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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 17h
100 Days journalist and @reportforamerica.bsky.social corps member Caelan Bailey is diving into how Appalachia “is building out its own unique relationship to the infrastructure of the globalizing 21st century.” buff.ly/V5U1iK0
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What do the 1989-1990 Pittston miners’ strike and today’s AI era have in common? Once again, a form of automation promises a productivity boom, but protections for workers — and communities — are far from certain. buff.ly/Ze95JcX
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'Like Being Let Out of a Cage': What the Pittston Strike Can Teach Us About Faith, Building Community and Democracy
In today's AI era, workers are facing a similar shift as miners nearly 40 years ago. Once again, a form of automation promises a productivity boom, but protections for workers — and communities — are…
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join the Kimball World War I Memorial and 100 Days in Appalachia for a screening of “Hell or High Water: Southern W.Va. Three Weeks After the Flood,” at noon on Saturday, Sept. 12, in Kimball, W.Va. This event is free, but please RSVP by emailing editor@100daysinappalachia.com.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey, 18-25 year-old Appalachians! Tell us where in your life you feel power and agency. What in your life do you feel you have the least control over? Share here: www.dropbox.com/request/rxeu... #Appalachia250
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
From workplace safety and disproportionate unemployment for miners to solutions like a short-term training program to close “skills gaps” — Appalachia faces a spectrum of labor challenges. youtube.com/shorts/Bqx0s...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Every first weekend in June, part of Knoxville, Tenn., turns pink and sparkles for Rhinestone Fest, the city’s annual celebration of Dolly Parton. Hear festival-goers share what it is that makes them say, “Dolly is for me.” www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/08/you-...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
100 Days won two Ohio Valley regional Emmy awards in July for its short films “Hell or High Water: Southern W.Va. Three Weeks after the Flood” and “Fasnacht in Helvetia, West Virginia.” These are the first Emmys for the organization since its 2017 launch.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey, 18-25 year-old Appalachians! Tell us where in your life you feel power and agency. When do you feel most in control? Share here: www.dropbox.com/request/px3p... #Appalachia250
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
📣❗️ANNOUNCEMENT ❗️ 📣 100 Days in Appalachia & YNST Magazine are proud to present NOISE: A Limited Edition Zine and Archive of the Appalachia@250 project. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@dailyyonder.bsky.social recently analyzed crowd-sourced data on the locations of data centers in the United States, how they connect to existing grid infrastructure, and where communities are pushing back on the projects www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/07/we-m...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Data center home buyouts come to West Virginia. Watch the latest Appalachian News Roundup. youtube.com/shorts/A6P1g...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Are you a journalist whose reporting focuses on faith and religion in America? Reporting on Religion launching its first microgrant program.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
40 years after its designation as a national wildlife refuge, Muskingum Island’s 13 gas and oil wells are finally being plugged. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/06/musk...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Follow journalist and photographer Kristian Thacker, as he examines the collaboration between federal officials, oil well workers and biologist divers to protect Muskingum Island’s future. youtu.be/qTpUZzH-35Y?...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
We’re hosting a documentary and zine storytelling workshop for young adults, ages 18-25, at The Co-op in Morgantown, WV, on May 30 from 10-3 p.m. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We are excited to welcome the newest member of our newsroom, Caelan Bailey, a @reportforamerica.bsky.social corps member covering the New Rural Landscape.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Over time, our communities change shape. We innovate. We introduce new ideas. We build new structures. We keep moving. What’s the newest thing in your community? Tell us here: www.100daysinappalachia.com/submit-250/ #appalachia250
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Appalachia@250 asks you to narrate this moment in time in your own words and design an ideal future.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Political parties, AIPAC gifts, and worker safety. Here is the latest Appalachian News Roundup. youtube.com/shorts/RNnU0...
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Political parties, AIPAC gifts, and worker safety
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
100 Days launched a multimedia community engagement project that invites young folks in Appalachia to submit video, photos, artwork, writing, etc. in response to prompts. Info at the link, but feel free to message me if you want more details! www.100daysinappalachia.com/submit-250/
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Six people affiliated with the Addiction Recovery Care — as staff, clients or those who sought treatment and were later hired — told journalists they found themselves wrapped up in the company’s alleged billing scheme. buff.ly/RKZE1MY
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They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud.
Many credit Addiction Recovery Care with playing a key role in their sobriety. But most also said they felt betrayed by the organization.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“I believe it’s really important to carry these tunes on to the next generations and to play them, because it not only sustains the tradition, it also sustains the community that creates the tradition.” #appalachia250 youtu.be/bdjqF_oFej8?...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“I think about the Potomac and the towpath as threads that lace through my … as a college student in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and then as a budding reporter learning to understand the region in a different way.”
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our first question: What's the oldest thing in your community? Send us your response by May 4! #appalachia250
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What’s the oldest thing in your community? Tell us here by May 4: buff.ly/yM5bsOL #appalachia250
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What’s the oldest thing in your community? Appalachia@250: Dreams for a Shared Future, asks you, Appalachians ages 18 to 25, to narrate this moment in time and design an ideal future. Tell us here: www.100daysinappalachia.com/submit-250/
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In this interview, photographer Maddie McGarvey describes what brought her to the craft, her career photographing rural Appalachia and how she carried out a project photographing the same family for 15 years. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/04/qa-t...
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Q&A: The Photographer Documenting Appalachian Poverty, And Resilience
Maddie McGarvey has spent her career photographing rural Appalachia. She says she wants to bear witness to the struggle and resilience in forgotten pockets of the nation.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
From classroom accessibility challenges to FEMA buyout offers for houses damaged by Hurricane Helene and an uncertain silica dust rule, we look at how federal action might play out across the region. youtube.com/shorts/l6V5d...
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What’s the federal government up to in Appalachia?
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
An interfaith group prayed outside Pittsburgh’s ICE office on Good Friday, aiming to connect the suffering of Jesus with the suffering of immigrants in the U.S., as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. youtube.com/shorts/PxLUH... This story is a collaboration w/ @publicsource.org
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Interfaith group leads Good Friday prayer outside Pittsburgh ICE office
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Following the end of West Virginia’s 2026 legislative session, we’ve gathered the highlights: What legislation passed, what didn’t and what it all means for the Mountain State and Appalachia at large. buff.ly/vMzJUWL
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Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · 25/03/2026
Personnel in heavy gear clearly marked as ICE or Homeland Security Investigations were moving through the Pittsburgh International Airport terminal this week. More here: buff.ly/qKhbOZg Video collab w/ @appalachia100.bsky.social
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Five developers are planning to build six data center campuses in Archbald, Pa., which will cover a full 14 percent of the town, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/03/the-...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Community organizers and local faith leaders gathered at the W.Va. Capitol in opposition to the state's participation in ICE's Program 287(g), which gives state and local law enforcement the power to enforce specific immigration laws. buff.ly/hfCTpyp
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Our short film, “Fasnacht in Helvetia, West Virginia,” will screen on the opening night of this year’s Appalachian Film Festival, held March 20-22, at Foundry Theater in Huntington, W.Va. See the full schedule and buy tickets: www.foundrytheater.org/shows
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@appalachia100.bsky.social partnered with journalist and Minnesotan @katiegnelson.bsky.social to document how Minneapolis residents used grassroots organizing to counter the influx of federal immigration agents, leading to the end of Operation Metro Surge www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/02/minn...
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As federal immigration agents descended on Minneapolis, residents deployed mutual aid to protect their neighbors
Like neighbors mucking-out flooded basements in McDowell County, to public showings of solidarity across the rust belt, to miners striking in the 1920s — Minneapolis is leading in the long grassroots ...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Fifteen of the 650 people ICE reported had been arrested in a January operation have asked West Virginia judges to order their release, arguing they are unconstitutionally detained www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/02/more...
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More ICE detainees ordered released by West Virginia judges: ‘A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all’
Three different federal judges have ordered four more immigrants picked up in January’s ICE raids released on constitutional grounds
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Apply to become 100 Days' New Rural Landscape reporter by February 16 www.reportforamerica.org/reporters/
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Apply now to be a Report for America corps member.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Helvetia, West Virginia's 59th annual Fasnacht happens Saturday. And dozens will masquerade in playful handmade masks to scare away Old Man Winter. Watch scenes from last year's parade: youtube.com/shorts/QgmZz...
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Fasnacht's Masquerade in Helvetia, West Virginia
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We've been selected as a 2026 Report for America newsroom partner. We'll hire a reporter to investigate the effects of modern industry in Appalachia across environmental, economic and other systemic impacts that make up our region’s current dystopian landscape.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We traveled to the Ukraine-Slovakia border with @azcir.org's @allymarkovich.bsky.social to document how the Ukrainian border guard uses surveillance drones to ensure no one is exiting the country to avoid the draft. www.youtube.com/watch?v=srcK...
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Ukraine’s ‘battle-tested’ drones are accelerating militarization along the U.S.-Mexico
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
When local news thrives, so does our community. If you feel the same way, and our reporting makes a difference to you, please give before midnight tonight. We’re still $9,500 away from meeting our goal of $15,000. Can you help us get there? GIVE NOW: www.100daysinappalachia.com/support-our-...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We need your support to keep our unique storytelling going strong in 2026. If you donate a total of $50 or more between today and Sunday, December 21, 100 Days will send you a limited edition bandana designed by Appalachian artist LileeHA. buff.ly/I3axqe8
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Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting @azcir.org · 17/12/2025
Drones “battle-tested” in Ukraine are now being piloted at the U.S.-Mexico border, where the boundaries between local police and military operations are becoming increasingly blurred. Reported from Ukraine by AZCIR in collaboration w/ @appalachia100.bsky.social. Supported by IWMF.
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Ukraine's 'battle-tested' drones are accelerating militarization along the U.S.-Mexico border - Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
As U.S. law enforcement agencies adopt drone systems “battle-tested” in Ukraine, experts question whether existing safeguards are sufficient to govern increasing levels of surveillance on U.S. soil. T...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
In Virginia, incarcerated laborers can earn up to 90 cents an hour, though most earn less. Activists want that to change. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2025/11/in-v...
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In Virginia, People in Prison are Still Working For Pennies
Most U.S. states still allow prisons to pay people incarcerated there subminimum wage for their labor.
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's your last chance this #GivingTuesday! Can you help 100 Days raise $1,500 in the next 1.5 hours? Give before midnight to TRIPLE your donation: www.100daysinappalachia.com/support-our-...
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So far in 2025, we have hired 13 freelancers – people paid directly to create journalism and cultural analyses – totaling $22,000. We expect to pay another nine people $5,400 by the end of the year. Give now to sustain this work in 2026: buff.ly/7IVVWEt
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We are halfway through #GivingTuesday, and we need your help to sustain 100 Days' work in 2026. Will you give today? buff.ly/7IVVWEt
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Working with young writers for @appalachia100.bsky.social's youth vertical is one of my favorite projects! We're trying to create a space where young storytellers & journalists are supported, taken seriously, and paid for their work. If you have a few extra dollars, support journalism in Appalachia:
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This #GivingTuesday, 100 Days in Appalachia has a goal of raising $5,000 to keep our unique storytelling thriving in 2026. Every dollar you give to today will be TRIPLED – increasing your impact for our team and the Appalachians we employ! Give by midnight to triple your support: buff.ly/7IVVWEt
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100 Days in Appalachia @appalachia100.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Communities across West Virginia, including Charleston, are considering how to spend more than $1 billion in opioid settlement funds. But using this money for harm reduction is still an uphill battle. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2025/11/in-k...
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In Kanawha County, WV, Opioid Settlement Funding for Syringe Services Faces Barriers
In the early afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 17, emergency rooms in Charleston, West Virginia, began experiencing an influx of people in the throes of a drug overdose. By the following morning, some thr...
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