Logan Jaffe
@loganjaffe.bsky.social
Newsletter Editor and Writer @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student. Floridian in the Midwest.
🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...
I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.
Boy do we have some news for you … www.propublica.org/series/the-r...
The Repatriation Project Archives
America’s institutions hold human remains and sacred items taken from the graves of tens of thousands of Native Americans. A federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, wa...
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo agoA man charged with burglarizing grave sites and accumulating more than 100 bodies from Pennsylvania cemeteries has waived his right to an evidentiary hearing on Friday.
Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info. So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception... www.propublica.org/article/impe...
Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...
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I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo agoWe’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Really sad it’s come to this. On my way to join my colleagues at the picket line. We deserve a fair contract!
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo agoWe’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Good morning! All day today my colleagues and I will be on STRIKE. You can help us send a message! Please do not visit ProPublica's website and tell management to give us a fair contract so we can get back to work: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
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ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo agoWe’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
WE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY! As someone who regularly looks at ProPublica web traffic, today's the only day of my career I want to see low numbers. We know our readers support our union. Don't read us today. We'll be there tomorrow.
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo agoWe’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Went to an estate sale over the weekend. I thought I’d sworn off of buying other people’s home movies, answering machine cassettes and 35mm slides but when treasure presents itself … I could not resist.
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...
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...
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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-...
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.
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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/
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. 🧵
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.
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.
Trump's war on history
As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoPresident Trump’s allies are offering access to him and other perks to donors who give at least $1 million to a new group supporting flashy initiatives he is planning around the U.S.’s 250th birthday, according to documents and interviews.
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
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.
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For the 40th anniversary, I interviewed six Black journalists who covered it in some capacity. BTW, the PPD dropped the bømb from a PA state helicopter. www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...
Some of Philly's longtime Black journalists recall covering MOVE bombing, its impact
Some of Philadelphia’s longtime Black journalists, who were either present on the scene or covered the 1985 MOVE bombing in some capacity, sat down at The Philadelphia Tribune recently to
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Nina Turner@ninaturner.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn May 13, 1985 in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania State Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a Black neighborhood. 11 people were killed, 5 of whom were children. As we see ICE terrorize communities, understand that saying “this isn’t who we are” is false.
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...
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.
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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"
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.
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.
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"your children will ask what side you were on" - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_sK...
January 24, 2026 Press conference
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just going to leave this here www.propublica.org/series/life-...
Life of the Mother Archives
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoMike Johnson: "It is the strength of the American family again -- that's what we brought back. We measure our success on the number of lives we save and the lives we improve and uplift with common sense life-affirming policies."
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...
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Save Our Signs Let's Build the People's Archive of National Park Signs
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Logan Jaffe@loganjaffe.bsky.social · 7mo agoLook 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...
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...
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.
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"Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history." Donald Trump, July 2020
Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 7mo agoImagine 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. ⬇️
ProPublica@propublica.org · 7mo agoThe new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
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
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. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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