Jennifer LaFleur

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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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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.

A reminder of our past nuclear testing: revealnews.org/article/us-v...

NIH Institute Director Abruptly Replaced New NIEHS chief is a friend of Vice President JD Vance

NIH Institute Director Abruptly Replaced www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

YouTube video by ProPublica Russell Vought: The Shadow President

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...

An important message to the people of New York City.

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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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...

'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent In departure from the past, MMWR staff not allowed to be exempted from shutdown furlough

'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Opinion | Hundreds of CDC Layoffs Reversed Some of Friday's cuts were walked back on Saturday in the latest federal whiplash

"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...

Dept of Justice

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...

“Building a ‘palace in the sky’ is quite complex” www.occrp.org/en/scoop/gol...?

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.

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...

CDC's HIV Prevention Division Readies for Its Demise A first-term Trump administration HIV prevention project is on the chopping block as well

"Not only are we preventing new infections, but we're doing better at keeping people alive," www.medpagetoday.com/hivaids/hiva...

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."

"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...

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

I don't live in DC anymore, but for following DC news, @51st.news is my go to source. 51st.news/masked-feds-...

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

Impact! www.dailycourier.com/news/penn-st...

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...

“How can you do this to children?”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Supreme Court Rules Supreme Court Rules WASHINGTON, DC—In a landmark decision Monday, the United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that it rules.

“In the case of The U.S. Supreme Court v. Everyone Else, this court wins by a serious landslide.”

Payment Receipt Fee Type PACER Case Search Tracking Id Payment Amount $379.70 Transaction Date 09/09/2025 Approval Code

The PACER bill always comes due.

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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.

"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

‘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."

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...

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.

"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...

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.

"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...

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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.

"...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...?

Opinion | I'm a Stage IV Cancer Patient. Trump Is Cutting My Hope to Survive. Funding cuts don't just hurt institutions

"...these decisions don't just hurt institutions. They hurt people. Real people like me, and the countless others I've sat with during long chemo infusions." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

Note that is was an open bag of "Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips" www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family. Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

www.propublica.org/article/doge...