Nat Lash
@natlash.bsky.social
News Apps at ProPublica, based in D.C.
Remote sensing, FOIA, other nonsense. Hit me with your climate/ag/H2O/H5N1-related thoughts & tips.
Remote sensing, FOIA, other nonsense. Hit me with your climate/ag/H2O/H5N1-related thoughts & tips.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“No one will speak to your reporter!”
Reuters tracked one of the tankers in a "dark fleet" smuggling diesel into Mexico, following a paper trail that led through U.S. businesses and one of the world's deadliest drug cartels.
This is a heck of a story.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
This is a heck of a story.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“No one will speak to your reporter!”
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And this isn't meant to be an ad. I think there's sometimes a tendency, at least among journalists working with satellite imagery, to immediately go for the highest resolution possible. But there's an awful lot of stories inside those daily 3.5m multispectral collects.
October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
And this isn't meant to be an ad. I think there's sometimes a tendency, at least among journalists working with satellite imagery, to immediately go for the highest resolution possible. But there's an awful lot of stories inside those daily 3.5m multispectral collects.
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VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate. Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss and toenail fungus.
Read the full investigation here:
Read the full investigation here:
How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls
The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some deserving cases wait.
wapo.st
October 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
VA officials say most veterans’ disability claims are legitimate. Yet The Post found that millions of the claims are for minor or treatable afflictions that rarely hinder employment, such as hair loss and toenail fungus.
Read the full investigation here:
Read the full investigation here:
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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. 🧵
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
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. 🧵
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. 🧵
please just read Laura Reiley's words here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
please just read Laura Reiley's words here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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Life news: Thrilled to be joining @propublica.org as deputy news applications editor! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Life news: Thrilled to be joining @propublica.org as deputy news applications editor! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
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We took our lunch outside today to demand:
✅ Just Cause that covers everyone
✅ A fair, transparent discipline process
✅ No loopholes for @propublica.org management
We’re united for a contract that protects us all.
✅ Just Cause that covers everyone
✅ A fair, transparent discipline process
✅ No loopholes for @propublica.org management
We’re united for a contract that protects us all.
August 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We took our lunch outside today to demand:
✅ Just Cause that covers everyone
✅ A fair, transparent discipline process
✅ No loopholes for @propublica.org management
We’re united for a contract that protects us all.
✅ Just Cause that covers everyone
✅ A fair, transparent discipline process
✅ No loopholes for @propublica.org management
We’re united for a contract that protects us all.
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AI video is almost there: no amount of post-hoc squinting can tell fake from real.
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
August 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
AI video is almost there: no amount of post-hoc squinting can tell fake from real.
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
I mean, these are exactly the winemakers I'd be buying if I had money to throw around in Sonoma County, so,
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/d...
Facing Difficulties, 6 Small California Wine Businesses Band Together
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I mean, these are exactly the winemakers I'd be buying if I had money to throw around in Sonoma County, so,
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/d...
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Working on a project and made this image of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption.
Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.
Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.
July 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Working on a project and made this image of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption.
Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.
Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.
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We did ask NYT if they knew about the hacker's X account, or that their bylined freelancer followed the hacker. We did not get a response aside from getting linked to Healy's old thread about the sourcing of the article.
This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times’ Mamdani scoop
They say Columbia is just one of five universities they’ve penetrated.
www.theverge.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We did ask NYT if they knew about the hacker's X account, or that their bylined freelancer followed the hacker. We did not get a response aside from getting linked to Healy's old thread about the sourcing of the article.
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After discovering a "very sophisticated" Iranian hack of his office's website, Arizona's secretary of state notified federal and state authorities — but not CISA, in which he said he's lost faith. archive.is/B47dV (h/t @derekbjohnson.bsky.social)
July 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
After discovering a "very sophisticated" Iranian hack of his office's website, Arizona's secretary of state notified federal and state authorities — but not CISA, in which he said he's lost faith. archive.is/B47dV (h/t @derekbjohnson.bsky.social)
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Our I-team partnered with several desks across the @washingtonpost.com newsroom to tell this important story www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert. They evacuated an hour later.
More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Our I-team partnered with several desks across the @washingtonpost.com newsroom to tell this important story www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
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Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:
www.supremecourt.gov
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
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consulting dozens of counselors, emergency officials, parents and experts, we recreated what made these floodwaters so deadly.
gift link: wapo.st/40fITPL 📊
gift link: wapo.st/40fITPL 📊
Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert. They evacuated an hour later.
More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.
wapo.st
July 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
consulting dozens of counselors, emergency officials, parents and experts, we recreated what made these floodwaters so deadly.
gift link: wapo.st/40fITPL 📊
gift link: wapo.st/40fITPL 📊
Sunport is the absolute GOAT airport and importantly the only US airport where you can buy red & green Bueno chile.
The top ten airports in the U.S., according to data analyzed by @andrewvandam.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Sunport is the absolute GOAT airport and importantly the only US airport where you can buy red & green Bueno chile.
June 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM