What The Hell America!

On Jan. 19, 2024, the sheriff of Jacksonville, Florida, released a 27-page manifesto left behind by a 21-year old white man who had murdered three Black people at a Dollar General store before turning the gun on himself. #WhiteSupremacy #Terrorgram #HateSpeech #Extremism #Hatecrimes #Terrorism

When President Donald Trump announced his marquee cost-cutting initiative, questions arose about Elon Musk's authority. #Trump #ElonMusk #DOGE #government #budget #conflictofinterests

A federal lawsuit seeks to stop the Trump administration from mass firing civil rights investigators and lawyers. #Trump #CivilRights #EducationDept #Lawsuit #Discrimination #EqualProtection

Texas lawmakers and an advocacy group condemn a tiny charter school network paying its superintendent up to $870,000 annually #Texas #charter #education #publicschools #oversight #compensation

If you ask about the impact of Trump admin's park service cuts, you might get talking points instead of the truth. #NationalParks #TrumpAdministration #ParkCuts #StaffingCuts #Government #Conservation

Two inches of raw sewage. Persistent chemical leaks. Pipes insulated with asbestos. A bat infestation. Black mold. Read more about dangerous school conditions. #Education #Alaska #Schools #Investigation #PotentialCrisis #Funding

ProPublica’s feature documentary “Before A Breath” premieres on Thursday, March 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube. #BeforeABreath #Stillbirth #Documentary

ProPublica welcomes Cassandra Garibay & Ashley Clarke to the crowdsourcing & engagement reporting team. #ProPublica #journalism #engagement #reporting #community #journalists

The analysis in this report is based on a self-administered web survey conducted from Sept. 18 to Oct. 10, 2024, among a sample of 1,391 dyads, with each dyad (or pair) comprised of one U.S. teen ages 13 to 17 and one parent per teen. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,391 teens is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. #Research #Survey #DataCollection #SamplingMethods #TeenResearch #ParentingStudy

In February, my colleague Ken Schwencke saw a post on the social media network Bluesky about a database released by Sen. Ted Cruz. #investigation #journalism #AI #DataAnalysis #ProPublica #MediaBias

In 2008, as the Great Recession was starting to take hold, my travels reporting on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign #recession #layoffs #WashingtonDC #economy #government #jobs

The text came from inside a Panamanian government outpost, on the edge of the Darien jungle. #Immigration #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #Panama #IOM #Deportations