Logan Jaffe
@loganjaffe.bsky.social
Reporter, newsletters @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student @loyolahistdept.bsky.social. Fellow, New America US@250 initiative. Floridian in the Midwest.
This morning’s Big Story newsletter from @propublica.org:
📌 Oklahoma’s shift toward conservatism and Christianity in public schools has come amid abysmal test scores and high dropout rates.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
📌 Oklahoma’s shift toward conservatism and Christianity in public schools has come amid abysmal test scores and high dropout rates.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This morning’s Big Story newsletter from @propublica.org:
📌 Oklahoma’s shift toward conservatism and Christianity in public schools has come amid abysmal test scores and high dropout rates.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
📌 Oklahoma’s shift toward conservatism and Christianity in public schools has come amid abysmal test scores and high dropout rates.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
Hello! I’m co-leading a free virtual training with Laura Kebede-Twumasi on September 25 for journalists and storytellers who want more insight into how to effectively use history in your work. Come? Let’s meet the moment together.
RSVP:
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In collab w/
@raceandequityproject.org ✨
RSVP:
tinyurl.com/y4ztpmb7
In collab w/
@raceandequityproject.org ✨
September 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hello! I’m co-leading a free virtual training with Laura Kebede-Twumasi on September 25 for journalists and storytellers who want more insight into how to effectively use history in your work. Come? Let’s meet the moment together.
RSVP:
tinyurl.com/y4ztpmb7
In collab w/
@raceandequityproject.org ✨
RSVP:
tinyurl.com/y4ztpmb7
In collab w/
@raceandequityproject.org ✨
Illinois National Guard spox said in 2020 the “National Guard should be the last call. The National Guard is designed to come in when all other resources are exhausted.”
August 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Illinois National Guard spox said in 2020 the “National Guard should be the last call. The National Guard is designed to come in when all other resources are exhausted.”
August 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Those recordings are also important because when local and state officials say things like “we couldn’t have seen this coming,” oral histories can show a sort of testimony from the past.
July 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Those recordings are also important because when local and state officials say things like “we couldn’t have seen this coming,” oral histories can show a sort of testimony from the past.
And here are others from 1959 and 1978:
July 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
And here are others from 1959 and 1978:
As Secor shows us, as unfathomable as the recent tragedies along the Guadalupe River are, there’s a precedent.
Here’s the front page of a local newspaper, the Kerrville Mountain Sun, after the 1932 Guadalupe River flood. Note the date: July 7.
Here’s the front page of a local newspaper, the Kerrville Mountain Sun, after the 1932 Guadalupe River flood. Note the date: July 7.
July 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As Secor shows us, as unfathomable as the recent tragedies along the Guadalupe River are, there’s a precedent.
Here’s the front page of a local newspaper, the Kerrville Mountain Sun, after the 1932 Guadalupe River flood. Note the date: July 7.
Here’s the front page of a local newspaper, the Kerrville Mountain Sun, after the 1932 Guadalupe River flood. Note the date: July 7.
When Secor’s father later took over the business, he said he remembers in 1959 when one new-to-town woman tried to build a cabin along the river nearby. His father warned her not to, he said. Yet the woman didn’t listen:
July 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
When Secor’s father later took over the business, he said he remembers in 1959 when one new-to-town woman tried to build a cabin along the river nearby. His father warned her not to, he said. Yet the woman didn’t listen:
Love when my journalism colleagues’ work winds up in the @ncph.bsky.social newsletter.
Here’s @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social’s recent reporting for @propublica.org on the legacy of segregation academies, which are still getting millions of taxpayer dollars: www.propublica.org/series/segre...
Here’s @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social’s recent reporting for @propublica.org on the legacy of segregation academies, which are still getting millions of taxpayer dollars: www.propublica.org/series/segre...
November 27, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Love when my journalism colleagues’ work winds up in the @ncph.bsky.social newsletter.
Here’s @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social’s recent reporting for @propublica.org on the legacy of segregation academies, which are still getting millions of taxpayer dollars: www.propublica.org/series/segre...
Here’s @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social’s recent reporting for @propublica.org on the legacy of segregation academies, which are still getting millions of taxpayer dollars: www.propublica.org/series/segre...