Lincoln was shot 159 years ago tomorrow. The original AP report was just *slightly* guilty of burying the lede.

Incredible and haunting story by @ap investigative reporter Erika Kinetz. Listen to the story on Reveal this weekend.

Fun to hear about the New York earthquake in real time before the Californians wake up and get all judge-y.

Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII devastated SF's Japantown - what was once a rich, thriving neighborhood for Japanese Americans

For the first time, we can visualize how disastrous a 1942 order was on the community San Francisco Chronicle

sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

Minnesota train derailments increased from 18 in 2020 to 31 in 2023. Now, rail giants who made billions in profit last year say they're refusing to pay a fee that goes toward emergency response. minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/03/rai…

If you watched the video of the Key Bridge, you saw one vehicle make it over mere seconds before the collapse. Through an incredible feat of detective work and reporting, The Baltimore Banner own Jessica Gallagher found the driver who saw the end of an era through his rear view mirror.

What in the Phantom of the Opera x.com/mercnews/statu…

Importantly, a takeaway here is that the machinery developed to serve us targeted ads is allowing companies, contractors, and governments to engage in mass surveillance. Absent laws to stop this from happening, we will see ad tech continue to be used in unintended ways.

Today we launch the result of a three-year investigation into the police use of 'less lethal force.' The project was done in partnership with FRONTLINE and The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism,
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. The story: bit.ly/3PF5Nup and the interactive bit.ly/4ac8BHS

A data broker tracked the devices of visitors to a private island where Jeffrey Epstein allegedly assaulted and trafficked countless women and girls.

The data, exposed online, details precise coordinates where hundreds live and work in the US

wired.com/story/jeffrey-…

NEW: The missing men in the #KeyBridgeCollapse are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Mexico, and live in Dundalk & Highlandtown. Justin Fenton & The Baltimore Banner reporting that the men are in their 30s and 40s w/spouses & children. All of them came to the city for a better…

this mornings OSM update.

Emails I obtained via FOIA request show Elon Musk's Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elo…

This is awesome. I learned how to FOIA from this The Washington Post YouTube video from 6 years ago that I found in 2020.

youtu.be/VpAfQUIWGhg?si…

Exclusive: We found some bogus news articles about crimes that directed readers to GoFundMe pages for victims who don't exist. When we started asking questions, the news stories and fundraisers were taken down >> nbcnews.com/news/crime-sto…

'How to #FOIA ' visual guide of A6 of today's @WashingtonPost Collector's Edition!

I have a story in The Atlantic today that I have been thinking about for years.

I've written a lot about shocking discoveries from 23andMe and AncestryDNA tests, but several years ago, I heard about a support group for what might be the most shocking discovery of all.

28yr old journalist downloaded all the information Facebook/Meta has kept on her since she was 11 and …. Lord have mercy [thetimes.co.uk/article/meta-u…]