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I'm an editor on The Washington Post's investigations team https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/lisa-gartner/
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Last year, a teenage girl was found dead in an SF driveway. How did she end up here? A cascade of failures by Gov. Newsom’s emergency mental health care system. Part 1 in a @sfchronicle.com investigative series by Joaquin Palomino and Cynthia Dizikes. Gift link: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

!!! Congrats to Katey Rusch, Casey Smith and the IRP and @sfchronicle.com team on this major recognition! annenberg.usc.edu/news/spotlig...

Lori Schrock was 56, her husband 58. “But he would want me to say he was younger,” their daughter said through tears. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

Some news: I'm joining the @washingtonpost.com's White House team to cover Trump alongside an all-star crew. Largest White House team in Post history. Couldn't be more excited. www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/01/2...

Texas’s largest antiabortion organization will launch an advertising campaign on Facebook and X next month to reach the husbands, boyfriends and sex partners of women who have had abortions in the state, Caroline Kitchener reports www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Trump's team has promised to start deporting folks as soon as he puts his hand on the bible so we wanted to know who was most at risk. Here's what we found.

The latest from our FOIA director Nate Jones >> www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

New reporting from @washingtonpost.com on the New Year's terror attack shows multiple safeguards were dropped that night in New Orleans www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

In 2024, I covered a fractured America. Here's a year in the life of a national correspondent for the @washingtonpost.com⬇️ First stop: I was on the campaign trail in Iowa just after NYE when a school shooting shattered a small town. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Excellent reporting about how Big Tech's insatiable desire for AI data is sapping electricity from power grids, leaving many people without basic services or dealing with the fallout from environmentally destructive power plants. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A year-long investigation by The Post reveals more than 3,100 students died at Indian boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 — and more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. Read the full findings: wapo.st/408M3VV

The Post spent two years reporting on kids exploited by police officers. Here’s what we learned about the systemic failures that allow these crimes to occur www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

At @washingtonpost.com, we sued the government to get records of how much the U.S. is spending maintaining seized Russian yachts. You can see the receipts here: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

This was a tough one to report. After a young migrant was murdered in Dallas, her mother wanted her remains returned to Venezuela. Instead, officials in Texas cut up her daughter’s body and assigned prices to the parts undamaged by the bullet that killed her. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The ‘perfect’ predator: How a police chief groomed a Texas town www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

A fantastic choice for @sfchronicle.com's I-team. Congrats @ryangabrielson.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/about/newsro...

The chief said the 911 call came from a second-grader: “I’m going to let that soak in for a minute: A second-grade student called 911 ... to report a shooting at school.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

"The agency began drafting the new guidance in September, after a Post investigation revealed that predatory school police officers have used their positions to meet, groom and exploit students, while the Justice Department ... failed to take basic steps" www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

NEW: Our latest investigation found shocking racial disparities tied to police pursuits. Nearly 1/3 of those who died across the country are Black. Black bystanders are disproportionately killed. w/ @susien.bsky.social Read it via this gift link: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

The latest installment in our series on police chases: Across the country, Black people are 4 times as likely to die in pursuits as whites. @jennifergollan.bsky.social and I tell the story of Trevon Mitchell, hit by a fleeing driver when he was just 22. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

The committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in Texas will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first years after Texas’s near-total abortion ban took effect, leaving any potential deaths related to abortion bans in those years uninvestigated www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

U.S. congressman are asking the AG and other federal officials to accurately track deaths from police chases, citing an @sfchronicle.bsky.social investigation revealing hundreds of bystanders killed in pursuits initiated over minor offenses and traffic violations. www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

“The following day, the woman returned home and ‘had a moment of hazy memory of being raped the night before, and had a panic attack,’ the memo said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A teenage girl reported that her stepmother sold her to be raped for $100 when she was 17 years old. The buyer, she told the sheriff’s department, wasn’t just anyone — it was Police Chief Larry Clay.

The new X account for Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency," which pledged to slash trillions from federal budget, just asked for "super high-IQ ... revolutionaries" to send in their resumes for 80hr/wk jobs - but the account's DMs aren't open, so no one can apply. Off to a great start!