Lisa Song

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins reelection in Brazil, securing his fourth term in office.

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This is terrifying. A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a mink farm for months. Experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. And officials are refusing to act. What a story from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Tribune Publishing is refusing to put its own AI policy in union contracts. ✉️ Send a letter to management today demanding they respect their staff and readers by agreeing to commonsense AI guardrails.

Kudos to the @reuters.com team that reported this. "Heat storms" is a great term for what we're experiencing. And I'll never forget the anecdote about the nosebleed 😱https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-heatstorms-science/

I am THRILLED to announce that "Paper Trail" won GOLD for Best New Podcast and Best Documentary Podcast in this year's Signal Awards 😜🥳 www.signalaward.com/winners/?sea...

Dolly, obviously

Such a devastating loss. She was an exceptional journalist. "She thought her job was a gift," said her sister Brenda. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

1/ If you’re in D.C. for AUSA’s conference, we want to hear from you. We’ve been reporting on the $1 trillion dollar black hole of the U.S. military budget, and we’re looking for insiders to help us find out: Is all of that money really making our country safer?

I don’t really know how to process publishing this and then two days later ICE shoots someone in my actual neighborhood Uptown has seen a sudden uptick in ICE activity since the summer ( + a citizen pepper sprayed in August) but this “quiet summer surge” is getting very loud

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I'll be giving a talk in Bologna in November @visualisingclimate.com about how we visualized the risks of carbon capture @propublica.org! Would love to connect with folks who are also attending. The talk will be focused on this story: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

So I edited this story. And I wanna share on thought on language, & telling the truth We talked about: the "government is lying to you" It may sound saucy. It may sound like opinion But it's just true And if something is true then you should just say it, clearly That's just good journalism

Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died. She was 90. https://cnn.it/4jI4LxB

“journalism is a tool, not the point…What matters most is that a group of neighbors now know one another and have developed a shared way to document where they live and the people who live there.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/the-...

"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

Congressional races will take center stage on November 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Enter our annual cheat sheet to help you track what matters across the country: boltsmag.org/whats-o...

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

Once again, @propublica.org is doing the work that would normally be done by the government

never the wrong time for this classic

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

I have zero teaching credentials, but based on this terrifying quiz I could open Ye Olde New Venture Academy in Maine and 17 other states. projects.propublica.org/private-scho... I guess I could teach the students how to yell at the TV during GBBO. "Never attempt a sugar dome, you idiot!"

I'm not a Libertarian (because I'm no longer 14), but i put myself in the mind of an Ayn Rand acolyte for this quiz. 9 states would let me start a school with no experience, no tests, no core curriculum, etc. See where you can open your dream academy: projects.propublica.org/private-scho...

This is very wonky and utterly infuriating. Logging companies (w/help from IKEA!) say *literally cutting down trees* should count as carbon negative and be credited as good for the planet. And they might get away with it. newrepublic.com/article/2157...

We have some exciting news! We, the staff of @mirrorindy, @fpinews and FPI, are unionizing. We are taking this step with a supermajority of staff in support. Follow us to stay up to date.

Thank goodness for student journalists: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. She got in contact with Jane Doe, the plaintiff, and built a relationship with Ms. Doe and her lawyer." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...

The way my blood pressure climbed with every sentence of this story 😱

“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”

Important story from @lisalsong.bsky.social out today. An idea that the White House Office of Management and Budget has quietly proposed will have far-reaching implications on voter registration drives www.propublica.org/article/disa...

Wherein my disability law world collides with my appropriations law world. “A Massive Power Grab”: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote www.propublica.org/article/disa...

The proposed rule is from OMB, the office run by Russell Vought -- who has a history of opposing government efforts to expand access to voting.

NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.

This is really smart, impressive reporting.

This week, ProPublica revealed that a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding festivities. Join our reporters on Sept. 23 for a behind-the-scenes conversation. 🗓️ RSVP: events.propublica.org/don-jr-weddi...

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

Read to the end of the article for a 👀 cliffhanger

New species alert! The tilcayo tiger cat, found in the Bolivian cloud forest.

Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Seems important if you care about democracy or voting:

Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...

I recently learned the saying "OSHA regulations are written in blood" And I am sick and sad to learn this is the case for MANY regulations. Perhaps most. The FDA came about after evidence of poisoning and demands for change. The CDC started because too many soldiers were dying of malaria.

As far as I know, the weddings I have been to were paid for by a) the couple b) their parents. No one ever thought to get a foreign sponsor

9/11 victim's son: “I think the one parting thing I want to leave everyone with is that you do my dad’s legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate.” “I want to use the little platform I have to ask for that to please stop."

"the firm is also implementing a 'pre-crime' approach" against anti-AI activists is not a sentence I want to be reading about Anthropic, or any company prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...

McClatchy, controlled by a hedge fund, doesn't want you to talk about all the journalists they're laying off today around the country!

Is it strategic to publish my 2,000+ word manifesto about a UN climate report on Sunday night of a holiday weekend? Nope! Here ya go. Does the UN call for a “renewable energy revolution” and “transformational change” of our society? Yep! Here for it. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...