CiCi and Will Steward's beloved daughter, Cile, died at Camp Mystic. Since then, they say, the camp has ignored them and failed to acknowledge their devastating loss despite newly-announced plans to reopen next summer. My latest for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.

"Though I didn’t know it at the time, I would soon learn that there was something about Jason’s case that transcended the lurid intrigue that tends to drive interest in viral crimes." —Peter Holley for @texasmonthly.bsky.social‬ www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/j...

My latest story is about Jason Landry, who vanished after striping naked and walking into the Texas wilderness. What I found was a world unto itself –– w/a mysterious figure at the center who seemed to know more about Jason’s disappearance than anyone else. www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/j...

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... “I knew buying a Cybertruck would turn heads, but I never expected it to turn people against me.” At the Cybertruck Rodeo, in Texas, Cybertruck owners said they’re confused the public doesn’t separate Elon Musk’s divisive politics from his company’s products.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

My first opinion piece for @washingtonpost.com is about the performative absurdity of moving Facebook's safety and content moderations teams to Texas of all places––a place that is waging war of free expression. "This is pandering,” as one expert told me. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The California wildfires have created chaos for the dogs, cats and other animals that consider Los Angeles home. While some owners fled with their pets in tow, animal shelters in the Los Angeles area are straining to care for the hundreds of animals that were left behind.

What a phenomenal and terrifying piece of journalism.

Texas--with one of the country's strictest abortion bans, highest maternal mortality rates, and the most women without health insurance--faces an "epidemic" of abandoned babies, some being found in ditches and dumpsters wapo.st/3ZXDbks

“Can the C.E.O. class drop its indifference to the suffering and death of ordinary people? Is it possible to do so while achieving record quarterly profits for your stakeholders, in perpetuity?” Jia Tolentino writes about Brian Thompson’s murder.