Grateful to Jon for interviewing me about my piece in @prospect.org !

i'm reporting on the foster care system with my colleagues, with a focus on how cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP affect families and kids. if you're interested in sharing your story, please fill out the form below-- it can be completely anonymous! forms.gle/8wZ6ArwgPBJp...

@prospect.org sends me around the Midwest to tell stories about poverty & political power w/ no paywall—corporate media could never! We rely on reader donations to do this work & are asking for your support (those under-25 rental car fees aren't cheap!): secure.actblue.com/donate/tap-f...

The Prospect's @emmarjanssen.bsky.social is at a protest at an ICE detention center in Illinois where ICE agents are forcibly removing protesters. Video here:

I’m reporting from a protest at an ICE facility in Broadview, IL. Now everything is calm, but earlier uniformed officials shoved protestors and tried to push the crowd back, as @mulchy.bsky.social documented.

This summer I traveled to NW Indiana—"The Region"—to see how SNAP restrictions will hit both rural & urban communities. Trying to make sense of the gulf between the MAHA movement's rhetoric & its harmful actions. Read here for a story about health, food & poverty: prospect.org/health/2025-...

It's a familiar cycle: a food company makes a superficial promise, maybe sets a long deadline to accomplish it, & then gets free advertising from Trump, the White House, & RFK Jr. That's what Coke's up to with this cane sugar business. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social explains: prospect.org/health/2025-...

So @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social did a writeup of Brad Lander's arrest today at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, focusing not just on Lander's treatment, but the treatment of immigrants inside, both in the courtroom and once they are detained. prospect.org/justice/2025...

Your tax dollars feeding hungry children? ❌🙅‍♀️❌ Your tax dollars building a missile defense system that will probably never work ✅😍✅

My colleagues @prospect.org are covering No Kings protests today. I’m in Chicago, where folks are shoulder to shoulder and ICE is a main concern of protesters.

Good discussion @emmarjanssen.bsky.social @prospect.org Yes to fare integration, but frequency is higher priority for supermajority of riders. No magic bullet for frequency; investment needed (all benefit-collective equity, economy & environmental benefits). prospect.org/infrastructu...

Important story from American Prospect's ‪@emmarjanssen.bsky.social‬ on reconciliation bill's sneaky provision that could undermine federal workers' ability to defend themselves and stand up against cuts to critical services

Scoop from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would force federal workers to pay 5 percent of their income or become at-will employees: prospect.org/politics/202...

I watched a lot of solar bro TikToks for this story — give it a read so my sacrifice has meaning.

New House Dem primary alert: State Rep. Donavan McKinney is going to challenge Shri Thanedar in Detroit. It's the first endorsement for Justice Democrats in four years. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story: prospect.org/politics/202...

The risks facing our anti-hunger and anti-poverty programs are chilling. If Republicans go through with SNAP cuts, a truly vicious cycle of hunger will be set off, devastating the poorest states and economies. Link below.

Republicans are looking for cuts to pay for more tax cuts for the rich. One item on the chopping block is food stamps. From @emmarjanssen.bsky.social: prospect.org/health/2025-...

Who has power, and who is actually using it? We ranked Democratic-led states and found some useful patterns.

Check out my thoughts on the #WiSupremeCourt race in the @theprospect.bsky.social and why — as @ddayen writes — it is “the most important election of the year.” @emmarjanssen.bsky.social

The most important election of the year is an allegedly nonpartisan state supreme court race in Wisconsin that is going to pull in over $100 million in campaign spending. Good report from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social prospect.org/justice/2025...

got pizza from one of these at the DNC influencer brat-themed afterparty (a sentence that is perhaps new to the english language)

Dems are making their strategy choices and Newsom has evidently decided that throwing trans people under the bus is the way to go. But there's another way! Look at Pritzker in IL and his unabashedly pro-LGBTQ agenda and rhetoric. Newsom should take notes (and so should voters).

More executive action reactions: here's @emmarjanssen.bsky.social on abandoning the Refugee Act of 1980 and what that means for displaced people fleeing violence: prospect.org/politics/202...

Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters have been fighting the blazes down in LA. The job is voluntary, but most other forms of prison labor aren't. In November, Californians voted to keep it that way. Slavery is alive and well in California's prisons.

Consider joining me as a writing fellow at the Prospect! I'm learning so much about writing and myself as a thinker every day at this job.

Journalist request !! I'm looking to speak to folks who are making plans to protect themselves/their undocumented loved ones before Trump takes office. Specifically hoping to hear from couples considering marriage to get documentation for their partners. (312) 989-2992 or [email protected]

My colleague Janie Ekere passed away last week. She was writing stories that needed to be written, about rural and low income communities, queer rights, and much more. My thoughts are foremost with her family, but also with journalism, which lost so much when we lost her.

Read more about this latest announcement/partnership to prevent and eliminate abortion debt (a cursed phrase that in any decent society should not exist) in this great piece by @emmarjanssen.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2024-...

Trump and the incoming Republican Congress could reverse some of the Biden administration's regulatory wins. Potentially on the chopping block: EPA rules on methane emissions and lead in drinking water, a CFPB rule on protecting financial data, and more. My breakdown of how it could happen:

Listen for our takes on Gaetz, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, mass deportations, judicial noms, and more.

My most recent piece is about how we should think about the dangers posed by RFK Jr. when a lot of his rhetoric has surface-level bipartisan appeal. My thesis: look at what he can *actually* do and follow the money/power.

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