Journalist with 20 yrs on the war and trauma beat. Editing at CPJ. Chills: chills.substack.com. I have concepts of a plan.
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My pinned tweet seems to have disappeared, so here is the story I worked on for 6 years, upon arrests, pre-convictions for crimes against humanity, for the rape of ~50 little girls, aged 18 months-11 years theguardian.com/world/2016/a…
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Meta’s AI glasses make recording strangers effortless and nearly invisible. The result is a growing ecosystem of viral videos in which women are filmed without their knowledge. New on Chills by Lily Turner: chills.substack.com/p/the-me…
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Scott Pelley’s firing has triggered a remarkable public confrontation at CBS, with one of the country’s most respected journalists accusing network leadership of abandoning its values. On Chills: chills.substack.com/p/the-ev…
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Having reported in Congo for years, I know why communities resist Ebola responders — it’s a rational response to decades of exploitation and broken promises by foreign powers. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/beyond…
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May 20
'By August 2014 women comprised 55-60 % of Ebola deaths across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In Liberia specifically, that figure reached 75%.' .....
"Looking at who dies in an outbreak shows you who has power and who doesn't." @Wolfe321
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May 26
Up to 10 million Americans could lose health coverage under new Medicaid work requirements — even though most already work. At the same time, the wealthiest Americans are set to pocket average tax cuts of $311K. The coming bureaucratic catastrophe: chills.substack.com/p/10-mil…
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A WHO expert warned Ebola would kill more women because they were expected to care for the sick at home. She was right — and the world still didn’t listen. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/she-pr…
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A new report documents an ICE deportation flight that lasted 51 hours across Poland, Moldova, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Georgia.
The people onboard reportedly remained physically restrained the entire time. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/they-w…
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May 13
They thought they were taking jobs in Russia. Weeks later, they were in trenches. A new investigation suggests some foreign recruits may not be mercenaries at all—but victims of human trafficking sent into “meat assaults” as disposable soldiers. On Chills:
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I survived 9/11. Years later, I took a job reporting on the attacks for The New York Times — before I realized I was running back into my own trauma. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/i-ran-…
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Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
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May 3
I asked AI for an exact, sourced quote from a rape survivor in Sudan. It gave me a devastating first-person testimony. Then I asked where it came from. Answer: nowhere.
As a journalist, this was the moment I stopped trusting AI. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/i-aske…
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Deported from the U.S. to Congo, migrants describe what they say is human trafficking: no guidance, no support, and no safe path — only pressure to choose between risks. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/sent-t…
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Three-quarters of the journalists at the White House correspondents dinner kept standing after the shot, like the journalists they are. Batshit
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I wrote about this yesterday, but now Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 Afghans who aided U.S. forces to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A travesty. nytimes.com/.../afghan-refug…
Apr 20
The U.S. is deporting migrants to countries they’ve never been to. Some were just sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo — thousands of miles from home, with no guarantee of safety. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/americ…
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The U.S. is deporting migrants to countries they’ve never been to. Some were just sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo — thousands of miles from home, with no guarantee of safety. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/americ…
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Apr 14
They’re flying people like cargo.
1,794 ICE enforcement flights in March alone, moving people through detention centers and staging hubs. These are removals on a massive scale. New on Chills:
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Every time Trump talks about "acing" a cognitive test he's revealing something important: Doctors don't just give these tests regularly. They're monitoring his decline.
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