Mastodawn

Kartikay Jan 12, 2023

As the U.S. pushed #Native Americans from their lands for westward expansion, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of #Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. 30 years since passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, @ProPublica investigates the #failure of federally funded universities and museums to expeditiously return human remains.

“We never ceded or relinquished our dead. They were stolen."

https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains

America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen — and how tribes are working to get them back.

ProPublica

Kartikay Jan 3, 2023

An indigenous activist in Wisconsin was faking it all along. Turns out they were tanning and dying their hair to pull off their scam as a #Pretendian, cashing in on their faux #Indigenous heritage for years including a position as an expert at UW Madison. This is wild.

https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/

Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white

Early in 2020, an Indigenous artist urged the owners of a new music venue in town to change its name. It was called The Winnebago, after the street on which it stands. Many Indigenous people and allies let the owners know that wasn’t the best name for a white-owned music venue. One of them was n

Madison365

Kartikay Dec 20, 2022

The Failed Promise of Online Mental-Health Treatment
His biggest concern was he missed his family. The therapist he was given, he says, recommended he try to stop being gay so he could go back to them. “He said if I chose to go back to who I was and deny those feelings, he could get me where I needed to be,” Mr. Hill said. #MentalHealth #RemoteMentalHealth
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-failed-promise-of-online-mental-health-treatment-11671390353

The Failed Promise of Online Mental-Health Treatment

Heavy advertising and other strategies from Silicon Valley’s playbook boost providers’ growth but not the quality of care

The Wall Street Journal

Kartikay Dec 17, 2022

Tony Webster Dec 17, 2022

CNN, WaPo, NYT journalists' accounts were restored. The Intercept and independent journalists were not. We've gotten the worst of it all: the criticism of being the “mainstream media” but without the backing or protection of being the “mainstream media.”

Kartikay Dec 17, 2022

Caroline Chen Dec 16, 2022

My #longreads recommendation for the week. This incredible feat of reporting and writing by Lynzy Billing for @ProPublica

The CIA has backed night raids that have killed hundreds of Afghan civilians. Nobody's held accountable for these deaths.

https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-lynzy-billing

The Night Raids

CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.

ProPublica

Kartikay Dec 16, 2022

ProPublica Dec 16, 2022

A partial list of our reporters you can follow on Masto:

•Caroline Chen @carolinechen

•Annie Waldman @AnnieWaldman

•Perla Trevizo @Perla_Trevizo

•Jeremy Schwartz @JeremySchwartz

•Emily Hopkins @emilyhopkins

•Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong

•Mariam Elba @mariamelba

•Jessica Lussenhop @lussenpop

•Ellis Simani @emsimani

•Justin Elliott @elliottjustin

•Max Blau @maxblau

•Andy Kroll @andykroll

•Kartikay Mehrotra @kartikay

•Jeremy Kohler @jeremykohler

•Neil Bedi @neilbedi

Kartikay Dec 16, 2022

Hi everyone! I guess we're doing this social media thing from scratch? OK, here it goes:
I'm a reporter @ProPublica writing about worker safety & migration. Sometimes I'll dabble outside this universe. I'm looking forward to figuring out how this platform works. If you have any pointers, I'm all ears.

Here's my first story at ProPublica published in mid-November about how the U.S. refugee resettlement system failed an Afghan family in rural Missouri:

https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-afghan-refugees-rezwan-kohistani-oronogo

The Afghan Teen Who Survived the Taliban but Not U.S. Resettlement

When Kabul fell, Biden promised to rescue Afghan allies. For 14-year-old Rezwan Kohistani and his family, that meant being sent to a remote Missouri town where no other Afghans lived. “We’d been left alone,” said Rezwan’s father.

ProPublica