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Newsletter Editor and Writer @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student. Floridian in the Midwest.

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The street so nice they Pulaski’d it twice

02.03.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Secret Survey From Inside a Women’s Prison Tells Stories of Domestic Abuse Untold in Court From inside a women’s prison in Oklahoma, a domestic violence survivor began collecting other prisoners’ stories of abuse. Their accounts helped shape a new Oklahoma law intended to reduce their sente...

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social shares stories that one incarcerated woman collected inside prison. The accounts speak to what they see as a link between domestic abuse and their convictions.

Powerful.

www.propublica.org/article/okla...

28.02.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @micarosenberg.bsky.social wrote about speaking with a 9 year old who was in immigration detention for four months. She was supposed to go to Disney World. Instead immigration agents put her on a plane to Dilley, Texas.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

14.02.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 12

I really wanted to go to this but couldn’t make it bc childcare! How was it?

10.02.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧡1/

09.02.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 1501 πŸ” 679 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 79

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧡

09.02.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 11567 πŸ” 7424 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 827
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People cheer while watching Bad Bunny perform during Super Bowl 60 at a Benito bowl watch party at La Bruquena in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday evening in Chicago.

09.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 511 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

Freedom 250, the Trump-run group the NYT reports is offering big donors special access, has totally supplanted America250, the congressional org that had been organizing 250th events, as we reported last week .So Trump is turning 250th into a party for himself, with taxpayer $, but no oversight.

08.02.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 321 πŸ” 192 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 17
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Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are

-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food

Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

30.01.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 2120 πŸ” 1003 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 65

For the 40th anniversary, I interviewed six Black journalists who covered it in some capacity. BTW, the PPD dropped the bΓΈmb from a PA state helicopter.
www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...

30.01.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 160 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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AI-generated doctors are dispensing dubious health advice Indicator identified more than two dozen social media accounts that feature synthetic doctors and medical professionals. They've racked up millions of views and engagements.

Synthetic doctors are outperforming real ones on social media. I found more than 25 AI health accounts with +8.5 million followers.

The Canadian Medical Assoc runs a program featuring real doctors. Its prez told me: "I would say that our following is not as large." indicator.media/p/ai-generat...

26.01.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5
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The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,

"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

25.01.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 3242 πŸ” 898 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 100
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Fearing ICE, parents make plans for their children’s care Some families give legal authority to others to make key decisions about a child’s life if a parent is detained and deported.

Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.

25.01.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 670 πŸ” 340 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 60
January 24, 2026 Press conference
January 24, 2026 Press conference YouTube video by cityofminneapolis

"your children will ask what side you were on" - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_sK...

24.01.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

just going to leave this here www.propublica.org/series/life-...

23.01.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 259 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2

Yes they have! Amazing.

23.01.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can also help preserve the signs (though many are hopefully backed up on multiple computers in diff depts cause it takes a lot of work to put these up) by taking photos and uploading them here: sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

23.01.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park Following last year’s review, every sign has been removed from the President’s House site.

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

23.01.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 867 πŸ” 412 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 22

"Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history." Donald Trump, July 2020

23.01.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Imagine you're a scientist trying to publish a new study, and being told you can't, unless you do background checks on co-authors who aren't U.S. citizens and send their names to national security staff.

Also, studies about climate change or DEI written w/foreign scientists = rejected. ⬇️

20.01.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 668 πŸ” 364 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 17
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. β€œI felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use

A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.

A 16-year-old citizen

DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"

w/ @mckenziefunk.com

13.01.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 1256 πŸ” 646 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 30

White House: β€œWe wish to be assured that none of the leadership of the Smithsonian museums is confused about the fact that the United States has been among the greatest forces for good in the history of the world.”

13.01.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows.

Ex-ICE director told me: β€œThat mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness"

wapo.st/3Ngmo9C

07.01.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 1440 πŸ” 621 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 38

This so reminds me of the work done by @brandkells on how Virginia universities expanded by dislodging Black communities. Worth reading and watching: www.propublica.org/series/uproo...

07.01.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIt is chilling, but not impossible, to envision the signs screaming β€œStop the steal!” picked up on the garbage-strewn National Mall on Jan. 7, 2021, treated one day as patriotic treasures, displayed alongside the writing desk Thomas Jefferson used to draft the Declaration of Independence ...”

07.01.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.

Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated.
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court

06.01.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 1894 πŸ” 713 πŸ’¬ 277 πŸ“Œ 278

This might seem trivial to some, but the context is for decades now historians have been pushing to tell the β€œfuller American story” which tries to correct white-centric history told since our nation’s founding. Trump admin is essentially saying: We’re sticking to the white version, thanks.

05.01.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I will never forgot the all-staff meeting after layoffs were announced where someone asked Moog whether he considered taking a pay cut himself (no, of course) β€” and why reporters and producers had to pay for CPM’s financial woes, instead of the people (ahem, him) who caused them. This is so gross.

31.12.2025 04:07 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Question for the historians and public historians on here: Who teaches you how to write history for various audiences?

Serious Q. Are there classes in academic programs? Residencies? Working groups?

30.12.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0