olivia paschal
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writer & editor | history phd at UVA | organizing with ucwva-uva local 2265 | thinking about capitalism, neoliberalism, big business, and arkansas
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
an intense year on the dissertation front meant a pretty quiet year on the writing front, with a few exceptions. I published an article recovering women’s labor on industrializing chicken farms in Agricultural History’s Spring issue: read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
Chicken Woman: Gender and Labor in the Early Arkansas Poultry Industry
Abstract. Rural farm women were chickens’ earliest caretakers and did not, as some literature has suggested, disappear from the work of chicken farming as poultry industrialized. From World War II thr...
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December 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
an intense year on the dissertation front meant a pretty quiet year on the writing front, with a few exceptions. I published an article recovering women’s labor on industrializing chicken farms in Agricultural History’s Spring issue: read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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UVA hoops shot 27% from the field in the first half in protest of an illegitimate president ✊
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
UVA hoops shot 27% from the field in the first half in protest of an illegitimate president ✊
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Bitter cold, strong winds, and heavy rains hit Gaza last week, killing more than a dozen people after tents flooded and walls collapsed over already damaged homes that some residents had returned to, Nadera Mushtha reports: https://prismreports.org/2025/12/16/gaza-storm-byron/
Deadly storm creates yet another bitter struggle in Gaza
More than a dozen people were killed after Storm Byron swept through, flooding tents and collapsing walls of homes already damaged by Israeli bombs
prismreports.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Bitter cold, strong winds, and heavy rains hit Gaza last week, killing more than a dozen people after tents flooded and walls collapsed over already damaged homes that some residents had returned to, Nadera Mushtha reports: https://prismreports.org/2025/12/16/gaza-storm-byron/
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
good grief!!!!
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
good grief!!!!
haha what the hell
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
haha what the hell
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See? Just like Brett said. A temporary inconvenience and then all's well!
America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
See? Just like Brett said. A temporary inconvenience and then all's well!
teaching today about the recession & the rise of private equity in the housing market, which means i'm talking about larry summers and tom barrack, both of whom made prominent appearances in the epstein files. makes you think!
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
teaching today about the recession & the rise of private equity in the housing market, which means i'm talking about larry summers and tom barrack, both of whom made prominent appearances in the epstein files. makes you think!
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I’m investigating university partnerships with ICE for @prismreports.org with support from the lovely editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social
📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at [email protected]
⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address
📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at [email protected]
⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I’m investigating university partnerships with ICE for @prismreports.org with support from the lovely editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social
📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at [email protected]
⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address
📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at [email protected]
⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address
i refuse to pay for SECN+ so at least i dont have to watch the hogs do whatever it is they’re doing rn
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
i refuse to pay for SECN+ so at least i dont have to watch the hogs do whatever it is they’re doing rn
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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these people were supposed to be the cream of the crop of the industry, btw
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
these people were supposed to be the cream of the crop of the industry, btw
this man should no longer have a job where he is teaching undergraduate or frankly graduate students. get him out of the classroom. unbelievable he's been allowed to stay this long.
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement.
Crimson News Staff report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Crimson News Staff report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a…
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
this man should no longer have a job where he is teaching undergraduate or frankly graduate students. get him out of the classroom. unbelievable he's been allowed to stay this long.
fighting an uphill reputational battle against all the embarrassing Olivias in the world
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
fighting an uphill reputational battle against all the embarrassing Olivias in the world
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
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More on ICE/CBP trespassing at a church to abduct a father in front of his family while the congregation did landscaping work, from an eyewitness. Reporting by @charlotteobserver.com
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
More on ICE/CBP trespassing at a church to abduct a father in front of his family while the congregation did landscaping work, from an eyewitness. Reporting by @charlotteobserver.com
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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normal things happening
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
normal things happening
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UVA Pres. Ryan's letter isn't just about the DOJ though. It credibly details dubious conduct from many people who were supposed to put UVA's interests first and didn't (likely because they agreed with DOJ's far-right pressure campaign): the Board, the AG, outside counsel, etc.
Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
UVA Pres. Ryan's letter isn't just about the DOJ though. It credibly details dubious conduct from many people who were supposed to put UVA's interests first and didn't (likely because they agreed with DOJ's far-right pressure campaign): the Board, the AG, outside counsel, etc.
today at UVA's faculty senate meeting i heard some faculty (and, apparently, our current interim president tho i wasn't in the room for this) assert that nobody's academic freedom is impinged/nobody is self-censoring bc of these DOJ agreements to which i say, lol
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
today at UVA's faculty senate meeting i heard some faculty (and, apparently, our current interim president tho i wasn't in the room for this) assert that nobody's academic freedom is impinged/nobody is self-censoring bc of these DOJ agreements to which i say, lol
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia