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Isabeau Doucet
@isabeau.bsky.social
Journo, producer, polyglot, migrant.
“If I were an immigration practitioner now, I’d tell my clients that they have to act like they’re in a war zone,” said retired immigration judge Dana Leigh Marks, calling the destruction of immigration courts "the canaries in the coalmine.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
September 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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🎙️Less than 1/3 of WI's new budget for childcare will go directly to childcare providers. But it doesn't have to be this way. @isabeau.bsky.social tells Douglas Haynes about how Quebec created a successful and popular universal childcare system.

Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-proven-mod...
A Proven Model of Universal Childcare Exists - WORT-FM 89.9
On today’s show, journalist Isabeau Doucet shares how one state made an investment in universal childcare and changed its entire economy.
www.wortfm.org
July 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The day after Elon Musk assured us there was “no interruption” in Ebola prevention

the Trump administration cancelled almost all Ebola-related contracts

Along with HIV medications for kids

And polio vaccines

And malaria programs

We will regret this

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I spent weeks interviewing Palestinians from Gaza and investigating the Kafkaesque nightmare they face when seeking refuge in the US. They fled the abyss of horrors in Gaza only to find their Palestinian identity doesn’t exist for US immigration purposes: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Palestinians seeking US refuge face a Kafkaesque nightmare. Trump could make it even worse
Gaza has been besieged for 14 months, but the US has hardly accepted any refugees
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Palestinians from Gaza are facing unprecedented violence yet are largely excluded from the international refugee system. @isabeau.bsky.social has a powerful investigation looking at how this can be

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Gaza has been besieged for 14 months. The US has hardly accepted any refugees
Palestinians seeking urgent protection in the US must navigate a Kafkaesque system that’s unique to them – and it could get worse under Trump
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM