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Freelance reporter and fact-checker. AuDHDer. Views my own. Reposts and likes ≠ endorsements. she/her Email me things: katrinajanco@protonmail.com https://katrinajanco.com/

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Support Los Angeles Times journalists fighting for a fair contract The newsroom staff of the Los Angeles Times, represented by Media Guild of the West (NewsGuild-CWA 39213), has been bargaining a new union contract for more than 18 months. In that time, the company h...

Many of you have been watching our contract fight at the L.A. Times and asking how to help. Now's the time.

Tell our managers that you'll honor the picket line if negotiations drag to a point where we're forced to call a strike. You can sign here:

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29.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 111    🔁 52    💬 0    📌 3
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COVID Stole a Parent from Over 200,000 Children. Indian Country Lost the Most – MindSite News COVID was not an equal-opportunity destroyer. American Indian and Alaska Native children were orphaned at three times the rate of white children, and Black children at double the rate. Without support...

Highly recommend reading this @mindsitenews.bsky.social article on how Native kids were impacted by higher rates of parental death in the early Covid pandemic. mindsitenews.org/2025/03/12/c...

28.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 28    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome to Decoherence Media! We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

27.10.2025 11:09 — 👍 194    🔁 97    💬 4    📌 10
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On Sept. 22, @cascadepbs.bsky.social announced it would eliminate its News and Investigations teams, laying off 9 @newsguild.org journalists. Here’s how you can help: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...

25.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 39    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 1
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25.10.2025 02:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Let's gooooo! $15K for 15 years! I'm thrilled by the support for @theopennotebook.bsky.social's 15th birthday! Your gifts will help us keep offering training & mentoring for journalists around the world. We're tiny and scrappy, so every dollar truly helps! www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...

24.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I like the problem solving involved in crafting sentences and paragraphs. Why would I let an algorithm do that for me

24.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 315    🔁 38    💬 4    📌 2
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Datashare, ICIJ’s powerful investigation software, has a new design!

Take a look and see how you can search in any type of files 🧵 buff.ly/JtvhtF2

11.08.2025 22:12 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
White words on a black background read:

50+ 
Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130
Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. 

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

18.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 17176    🔁 8025    💬 299    📌 239
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saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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oh good I was worried the utterly unearned Vanity Fair editor job was all she got for violating the most basic rules of journalism

15.10.2025 02:04 — 👍 738    🔁 95    💬 18    📌 3

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

30.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 17403    🔁 3571    💬 338    📌 427

me: it’s time to meditate. my nervous system needs constant soothing

the cat, who i have played with multiple times today: time to knock a bottle off the table. time to step on yr chest. time to scream in yr ear

12.10.2025 23:01 — 👍 59    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

08.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 3779    🔁 1111    💬 57    📌 218
The logo of the Trans Journalists Association, which includes a stylized T in teal, J in purple, and A in yellow, accompanied by the full name of the organization spelled out in black text.

The logo of the Trans Journalists Association, which includes a stylized T in teal, J in purple, and A in yellow, accompanied by the full name of the organization spelled out in black text.

How to:
🔘 Understand reports on trans youth health care
🔘 Report on EOs targeting trans Americans
🔘 Report on polls about trans issues

From TON and @transjournalists.org, here’s a free collection of resources for all journalists. 🧪 www.theopennotebook.com/resources-fo...

07.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 13    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

06.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 18644    🔁 5272    💬 342    📌 210
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Live-streaming journalist deported to El Salvador after months in ICE custody | CNN Business Mario Guevara was arrested while reporting from a "No Kings Day" protest in June and was deported on Friday - a major blow to press freedoms, say groups including the ACLU.

Mario Guevara should never have been held in detention for performing his journalistic duty.

Mario’s deportation marks a dark day for the Guevara family and for press freedom.

03.10.2025 23:52 — 👍 578    🔁 195    💬 12    📌 9

LOL

01.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 68    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
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01.10.2025 06:01 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Will you send our petition for a fair contract to your 5 closest friends?
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

29.09.2025 19:07 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes Deportation Data Project Data Accessible to More People New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes ICE arrest data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People

New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

18.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 213    🔁 178    💬 6    📌 12

CHOTINER: So You created us right
GOD: Yes
CHOTINER: In Your image
GOD: Yes
CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things
GOD: Oh Yes
CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods
GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

24.09.2025 17:18 — 👍 4571    🔁 579    💬 48    📌 41

Man oh man if most publications would allow disabled ppl to cover disability...

23.09.2025 22:55 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

23.09.2025 22:33 — 👍 531    🔁 332    💬 1    📌 12

I still feel excited if I imagine I will get access to a lamination machine, even thought I have no current lamination needs. I have just relished laminating stuff whenever the chance arose.

23.09.2025 22:48 — 👍 34    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Thank you for tagging me!

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New Jersey PBS shutting down in July - New Jersey Globe New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026 following WNET's decision not to renew its agreement, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The

New Jersey PBS shutting down in July after the federal government decided to cancel funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

23.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 12    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 5

the philadelphia eagles are blessed by the angels and graced by the light of heaven. i'm sorry if this offends you but it is demonstrably true

21.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 333    🔁 49    💬 21    📌 7

Skinny Joe's is absolutely not Philly's most popular cheesesteak.

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