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Tracy Lucht

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Professor | journalism historian | editor | author

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/02/2026
this story, of the Trump regime trying to deport an intercountry #adoptee from a country she never chose to enter and that is also the only place she has ever called home—should be getting more attention.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Can attest the system is glitchy. See my post below about a teen trying to start his $15/hour summer job.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My kid is struggling to prove to the Dept. of Homeland Security website that he’s *not* an undocumented immigrant, despite being a U.S. citizen with a U.S. passport. Well done, DHS. Kid just wants a summer job.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I was genuinely worried something like this would happen in Iowa this year. Grateful my promotion to full prof was approved, and I ache for those at UNC.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Congratulations to @kathieobradovich.bsky.social and @iowacapitaldispatch.com! We were proud to honor your excellent work and loved learning about nonprofit journalism and the States Newsroom model.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Two girls interviewed me for their NHD projects this year: one on Amelia Bloomer and one on Nellie Bly. They were so excited and worked so hard. One emailed to tell me she had made it to state. I am so sad and angry.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
From my post on "Signalgate": "Big journalism stories can seem like a magic trick...But at a time when powerful forces are working hard to de-legitimize traditional journalism, we have to show our work a lot more. And The Atlantic certainly did that here." loom.ly/D4tE2G4
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Can The Atlantic's handling of 'Signalgate' show how journalists regain public trust?
The Atlantic's huge scoops this week prove the power in journalists showing their work
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !
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Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff (they/them) @pepinneff.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I am putting together a new network of LGBTQ+ Academics from around the world to push back on attacks on queer, trans, and gender-diverse students, teachers, research, grants, and books: (website still in progress) lgbtqacademics.com - to join: email me at - chris.pepin-neff@sydney.edu.au
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Adoptee Rights Law Center @adopteerights.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Coming up on Wednesday, hope to see people there.🥚 adopteesunited.org/state-level-...
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State Level Legislation: An Update | Adoptees United Inc.
Join us for an update and discussion about pending state-level legislation in 2025 that could impact adopted people.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 22/03/2025
Counties would have to stop taking orphans’ Social Security survivor benefits to pay for their foster care under legislation that passed its first vote at the Capitol on Wednesday.
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Colorado orphans shouldn't have to pay for their own foster care, lawmakers say
A proposal to give foster kids their parents’ death benefits instead of letting counties use the money became a debate about the cost of doing the right thing
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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/03/2025
Virtually every leading First Amendment scholar in the country--conservative and liberal--has joined this statement warning that the Trump administration's threats to Columbia University risk deterring and suppressing constitutionally protected speech.
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
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GOLDIE. @goldietaylor.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Of all of the the federal actions of late, this is the one that reduced me to tears. No contribution is worthy, no achievement, no sacrifice meets their bar of excellence when you are Black.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...
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A Statement from Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom | Columbia Journalism School
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 10/03/2025
Knight Institute Says Threats to Deport Student Protesters Pose “Existential Threat” to Universities Statement from @jameeljaffer.bsky.social below and at link. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Teddy White wrote The Making of the President. Joe McGinniss wrote The Selling of the President. Who’s writing The Buying of the President?
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My hometown of Waterloo, Iowa canceled its African American Read-In after Trump’s anti-diversity directives. So i got together some writer friends and I’m holding it instead.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
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Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The 1923 Oregon legislature was colloquially known as the "Klan legislature" because the majority of members were either Klan members or sympathizers. One bill they passed required that history education be suitably patriotic, outlawing materials that spoke "slightingly" of the founders.
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GENERAL LAWS OF OREGON, 1923 [Chaps. 39, 40
CHAPTER 39
AN ACT
[S. B. 57]
To define the principles to govern those who are charged with the selec-
tion of text-books for use in the public schoels.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
Section 1. It shall be the duty of every board, commission, committee or officer charged with the selection of text-books for use in the public schools to select and install text-books on American history and civil government which adequately stress the services rendered by the men who achieved our national independence, who established our form of constitutional government, and who preserved our federal union. No textbook shall be used in our schools which speaks slightingly of the founders of the republic, or of the men who preserved the union, or which belittles or undervalues their work.
Approved by the governor February 12, 1923.
Filed in the office of the secretary of state February 12, 1923.
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
And now the Trump administration has opened an investigation of the Maine Department of Education
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
That stood out to me, too, including the initial slip: “I am - we are the federal law.”
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Good!
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 19/02/2025
The Mississippi Legislature is not a public body and not subject to the state’s Open Meetings Act, a Hinds County Chancery Court judge ruled Tuesday, affirming a 2023 Mississippi Ethics Commission finding.
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Mississippi Legislature Not a ‘Public Body,’ Judge Rules
The Mississippi Legislature is not a public body and not subject to the state’s Open Meetings Act, a Hinds County Chancery Court judge ruled.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
That’ll show ‘em.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Adoption is not an alternative to abortion.
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Missouri bill proposes ‘eHarmony for babies’ database for abortion seekers, to improve adoptions - Missourinet
Pregnant Missouri women who are considering an abortion could have their information stored in a proposed database that is being described as “eHarmony for babies.” Rep. Phil Amato, R-Arnold, is the b...
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:
THIS MATTER having come before this Court on the verified Petition of the City of Clarksdale requesting a temporary restraining order or a hearing on a preliminary injunction and after review of the verified Petition and Attorney Certification, the Court finds that the Petition is
well taken. The injury in this case is defamation against public figures through actual malice in reckless disregard of the truth and interferes with their legitimate function to advocate for legislation they believe would help their municipality during this current legislative cycle. The
Respondents are well aware of the accusations against them as they have already received a draft of the verified Petition and further notice is not needed until such hearing. The Temporary
Restraining Order for Respondents to remove the article "EDITORIAL: SECRECY AND DECEPTION ERODE PUBLIC TRUST" from their online portals and make it inaccessible to the public is hereby granted. Petitioner shall post a bond in the amount of $100.00 as security for any damages that Defendant may incur should it be determined that this Temporary Restraining Order was wrongfully issued. This Court further orders that a hearing on the City of Clarksdale's request for a preliminary injunction is hereby set for February 27, 2025, at 9:30 am(Conclusion of the court order.)
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KayelaWrites @kwrights.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you're a white liberal who's super angry after reading this, I'm gonna ask you to consider what exactly you think happens in our current child welfare system? We separate families due to poverty, pay mostly white people to be foster parents, and give those same white people tax credits to adopt.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Seems like a good time to read this.
I’m holding the book “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin” by Erik Larson.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
But … this is not how style is decided. A news org’s policy on place names *might* be to go with federal nomenclature — or it might not! And the point is the orgs get to decide! How is this hard?
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Well, sure. Let them. The WHCA has to stand for something. If not the First Amendment, what? If not now, when?
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This. They came for the humanities, and you said nothing. You didn’t think they’d come for the sciences, too?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Why were adoptee birth certificates sealed? people ask. A reader of my book explains: "...to protect children from the stigma of illegitimacy, [and] adoptive parents from intrusions by birthparents, to allow adoptive parents... + 1/2 www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore...
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Growing in the Dark
Generations of adults who were adopted as children have been kept in the dark about their original identities. The law sealing birth records, passed in 1935 in California during the Great Depression, ...
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Beyond its utter cruelty, this is a clear violation of the First Amendment. “Employee resource groups that promote gender ideology and do not affirm the reality of biological sex cannot meet on government property or take place during official work hours,” the email said.
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
14yo: Mom, you’re pretty without makeup. You don’t need it. You look younger than your age. Thanks, buddy! That’s really sweet of you to say. 14yo: Except at night. Then you have big bags under your eyes. You get these dark circles, like really bad …
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“If people don’t unite to tell one story about the U.S. and its history, Wheeler said, multiple versions of the country will continue to be taught in schools.”
iowacapitaldispatch.com
Iowa House Higher Education Committee focuses on civics education in meeting, legislation • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The Iowa House Higher Education Committee moved several bills ahead Wednesday after National Association of Scholars presentation.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Proof that wokeness has run amok: Nearly 7% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 29/01/2025
it would be impossible for me to articulate the right i believe #adopted people have to their own identities, without interference from the state, that is not *also* the right trans people have to their own identities, without interference from the state.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 19/01/2025
this is a great time to introduce everyone to @bekhenson.bsky.social’s Adoptee Bingo Card. 🥚
Bingo card containing stock phrases and tropes people use in reaction to adoptees who criticize adoption, such as “MY NEIGHBOR ADOPTED SEVEN KIDS AND THEY'RE ALL FINE” and “IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU JUST HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE.”
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
With an HBO deal.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
PEN America expresses concern over reports that Iowa legislators urged the Iowa Board of Regents to reject academic programs on ideological grounds. PEN America’s Amy Reid calls it a “brazen example of jawboning.” Read more here. pen.org/press-releas...
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PEN America Criticizes Iowa Lawmakers For Effort To Bully University Leaders Into Eliminating Academic Programs - PEN America
(NEW YORK) — PEN America today expressed deep concern over reports of a letter by Iowa Rep. Taylor Collins and Sen. Lynn Evans demanding the Iowa Board of Regents reject, on ideological grounds, a pro...
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Can we agree, in the year 2025, that it is *not okay* to watch videos at full volume, without headphones, on a plane?
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Tracy Lucht @tracylucht.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
My reunion with my birth mom has been very positive, but the whole thing is *still* an emotional minefield I will spend my life navigating.
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