New: Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child care and help finding housing. https://t.co/UXcJbXsSJK
Confirmed today: ICE is taking unhoused people who are unable to produce documents from the street to fulfill their quotas. People too poor to have any documentation on them, unable to prove where they come from.
A human rights disaster in the process.
https://t.co/lQEXS5MUp0
Horrific--ICE asks immigration lawyer to chose which of her clients should be arrested and detained. Officer says "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all."
https://t.co/mokathyGv2
In '22, @ProPublica found landlords were using RealPage software to raise rents — potentially in violation of laws against collusion.
Cities moved to ban such pricing algorithms.
But now, @WSJ reports that House Republicans are seeking to “muzzle” those local efforts. THREAD
Thanks to America’s foreign aid, cuts, $100 million worth of food supplies that could feed over 3.5 million people through rations for a month, are mouldering in warehouses around the world & risk becoming unusable. Incredible story by @Reuters colleagues
https://t.co/hjCc4Fnk0U
‘It was all just a joke to them,’ E.M. testifies in Hockey Canada trial
She described feeling “vulnerable” and “scared” as she was surrounded by players who had golf clubs and were “towering” over her
Story w/ @RobsonDan https://t.co/zTgz9BjyRG
From @rwesthead - In the government's opening statement in the trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 WJC team, the Crown says the London hockey trial is "a case about consent..."
Content advisory - Article includes allegations of sexual assault: https://t.co/oRVeZP0FEZ
In times of crisis, the mutual aid community always gives me hope.
There's a giant group of people coordinating mask drop off, food, water, temp housing, pet food/care, and even insulin for strangers just because it's the right thing to do. No one is coming to save us except us.
Ravi Coutinho needed mental health and addiction care. Getting it through his insurance network was nearly impossible. He texted his friends:
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
https://t.co/l6ylMiJYXL
A ProPublica analysis of EPA air pollution data showed that, in every census block in the U.S., the risk of getting cancer from exposure to formaldehyde in outdoor air is higher than the EPA’s goal.
The agency’s own report underestimated that risk.
https://t.co/gwadTpOWS4
In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. @propublica https://t.co/Xvnf0i1ghF
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths… 🧵
New: Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital's highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. https://t.co/jDSCSdKrXA
Parents who don't address their child's #bullying in school could face a fine and community service under a proposed bill. It's one of several bullying-related measures on tap for next session. Here's a look. #NHPolitics
https://t.co/JV9nprXMHE
When I think about formaldehyde, I think about that smell from dissecting animals in middle school.
But apparently it's everywhere. @propublica Formaldehyde Increases Your Cancer Risk No Matter Where you Live https://t.co/x8Cbd4JmoU
Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
https://t.co/5FWvboI0Xr
In the first major update in 15 years, the Maine health department has proposed updated regulations for assisted living facilities that would significantly increase staffing requirements, especially in memory care units.
READ: https://t.co/mrfJAYOCkD
First story for ProPublica is about the dissolution of Georgia's maternal mortality review committee after reporters obtained reports in the cases of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller https://t.co/UJugiNwrYw
A really important story about homeless policy in an era of increased sweeps. Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back.
https://t.co/QjRG903eQ3 @nicolesantacruz@asiakmfields and Ruth Talbot