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Shortly after Elon Musk and others claimed that only 6% of federal employees worked full time in the office, local news outlets and fact-checkers such as PolitiFact stepped up to correct the record. That should have ended the conversation. It didn’t. propublica.org/article/federa…

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS requested IRS provide addresses, phone numbers and emails addresses for suspected undocumented immigrants. IRS rejected the request on privacy grounds, but is negotiating on how to cooperate with DHS without breaking the law.

538's open source API and all the other data we/they freely compiled and shared over the years drove so much important work across the industry. this is going to have pretty severe ripple effects. and it was often work done by 2 or 3 people.

I made a tidycensus cheatsheet for my #nicar25 class. I have a dozen left if anyone wants a hard copy. #rstats #nicar2025

ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 archives, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including polls/models and all story data. Totally unacceptable and a real betrayal of the public

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

X has purged community notes from this Pentagon account that posts about transparency and accountability. 1: At 12:06am 2: At 9:44am

The tangible effects of Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts are on display right now in Myanmar, say USAID officials. America’s disaster relief capabilities, the biggest and best in the world, are immobilized while the death toll in Myanmar’s earthquake climbs up and up. The Washington Post

EXCLUSIVE Trump touted their ICE arrests. Half were already in prison or jail -- not on the streets of America. Many had been deported before, some as many as four times. LINK -->

Prince George's County was 80% white when the federal workforce was integrated. Today, PG and Charles County are America's most affluent majority-Black counties with~20% of Black workers there being federal employees. Trump's cuts now threaten generations of progress. story👇🏾

WaPo just published a letter from Mahmoud Khalil, currently in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana. Gift link in following post.

New: By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working -- and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades. propub.li/42u8iH7

Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office. Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand. propublica.org/article/trump-…

One Great Lede™️ "When Richard VanMetter tried to buy a sandwich, he didn’t realize he was dead." via Meryl Kornfield @FedGirlWapo & Hannah Natanson

They were a "gang in blue" that operated like "special ops." They were known as the Wolverines, a rogue band of cops who abused their power for years, cloaking themselves in a code of silence and operating with impunity. indystar.com/story/news/inv… via IndyStar

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago today. It took decades for the two countries to normalize relations, then decades more for the U.S. to begin redressing what it left behind. These efforts at reconciliation are being eroded under Trump. A 🧵on our The Washington Post story today:

When your news org that is less than 3 years old wins a Pulitzer Prize! thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

NEW: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, we made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So Josh Kaplan and I got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

NEW, w exclusive details: Audit of two decades of Maryland police custody death autopsies found *36* cases should’ve been ruled homicides; Gov Moore asks Attorney General to review if criminal investigations should be reopened thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim…