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2024-07-13 14:07:11

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the #Election and Change the Country
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The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline.
It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it may be violating the #law.
#News #Voting #election2024 #Politics #GOP #Elections #Government #Religion #Politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election

2024-07-10 13:45:06

How a Militant Anti-Abortion Activist Is Influencing #Republican Politics
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This #Wisconsin pastor was once a political pariah.
But now his book is being quoted by politicians and former #Trump officials.
One activist is using it to disrupt #elections.
#News #GOP #Abortion #Politics #election2024 #Election #Government #Religion
https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-trewhella-pastor-activist-republican-politics

2024-07-09 14:29:46

#Texas Sends Millions to Crisis #Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No One Knows if It Works.
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Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers.
The system is meant to help growing #families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks oversight, a ProPublica and CBS News investigation found.
#News #Government #Abortion #Parents #RoeVWade
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-funding-anti-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers

2024-07-08 14:44:56

The #President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive #Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did.
By not investigating the underlying weakness in #Microsoft software that was key to the SolarWinds hack, the Cyber Safety Review Board missed an opportunity to prevent future attacks, experts say.
#News #Tech #Technology #Cybersecurity #Government #Safety
https://www.propublica.org/article/cyber-safety-board-never-investigated-solarwinds-breach-microsoft

2024-07-03 22:46:36

The #NYPD Commissioner Responded to Our Story That Revealed He’s Burying #Police Brutality Cases.
We Fact-Check Him.
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In his 5-page statement, Commissioner Edward Caban identified no inaccuracies in ProPublica's investigation but instead argued the story was unfair and that he’s “in compliance” with the guidelines.
Our reporting shows otherwise.
#News #Police #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #Crime #Cops #NYC #Courts #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/fact-check-nypd-commissioner-caban-response-police-brutality-retention

2024-06-27 12:10:14

They Were Choked, Beaten and Tased by #NYPD Officers. The Commissioner Buried Their Cases.
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New York City’s #Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials.
Victims are never told their cases have been buried.
#NYC #LawEnforcement #CivilRights #Crime #News #Government #Courts
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-commissioner-edward-caban-police-discipline-retention-eric-adams

2024-06-24 14:15:52

How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform #Oil Well Cleanup in State After State
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In #NewMexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
#News #Petroleum #Southwest #Pollution #Environment #Safety #PublicHealth
https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells

2024-06-20 15:35:48

The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic #Recycling
The #plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.
#News #Pyrolysis #Chemicals #Evironment #Plastic #Pollution #Science
https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

2024-06-18 18:51:43

Join us today for a Reddit AMA at 1pm CT with Texas Tribune/ProPublica reporter
@npub17kc…y3y4
Jeremy wrote about GOP Texas school board member Courtney Gore, who campaigned against school indoctrination but later disavowed the far-right platform.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TexasPolitics/comments/1dit9ow/im_jeremy_schwartz_a_reporter_for_the/

2024-06-18 16:50:59

How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes
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ProPublica identified a group of connected #political nonprofits — with names like American Breast #Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled #Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers.
#News #Politics #Nonprofit #Law #IRS #FTC
https://www.propublica.org/article/political-nonprofits-fundraising-ftc-irs-527s-pacs

2024-06-18 12:46:01

Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer
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#Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for #political spending.
ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow #journalists, #researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.
#News #DataJournalism #Journalism #Nonprofit #Politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/search-527s-finances-pacs-database-political-spending

2024-06-18 12:20:43

A #whistleblower repeatedly tried to get the #software giant to fix a #security flaw that left millions of #Microsoft users exposed.
Here's what you need to know:
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-what-you-need-to-know-cybersecurity

2024-06-17 16:42:07

North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two #GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
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The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.
#News #NorthCarolina #Law #Courts
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-supreme-court-republican-judges-violations

2024-06-14 21:43:12

At a Congressional hearing yesterday, #Microsoft President Brad Smith was asked about this ProPublica report that was published earlier in the day.
He said he hadn't read it.
We had sent detailed questions to Microsoft nearly 2 weeks earlier & requested an interview with Smith. The company declined to make him available.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

2024-06-14 01:52:51

#Microsoft President Grilled by #Congress Over #Cybersecurity Failures
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The criticism from members of the House Homeland Security Committee came in response to a ProPublica investigation that found Microsoft repeatedly rebuffed an engineer’s warnings that a product flaw had left millions of users vulnerable to attack.
#News #Tech #Security #SolarWinds #Russia
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-cybersecurity-house-homeland-security-hearing

2024-06-13 22:18:34

BREAKING: Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds
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The #SupremeCourt justice flew to Montana and other destinations on the billionaire GOP donor’s dime.
Crow’s lawyer revealed these flights to the #Senate Judiciary Committee, whose ongoing investigation was sparked by ProPublica’s reporting.
#News #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #Government #Courts #Law #Transparency
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus

2024-06-13 20:38:14

#Microsoft has long downplayed its role in the 2020 "SolarWinds" attack -- one of the largest #cyberattacks in US history -- but a new ProPublica investigation reveals that the #tech giant ignored warnings that could have stemmed the damage. (THREAD)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

2024-06-13 12:20:36

#Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. #Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says
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Former employee says software giant dismissed his concerns about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business.
#Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National #Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
#News #Tech #Cybersecurity #SolarWinds #Security #Business
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

2024-06-12 14:04:06

Reader Tips Propelled Our #SupremeCourt Reporting. Now Your Info Could Power Our 2024 #Election Coverage.
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An email from a reader helped a team of ProPublica reporters uncover secret tuition payments Harlan Crow made for a family member of #ClarenceThomas.
Now we’re looking for tips on the election, and you can help.
#News #Voting #election2024 #Government #Law #SCOTUS
https://www.propublica.org/article/reader-tips-propublica-2024-election-coverage

2024-06-07 19:34:39

NEW: Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor
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The trips include vacations in Indonesia and at the exclusive, men’s-only Bohemian Grove retreat, which were first reported by ProPublica last year.
#News #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #Law #Courts #Government #Politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-gift-disclosures-harlan-crow

2024-06-05 21:07:08

Multiple witnesses in the criminal cases against Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares from Trump’s media company.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits
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2024-06-03 12:15:08

Multiple #Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign
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Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more.
If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.
#News #Law #Courts #CriminalJustice #DonaldTrump #Politics #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

2024-05-30 14:21:14

#Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue #Political Targets
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Paxton has repeatedly used #laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including #hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and #LGBTQ+ groups.
#News #Law #CriminalJustice
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-consumer-protection-laws-political-targets

2024-05-29 23:38:33

This week, the Wall Street Journal opinion section published an op-ed about our #tax coverage.
We don't typically comment on our newsgathering process, but this opinion essay has factual errors in the headline and in the essay that should be corrected.
We've submitted this to their editors:
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2024-05-28 15:33:27

This #Mississippi Hospital Transfers Some Patients to Jail to Await #MentalHealth Treatment
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Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto doesn’t have a psychiatric unit, so it sends patients elsewhere for mental health treatment.
When publicly funded facilities are full, some patients go to jail to wait for help.
One doctor said that’s “unthinkable.”
#News #Health #Healthcare #Hospital #CriminalJustice #Law
https://www.propublica.org/article/baptist-desoto-hospital-civil-commitment-jail

2024-05-20 13:12:53

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.
Her bosses halted her work.
As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2024-05-16 21:40:46

#Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of #Homeless People, Violating City Policy
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The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones.
#NewMexico #Southwest #Law #Police #Housing #Unhoused #News #Homelessness #CivilRights #HumanRights
https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homeless-encampments

2024-05-10 16:03:54

Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference
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At a conference meant to address the plastic crisis, pro-plastic messaging was inescapable.
Meanwhile, industry insiders — some positioned as government delegates — were given access to vital negotiations.
#News #Plastic #Environment #UN #Ottawa #Pollution
https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-waste-united-nations-international-conference-treaty-ottawa

2024-05-08 12:34:02

This #School for #Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered.
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No state agency has authority over Shrub Oak, one of the country's most expensive therapeutic boarding #schools.
As a result, #parents and staff have nowhere to report bruised #students and medication mix-ups.
#News #Education #NewYork #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/shrub-oak-school-autism-new-york-education-oversight?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2024-05-06 22:19:50

"Friends of the Court," ProPublica's investigation into Supreme Court justices' beneficial relationships with billionaire donors, has been awarded the #Pulitzer Prize for Public Service!
Here are the highlights from the reporting (THREAD)
#News #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #HarlanCrow #Law #Journalism
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2024-05-06 13:59:34

New: #Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The #Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
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The oil and #gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells.
In #Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.
#news #Pollution #Environment #Safety
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-cleanup

2024-05-03 15:05:26

More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach #Children
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Since a ProPublica investigation found that states were seizing child support headed to #families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least six states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-states-allow-child-support-to-reach-children?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2024-04-29 13:33:03

A #Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly.
#Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.
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Cigna tracks every minute that its staff #doctors spend deciding whether to pay for #HealthCare.
Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said.
#Health #Insurance #News #Business
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-medical-director-doctor-patient-preapproval-denials-insurance?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2024-04-24 16:26:14

10 Times as Much of This #Toxic Pesticide Could End Up on Your #Tomatoes and Celery Under a New #EPA Proposal
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Against the guidance of scientific advisory panels, the EPA is relying on industry-backed tests to relax regulations on acephate, which has been linked to neurodevelopmental disorders.
“It’s exactly what we recommended against,” one panelist said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-acephate-pesticide-adhd-autism-regulations

2024-04-19 15:34:20

#Soldiers Charged With Violent #Crimes Will Now Face More Scrutiny Before They Can Simply Leave the #Army
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The change comes after reporting from ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Military Times revealed that hundreds of soldiers charged with offenses like sexual assault and domestic violence left the Army without facing courts-martial.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-army-soldiers-violent-crimes?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2024-04-17 22:24:00

BREAKING: Secretary of State #Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes
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A special State Department panel told Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to #Israeli military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken any action.
#Israel #Gaza #News #Palestine
https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

2024-03-25 19:13:28

Since billionaire Jeff Yass is in the news for his involvement in #TikTok and #Trump's #TruthSocial, here's our deep-dive look into the #GOP megadonor who avoided $1 billion in #taxes and poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support #election deniers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jeff-yass-susquehanna-tiktok-tax-avoidance

2024-03-18 14:29:07

An Expert Who Has Testified in Foster Care Cases Across #Colorado Admits Her Evaluations Are Unscientific
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Diane Baird labeled her method for assessing families the “Kempe Protocol” after the renowned University of Colorado institute where she worked for decades.
The school has yet to publicly disavow it.
#news #kids #families #FosterCare #law #legal #parents #science
https://www.propublica.org/article/expert-in-foster-care-cases-admits-her-method-is-unscientific?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post