I am reminded tonight of my favorite @bigcatcountry.bsky.social article. I still have @natemonroe.bsky.social’s email. “I have something to say.” I think aside from a few punctuation tweaks I literally copy/pasted the entire thing and hit Send. www.bigcatcountry.com/2021/4/30/22...

What LSU is paying Brian Kelly to coach football over ten years is almost the same amount it would take to build the school the new library it desperately needs. Just thought I'd post that tonight, for no particular reason.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Join the cool kids!

NEW: 11 Jacksonville Fire and Rescue first responders were subpoenaed over the summer related to the April death of Charles Faggart in the Duval County jail, according to records obtained by @natemonroe.bsky.social + @nicholemanna.bsky.social jaxtrib.org/2025/09/25/f...

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

NEW: The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office will take the lead investigating the death of a 31-year-old father in the Duval County Jail in April, according to State Attorney Melissa Nelson’s office. via @natemonroe.bsky.social + @nicholemanna.bsky.social jaxtrib.org/2025/09/18/f...

This is the pirate guy from Dodgeball during the part of the movie when he gets depressed and stops dressing like a pirate

"Vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives in the last 50 years, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of the lives saved were infants."

Today was a good day. I’m honored to have won @journalists.org award for feature reporting in a small newsroom for my series that dissected and questioned the prosecution used against a man who was sent to Florida’s Death Row 30 years ago. You can read it here: jaxtrib.org/2025/03/17/h...

Big congrats to @jaxtrib.org ’s irreplaceable @nicholemanna.bsky.social for winning first prize for feature reporting in the national @journalists.org awards for her work on ‘Cold-Blooded,’ a project scrutinizing the decades-old Death Row case against a Jacksonville man.

New from @jaxtrib.org | All eyes are on the state’s so-called ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ but ICE’s detention centers in Florida also have big problems: Increased medical emergencies at Krome as immigrant detention swells jaxtrib.org/2025/08/27/i...

. @jaxtrib.org's @nicholemanna.bsky.social is a finalist in feature reporting for her "Cold-Blooded" series. You can read the first story here: jaxtrib.org/2025/03/17/h...

Local authorities have unanimously defended JSO in this case, but that consensus crumbles as soon as you take the facts outside Duval County lines.

“The State Attorney’s Office goes through great lengths in their report to sort of justify the officer’s behavior,” one expert told @nicholemanna.bsky.social. jaxtrib.org/2025/08/20/j...

NEW: The controversial stop of a motorist that went viral in July stemmed in part from JSO's vague use-of-force policy, which gives officers broad discretion to use violence at the first sign of resistance, according to experts jaxtrib.org/2025/08/20/j...

New from @jaxtrib.org | Jacksonville cop should have disclosed hit to driver’s face, experts say The controversial stop stemmed in part from a vague force policy that gives officers discretion to use violence at the first sign of resistance. 📝 @nicholemanna.bsky.social jaxtrib.org/2025/08/20/j...

New from a collaboration between @jaxtrib.org and @climatecentral.org | Extreme Florida heat increasingly dangerous for maternal, infant health jaxtrib.org/2025/08/14/e...

NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social

New @jaxtrib.org | JSO officer in viral stop had third, unspoken reason why he pulled driver over The stop carries the hallmarks of pretextual policing, a known tactic in which cops use minor traffic violations to fish for other crimes 📝 @nicholemanna.bsky.social jaxtrib.org/2025/08/13/j...

New from @jaxtrib.org *and* @tampabaytimes.bsky.social | Last year, anonymous complaints surged at one of Florida Power & Light’s nuclear power plants, prompting federal inspectors to come knocking. Here's what they found: jaxtrib.org/2025/07/31/f...

New from @jaxtrib.org | After video of William McNeil's Jr.'s traffic stop went viral, we pulled more than three years of traffic-stop data. Getting ticketed for no headlights in the rain is exceedingly rare in Jacksonville - but less so if you're Black like McNeil. jaxtrib.org/2025/07/28/b...

An ICE detention facility in Broward County is getting attention... "Besides an overall population increase, lawyers, lawmakers and advocates point to a lack of medical staff and less discretion to release medically vulnerable people as possible reasons for the increase in emergency calls."

New from the @jaxtrib.org | As immigration arrests surge and oversight ebbs, 911 calls at Florida detention center double jaxtrib.org/2025/07/25/a...

Latest: public contracts for Florida’s infamous new detention camp were scrubbed from a state database and replaced with bare-bones summaries. A spokesperson tells me they contained “proprietary information,” but nobody’s really buying that. reason.com/2025/07/22/a...

JWB, one of the largest and most politically connected property management companies in Jacksonville, has settled 2 allegations that it violated the rights of its tenants @jaxtrib.org Mary Beech broke down what that means, going beyond the settlements jaxtrib.org/2025/07/23/i...

State Rep. Anna Eskamani, who visited the detention center and recalled seeing CRS branding attached to staffers’ name tags, said the firm was simply “not qualified” to manage the detention center. “No one knows what’s going on, nobody can answer basic questions.”

NEW: A consulting firm with ties to a prominent Jacksonville business leader landed a $78 million contract to provide services at #alligatoralcatraz via @jaxtrib.org's new immigration reporter @annacat.bsky.social & editor @natemonroe.bsky.social jaxtrib.org/2025/07/16/j...

Oh shit yeah

POLITICO Weekend.

“I think this close relationship with ICE makes everyone afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops and the next begins,” said the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s former ombudsman. With @texastribune.org

This is excellent. newrepublic.com/article/1947...

Give this headline writer a Pulitzer

Bruce Springsteen opened his tour in England with a forceful denunciation of President Trump. “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

New from @jaxtrib.org | One of the nine Duval County jail officers suspended in connection with the death of 31-year-old Charles Faggart was reprimanded last year in an unrelated internal affairs investigation. 📝 @nicholemanna.bsky.social jaxtrib.org/2025/04/22/o...

. @jaxtrib.org is hiring an investigative reporter! Reach out if you are interested and have any questions! jaxtrib.org/about/jobs/

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

New from @jaxtrib.org: The latest Duval jail death is a grim reminder of lingering problems in the aging building 📝 @nicholemanna.bsky.social jaxtrib.org/2025/04/15/d...

He once faced discipline over allegations he punched a 13-year-old. He’s now one of the officers approving felony charges in Chicago’s new bypass program, which allows police to file more charges without a prosecutor’s review. boltsmag.org/cook-co...

The Secretary of the Interior requires his staff to make him cookies and serve him meals. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, @fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

NEW: Three Florida jailhouse informants helped bolster the otherwise “weak” case against Kenneth Hartley. They helped send him to Death Row. Thirty years later, two admitted their testimony was made up. jaxtrib.org/2025/03/17/h...

NEW: George Bateh was good at putting people on Death Row. Whether that was the work of a righteous prosecutor or a sneaky courtroom tactician is a question at the heart of the legacy he left behind after more than 30 years in Duval's state attorney's office jaxtrib.org/2025/03/17/g...

NEW: In 1991, the Duval County jail was a hive of informants, cultivated by prosecutors who went there to seek detainees willing to rat on someone. “The bold informants would talk openly while others would talk in secret,” one former inmate told me. jaxtrib.org/2025/03/17/o...

Coming Tuesday, March 18: ‘Cold-Blooded,’ A Tributary investigation into how a Florida prosecutor fixed a 'weak' case by using a liar and three jailhouse snitches to send a man to Death Row.

Getting the chance to work with @nicholemanna.bsky.social was one of the main reasons I was eager to hop over to @jaxtrib.org. This story will show you why!

My investigation, 'Cold-blooded' comes out this week. s/o to Casey Frank + @natemonroe.bsky.social for helping me get this massive undertaking (which involved digging through > 65,000 pages of documents, tons of calls/door knocks & almost a year of work) across the finish line.

NEW: The US agency tasked with protecting critical infrastructure and businesses from cyberattacks and elections from interference is struggling to do the work after the Trump admin cut 10% of staff. @ericjgeller.com has the scoop for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/inside...