Geoff Hing

Research shows the more times you hear a statement, the more likely you are to believe it. We analyzed >12,000 of Trump’s immigration statements & found his most repeated claims, some of which he's made >500 times. All false. Here they are, fact-checked: themarshallproject.org/2024/10/21/fac…

@geoffhing analyzed years of county finance data & found jails paid for additional charges for things such as COVID-19 tests and sensors designed to improve health monitoring, or for lab tests & prescription drugs when those costs were excluded/or exceeded a threshold.

I was at City College Tuesday night, reporting for the @nytimes Two sets of protesters were arrested that night. The first set was a crowd outside City College’s locked gates. NYPD arrested this group on two separate occasions that evening at different locations. timeline/🧵

Just obtained video showing police remove a woman’s hijab at ASU. Legal sources tell @ABC15 that four women had this happen. It’s another constitutional issue from this weekend's protests. *This is a screenshot. Video posted in next tweet*

NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…

@craftworksxyz @ByrhondaLyons Congratulations Will! This is so awesome and I can't think of a more perfect pairing.

Great to see the excellent journalism of esteemed colleagues @matt_kiefer @taylormooresays @AngelaTCR @MichaelJLiptrot and more on the cover of the Sunday @Suntimes

Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb has been confiscating money from people incarcerated in his jail and using it to buy guns (which, of course, he loves). azluminaria.org/2023/09/29/pin…

@imLeor Promoter and venue IG and noticing when bands are touring from their Bandcamp. I would definitely read show previews if they were consistently good/available where I’m at.

Does anyone know of national publications that take pitches for first-person writing about being unhoused (and pay the writers)?

Yesterday we reported how a state board had denied nearly two-thirds of medical release requests from dying and disabled Illinois prisoners who met the criteria under the law to get out. @GovPritzker told reporters today there was nothing wrong with that injusticewatch.org/news/prisons-a…

"The county attorney has reviewed 202 police shootings since 2020 and filed charges in one." azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

June sees second-highest number of metro Phoenix eviction filings in 15 years azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via @azcentral

PHX, I need your help: Here's a summary of how the city says they plan to mitigate heat this summer. But what about follow through? How are they doing? Is it working? As I report it out & collect data, share with me your experiences and anecdotes. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

As the world shifts to solar, wind and nuclear energy, it's so important for journalists to ask where these projects are being built and why. And with whose permission? middleeasteye.net/news/syria-dru…

@DaphneChen_ @journalsentinel Woah! Big congratulations!

This is my first week as the new investigations editor of the storied @journalsentinel. 🤯 I'm looking forward to continuing the paper's great investigative legacy, while making this type of journalism more inclusive and responsive to our community. Meanwhile, we're hiring...

This is insane. The city of Phoenix keeps saying they're doing a great job getting people into shelters when they do these sweeps, yet the number of people in encampment has actually *increased* since the sweeps began. abc15.com/news/local-new…

@JosephJaafari @Yanazure @lookoutphx Congratulations! This is awesome!

What's next in the ongoing Justice Department probe…. Phoenix has provided more than 80,000 documents to the department and coordinated at least 150 interviews for the investigation, according to city documents. azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via @azcentral