F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭
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journalist | i like tats, punk rock, thrifting, etc.
Some personal news — last Friday was my last day @DMRegister. It’s been an honor to cover Iowa’s social justice, community and faith issues for 3.5 years. I’m not entirely sure where my next stop is, but I’ll be looking for any opportunities to join the next newsroom.
"Shrill" creator Lindy West says that her colleagues made her feel “weird and invisible” during the three years she spent making the show: “I got an identity crisis. It’s extremely corrosive to an already weak mind to be making a show about the most vulnerable and embarrassing parts of your own life, sitting in writers’ rooms listening to skinny white guys from Harvard debating, ‘So what season should we have the dad die?’ Your actual dad, who’s actually dead. Only for it to be decided that he shouldn’t die at all, because it isn’t funny when dads die.” “My real personality wasn’t in the room and didn’t often make it onto the screen, and while I loved my coworkers, I didn’t become close with people in a way that made me feel at home or might have gotten me more TV jobs after ‘Shrill’ was canceled. I was given the illusion of power while the real deciders had private calls without me, and you can only be undermined so many times on an adaptation of your own life before you start to question whether you even know who you are.” variety.com/2026/tv/global…
Renee Good’s lawyer is fighting ICE. He learned civil rights law litigating against Chicago police. Here is our profile of Antonio Romanucci, an Italian-American success story who rose from workers comp cases to one of the country’s most prominent lawyers chicagotribune.com/2026/03/01/ant…
In the past months, I’ve heard nonprofits and other agencies talk about the need for more immigration legal services. It’s not a new problem but it is a significant one as ICE enforcement ramps up. My latest for @DMRegister desmoinesregister.com/story/news/202…
