Jessica Lussenhop
@jlussenhop.bsky.social
Investigative reporter for ProPublica covering Minnesota and the Midwest.
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Jessica Lussenhop
@jlussenhop.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Jessica Lussenhop to Host Forthcoming ProPublica Weekly Podcast
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Good morning friends, I've got some ✨ news ✨ www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
I hate that I can't Google a word and quickly find out the definition because there are 500 tech startups who've chosen that word as their stupid name
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I hate that I can't Google a word and quickly find out the definition because there are 500 tech startups who've chosen that word as their stupid name
An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
I'm not sure that even I, a transparency nut, could flawlessly follow this policy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots
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November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm not sure that even I, a transparency nut, could flawlessly follow this policy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Titles for books I’ll probably never write: “Darkened Midwest Kitchens”
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Titles for books I’ll probably never write: “Darkened Midwest Kitchens”
Often I receive an email and even though I want to respond immediately, I wait for a while so that I don't seem "too eager." I am infected with malignant Midwesterness please halp
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Often I receive an email and even though I want to respond immediately, I wait for a while so that I don't seem "too eager." I am infected with malignant Midwesterness please halp
Although this story focuses on the education system in Oklahoma, my brilliant colleague @jsmithrichards.bsky.social makes it plain that this is a vision for education, a blueprint really, for the entire country: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Although this story focuses on the education system in Oklahoma, my brilliant colleague @jsmithrichards.bsky.social makes it plain that this is a vision for education, a blueprint really, for the entire country: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump administration continues to claim that this story — in which @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration authorities — is fake, lies, etc. without ever saying what we got wrong. It's easy to throw insults, it is NOT easy to do this reporting:
"The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So @propublica.org did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer." www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Trump administration continues to claim that this story — in which @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration authorities — is fake, lies, etc. without ever saying what we got wrong. It's easy to throw insults, it is NOT easy to do this reporting:
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Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.
This is what we documented.
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This is what we documented.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Child abuse pediatrics is a subject of particular interest to me, so I'm VERY excited for this three-episode podcast series from Serial: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
From Serial Productions: The Preventionist
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October 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Child abuse pediatrics is a subject of particular interest to me, so I'm VERY excited for this three-episode podcast series from Serial: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
Reposted by Jessica Lussenhop
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
"The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So @propublica.org did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer." www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So @propublica.org did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer." www.propublica.org/article/immi...
We are so grateful to everyone who signed our petition (1,300 OF YOU!) asking our management to agree to a fair contract with basic job protections for us! THANK YOU!!! We keep doing fearless journalism because you make us fearless 😍
Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We are so grateful to everyone who signed our petition (1,300 OF YOU!) asking our management to agree to a fair contract with basic job protections for us! THANK YOU!!! We keep doing fearless journalism because you make us fearless 😍
Don't even know where to start sharing the most recent stories on ProPublica.org — if you're not waking up and checking every morning, you're missing out. Let's start here: due to an "extraordinary number of violations" the penalty is going to be... reduced? www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project
Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
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October 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Don't even know where to start sharing the most recent stories on ProPublica.org — if you're not waking up and checking every morning, you're missing out. Let's start here: due to an "extraordinary number of violations" the penalty is going to be... reduced? www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Reposted by Jessica Lussenhop
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Well, today @deldeib.bsky.social has a very helpful explainer. Here's what an external review is, how it works, and how you can use it to help to get coverage of your own medical care: "Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal... That’s all you have." www.propublica.org/article/heal...
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Well, today @deldeib.bsky.social has a very helpful explainer. Here's what an external review is, how it works, and how you can use it to help to get coverage of your own medical care: "Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal... That’s all you have." www.propublica.org/article/heal...
There's been a huge response to my brilliant colleague @deldeib.bsky.social's most recent story about a doctor and a couple who stood up to an insurance company denial of mental health treatment. But people also asked, "Wait, what is this external review process?" www.propublica.org/article/ment...
“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
There's been a huge response to my brilliant colleague @deldeib.bsky.social's most recent story about a doctor and a couple who stood up to an insurance company denial of mental health treatment. But people also asked, "Wait, what is this external review process?" www.propublica.org/article/ment...
I don't understand or like LinkedIn. I just got a message, allegedly from the editor in chief of a student newspaper, that said, "Hello my name of ◼️◼️◼️◼️. You don't hi?" No, I don't hi.
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I don't understand or like LinkedIn. I just got a message, allegedly from the editor in chief of a student newspaper, that said, "Hello my name of ◼️◼️◼️◼️. You don't hi?" No, I don't hi.
A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Reposted by Jessica Lussenhop
JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:
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October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:
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What am I supposed to do with old business cards? I am an immigrant's kid, I catastrophize everything and I think business cards felt like some kind of talisman against ruin: I have a JOB. Now I'm middle aged, no one uses business cards anymore, and I can't keep schlepping them from city to city.
October 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
What am I supposed to do with old business cards? I am an immigrant's kid, I catastrophize everything and I think business cards felt like some kind of talisman against ruin: I have a JOB. Now I'm middle aged, no one uses business cards anymore, and I can't keep schlepping them from city to city.
Some additional behind-the-scenes info on how the text messages were vetted. Thrilling to watch national news orgs following Andy Mannix's reporting in the @startribune.com — and a reminder to support your local newspaper!!! www.startribune.com/editors-note...
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Some additional behind-the-scenes info on how the text messages were vetted. Thrilling to watch national news orgs following Andy Mannix's reporting in the @startribune.com — and a reminder to support your local newspaper!!! www.startribune.com/editors-note...
You ever have days where it's like: I have always been on the phone. I was born on the phone. I will die on the phone. I have never not been on the phone.
a black and white drawing of a person in handcuffs holding a cellphone
Alt: a black and white drawing of a person in handcuffs holding a cellphone
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October 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You ever have days where it's like: I have always been on the phone. I was born on the phone. I will die on the phone. I have never not been on the phone.
Re-upping with a gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...
October 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Re-upping with a gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...
Wild scoop from the Minnesota Star Tribune, which includes a high-ranking Homeland Security official calling Kash Patel a “giant douche canoe” www.startribune.com/trump-offici...
Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Wild scoop from the Minnesota Star Tribune, which includes a high-ranking Homeland Security official calling Kash Patel a “giant douche canoe” www.startribune.com/trump-offici...