A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.
Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
A screenshot that says “UNICEF USA, which supports the United Nations' humanitarian children's mission, no longer wants a more equitable world for every child - just a better one.” With their mission statement and “more equitable” struck out and replaced with “better.”
New @propublica.org:
@emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year.
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
So proud of the team @thebaltimorebanner.com for their work covering the bridge's collapse!
Super proud of the @thebaltimorebanner.com newsroom for winning an IRE award for our Key Bridge collapse coverage. At the time, we didn't even have a live blog, but we did have great journalists who know this community and what the bridge meant to it.
Prince George's County was 80% white when the federal workforce was integrated. Today, PG and Charles County are America's most affluent majority-Black counties with~20% of Black workers there being federal employees.
Trump's cuts now threaten generations of progress.
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New: Named after a turn of phrase from the governor, the Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong Key Bridge Relief Fund raised $16 million. None of it went to help the victims’ families despite the Baltimore Community Foundation initially saying it would.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
My first deep dive story for NYT: Are You Smarter Than A.I.?
Some experts predict that A.I. will surpass human intelligence within the next few years. Play this puzzle to see how far the machines have to go. 🟦🟩🟪
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why are Baltimore students underperforming on the math test? One major reason is it’s impossible to get to school on time every day www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
The Key Bridge was 30 times more susceptible to ship strike than it should have been, the NTSB said Thursday, and the risk of a similar disaster at the Bay Bridge is still unknown because it has never been studied.
w/ @jasminevaughnhall.bsky.social www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...
NTSB slams MDTA: "The Maryland Transportation Authority never ran the calculation on the Key Bridge, and as of October 2024, they still haven’t on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge."
Baltimore's 10-year population loss streak is over, according to Census data.
The city grew (veeeery slightly) for the first time since 2014.
@abbyzimmardi.bsky.social & I spoke to experts about what this means for the city, its residents and its future.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore/ba...
Reporting by @lizbowie.bsky.social & I was cited yesterday in a Baltimore City Council hearing on the root causes of chronic absenteeism.
Proud that we were able to shed some light on a challenge that thousands of students.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
Baltimore City Council is ready to talk about kids’ struggles to get to school
Read it in @thebaltimorebanner.com
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
On Friday morning at #NICAR25, @thetrace.org will be previewing our brand new Gun Violence Data Hub — the project I've been working on for the last several months.
Come check out our session! Very excited for this one.
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i...
We just fixed a bug that prevented some schools from showing up, including City College.
The problem is exacerbated by the city's school choice program. Baltimore doesn't have neighborhood schools. Any student can go to almost any school. Our package includes a tool for students and their parents to compare routes to schools near and far. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
Excited to share @thebaltimorebanner.com Data Team's most ambitious project yet. For months, @invisibae.bsky.social logged live bus data every 5 seconds, parsing millions of rows to map every school route and gauge their reliability. The result? Our most interactive experience ever.
Come see me at NICAR: I'm doing a session about Data Viz with Illustrator and another about using the DataWrapper API in R. And, friends, let's grab coffee! @ire-nicar.bsky.social
NEW INVESTIGATION 🚍:
Baltimore City is the only district in the state that doesn't offer most students a yellow bus ride after elementary school.
When that policy collided with school choice, it turned getting to class on time into a nightmare.
Read ⬇️
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
Sometimes it feels like all roads eventually lead to Maryland: Mysterious leader of the violent Zizian group arrested in Western Maryland, @leeosanderlin.bsky.social reports. The cultlike group has been tied to several killings across the country. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
It is an extraordinary honor to receive a George Polk Award in Local Reporting for our coverage of Baltimore's overdose crisis, published by @thebaltimorebanner.com and @nytimes.com Local Investigations Fellowship.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
If you're not aware of the Baltimore Banner you absolutely should be: a brand new (founded in 2022) nonprofit news org that already has 100+ staff and (I believe) a sustainable business model! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bal...
Nick's work became a national partnership including The New York Times' The Upshot, Stanford's @biglocalnews.bsky.social and nine local newsrooms across the country. Other newsrooms can take part by accessing the the national data in the Stanford Digital Repository. purl.stanford.edu/cx567kr8730
Congratulations to @alissazhu.bsky.social, @jessicagallagher.bsky.social and Nick Thieme for winning a Polk for their reporting on Baltimore's overdose crisis. Nick's data reporting creating a one-of-a-kind dataset was incredible. Go Banner Data Team! www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
In Indianapolis, Black men said they were reluctant to use public health solutions like syringe exchanges or fentanyl test strips because of a fear of harassment by police, Mirror Indy found.
mirrorindy.org/indianapolis...
In Milwaukee, half of older Black men lost to drugs spent time in state prison. Wisconsin is trying to increase access to a Department of Corrections treatment program, which has a waitlist of 11,700, @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social found. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/01/drug...
In Boston, where this generational disparity is a more recent phenomenon, older Black men feel less welcome in treatment programs, @bostonglobe.com found.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/m...
Three more partners published their stories on this one generation of Black men plagued by overdose deaths: @bostonglobe.com, @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social and Mirror Indy. This is a trend @thebaltimorebanner.com found in Baltimore first, then elsewhere. Threading stories...
Let's face it, QGIS is the Excel of geospatial analysis...
