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K Petrin
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Currently: JSK Journalism Fellow. Normally: Data & graphics 🧙 @chalkbeat.org. Cofounder @transjournalists.org. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. petrinkae.github.io
this stuff makes me so glad to be colleagues with so many dedicated local journalists + community media journalists
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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.
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
Honestly, go to speed dating or something similar. Or add a profile note like, “I prefer to get to know people in person; let’s grab coffee or go to a hockey game.” A bunch of people on the apps don’t leave the house, and all of the apps have gotten increasingly hard to use.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
That does feel very relevant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“I was but a lad in the late 1990s…”

Same. But a bit later than that.
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Had a brief existential crisis about the phrase “the late 1900s.”

I only took a handful of journalism night classes, and those were all very “pyramid structure,” etc.
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Did they ever? (I read Barthes, but didn’t go to j school…)
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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