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A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. via
@businessinsider
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If only the New York Times had someone whose entire job was to dig deep into coverage controversies like this one, get editors on the record, and serve as a voice of accountability for the paper. You might call them a "public editor."
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The new Hammer & Hope issue on Palestine looks pretty great — Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Arundhati Roy, Hala Alyan, Amira Hass, Michelle Alexander, Noura Erakat, and more. Honored to have contributed.
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Of particular note that the settlement deal with Musk included strict non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses. Just months after the settlement was reached. California banned such clauses in sexual harassment settlements.
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@LHSummers
Sigh. I cohosted a Jewish radio show for more than a decade and we had Rashid Khalidi on frequently. To state the obvious, he's been in engaged in close collaboration and dialogue with the Jewish community for his entire career. Summers' claim is unfounded and dangerous.
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The visual guide you've been waiting for that shows exactly who's responsible for the anti-Roe majority on the highest court & the state "trigger laws" that will ban abortion if the precedent is struck down.
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This is one of the most shocking stories I've worked on in a long time, with reporting led by the great
@hannah_beckler
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"It’s not really about how many critics there are...or what Times editor can be rounded up to produce answers. It’s about having an institution that is willing to seriously listen to that criticism, willing to doubt its impulses and challenge the wisdom of the inner sanctum."
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Hey, journo Twitter! I'm commissioning freelance investigations for 2024. Please hit me up. Pay rate starts at $1 a word. ekaplan at insider dot com
@journosofcolor
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Some personal news: Started this week as deputy editor for investigations at Insider, where I get to work with
@johnjcook
and a talented team of reporters and editors to kick up some dust.
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Finally got to this wild ProPublica story about how ugly and obsessive the battle against the phantom of CRT in our public schools has become. Wonderful reporting by
@NicoleFCarr
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A crushing round of layoffs at Business Insider today, including my warm, talented deputy, Zach Tracer. If you're hiring, please reach out and I can tell you how lucky you'd be to have him.
Today's my last day at Business Insider. I've had an incredible time leading BI's healthcare coverage over the past 5 years, and was excited to start with the investigations team this month. I'll be rooting for both groups of incredibly talented reporters from afar.
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Engrave this on his tombstone.
Kissinger’s Killing Fields
Interviews with 75+ witnesses and survivors of U.S. attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known. My latest
@theintercept
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Of the 13 trigger laws states FIVE passed their ban without a single female sponsor, and a male governor signed them into law. I mean, look at Mississippi
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@hrw
Many of you are old enough to remember the outrage that greeted the images leaked from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad of officers threatening hooded, handcuffed prisoners with dogs. It turns out *all 8* civilian consultants at Abu Ghraib had run prison dogs programs in the US.
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We are definitely not pretending anymore that we think women are actual humans, whose lives and dignity are any match for men’s random ideological whims and religious vapors
Citing the potential for miracles, Arkansas lawmakers reject abortion exemption for fatal prenatal conditions via
@HunterCField
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Hey, journos. Have you ever been asked to sign an NDA at your outlet? I was once. We'd be very interested to know. ekaplan-at-insider-dot-com
Anyone who knows anything about me knows I would never sign an NDA. I work in the business of transparency and I was so disappointed and offended in
@peterbhatia
—someone who has worked in journalism for decades —for even suggesting I sign this.
@Hou_Landing
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As Insider combed through political contributions to abortion "trigger law" sponsors in 13 states, this was the biggest surprise:
Medical associations. Pharmacies. Health insurers. Hospital chains.
Backing laws that will criminalize doctors.
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I just gave to the
@InsiderUnion
workers’ relief fund, and so should you! Support Insider union workers on strike:
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I'm heartbroken about the layoffs at Insider today and the news about Buzzfeed, home to such tremendous reporting over the years.
Much is still being negotiated with the Insider union, but watch this space for some incredible Insider talent you'd be lucky to snap up
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Inspired by the striking reporting of
@byMadisonHall
and
@VCanelaLopez
for
@thisisinsider
last year, Insider’s investigations team decided to take a comprehensive look at killings of transgender people over the past five years.
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The US is the only nation in the world to use attack-trained dogs inside prison cells, according to
@hrw
. After filing an intent to sue, we obtained records documenting *hundreds* of brutal attacks.
Attacks that left people maimed and traumatized.
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"On Sunday, Save the Children said the number of children killed in Gaza in three weeks surpasses the total number of children killed in all global conflict zones since 2019." From
@lilahass
@Schwartzesque
| Insider
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"Nobody in Washington comes out and calls Bush a liar. But he lied," a former CIA official tells
@Schwartzesque
It's always 20 years later.
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Who funded state "trigger laws" that automatically ban abortion if Roe is overturned?
Prolife groups: $56,000
Corporations: >$25 million
via
@businessinsider
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This is the line that gives the whole game away: “Experts said that adolescent top surgeries were less frequent than cosmetic breast procedures performed on teenagers who were not transgender.”
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Blackstone bought Home Partners for $6 billion in 2021, promising a "path to homeownership" for those otherwise unable to buy. An Insider analysis found more of their rent-to-own deals end in eviction filings than sales.
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We’ve talked a lot about children being separated from their families. But
@aurabogado
discovers that the Office of Refugee Resettlement has disappeared children for years
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…but murder convictions were more common when a white transgender person was killed.
More than a third of the killings remain unsolved, driving a sense of fear and uncertainty within local communities.
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So grateful to have been part of this team led by
@shoeshine
's mind-blowing reporting,
@radioike
&
@starecheski
's beautiful writing,
@jimbriggs3
&
@NandoArruda_
gorgeous compositions,
@brettmyers
brilliant editing
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Thanks to the incredible team behind this project, including
@UVALaw
,
@matt_rota
, Shayanne Gal,
@annieefu
,
@rebeccazisser
,
@noahdlewis
,
@OliviaNemec
, Robert Leslie,
@narimesp
, and many more
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When you are a prisoner, you have no chance for a medical second opinion, so it matters a lot who’s in charge of your health. The quality of Corizon Health’s care has been a subject of contention for years.
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These are the men responsible.
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"UNRWA employs 13,000 Gazans, all of whose names have been checked against the UN terrorism list and as recently as last May were vetted and approved by Israel."
Channel 4 has seen a confidential Israeli document alleging that UNWRA staffers took part in the 10/7 attack (spurring nations including the US to suspend funding).
The outlet reports the document "provides no evidence to support its explosive new claim."
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@gracemarion928
@DCampoamor
@coachjoetori
Dart Center is dedicated to training journalists in trauma-informed reporting. Many excellent resources in their site as well.
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We're honored that "Deaths in the Family,"
@thisisinsider
's investigation into anti-trans violence, has been nominated.
GLAAD Announces Nominees For The 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
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Absolutely love that a story by my colleagues
@Schwartzesque
&
@TheNewsHam
about Giuliani listing his luxury Manhattan apartment for $6.5 million has shown up in a federal court order forcing him to reimburse Ruby Freeman $89K in legal fees
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This was a labor of love for our political moment, one of the projects that’s meant the most to me this past year at
@theIFUND
. Thanks to
@bxpnyc
and
@SethFW
for incredible reporting and to
@SmithsonianMag
and
@reveal
In the last decade, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate memorials and sites that perpetuate racist ideology. With
@SmithsonianMag
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Even more horrifying, many men said racial epithets, including the n-word, were hurled at them as officers were setting dogs on them.
"My dog got you good," Michael Watson recalled a handler at Red Onion prison in Virginia saying. "He loves dark meat."
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This thread is pretty good on how we’ve slid into kleptocracy. And it sure poses some challenges for us journalists.
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Center for Investigative Reporting and Center for Public Integrity are the OGs of nonprofit investigative journalism, churning out high-impact reporting since the 1970s and 1980s. CIR only survived by merging with Mother Jones. Now CIP is in collapse.
Support nonprofit news.
Today,
@publicintegrity
management informed us that they will lay off 11 of our beloved coworkers. This figure represents more than half our unit.
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Final note — we love partnerships! The Rebecca Burns story we did with
@mcgrawcenter
and the Olivia Gentile we did with
@typeinvestigate
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This story has an uncanny horror movie feel to it, and yet it's all true.
Such dogged work by
@oliviafgentile
, and wonderful to partner with
@typeinvestigate
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@UVALaw
@matt_rota
@annieefu
@rebeccazisser
@noahdlewis
@OliviaNemec
@narimesp
And thanks especially to Adrian Duran, Xavia Goodwyn, Linwood Mathias, and the many other current and former prisoners who shared the most traumatic experiences of their lives with us in order to expose these atrocities.
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After
@mattdrange
obtained disciplinary documents from school districts in 34 states, we published a harrowing story about a culture of silence that protects predators. Then we shared those docs with dozens of local education reporters. Here's the first story to result.
"They neither removed him from the classroom nor suspended him temporarily. They just moved him a bit farther away from older girls."
A damning report from
@JakobMcwhinney
on San Diego Unified school district's repeated failure to protect children. Read:
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Hannah compiled evidence indicating that many of the men were attacked while prone on the ground, or even in cuffs or shackles.
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Ellies 2020:
@MotherJones
in partnership with
@typeinvestigate
nominated in Reporting category for “Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire,” by
@SethFW
#ellies
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Insider spent 18 months investigating 175 murders of transgender people. Here's what we found.
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Here are some recent examples of freelance investigations we've published.
Rebecca Burns dug into a major player in the rent-to-own industry, Home Partners, owned by PE giant Blackstone, and found that their claims of success were exaggerated.
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Olivia Gentile contributed the definitive exposé of the "parental alienation" treatment industry, which has convinced family court judges to send countless children into the hands of their abusers
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So incredible to have this powerful work on prisoner abuse recognized with an ASME Award. Congrats to our amazing team led by reporter
@hannah_beckler
and producer
@OliviaNemec
with
@noahdlewis
@ericaeve
Robert Leslie and so many more.
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Among public corporations, AT&T looms above all others in pouring money into state "trigger laws" that ban abortion if the Court overturns Roe, we found. Sent $1 million to bill sponsors and the governors who signed them across all 13 trigger law states.
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So literally as Stephen Curry was breaking this record every public school kid in Oakland was receiving this beautiful box of books from him and his wife Ayesha
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Here we go!
We are thrilled to announce that The Investigative Fund is now Type Investigations 1/
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Plus, Insider is a union shop! The vote, last June, was 241-14. I mean.
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Susan Antilla exposed a flagrant culture of sexual abuse and alleged customer fraud at one of Globe Life's top insurance sales agencies
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The Oakland teachers strike in two slides.
1) Oakland teachers are paid shockingly less than teachers in other Bay Area districts
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An incredible moment of accountability
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Using data from
@WilliamsPolicy
, we found that transgender people were killed at the highest rates in states that have passed anti-transgender laws (with the exception of Maryland).
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Thanks to the incredible team behind this project, including
@mabramsonphoto
,
@sophiekleeman
,
@hannah_beckler
,
@annieefu
,
@superkazi
,
@SkyGould
,
@hollis_photo
,
@rebeccazisser
,
@willvarnerart
,
@gertsofficial
and the hundreds of people who came forward to tell their stories.
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Sad news at my former stomping grounds. Someone should snap up the very talented journalists who've been laid off.
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We found that most homicides targeted Black transgender women…
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This is the kind of affirmative action the highest court is just fine with.
Students from families in the 1% were 34% more likely to be admitted to elite colleges than the average applicant with the same SAT or ACT score, and those from the top 0.1% were more than twice as likely to get in, a new study shows.
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This is not only a decision about where we will and where we will not be able to access abortions. This is a decision about whether women’s lives matter, whether we have dignity, whether we have the right to control our own destiny, whether we are full citizens.
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How does a culture of sexual misconduct spread? How does an entire school community turn a blind eye? Why are the students who were targeted left internalizing the shame?
@mattdrange
just kept digging in.
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After more than a decade in nonprofit journalism, it will be amazing to be part of such a massive and growing newsroom. A year ago, when Business Insider rebranded as Insider, the newsroom had 500 people; now it has 640 with more aggressive growth to come.
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Very few of these deaths came at the hands of strangers. We found that most of the killers and suspected killers were known to their victims. And most of the suspects were young men in their teens and twenties.
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Thanks
@ByKLong
,
@TheNewsHam
,
@hannah_beckler
,
@narimesp
for reporting/research;
@johnjcook
,
@Jeffrey_Cane
for editing eyes;
@superkazi
,
@annieefu
, Isabel Fernandez-Pujol,
@rebeccazisser
for visuals;
@JarrusSylvia
, Adria Malcolm, for photos;
@HavoviCooper
, Erica Domena for video
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@dakincampbell
@NicoleEinbinder
@SenWarren
told
@thisisinsider
of Corizon’s Two-Step: "It's outrageous that investors' profits could have greater legal protections than incarcerated patients and their families. This legal maneuver should be an alarming red flag."
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It’s confirmed: Oakland teachers will go out on strike on Thursday morning.
I’m sharing excerpts of a note from one of my daughter’s teachers about why she’s going out.
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@whstancil
"Pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height > 40 in. are 45% more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30 in. or less and a sloping profile, a study of nearly 18,000 pedestrian crashes found."
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Ambitious new package on how the explosion of online shopping has reshaped blue collar jobs, destroyed workers' bodies, toxified the air, and uglified the US landscape
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Adolescent mothers age 10–19 face higher risks of eclampsia, puerperal endometritis and systemic infection. Pregnancy and childbirth complications are the leading cause of death among girls aged 15–19 years globally.
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Today, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed into law a bill that would severely restrict the use of attack-trained dogs on Virginia prisoners. The brutal practice exists in several states, but Virginia was the super user, with hundreds of attacks in recent years.
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@insiderfinance
And
@dakincampbell
@NicoleEinbinder
obtained audio of Judge Jones announcing his recusal. Click on the story to listen.
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@dakincampbell
and
@NicoleEinbinder
also dug into the secretive group of buyers who purchased Corizon in 2021 before executing the Two-Step. They found a history of bankruptcies & evidence that they’ve sent millions of $ in contracts to companies they control
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Congrats to
@byMadisonHall
@VCanelaLopez
@BWDBWDBWD
@mattdrange
@NicoleEinbinder
@michelleamark
@InsiderHaven
@kcecireyes
@DiamondStylz
, Narimes Parakul, Keenan Trotter,
and Dr. Rayna Momen
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This is awesome. I know one third grader who’s on strike today.
.
@NYCschools
will excuse absences of students participating in the
#ClimateStrike
on Friday 9/20. Students will need parental consent. Younger students can only leave school with a parent.
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Insider obtained documents & video showing him repeatedly collapsing on the floor in pain and vomiting a brown bile that can be a symptom of internal bleeding. Corizon healthcare providers waited two days to send him to the hospital. He arrived in cardiac arrest.
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What's so striking is how cavalier the Oklahoma legislators are, stripping away human rights w/out even recalling what's in their bills, whether rape or incest are exempt, how a medical emergency is defined, and not really caring. "We just have to see."
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"We should all have peace. We should all have justice. And we should all live in dignity. The main way to achieve that is to end occupation, end the system of apartheid." Dr. Mustafa Barghouti provides all the context you need in 9 1/2 minutes on CNN.
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So that Senate GOP talking points memo published by Axios today? Under "FORCEFULLY REFUTE DEMOCRAT LIES REGARDING GOP POSITIONS ON ABORTION" we get this humdinger: "Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors and women in jail."
Ahem. 1/
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I’m sorry - 600%?
OUSD says it must close schools bc of fiscal distress, yet we pay our central admins nearly 600% the state av. That is a budget choice. If we chose to normalize those central office salaries, we would have nearly $30 million EVERY YEAR to invest in classrooms and kids.
#oakedu
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We also lost
@LouiseRidley
from our UK team, a features editor who comes up with wild stories like this one
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So wonderful to see this wrenching and essential work about child detention from my incredible colleagues
@aurabogado
@iff_or
@add
@soo_oh
recognized with a Hillman Prize, named for a labor leader who organized immigrant workers.
The 2021 Hillman Prize for Web journalism goes to
@aurabogado
and
@iff_or
of
@reveal
for showing that migrant children are held in immigration detention for years at a time, including one girl held for 6yrs:
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This maneuver has left families like the Garcias in limbo.
Their dad, Hector Garcia, entered the Doña Ana Detention Center in Las Cruces for a 6-day sentence in August 2019. He ended up dead.
(Photo: Adria Malcolm for Insider)
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Lovely to see my colleagues
@KatieNixdorf
@noahdlewis
and
@thisisinsider
's wonderful video doc team recognized for this moving piece
ASME Awards 2023:
@thisisinsider
nominated in Video category for “The True Cost of Crisis Pregnancy Centers,” produced by Katie Nixdorf
#ASMEawards
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A New York Times journalist is one of the few to get inside the Israeli advance and we just get IDF stenography. Zero attempt to verify the claim that these apparent civilian targets were occupied by Hamas militants or even seek an independent take.
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That the DEA obtained these documents in 2014 but did t turn them over to investigators in Mexico until last year…
And, of course, that the Israeli spy tool Pegasus is involved.
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