Jennifer LaFleur
@jlaf.bsky.social
Facts, cats, stats - Teach @berkeleyjournalism. Alum CPI, @propublica, @reveal, @ire_nicar; jenster28 at proton dot me
Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats across the South if the U.S. Supreme Court guts a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act, a new analysis finds ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/16/r...
Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats in voting rights case, report finds • Ohio Capital Journal
Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats across the South if the U.S. Supreme Court guts a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act, a new analysis finds.
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"By denying and delaying those funds for months, Trump’s appointees incapacitated the fragile nation’s emergency response systems at the very moment when doctors and aid workers were scrambling to contain cholera’s spread." www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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✨ Day 1 of #GIJC25 is HERE! ✨ Kuala Lumpur is buzzing as journalists, editors, data experts, and investigators from 100+ countries come together to learn, connect, and dig deeper. Workshops, keynotes, new tools, big ideas — let’s go. 🔗
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GIJC25 Kicks Off with Global Summit on AI and Tech Reporting
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A reminder of our past nuclear testing: revealnews.org/article/us-v...
Atomic veterans: The legacy of watching nuclear blasts
Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers watched nuclear bomb tests during World War II and the Cold War. Some “atomic veterans” now suffer from health problems they blame on radiation exposure.
revealnews.org
I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024. Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's new mini-documentary about Vought 👇 THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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The plans reflect a notion "as to who are the true Americans. And they think it’s white people & they think it’s Christians," said a former chief of the refugee affairs division at Citizenship and Immigration Services during the Bush, Obama & Trump administrations. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
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"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
Opinion | Hundreds of CDC Layoffs Reversed
Some of Friday's cuts were walked back on Saturday in the latest federal whiplash
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“Building a ‘palace in the sky’ is quite complex” www.occrp.org/en/scoop/gol...?
Gold Taps and Towel Racks: How a Plane Used by Turkmenistan’s Ruling Family Got a Royal Makeover
In authoritarian Turkmenistan, even a single airplane trip abroad is out of reach for most citizens. But the country’s ruling Berdimuhamedov family, which has held power across two generations, recent...
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Medicaid work requirements are just bad. But, as I wrote for @motherjones.com, there’s an extra level of vileness going on with them being implemented as more work-from-home jobs disappear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The biggest hurdle to Trump's Medicaid work requirements: the war on disabled workers
The White House is telling Medicaid users to get jobs—while attacking everything that makes that possible.
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"Not only are we preventing new infections, but we're doing better at keeping people alive," www.medpagetoday.com/hivaids/hiva...
CDC's HIV Prevention Division Readies for Its Demise
A first-term Trump administration HIV prevention project is on the chopping block as well
medpagetoday.com
"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people." From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
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I don't live in DC anymore, but for following DC news, @51st.news is my go to source. 51st.news/masked-feds-...
D.C. residents are deeply disquieted by masked feds
It is legal for ICE and other agents to obscure their identity, but it comes at a cost
51st.news
Impact! www.dailycourier.com/news/penn-st...
Penn State trustees undergo transparency training as part of settlement with Spotlight PA
STATE COLLEGE — All voting members of Penn State’s board completed training on the Sunshine Act this month as part of the governing board’s legal settlement with Spotlight PA over
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“How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
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“In the case of The U.S. Supreme Court v. Everyone Else, this court wins by a serious landslide.”
Supreme Court Rules Supreme Court Rules
WASHINGTON, DC—In a landmark decision Monday, the United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that it rules.
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"It’s work that would have helped some of the country’s most vulnerable children at a time when extreme weather events are becoming more common..." 19thnews.org/2025/09/epa-... via @19thnews.org
In a single email, the EPA ended her research into how climate change endangers children
Jane Clougherty spent years studying how extreme weather affects kids’ health, but as climate threats continue to rise, the Trump administration cancelled her work.
19thnews.org
Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
404media.co
"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration arrests in Los Angeles
The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.
latimes.com
"What can I do now?...Insist that your state and local governments become more open and transparent about how they are going about making decisions that use your tax dollars, deal with the loss of federal funds, and impact your community." contrarian.substack.com/p/artificial...
Artificial intelligence and government secrecy
Done right, AI could help state and local governments become more open and transparent about how they are making decisions and using tax dollars.
contrarian.substack.com
"...most Serbian media coverage has reflected the government narrative, depicting student and other protestors, as well as journalists, as “terrorists” conspiring to destabilize the country." www.occrp.org/en/scoop/tel...?
Telecom Chief and United Group CEO in Talks to Weaken Serbia’s Last Independent Broadcaster
United Group's flagship Serbian TV channel N1 has been an outlet for opposition voices amid mass anti-government protests.
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