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27 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
⚡ This week on Reveal, we’re switching things up and bringing you an audio drama that deconstructs the mystery around a deadly 2009 explosion at a Mississippi shipyard.

This dramatization is based on real accounts, real events and real people. revealnews.org/podcast/when-l…
People like Clyde Payne, a tenacious OSHA director who investigates the tragedy.

Joey Pettey, a shipyard painter who risked his life to save people trapped on board the burning ship.

Bram Ates, a young shipyard worker who was caught in the explosion. bit.ly/3H0RxFC An image with two photos. The image on the left is of Clyde
The story is inspired by one of @JenniferGollan’s investigations: bit.ly/3mnu5dT
“The whole series of events just keeps playing over and over again. Like a skipping CD, it never goes away.”

⚡ Don’t miss this episode. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts or online at: revealnews.org/podcast/when-l…

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Each week, we take listeners across the country and the world, exposing wrongs and holding the powerful accountable. revealnews.org/podcast/?utm_s…
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20 Dec
🧵 In Portland, Oregon, unhoused people make up at most 2% of the population, but they account for nearly half of all arrests.

Reveal reporter Melissa Lewis (@iff_or) spent months talking with unhoused people in the city for this week’s 🎧 Reveal: revealnews.org/podcast/handcu…
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🧵 NEW: D.C. Metropolitan Police Department files show that the department tried to fire 24 officers for criminal misconduct from 2009 to 2019.

In all but three of those cases, a powerful tribunal of three high-ranking officers overruled the terminations. revealnews.org/article/dc-pol…
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The records have never before been made public.
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17 Dec
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Now, U.S. lawmakers are calling for a Federal Trade Commission investigation and federal privacy law. revealnews.org/article/wyden-…
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▪️ When shady outside companies obtained the personal information of millions of shoppers, Amazon did not tell customers. revealnews.org/article/inside…
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