Tori Marlan
@torimarlan.bsky.social
Journalist | Managing Editor Buffalo’s Fire | Bylines in the US and Canada | The Marshall Project, The Atavist Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, CBC, The Seattle Times, Buzzfeed News, and more. Chicago Reader alum. National Newspaper Award. torimarlan.com
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November 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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My summer archives tour of alt-weekly literary journalism, aka immersion journalism, aka reported longform narrative, 1970s-2001, continues with this astonishment--14,000 unstoppable words from 1999 about brick scavengers by @torimarlan.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/news/brickya...
Brickyard Blues - Chicago Reader
Numbed by cold, pelted by rain, enduring smashed fingers and toes, poorly paid brick salvagers keep coming back for more.
chicagoreader.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My summer archives tour of alt-weekly literary journalism, aka immersion journalism, aka reported longform narrative, 1970s-2001, continues with this astonishment--14,000 unstoppable words from 1999 about brick scavengers by @torimarlan.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/news/brickya...
Tsunami advisory canceled for BC
https://partnerservices.nws.noaa.gov/products/060f23ad75f1afee83c5b7546ce9333f
WEPA41 PAAQ 301320
TSUWCA
BULLETIN
Tsunami Message Number 15
NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK
620 AM PDT Wed Jul 30 2025
BCZ098-099-096-097-301450-
/O.CAN.PAAQ.TS.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-00...
partnerservices.nws.noaa.gov
July 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Tsunami advisory canceled for BC
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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.
ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
www.aclu.org
April 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.
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Good morning from the campaign trail here on the west coast!
Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria.
Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!
Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria.
Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!
April 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Good morning from the campaign trail here on the west coast!
Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria.
Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!
Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria.
Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!
Thrilled to be providing editorial support to this dream team!
Follow Ricochet for on-the-ground #election coverage all next week. shorturl.at/Pz3ez
We've got journalists @stephenmaher.bsky.social, @brandimorin.bsky.social, @karynpugliese.bsky.social, @caradrianh.bsky.social, @jonthompson.bsky.social & @ethancox.bsky.social fanned out across the country. 🗳️
We've got journalists @stephenmaher.bsky.social, @brandimorin.bsky.social, @karynpugliese.bsky.social, @caradrianh.bsky.social, @jonthompson.bsky.social & @ethancox.bsky.social fanned out across the country. 🗳️
April 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Thrilled to be providing editorial support to this dream team!
Aren’t they supposed to also outline the steps they’ve taken, and will take, to facilitate his return?
NEW: A US State Department official tells Judge Xinis that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the CECOT prison, "detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Aren’t they supposed to also outline the steps they’ve taken, and will take, to facilitate his return?
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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
reut.rs
April 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
Residential street, Victoria, B.C.
March 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Residential street, Victoria, B.C.
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This 🎯 article by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is one of the best recaps of the COVID reality, how we got here, and what it means for the present & the future:
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025)
healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025)
healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
healthydebate.ca
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This 🎯 article by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is one of the best recaps of the COVID reality, how we got here, and what it means for the present & the future:
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025)
healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025)
healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
No tsunami expected after this morning’s earthquake because the conditions aren’t right? Or because the Trump admin fired the NOAA staff whose job it is to warn us? Genuinely don’t know.
March 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
No tsunami expected after this morning’s earthquake because the conditions aren’t right? Or because the Trump admin fired the NOAA staff whose job it is to warn us? Genuinely don’t know.
I've started in a new role as the Guest Managing Editor for Buffalo's Fire, an independent news outlet published by the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance.
If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org
If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I've started in a new role as the Guest Managing Editor for Buffalo's Fire, an independent news outlet published by the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance.
If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org
If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org
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An update to this story, via @torimarlan.bsky.social: Tim Durkin, the Man Who Stole a Hotel, has lost all appeals and is being deported from Canada. A scam artist of epic proportions, a manipulator and liar, and now, a Brit. www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-man...
The man who stole a hotel: How Timothy Durkin took control of Sooke Harbour House
A fugitive from the US started fresh on Vancouver Island—then bilked new victims out of millions of dollars while law enforcement refused to act
www.capitaldaily.ca
February 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
An update to this story, via @torimarlan.bsky.social: Tim Durkin, the Man Who Stole a Hotel, has lost all appeals and is being deported from Canada. A scam artist of epic proportions, a manipulator and liar, and now, a Brit. www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-man...
Good.
BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.
AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.
apnews.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Good.
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There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦
February 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦
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Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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To understand what project 2025 really wants, it is worth understanding a little bit about the history of weather services in the US. Like a lot of US history, it runs through Detroit. 🧵
All of this matters because the current administration wants to privatize weather forecasting. This is likely going to cost lives in the US and abroad because we share weather data with countries that can't afford to produce their own.
Don't worry, China is moving to fill in that US sized gap
Don't worry, China is moving to fill in that US sized gap
February 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To understand what project 2025 really wants, it is worth understanding a little bit about the history of weather services in the US. Like a lot of US history, it runs through Detroit. 🧵
So happy to see this beautiful essay out in the world! I've been working with the author, Robert Lee Williams, through Empowerment Avenue, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated writers place their stories. It would mean a lot to him if you'd give it a read!
Trumpet Man
A mystery man sporting a salt-and-pepper afro blew a golden trumpet in the prison yard. His tune took me back to the streets.
www.plough.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:02 PM
So happy to see this beautiful essay out in the world! I've been working with the author, Robert Lee Williams, through Empowerment Avenue, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated writers place their stories. It would mean a lot to him if you'd give it a read!
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Okay, friends, here’s my first starter pack of greater Vancouver and Victoria bike, urbanism or otherwise good people go.bsky.app/4gCwdoT
November 12, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Okay, friends, here’s my first starter pack of greater Vancouver and Victoria bike, urbanism or otherwise good people go.bsky.app/4gCwdoT
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Great longform journalism on the right to be vaccinated with Novavax in Canada (some people can't tolerate, or prefer not to be vaccinated with, the mRNA vaccines.
(free article with email address)
theijf.org/no-good-opti...
(free article with email address)
theijf.org/no-good-opti...
No good option: These Canadians want to be protected against COVID but are unhappy with the choice of vaccines this fall
With COVID again surging, the government has taken away the preferred vaccine for some with autoimmune diseases
theijf.org
September 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Great longform journalism on the right to be vaccinated with Novavax in Canada (some people can't tolerate, or prefer not to be vaccinated with, the mRNA vaccines.
(free article with email address)
theijf.org/no-good-opti...
(free article with email address)
theijf.org/no-good-opti...
Prisoners are reporting physical and psychological effects from the heat. One cell gets so hot in an Alberta prison, the women there refer to it as "The Microwave." But a government policy prohibits the kind of relief they're seeking. My latest for @theijf.org theijf.org/canadian-pri...
Incarcerated people say they’re boiling inside Canadian prisons. They want relief
A government policy prevents prisoners from having regular access to air conditioning. With extreme heat events becoming more frequent, does that policy need to change?
theijf.org
August 7, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Prisoners are reporting physical and psychological effects from the heat. One cell gets so hot in an Alberta prison, the women there refer to it as "The Microwave." But a government policy prohibits the kind of relief they're seeking. My latest for @theijf.org theijf.org/canadian-pri...
Half a year after Melissa McDevitt vanished in the woods, her parents still don't know what happened to her. Not a single item of hers has been found. I spoke with them about the search for their daughter, the strangers who've banded together to help, and the new clue that could break open the case.
New clues help the quest for answers about Melissa McDevitt’s disappearance
The 39-year-old has been missing since Dec. 9 after she embarked on a hike at Sea to Sea park in Sooke
www.capitaldaily.ca
July 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM
Half a year after Melissa McDevitt vanished in the woods, her parents still don't know what happened to her. Not a single item of hers has been found. I spoke with them about the search for their daughter, the strangers who've banded together to help, and the new clue that could break open the case.