Ken Schwencke

Last year I picked up printmaking and linocutting as a hobby, and yesterday I ran this giant 18x24 print of the sky over Fire Island. I was trying to translate that big and calming sense you get when it’s warm and breezy out and you’re just watching the clouds go by. #linocut #printmaking #artsky

No no no Tommy

🚨🚨🚨dope ass job alert🚨🚨🚨

Immigrants with harrowing accounts of domestic abuse were detained after contact with local police, sometimes after calling them for help. "I had suffered from domestic violence,” said one woman, whose daughter was still nursing when she was detained. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

It's crazy how bad and Bari Weiss is at running a real news organization and not a pretend one.

“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish NYC's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

Today is ICANN Reveal Day! 1,615 strings: .agent, .api, .agi, .ask, .auth, .bad, .bro, ... 481 applicants: Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cloudflare, Vercel, Squarespace, Airbnb, ... Gonna thread observations until I run out of steam

Update: 50 people have given @propublica.org their betting history from FanDuel and DraftKings so far! If you know someone who bets on these sites, send them this link! We have a browser extension that will help download their data and upload to us! projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

If we have some kind of financial crisis, we’re going to be in deep shit www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

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

"If the person is a US citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. "Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings." -- Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, 9/8/2025

ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

@propublica.org reporters started their own private schools in a few states. It's remarkably easy. Do you want to know if you could open one of your own? Take our quiz! projects.propublica.org/private-scho...

I've been a reporter for a long time and this might be the strangest thing I've ever done. We've been reporting on privatization of schools this year and found that just about anyone can open a private school in most states. So we asked, Could reporters do it?

Votebeat's Expert Desk is up and running and is *already* helping stories connect with on-the-record sources. You can talk to them on the Slack space you are *already in.* There are also tipsheets! And a fun watercooler channel! Please join us: www.electionexpertdesk.com

Journalists! Do you want access to more than 100 sources in elections: cybersecurity, former officials, lawyers, academics? Do you want to ask them on the record questions and get answers for your stories? DO YOU WANT ALL OF THAT FOR FREE?! GOOD NEWS.

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

Fresh update to our Habeas case tracker: More than 83,000 immigrants have filed cases challenging the legality of their detention so far since Jan. 2025. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

ICYMI: @propublica.org has a Chrome and Firefox plugin that allows you to grab your data from FanDuel and DraftKings. If you use it, you can upload your data to us to help us to continue investigating how these sites induce people to keep betting. projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

The Trump administration floated an idea that would have virtually shut down mail voting: requiring all ballots to be delivered exclusively through certified mail, ProPublica has learned. by @jenafifield.bsky.social @peterelkind.bsky.social

Do you or someone you know use DraftKings or FanDuel? You can help @propublica.org continue to report on these apps by sharing your data with us. In some states, you can request it. But we also built a browser extension to help download your own data! projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

Listen, you can’t just say my colleagues at @propublica.org are wrong and not have us correct you. www.propublica.org/article/debu...

And don’t sleep on the part where we bust Cleta Mitchell (yes, that one) for helping to hatch a campaign finance cover-up:

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

“The logic of other venue owners joining Kraft in banning Macklemore over concerns about antisemitism is hard to follow while Kanye West — who released a song entitled “Heil Hitler” just 18 months ago — continues to tour unabated.”

This is excellent. And much better for one of the city's most renowned avenues than simply offering multi-line through traffic.

they gotten open the schools and teach people how to use the emergency cord on the trains already (you almost are never gonna want to use it)

Also, ProPublica has been tracking the volume of cases filed in federal courts amid the Trump administration’s push for mass deportations. Track the latest stats here: projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

Since I joined ProPublica in January, I have been tracking the massive surge in petitions by immigrants to contest their detention. When I looked closer at the data, I found HUGE disparities in the time it takes certain judges to resolve these cases. THREAD ⬇️ www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

You know how having a parent pay for your wedding means they will usually desire a say in how it goes and may hold it over your head after? Well, here's this. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Donald Trump Jr. didn’t pay for much of his three-day Bahamas wedding extravaganza. Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, did. Must read!

All the frontier models run on company hardware right so it’s like ok wow scary hit the power switch

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

From now on, when someone asks "How does XYZ computer thing work?" I'll just respond with this helpful diagram Anthropic made

NEW: In 2020, Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz was involved in a car crash that left three people dead. ProPublica reveals how a Dominican moneylender helped to ensure that the young star was not prosecuted.

I was talking to someone the other day and my apple watch accidentally transcribed a few seconds of what I said and texted it to someone random. Do not want my conversations taped and transcribed thank you.

A new analysis by @propublica.org’s @andreasuozzo.com & Angel Philip shows that deaths from ectopic pregnancy are on the rise — and it’s worse in states with abortion bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

Something remarkably telling in how the majority (left) and dissent (right) ascribe the actor undertaking the demolition project. Much easier to ignore illegality if you imagine the conduct as that of the whole fed govt. The president doesnt even show up as an agent at all in the majority's opinion.

The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.