Logan Jaffe

What's up! Excited to be on here and reconnect. I'm a journalist with ProPublica, based in Chicago. I write newsletters and stories. I also study and write about public history.

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According to @propublica.org I could personally open Ye Olde New Venture Academy, a private school, in 24 states 😅

I’m teaching a workshop this weekend about how historians research. #Skystorians, what are your favorite or most important research tips and tricks? What is your favorite method for finding archives and archival material?

What an incredible story and brilliant idea for the framing of an exhibit called “We make history.” “We can all participate in making history, and it can be as simple as keeping a diary like Adam Francis Plummer did.” www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

Boy do we have some news for you … www.propublica.org/series/the-r...

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info. So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception... www.propublica.org/article/impe...

I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.

Really sad it’s come to this. On my way to join my colleagues at the picket line. We deserve a fair contract!

Good morning! All day today my colleagues and I will be on STRIKE. You can help us send a message! Please do not visit ProPublica's website and tell management to give us a fair contract so we can get back to work: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

WE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY! As someone who regularly looks at ProPublica web traffic, today's the only day of my career I want to see low numbers. We know our readers support our union. Don't read us today. We'll be there tomorrow.

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social shares stories that one incarcerated woman collected inside prison. The accounts speak to what they see as a link between domestic abuse and their convictions. Powerful. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @micarosenberg.bsky.social wrote about speaking with a 9 year old who was in immigration detention for four months. She was supposed to go to Disney World. Instead immigration agents put her on a plane to Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Freedom 250, the Trump-run group the NYT reports is offering big donors special access, has totally supplanted America250, the congressional org that had been organizing 250th events, as we reported last week .So Trump is turning 250th into a party for himself, with taxpayer $, but no oversight.

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

For the 40th anniversary, I interviewed six Black journalists who covered it in some capacity. BTW, the PPD dropped the bømb from a PA state helicopter. www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...

Synthetic doctors are outperforming real ones on social media. I found more than 25 AI health accounts with +8.5 million followers. The Canadian Medical Assoc runs a program featuring real doctors. Its prez told me: "I would say that our following is not as large." indicator.media/p/ai-generat...

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.

"your children will ask what side you were on" - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_sK...

just going to leave this here www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Yes they have! Amazing.

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Imagine you're a scientist trying to publish a new study, and being told you can't, unless you do background checks on co-authors who aren't U.S. citizens and send their names to national security staff. Also, studies about climate change or DEI written w/foreign scientists = rejected. ⬇️

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child. A 16-year-old citizen DHS calls this "utmost professionalism" w/ @mckenziefunk.com

White House: “We wish to be assured that none of the leadership of the Smithsonian museums is confused about the fact that the United States has been among the greatest forces for good in the history of the world.”

Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows. Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness" wapo.st/3Ngmo9C

This so reminds me of the work done by @brandkells on how Virginia universities expanded by dislodging Black communities. Worth reading and watching: www.propublica.org/series/uproo...

“It is chilling, but not impossible, to envision the signs screaming “Stop the steal!” picked up on the garbage-strewn National Mall on Jan. 7, 2021, treated one day as patriotic treasures, displayed alongside the writing desk Thomas Jefferson used to draft the Declaration of Independence ...”

Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated. Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court

This might seem trivial to some, but the context is for decades now historians have been pushing to tell the “fuller American story” which tries to correct white-centric history told since our nation’s founding. Trump admin is essentially saying: We’re sticking to the white version, thanks.

I will never forgot the all-staff meeting after layoffs were announced where someone asked Moog whether he considered taking a pay cut himself (no, of course) — and why reporters and producers had to pay for CPM’s financial woes, instead of the people (ahem, him) who caused them. This is so gross.

Question for the historians and public historians on here: Who teaches you how to write history for various audiences? Serious Q. Are there classes in academic programs? Residencies? Working groups?

My sister is an incredible leather worker. She just launched her new collection of bags, belts and jewelry. Everything is designed and hand made by her. Just in awe and wanted to share. (I have a prototype of a small tan bag from years ago and take it everywhere) huntersavoy.com/collections/...

The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump Administration from deploying National Guard troops in the Chicago area. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/s...

The majority of archival material out there has NOT been digitized. So if you really want to figure something out, odds are that you have to go to an archive and dig. Historians are trained to dig.

This is the one to watch.