Julia Haslanger
@juliajrh.bsky.social
📰 Fan of newsrooms + data 📈
🏙️ Based in Chicago
🧀 Cheesehead
🏙️ Based in Chicago
🧀 Cheesehead
Just rebranded an open-face toasted PB&J as "PB&J pizza" in order to get my 4-year-old kid to eat it. Success.
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just rebranded an open-face toasted PB&J as "PB&J pizza" in order to get my 4-year-old kid to eat it. Success.
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Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
Rough times to love and care about a trans person, of any age.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Rough times to love and care about a trans person, of any age.
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the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
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ICE just moved through Rogers Park, headed north into Evanston. The RP community response has not gotten slower in the winter. A lot of folks were out in the streets the moment they got off Lake Shore Drive. Everyone on the North Side is on high alert today. Stay ready.
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
ICE just moved through Rogers Park, headed north into Evanston. The RP community response has not gotten slower in the winter. A lot of folks were out in the streets the moment they got off Lake Shore Drive. Everyone on the North Side is on high alert today. Stay ready.
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This award recognizes extraordinary journalism done in the face of ethical challenges. We know how often such challenges arise while doing important work. Enter yours!
Journalists, editors, ethics enthusiasts! We're open for your nominations for the 2026 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics. Deadline is January 15, 2026. All the info here⬇️:
ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/shadid-award...
ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/shadid-award...
Shadid Award Nomination
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks nominations for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics. Now in its 17th year, the Shadid Award recognizes ethical ...
ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This award recognizes extraordinary journalism done in the face of ethical challenges. We know how often such challenges arise while doing important work. Enter yours!
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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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It feels extra cruel and intentional for CBP and Bovino to come back to Chicago, especially hard hit immigrant nhoods, one week before Christmas. These are strategies to abduct people but also about psychological terror meant to keep vulnerable community members afraid.
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It feels extra cruel and intentional for CBP and Bovino to come back to Chicago, especially hard hit immigrant nhoods, one week before Christmas. These are strategies to abduct people but also about psychological terror meant to keep vulnerable community members afraid.
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A church "was hosting a holiday food giveaway with crowds bundled up outside waiting for food when Border Patrol agents showed up," and
"Students ... were escorted back into the building by teachers who put up barricades as crowds formed around agents’ vehicles, @blockclubchi.bsky.social reports
"Students ... were escorted back into the building by teachers who put up barricades as crowds formed around agents’ vehicles, @blockclubchi.bsky.social reports
Border Patrol Boss Bovino Back In Chicago As Agents Target Southwest Side
Bovino and about 200 Border Patrol agents have arrived in Chicago for more enforcement action, sources said.
blockclubchicago.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A church "was hosting a holiday food giveaway with crowds bundled up outside waiting for food when Border Patrol agents showed up," and
"Students ... were escorted back into the building by teachers who put up barricades as crowds formed around agents’ vehicles, @blockclubchi.bsky.social reports
"Students ... were escorted back into the building by teachers who put up barricades as crowds formed around agents’ vehicles, @blockclubchi.bsky.social reports
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The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
Excited to see that @inquirer.com made the "Best" part of this list. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
MOBILE VERSION: The Ten Best (and Five Worst) Pieces of Trans Journalism of 2025 — Assigned
A definitive ranking of trans journalism in 2025.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Excited to see that @inquirer.com made the "Best" part of this list. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
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Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
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this is a wild story, and a great example of the kind of incident that would get no scrutiny without local media: www.inquirer.com/news/temple-...
Properties around Temple U. weren’t selling — until a real estate agent nearly doubled the asking prices
It's a buyer's market around Temple University. But clients of Pat Fay, a real estate agent in Old City, have paid about 99% over the original listing on dozens of properties.
www.inquirer.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
this is a wild story, and a great example of the kind of incident that would get no scrutiny without local media: www.inquirer.com/news/temple-...
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Anyway, a very good FOIA to file this morning would be for all emails and calls received in the last 24 hours by the immigration “judge” who issued the order.
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Anyway, a very good FOIA to file this morning would be for all emails and calls received in the last 24 hours by the immigration “judge” who issued the order.
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"Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?"
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
magazine.atavist.com/2025/14445-a...
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
magazine.atavist.com/2025/14445-a...
14,445 and Counting - The Atavist Magazine
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
magazine.atavist.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?"
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
magazine.atavist.com/2025/14445-a...
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
magazine.atavist.com/2025/14445-a...
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Rivera warned supervisors that Baker was a reckless cop, according to the lawsuit, and that other cops knew the relationship had ended, that Rivera wanted to be reassigned away from Baker, and that she
“believed Baker was a threat to her personal safety."
@ctoner.bsky.social @schuba.bsky.social
“believed Baker was a threat to her personal safety."
@ctoner.bsky.social @schuba.bsky.social
Family of Chicago Cop Killed in Botched Chase Sues Chicago Police Department and Partner Who Shot Her
Officer Krystal Rivera's family says in the wrongful death suit that Officer Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he shot her in the back in Chath...
illinoisanswers.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Rivera warned supervisors that Baker was a reckless cop, according to the lawsuit, and that other cops knew the relationship had ended, that Rivera wanted to be reassigned away from Baker, and that she
“believed Baker was a threat to her personal safety."
@ctoner.bsky.social @schuba.bsky.social
“believed Baker was a threat to her personal safety."
@ctoner.bsky.social @schuba.bsky.social
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Lawsuit filed by family of Krystal Rivera, shot to death by her partner Carlos Baker over the summer, alleges Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase. #chicago @schuba.bsky.social @ctoner.bsky.social
Family of Chicago Cop Killed in Botched Chase Sues Chicago Police Department and Partner Who Shot Her
Officer Krystal Rivera's family says in the wrongful death suit that Officer Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he shot her in the back in Chath...
illinoisanswers.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Lawsuit filed by family of Krystal Rivera, shot to death by her partner Carlos Baker over the summer, alleges Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase. #chicago @schuba.bsky.social @ctoner.bsky.social
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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It feels to me like people who work in media live in a world that’s divorced from the reality of the rest of us. I’m trying to remove all that cult programming by being in experiences that move me
In 2025, "I made a big cut to my expenses by canceling a handful of major media subscriptions, and instead used that money to experience storytelling in person." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/loca... by @travelinganna.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It feels to me like people who work in media live in a world that’s divorced from the reality of the rest of us. I’m trying to remove all that cult programming by being in experiences that move me
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Editor In Chief of Quinnipiac's student paper steps back from news coverage in order to not risk her visa. "For her, the irony is sharp. She comes from a country that was once under communist rule, and she viewed the U.S. as a beacon of free expression." nutgrafnews.substack.com/p/internatio...
International student EIC has to 'step back' from news coverage to not risk her visa
'I kind of feel like a hypocrite sometimes,' says a CT student journalist from Slovakia
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December 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Editor In Chief of Quinnipiac's student paper steps back from news coverage in order to not risk her visa. "For her, the irony is sharp. She comes from a country that was once under communist rule, and she viewed the U.S. as a beacon of free expression." nutgrafnews.substack.com/p/internatio...
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Two charts from our deep-dive into online gambling in PA and NJ.
Booming profits. Increasing harm.
via Lizzie Mulvey and @maxmmarin.bsky.social
Full story: www.inquirer.com/business/gam...
Booming profits. Increasing harm.
via Lizzie Mulvey and @maxmmarin.bsky.social
Full story: www.inquirer.com/business/gam...
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Two charts from our deep-dive into online gambling in PA and NJ.
Booming profits. Increasing harm.
via Lizzie Mulvey and @maxmmarin.bsky.social
Full story: www.inquirer.com/business/gam...
Booming profits. Increasing harm.
via Lizzie Mulvey and @maxmmarin.bsky.social
Full story: www.inquirer.com/business/gam...