Sophie Hayssen
@shayssen.bsky.social
journalist & a pleasure to have in class
previously: Mother Jones editorial fellow/personality hire
Email: sahayssen (at) gmail dot com
https://www.sophiehayssen.com/portfolio
previously: Mother Jones editorial fellow/personality hire
Email: sahayssen (at) gmail dot com
https://www.sophiehayssen.com/portfolio
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Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”
www.thecut.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
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The nominee to lead DHS’s intel arm (I&A) says officers may use fake identities to enter private chats. His comfort with this type of covert entry should alarm Congress before it votes, warns @sreynolds.bsky.social.
www.justsecurity.org/116094/dhs-i...
www.justsecurity.org/116094/dhs-i...
Incoming DHS Intelligence Lead Promotes Unlawful Activities
The public, Congress, and the media should insist that the DHS's domestic intelligence practices be sunset, rather than expanded.
www.justsecurity.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The nominee to lead DHS’s intel arm (I&A) says officers may use fake identities to enter private chats. His comfort with this type of covert entry should alarm Congress before it votes, warns @sreynolds.bsky.social.
www.justsecurity.org/116094/dhs-i...
www.justsecurity.org/116094/dhs-i...
So excited to share that the package @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social and I fact checked for @motherjones.com is listed a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 😆
May 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So excited to share that the package @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social and I fact checked for @motherjones.com is listed a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 😆
My latest for @teenvogue.com. It was a joy to write and a nice reminder of the power we all have to advocate within our communities. Thank you to my editor @allegrak.bsky.social for making this story possible.
For years, students hosted tours that cover some darker aspects of UVA's history, like the Unite the Right rally + how enslaved workers built the institution
After backlash from a conservative alumni group, the school ended the student group's special status
www.teenvogue.com/story/uva-hi...
After backlash from a conservative alumni group, the school ended the student group's special status
www.teenvogue.com/story/uva-hi...
UVA Tried To Shut Down Its Historical Tours Discussing Slavery. These Students Resisted.
A conservative alumni group took issue with the discussion of difficult parts of UVA’s history.
www.teenvogue.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My latest for @teenvogue.com. It was a joy to write and a nice reminder of the power we all have to advocate within our communities. Thank you to my editor @allegrak.bsky.social for making this story possible.
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Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
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Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
wisdems.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
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This long New Yorker piece is ostensibly about police malfeasance but really shows the extent to which the state enforces men’s presumptive right to use sexual force against women. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
www.newyorker.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This long New Yorker piece is ostensibly about police malfeasance but really shows the extent to which the state enforces men’s presumptive right to use sexual force against women. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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STUDENT JOURNALISTS: If you need a press pass to help you cover anti-war actions at your school, please email us! We can provide digital passes without charge ASAP! freelancejournalists+presspass@iww.org
April 25, 2024 at 11:12 PM
STUDENT JOURNALISTS: If you need a press pass to help you cover anti-war actions at your school, please email us! We can provide digital passes without charge ASAP! freelancejournalists+presspass@iww.org
Wrote a short follow up to this for my substack talking about the dangers of university surveillance in the age of ICE and Trump 2.0.
sophiehayssen.substack.com/p/silence-su...
sophiehayssen.substack.com/p/silence-su...
March 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wrote a short follow up to this for my substack talking about the dangers of university surveillance in the age of ICE and Trump 2.0.
sophiehayssen.substack.com/p/silence-su...
sophiehayssen.substack.com/p/silence-su...
I know there are much bigger problems in the world but the fact that government records are PAYWALLED, sometimes prohibitively, makes me ILL
March 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I know there are much bigger problems in the world but the fact that government records are PAYWALLED, sometimes prohibitively, makes me ILL
adrien brody is who people think jeremy strong is.
March 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
adrien brody is who people think jeremy strong is.
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“It comes back to the question of: safety for who?”
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
Universities used pro-Palestine protests to expand surveillance
New technology and support from law enforcement and federal agencies allows universities to monitor student activists like never before
prismreports.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“It comes back to the question of: safety for who?”
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
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Universities nationwide used pro-Palestine protests to expand surveillance, @shayssen.bsky.social reports. New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities to monitor student activists like never before.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
Universities used pro-Palestine protests to expand surveillance
New technology and support from law enforcement and federal agencies allows universities to monitor student activists like never before
prismreports.org
February 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Universities nationwide used pro-Palestine protests to expand surveillance, @shayssen.bsky.social reports. New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities to monitor student activists like never before.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
well the blake lively discourse just took a very antisemitic turn
February 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
well the blake lively discourse just took a very antisemitic turn
airline pilots should make at least a million dollars a year and i'm not even joking.
February 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
airline pilots should make at least a million dollars a year and i'm not even joking.
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What do we think they’re chatting about during the commercial break
February 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
What do we think they’re chatting about during the commercial break
Elite level headline 10/10 no notes
February 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Elite level headline 10/10 no notes
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My 100th birthday... in prison? - This is abuse.
February 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My 100th birthday... in prison? - This is abuse.
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
(Scroll down.)
(Scroll down.)
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An attack on women’s access to paid work.
nativist populism, except it's the world's richest man, a foreigner, unconstitutionally witholding congressionally appropriated funds for American preschoolers
February 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
An attack on women’s access to paid work.
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If you are LGBTQ at the CDC/NIH/NSF/etc. or your research intersects with LGBTQ folks and you want to speak with a journalist--
Or if you are a researcher on climate at CDC/NSF/EPA--
email me at hcarnell@cir.og or signal me at hcarnell.58.
Or if you are a researcher on climate at CDC/NSF/EPA--
email me at hcarnell@cir.og or signal me at hcarnell.58.
February 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you are LGBTQ at the CDC/NIH/NSF/etc. or your research intersects with LGBTQ folks and you want to speak with a journalist--
Or if you are a researcher on climate at CDC/NSF/EPA--
email me at hcarnell@cir.og or signal me at hcarnell.58.
Or if you are a researcher on climate at CDC/NSF/EPA--
email me at hcarnell@cir.og or signal me at hcarnell.58.
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NEW: Republican Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has drafted a constitutional amendment aimed at allowing Donald Trump to serve a third term as president.
Ogles is proposing the U.S. Constitution be changed to accommodate Trump.
In November, Trump joked about seeking a third term to House…
Ogles is proposing the U.S. Constitution be changed to accommodate Trump.
In November, Trump joked about seeking a third term to House…
January 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
NEW: Republican Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has drafted a constitutional amendment aimed at allowing Donald Trump to serve a third term as president.
Ogles is proposing the U.S. Constitution be changed to accommodate Trump.
In November, Trump joked about seeking a third term to House…
Ogles is proposing the U.S. Constitution be changed to accommodate Trump.
In November, Trump joked about seeking a third term to House…
Congrats to @motherjones.com reporters and my former colleagues @msjpauly.bsky.social and @hencarnell.bsky.social who got a GLAAD nom for their piece on conversion therapy! Check it out.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.
Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.
www.motherjones.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Congrats to @motherjones.com reporters and my former colleagues @msjpauly.bsky.social and @hencarnell.bsky.social who got a GLAAD nom for their piece on conversion therapy! Check it out.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
do any journalists out there have advice about how to get in touch with the DHS? I want to speak to them for a story and have exhausted all obvious routes of communication.
January 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
do any journalists out there have advice about how to get in touch with the DHS? I want to speak to them for a story and have exhausted all obvious routes of communication.
These times of utter devastation are a great opportunity to broaden our political imagination and rebuild communities with affordability and sustainability in mind. Will that actually happen? Probably no, but it's a nice concept.
January 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
These times of utter devastation are a great opportunity to broaden our political imagination and rebuild communities with affordability and sustainability in mind. Will that actually happen? Probably no, but it's a nice concept.