Tali Woodward
@taliwoodward.bsky.social
Editor in Chief @thetrace.org, a nonprofit newsroom investigating gun violence in America.
https://www.thetrace.org/
https://www.thetrace.org/
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The children haven’t returned to school since last Thursday, too afraid to leave their mother’s side.
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived there and didn't show a warrant or identify themselves. Days later, the children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The children haven’t returned to school since last Thursday, too afraid to leave their mother’s side.
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The Univ of Michigan survey “showed that 44% of middle-income respondents said their financial situation was worse than it was a year ago, while 23% said it was better.
“Those who feel worse off overwhelmingly said it was because of higher prices.”
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“Those who feel worse off overwhelmingly said it was because of higher prices.”
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Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation
Workers are growing tired of an economy in which everything seems to get more expensive.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Univ of Michigan survey “showed that 44% of middle-income respondents said their financial situation was worse than it was a year ago, while 23% said it was better.
“Those who feel worse off overwhelmingly said it was because of higher prices.”
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“Those who feel worse off overwhelmingly said it was because of higher prices.”
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#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
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KFF Health News and @thetrace.org are talking to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care.
Click below to reach our reporting team ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Help Us Investigate Medical Care for Gunshot Wounds - KFF Health News
We’d like to talk to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
KFF Health News and @thetrace.org are talking to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care.
Click below to reach our reporting team ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Click below to reach our reporting team ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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The Trump administration has reoriented a grant initiative originally meant to fund community-based violence prevention, using it instead to bolster local law enforcement and the president’s immigration crackdown.
Trump Plans to Take Money From Violence Prevention to Fund His Immigration Crackdown
Grants meant to help violence prevention are being steered to local law enforcement — and recipients must cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
www.thetrace.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Trump administration has reoriented a grant initiative originally meant to fund community-based violence prevention, using it instead to bolster local law enforcement and the president’s immigration crackdown.
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Adlone Morris spent much of his career policing one of Detroit’s most dangerous precincts. He got used to keeping both eyes open, but always feared that one of his sons would be shot.
He couldn’t have anticipated that they’d be pulled into the gangs fueling violence on the streets he patrolled.
He couldn’t have anticipated that they’d be pulled into the gangs fueling violence on the streets he patrolled.
He Patrolled the Neighborhoods Where His Sons Were Drawn into Violence
Despite Adlone Morris's best attempts, he couldn't keep his sons from joining a gang as teenagers. Now they all work to make Detroit safer.
www.thetrace.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Adlone Morris spent much of his career policing one of Detroit’s most dangerous precincts. He got used to keeping both eyes open, but always feared that one of his sons would be shot.
He couldn’t have anticipated that they’d be pulled into the gangs fueling violence on the streets he patrolled.
He couldn’t have anticipated that they’d be pulled into the gangs fueling violence on the streets he patrolled.
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You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing
The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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Politicians and “experts” love to lean on this: Stronger Black fathers can stop gun violence. But what if the father was a cop, raising his sons with structure, discipline, and love? What if that wasn’t enough to protect them from the streets? [2]
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Politicians and “experts” love to lean on this: Stronger Black fathers can stop gun violence. But what if the father was a cop, raising his sons with structure, discipline, and love? What if that wasn’t enough to protect them from the streets? [2]
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My latest for @thetrace.org challenges a common narrative. That gun violence “starts in the home”.
Adlone Morris was a Detroit cop and a devoted father. Still, his sons got caught up in the streets he patrolled.
Their story highlights the complexities of gun violence that are often ignored [1]
Adlone Morris was a Detroit cop and a devoted father. Still, his sons got caught up in the streets he patrolled.
Their story highlights the complexities of gun violence that are often ignored [1]
He Patrolled the Neighborhoods Where His Sons Were Drawn into Violence
Despite Adlone Morris's best attempts, he couldn't keep his sons from joining a gang as teenagers. Now they all work to make Detroit safer.
www.thetrace.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My latest for @thetrace.org challenges a common narrative. That gun violence “starts in the home”.
Adlone Morris was a Detroit cop and a devoted father. Still, his sons got caught up in the streets he patrolled.
Their story highlights the complexities of gun violence that are often ignored [1]
Adlone Morris was a Detroit cop and a devoted father. Still, his sons got caught up in the streets he patrolled.
Their story highlights the complexities of gun violence that are often ignored [1]
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Epstein Document Search
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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People don’t always follow politics (and who can blame them), but they understand stuff like “nothing to eat now,” “the president is bulldozing the White House,” “the president is hiding stuff about his relationship to America’s most notorious child sex trafficker”
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
People don’t always follow politics (and who can blame them), but they understand stuff like “nothing to eat now,” “the president is bulldozing the White House,” “the president is hiding stuff about his relationship to America’s most notorious child sex trafficker”
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The number of applications for permits to carry concealed guns in New York City has increased nearly tenfold in the past three years.
New Yorkers Fill Gun Classes as Applications for Concealed Carry Permits Surge
With few rules on how the courses are taught, gun aficionados have stepped in to run them.
www.thetrace.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The number of applications for permits to carry concealed guns in New York City has increased nearly tenfold in the past three years.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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My new story, published in partnership with @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com: www.thetrace.org/2025/11/nssf...
The Gun Industry’s Suicide Prevention Effort Isn’t What They Say It Is
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has won accolades for trying to raise awareness about suicide, but it uses deceptive numbers to promote its efforts.
www.thetrace.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My new story, published in partnership with @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com: www.thetrace.org/2025/11/nssf...
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The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s work with a leading suicide prevention organization was celebrated as a breakthrough public health effort. @mikespies.bsky.social reveals that the NSSF touted deceptive numbers about a crucial part of the collaboration.
The Gun Industry’s Suicide Prevention Effort Isn’t What They Say It Is
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has won accolades for trying to raise awareness about suicide, but it uses deceptive numbers to promote its efforts.
www.thetrace.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s work with a leading suicide prevention organization was celebrated as a breakthrough public health effort. @mikespies.bsky.social reveals that the NSSF touted deceptive numbers about a crucial part of the collaboration.
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Modeling from The Trace’s Gun Violence Data Hub shows the steep downward trend in D.C. shootings predates Trump’s policing takeover in the capital by several months, suggesting his actions are not responsible.
What Have Trump’s Troops Done for Crime in D.C.?
The president has taken credit for reducing crime in the capital, but a new analysis by The Trace shows that a decline was already underway.
www.thetrace.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Modeling from The Trace’s Gun Violence Data Hub shows the steep downward trend in D.C. shootings predates Trump’s policing takeover in the capital by several months, suggesting his actions are not responsible.
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ICYMI: We published a package of 17 stories about AI, with the idea that we are not waiting for it anymore. AI arrived, and it is changing us in ways we might never truly understand www.wired.com/ai-issue/
AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
www.wired.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
ICYMI: We published a package of 17 stories about AI, with the idea that we are not waiting for it anymore. AI arrived, and it is changing us in ways we might never truly understand www.wired.com/ai-issue/
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In late 80s I was social worker in Houston working in Verification unit for food stamps. Made unannounced home visits to verify applicants were qualified &had reported all income etc. Unit was dismantled because cost more to run than were recovering. Very little fraud.So many myths/lies about SNAP
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In late 80s I was social worker in Houston working in Verification unit for food stamps. Made unannounced home visits to verify applicants were qualified &had reported all income etc. Unit was dismantled because cost more to run than were recovering. Very little fraud.So many myths/lies about SNAP
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Utah. Mother of 4. Here since 2007.
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Utah. Mother of 4. Here since 2007.
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2024: it was a rough one better luck next year
2025: may I present to you a truckload of Herpes Monkeys
2025: may I present to you a truckload of Herpes Monkeys
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
2024: it was a rough one better luck next year
2025: may I present to you a truckload of Herpes Monkeys
2025: may I present to you a truckload of Herpes Monkeys
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How do military strikes 'test' rather than 'end' a ceasefire? Make it make sense
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “forceful” strikes on Gaza late Tuesday following a dispute over hostage bodies, his office said, in what could be a serious test of the ceasefire brokered earlier this month by President Trump.
Netanyahu orders ‘forceful’ strikes on Gaza, claiming Hamas violated truce
Netanyahu accused Hamas of returning the remains of the wrong Israeli abductee, signaling he would seek retaliation for what he called a violation of the ceasefire.
wapo.st
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
How do military strikes 'test' rather than 'end' a ceasefire? Make it make sense