Logan Jaffe
@loganjaffe.bsky.social
Reporter, newsletters @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student @loyolahistdept.bsky.social. Fellow, New America US@250 initiative. Floridian in the Midwest.
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Logan Jaffe
@loganjaffe.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Ever more ProPublicans are on here now! 🕵️🔎
If you already followed this starter pack, it's worth checking in again to see who is newly added.
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What's up! Excited to be on here and reconnect. I'm a journalist with ProPublica, based in Chicago. I write newsletters and stories. I also study and write about public history.
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/...
huntersavoy.com/collections/...
December 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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/...
huntersavoy.com/collections/...
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The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump Administration from deploying National Guard troops in the Chicago area.
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blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/s...
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump Administration from deploying National Guard troops in the Chicago area.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/s...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/s...
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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.
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.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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.
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.
CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but @propublica.org talked earlier this year to those who Trump had sent to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...
Venezuelans deported to CECOT and their families speak about their ordeal
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is the one to watch.
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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.
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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.
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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:
This piece is published in partnership with More to Her Story:
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.
19thnews.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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:
This piece is published in partnership with More to Her Story:
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Do these guys not know who their readers are?
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Do these guys not know who their readers are?
Disturbing. We must keep ProPublica authentic and transparent to its readers.
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Disturbing. We must keep ProPublica authentic and transparent to its readers.
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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.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
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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...
www.hcn.org/articles/was...
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.
www.hcn.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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...
www.hcn.org/articles/was...
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YES INDEED
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
YES INDEED
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December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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All of this.
“The anger isn’t about the goods. It’s about the breach of contract. The American Deal was that Effort ~ Security. Effort brought your Hope strike closer. But because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.”
“The anger isn’t about the goods. It’s about the breach of contract. The American Deal was that Effort ~ Security. Effort brought your Hope strike closer. But because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
All of this.
“The anger isn’t about the goods. It’s about the breach of contract. The American Deal was that Effort ~ Security. Effort brought your Hope strike closer. But because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.”
“The anger isn’t about the goods. It’s about the breach of contract. The American Deal was that Effort ~ Security. Effort brought your Hope strike closer. But because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.”
Newsrooms have made online maps of where ICE has arrested people. What would it look like to mark these incidents in physical places?
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Newsrooms have made online maps of where ICE has arrested people. What would it look like to mark these incidents in physical places?
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Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails.
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails.
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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"American Colonists and founders thought Native American societies were simple and primitive... [but they] were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power."
theconversation.com/before-the-a...
theconversation.com/before-the-a...
Before the American Revolution, Native nations guarded their societies against tyranny
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"American Colonists and founders thought Native American societies were simple and primitive... [but they] were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power."
theconversation.com/before-the-a...
theconversation.com/before-the-a...
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
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Both of my parents (who exclusively attended segregated schools) are only a few years older than Ruby Bridges. Economists could do much better work on segregation if they took the time to understand what it was and what it did to people who are still here.
TIL Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old. man alive Jim Crow was just yesterday
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Both of my parents (who exclusively attended segregated schools) are only a few years older than Ruby Bridges. Economists could do much better work on segregation if they took the time to understand what it was and what it did to people who are still here.
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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"They spent a month in detention before she gave up on her asylum case and asked to be sent back to Venezuela. Mejías later told me her son cried for his father and refused to eat the food served in jail. He lost weight."
Always read @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
Always read @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
NEW: The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors.
These are the stories of the people who were inside.
These are the stories of the people who were inside.
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building.
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"They spent a month in detention before she gave up on her asylum case and asked to be sent back to Venezuela. Mejías later told me her son cried for his father and refused to eat the food served in jail. He lost weight."
Always read @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
Always read @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
In Saturday morning’s @propublica.org newsletter, Melissa Sanchez wrote about her recent story on an immigration raid on a Chicago apt building.
She was able to locate and speak with detained and deported people who experienced it. Here’s what they told her: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
She was able to locate and speak with detained and deported people who experienced it. Here’s what they told her: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building.
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In Saturday morning’s @propublica.org newsletter, Melissa Sanchez wrote about her recent story on an immigration raid on a Chicago apt building.
She was able to locate and speak with detained and deported people who experienced it. Here’s what they told her: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
She was able to locate and speak with detained and deported people who experienced it. Here’s what they told her: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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I'm really proud of this story and my colleagues --
@jodiscohen.bsky.social @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
Sebastian Rotella and @mariamelba.bsky.social ... best collab ever. We got help from A LOT of people
@propublica.org and beyond, including Ronna Risquez, and Andrea Morales from @mlk50.com
@jodiscohen.bsky.social @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
Sebastian Rotella and @mariamelba.bsky.social ... best collab ever. We got help from A LOT of people
@propublica.org and beyond, including Ronna Risquez, and Andrea Morales from @mlk50.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I'm really proud of this story and my colleagues --
@jodiscohen.bsky.social @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
Sebastian Rotella and @mariamelba.bsky.social ... best collab ever. We got help from A LOT of people
@propublica.org and beyond, including Ronna Risquez, and Andrea Morales from @mlk50.com
@jodiscohen.bsky.social @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
Sebastian Rotella and @mariamelba.bsky.social ... best collab ever. We got help from A LOT of people
@propublica.org and beyond, including Ronna Risquez, and Andrea Morales from @mlk50.com
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
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...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...