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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 4d

A beloved colleague who was terminated last year through management's vague and inconsistent disciplinary process regularly brought apple cake to the office on his birthday. As we did last year, we are marking his absence and calling for job security protections with apple cake in our NYC office.

A smiling guild member wearing a ProPublica Guild shirt uncovers the apple cakes in the ProPublica office.

Many guild members wearing ProPublica Guild shirts help themselves to slices of apple cake.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 9d

In the spring, Trump cut $500 million from aid to food banks.

But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled.

People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups.

We visualized it:

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 16d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 26d

We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract.

The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible.

You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

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People wearing union shirts and stickers smile and hand out ProPublica Guild buttons.

Five people sit at a table for an event wearing stickers and buttons supporting the ProPublica Guild.

Two people walking into an event wear stickers in support of the ProPublica Guild.

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Matt Sutkoski @mattweathervt.bsky.social · 26d

Matt's Weather Rapport: NOAA confirmed that August in #Vermont was the driest on record, along with two other states. The drought continues and rivers are now at record low levels. Lots of details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/09/conf...

Confirmed: NOAA Reports Vermont, Two Other States Had Driest August On Record

Charlotte Beach along Lake Champlain this past Sunday showing remarkably low levels due to our ongoing drought. Vermont was one of three sta...

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 27d

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...

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Sophie Chou @sophiechou.bsky.social · 27d

ICYMI: our data analysis on the rise in sepsis rates in Texas after the abortion ban won an ONA award 🏆 @andreasuozzo.com

Online News Association @journalists.org · Sep 12

WINNER! University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism, Small/Medium Newsroom: ProPublica for Life of a Mother awards.journalists.org/entries/life... #OJA25

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · Sep 3

ooh, I don't think I ever read that one!

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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · Aug 28

“Burlington, the state's largest city, has hired specialized workers and started new programs in response. But smaller towns with far fewer resources are struggling to respond.”

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By @sevendaysvt.bsky.social’s @clamdin.bsky.social

#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

Vermont Towns Struggle With Homelessness Without State Help

Each rollback of Vermont's motel housing program has pushed more people to the streets. With few resources, smaller Vermont towns are struggling to respond.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · Aug 26

There aren't very many books that I'd grab from a Little Free Library more than a mile from the end of a run, but it turns out this is one. Absolute flashback to middle-school me combing the YA shelves at every library branch near my house for more John Bellairs books.

A paperback copy of "The House With a Clock in Its Walls" by John Bellairs

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kate conger @kateconger.com · Aug 26

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

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 21

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found.

Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · Aug 18

"Just a week after Scott arrived in Vermont, while in the middle of a mental health crisis, he was shot and killed by a state trooper inside the apartment he and his mother had just moved into. They hadn’t even finished unpacking all the boxes."

Scott Garvey came to Vermont seeking better mental health care. Police shot him dead within a week

Scott Garvey moved to Vermont to be closer to his family and get better mental health treatment. A week after he arrived he was shot and killed by state police while in the midst of a mental health cr...

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · Aug 12

ProPubli-paws love Just Cause 🐾

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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · Aug 12

I love working at ProPublica. I would love it more if it could guarantee us just cause protections. Go union.

ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · Aug 12

Members in Chicago, Seattle, Berkeley and across the country are lunching out to show support for Just Cause protections that apply to every ProPublica Guild worker, every time.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · Aug 12

We’re holding a lunch-out today to demand that @propublica management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system. Just today, a member of our Bargaining Committee and Unit Council was fired as a result of ProPublica's flawed system.

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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · Aug 3

Breaking: Vermont Green FC took their first-ever national title Saturday evening in a 2-1 victory over Seattle’s Ballard FC in front of an electric Burlington crowd.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · Aug 3

UP THE GREEN 🏆

Vermont Green FC @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social · Aug 3

UNDEFEATED NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🏆

THE INVINCIBLES! ✨

YOUR VERMONT GREEN FOOTBALL CLUB! 💚

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · Aug 2

LFGGGGG

Vermont Green FC @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social · Aug 2

It’s Matchday in Burlington, VT. One more.

The USL League Two Final. 144 teams started, 2 remain. Vermont Green FC will face Ballard FC tonight at Virtue Field for the right to be called Champion.

We know all of Vermont is with us. Come on you Boys in Green.

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Vermont Green FC @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social · Aug 2

You can stream tonight's USL League Two Final LIVE from Virtue Field on SportsEngine Play. 🏆📺

Kickoff at 7:00pm!

Tune in to support the Boys in Green!

Vermont Green FC vs Ballard FC Free Live Stream | SportsEngine Play

Live stream Vermont Green FC vs Ballard FC at SportsEngine Play. Click here to watch now and support your loved ones at home online.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · Aug 1

Building *slows* gentrification; and *not* building makes it much worse: "The findings suggest that not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents, making it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods." -- www.pew.org/en/research-...

New Housing Slows Rent Growth Most for Older, More Affordable Units

The nationwide housing shortage has driven rents up more in low-income neighborhoods than in the U.S. overall, but in areas that have recently added large amounts of housing, rents have fallen the mos...

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway

@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · Jul 30

My preferred solution to failing unit tests is to delete the unit tests.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · Jul 30

Me: I will make this small Nonprofit Explorer change. It will be an easy win for the day!

Narrator: It was not, in fact, an easy win for the day.

A screenshot of commit messages in Github showing repeatedly failing unit tests.

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · Jul 23

"We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew that at least 197 of the men had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S....

The truth of all their stories—one by one—will begin to be told."

Astonishing reporting from my colleagues:
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

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