Carolyn Copeland
@carolyncopes.bsky.social
Managing editor @prismreports.org | NABJ member | 2024 @maynardinstitute.bsky.social fellow | SF Bay Area born & raised
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In this story that @prismreports.org republished from @19thnews.org: a powerful look at how immigrant women are detained in the days and weeks after giving birth, facing medical neglect, separation from their newborns, and ongoing trauma in ICE custody. prismreports.org/2025/12/02/p...
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Nayra Guzmán was arrested 15 days after the difficult birth of her daughter. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE
prismreports.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In this story that @prismreports.org republished from @19thnews.org: a powerful look at how immigrant women are detained in the days and weeks after giving birth, facing medical neglect, separation from their newborns, and ongoing trauma in ICE custody. prismreports.org/2025/12/02/p...
If you didn't love Costco already... www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you didn't love Costco already... www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
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Yesterday, through a flurry of interviews & phone calls, @tinavasquez.bsky.social wrote this excellent report on the immigration raids in cities across North Carolina. She spoke to community members about the devastation & fear, as well as the love & resistance.
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/n...
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/n...
North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate
As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities
prismreports.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yesterday, through a flurry of interviews & phone calls, @tinavasquez.bsky.social wrote this excellent report on the immigration raids in cities across North Carolina. She spoke to community members about the devastation & fear, as well as the love & resistance.
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/n...
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/n...
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BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
An F.B.I. Trainee Hung a Pride Flag Near His Desk. He Says He Was Fired for It.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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a cartoon mouse is standing in front of a blue door
Alt: a cartoon mouse is standing in front of a blue door
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November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I. CANNOT. WAIT.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I. CANNOT. WAIT.
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"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
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Helping Mamdani's transition on economic policy issues: former FTC Chair Lina Khan www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Fresh off of a historic election victory, Mamdani names his transition team
A slate of women leaders with experience across three New York City administrations will help smooth the path for the political novice.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Helping Mamdani's transition on economic policy issues: former FTC Chair Lina Khan www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Free bread for those in need.
A reader sent me this photo taken at Great Harvest Bread Company in Cedar Rapids.
A reader sent me this photo taken at Great Harvest Bread Company in Cedar Rapids.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Free bread for those in need.
A reader sent me this photo taken at Great Harvest Bread Company in Cedar Rapids.
A reader sent me this photo taken at Great Harvest Bread Company in Cedar Rapids.
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A previous report found private hiring accelerated after a historic decline.
U.S. Private Sector Added 42,000 Jobs Last Month—More Than Expected
A previous report found private hiring accelerated after a historic decline.
www.forbes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A previous report found private hiring accelerated after a historic decline.
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That’s not how any of this works. Billionaires don’t work 1,000,000x harder than working class people.
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
That’s not how any of this works. Billionaires don’t work 1,000,000x harder than working class people.
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Food insecurity is also likely to escalate disordered eating patterns among marginalized groups, as my first longform story was about how oppression factors into mainstream treatment for eating disorders, so this will cost BIPOC LGBTQIA+ disabled lives in particular: prismreports.org/2023/09/13/b...
October 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Food insecurity is also likely to escalate disordered eating patterns among marginalized groups, as my first longform story was about how oppression factors into mainstream treatment for eating disorders, so this will cost BIPOC LGBTQIA+ disabled lives in particular: prismreports.org/2023/09/13/b...
This is wild! A human skull found floating along a riverbank in Fayette County, Indiana, has been determined to be more than 4,200 years old.
fox59.com/news/indynew...
fox59.com/news/indynew...
fox59.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is wild! A human skull found floating along a riverbank in Fayette County, Indiana, has been determined to be more than 4,200 years old.
fox59.com/news/indynew...
fox59.com/news/indynew...
Whelp, it only took two days of preschool, but my 3-year-old is now sick with her first school-related virus 🥲
October 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Whelp, it only took two days of preschool, but my 3-year-old is now sick with her first school-related virus 🥲
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Have you read my latest investigation into gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program? You can here, or at @prismreports.org:
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Have you read my latest investigation into gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program? You can here, or at @prismreports.org:
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SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
www.thehandbasket.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
NEW: Tony Award-winning playwright & activist V has turned her attention to the climate crisis through her newest work, “Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth.”
The musical is touring Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City starting this month.
prismreports.org/2025/09/25/d...
The musical is touring Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City starting this month.
prismreports.org/2025/09/25/d...
‘Dear Everything’ musical fights for the Earth’s future
The creator of “The Vagina Monologues” channels activism into new musical that blends youth voices, grassroots organizing, and climate justice
prismreports.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
NEW: Tony Award-winning playwright & activist V has turned her attention to the climate crisis through her newest work, “Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth.”
The musical is touring Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City starting this month.
prismreports.org/2025/09/25/d...
The musical is touring Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City starting this month.
prismreports.org/2025/09/25/d...
Apologize to Charlie Kirk's family for what, exactly? He didn't insult Charlie Kirk. If anything, the most they should expect is a correction from him for suggesting the shooter was right-wing.
people.com/jimmy-kimmel...
people.com/jimmy-kimmel...
Jimmy Kimmel Asked to Apologize and Pay Charlie Kirk's Family if He Wants Suspension Lifted by Nation's Largest ABC Affiliate
Jimmy Kimmel has been given a list of demands for 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' to return to air by Sinclair, the broadcasting company with the nation's largest ABC affiliate group, after the show was pulled i...
people.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Apologize to Charlie Kirk's family for what, exactly? He didn't insult Charlie Kirk. If anything, the most they should expect is a correction from him for suggesting the shooter was right-wing.
people.com/jimmy-kimmel...
people.com/jimmy-kimmel...
Two states just repealed outdated HIV criminalization laws--a major win for science, public health, and basic dignity. These laws fueled stigma and disproportionately harmed Black communities and people living with HIV.
prismreports.org/2025/09/17/h...
prismreports.org/2025/09/17/h...
As some states repeal HIV criminalization, activists keep momentum
North Dakota and Maryland are the latest states to repeal laws that make it a crime to expose someone to HIV without their knowledge
prismreports.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Two states just repealed outdated HIV criminalization laws--a major win for science, public health, and basic dignity. These laws fueled stigma and disproportionately harmed Black communities and people living with HIV.
prismreports.org/2025/09/17/h...
prismreports.org/2025/09/17/h...
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Democratic Party leadership is calling for the resignation of FCC Chair Brandon Carr.
They say he disgraced his office by coercing ABC to bend the knee to the Trump admin.
Carr threatened the broadcaster and its affiliates, using his power in violation of the First Amendment.
They say he disgraced his office by coercing ABC to bend the knee to the Trump admin.
Carr threatened the broadcaster and its affiliates, using his power in violation of the First Amendment.
September 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Democratic Party leadership is calling for the resignation of FCC Chair Brandon Carr.
They say he disgraced his office by coercing ABC to bend the knee to the Trump admin.
Carr threatened the broadcaster and its affiliates, using his power in violation of the First Amendment.
They say he disgraced his office by coercing ABC to bend the knee to the Trump admin.
Carr threatened the broadcaster and its affiliates, using his power in violation of the First Amendment.
Yikes
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yikes
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"Family members said that the man was released from the hospital after he said he was tased in the face while being taken into federal custody."
U.S. citizen tased and detained during ICE operation in Des Plaines, Illinois
Edgar Ruiz said he was tased in the face during an ICE operation outside a 7-Eleven store in Des Plaines on Tuesday morning.
www.cbsnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Family members said that the man was released from the hospital after he said he was tased in the face while being taken into federal custody."
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The U.S. government is adding more questions to the civics test that applicants need to pass to become American citizens, the latest step by the Trump administration to tighten the legal immigration process.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citi...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citi...
U.S. adding more questions to citizenship test in latest step to overhaul legal immigration process
The U.S. government is adding more questions to the civics test that applicants need to pass to become American citizens.
www.cbsnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The U.S. government is adding more questions to the civics test that applicants need to pass to become American citizens, the latest step by the Trump administration to tighten the legal immigration process.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citi...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citi...
NEW: Hundreds of Li'l Abner mobile home residents in Sweetwater, Florida, are fighting eviction and for their right to buy the land beneath their homes.
Read what’s at stake in one of Miami-Dade’s last affordable communities.
prismreports.org/2025/09/10/l...
Read what’s at stake in one of Miami-Dade’s last affordable communities.
prismreports.org/2025/09/10/l...
Florida judges pause Li’l Abner evictions, as residents assert right to buy
Residents are fighting eviction from the mobile home park in Florida, which the owner seeks to redevelop into “affordable” housing apartments
prismreports.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NEW: Hundreds of Li'l Abner mobile home residents in Sweetwater, Florida, are fighting eviction and for their right to buy the land beneath their homes.
Read what’s at stake in one of Miami-Dade’s last affordable communities.
prismreports.org/2025/09/10/l...
Read what’s at stake in one of Miami-Dade’s last affordable communities.
prismreports.org/2025/09/10/l...
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A new report from @prismreports.org reveals how mainstream newsrooms across the country have been silencing journalists—particularly those who are Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim—in their reporting of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt
A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023
ow.ly
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A new report from @prismreports.org reveals how mainstream newsrooms across the country have been silencing journalists—particularly those who are Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim—in their reporting of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.