Ryan Little

Ryan Little

@ryanlittle.bsky.social

Ryan Little is the data editor at The Baltimore Banner and an adjunct instructor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland

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Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

Two ex-DHS officials described the practice of repeatedly rebooking immigrants into two Florida jails as an attempt to evade detention standards. “What it shows is that they were very aware that they were breaking a rule,” a former DHS staffer said. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

propublica.orgThese Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu...

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ProPublica
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NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS. One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.

propublica.orgThese Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu...

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Ken Schwencke
@schwanksta.com

You know how big DAFs like Fidelity banned donations to the @splcenter.org? It turns out they do it quite a bit without any sort of transparency, and nonprofits in good standing with the IRS have no recourse against it, and they often aren't told. www.propublica.org/article/dono...

propublica.orgWall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund CharitiesA quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors and the public in the dark. www.propublica.org/article/dono...

propublica.orgWall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund CharitiesA quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...

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Ken Morales
@kbmorales.bsky.social

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

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Kimi Yoshino
@kyoshino.bsky.social

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.

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The IRE Award for Investigations Triggered by Breaking News goes to @thebaltimorebanner.com for reporting on the Key Bridge collapse. “This was a colossal effort for 24 hours, with journalists waking up in the middle of the night and working well together.” www.thebaltimorebanner.com/specials/key...

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Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social

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. story👇🏾

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Lee Sanderlin
@leeosanderlin.bsky.social

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...

thebaltimorebanner.comFamilies of Key Bridge victims shut out of $16M relief fundA community foundation raised money for the Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong fund under the explicit premise that Key Bridge victims’ families would see some of it.

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Hayes Gardner
@hayesgardner.bsky.social

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...

thebaltimorebanner.comNTSB urges Chesapeake Bay Bridge should be assessed for ship strikeThe Francis Scott Key Bridge was 30 times more susceptible to ship strike than it should have been, a federal official said Thursday.

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Julie Bykowicz
@bykowicz.bsky.social

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."

Hayes Gardner@hayesgardner.bsky.social

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...

thebaltimorebanner.comNTSB urges Chesapeake Bay Bridge should be assessed for ship strikeThe Francis Scott Key Bridge was 30 times more susceptible to ship strike than it should have been, a federal official said Thursday.

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Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social

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...

thebaltimorebanner.comBaltimore gained population for the first time in a decade, new data showsBaltimore City gained population for the first time since 2014, census data released Thursday shows.

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Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social

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-...

thebaltimorebanner.comBaltimore City Council members press for solutions to student transit nightmareBaltimore City Council members pressed officials in the school district and the Maryland Transit Administration to find solutions to improve mass transit students.

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Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social

Baltimore City Council is ready to talk about kids’ struggles to get to school Read it in @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

thebaltimorebanner.comBaltimore City Council is ready to talk about kids’ struggles to get to schoolA Thursday hearing will be the first time public officials discuss transit’s impact on students since a Banner investigation found it’s nearly impossible for them to get to school on time every day.
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

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.

Greg Morton@invisibae.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-...

thebaltimorebanner.comTransit nightmare: Thousands of Baltimore kids can’t get to school on timeUnreliable public transportation turns school choice into a false promise.
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

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-...

thebaltimorebanner.comWhat Baltimore school is best for you? Compare routes using this tool.Use this tool to compare routes from your neighborhood to any Baltimore public school.

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Greg Morton
@invisibae.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-...

thebaltimorebanner.comTransit nightmare: Thousands of Baltimore kids can’t get to school on timeUnreliable public transportation turns school choice into a false promise.

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Kimi Yoshino
@kyoshino.bsky.social

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...

thebaltimorebanner.comMysterious Zizian leader Jack LaSota arrested in Western MarylandJack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, the apparent leader of the Zizians, a cult-like group tied to at least six deaths, was arrested Sunday evening in western Maryland.

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Alissa Zhu
@alissazhu.bsky.social

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...

thebaltimorebanner.comThe Banner wins Polk Award for coverage of Baltimore’s overdose crisisBaltimore Banner reporters Alissa Zhu, Jessica Gallagher and Nick Thieme have won the organization’s first George Polk Award for their local investigative work.

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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

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...

en.m.wikipedia.orgThe Baltimore Banner - Wikipedia
Ryan Little@ryanlittle.bsky.social

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...

thebaltimorebanner.comThe Banner wins Polk Award for coverage of Baltimore’s overdose crisisBaltimore Banner reporters Alissa Zhu, Jessica Gallagher and Nick Thieme have won the organization’s first George Polk Award for their local investigative work.
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

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

purl.stanford.eduSenior Overdoses ProjectThe overdose crisis for Black men in American cities began decades ago--along with economic dislocation and abundance of heroin and cocaine. The group of men who were affected, born between 1951 an...
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

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...

Ryan Little@ryanlittle.bsky.social

Local news partnership: Drug overdose deaths plague one generation of Black men in Baltimore and in cities across the country. @thebaltimorebanner.com partnered with @nytimes.com and @biglocalnews.bsky.social plus 9 local newsrooms to tell a story we found first in Baltimore. Threading links below.

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Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

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...

Ryan Little@ryanlittle.bsky.social

Local news partnership: Drug overdose deaths plague one generation of Black men in Baltimore and in cities across the country. @thebaltimorebanner.com partnered with @nytimes.com and @biglocalnews.bsky.social plus 9 local newsrooms to tell a story we found first in Baltimore. Threading links below.

Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

Let's face it, QGIS is the Excel of geospatial analysis...

Investigative Reporters & Editors@ire.org

Already mastered QGIS? At #NICAR25, learn how to do more complex mapping in R and Python. This class will help make your next geospatial analysis a walk in the park! Seats are limited, so be sure to register: www.ire.org/product/nica... @ryanlittle.bsky.social @camrodriguez.bsky.social

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Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

In Philadelphia, older Black men were actually less likely to die than their white peers — until recently. By 2018, their death rate had shot up, according to a @inquirer.com analysis. www.inquirer.com/health/older...

inquirer.comMore older Black men in Philadelphia are dying of overdoses than many other places in the U.S.: ‘It’s like a secret disease’In Philadelphia, a new analysis shows that older Black men from their 50s to their 70s are dying at the highest rates of all.
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Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

In Pittsburgh, Black men in jail with opioid use disorders have been less likely to receive medications to combat their addictions than white men, a @publicsource.org investigation has found, though local officials are working to close the gap. www.publicsource.org/allegheny-co...

publicsource.orgPittsburgh’s older Black men hit hardest by overdose crisisLarge U.S. counties' morality data, including Allegheny County, Pa., shows Black men born from 1951-1970 are most likely to die by overdose.
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

In San Francisco, many of the men vulnerable to overdoses use both opioids and cocaine, a combination that may make treating their addictions more complex, according to an analysis of mortality data by @sfstandard.com. sfstandard.com/2024/12/20/s...

sfstandard.comSF is losing a generation of Black men to overdoses. It’s worse here than anywhereSan Francisco is losing a generation of elder Black men to the deadly fentanyl overdose crisis. It's worse here than anywhere.
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

In Chicago, there is no focused effort in nearly $1.3 billion of state opioid settlement money to help older Black men, despite a heavy death toll for this group, @chicago.suntimes.com found. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

chicago.suntimes.comOpioids have been killing the same generation of Black men in Chicago for decadesBlack men born from 1951 through 1970 have the greatest risk of dying of overdoses and always have, even in their 20s, 30s and 40s. That’s true in Chicago, in Baltimore, Washington and some other big ...

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Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social

The most detailed look yet at election results in Maryland is live on @thebaltimorebanner.com How did your neighborhood vote? Great team effort from @ryanlittle.bsky.social, Katrina Ventura and I. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

thebaltimorebanner.comMaryland precinct map: How did your neighborhood vote for president?State officials say they don’t have a statewide map of Maryland precincts. The Banner compiled as many maps from counties as we could and approximated the others.
Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social

Finally, you can see precinct-level election results in Maryland. State officials don't have a statewide precinct map. It took The Banner reaching out to 24 county boards of elections and approximating precincts for the 11 we didn't get maps from. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

thebaltimorebanner.comMaryland precinct map: How did your neighborhood vote for president?State officials say they don’t have a statewide map of Maryland precincts. The Banner compiled as many maps from counties as we could and approximated the others.

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Elizabeth Smith
@instantsunrise.bsky.social

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

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Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social

NEW: Precinct-level election results gives us our first look at the coalition of voters who rejected a David Smith-backed proposal to shrink city council. I wrote about who killed Question H and why the folks who voted for it deserve your attention. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

thebaltimorebanner.comBaltimore rejected a plan to shrink the City Council. Some of its poorest residents disagreed.Most impoverished communities voted to approve the David Smith-backed measure to shrink the Baltimore City Council from 14 to eight, precinct-level data shows.