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Kate Martin

@katereports.bsky.social
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Correspondent at APM Reports with Sold a Story. Alum: NBC News, Carolina Public Press, The News Tribune, Skagit Valley Herald. FOIA and transparency enthusiast, data digger. 3D printer. Pulling back the curtain on ██████████. kmartin@apmreports.org

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More than a year in the making. Coming out in two weeks, Sold a Story season 2
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Accounting thought it was hilarious that my receipt was written on a spicy buttered corn husk with permanent marker
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I covered the county fair one year and wrote a story about the food. They recently had cracked down on expense reports without accompanying receipts. I bought a roasted corn with cash, but they didn't give me a receipt.
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APM Reports @apmreports.org · 18/09/2026
As an experiment in video, we got @ehanford.bsky.social back in the studio to rerecord Sold a Story's first episode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ajI...
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How teaching kids to read went so wrong | Season 1, Episode 1: The Problem
YouTube video by Sold a Story
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is so sweet. I bet there was some really choice stuff in there that he's been saving for decades for the right project or person
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I got skunked! Glad you saw it.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I fell backwards off of my mountain bike back when I was playing mountain bike polo, and my helmet probably saved my life. Cracked clean in half. I imagine that could've been my skull.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My husband calls it Wife Water
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 21/08/2026
The Minnesota Department of Health’s role in the state’s booming group home industry has been at the center of two of the biggest news stories in Minnesota over the past week.
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Five group homes. Two scandals. Health Department program under microscope
The Health Department revoked the licenses for group homes owned and managed by Sekou Dukuly, the executive director of the National Port Authority of Liberia, as well as those connected to Andrea Sam...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 20/08/2026
The Minnesota Department of Human Services is suspending payments to all group home companies affiliated with a high-ranking government official in Liberia, citing “credible allegations of Medicaid fraud,” following an MPR News and APM Reports investigation this week.
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Minnesota group homes run by Liberian official shut down due to fraud allegations, safety risks
Golden Touch Health Care was one of several Minnesota group home companies linked to Sekou Dukuly, who has served as the managing director of the Liberian National Port Authority since 2024. He told s...
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A former boss bought me a dead rat on a skateboard? Reeked gawdawful so I ditched it but you can find all kinds of weird stuff on Etsy
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jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everyone is talking about Flock but I've been reading the same article for 15 years about different technologies so I rage wrote about it for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/08/floc...
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Flock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk women
The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Attorney: Homeland Security spied on Minnesotans who spoke out against ICE
Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You mean Big Mouth Billy Bass?
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 13/08/2026
I can't think of a single non-creepy use case for these ugly things
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Redactionmaxxing
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026
I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
He cooked a pizza from scratch. We've been married almost 30 years.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
have you considered separate columns for year, month and day? I've been converted
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 24/07/2026
Six months ago neighbors and businesses on Nicollet Avenue watched as federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. A memorial still stands in Pretti’s honor. MPR News host Nina Moini talked with businesses near his memorial and a resident who spends time at the memorial every day.
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On the street where Alex Pretti was killed, the neighborhood remains united around his memory
Six months ago neighbors and businesses on Nicollet Avenue watched as federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. A memorial still stands in Pretti’s honor. MPR News host Nina Moini talked...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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APM Reports @apmreports.org · 08/07/2026
Utah officials are shutting down Provo Canyon School’s girls program — one of the state’s most notorious teen treatment programs, which has been plagued by abuse allegations.
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Utah officials order Provo Canyon School's girls program to close by August
State regulators say the facility failed to protect clients from harm, allowed neglect and used unnecessary restraints. The program can appeal.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I interviewed a former prosecutor yesterday who said this one thing that I cannot stop thinking about : “I think the most radical thing I learned from becoming a prosecutor is how much violence women face in this country and how little people care.”
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I can't bring myself to do it.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thankfully I saw this request in time to get the tickets to the sister. It's wild.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I have an incredibly common name and this happens at least once a month. I get signed up for the child sportsball team snack rotation. Someone once registered a Disney+ account with my email address. Then a lady bought surprise tickets for her sister for a football game
An image of an email: Subject line: This is a real request - sent gift to wrong email

email body: Hello - I made a huge mistake when I bought my sister tickets to a college football game for tomorrow Dec 29. I accidentally had the confirmation and tickets sent to this email address instead of hers ([redacted]@gmail.com). Could you please look and see if you have emails from SeatGeek and/or Ticketmaster about tickets for the Pinstripe bowl at Yankee Stadium? SeatGeek is telling me they can’t RE-send the tickets to her correct account so I’m trying everything I can think of to get them to her. If you have those emails/tickets, could you please let me know? And maybe you can transfer them to my sister if you have a active Ticketmaster account? It’s getting so close to the game and I’m hoping I can figure this out for her big gift.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The TV journalist in a room of print reporters at IRE
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I was a fresh cub politics reporter in Loveland when I met her. What a force.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
File better FOIAs! Come to our talk in National Harbor 11 @ire.org
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I'm at an @ire.org panel called "mining the mountain" about document dumps, and a panelist said it might seem boring (it's not) but we're nosy people and this is "peak nosy"
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
That's how it happened for me!
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I've been in newsroom meetings with reporters needling bosses and their own CEOs. I've sometimes been one of them. This is a rite of passage they need to endure, not an excuse to fire veteran reporters. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Me at 3 am
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Kirk.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is so pretty
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Of course! I'm going to share this at IRE in DC. If you are there come say hi!
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
And here is the presentation I've made about it in case you wanted more explanation docs.google.com/presentation...
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notiFOIA
notiFOIA and you How tracking your request and getting email notifications about them can help you succeed Kate Martin, correspondent, APM Reports
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I used an apps script. The code is definitely not up to your standard, I'm sure, but it works docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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notiFOIA v 1.17
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Great tool! I made a google sheet that reminds me when my records requests are due to me with an email.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I'm still waiting for Lockheed Martin's compact fusion reactors
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 28/04/2026
At least 50 residents in Minnesota group homes have died since late 2022 under circumstances serious enough to trigger state maltreatment investigations. Marcus Schmit, the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of NAMI, said to combat this, there needs to be stricter punishment.
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Mental illness advocate says maltreatment in group homes needs stronger punishment
A recent MPR and APM investigation revealed a shocking number of residents have died in group homes since 2022.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There's a song I keep hearing and one of the lines is "Where'd you get those geese" and I refuse to look up the actual lyrics.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
3d printing can bring this back
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/04/2026
The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
A screenshot of the Artemis livestream with the Integrity module on the left and a half-illuminated Earth getting big on the screen in the center. The black of space is all around.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Hey! I'm not there anymore!
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is one of my favorite paintings, along with Judith Slaying Holofernes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_...
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Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Florence) - Wikipedia
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Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com · 07/04/2026
Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Big, if true
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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Just so you know, when you say "hey do you want to know something cool?" Most people say yes.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
My colleague @katereports.bsky.social & I found most of those Minnesota residents were deported to Latin American countries, including almost 600 people returned to Mexico and about 520 deported to Ecuador. At least 17 minors were also deported. (2) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Half of those arrested by federal agents in Minnesota this winter have already been deported
The federal government moved at a rapid pace to deport nearly 1,700 people picked up during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota this winter, according to data analyzed by APM Reports and M...
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