I couldn't be more thrilled about this news. The great Peter Finn is coming to @propublica.org to help lead an expansion of our reporting in Washington! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
Many of you will also recognize yourself in Clifford, a man who has worked hard most of his life but struggled to afford health insurance. Follow his efforts to fulfill his mother’s dying wish that he keep his family healthy. Watch our documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgC.... 7/7
Listen to the series narrated by actors via @TheaterofWar. You’ll recognize some of the voices you’ll hear, and even more, you’ll recognize yourself in the experiences of Albany’s residents.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/04KU... 6/7
In a five-part series, "Sick in a Hospital Town," @ProPublica examined this nationwide health care crisis and Albany’s epic fight to get quality care at an affordable price from a hospital system focused on profits over preventive care. projects.propublica.org/albany-georg... 5/7
Clifford’s story isn't isolated. There are millions like him across the U.S. living in "hospital towns"—places suffering from high rates of treatable conditions, where a single institution controls the healthcare market. 4/7
This lack of access to affordable care breeds deep distrust. Residents like Thomas see the local hospital monopoly as a barrier, not a safety net. He eventually gave up trying to find a doctor who would treat him without insurance.
Then, he got sick himself. 3/7
Albany is one of Georgia's poorest cities, served by a single, dominant hospital system. Its control of the market, combined with the state's strict limits on Medicaid, means nearly one-third of the city's residents are left uninsured. 2/7
"Keep the family healthy."
Those were among the last words Clifford Thomas' mother said to him before passing away during the pandemic. But he would soon find that honoring that promise in this Georgia town is a daunting battle against a broken system. 🧵 1/7
NEW: Use our database to explore the financial disclosures of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees.
"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE
A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.
Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.
"Boo hoo"
NEW: What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid, by @annamaria.bsky.social
I went to Albany, Ga., 5 years ago to write about Covid-19, but I realized there was a bigger story to be told about the unchecked power of our health care system and who benefits from its growth.
Spoiler: Far too few of us. @propublica.org
projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...
Thank you Amy!
Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply, by @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Amazing work by @gingerthompson.bsky.social
This is what journalism should be. Thorough, objective and illuminating. This country needs far more tenacious reporters like Thompson and her colleagues at ProPublica.
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape.
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
8/ If you have tips about new ICE enforcement tactics in courts, my colleagues and I want to hear from you. Reach out to me on Signal (tilleckert.90) or via
propublica.org/tips.
7/ ICE has previously said its officers “use only the level of force that is objectively reasonable.” But across America, what’s “reasonable” has changed.
6/ This isn’t the first time ProPublica has reported on ICE under Trump 2.0 acting in unprecedented ways. In July, my colleagues @mckenziefunk.com and @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented ~50 incidents of officers shattering car windows to make arrests.
projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
5/ The Trump administration has continually escalated its immigration crackdown. And oversight groups that would typically keep them in check, such as the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, have been dismantled in DOGE’s sweep:
www.propublica.org/article/home...
4/ Congressman Dan Goldman promised to follow up on the incident, which he called another example of “secret police officers who are attacking our communities with excessive violence…and they just think that they can do it with impunity, because nobody is holding them accountable.”
2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital.
“Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.
