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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 5d

ProPublica obtained records from the USDA of each planned delivery in 2025, detailing the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached hungry people because of the administration’s cut.

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An illustration of a ten-lane wide traffic jam of white delivery trucks is seen from above. One in the center is highlighted: 2,300 gallons of 2% milk for the Heart of Alabama Food Bank. It was one of 23 deliveries for that food bank that were canceled.

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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 5d

Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.

Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
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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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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 5d

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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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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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 15d

There are less than 3 weeks left to apply!

Join @propublica.org's team of news apps developers who imagine and build interactive databases and stories that hold power to account grnh.se/bwyr9f056us

News Applications Developer

Remote, United States

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 28d

Two exciting new roles on @propublica.org's audio team:

audio producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

senior audio producer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · Sep 5

We’re looking for a developer-journalist to join @propublica.org’s News Applications team. You would write code, analyze data, build interactives — all in the service of public interest journalism.

Check it out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

News Applications Developer

Remote, United States

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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are hiring a News Applications Developer @propublica.org.

Members of the news apps team pitch, design and develop interactive stories and databases that hold the powerful accountable and have real-world impact.

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News Applications Developer

Remote, United States

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Alvin Chang @alv9n.com · Aug 29

I'm completely obsessed with this art treatment.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Aug 21

We dug deep to answer this important question: How Many Federal Health Workers Have RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration Cut? @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

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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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies.

We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left.

They refused to give us numbers.

So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵

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In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies.

We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left, and the admin refused to give us numbers.

So we conducted our own analysis, a thread...

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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · Aug 21

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. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

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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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · Aug 21

The administration wouldn’t tell @propublica.org — or anyone — who has been cut from federal health agencies.

That’s fine. We’ve been analyzing their directories since Jan.

Turns out, we’ve lost thousands of scientists, regulators and other crucial roles.

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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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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Life news: Thrilled to be joining @propublica.org as deputy news applications editor! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hooray! Welcome @ryanlittle.bsky.social @kevinuhrm.bsky.social! So glad you're here!

ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors

ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · Aug 13

Texas is about to give more than $1 billion in public money to private schools. We found that they routinely engage in nepotism and enrich insiders in ways that would be illegal for public and charter schools. Just out @propublica.org @texastribune.org:
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/t...

Texas private schools hire relatives and enrich insiders. Soon they can do it with taxpayer money.

An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · Jul 24

*Huge* new feature in Datawrapper! You can now create locator maps using the globe (aka orthographic) projection. Makes small scale maps so much better compared to the Mercator projection! All thanks to the amazing folks at @datawrapper.de and @maplibre.org ❤️
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New: Globe projection in locator maps | Datawrapper Blog

Create locator maps using a globe projection

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · Jul 23

Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

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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Al Shaw @shaw.al · Jul 1

Far from the most pressing issue right now, but it's disappointing that OPM has put their data dictionaries behind a gov login wall. There was nothing confidential in it, and it was super useful for working with gov HR data. cc: @digiphile.bsky.social @jacobharr.is

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · May 4

This chart, which is unnecessarily harsh on the great @markhamillofficial.bsky.social by neglecting his voice work, redeems itself with its x- and y-axis icons

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Chart from The Economist showing the US box office revenue and IMDb ratings of films featuring the three main actors of Star Wars

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Apr 30

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Apr 30

Last year was a busy one at the Post, happy to see recognized the hard work of the visual teams as World's Best (digital).

Congrats to all the winners!

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de Volkskrant, Politico Europe, The Washington Post and The Pudding named World’s Best Designed – Society for News Design

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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · Apr 21

One of my favorites, in 2015 when Francis visited America: An illustrated 215-year history of the popemobile w Richard Johnson + @denisedslu.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/loc...

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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · Apr 21

Pope Francis, 88, lived to be the second-oldest pontiff in modern history. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

A chart starting from the 15th century and going to present shows vertical lines representing the age of each pope during their papacy, each ending at their death, or in two cases, resignation. Francis, at the far right, is highlighted as the second-oldest pope in the time period.

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Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · Apr 16

Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt of court (!) in flight deportations case, citing in part a Washington Post graphic I made outlining the timing of flights and his orders. Very cool to see this impact. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It was. Although the Government has refused to provide the particular details, all evidence suggests that during the short window that the Court was adjourned, two removal flights took off from Harlingen — one around 5:25 p.m. and the other at about 5:45 p.m. See ECF No. 21 (Resp. to Mar. 16 Notice) at 3–4 (relying on flight-tracking data for GlobalX Flights 6143, 6145, and 6122); see also Marianne LeVine et al., White House Official Says 137 Immigrants Deported Under Alien Enemies Act, Wash. Post (Mar. 16, 2025), https://perma.cc/U3NY-V3AS (comparing flight-tracking data with planes visible in three-minute video posted online by President of El Salvador and reposted by President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio); Joyce Sohyun Lee & Kevin Schaul, Deportation Flights Landed After Judge Said Planes Should Turn Around, Wash. Post (Mar. 16, 2025), https://perma.cc/QT6J-3SEQ (same); Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele), X (Mar. 16, 2025, 8:13 a.m. EDT), https://perma.cc/XLE4-DDRW.

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