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    Jan 16

    Farmworkers deserve a seat at the table.

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  2. 18 Dec 2020

    This 👇 I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this story since I read it

    Just finished ’s latest, and I’m in tears. It’s far and away one of the best stories of the year. It’s beautifully told, meticulously reported. And it’s about so much more than you realize, at the start. I won’t give it away. Just read it.
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  3. 15 Dec 2020

    I can’t recommend this pod series about homelessness highly enough - every episode, my mind has been blown by the empathy and smarts that and have brought to the table. Stellar work, you guys.

    The final episode of According to Need () just went out and I’m so proud of what we made. Thank you so much for listening and sharing (and now a little thread of more thank-you's 🙏🙏🙏)
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    15 Dec 2020

    Bravo to for her new piece on the Primex strike in California. Well-researched, emotionally powerful, and I felt very respected as one of her interviewees.

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    10 Dec 2020

    Incredible reporting from on how child protective services mimics the systems that imprisons adults

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  6. Retweeted
    29 Oct 2020

    Today's a good day to go to - on Black conservatives in the Trump era - on a domestic violence loophole in Oklahoma -a QAnon scoop from and - on hygiene theater And much more.

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    23 Oct 2020

    It is quite amazing that the Sacklers are retaining their Purdue Pharma fortune, while the former CEO of a company that manufactures an opioid addiction treatment considered the "gold standard" in the US, is going to federal prison.

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    21 Oct 2020

    Wild. Ex-FB employee to “The problem was that the progressive outlets were real [news] outlets like yours, and the right ones were garbage outlets. You guys were one of the outlets who got singled out to balance the ledger.”

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  9. 2 Oct 2020

    "Patients consistently describe how Compass Detox patients were regularly provided with a 'Comfort Drink' and prescription drugs, to keep them docile and compliant" 👀

    The feds just filed charges on a rehab network in Florida that allegedly bought rehab patients, paid them to relapse, drugged them, and collected $25 million+ in insurance payouts. And, according to this complaint, they also got a PPE loan.
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    15 Sep 2020

    pent time with some amazing fire crews and inmate firefighters as they did a backburn operation on the North Complex Fires in Butte County on Sunday evening. The incarcerated men were working a 24-hour shift doing grueling work to protect the area. For more info see

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    7 Sep 2020

    "My mother was now incarcerated in a body that was confined in a sealed facility, which was trapped inside a locked-down city." on immigration, illness, respect, and "unresolved splits of the self.” You’re gonna want to read this piece.

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    1 Sep 2020

    An absolutely stunning (and grief-saturated) essay from Jesmyn Ward in Vanity Fair. We truly do not deserve her heart. We are so lucky to have her heart. We are so much better for her strength and love and staggeringly brilliant mind. Please do read.

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  13. 25 Aug 2020

    🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

    do you like investigative journalism? do you read ? do you want to apply to the Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program, where you can work with the best journalists and editors on the face of the earth? starting today, you can do that here:
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  14. 15 Jul 2020

    Post-script from Minneapolis:

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    14 Jul 2020

    When I answered the phone, the caller began by asking: “Is there a ProPublica Michigan?” She had a story to tell, about a teenage girl who was in juvenile detention for not doing her online schoolwork during the pandemic. The girl was her daughter.

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  16. 8 Jul 2020

    For all of Delancey’s weird practices, the most problematic thing about it to me is the Wild West prison diversion system that it’s a part of: a system in which oversight is minimal, and, for some, Delancey is the only option. And if it doesn’t work for you—well, tough luck.

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  17. 8 Jul 2020

    The short answer is no, but what everyone agrees on is that rehabilitation is an extremely personal thing: what works for one person won’t work for everyone.

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  18. 8 Jul 2020

    All of which begs the question: Does anyone really know the best way to set someone struggling with addiction and criminal activity on a path to recovery and stability?

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  19. 8 Jul 2020

    The thing is, for a lot of people, Delancey really does work miracles. A number of grads I interviewed were brought to tears talking about how the program transformed their lives, from homeless drug users to people with full time jobs, mortgages, pets, etc.

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  20. 8 Jul 2020

    He went on: “If you had a chance to not go to prison by going to this program, are you going to really care that it’s not regulated by the state that much?”

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