Mastodawn

ProPublica: We’re Investigating Alaska Internet Companies. We Need Your Help.. “Alaskans pay higher costs for slower internet speeds than most Americans. The government has spent billions of dollars of public money to try to fix the problem, and we want to know how it’s really going in your community. Please fill out this quick survey to share how much it costs you to get online and what […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/20/propublica-were-investigating-alaska-internet-companies-we-need-your-help/

Morgan Fletcher May 19

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall

#Alaska
#fraud
#telecom
#propublica

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the U.S.

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Gravity Sucks...then it Falls May 15

"The finished product, released May 6 after months of delays, is a 16-page, typo-sprinkled document that ranks threats based on politics rather than intelligence assessments, according to several current and former counterterrorism officials and threat analysts."

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-counterterrorism-plan-ignores-far-rights-gorka

#gorka #trump #counterterrorism #terrorism #propublica

Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump

Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.

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Christine Johnson May 14

The #ProPublica Guild is asking supporters to send a letter to Paul Sagan, chair of the Pro Publica board, to direct senior management to agree to a fair contract - link below to send a letter, including suggested text (although I wrote my own).

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-propublicas-board-that-you-stand-with-its-workers

#journalism

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Curated Hacker News May 13

"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage

https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations

#propublica

“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

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Douglas Edwards

May 11

RE: https://union.place/@propublicaguild/116521431359636701

It appears that #ProPublica management is still forgetting that the sole legitimate purpose of a management structure for #ProPublica is to facilitate — rather than hinder — the superlative work of its journalists. In any fundamental conflict with management, I will side with their union, @propublicaguild. Management needs to grant the Guild's contract demands without further delay.

ShantyMinister

May 10

This story of unqualified, inexperienced white #contractors & a corrupt gop representative bamboozled a Black rural town in Illinois underscores the difficulty in building #AffordableHousing.

There were so many 🚩.
via #Propublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige

#3Dprinting #housing #Cairo

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.

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Curated Hacker News May 6

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns

#propublica