
Eric Umansky
Deputy Managing Editor at ProPublica
Editor at Trump, Inc. Podcast
**Now at @ericumansky.bsky.social.** Editor-at-Large @ProPublica. Co-founder @DocumentCloud. Editor of Trump, Inc. podcast. (RIP) Hangs with @sarapekow.
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1 week ago |
scheerpost.com | Eric Umansky
By Eric Umansky / ProPublicaWhat Happened: A monitor appointed by a federal court has found that a New York City Police Department unit has been unjustly stopping and searching New Yorkers, almost all of them Black and Hispanic men. The report on the NYPD’s Community Response Team echoes a recent ProPublica investigation that found the unit, championed by Mayor Eric Adams, has been ridden with abuses.
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propublica.org | Eric Umansky |K. Rambo |Nicole Santa Cruz |Dave Biscobing
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. What Happened: A monitor appointed by a federal court has found that a New York City Police Department unit has been unjustly stopping and searching New Yorkers, almost all of them Black and Hispanic men.
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3 weeks ago |
arstechnica.com | Brandon Roberts |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky
Staffer had no medical experience, and the results were predictably, spectacularly bad. As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veterans Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience to guide them. The engineer, working for the Department of Government Efficiency, quickly built an artificial intelligence tool to identify which services from private companies were not essential.
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flipboard.com | Brandon Roberts |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky
4 hours ago"Is this Twitter war a Cheesy Gordita Crunchwrap Supreme? Because it’s dripping hot messy filth and I am eating up every sloppy bite." Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s post-DOGE exit feud has not only reached the point of the words "Epstein files" being dropped in an X post, but it's moved Stephen …
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propublica.org | Brandon Roberts |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky |Hannah Allam
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When an AI script written by a Department of Government Efficiency employee came across a contract for internet service, it flagged it as cancelable. Not because it was waste, fraud or abuse — the Department of Veterans Affairs needs internet connectivity after all — but because the model was given unclear and conflicting instructions.
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