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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 47m

Trump's Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools — and the end of public educations as we know it.

@megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 1h

yes we are 🫡 usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/t...

This Newsroom Is Looking For Its Next Big Tip on the Train — Streetsblog USA

Investigative journalists at ProPublica are betting that the next big tipster is riding the rails right now — and reaching out to find them.

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 1d

"using extreme force indiscriminately and arresting people without any legal basis" news.wttw.com/2025/10/06/c...

Chicago Journalists, Protesters Suing Trump Administration Over Alleged First Amendment Violations at Broadview ICE Facility

The Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Newspaper Guild Local 34071, Block Club Chicago and other media groups filed the suit alongside protesters in federal court alleging their First Amendment rights hav...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 1d

"the broad consensus seems to be that our perception of what’s real and what isn’t may never be the same." @haydenfield.bsky.social @theverge.com www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop

AI Altmans as far as the eye can see.

www.theverge.com

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 4d

What a loss. Such an incredibly talented photographer. Rest in peace, man. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed by a drone in Ukraine

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican, 37, was killed on Friday in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region in a drone attack, according to European journalists' associations. It was the first time a journali...

www.france24.com

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 5d

"Two experts on food insecurity told @propublica.org that hunger is expected to rise with the new program rules as it has when SNAP spending has been reduced in the past."

incredible visualization of the cuts to food aid across the country by Ruth Talbot & @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social

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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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 6d

"Musk’s roughly 42% stake in the company is worth an estimated $168 billion. If he owned nothing else, he’d be one of the 10 richest people in the world." www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 6d

and more here www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 6d

shocking details out of an ICE raid on an apartment building in South Shore area of Chicago on September 30th abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 6d

'The merging of state power and economic power around one man who accepts that power as his due would not be possible without the algorithmic grift that has so all-consumingly captured our attention. The internet and the people who now own it have excelled at making Trump good at authoritarianism.'

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 7d

“So often, the Salton Sea is referred to only as a disaster. But perhaps there was some value to the devastation. Maybe living next to a dying sea made it harder to live in denial.” www.thebeliever.net/the-last-res...

The Last Resort - Believer Magazine

Listen to this story: It is easy to miss California’s biggest environmental disaster. Driving north on Highway 111, you wouldn’t expect to find an inland sea. If it’s summer, the thermometer in your c...

www.thebeliever.net

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 8d

"I photographed documents and objects at the sites before they disappeared forever. Inside the buildings I visited, documents were piled high, despite attempts by the former regime to destroy them — a vast trove of evidence exposing the abuse and corruption of Assad’s regime."

Syria’s Archives of Atrocity — The Dial

Discarded documents from Assad’s regime offer clues to Syrians searching for lost family and friends.

www.thedial.world

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 8d

you misspelled horrifying

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 9d

"war is hell, and hell is photogenic"
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War

Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.

www.newyorker.com

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 11d

new Revocation album rips revocationband.bandcamp.com/album/new-go...

New Gods, New Masters, by Revocation

9 track album

revocationband.bandcamp.com

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 11d

“I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive beha...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 11d

Records obtained by @propublica.org show how a Florida community ended up getting FEMA aid more quickly... It asked one of Kristi Noem’s political donors to help. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 13d

"There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this." www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a long-neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was...

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 13d

"Over that period (Q2, 2025), CoreCivic brought in $176.9 million from ICE, a 17.2 percent increase over the year before. If the agency’s expansion plans are fully realized, it is estimated that CoreCivic could rake in an additional $500 million in annual revenue." @motherjones.com

"Godsend" or "concentration camp"? A lucrative ICE deal divides a Colorado town.

Trump has unleashed a gold rush among private prison companies taking on immigration detention. In cash-strapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

www.motherjones.com

Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 13d

"We had this amazing shift on the platform, which translates to revenue on YouTube. What this ladders up to is a direct connection between the journalism and the business model." www.adweek.com/media/wired-...

As Wired Journalists Become Influencers, Subscriptions Surge

To capitalize on the momentum, the Condé Nast title is launching a sweeping out-of-home campaign to promote its upcoming issue

www.adweek.com

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 13d

"CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year." www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p...

‘The new family separation crisis’: More than 100 US citizen kids left stranded by ICE enforcement actions, CNN finds | CNN Politics

Children across the US have ended up in the care of relatives, neighbors, friends, coworkers and even strangers after ICE detained or deported their parents.

www.cnn.com

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 14d

During his term as Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey chased culture wars that helped boost his political profile.

Now he’s co-deputy director of the FBI.

@jeremykohler.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/andr...

“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role to Wage a Culture War

Andrew Bailey’s nearly three-year term as Missouri’s top lawyer was marked by splashy fights over gender, schools and diversity that often fizzled but boosted his political profile. Now he’s co-deputy...

www.propublica.org

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 14d

"Chinese automakers are likely to supply most of the new EVs. It is a consequence not only of Beijing’s growing soft power in Kurdistan—long a bastion of U.S. influence—but also of China’s ascent as a major automobile manufacturer in developing markets worldwide." @wrodgers2.bsky.social

Iraqi Kurdistan’s EV Revolution

Electric cars were a punchline here just a few years ago. Thanks to Chinese companies, that’s not the case anymore.

foreignpolicy.com

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 14d

See something? Say something to ProPublica
www.propublica.org/tips/

Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 14d

A good ad on the DC Metro

ProPublica ad: “someone on this train has the next big story. Is it you?” With URL and Signal address

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 14d

"The readers are telling us sometimes pretty directly, we don’t want to use these tools, we don’t have an interest in them. But there continues to be this impulse from organizations to build them anyway." @andrewdeck.bsky.social ethicsandjournalism.org/2025/09/18/n...

Nieman Lab’s Andrew Deck Has Been Tracking AI Use in the Journalism Industry for Years. Here’s What He Says We Need to Know. - Ethics and Journalism

Since the public launch of ChatGPT nearly three years ago, the media industry has cycled through many phases of AI adoption and experimentation.

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