kindest, humblest, most easy-to-root-for people in the history of the world. Read this 2023 ProPublica story I helped @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social and @lucaswaldron.bsky.social tell about her case.
September 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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"The law as it’s written has also caused problems for those providing sexual assault exams on young people under 18. Under the law, a health worker would need to get consent from a parent to do the exam, but in some cases the perpetrator of the assault may be that parent"
Idaho’s parental consent law impedes 988 suicide crisis hotline access for some youth • Idaho Capital Sun
A law requiring parental consent for most medical treatment provided to minors is affecting work at the Idaho 988 Crisis and Suicide Hotline.
idahocapitalsun.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Teens are calling Idaho's suicide hotline and being told that they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.

Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.
Idaho’s parental consent law impedes 988 suicide crisis hotline access for some youth • Idaho Capital Sun
A law requiring parental consent for most medical treatment provided to minors is affecting work at the Idaho 988 Crisis and Suicide Hotline.
idahocapitalsun.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison.

They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Love these charts from @bxroberts.org in today's @propublica.orgstory about the gutting of HHS. These are specifically showing FDA cuts, but the story also includes CDC and NIH. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
August 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
www.nbcnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Our New York members took their lunch outside today to demand that @propublica.org management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system ✊
August 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m joining my @propublicaguild.org colleagues in a lunch-out to demand a fair process for performance reviews and discipline at @propublica.org. We can’t do our best work in a culture of fear. [Pictured: Murphy at my desk, NOT me because I'm out to lunch!]
August 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM