As Amazon’s big yearly sale begins, Sen. Bernie Sanders released a report on the danger for Amazon workers: warehouse injuries skyrocket around #PrimeDay.

We first exposed this Prime Day problem five years ago at Reveal. 🧵 In 2019, @willexamine obtained groundbreaking internal data from Amazon. It showed the company’s obsession with speed had turned its warehouses into injury mills: The rate of serious injuries at Amazon warehouses was more than double the national average. revealnews.org/article/behind…

On Aug. 26, 2023, a white supremacist murdered three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida.

For many residents, including Reveal's @Al_Letson, a native of the city, the tragedy is a deadly manifestation of a growing and more targeted problem in the state. 🧵 "We must be clear. It was not just racially motivated. It was racist violence that has been perpetuated by rhetoric and policies designed to attack Black people, period. We cannot sit idly by as our history is being erased," State Rep. Angie Nixon says.

As @raeoflion investigated cases where police criminally charged sexual assault victims w/ false reporting, she found a second problem: Media coverage splashing victims’ names and mugshots all over their community, parroting police statements that they lied about being raped. 🧵 In our @netflix film, @victimsuspect, Dyanie Bermeo talks about being booked and released, falling asleep in her dorm room and waking up to a police Facebook post about her arrest. It said that she lied about being assaulted. netflix.com/victimsuspect

NEW: A state lawmaker is calling for Kentucky to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers after a Reveal investigation found that most centers aren’t subject to the same kind of oversight as other medical clinics. revealnews.org/article/kentuc… Rep. @SarahForKY filed House Bill 489 after Reveal published a story about a Kentucky nurse, Susan Rames, who reported infection control issues at a pregnancy center where she volunteered. revealnews.org/article/this-n…

🧵: There’s a theory about how kids learn to read that’s been proven wrong by cognitive scientists.

New on 🎧 Reveal, we explore how teaching materials based on this flawed theory made it into classrooms all over the country. revealnews.org/podcast/how-te… The story comes to us from reporters @ehanford and @CLPeak and their @apmreports podcast Sold a Story.

Listen to the full series: features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

1/ Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chair @VirginiaFoxx tried to stop the pending release of federal contractors’ diversity data.

We’ve been fighting for its release. Naturally, she came after us, too. @virginiafoxx 2/ We’ve successfully sued the @USDOL twice, challenging their refusal to make public the diversity reports that federal contractors must file.

Now, they’re about to release some of the data – and provide an unprecedented look at the nation’s workforce.

NEW: The U.S. has banned sugar imports from a top Dominican producer over forced labor allegations.

The action comes after a Reveal/@MotherJones investigation sparked criticism of the Dominican Republic’s sugar industry from lawmakers. revealnews.org/article/us-ban… The block of raw sugar shipments is against Central Romana Corp., whose plantations shipped 295M+ pounds of raw sugar from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. last year.

Its cane fields also feed into the supply chains of major U.S. brands, including @dominosugar and @Hersheys.

Reveal’s @essayolumhense has been named the winner of the November 2022 @SidneyHillman Award for her investigation uncovering the most intense voter suppression threat in decades. revealnews.org/press/reveals-… The project found that election-denying state lawmakers across the country have been trying to increase law enforcement involvement in elections.

➡️ Since the 2020 election, at least 130 bills have been introduced across 42 states. revealnews.org/article/electi…

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🧵NEW: Since the 2020 election, lawmakers across the country have attempted to dramatically increase criminal penalties and law enforcement involvement in voting, our investigation finds.

It represents the most intense voter suppression threat in decades. revealnews.org/article/electi… We identified and classified every bill related to election crimes following the 2020 election.

The bills often came in direct response to former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was fraudulent. revealnews.org/article/electi…

🧵 Indian boarding schools were part of a federal program designed to destroy Native culture, with a goal to “kill the Indian and save the man.”

New on Reveal, in collaboration w/@IndianCountry, we expose the schools’ painful legacy in Native communities. revealnews.org/podcast/indian… Our investigation takes us to the Red Cloud School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. It’s 1 of more than 400 former Indian boarding schools in the United States.

It was started by Jesuit priests in 1888, who called it the Holy Rosary Mission at the time.

🧵: Omar Gómez Trejo, special prosecutor in the #Ayotzinapa case investigating the 2014 kidnapping of 43 Mexican students, announced his resignation on Tuesday.

Gómez Trejo was a key source in our #AfterAyotzinapa series. revealnews.org/article/after-… His resignation comes after significant developments in the case, including the arrest of a former attorney general. We’ve learned this was a point of contention and that Gómez Trejo’s investigators thought it was premature.

.@AP reporters @RobinMcDowell + @MargieMasonAP have spent a large part of their careers investigating forced labor across the globe.

New on Reveal, they take us back 150 years to the U.S. South, where a new form of slavery was created by convict leasing. revealnews.org/podcast/locked… 📌 Convict leasing went on for decades across the South. States – and companies – got rich by arresting mostly Black men and then forcing them to work for major companies.

🧵: In this week’s democracy reads roundup:

- Fake history in a SCOTUS election case
- Election deniers flooding elections departments with record requests
- Voter suppression and literacy
- Two major criminal investigations into the effort to overturn the 2020 election 1️⃣ (via @Politico) The “independent state legislature theory” is at the center of the Moore v. Harper case SCOTUS will hear this fall.

The North Carolina legislators who brought the case quoted from a well-known fraudulent document in their brief. politico.com/news/magazine/…

🧵: Last year, we marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a series of reported essays from journalists who described how the day and the “war on terror” that followed changed the lives of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen. revealnews.org/the-other-vict… From @Emran_Feroz, how clear it was that the benefits of the American occupation were visible only in Kabul and other big cities.

What he found in the Afghan countryside was “far, far darker,” with stories of torture and night raids, he writes. revealnews.org/article/the-wr…

Our newsroom has been focusing on investigating the threats to U.S. democracy for quite some time.

We’re going to continue doing that, but now each week we’ll also bring you a curated list of reads of the best investigative and accountability reporting doing the same. 🔵 Why? We believe the coordinated effort to destroy American democracy is the defining story of our time.

It’s the overarching storyline under which all our most pressing issues will be addressed or exacerbated.

But it’s a story that can be hard to follow.

Recent research suggests that stand your ground laws have made parts of the U.S. more deadly.

Pro-gun groups and lawmakers have argued the laws are necessary to avoid frivolous prosecutions of people who use their guns in self-defense.

We investigated 🧵 revealnews.org/article/stand-… We examined every major study and report on stand your ground and conducted nearly three dozen interviews with prosecutors, defense attorneys, legal experts, researchers and lawmakers across the U.S. revealnews.org/article/stand-…

🧵: We’ve been fighting for the public release of corporate diversity numbers for five years, and we’re not letting up.

We won in court, but now the government (@Jennyryang & @USDOL) is giving companies an opportunity to hide their numbers. revealnews.org/article/we-for… 2/ The government should disclose the diversity reports of all federal contractors. As recipients of taxpayer money, they’re supposed to be held to a higher standard.

Instead, @USDOL is inviting thousands of companies to object to our request. revealnews.org/article/we-for…

More than a year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the U.S. government has approved less than 2% of Afghan applications it processed for a humanitarian parole program.

📽️ @Jib821 on @democracynow to discuss how the numbers compare to Ukrainian HP applications.

https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1564596226414317569

We filed a FOIA request w/@USCIS for records to understand how Afghan humanitarian parole applications have been handled.

What we got back offers the most detailed and up-to-date breakdown of the government’s processing of HP Afghan applications. revealnews.org/article/the-us…

Big news: Reveal's investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican students pieced together evidence that implicated high-ranking gov’t officials in a botched investigation & cover-up. Now, some of those officials are being charged with crimes. 🧵nytimes.com/2022/08/18/wor… Our three-part radio series After Ayotzinapa brought renewed attention to the case and helped establish crucial connections that are helping it move forward. revealnews.org/article/after-…

NEW: The U.S. government has collected nearly $20 million from Afghan applicants for a humanitarian parole program over the last year. Only 123 applications have been approved. 🧵 revealnews.org/article/the-us… When the government of Afghanistan collapsed a year ago, the US led a frenzied effort to evacuate more than 122,000 ppl. But many others who feared life under Taliban rule were left behind. Lawmakers & advocates encouraged them to apply for something called humanitarian parole.