Logan Jaffe

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...

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"

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.

YouTube video by cityofminneapolis January 24, 2026 Press conference

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

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

Yes they have! Amazing.

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...

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...

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

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. ⬇️

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 ...

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

White House: “We 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.”

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: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness"

wapo.st/3Ngmo9C

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...

“It is chilling, but not impossible, to envision the signs screaming “Stop 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 ...”

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

This might seem trivial to some, but the context is for decades now historians have been pushing to tell the “fuller 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.

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) — 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.

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?

A collection of hand made leather goods such as bags, a choker and a belt. They are black with metal details.

My sister is an incredible leather worker. She just launched her new collection of bags, belts and jewelry. Everything is designed and hand made by her. Just in awe and wanted to share. (I have a prototype of a small tan bag from years ago and take it everywhere)

huntersavoy.com/collections/...

The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump Administration from deploying National Guard troops in the Chicago area.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/s...

The majority of archival material out there has NOT been digitized.

So if you really want to figure something out, odds are that you have to go to an archive and dig.

Historians are trained to dig.

This is the one to watch.

Md. lawmakers seek probe into Black boys buried in abandoned graveyard An independent commission would investigate the deaths of at least 230 Black children at segregated juvenile facility in Prince George’s County.

A group of Black Maryland lawmakers plan to propose a bill that would create a commission to investigate the deaths of hundreds of Black children who died at a segregated juvenile detention facility during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I’m going to make this a new year resolution

Asian-American nurses were WWII heroes. History left them behind. Their stories surfaced in fragments, often only within families. A coalition led by Asian American women is pushing Congress to make them part of the official record.

Their stories surfaced in fragments, often only within families. A coalition led by Asian American women is pushing Congress to make them part of the official record.

This piece is published in partnership with More to Her Story:

Disturbing. We must keep ProPublica authentic and transparent to its readers.

So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again.

It's going on a week now.

Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.

Washington approves over 99% of archaeological permits, records show - High Country News As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to to stop development projects.

For over a year I’ve been gathering documents from the Washington state department of archaeology, trying to understand why it’s so hard for tribal nations to protect their cultural heritage, even when the state archaeologist is trying to help. Here's what I found.

www.hcn.org/articles/was...