Wilder Fleming
@wilderflemng.bsky.social
Public Radio & whatnot.
Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. For nearly 1/3 of those lives lost, no 'manner of death' is listed, according to a @themarshallproject.org analysis. Watch (and listen) for our six-part series via @wbur.org's Here & Now. First story here: wbur.fm/3VCGLyZ
Jail death data finds ‘natural causes’ and ‘unavailable' the top causes of death
Over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails, according to data compiled by The Marshall Project.
wbur.fm
September 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. For nearly 1/3 of those lives lost, no 'manner of death' is listed, according to a @themarshallproject.org analysis. Watch (and listen) for our six-part series via @wbur.org's Here & Now. First story here: wbur.fm/3VCGLyZ
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For some reason when we posted this same video on LinkedIn on the Bellingcat account it was removed "for misinformation" with no further explanation.
September 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
For some reason when we posted this same video on LinkedIn on the Bellingcat account it was removed "for misinformation" with no further explanation.
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An important piece of context to the Boston mayor’s race: the $5.5 million Josh Kraft spent to fund his campaign represents just 0.04% of his dad’s $13.8 billion fortune.
All that to lose to @wutrain.bsky.social by 49 points and in every ward of every neighborhood.
All that to lose to @wutrain.bsky.social by 49 points and in every ward of every neighborhood.
September 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
An important piece of context to the Boston mayor’s race: the $5.5 million Josh Kraft spent to fund his campaign represents just 0.04% of his dad’s $13.8 billion fortune.
All that to lose to @wutrain.bsky.social by 49 points and in every ward of every neighborhood.
All that to lose to @wutrain.bsky.social by 49 points and in every ward of every neighborhood.
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Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
September 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
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Actually I love it when someone declares a thing you wouldn’t think of as art to be art. It’s such a middle finger to the idea of what gets to be art by capitalist and classist standards. There’s no catalyst for this thought, just regular old adhd void-staring.
September 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Actually I love it when someone declares a thing you wouldn’t think of as art to be art. It’s such a middle finger to the idea of what gets to be art by capitalist and classist standards. There’s no catalyst for this thought, just regular old adhd void-staring.
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I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
July 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
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Today I will receive the copy edit for Tales of the Suburbs, my book on LGBTQ+ people and suburbia. The copy editor Jenni worked on my last book too. She is a riot. And also brilliant. A good copy edit is like therapy, or dancing
June 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Today I will receive the copy edit for Tales of the Suburbs, my book on LGBTQ+ people and suburbia. The copy editor Jenni worked on my last book too. She is a riot. And also brilliant. A good copy edit is like therapy, or dancing
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New England land-use policy has a sort of primal evilness that is unmatched anywhere else in the US. A toxic combination of "I got mine" selfishness, xenophobic stupidity, and presumptuous "I should have a say in everything" busybody culture.
www.newstimes.com/news/article...
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Plan to build 21 senior apartments on 5-acre lot at Newtown-Southbury border decried as ‘only greed’
“There’s no need for the zone change. Only greed,” said nearby resident Edward Friedman.
www.newstimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New England land-use policy has a sort of primal evilness that is unmatched anywhere else in the US. A toxic combination of "I got mine" selfishness, xenophobic stupidity, and presumptuous "I should have a say in everything" busybody culture.
www.newstimes.com/news/article...
www.newstimes.com/news/article...
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Can't stop thinking about this. Hospitalisations due to violence in UK are less than a QUARTER what they were 25 years ago, but nobody feels safer, do they? What gives? Nagging thought: is it because people see so much serious violence online?
June 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Can't stop thinking about this. Hospitalisations due to violence in UK are less than a QUARTER what they were 25 years ago, but nobody feels safer, do they? What gives? Nagging thought: is it because people see so much serious violence online?
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Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street.
All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants.
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All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants.
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Opinion | The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A.
Masked immigration officials are storming towns and arresting people.
wapo.st
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street.
All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants.
wapo.st/4kIGFke
All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants.
wapo.st/4kIGFke
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The ICE facility in a Burlington office park was never supposed to be a detention center. But it's where many people have been kept for days or weeks in "abysmal" conditions after being arrested by ICE. Great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social
ICE holding immigrants in 'abysmal' conditions at Burlington office building, lawyers say
ICE is detaining immigrants in a Burlington office park building that wasn't designed as a holding facility. Lawyers say conditions there are "abysmal" and "unsanitary."
www.wbur.org
June 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The ICE facility in a Burlington office park was never supposed to be a detention center. But it's where many people have been kept for days or weeks in "abysmal" conditions after being arrested by ICE. Great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador, is on his way back to the U.S., his lawyer tells NPR.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on his way back to the U.S. from El Salvador, lawyer says
Abrego Garcia is expected to immediately face criminal charges in the U.S. for transporting migrants without legal status around the country, according to a Justice Department indictment.
www.wbur.org
June 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador, is on his way back to the U.S., his lawyer tells NPR.
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You know how some fish have swim bladders?? Well, what if I told you that swim bladders EVOLVED FROM LUNGS.
June 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
You know how some fish have swim bladders?? Well, what if I told you that swim bladders EVOLVED FROM LUNGS.
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If you thought housing affordability was a problem now, imagine a world a year from now where nearly every key material subject to a giant tariff and huge segments of the undocumented construction workforce have been deported. My latest for @reason.com:
reason.com/2025/06/01/t...
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Hw Trump's tariffs and immigration policies could make housing even more expensive
Out-of-control housing costs helped Trump win the 2024 election. Is he about to make the problem worse?
reason.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you thought housing affordability was a problem now, imagine a world a year from now where nearly every key material subject to a giant tariff and huge segments of the undocumented construction workforce have been deported. My latest for @reason.com:
reason.com/2025/06/01/t...
reason.com/2025/06/01/t...
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When I started researching their methods of an entry, I thought finding 4 such cases would be an unbelievable crime and scandal. In the end, it’s apparent that at least four DOZEN were legal immigrants who came with advanced permission. www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...
50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to US Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law
The US government not only denied these men due process; it has generally failed to provide their families, their attorneys, or the public any information about what it alleges these men did to deserv...
www.cato.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
When I started researching their methods of an entry, I thought finding 4 such cases would be an unbelievable crime and scandal. In the end, it’s apparent that at least four DOZEN were legal immigrants who came with advanced permission. www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...
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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.
Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research
The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One...
www.wbur.org
May 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.
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The Trump admin's seemingly arbitrary VA cuts put Paul Hsieh's career in question, after years spent working on a groundbreaking genetic database.
Now the uncertainty has forced him to uproot his life, selling his home and moving away from his town of 30 years.
brookline.news/the-world-st...
Now the uncertainty has forced him to uproot his life, selling his home and moving away from his town of 30 years.
brookline.news/the-world-st...
'The world stopped making sense': How Trump's VA cuts uprooted the life and career of a Brookline researcher - Brookline.News
Paul Hsieh has lived in Brookline for 30 years. For half of that time, he’s worked for the federal Department of Veterans Affairs as a health sciences specialist on a project collecting genetic data a...
brookline.news
April 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Trump admin's seemingly arbitrary VA cuts put Paul Hsieh's career in question, after years spent working on a groundbreaking genetic database.
Now the uncertainty has forced him to uproot his life, selling his home and moving away from his town of 30 years.
brookline.news/the-world-st...
Now the uncertainty has forced him to uproot his life, selling his home and moving away from his town of 30 years.
brookline.news/the-world-st...
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President Donald Trump’s new administration has reignited conversations about the safety of judges, as threats and instances of violence against them increase annually.
‘We have to feel safe’: Women judges advocate for their safety as threats against them rise
In the last decade, serious threats against judges have more than doubled. President Donald Trump’s new administration has put a national spotlight on the issue.
19thnews.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
President Donald Trump’s new administration has reignited conversations about the safety of judges, as threats and instances of violence against them increase annually.
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We're delighted to announce that Heatmap has won a National Magazine Award for Service Journalism!
Thank you to ASME for recognizing our project on personal climate action, Decarbonize Your Life.
Special shout out and thanks to our partner, @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 💡
Thank you to ASME for recognizing our project on personal climate action, Decarbonize Your Life.
Special shout out and thanks to our partner, @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 💡
April 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
We're delighted to announce that Heatmap has won a National Magazine Award for Service Journalism!
Thank you to ASME for recognizing our project on personal climate action, Decarbonize Your Life.
Special shout out and thanks to our partner, @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 💡
Thank you to ASME for recognizing our project on personal climate action, Decarbonize Your Life.
Special shout out and thanks to our partner, @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 💡
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I'll be interviewing Bluesky's CEO @jay.bsky.team tomorrow for this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social. Lemme know what you want to hear us discuss!
April 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'll be interviewing Bluesky's CEO @jay.bsky.team tomorrow for this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social. Lemme know what you want to hear us discuss!
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FEMA is blocking the reimbursement of funds to local government in El Paso City and County, as well as to local charities, if they do not give the names of migrants who received aid.
My story for the El Paso Times.
My story for the El Paso Times.
FEMA blocks reimbursement funds to El Paso charities, demanding immigrant names
President Donald Trump's FEMA has blocked the reimbursement of funds to El Paso charities and government for migrant response, demanding migrant names
www.elpasotimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
FEMA is blocking the reimbursement of funds to local government in El Paso City and County, as well as to local charities, if they do not give the names of migrants who received aid.
My story for the El Paso Times.
My story for the El Paso Times.
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As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — known as “underwriting.”
Feds look into underwriting practices at WBUR and other public media outlets
As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — kn...
www.wbur.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — known as “underwriting.”
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The US Indian Health Service (IHS) is chronically underfunded and has a 30% vacancy rate, despite health care being a treaty obligation.
Covering NM, I have lost count of how many times I’ve heard the Indigenous refrain, “just don’t get sick before October” (the start of the federal fiscal year).
Covering NM, I have lost count of how many times I’ve heard the Indigenous refrain, “just don’t get sick before October” (the start of the federal fiscal year).
BREAKING: Federal Layoffs Target Indian Health Service, Threatening Healthcare Access Across Indian Country
The Indian Health Service faces losing 2,500 employees in new federal layoffs, nearly triple initial estimates, warns the top executive of a national Native health organization. The cuts would further...
nativenewsonline.net
February 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The US Indian Health Service (IHS) is chronically underfunded and has a 30% vacancy rate, despite health care being a treaty obligation.
Covering NM, I have lost count of how many times I’ve heard the Indigenous refrain, “just don’t get sick before October” (the start of the federal fiscal year).
Covering NM, I have lost count of how many times I’ve heard the Indigenous refrain, “just don’t get sick before October” (the start of the federal fiscal year).
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