Andrew Ba Tran

Andrew Ba Tran

@abtran.bsky.social

Washington Post Investigative Data Reporter data for @washingtonpost.com email: andrew.tran@washpost.com signal: @abtran.202

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Nadja Popovich
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I dug into EIA data and found a growing divide between electricity prices at investor-owned utilities and public power providers. Then @michellema.bsky.social and I visited two towns that show what that divide means for customers on the ground. Read our story here! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.comOne Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% LowerThe stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers

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ProPublica
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NEW: The women were victims of domestic abuse. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys and anyone who would listen. It didn’t matter. They were all taken to an immigration detention center.

propublica.orgThese Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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Ence Morse
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Read Jen's story — and take the beautiful quiz designed by @erxclau.me — here!!! So thrilled this piece is out. Gift link: wapo.st/4idKlLQ

Washington Post Data Team@wpdatateam.bsky.social

Jen Hernandez, and people like her, may just decide who controls Congress this year. Hernandez, 43, is Mexican-American, millennial, married, and lives in a small city in Colorado. In 2016, she voted for comedian Roseanne Barr. In 2020, she backed Biden, and in 2024 Jill Stein. 🧵

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Dan Diamond
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Exclusive: The White House has given RFK Jr access to military aircraft as the health secretary has criss-crossed the country. RFK Jr used private flight to join GOP candidates in Iowa last month. w @rachelroubein.bsky.social @abtran.bsky.social

washingtonpost.comRFK Jr. uses military aircraft as he campaigns for GOP in midtermsThe White House and Department of Health and Human Services lawyers signed off on the plan to let the health secretary use military jets, five people said.
Andrew Ba Tran
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Trump administration proposes changes to Census that could exclude undocumented immigrants and noncitizens without permanent residency and eliminate questions tracking race, ethnicity or sexual orientation www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.comTrump administration proposes changes to census that could exclude millionsIf adopted, the changes could exclude millions of residents from the decennial tally, reshaping congressional representation in the country.

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ProPublica
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NEW: Research shows more flood deaths occur in Texas than in any other state. But state lawmakers have cleared the way for residents to stay in risky places, even after flooding killed at least 119 people in Kerr County last summer. w/ @texastribune.org

propublica.orgThey Rebuilt After Texas’ Devastating Floods. Then Their Home Flooded Again.Texas lawmakers repeatedly failed to take action that could have protected residents in flood-prone areas. That’s left Kerr County residents with difficult choices after two straight summers of floodi...

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NPR
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As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR. n.pr/4zBvnWF

n.pr'It embarrasses me to be involved': Inside the National Guard D.C. deploymentAs President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.

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Nome
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If you have a gun in your home, you're tripling your background chance of suicide. If you've got teens, you're raising theirs even more. Each step to make access a little harder - storing it in a locked case, unloaded, separate from ammunition, which you store locked - radically reduces it.

jamanetwork.comGun Storage Practices and Risk of Youth Suicide and Unintentional Firearm InjuriesContext Household firearms are associated with an elevated risk of firearm death to occupants in the home. Many organizations and health authorities advocate locking firearms and ammunition to prevent...

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Caitlin Gilbert
@caitlingilbert.bsky.social

🥬💩NEW from @lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social and me on the FDA finally visiting the Taylor Farms facility—I was personally shocked at just how much food has been impacted by this one supplier so we made these charts to put that into context. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Rachel Roubein@rachelroubein.bsky.social

FDA investigators are now in Mexico nearly a month after federal officials linked Taylor Farms’ lettuce to the nation’s largest cyclospora outbreak. Inspecting the processing plant now, fields next. w/ @lenasun.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

washingtonpost.comFDA in Mexico a month after linking Taylor Farms to cyclospora outbreakSenior FDA official confirms that inspectors were on-site at the Taylor Farms processing facility and plan to be in the fields next.

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Ence Morse
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We analyzed 2,200 campaign websites for @washingtonpost.com to track the rise of AI policy. It's not just data centers. Hundreds of candidates discuss AI policy -- more than Israel, manufacturing, or racism. One candidate promised to pass legislation to "prevent AI from ever becoming 'alive.'"

Andrew Ba Tran
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Exclusive: Tech billionaire and Trump appointee Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked agency staff last month to escalate the amount of aircraft at a seven-acre fire that had started near his mega-ranch in Idaho. With Brianna Sacks wapo.st/4wZEqPD

wapo.stTop Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranchMichael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.

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Dan Lamothe
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EXCLUSIVE: Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat. That's *neither* the Air Force One gifted by Qatar *nor* the legacy Air Force One jumbo jet. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

washingtonpost.comContradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threatThe White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
Andrew Ba Tran
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Veterans in this GI Bill scam played along as trade schools pocketed millions. Prosecutors went after “ghost” school operators but rarely pursued students who enrolled just to collect housing subsidies, a Post investigation found. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

washingtonpost.comVeterans in this GI Bill scam played along as trade schools pocketed millionsProsecutors went after “ghost” school operators but rarely pursued students who enrolled just to collect housing subsidies, a Post investigation found.
Andrew Ba Tran
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Predatory schools fleeced GI Bill out of more than $300 million in a decade. Institutions defrauded VA and taxpayers, with some teaching how to grow grass and make fake rocks, a Post investigation finds. By Craig Whitlock (and me) wapo.st/4pW9eOt

wapo.stHow predatory trade schools drained $300 million from the GI Bill and failed veteransTrade schools fleeced VA — and taxpayers — of more than $300 million, often by teaching short and easy courses, a Post investigation finds.

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Dhruv Mehrotra
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NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social

wired.comA Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban SurveillanceThe SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
Andrew Ba Tran
@abtran.bsky.social

Wish there was a way to automatically filter out any columns with entire premises based on "I asked AI to do XX research for me and and now I will react to what it gave me without fact checking first"

Andrew Ba Tran
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We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)

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Andrew Ba Tran
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Also obscuring the data is how after Trump's inauguration day, we can see the narrative reports shrinking from an average of seven sentences to three. From more than 130 words on average to 40. The narratives have become less detailed. Who knows what's being left out, what's not being reported.

Andrew Ba Tran
@abtran.bsky.social

We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)

Andrew Ba Tran
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We had enough data to compare Biden's final year and Trump's first year of his second term. Detention staff used force 37% more times on 54% more detainees, according to our analysis. Of course, detainee population has also grown-- estimates of 45 percent. The delta isn't huge but consider that...

Andrew Ba Tran
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The Post’s analysis is likely an undercount of use-of-force incidents. There were serious enough Use of Force incidents reported by the Post and other news orgs in the past that did not exist in the data. And at least 140 facilities do not appear in the reports.

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Caitlin Gilbert
@caitlingilbert.bsky.social

Emily is the best sports data journalist working right now, and I have no doubt she will continue to do incredible things in whichever newsroom is lucky enough to hire her. I’ll deeply miss getting to work with such an amazing colleague (and fellow FPL fan!!!)

Emily Giambalvo@emilygiam.bsky.social

The past eight years at The Washington Post have been a dream. I am so sad but so grateful.

Andrew Ba Tran
@abtran.bsky.social

The @washingtonpost.com still sharing our data and how we did the work while other newsrooms pull back. Check out the gathered data on Github #opendata #reproducibility #transparency bsky.app/profile/cait...

Caitlin Gilbert@caitlingilbert.bsky.social

You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...