Journalist with an affinity for accountability reporting and flannel. Ex. @washingtonpost, @newsy, etc. Contact: tik.root@gmail.com; tik.root@protonmail.com
Joined April 2011
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NEW: I’ve spent over a year investigating the private U.S. adoption industry for @TIME & @Newsy. With virtually no federal regulation and loophole-riddled state laws, baby brokering has become an extremely lucrative business rife with exploitation (THREAD)
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This is my final request that you read my many-months-long investigation into the far-right militias masquerading as emergency preparedness/relief orgs and why that doesn't bode well for a future plagued by super-charged natural disasters. #EMGTwitter grist.org/extreme-weather/bo…
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The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now.
Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/un…
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Incredibly smart and powerful reporting from @hannahdreier nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/un…
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18 Feb 2023
State cannabis regulator seeks information about alleged ties between Russian oligarch and Vermont dispensaries vtdigger.org/2023/02/17/stat… via @vtdigger
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Please check out this beautifully written and visually stunning piece about an aviator’s race to photograph glaciers as the climate clock clicks. By my @AP enterprise team colleagues @NatCasta and Bram Jannsen. apnews.com/article/07730dc16…
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3 Dec 2022
Must-read story from @MarkOlalde, @mrsimon22 and @Amierjeski of @propublica
propublica.org/article/urani…
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23 Nov 2022
New: How China, the world's biggest annual emitter of greenhouse gases, avoids paying for #climate damages because of its classification as a developing country. w/ the great @michaelbirnbaum @lilkuo washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Vermont banned rental application fees decades ago, but they remain rampant - and no one appears to be enforcing the law. (My latest for @vtdigger)
vtdigger.org/2022/11/01/i-wa…
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4 Oct 2022
Sometimes journalism answers questions you never thought to ask. Like, "could one of the biggest bears in the world sit in coach?"
His story (and more) here: washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Since 1954, the @WMO has retired the names of 94 particularly destructive Atlantic hurricanes. But the majority of those storms have occurred in the 21st century, and the rate of retirements has been markedly higher in recent decades. Could #hurricaineIan be on the 2022 list?
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RT @dino_grandoni: Breaking: ANTS!
There are a lot of them
Nearly 20 quadrillion — a 2 followed by 16 zeros — are marching across the Ear…
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6 Sep 2022
NEW from me-> How coal-loving Poland became an unlikely leader in the heat pump revolution. The war in Ukraine is pushing Poles to embrace green measures. washingtonpost.com/climate-s…
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15 Sep 2022
Oklahoma authorities found multiple human remains on a compound w/links to a violent white supremacist gang. Reporting on the discovery led to a rural vortex where people vanish, their families too terrified to hang “missing person” signs. (Thread)
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7 Sep 2022
Two Christian ranches in Wyoming are accused of forcing teens to do hard labor.
One man says he was branded with a cross. Three women say they were tied to a goat as a punishment.
@tylerkingkade reports:
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wyo…
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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making propublica.org/article/new-m… (@MarkOlalde)
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27 Jun 2022
INVESTIGATION: I traveled deep into Mexico's jungle & mountains and found BP has been paying a "pittance" for carbon offsets produced by subsistence farmers’ forests in more than a dozen communities 🧵 bloomberg.com/features/2022-…
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BREAKING: The 5th Circuit just gave the Biden administration a temporary reprieve on its climate rules, issuing a stay so that agencies can factor global warming damages into its policies. By @annamphillips washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Last Friday @conocophillips spotted a gas leak from one of its oil fields on Alaska's North Slope. It's still going, forcing the evacuation of 300 workers and nearly two dozen families from a nearby village, as experts eye its #climate impact. @partlowj washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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