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Joshua Barajas

Washington, D.C.

Senior Editor at PBS NewsHour

Senior editor for the PBS NewsHour's Communities Initiative. Also the newsletter editor. | [email protected] | 🇲🇽🏳‍🌈

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  • This Louisiana community preps for hurricane season as questions linger about federal storm response

    2 weeks ago | pbs.org | Joshua Barajas

    Catherine DeLeon knew her role. “Pet mom.”Stepping off a bus outside a sports and entertainment complex, DeLeon and her golden retriever Rhett filed alongside some 80 volunteers who were helping local emergency officials in the Metro New Orleans area practice a plan crafted after Hurricane Katrina.

  • This Louisiana community preps for hurricane season as questions linger about federal storm response

    2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joshua Barajas

    12 hours agoAs a candidate, the president spread misinformation about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, convincing many survivors that the federal government was out to get them. Brandon Rogers fielded calls from as far away as Australia as his community strained to recover from the worst natural disaster …

  • Trans troops facing removal from U.S. military wrestle with uncertain future

    3 weeks ago | pbs.org | Joshua Barajas

    “Voluntary” isn’t how U.S. Navy Lt. Rae Timberlake would describe their expected departure from the U.S. military. “I feel like it’s coercion,” said Timberlake, who is nonbinary and has served in the naval forces for 17 years. They would be staying in if the U.S. military wasn’t starting to remove as many as 1,000 trans service members from its ranks. It’s a process the Pentagon intended to start earlier this year before a lower court put it on hold.

  • Trans troops facing removal from U.S. military wrestle with uncertain future

    3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joshua Barajas

    10 hours agoA hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn’t worked for more than three years may have contributed to another near miss shortly after the U.S. Army resumed flying helicopters in the area for the first time since January’s deadly midair collision …

  • How Americans grade Trump’s first 100 days

    1 month ago | pbs.org | Joshua Barajas

    As President Donald Trump celebrates his first 100 days in office, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds that a plurality of Americans give him a failing grade. Forty-five percent of U.S. adults rated Trump’s return to the Oval Office an “F,” including 80 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of independents.

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2 Jun 25

RT @RyanChandlerTV: I spent yesterday at a Haitian church in Miami where everyone was impacted by this decision - fearing for their own sta…

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21 May 25

RT @JenBerryHawes: 🧵 As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurric…

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6 May 25

RT @kyledcheney: BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration's transgender military ban to take effect. https://t.co/qU…