K Petrin
@petrinkae.bsky.social
Currently: JSK Journalism Fellow. Normally: Data & graphics 🧙 @chalkbeat.org. Cofounder @transjournalists.org. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. petrinkae.github.io
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"So many queer resources are disappearing from the internet and are only partially preserved or completely lost." Assigned Media speaks with Dr. Clair Kronk about digital queer history preservation.
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Preserving the data of LGBTQ+ history — Assigned
An interview with Dr. Clair Kronk.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"So many queer resources are disappearing from the internet and are only partially preserved or completely lost." Assigned Media speaks with Dr. Clair Kronk about digital queer history preservation.
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is this what national political journalists are doing in the public interest
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
is this what national political journalists are doing in the public interest
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Trans people and people of color have been quietly erased from national caregiving plan 19thnews.org/2025/11/nati... via @19thnews.org
Trans people and people of color have been quietly erased from national caregiving plan
The decision ignores the stark reality that underserved communities experience greater negative impacts from caregiving, from financial hardships to worse health outcomes, advocates say.
19thnews.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Trans people and people of color have been quietly erased from national caregiving plan 19thnews.org/2025/11/nati... via @19thnews.org
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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This is the sharpest analysis of the Olivia Nuzzi saga.
As institutional journalism has collapsed, individual journalists have basically had two paths for scraping by: a "prestige play" (hounding for prizes) or an "attention play" (social media celebrity).
Both are corrupt in different ways.
As institutional journalism has collapsed, individual journalists have basically had two paths for scraping by: a "prestige play" (hounding for prizes) or an "attention play" (social media celebrity).
Both are corrupt in different ways.
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is the sharpest analysis of the Olivia Nuzzi saga.
As institutional journalism has collapsed, individual journalists have basically had two paths for scraping by: a "prestige play" (hounding for prizes) or an "attention play" (social media celebrity).
Both are corrupt in different ways.
As institutional journalism has collapsed, individual journalists have basically had two paths for scraping by: a "prestige play" (hounding for prizes) or an "attention play" (social media celebrity).
Both are corrupt in different ways.
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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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2/ Clint Massie’s behavior was an open secret in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community of Duluth, Minnesota. Church leaders even sent him to a sex offender specialist.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
2/ Clint Massie’s behavior was an open secret in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community of Duluth, Minnesota. Church leaders even sent him to a sex offender specialist.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
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Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance we're thinking of Faltas by Celilia Gentili. Faltas is a radical act of self-making and self-redemption. The book felt like the beginning of something special, but was not to be.
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Town Who Isn't My Rapist
In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist's daughter, her father's mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both And more A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, or even grow.
portersquarebooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance we're thinking of Faltas by Celilia Gentili. Faltas is a radical act of self-making and self-redemption. The book felt like the beginning of something special, but was not to be.
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A sobering reflection Kai Cheng Thom today for #TransDayofRemembrance
"We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world."
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
"We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world."
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A sobering reflection Kai Cheng Thom today for #TransDayofRemembrance
"We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world."
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
"We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world."
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
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This is a really incredible feat of reporting by @msjpauly.bsky.social that everyone should read.
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is a really incredible feat of reporting by @msjpauly.bsky.social that everyone should read.
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A fascinating aspect of this is how much the anti-trans panic is about displacing fears that are far more real: of male coaches who abuse female athletes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A fascinating aspect of this is how much the anti-trans panic is about displacing fears that are far more real: of male coaches who abuse female athletes.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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Please consider applying for a JSK fellowship, it will change your life!
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Become a fellow
Apply now for the next JSK Journalism Fellowships cohort. Deadline is Dec 3.
jsk.stanford.edu
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Please consider applying for a JSK fellowship, it will change your life!
jsk.stanford.edu/become-a-fel...
jsk.stanford.edu/become-a-fel...
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After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
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This project was a collaboration between the Trans Journalists Association, Polygraph, and the University of Miami's School of Communication, with @albertocairo.com. It will remain a work in progress and updated with new data monthly. Visit transnewsinitiative.org to view our full findings.
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This project was a collaboration between the Trans Journalists Association, Polygraph, and the University of Miami's School of Communication, with @albertocairo.com. It will remain a work in progress and updated with new data monthly. Visit transnewsinitiative.org to view our full findings.
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The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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This #TransgenderAwarenessWeek, we're launching the Trans News Initiative - a nearly yearlong project dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States.
transnewsinitiative.org
transnewsinitiative.org
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This #TransgenderAwarenessWeek, we're launching the Trans News Initiative - a nearly yearlong project dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States.
transnewsinitiative.org
transnewsinitiative.org
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The @transjournalists.org has a great article that goes into plenty of technical details about the project: www.transjournalists.org/introducing-...
How journalists covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days
Trans people and our place in society are at the center of a fierce political debate, legislative attacks, and widespread misinformation. As public discourse shapes policy and perception, the accuracy...
www.transjournalists.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The @transjournalists.org has a great article that goes into plenty of technical details about the project: www.transjournalists.org/introducing-...
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My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
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"The effects of Georgia's policy of forced detransition for trans prisoners, currently on hold, were disastrous."
"[B]allooning case loads and overwhelmed workers."
"The mental health case load nearly toppled our appointment catalogs daily."
#Georgia #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Courts
"[B]allooning case loads and overwhelmed workers."
"The mental health case load nearly toppled our appointment catalogs daily."
#Georgia #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Courts
Forced Detransitions 'Nearly Toppled' Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"The effects of Georgia's policy of forced detransition for trans prisoners, currently on hold, were disastrous."
"[B]allooning case loads and overwhelmed workers."
"The mental health case load nearly toppled our appointment catalogs daily."
#Georgia #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Courts
"[B]allooning case loads and overwhelmed workers."
"The mental health case load nearly toppled our appointment catalogs daily."
#Georgia #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Courts
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sikhs flock to see rare outing of ancient holy book in Edinburgh
The Guru Granth Sahib is so fragile it was taken to Edinburgh Gurdwara in a special convoy by curators for just a few hours.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...