Hannah Grabenstein
@hannahgrabenstein.bsky.social
Human person
General assistant digital reporter, PBS News
Formerly AP, MLK50, Washington Week
Owner of a horse and a hound
General assistant digital reporter, PBS News
Formerly AP, MLK50, Washington Week
Owner of a horse and a hound
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Do you have a child who was born prematurely, defined as before the 37th week of pregnancy?
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November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Do you have a child who was born prematurely, defined as before the 37th week of pregnancy?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/3LUHee2
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This was a total labor of love. Weeks of digging through archival footage, conversations about top moments, asking colleagues to mine their memories for institutional knowledge I might not have known - was a very fun project indeed.
Fifty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour program, free of commercials, that aimed to tell one in-depth story per night. Over the next five decades, that show morphed into what we now know as the PBS News Hour. https://to.pbs.org/3L0sjyv
10 major moments from 50 years of PBS News
Relive half a cenutry of PBS News history through these big moments.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This was a total labor of love. Weeks of digging through archival footage, conversations about top moments, asking colleagues to mine their memories for institutional knowledge I might not have known - was a very fun project indeed.
Reposted by Hannah Grabenstein
Fifty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour program, free of commercials, that aimed to tell one in-depth story per night. Over the next five decades, that show morphed into what we now know as the PBS News Hour. https://to.pbs.org/3L0sjyv
10 major moments from 50 years of PBS News
Relive half a cenutry of PBS News history through these big moments.
www.pbs.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Fifty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour program, free of commercials, that aimed to tell one in-depth story per night. Over the next five decades, that show morphed into what we now know as the PBS News Hour. https://to.pbs.org/3L0sjyv
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Today is our first day without federal funding. Our commitment to providing trusted, objective journalism hasn't wavered.
For 50 years, PBS News has helped you understand the world and make informed decisions. This mission drives our work every day, and your support of PBS News makes it possible.
For 50 years, PBS News has helped you understand the world and make informed decisions. This mission drives our work every day, and your support of PBS News makes it possible.
October 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Today is our first day without federal funding. Our commitment to providing trusted, objective journalism hasn't wavered.
For 50 years, PBS News has helped you understand the world and make informed decisions. This mission drives our work every day, and your support of PBS News makes it possible.
For 50 years, PBS News has helped you understand the world and make informed decisions. This mission drives our work every day, and your support of PBS News makes it possible.
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Clearing encampments is part of a wider push across the country by Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike to take drastic action to reduce homelessness. https://to.pbs.org/45WGED1
Trump wants to clear homeless encampments. Here’s what usually happens, according to experts
Clearing encampments is part of a wider push across the country by Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike to take drastic action to reduce homelessness, but experts say it's usually misguided.
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August 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Clearing encampments is part of a wider push across the country by Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike to take drastic action to reduce homelessness. https://to.pbs.org/45WGED1
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Supplement manufacturers have capitalized on the explosive popularity of diabetes control and weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound by flooding the market with their own pills, powders, drops and patches bearing “GLP-1” branding.
What to know before you buy a weight loss supplement on TikTok
Experts say supplement companies have tried to capitalize on the GLP-1 craze, putting the phrase in their product names, which can be deceptive.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Supplement manufacturers have capitalized on the explosive popularity of diabetes control and weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound by flooding the market with their own pills, powders, drops and patches bearing “GLP-1” branding.
When your mom pitches you a story, every so often you should definitely stop and listen. One of my favorite stories to report and write:
What to know before you buy a weight loss supplement on TikTok
Experts say supplement companies have tried to capitalize on the GLP-1 craze, putting the phrase in their product names, which can be deceptive.
www.pbs.org
July 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
When your mom pitches you a story, every so often you should definitely stop and listen. One of my favorite stories to report and write:
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Experts warn that getting rid of provider taxes could have an outsize effect on medical coverage and access for millions of Americans.
Your guide to Medicaid provider taxes, and why some Senate Republicans hope to cut them
Critics of provider taxes say they’re wasteful, but experts warn that getting rid of them could have an outsize effect on medical coverage and access for millions of Americans.
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June 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Experts warn that getting rid of provider taxes could have an outsize effect on medical coverage and access for millions of Americans.
For example, reposting this story that we just pubbed! A great use of Bluesky!
Along with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks, the massive budget bill passed by House Republicans contains a new program dubbed “Trump accounts” – government-funded investment accounts for every new American baby. buff.ly/bZutb1J
What experts think about the $1,000 'Trump accounts' for babies
The proposal has bipartisan backing and is generally supported by economists and other researchers, but experts say that there are ways it could be restructured that are more practical and would have…
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June 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For example, reposting this story that we just pubbed! A great use of Bluesky!
Reposted by Hannah Grabenstein
Along with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks, the massive budget bill passed by House Republicans contains a new program dubbed “Trump accounts” – government-funded investment accounts for every new American baby. buff.ly/bZutb1J
What experts think about the $1,000 'Trump accounts' for babies
The proposal has bipartisan backing and is generally supported by economists and other researchers, but experts say that there are ways it could be restructured that are more practical and would have…
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June 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Along with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks, the massive budget bill passed by House Republicans contains a new program dubbed “Trump accounts” – government-funded investment accounts for every new American baby. buff.ly/bZutb1J
This is true but it's also for reposting Good Media Content, my stories for PBS News in particular 😌
All this discourse about Bluesky being a bubble or not being a bubble or being a safe haven from Nazism misses the point. None of that is what Bluesky is for. Bluesky is for people posting reviews of Goose shows, shots of very mediocre-looking cats, and gay thirst trap pics.
June 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is true but it's also for reposting Good Media Content, my stories for PBS News in particular 😌
My latest
Medicaid, the largest payer for long-term care facilities, covers around 2 in 3 nursing home residents, and reducing dollars to the massive, yet already resource-limited, program could have disastrous effects on older adults’ health, safety and quality of life.
What Republicans' possible Medicaid cuts could mean for nursing homes
Experts told PBS News that there are ways to ensure older adults get the quality and type of care they need, but most require more resources, not less.
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May 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My latest
If Medicaid is potentially on the chopping block, we should seriously consider who it serves and how. My latest for @pbsnews.org
A closer look at who relies on Medicaid
According to health policy experts, there may not be a way to fund the tax cuts proposed by House Republicans without cutting Medicaid.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If Medicaid is potentially on the chopping block, we should seriously consider who it serves and how. My latest for @pbsnews.org
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While about 454,000 federal employees do work in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, more than 80% of the federal workforce lived elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad in 2024.
5 facts about the federal workforce that may surprise you
Federal data paints a varied portrait of the people who make up the U.S. civil service.
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March 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
While about 454,000 federal employees do work in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, more than 80% of the federal workforce lived elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad in 2024.
80% of federal employees live outside the DMV! 28% of civil servants are veterans! A metric ton of federal workers are nurses!
All of that and more in my newest piece for @pbsnews.org!
All of that and more in my newest piece for @pbsnews.org!
So who is your average government employee? Federal data paints a varied portrait of the people who make up the U.S. civil service, writes @hannahgrabenstein.bsky.social. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Trump has moved to slash the federal government. Here’s what the data shows about its workforce
Federal data paints a varied portrait of the people who make up the U.S. civil service.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
80% of federal employees live outside the DMV! 28% of civil servants are veterans! A metric ton of federal workers are nurses!
All of that and more in my newest piece for @pbsnews.org!
All of that and more in my newest piece for @pbsnews.org!
Genuinely my editors and I made this very fun. Learn what Nixon went "bananas" doing that led to where we are today!
Curious about Trump's federal foreign aid and domestic funding freezes? Wondering what he legally can and can't do? Read my new piece; I guarantee you will find it not TOTALLY dry.
What you need to know about impoundment, and how Trump vows to use it
It's a concept that’s normally dry, esoteric and distanced from Americans' everyday lives, yet the heart of the matter is a key question of American democracy.
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Genuinely my editors and I made this very fun. Learn what Nixon went "bananas" doing that led to where we are today!
Reposted by Hannah Grabenstein
Curious about Trump's federal foreign aid and domestic funding freezes? Wondering what he legally can and can't do? Read my new piece; I guarantee you will find it not TOTALLY dry.
What you need to know about impoundment, and how Trump vows to use it
It's a concept that’s normally dry, esoteric and distanced from Americans' everyday lives, yet the heart of the matter is a key question of American democracy.
www.pbs.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Curious about Trump's federal foreign aid and domestic funding freezes? Wondering what he legally can and can't do? Read my new piece; I guarantee you will find it not TOTALLY dry.
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At the heart of this matter is a key question of American democracy: whether, under the U.S. Constitution, the president has more spending authority than either Congress or the Supreme Court has ever previously permitted.
What you need to know about impoundment, and how Trump vows to use it
It's a concept that’s normally dry, esoteric and distanced from Americans' everyday lives, yet the heart of the matter is a key question of American democracy.
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February 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
At the heart of this matter is a key question of American democracy: whether, under the U.S. Constitution, the president has more spending authority than either Congress or the Supreme Court has ever previously permitted.
Curious about Trump's federal foreign aid and domestic funding freezes? Wondering what he legally can and can't do? Read my new piece; I guarantee you will find it not TOTALLY dry.
What you need to know about impoundment, and how Trump vows to use it
It's a concept that’s normally dry, esoteric and distanced from Americans' everyday lives, yet the heart of the matter is a key question of American democracy.
www.pbs.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Curious about Trump's federal foreign aid and domestic funding freezes? Wondering what he legally can and can't do? Read my new piece; I guarantee you will find it not TOTALLY dry.
Reposted by Hannah Grabenstein
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
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January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
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GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
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Welcome to my new PBS News starter pack followers!
I'm going to thread some of my recent and/or relevant again stories, since y'all are here now 😉
First: the federal govt has (rightfully) gotten a lot of attention recently. But state legs are back in session, and they have issues to address!
I'm going to thread some of my recent and/or relevant again stories, since y'all are here now 😉
First: the federal govt has (rightfully) gotten a lot of attention recently. But state legs are back in session, and they have issues to address!
AI, housing and other top issues for state lawmakers in 2025
As the new Congress goes to Washington, state lawmakers, too, will be starting fresh with a new slate of priorities.
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January 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Welcome to my new PBS News starter pack followers!
I'm going to thread some of my recent and/or relevant again stories, since y'all are here now 😉
First: the federal govt has (rightfully) gotten a lot of attention recently. But state legs are back in session, and they have issues to address!
I'm going to thread some of my recent and/or relevant again stories, since y'all are here now 😉
First: the federal govt has (rightfully) gotten a lot of attention recently. But state legs are back in session, and they have issues to address!
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Happy 50th anniversary to Blood on the Tracks.
January 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy 50th anniversary to Blood on the Tracks.
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TikTok is Schrödinger's app, perpetually alive and dead at the same time, depending on random subatomic events that occur out of view
January 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
TikTok is Schrödinger's app, perpetually alive and dead at the same time, depending on random subatomic events that occur out of view