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This chart that and I made a couple years ago seems relevant to this new story washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01
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"Each and every one of the 1,763 homes across Baltimore that The Banner identified as having changed hands through the tax sale was located in a majority-Black neighborhood." Great data-based reporting here by & :
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"Companies that made promises to hire more underrepresented groups are gutting departments meant to achieve those goals."
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Okay post 40-minute panel on regarding farmworker labor conditions and the violence in Half Moon Bay I feel like there’s more context needed as to why the focus of the panel was on the labor sector of the victims and crime. So a thread on the politics and layers:
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Hamilton Ave in Red Hook, Brooklyn, before-and-after the construction of the BQE. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut Red Hook in half along its central thoroughfares, Hamilton & Hicks, requiring the demolition of dozens of blocks and the forcible displacement of thousands.
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A loss for transparency. Had these rules been in place last year, we never would have found out about Ginni Thomas's emails to Arizona lawmakers pressing them to help overturn the 2020 election. The Post got those emails via public records requests to the AZ House and Senate.
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Arizona lawmakers vote to exempt themselves from state public record laws. Wow. wmicentral.com/news/legislatu
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CC: who broke the news about Ginni Thomas’ efforts to overturn the 2022 election. washingtonpost.com/investigations
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Arizona lawmakers vote to exempt themselves from state public record laws. Wow. wmicentral.com/news/legislatu
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Arizona lawmakers vote to exempt themselves from state public record laws. Wow. wmicentral.com/news/legislatu
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An ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING message from a teacher in Duval County, Florida who is being forced to make her classroom library inaccessible as a result of 's policies
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The Washington Post editorial board responses to Mike Pompeo’s comments on Jamal Khashoggi:
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From the Editorial Board:
Mike Pompeo’s embrace of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after Jamal Khashoggi's murder is revolting. wapo.st/3XEzjTk
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The priceless moment when one of George Devolder’s investors learns that George Devolder is George Santos washingtonpost.com/investigations
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Fiona Apple has become an avid Court Watcher. Her work helped people jailed pretrial file a civil rights lawsuit. Then: Retaliation. Shut off her court access.
Today her testimony will be read in Maryland's legislature. "My name is Fiona Apple. I've been courtwatching." Thread:
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Welcome to ❄️Iceburgh❄️, a city known for its patio bars and frozen margaritas. This fictitious town created by illustrates some of what can happen to a warm-weather place that is suddenly overwhelmed by an Arctic blast. wapo.st/3XSlvE8
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this is my 9th layoff in a row and i've still never had a full-time journo job! it no longer fazes me. i'm a 38 year old media ronin but believed in me. can't thank him enough.
i'm very proud of the work i did and the team i did it with.
forever.
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This past Sunday, I woke up excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year with my family and friends.
But my heart sank when I saw the news about a mass shooting that happened the night before, right on the heels of a neighborhood celebration in Monterey Park.
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After California massacres, Asian Americans shoulder the grief -- by
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EXCLUSIVE! Depositions released by the Jan. 6 committee make the case that the inability of law enforcers to imagine white Trump supporters as a clear and present danger remains one of the most tragically under-addressed elements of that day’s legacy.
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Something good I wanted to share:
The Chronicle now has an in-house therapist, a big step for a newsroom. Thankful our bosses have recognized the toll of our jobs, and have taken real steps to address it.
The importance of these convos among journalists can't be overstated.
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This news is sad, upsetting and, perhaps most of all, mindboggling. Over three years, Launcher attracted over tens of millions of users, the majority first-time readers of The Post and almost all of them under the age of 40.
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this is hilarious and here's what the actual graph should look like scaled properly on just one axis lol
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An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes ow.ly/MyOx50MwEyF
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Good practice of not including links so it doesn't reward engagement for bad behavior. Metrics don't care if attention is positive or negative.
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absolutely craven to publish this headline after the murders in monterey park
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absolutely craven to publish this headline after the murders in monterey park
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As the #MontereyPark shooter was a 72-year-old man, an observation about how some Asian American elders consume media lately: Unlike the past, when they mostly read Asian-language newspapers/watched TV news, many now get their info from YouTube. (1/6)
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LA Times homepage right now: we don’t even know the names of the 11 Monterey Park mass shooting victims; and now there’s another 7 killed in Half Moon Bay
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According to a plagiarism checker, the activism manual for this "anti groomer" activism group plagiarized about a third of its materials from an explicitly white supremacist organizing campaign manual. And half of that plagiarized material was a direct copy/paste job
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The following comparisons of the WLM activist manual 2.0, and the January 2023 Project 171 Anti Groomer Action manual show identical format, organization, and in many cases, cut and pasted text from one to the other. /5
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We can't talk about #MontereyPark without talking about Domestic Violence in the AAPI community. The subject is still taboo but we must uplift AAPI survivors. According to 55% Asian women in the U.S. report intimate and/or sexual violence in their lifetime. 🧵🪡
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40 years from now: "Are my grandkids being nice to me to get to my Ape NFTS?"
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Boomer paranoia is a special kind of paranoia. "Are my grandkids being nice to me to get my Beanie Babies collection?"
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What can code do for your journalism?
👉 pull many stories out of a single dataset
👉 make your work faster, and easy to replicate
👉 help you find the best version of a project
Here's what learned during a 10-month data team fellowship:
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Today's F-150 owners like to describe their vehicle as "powerful" and "rugged" -- while using it mostly for "shopping/errands" and "pleasure driving." (The vast majority don't tow anything all year.)
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Monterey Park, the first Asian-majority city, marked a new trend in American immigration: Non-White people with money migrating to a specific city in large numbers and bringing their culture with them with the goal of preserving it.
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By default, reporters at many news organizations cannot report information unless it has been confirmed with solid source(s). Citing other media usually doesn’t count. And in a situation like tonight, when the news can be as shocking as 9 killed, we have to be extra careful.
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Monterey Park is a suburb of LA. I can't help but think about the Chinese massacre of 150 years ago, when 18 were killed. A lot has changed, of course. But much hasn't. We're still viewed as alien by many; unassimilable. Bracing myself for the motive...
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“Monterey Park is home to one of the largest Asian communities in Los Angeles County and many were out celebrating the Lunar New Year.”
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At least nine dead in Monterey Park, Calif., shooting washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01
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We’d planned to publish a story this morning about a 6-year-old who shot his teacher, but didn’t, because someone else shot two dozen people last night.
I can’t recall how many times I’ve still been immersed in the coverage of one awful shooting when another one happened.
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The fact that so many Supreme Court employees and clerks talked to a NYT reporter about the leak investigation really drives home how pissed people are behind the scenes. Damn. nytimes.com/2023/01/21/us/
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Was this written by an Axios reporter?
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I wrote about why Vietnam is celebrating the Year of the Cat instead of the Rabbit!
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