Loving ML's immigration reporting in general, but this one hit me hard bc it is the exact story of my family. Also from present-day Ukraine, immigrated to the US just before a 1920 pogrom wiped out their town, & the remaining Jews were later killed in the Holocaust

missionlocal.org/2025/10/the-...

🇺🇦 The reporting trip of a LIFETIME. Grateful to everyone who supported my crazy dream of traveling halfway around the world to my ancestral shtetl in the middle of a warzone. It was worth every air raid alert, drone attack, night spent in the bomb shelter. in awe of the Ukrainian ppl & journalists

Going through some family docs for an upcoming ancestry reporting trip on the other side of the world and found this letter sent to my gma after she became a US citizen. She held on to it until she died. Quite a doc to read in this moment.

Today we launched @eltimpano.bsky.social's inaugural immigration newsletter, written by yours truly! This weekly dispatch will analyze the top immigration headlines through a Bay Area lens, always ensuring that the voices of Latino & Mayan immigrants are front & center. Sign up: www.eltimpano.org

Bay Area friends! Just us next week for this @kalwradio.bsky.social and @eltimpano.bsky.social live event/panel on immigration, moderated by yours truly. Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bay-ag...

In 2020, the composer Scott Ordway spent more than a year traveling across California, collecting firsthand accounts of wildfire and drought from more than 200 people.

Here was his takeaway:

On the panopticon-like surveillance infrastructure already in place along the border - & where it could go from there

www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

On abortion surveillance - www.codastory.com/newsletters/...

The thrust of this piece on the Trump admin's potential instrumentalization of spyware is basically my coverage from 2021-2024. From abortion to immigration, states & agencies across the US have building out an Orwellian surveillance dragnet that is ripe for abuse www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

#journorequest CA labor folks -- I'm looking for people to talk to about occupational injuries + deaths in CA's construction industry, esp ppl who can talk abt rising rates of overdose fatalities. I've had good convos w ppl on the nat'l level, but am still looking to make headway locally

I'm honestly dreading the thought of starting this again but here goes!

www.kqed.org/news/1196966...