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Jul 22, 2022 16 tweets 8 min read
NEW: Last month, a Russian-flagged cargo ship pulled into Izmir, Turkey and unloaded 7,000 tons of corn. Ship documents said it had loaded in Kavkaz, Russia on June 18. But satellite imagery indicates the ship was in Crimea that day reuters.com/world/europe/s… On June 24, the SV Nikolay arrived at Izmir and the next day @yorukisik captured it unloading. The corn on board was sold to @yaylaagro, a major Turkish agribusiness firm. So where did it load the grain?
Jul 5, 2022 12 tweets 6 min read
NEW: We tracked 3 Russian-flagged ships suspected of transporting Ukrainian grain from Crimea. One, the Mikhail Nenashev, was photographed by @yorukisik unloading in Turkey’s Dortyol port in the early hours of June 27, eight days after it was at Sevastopol
reuters.com/world/europe/e… This satellite image from @Planet shows the dry bulker Mikhail Nenashev (IMO 9515539) at Sevastopol’s Avlita grain terminal on June 16. Two large cranes connected to the grain silos hover over the ship’s open births.
Mar 8, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Our story on how the Trump administration filled two-thirds of the immigration courts’ 520 lifetime positions with judges who disproportionately ordered deportation reut.rs/3bplceB w/ @micarosenberg @kristinacooke We analyzed more than 800,000 immigration cases over 20 years and found that judges hired under Trump ordered immigrants deported in 69% of cases, compared to 58% for other judges
Nov 20, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
This week, Reuters published “Shots in the Dark,” our series about one man who was shot by a cop - and his fight to clear his name. His story shows the challenges cities face trying to change policing and how, in America, police largely police themselves.
reuters.com/investigates/s… We looked at recent police union contracts in 100 large cities and found that - even with policing under intense scrutiny - unions have mostly kept protections won in earlier contracts. Some won new rights that make oversight harder.

See my 2017 piece:
reuters.com/investigates/s…