
Tik Root
@TikRoot
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Journalist with an affinity for accountability reporting and flannel. Ex. @washingtonpost, @newsy, etc. Contact: [email protected]; [email protected]
Vermont
Joined April 2011
NEW: I’ve spent over a year investigating the private U.S. adoption industry for @TIME & @Newsy. With virtually no federal regulation and loophole-riddled state laws, baby brokering has become an extremely lucrative business rife with exploitation (THREAD).
time.com
An estimated 1 million families in the U.S. are looking to adopt at any given time. But problems with private adoption appear to be widespread.
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RT @zteirstein: This is my final request that you read my many-months-long investigation into the far-right militias masquerading as emerge….
grist.org
Anti-government organizations are filling a disaster-response gap — and using it to spread their message.
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RT @hannahdreier: The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now. Thousands of kids are working overnight in dang….
nytimes.com
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.
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RT @fredthys: State cannabis regulator seeks information about alleged ties between Russian oligarch and Vermont dispensaries https://t.co/….
vtdigger.org
Prompted by a VTDigger inquiry, the Cannabis Control Board chair said the board was asking Massachusetts and Connecticut authorities about published reports that Roman Abramovich had invested in...
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RT @nixonron: Please check out this beautifully written and visually stunning piece about an aviator’s race to photograph glaciers as the c….
apnews.com
VOSS, Norway (AP) — Chunks of ice float in milky blue waters. Clouds drift and hide imposing mountaintops.
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RT @maxinejoselow: New: How China, the world's biggest annual emitter of greenhouse gases, avoids paying for #climate damages because of it….
washingtonpost.com
Analysts say it is unlikely China will pay into the historic climate fund agreed to at the U.N. climate conference to support vulnerable countries.
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Vermont banned rental application fees decades ago, but they remain rampant - and no one appears to be enforcing the law. (My latest for @vtdigger).
vtdigger.org
Vermont has one of the country’s strictest prohibitions on application fees, outlawing them entirely for more than two decades. But a VTDigger investigation found that rental fees remain rampant and...
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RT @alyssafowers: Sometimes journalism answers questions you never thought to ask. Like, "could one of the biggest bears in the world sit i….
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Since 1954, the @WMO has retired the names of 94 particularly destructive Atlantic hurricanes. But the majority of those storms have occurred in the 21st century, and the rate of retirements has been markedly higher in recent decades. Could #hurricaineIan be on the 2022 list?
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RT @dino_grandoni: Breaking: ANTS!. There are a lot of them. Nearly 20 quadrillion — a 2 followed by 16 zeros — are marching across the Ear….
washingtonpost.com
The staggering new estimate from scientists brings into relief ants’ astonishing ubiquity at a time of growing concern about insects dying off.
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RT @michaelbirnbaum: NEW from me-> How coal-loving Poland became an unlikely leader in the heat pump revolution. The war in Ukraine is push….
washingtonpost.com
Poland loves coal. But Russia's invasion of Ukraine is pushing Polish citizens to embrace green measures because the shift will free them from Russian fossil fuels.
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RT @HannahAllam: Oklahoma authorities found multiple human remains on a compound w/links to a violent white supremacist gang. Reporting on….
washingtonpost.com
In an Oklahoma compound linked to the Universal Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist prison gang, officers found what they believe to be a body-dumping ground.
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RT @JulieShapiro: Two Christian ranches in Wyoming are accused of forcing teens to do hard labor. One man says he was branded with a cross….
nbcnews.com
Two Christian programs are accused of forcing troubled teens to do heavy farm work. One man says he was branded with a cross. Three women say they were tied to a goat as a punishment.
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RT @MddeH: INVESTIGATION: I traveled deep into Mexico's jungle & mountains and found BP has been paying a "pittance" for carbon offsets pro….
bloomberg.com
The oil giant has found a climate bargain in some of Mexico’s poorest areas, paying a fraction of market rate for carbon offsets to rural villagers working to protect their forests.
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BREAKING: The 5th Circuit just gave the Biden administration a temporary reprieve on its climate rules, issuing a stay so that agencies can factor global warming damages into its policies. By @annamphillips
washingtonpost.com
A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a temporary ban that had blocked the federal government from factoring the risks from rising greenhouse gas emissions into its decisions, offering a...
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Last Friday @conocophillips spotted a gas leak from one of its oil fields on Alaska's North Slope. It's still going, forcing the evacuation of 300 workers and nearly two dozen families from a nearby village, as experts eye its #climate impact. @partlowj
washingtonpost.com
For nearly a week, natural gas has been leaking from a ConocoPhillips facility outside a village in the Alaskan arctic, spreading fear and anxiety in the community and prompting the company to...
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