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Babe, wake up. It's 1 p.m, first of all, and second of all... HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.

The podcast about this travesty is excellent. www.opb.org/show/hush/

I've spent much of the last year in Columbia County, Oregon with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social investigating why Sarah Zuber was found dead on the side of the road in 2019, and why her family still has no answers. Hush Season Two drops Oct. 8. The trailer is out now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Jesse Johnson spent 25 years incarcerated for a murder he always insisted he didn’t commit. Two years after his release, he’s suing the state of Oregon and the Salem police detectives who locked him up.

Learn much, much more about the investigation into Jesse Johnson that led to his wrongful conviction - an investigation his legal team argues was flagrantly racist - by listening to Leah & Ryan's full reporting in the first season of OPB's investigative podcast Hush:

Today on a bonus episode on @opb.org's The Evergreen: In 2023, Jesse Johnson left jail a free man after 25yrs behind bars for a crime he always insisted he didn't commit: the '98 murder of Harriet Thompson. Now, he's suing. An update on Hush S1 by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social & @leahsottile.bsky.social:

Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

Owen Gail and his business partner, twin brother Ethan, knew drawing customers would be a sisyphean task, so he came up with a sisyphean solution: kicking the same rock every day and posting it online.

Utah’s governor is winning bipartisan praise for his healing words after the Charlie Kirk shooting, but he, too, sometimes strikes a harsher tone.

Nearly one month after immigration officials arrested an Oregon wildland firefighter while he fought a blaze in Washington state, his attorneys are petitioning for his release, saying his due process rights have been violated.

When big media wonders why people fucking hate them - it's decisions like this people can point to. The west is so disposable and unimportant to decision makers, they think they shuffle some of the most disgraced members of the profession there and no one will notice.

Hell yeah, Spokane!

Yep, that tracks: leahsottile.substack.com/52-trust "Nuzzi will keep her job or get a better one... People tend to fail up and up and up in journalism, even when they make egregious violations of trust. Ethics and hard work are not necessarily rewarded in legacy media."

Naming a person who has spent their entire career working a 200-mile stretch of I-95 as your West Coast editor is certainly a choice.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

“U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement made clear detention limitation commitments to our community, and we believe they broke those policies more than two dozen times,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement.

Big media companies that succumb to censorship are going to drive themselves out of the news business once and for all. Independent journalists should see this time as an opportunity

There is no domestic terror statute with which to designate antifa a terror group. Want to know abt antifa? Preorder my book here www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Only appropriate — no publication has ever covered the rivers that run through our country better than @highcountrynews.org.

YES! Journalism is "a job for fucking dorks!"

RIP GOAT Be like Robert. Support badass journalism.

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Great example of journalistic malpractice. Headline repeats the claims of an elected official, while the story notes that no evidence of this supposed "leftist ideology" has been found. Has the New York Times not been made aware that people only read headlines? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

New AP history prompt: Did Father Coughlin do politics right? Discuss.

Kilmeade won’t face consequences because rampant, unapologetic classism is the norm in the highest halls of media, and poverty is construed as a moral failure. And now that mainstream media is simply repeating Trump’s talking points in all things, I can only imagine we will just see more of this.

On a personal and professional level, this has been one of those weeks where I’ve been reminded that the standards I hold as a journalist are truly not shared by those in the highest echelons of my profession.

The Wall Street Journal has added an editor's note to the report www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

I see yesterday's Colorado school shooting is not news today.

who needs fringe extremist groups when the calls for war, retribution and violence are coming from the mainstream? my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What exactly is transgender and antifascist ideology? And, pray tell, how would you engrave it on ammunition? Between this and Ezra Klein’s garbage, far-right rhetoric is simply being repeated by mainstream media now.

BREAKING: Multiple witnesses say right wing commentator Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University.

Honestly everyone’s little umbrellas are adorable.

Been in DC and NY these last few days and I think this qualifies me to write an anthropological piece of journalism making sweeping generalizations about these places and their people. JK I WOULD NEVER DO THAT I HAVE MANNERS.

Such an amazing honor to speak about Blazing Eye Sees All at the Library of Congress National Book Festival today, where I was in conversation with Fred Wherry and David Baron, author of The Martians.

Such an amazing honor to speak about Blazing Eye Sees All at the Library of Congress National Book Festival today, where I was in conversation with Fred Wherry and David Baron, author of The Martians.

The enraging part is that the narrative of Portland chaos (not real!) will be repeated in big and small ways on all sides of the political spectrum. Just last month it was repeated in a NYT restaurant review of all places - that a 1 block protest a mile away from five years ago is still relevant.

It's almost time! The 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival is TOMORROW (Saturday, Sept. 6) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Are you coming? Read this #NatBookFest thread! 🧵👇

Last week, a housed resident attacked multiple homeless neighbors in Northwest Portland, leading to a five-hour standoff with police crisis negotiators. It wasn’t an isolated incident. Oregon leads the nation in violent attacks against the homeless, a National Coalition for the Homeless report says.

I believe that journalism, at its best, can make the world a little more just. Hush, the podcast I created with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social is built on that belief. This lawsuit cites all the things we uncovered. Jesse Johnson deserves justice. Please listen and share. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Salem Police Department Detectives Mike Quakenbush and Craig Stoelk arrested Johnson in 1998 for the murder of Harriet Lavern Thompson. He would spend the next quarter century, including 17 years on death row, locked up in Oregon.

Jesse Johnson's attorneys have finally brought their lawsuit against Salem police and detectives for his wrongful conviction. It seeks substantial damages, and notes reporting @leahsottile.bsky.social and I uncovered in the first season of Hush.

Jesse Johnson sues the State of Oregon. Finally.

You can listen to Jesse's story and all the reporting we uncovered here, or wherever you listen to podcasts. www.opb.org/show/hush/

Jesse Johnson sues the State of Oregon. Finally.

I think I'm the only person LOL'ing that the police spokesperson, in talking about the "Queen of Canada" who purports the same ideas as the I AM Activity, has the last name St Germaine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... If you would like to be in on this LOL, please read: bookshop.org/p/books/blaz...