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📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland.

Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found.

🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.

➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
@readfrontier.bsky.social and ProPublica found that in the past five years, toxic oil field waste has spewed out of the ground more than 150 times.

Oklahoma’s regulatory agency, however, says it prefers “to lead with a handshake instead of a hammer.”

Full story: propub.li/4nJRZxe
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🎥 WATCH: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any “medical intervention.”

Those behind the law have stressed that their goals are bodily autonomy. But they do not take that stance when it comes to abortion.

➡️ More: https://propub.li/3JgEGWQ
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📽️ WATCH: @andykroll.bsky.social explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of trillions of dollars and millions of federal workers.

🔗 Full doc: https://propub.li/48wI2z9
October 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📽️ WATCH: In 2016, the Mississippi River broke through a levee and wiped out 1,200 acres of Steve Williams’ farmland.

He signed up for a federal program in 2019 to retire the damaged fields. But instead of help, he and his daughter had to spend years farming the unfarmable: https://propub.li/3KFetS7
October 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM