Christina Prignano Deering
Multimedia editor 📈 @bostonglobe.com. Rhode Island native ⚓
- Lots of food hall discourse in #Boston recently. Which got us thinking: What would be the ultimate lineup? Here's mine, design your own: globe.com/dreamfoodhall
- We're annotating Governor Maura Healey's State of the Commonwealth speech live. Watch the speech and follow here: apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/metr...
- Drake Maye's second season really has been that good. Via @johnhancock.bsky.social and @christopherprice.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringNEW: A video that was posted on social media and then deleted by the FBI on Tuesday mislabeled one of the streets that the person of interest in the Brown University shooting walked down, the Globe has verified. W/ @stephmachado.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringNEWS: Ayanna Pressley won’t challenge Ed Markey, will run for re-election www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/02/n...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano Deering“If you’re just an average citizen, you can’t even get in the line,” said a lawyer rep'ing a man seeking a pardon for decades-old tax crimes. “I told my guy he’d probably be better off if he broke into the Capitol or made a major donation to Trump’s inauguration.”
- A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong. open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo...
- “Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” he said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”
- Massachusetts mandates insurance coverage for IVF. But nearly a quarter of women in the state likely have no coverage. Jess Bartlett explains why: apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/busi... Informative graphics by @kirklandan.com & @lrendon.bsky.social. Beautiful photos by Suzanne Kreiter
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringParking lot drug exchanges. A $300,000 baby. In Massachusetts, fertility coverage shortfalls cost patients dearly. Massachusetts is known as the promised land for fertility coverage. So why are so many women left out? Important story from Jess Bartlett apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/busi...
- A federal judge in Mass. just sided with pro-Palestinian protesters in ruling the Trump admin violated the free speech of noncitizens. The judge led the ruling with a copy of a postcard containing a threat he received, and his response: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/n...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano Deering"Food destined for starving people in Sudan, Bangladesh, Gaza, Syria and Myanmar rotted in warehouses. Clinics rationed HIV treatment to control and prevent transmission to newborns in Kenya. Medicine never made it to conflict-ridden Sudan, leaving sick people to die of preventable diseases."
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringMore from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%
- Very cool interactive playoff scenario simulator by the great @daigofuji.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/s...
- Somerville's incumbent mayor won just two precincts in Tuesday's prelim. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/m... via @kirklandan.com
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringTrump's approval rating and favorability by age. www.pbump.net/o/tracking-h...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringUse of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringNYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:
- Michelle Wu won 264 of the 275 precincts in Boston's mayoral prelim Tuesday. Josh Kraft took a handful of South Boston & Neponset precincts. #bospoli Some of her strongest pockets of support were in JP & Fenway. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m... via @johnhancock.bsky.social
- Wu's lopsided victory came despite being outmatched in fund-raising. Kraft spent roughly $260 for every vote earned in the prelim. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/m... via @daigofuji.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringInequality is going in the wrong direction: while the richest millennials are wealthier than the richest boomers were at their age, the average millennial is worse off. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
- Josh Kraft pours another $3.5 million into his campaign, bringing his total to $5.5 million as he trails Michelle Wu by double digits in a July poll.
- The Trump administration is hinting about a federal takeover of South Station over crime concerns. The Globe looked at the data, and it tells a different story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/d...
- High rip current risk along the New England shoreline today #Erin #Bostonwx www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/19/m...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringSee the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
- Please enjoy these dog photos:
- Lots of smoke out there this morning from wildfires in Canada. 📈 via @johnhancock.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/07/m...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringHow the information ecosystem works on X today: A random account aggregates my reporting, recounting scoops from our Media Matters story, and uses it to drive subscriptions to their Substack. Elon Musk sees it and endorses it, with apparently no idea he's reading the NYT, a publication he hates.
- The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
- "I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringFor Catholics in the Ocean State, the divine feels a bit closer to home these days after Pope Leo XIV declared a miracle happened at a Pawtucket hospital in 2007. "That something can happen here in Rhode Island is wonderful." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/21/m...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringWhy local news is a critical infrastructure: these cases are common and always local.
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringFederal funding is gone. But we're not going anywhere.
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringAmazing: In Massachusetts, "apartment buildings with four units or more can only be built, under current local zoning rules, on roughly 4 percent of the land." @andrewbrinker.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringWhat'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
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- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringAt least 17 people, mostly children, were killed by an Israeli strike while waiting for food supplements in Gaza, health officials say.
- A breakthrough in a Harvard lab led to a new cancer drug. Could it save a man with six months to live?
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringA new ProPublica data analysis adds empirical weight to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of miscarriage — which occurs in up to 30% of pregnancies — far more dangerous.
- Stop judging me, Chrome
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringSome immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.
- TF Green!!
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- Temperatures fast approaching 90 (with a heat index of 95) before 9AM in #Boston. But on Mt. Washington, it's a chilly 57 degree morning.
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringThis is nothing like Iraq or Afghanistan from a public opinion standpoint. In both cases, large majorities supported military action. This time, large majorities oppose it. Chart from the great @gelliottmorris.com. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringAfter more than three months in detention by the Trump administration, a judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil released on bail. He was met on Saturday at Newark airport by his wife, their son and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other supporters. nyti.ms/44sUa1y
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringBreaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
- About 40% of those surveyed in MA/NH/RI have been personally affected by DOGE cuts or know someone who has: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/10/m...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringBREAKING: The Washington Bridge on Interstate 195 West is expected to rebuilt by November 2028 and cost up to $427 million in total to reconstruct, Governor Dan McKee said Friday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/06/m...
- The student, a junior whose name hasn't been released, had been in the country since he was 5 years old, a school administrator said.
- Market Basket board puts CEO Arthur T. Demoulas on paid leave in dispute over management approach
- RFK Jr announces he is unilaterally removing routine COVID boosters from the CDC vaccination recommendations for pregnant women and healthy children. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringPage One: @nytimes.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringA long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringGlobe journalism was never meant to be a permanent obstacle to someone’s success, with the worst decisions and moments in regular people’s lives accessible by a few keystrokes for the rest of time. Fresh Start aims to empower all people who want to start over.
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringMore US women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing two years of decline, according to provisional data posted Wednesday.
- Antiviolence group Roca lost millions in federal grants when the Trump admin said Roca no longer aligned with Trump's priorities. The priorities? "Combatting violent crime, protecting American children, supporting victims of trafficking and sexual assault, and working with law enforcement"
- “We were terminated for supposedly not doing all the things we actually do,” Roca's leader, Molly Baldwin, told the Globe.
- We collected and categorized hundreds of actions by the Trump administration during the first 100 days of his second term. See the result: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/29/n...
- ICE detained a Venezuelan immigrant in January, and now no one knows where he is.
- The men's wheelchair field led (once again) by Marcel Hug is closing in on Boylston Street. Follow along live: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/21/s...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringNYT: “.. Like the other 11 children, Abdo starved to death in the weeks after President Trump froze all U.S. foreign assistance, said local aid workers. .. American-funded soup kitchens in Sudan, including the one near Abdo’s house, had been the only lifelines ..” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano Deeringif you do the math on this scenario — which was intended to show that people don't regret their vote, and the 2024 election would come up the same again if it were hypothetically re-run today — trump actually loses
- One woman who has been taking what's left of her HIV medication every three days to stretch it as long as possible says she sees herself "wasting away" www.npr.org/sections/goa...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringMajor drug case dismissed amid allegations of New Bedford police informant misconduct. Misconduct was first exposed by the Globe & closely follows the @globespotlight.bsky.social 'Snitch City' series. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/11/m...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringBreaking News: The Trump administration moved to cancel lawfully obtained Social Security numbers in an effort to pressure immigrants to “self deport” by cutting people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.
- Boston police officers chased a car after being told to stop. Minutes later, three teens died in a crash. Detailed visual breakdown of the events leading to the crash here by @johnhancock.bsky.social and Randy Vazquez
- Read the story here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
- Update on Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk: The Trump admin revoked her visa on March 21, but never told her. Masked agents arrested her March 25 on a Somerville sidewalk. Öztürk's friends and lawyer could not locate her for 24 hours, during which time she had an asthma attack, per court filings.
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringToday we're launching The Flipside, a news website providing news aimed at communities of color in the Greater Boston area. Take a look. If you like what you see, please subscribe (it's free)! flipsidenews.net
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringNEW: AP photog Evan Vucci took this iconic photo of a bloodied, resilient Trump. Now, he's banned from the Oval Office thanks to Trump's anger at AP over refusing to use "Gulf of America." Vucci testified today about the harm this is causing him/AP. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
- Some of the grant titles affected: -- $700k for Automated Digital Imaging for Cervical Cancer Screening -- $2m for a cancer center at Columbia University -- $300k for mentoring clinical investigators in patient-oriented research on substance use and HIV More: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
- The NIH on Friday abruptly terminated tens of millions of dollars in health research grants in New England and around the country "in what has become a weekly ritual" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
- The NIH on Friday abruptly terminated tens of millions of dollars in health research grants in New England and around the country "in what has become a weekly ritual" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringThe Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities in Somerville has been sent to a Louisiana detention facility, despite a federal judge’s order telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove her from Massachusetts without notice.
- So many disturbing details in this story on the arrest of a Tufts grad student in Somerville: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m... Via Giulia McDonnell Nieto de Rio, Mike Damiano, John R. Ellement
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringAmericans lost more money to scams last year than ever before, new data shows. But as today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explains, there are still several ways to protect yourself from increasingly sophisticated fraudsters www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/25/n...
- The Trump admin accidentally texted @theatlantic.com its attack plans
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringFOX News attempts to cover local politics, calls Josh Kraft "GOP candidate for Boston mayor" (He's a registered Dem, the mayor's race does not involve political parties)
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringFrom @fitzprov.bsky.social: R.I. doctor deported to Lebanon despite judge’s order for her to remain in Mass. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/16/m...
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- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringBREAKING: Trump team has removed the top IRS attorney as career staff resist demands to give DOGE access to sensitive taxpayer records, multiple sources say DHS has sought home addresses of undocumented immigrants who pay taxes W/ @jacobbogage.bsky.social & co
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringNew @globespotlight.bsky.social investigation. Read: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest... Listen: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest... Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
- ‘I just call Elon.’ To avoid DOGE cuts, lawmakers just need the right connections and an ‘R’ after their names www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/n...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringStunning writing and reporting by the @globespotlight.bsky.social team on police abuse of the confidential informant system. @bostonglobe.com On the production side, dev work: me, project managing: @christinaprignano.com, design: Ryan Huddle apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest...
- A rogue cop, a mystery snitch, and a ‘drug rip.’ How ‘Officer Pills’ exploited policing’s informant system. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest...
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringSocial Security now requires Maine parents to visit an agency office to register newborns
- Chappy no!
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringI noticed that Pfizer made some changes to their DEI page today: www.statnews.com/2025/02/27/p...
- I never know where my day is going to take me. #journalism
- Reposted by Christina Prignano DeeringNEW WU POLL: Mayor Wu up over challenger Josh Kraft, 65% to 25%, per Wu source briefed on internal poll Poll of likely voters also has her winning 72% of Black voters and 73% of Latino voters 56% say Boston is heading in right direction, 38% say wrong direction
- Always read @helenbranswell.bsky.social: A small study on Covid vaccine safety sparks an online tempest www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/p... via @statnews.com
