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Tina Vasquez

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Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I promise we mention her salary (and so much more) in the print piece! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.
How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
Thrilled to announce that I have once again bullied @theflytrapmedia.com media into FLYTRAP FRIDAYS this October: Original spooky features, FOR FREE, every Friday, from The Flyteam! Coming this Friday: I write about vacation towns where everything goes wrong. Subscribe so you don’t miss it!
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The Flytrap
Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m watching @amylittlefield.bsky.social’s doc about Students For Life President Kristan Hawkins. I love looking up the salaries of anti-abortion leaders. According to last year’s 990s, Hawkins’ salary is over $270K. Don’t let moneyed white women tell you whether abortion is right for you.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week, @prismreports.org is co-publishing my latest investigation with @us.theguardian.com, focused on a farmworker whose employer subjected him to deadly working conditions that resulted in a catastrophic heat stroke. The story will also be published in Spanish by @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My favorite, dirt cheap thrift store hired a fashionable millennial and now everything is appropriately priced and I’m feeling slightly hateful.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I oversee a reporting fellowship for @pressonsouth.bsky.social, an organization focused on movement journalism, or journalism in service of liberation. This year, our Freedomways Reporting Fellowship had six fellows, all of them movement journalists from the South working on their first big stories.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 17/09/2026
I deeply love this @tinavasquez.bsky.social feature on flying the Mexican flag at a moment of deeply intense hatred for immigrants, and finding community in unexpected places. Tina's an editor at @prismreports.org and you should read them too!
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The Quiet Provocation of Flying the Mexican Flag
As more Mexican flags sprouted up in my North Carolina neighborhood, I could not figure out if my neighbors wanted to symbolize immigrant pride or their fatigue over Trump’s shit.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026
today, we are: @sesmith.lol @katelynburns.com @nicolefroio.bsky.social @tinavasquez.bsky.social @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social @freeblackgirl.bsky.social and rommy torrico who legit MADE the brand i love us so much
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About The Flytrap
The Flytrap is bringing principled and diverse cultural criticism from a feminist perspective back to the internet.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 19/09/2026
We published pieces that wouldn't have easily found a home elsewhere, like @tinavasquez.bsky.social 's deep dive into former DHS secretary Kristi Noem and how her aesthetic choices reflect the brutality of the Trump admin:
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'Ice Barbie' Kristi Noem: The Face of Our Slide Into Fascism
Kristi Noem’s appearance is designed for reality TV and her aesthetic reflects the brutality of the Trump administration.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 19/09/2026
For Pride 2025, worker-owners rommy torrico and @tinavasquez.bsky.social  visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over:
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‘Take Care of Your Own, As Long As You Can’
For Pride month, The Flytrap visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 22/09/2026
Okay I gotta go do...a lot of dishes, but when I check back in later that inbox better be chockablock with new member notifications or I'm telling your mom!!!
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 16/09/2026
It's day two of our yearly subscription drive, and we have realized not everyone knows who we are! Let us introduce ourselves so you can consider supporting us at 40% off. f.mtr.cool/ubepa8abfk
A bright pink graphic that says FUND FEMINIST MEDIA, with a  drawing of a venus flytrap in the middle, wearing sunglasses and roaring in the middle of a yellow heart.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/09/2026
Y'all this little newsletter is giving me life right now. Please subscribe, support us, give me hope that people DO want feminist cultural criticism in the world and that they want the people who are making it to be valued and able to pay their rent.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/09/2026
I LOVE today's @theflytrapmedia.com from @tinavasquez.bsky.social. It's a great meditation on age, nostalgia, and bands that were formative in our lives.
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A Los Abandoned Gig Made Me Realize Being Old Is Cool As Fuck
Aging is a truly disorienting experience, but standing in a dark room surrounded by strangers and singing along to Los Abandoned somehow made the passage of time disappear.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 15/09/2026
We are in the middle of a subscription drive, but we are running our newsletter as usual. This week, @tinavasquez.bsky.social writes about how going to see Los Abandoned live made her realize how cool being old is:
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A Los Abandoned Gig Made Me Realize Being Old Is Cool As Fuck
Aging is a truly disorienting experience, but standing in a dark room surrounded by strangers and singing along to Los Abandoned somehow made the passage of time disappear.
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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When I edited this piece by @tinavasquez.bsky.social I was so psyched to publish it because it models such an important internal dispute and concludes that being old as a woman is actually COOL AS HELL!!
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On September 11, I listen to composer John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls" and I think about all of horrible things this day wrought—including ICE.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reading depositions at 6 a.m. is really quite terrible. Do not recommend.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Speaking of which...
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Perhaps I just started to pay attention or perhaps the impacts of climate change are accelerating, but today I feel particularly frightened by how unprepared our communities are to deal with the fallout.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With Gloria Steinem's passing, it's worth uplifting her pioneering work with Ms. Magazine, which helped pave the way for feminist media more broadly. For many of us, feminist media was our first shot at the journalism industry—allowing us to report big stories and explore genres for the first time.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Department of Homeland Security announced that it detained 121 immigrants at Memphis, Tennessee's El Corralón bar on Aug. 30. Videos of the raid have circulated on social media, though DHS only confirmed the news today.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We published this story today, on the one year anniversary of Louise's death. We also dedicated the reporting to the memory of Logan Hullinger, a Baltimore-based reporter who was working on reporting about Louise when he died from an overdose on March 6 at the age of 29.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you read one story today, I hope it's this one by @stahlidarity.bsky.social for @prismreports.org about the life and legacy of Louise Vincent, the force once behind the U.S. drug user human rights movement:
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One year after drug use activist Louise Vincent’s death, the movement she sparked struggles to pick up the pieces
Under Vincent’s leadership, the National Survivors Union blazed a trail for harm reduction, uplifted sex workers and mothers, and reframed drug use as a human rights issue
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Aviva Stahl @stahlidarity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In my latest for @prismreports.org, I wrote about the incredible drug user activist Louise Vincent, who died one year ago -- and told the story of the broader fight by drug user unions across the United States to build collective power and demand human rights prismreports.org/2026/08/31/l...
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One year after drug use activist Louise Vincent’s death, the movement she sparked struggles to pick up the pieces
Under Vincent’s leadership, the National Survivors Union blazed a trail for harm reduction, uplifted sex workers and mothers, and reframed drug use as a human rights issue
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you read one story today, I hope it's this one by @stahlidarity.bsky.social for @prismreports.org about the life and legacy of Louise Vincent, the force once behind the U.S. drug user human rights movement:
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One year after drug use activist Louise Vincent’s death, the movement she sparked struggles to pick up the pieces
Under Vincent’s leadership, the National Survivors Union blazed a trail for harm reduction, uplifted sex workers and mothers, and reframed drug use as a human rights issue
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Prism @prismreports.org · 30/08/2026
“If there is a thread running through ‘One Bite at a Time,' it is that I am learning to live with my eyes open & that means understanding that my life does not belong only to me. My healing affects other people. My failures do too.” Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. explores what writing reentry means for him.
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One bite at a time: Writing reentry
Writing this column about the brutality of prison and the complexity of reentry has taught me that hardship rarely ends with a clean lesson
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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
9 to 5 is still one of the funniest antiwork films, and easily the best soundtracked (nails on a typewriter! Feminised labor as percussive spine of the world!). Rest well queen
Dolly Parton in 9 to 5, holding a phone
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When the Gatlinburg Wildfires happened in 2016, Dolly gave impacted families $1,000/month to help them get back on their feet. This included my father-in-law, who lost everything in the fire. Dolly gave children in TN free books each month, from birth to the age of five. She was a goddamn saint.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NOT DOLLY
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Last night I saw The Breeders and they are still fucking incredible, and Kim and Kelly Deal are probably some of the coolest siblings who have ever existed.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m working on a very difficult story, the kind that you think/hope will change things. I want so badly for our country to care about farmworkers.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 30/07/2026
This week, @sesmith.lol wrote about how some books get deluxe multiple special edition treatment and what that says about publisher priorities. Art by @meowwwls.bsky.social!
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A Forest of Special Editions and Influencers
What happens when books become aesthetic objects?
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Detention Watch Network is reporting the death of 29-year-old Priciliano Trejo, who had leukemia when he was detained by ICE in NC. ICE initially failed to provide Priciliano with access to medical care. They only released him from custody when he was on his death bed at hospital.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Supermarket sushi is now a multibillion-dollar industry, but according to a new lawsuit, the market is fueled by an unjust franchise system that skirts labor laws to exploit the industry's Burmese workforce. To learn more, read Victor Maung's latest for @prismreports.org:
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The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boom
Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As a forever grieving ass bitch, I preordered @sesmith.lol’s book and I CANNOT WAIT TO READ IT. You should order it, too!
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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you already know the principles & commitments of movement journalism, it’s time to take the next step! Learn what movement journalism looks like in action from award-winning journalist @tinavasquez.bsky.social—register for our August 12 Movement Journalism 201 training @ bit.ly/mj201training.
Event flyer for our virtual Movement Journalism 201 training. It says: “Building off of movement journalism principles, Tina Vasquez (Prism features editor & fellowship coordinator at Press On) will help participants deepen their understanding of news judgement, model participatory approaches to working with sources, and share solutions to ethical & safety concerns in reporting. Wednesday, August 12, 1-3pm ET / 12-2pm ET / 10am-12pm PT. Register at bit.ly/mj201training by August 5!” Includes headshot of training facilitator Tina Vasquez (she/her), a Latina with dark brown, chest-length hair and brown eyes, wearing silver hoop earrings and a black lace blouse, looking over her shoulder and smiling away from the camera.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.
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Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...
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Pixie screaming FREE PALESTINE! ✏️📝✍️🤪 @pixieonthemoon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@prismreports.org is a vital outlet for movement journalism we can not afford to lose
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erika owens @erikaowens.com · 21/07/2026
we need prism! let's keep showing up for movement journalism!
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 21/07/2026
Please follow and donate to @prismreports.org ! An essential publication is currently struggling to stay alive:
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank you to the person who just donated $100! If you have any trouble DMing me with a screenshot of your donation, you can also email me: tina@prismreports.org.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you donate $100 or more, DM me a screenshot and your address. Your package will include at least one book and a lot of other cute stuff!
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We've launched a summer fundraiser. It's our hope to raise $25K to help us keep chugging along and producing our award-winning movement journalism. Please consider a one-time or monthly donation. We need your support!
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Support independent, nonprofit news led by journalists of color
Join Prism's community of justice seekers and truth-tellers, building collective power through journalism. Understanding the full story has never mattered…
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I know that so many newsrooms are dealing with catastrophic funding cuts. It feels particularly painful for this to happen now, when @prismreports.org's movement journalism is so desperately needed.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In recent weeks, we had two very painful staff layoffs and soon, our freelance budget will see a significant cut and the remaining staff's salaries will be reduced by 10%.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you've worked with me in recent weeks as a freelancer, I've probably shared this news with you, though it's time to share it more broadly: @prismreports.org is in serious trouble, y'all. We have lost half a million dollars in philanthropic support & we have almost no secure funding for next year.
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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I can't think of a publication we need more than @prismreports.org in this very specific moment of fascism. Please do what you can to save this necessary outlet.
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