Pretty brazen to just tweet this out! Former NYPD Chief Admits Giving ‘Free Pass’ to City Workers, Right Wing Allies shout out to @emilylip.bsky.social's work here nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/25/f...

I saw an interesting argument a few weeks ago along these lines (about AI ads specifically) It boils down to the idea that young people see AI as a tool for bullshitting people (teachers, parents, whoever) but they don't want to be on the receiving end of BS, and they're keenly aware when it happens

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The Polymarket bar, playing on the “Monitoring the Situation” meme, is a bust. After waiting outside for nearly an hour and a half in the rain because of technical issues—power and wifi going out—none of the TVs are working. Staff say everything will be back up and running tomorrow.

Garbage Day on Bachelorette fallout: an "entire universe of podcasts and creator pages .. that will also go without content .. Which is a great window into what TV actually is now: Content to be consumed by digital creators with oftentimes much larger audiences" www.garbageday.email/p/the-death-...

NEWS: Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, multiple sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

One of my big pet peeves. Prediction market social media strategy is complete trash. It's as bad as any thieving PZFeed style account in Twitter's peak: outright stealing the work of journalists, being obviously misleading, at times blatantly manipulative www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/t...

speaking as someone who built a career on "monitoring the situation", that the ideal screen count is three: one for main, one for a high volume feed (tweetdeck then, custom interface now), one for a livestream you trust anything more than 3 is just distracting LARP. ty for coming to my ted talk

The idea of doing American Truck Simulator time trials for merging I-55 to 90/94 in rush hour...

You can make fun of a certain BuzzFeed as much as you want. But there was a multi year period where BuzzFeed News was one of the best journalism outlets out there, with a huge team of incredibly talented journalists. It’s a shame they killed that.

'"We’re over here just grinding away on banger memes, dude,” said the person, also granted anonymity to speak candidly' www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

WaPo: Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran "Even before the war in Iran, Trump had called for a $1.5 trillion defense budget, a more than 50 percent increase from the previous year" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Just horrifying details top to bottom. "In the end, they said that the story of Chavez’s movement was their story, too — of the women who marched beside the men, worked in the fields, took care of the children. The movement, they said, was more than one man." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

AMA alert: @themarshallproject.org is running a Reddit AMA at noon ET on Thursday with incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon "My responses will be dictated over the phone to my publicist Megan, who’s my right-hand, and posted by Marshall Project editor Tom." www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

That pitch missed by 4 inches

I never realized just how much highly competitive baseball in March could heal my soul (but holy cow that last called strike was absolutely atrocious, that was below his knees!!!)

An innovative media strategy that has never been tried in a newsroom before. "Bezos pitched his strategy: Reduce the newsroom’s budget by half and double the productivity of those who remained, all while protecting some core parts of The Post’s coverage" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

My cynical ass has tracked the AI era depravity hype bubble for years, and this still shocks me. Must read. "Grammarly hadn’t checked with me before using my name. I only learned that an A.I. company was selling a deepfake of my mind from an article online." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

I was floored when I read about this the other day, very glad he's home safe. A 9-year-old in Baltimore had been missing for five months after a series of tragedies hit his family and the system repeatedly failed him www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

I'm very excited for this project! @themarshallproject.org is launching Redemption Songs, a newsletter dedicated to the music of mass incarceration and the artists behind it. To kick things off: When Texas Was Fertile Ground for Prison Bands www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/10/p...

Multiple US and state law enforcement and intel officials told @cbsnews.com there is no credible intelligence underpinning the bulletin distributed on the unverified possibility that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast. "This is not actionable," one said.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

@reemakkad.bsky.social, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice system.

I accept the rule changes because it's good for the sport, even if games feel rushed. I still go to 7-10 games a year, but hate the over-stimulating experience of constant noise and lights. But this is the first year since I left Chicago (2015!) I am drawing the line and not subscribing to MLBTV

"granting an overnight audience to anyone willing to talk relentlessly about a subject for hours on end is probably not a good thing" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Finally got to see Chicago's very own Ratboys live

The First Amendment Coalition honored Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray, and Ricardo “Raoul” Poole from "The Alabama Solution." The incarcerated whistleblowers risked their lives to take viewers inside Alabama’s prisons using cellphones they purchased through the prison’s black market:

We have added a new AP Stylebook Online entry for the Iran war. Our guidance explains that it is acceptable to use the term "war" to refer to the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting Feb. 28, 2026, and Iran’s retaliation.

"But over the course of Friday, more than 150 accounts placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000, correctly predicting an American strike on Iran by Saturday." That is a stark chart www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

For men awaiting execution on Texas’ death row, Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline — an escape from extreme isolating conditions, leading to the sort of friendships solitary confinement usually prevents. See their D&D character sheets, maps & more:

If you care about accountability and justice, follow @themarshallproject.org on Bluesky and Flipboard for trusted reporting on the criminal justice system. 📰 👉 flipboard.com/@MarshallPro...

INCREDIBLE shot, incredible goal, incredible game 🇺🇸🥇

BREAKING: The federal prison system will stop providing gender-affirming medical or social transition care to almost any transgender people, under a new policy released by the Bureau of Prisons Thursday. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/19/t...

To a Resident on the Block, Rev. Jesse Jackson Was Simply a Friendly Neighbor. My latest reporting from Chicago for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Some personal news: Happy to say I recently joined @themarshallproject.org as Audience Director. It's an important investigative newsroom focusing on criminal justice that I've been a fan of for years, and I'm SO excited to be here It's been a great start thanks to my kind and generous colleagues✨

My media prediction is that people (millennials) gawking at, and ironically repeating the language around, niche streaming culture talking about Clavicular et al is going to end in embarrassment and normalizing a new slur along the way

New Marshall Project investigation this week: "In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications." www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/10/b...

Gothamist lab tests NYC's snow that's been laying around for a few weeks. Spoiler alert: "The snow acts like a revolting sponge for the city’s filth" gothamist.com/news/we-test...

Well that's an interesting use case: "the Manosphere Report now follows about 80 podcasts hand-selected by reporters at the Times ... When one of the shows publishes a new episode, the tool automatically downloads it, transcribes it, and summarizes the transcript" www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount. In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

"One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset" www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

I've been friends with Kim for 13 years and I am absolutely flabbergasted, she is a versatile, TREMENDOUS reporter (and human being). A huge asset to any newsroom fortunate enough to have her

RIP to an absolute legend :( www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

The civil rights law that has allowed lawsuits against local and state police doesn’t apply to federal agents. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/27/m...

Some good news! Guan Heng has just been granted asylum in the US, although DHS reserve the right to appeal the decision in the next 30 days.