Anna Yeo
@annayeo.bsky.social
video @motherjones.com, previously STAT
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as bad as shit is, very cool to meet a new folk hero seemingly every week
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
as bad as shit is, very cool to meet a new folk hero seemingly every week
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I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
we recently sat down with photojournalist Carrie Schreck, who walked us through her photo essay of border patrol recruitment at rodeos. watch! youtu.be/3OPnV5nYLsQ?...
Why Border Patrol Recruits at Rodeos
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
we recently sat down with photojournalist Carrie Schreck, who walked us through her photo essay of border patrol recruitment at rodeos. watch! youtu.be/3OPnV5nYLsQ?...
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In late September, my family and I lost our matriarch, my abuela. I've been a bit all over the place since. My abuela moved to our hometown in the 70s. She loved it even as one of the first Mexican families there.
It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it.
buttondown.com/camrodriguez...
It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it.
buttondown.com/camrodriguez...
11/5/25: On repacking your unpacked funeral clothes
an obituary I couldn’t bring myself to volunteer to write; a walk through Chicano history; thoughts about grief and the government; photos from reporting trips.
buttondown.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
In late September, my family and I lost our matriarch, my abuela. I've been a bit all over the place since. My abuela moved to our hometown in the 70s. She loved it even as one of the first Mexican families there.
It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it.
buttondown.com/camrodriguez...
It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it.
buttondown.com/camrodriguez...
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We just released a BIG undercover investigation…and it’s all on tape.
In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We just released a BIG undercover investigation…and it’s all on tape.
In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
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EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.
@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.
It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.
@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.
It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.
October 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.
@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.
It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.
@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.
It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.
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Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles.
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries
Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles.
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries
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Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
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Often when you read a research study, the findings aren't something you can easily see for yourself. But I highly suggest googling any profession and looking at the image search results.
My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
It's true: The internet skews the reality of women (and men) in the workforce
Age and gender biases are baked into what we see online, a large new study confirms.
www.motherjones.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Often when you read a research study, the findings aren't something you can easily see for yourself. But I highly suggest googling any profession and looking at the image search results.
My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
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The US pays millions to Professional Bull Riders for advertising.
At PBR league events, bullfighters are branded with slick jerseys declaring the event 'Protected by US Border Patrol.'
At some, the Border Patrol makes a dramatic entrance, rappelling from the rafters as the national anthem plays.
At PBR league events, bullfighters are branded with slick jerseys declaring the event 'Protected by US Border Patrol.'
At some, the Border Patrol makes a dramatic entrance, rappelling from the rafters as the national anthem plays.
How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit
At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.
www.motherjones.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The US pays millions to Professional Bull Riders for advertising.
At PBR league events, bullfighters are branded with slick jerseys declaring the event 'Protected by US Border Patrol.'
At some, the Border Patrol makes a dramatic entrance, rappelling from the rafters as the national anthem plays.
At PBR league events, bullfighters are branded with slick jerseys declaring the event 'Protected by US Border Patrol.'
At some, the Border Patrol makes a dramatic entrance, rappelling from the rafters as the national anthem plays.
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“It is psychologically manipulative."
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy
The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“It is psychologically manipulative."
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
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This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.
Sign up at: www.motherjones.com/newsletters/
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September 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.
Sign up at: www.motherjones.com/newsletters/
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Before Charlie Kirk's murder, @ariberman.bsky.social predicted Trump's rigging plans for the 2026 midterms would include ramping up plans to expand investigations into groups they view as a threat.
Now, in the wake of Kirk's death, Trump & his inner circle have ratcheted up this rhetoric even more.
Now, in the wake of Kirk's death, Trump & his inner circle have ratcheted up this rhetoric even more.
September 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Before Charlie Kirk's murder, @ariberman.bsky.social predicted Trump's rigging plans for the 2026 midterms would include ramping up plans to expand investigations into groups they view as a threat.
Now, in the wake of Kirk's death, Trump & his inner circle have ratcheted up this rhetoric even more.
Now, in the wake of Kirk's death, Trump & his inner circle have ratcheted up this rhetoric even more.
longtime lurker and seldom poster with good news to share: I recently started a new job as Digital Producer at Mother Jones!
check out my first video with @garrisonhayes.bsky.social on this story from Adam Mahoney and @capitalb.bsky.social:
check out my first video with @garrisonhayes.bsky.social on this story from Adam Mahoney and @capitalb.bsky.social:
“You're taking advantage of people who are still trying to recover.”
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. The latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our collab with @capitalb.bsky.social:
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. The latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our collab with @capitalb.bsky.social:
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
longtime lurker and seldom poster with good news to share: I recently started a new job as Digital Producer at Mother Jones!
check out my first video with @garrisonhayes.bsky.social on this story from Adam Mahoney and @capitalb.bsky.social:
check out my first video with @garrisonhayes.bsky.social on this story from Adam Mahoney and @capitalb.bsky.social:
Reposted by Anna Yeo
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. Their latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our latest with @capitalb.bsky.social:
Our latest with @capitalb.bsky.social:
The threat that could destroy 20 years of progress in the Lower Ninth
Past storms nearly erased New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. A new federal project may finish the job.
www.motherjones.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. Their latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our latest with @capitalb.bsky.social:
Our latest with @capitalb.bsky.social:
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“I just want to protect my children. I want them to have wonderful, happy, healthy lives. And the federal government is trying to take my kids’ rights away."
Read this critical reporting from @hencarnell.bsky.social + @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read this critical reporting from @hencarnell.bsky.social + @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"
How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids
www.motherjones.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“I just want to protect my children. I want them to have wonderful, happy, healthy lives. And the federal government is trying to take my kids’ rights away."
Read this critical reporting from @hencarnell.bsky.social + @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read this critical reporting from @hencarnell.bsky.social + @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I wrote about gender-affirming surgery — what it means to the people that get it, its evolution as a professional specialty in the U.S., and how the incoming administration could put all of that at risk: www.statnews.com/2024/12/23/g...
December 23, 2024 at 3:56 PM
I wrote about gender-affirming surgery — what it means to the people that get it, its evolution as a professional specialty in the U.S., and how the incoming administration could put all of that at risk: www.statnews.com/2024/12/23/g...
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The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has become a defining moment in the zeitgeist of American health care. It's both a callous slaying and a reflection of the public's deep-seated anger at an industry that makes a lot of money by exploiting Americans. www.statnews.com/2024/12/06/u...
Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO brings resentment of the health care system to the fore
People are grappling with two heavy subjects at once: the callousness of the slaying, and an undercurrent of deep-seated anger at the health care industry.
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:29 PM
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has become a defining moment in the zeitgeist of American health care. It's both a callous slaying and a reflection of the public's deep-seated anger at an industry that makes a lot of money by exploiting Americans. www.statnews.com/2024/12/06/u...
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She was first author on the paper. He won the Nobel prize. The beautiful and complicated story of a scientific marriage — and the difficult choices many women in science have to make in order to have a family. Story by the incredible @mmolteni.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2024/12/06/n...
www.statnews.com/2024/12/06/n...
Inside a Nobel-winning marriage: They see each other as scientific equals, even if the prize committee doesn't
Ambros and Lee's collaboration helped spawn a new field of biology while proving breakthrough science can come out of a family-friendly lab
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:16 PM
She was first author on the paper. He won the Nobel prize. The beautiful and complicated story of a scientific marriage — and the difficult choices many women in science have to make in order to have a family. Story by the incredible @mmolteni.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2024/12/06/n...
www.statnews.com/2024/12/06/n...
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Motive still unknown in Brian Thompson killing but some context from @statnews.bsky.social this morning: People employed in health care are 5x more likely than people in other private industries to experience workplace violence. www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/u...
UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing lays bare rising security risks facing health care leaders
The killing of Brian Thompson lays bare the rising threat level for health care executives.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Motive still unknown in Brian Thompson killing but some context from @statnews.bsky.social this morning: People employed in health care are 5x more likely than people in other private industries to experience workplace violence. www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/u...
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a lot of news today! here's a recap from me and @owermohle.bsky.social on the Supreme Court oral arguments around Tennessee's gender-affirming care ban www.statnews.com/2024/12/04/s...
Conservative-led Supreme Court appears wary of weighing in on trans care bans
Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday of arguments that they should intervene in Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:04 PM
a lot of news today! here's a recap from me and @owermohle.bsky.social on the Supreme Court oral arguments around Tennessee's gender-affirming care ban www.statnews.com/2024/12/04/s...
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Had a lot of fun filming this with @brittanytrang.bsky.social. I was shook when she brought actual data breach notifications from Change for the shoot. (The ones you see in the thumbnail here). Such dedication!
Ever wondered why health care cybersecurity is so bad? @sayhitohyacinth.bsky.social and I explore that in our new @statnews.bsky.social video:
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Why is health care cybersecurity so bad?
YouTube video by STAT
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December 4, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Had a lot of fun filming this with @brittanytrang.bsky.social. I was shook when she brought actual data breach notifications from Change for the shoot. (The ones you see in the thumbnail here). Such dedication!
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Whatever one thinks of MAHA, it's no monolith. An important story on how the movement has become a home for the "disaffected of various stripes." www.statnews.com/2024/11/26/m...
In the MAHA-verse, ex-Bernie die-hards and conservative moms find a political home
MAHA supporters share a disturbing sense that the health care system and its regulators don’t have people’s best interests at heart
www.statnews.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Whatever one thinks of MAHA, it's no monolith. An important story on how the movement has become a home for the "disaffected of various stripes." www.statnews.com/2024/11/26/m...
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"Essentially copies" of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound are being sold all over the internet. And it's perfectly legal... for now, anyway. I take a look at how this booming alternative market works in today's new @statnews.bsky.social video youtu.be/2w-MCLEtZ10
How compounding pharmacies can make GLP-1 weight loss drugs
YouTube video by STAT
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 3:12 PM
"Essentially copies" of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound are being sold all over the internet. And it's perfectly legal... for now, anyway. I take a look at how this booming alternative market works in today's new @statnews.bsky.social video youtu.be/2w-MCLEtZ10
“It’s really a game the way they switch money from their right pocket to their left," one physician said. New Health Care's Colossus investigation from STAT:
NEW: UnitedHealth Group is paying many of its own physician practices significantly more than it pays other doctor groups in the same markets for similar services, undermining competition and driving up costs for consumers and businesses. www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/u...
UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups considerably more than others, driving up consumer costs and its profits
First-of-its-kind data analysis finds UnitedHealth Group pays many of its own physician practices significantly more than the average it pays other doctors in the same markets
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
“It’s really a game the way they switch money from their right pocket to their left," one physician said. New Health Care's Colossus investigation from STAT: