Tori Marlan
@torimarlan.bsky.social
Journalist | Managing Editor Buffalo’s Fire | Bylines in the US and Canada | The Marshall Project, The Atavist Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, CBC, The Seattle Times, Buzzfeed News, and more. Chicago Reader alum. National Newspaper Award. torimarlan.com
Official databases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in the U.S. are fragmented, confusing, and often contradictory. So my colleague Pier Bozzano built an interactive map merging data from multiple agencies. We welcome community submissions. www.buffalosfire.com/buffalos-fir...
Buffalo’s Fire built an interactive MMIP map; now we your help | Buffalo’s Fire
Vital information is often buried, hard to find. We’re asking our communities to send us tips and corrections.
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EXCLUSIVE: In 2023, Vancouver Police Department calls to border enforcement for immigration status checks increased 80% compared to 2022. Even without a pandemic-related drop in 2020-22, the 476 calls in 2023 mark a 40% increase compared to 2014-19. www.defactomedia.ca/vpd-immigrat...
Vancouver cops are calling border enforcement more than ever. Community members fear that puts them in danger
Migrant sex workers say they're ‘more afraid of police than perpetrators of a crime,’ as new data reveals VPD ‘immigration status checks’ spiked 80% to nearly 1,000 people in two years
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This took a lot of time and energy, but thanks to some key sources and Tori’s guidance, it came together. Now it’s time to see what happens in the courts.
Tori Marlan@torimarlan.bsky.social · 3mo agoA Standing Rock boy emerged from an afterschool program with severe injuries. Student athletes were charged with assault. Our reporter @briancbull.bsky.social spent months on this story, exposing an act of bullying known as "bunning," which simulates sex. www.buffalosfire.com/standing-roc...
A Standing Rock boy emerged from an afterschool program with severe injuries. Student athletes were charged with assault. Our reporter @briancbull.bsky.social spent months on this story, exposing an act of bullying known as "bunning," which simulates sex. www.buffalosfire.com/standing-roc...
Investigation: Standing Rock High School Student Assault | Buffalo’s Fire
A 14-year-old Standing Rock student was airlifted with severe injuries after an alleged hazing assault. Did school culture allow this abuse to happen?
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What is up with the Trump administration denying people access to a government website?
Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan told our reporter ICE is racially profiling Native Americans and needs to get out of Minneapolis. She calls the detention of four Oglala Sioux Tribe members "outrageous and unacceptable." @buffalosfire.bsky.social
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands release of tribal members in ICE custody - Buffalo’s Fire
OST president warns federal officials of legal consequences for treaty violations, unlawful detention and deprivation of civil rights
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I’m a journalist who has written about policing & PTSD, so when I read that the ICE officer who killed Renee Good previously had been injured on the job, I wondered if ICE had required him to be evaluated for PTSD afterward to make sure he was fit for duty. (1/2)
Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
My 82-year-old father sent me this from Pittsburgh. #NoKings
My summer archives tour of alt-weekly literary journalism, aka immersion journalism, aka reported longform narrative, 1970s-2001, continues with this astonishment--14,000 unstoppable words from 1999 about brick scavengers by @torimarlan.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/news/brickya...
Brickyard Blues - Chicago Reader
Numbed by cold, pelted by rain, enduring smashed fingers and toes, poorly paid brick salvagers keep coming back for more.
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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last yr.ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Good morning from the campaign trail here on the west coast! Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria. Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!
Thrilled to be providing editorial support to this dream team!
Ricochet Media@ricochetmedia.bsky.social · last yr.Follow Ricochet for on-the-ground #election coverage all next week. shorturl.at/Pz3ez We've got journalists @stephenmaher.bsky.social, @brandimorin.bsky.social, @karynpugliese.bsky.social, @caradrianh.bsky.social, @jonthompson.bsky.social & @ethancox.bsky.social fanned out across the country. 🗳️
Aren’t they supposed to also outline the steps they’ve taken, and will take, to facilitate his return?
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last yr.NEW: A US State Department official tells Judge Xinis that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the CECOT prison, "detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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This 🎯 article by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is one of the best recaps of the COVID reality, how we got here, and what it means for the present & the future: How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025) healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
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No tsunami expected after this morning’s earthquake because the conditions aren’t right? Or because the Trump admin fired the NOAA staff whose job it is to warn us? Genuinely don’t know.
I've started in a new role as the Guest Managing Editor for Buffalo's Fire, an independent news outlet published by the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance. If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org
An update to this story, via @torimarlan.bsky.social: Tim Durkin, the Man Who Stole a Hotel, has lost all appeals and is being deported from Canada. A scam artist of epic proportions, a manipulator and liar, and now, a Brit. www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-man...
The man who stole a hotel: How Timothy Durkin took control of Sooke Harbour House
A fugitive from the US started fresh on Vancouver Island—then bilked new victims out of millions of dollars while law enforcement refused to act
capitaldaily.ca
There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦
Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
To understand what project 2025 really wants, it is worth understanding a little bit about the history of weather services in the US. Like a lot of US history, it runs through Detroit. 🧵
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · last yr.All of this matters because the current administration wants to privatize weather forecasting. This is likely going to cost lives in the US and abroad because we share weather data with countries that can't afford to produce their own. Don't worry, China is moving to fill in that US sized gap
So happy to see this beautiful essay out in the world! I've been working with the author, Robert Lee Williams, through Empowerment Avenue, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated writers place their stories. It would mean a lot to him if you'd give it a read!
Trumpet Man
A mystery man sporting a salt-and-pepper afro blew a golden trumpet in the prison yard. His tune took me back to the streets.
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