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Apr 13 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
We’re excited to share that #MississippiGoddam has been named a @PeabodyAwards finalist!

The investigative series by Reveal and @PRX was chosen as one of 60 nominees this year from nearly 1,300 entries. revealnews.org/press/mississi…
#MississippiGoddam examined how law enforcement botched their investigation into the death of Billey Joe Johnson Jr., a promising young football player from Mississippi, who reportedly shot himself with his own shotgun during a traffic stop in 2008. peabodyawards.com/award-profile/…
The series illuminated the concerns about the quality of police investigations into the deaths of Black people in Mississippi and sought to situate Johnson’s death in the broader context of institutional racism and discrimination in the South. revealnews.org/mississippi-go…
The 30 winners of the Peabody will be announced in June in a virtual ceremony. Stay tuned! bit.ly/82peabodynomin… Peabody nominees

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Apr 6
#MississippiGoddam, our seven-part serial investigation into the suspicious death of Billey Joe Johnson Jr., has tied for top honors from @IRE_NICAR for audio in the large category. revealnews.org/press/reveals-…
#MississippiGoddam examined how law enforcement officials botched their investigation into the death of Billey Joe Johnson Jr., a promising young football player from Lucedale, Mississippi, who was fatally shot after a traffic stop with police.
The series skillfully situated the flaws and failures of justice in Johnson’s case within the larger history of racial violence in Mississippi, focusing on the lack of police accountability and the state’s long-troubled system for investigating suspicious deaths.
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Apr 4
NEW: We go inside the GOP’s purge of local election officials in Michigan.

Proponents of Trump’s Big Lie have “been able to infiltrate the Republican Party right down to the precinct level in a way that I’ve been astounded by,” says a former GOP head. revealnews.org/article/inside…
In the weeks after the 2020 election, Wayne County, where Detroit is located, was one of the most politically contentious places in America.

Joe Biden needed to win Wayne County, in order to take Michigan, a key swing state. revealnews.org/article/inside…
Droves of Republicans went to Detroit’s TCF Center the day after Election Day, where poll workers were counting absentee ballots.

They were upset by false rumors that poll watchers were illegally being turned away.

“Stop the count!” they chanted.
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Apr 3
ICYMI: Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse won their vote to unionize on Friday, signaling a major rebuke of the company’s treatment of its employees.

We’ve been investigating Amazon’s workplace safety for years, based on the company’s own internal records. 🧵 An Amazon warehouse worker picks items off a robotically con
Amazon’s obsession with speed has turned its warehouses into injury mills.

⏪ From 2019: The serious injury rate at 23 of the company’s 110 fulfillment centers nationwide was more than double the national average for the warehousing industry. revealnews.org/article/behind…
Amazon workers said they had to break safety rules to keep up. They had to, they said, or they would lose their jobs. So they took the risk.

If they got hurt, they would lose their jobs anyway. revealnews.org/article/behind…
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Apr 2
In the 2020 election, Donald Trump and his allies made Michigan a key battleground in their attempts to stop Joe Biden’s certification.

🎧 This week on Reveal, how they haven’t stopped. revealnews.org/podcast/how-th…
Last time, the election challenges revealed the obscure and mundane bureaucracy that safeguard elections.

Now, Trump allies are targeting those positions and installing people who believe the election was stolen. revealnews.org/podcast/how-th…
It’s shocking even to @JeffTimmer, the former executive director of Michigan’s Republican Party. bit.ly/2024-election “They have paid attention to those very obscure, small par
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Mar 30
Bitcoin’s demand for electricity is so great that it’s giving new life to the dirtiest type of power plants: ones that burn coal.

This week on Reveal, we go to Hardin, Montana, where one plant’s output of carbon dioxide into the air jumped nearly tenfold. revealnews.org/podcast/can-ou…
📍 In Hardin, Montana, the coal-fired power plant was on the verge of shutting down until bitcoin came to town. 

The coal that fuels the bitcoin operation is owned by the Crow Nation, and about 14,000 Crow members receive royalty checks from their jointly-owned coal.
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That’s as much carbon dioxide as about 150,000 cars. revealnews.org/podcast/can-ou…
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Mar 29
NEW: Companies like Google, Netflix and LinkedIn signed up to be leaders on climate change. Yet, they wouldn’t sign onto an ad that called on the federal government to “ACT NOW” on the climate crisis.

@WillCIR with the ad’s backstory: 🧵 revealnews.org/article/google…
The ad was organized by Drawdown Labs, part of @ProjectDrawdown, which has been engaging big-name companies since 2020 to go beyond reducing their own carbon footprint and go all-in on solutions to the climate crisis. revealnews.org/article/google…
The ad aimed to nudge Congress to salvage the climate parts of President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation:

➡️ $555 billion in funding, providing financial incentives to individuals and businesses to boost electric vehicles, wind and solar power, and other low-carbon fuels. Jamie Alexander holds the Drawdown Labs ad.
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