NEW: @makenakelly.bsky.social reports it like it is www.wired.com/story/brenda...

News: The North Carolina Parole Commission has settled a lawsuit brought by Bret Abrams, incarcerated for more than 42 years for a crime he committed at age 14. A judge has acknowledged that "worryingly, incorrect information was included" in Abrams' parole reviews. 1/2 www.wfae.org/crime-justic...

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

Begging journalists not to report on crime trends like this. DC crime was already falling relative to 2024 prior to the federal intervention, so it comes as no surprise that it was also down during this stretch.

On President Trump’s orders, thousands of local police, federal agents and troops have fanned out across the nation’s capital making arrests. But the 1,273 arrest records reviewed by The Post offer an up-close look at how the police surge has played out.

Exclusive: The Trump administration has drafted a proposal to activate 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to serve in a law enforcement mission in the state’s “urban centers.”

Oh, this is REALLY important for thinking abt how the surge affected crime. There was a great paper recently abt Covid, using cellphone data to show that while crime PER CAPITA dropped in 2020, things were less rosy for, say, robbery when looking at crime PER PERSON-HOUR OUTSIDE.

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Exclusive: The Trump administration plans to reopen several prisons and detention centers that were closed over concerns about violence, medical neglect and systemic understaffing, as part of the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history.

My next book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, comes out in one month from Bloomsbury. It's about the rise of the tech right, crypto corruption, the 2024 election, and Silicon Valley complicity in MAGA authoritarianism. linktr.ee/gildedrage

Per @lauranahmias.bsky.social, Adams is set to announce he's staying in the mayoral race, after speculation he was negotiating a position in the Trump administration in order to clear a path for Cuomo www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

NOW: DC is suing President Donald Trump over his deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to the nation’s capital, escalating local opposition to the administration’s moves to exert more control over the city’s day-to-day affairs. More to come. Complaint: buff.ly/Y45cIaM

This strike is outright murder even if you accept all the legal arguments the Obama admin made in support of its drone strikes, which you shouldn’t. www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...

Inbox: The city Correction Department just announced another death on Rikers Island, the 12 this year and third over the past week. The judge overseeing the department is currently looking over candidates for a “remediation manager” role. She’s taken the entire summer and no deadline on the books.

fondly remembering the time when Bari Weiss cited a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" in The New York Times puck.news/david-elliso...

SCOOP, with Nick Reisman and Emily Ngo: Eric Adams has been offered a position at the HUD, according to a person with direct knowledge of the offer. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“.. a way to clear the field in November’s mayoral election and damage the chances of the Democratic front-runner, Zohran Mamdani ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the conviction of the more than 1000, mostly Black, men sentenced by split juries — even though the Supreme Court ruled that those convictions are based on an inherently racist law

Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun. Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.

New: the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi are sending National Guard troops to D.C. as crime remains high in their states, solve rates for crime stay low, and the Trump administration makes massive cuts to crime fighting capacity and services for victims. 1/5 veritenews.org/2025/09/03/t...

La. and Miss. governors send National Guard to D.C. as their states suffer high crime rates, cuts to crime fighting capacity Louisiana and Mississippi have sent over 300 National Guard to Washington, D.C., but both states have higher crime rates.

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

With cash bail in the news because of Trump's new executive order, a reminder: Maryland, a state run by Democrats, made a halfhearted attempt at bail reform that totally backfired and resulted in MORE people being held in jail before trial. My story from last year: baltimorebeat.com/after-bail-r...

used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

1. Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that non-unanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — tough-on-crime leaders in the state have ensured that doesn’t change anything. 🧵 veritenews.org/2025/08/25/l...

This is local law enforcement. Twice this morning, Hakeem Jeffries implored Democrats to "support local law enforcement."

Of course Netflix waited until Chicago newspapers cut all their film critics in order to drop their incurious Jussie Smollett doc. But I'm still here to write about it! www.avclub.com/the-truth-ab...

It's not the first time. Porn sites were forced to block themselves in Texas more than a year ago. Red states are ridding themselves of websites they don't like. The blocking of Bluesky today is why we said the blocking of porn sites a year ago was so important — whether you watch porn or not.

UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

Jessica Tisch’s screed against Raise the Age includes some commentary on drill that echoes the mayor’s own apparent fixation nypost.com/2025/08/16/o...

(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

NEWS: Carlos Baker, the Chicago police officer who shot and killed his partner Krystal Rivera during a foot pursuit earlier this year, allegedly attacked a female officer late Sunday at a bar in Wicker Park. tinyurl.com/2rdx49ms

"During a 2018 visit, Ratcliff said, she found Parker lying in his bed, his face surrounded by flies. The nurses did nothing and refused to let her help him, she said. Unable to swat the flies as they buzzed about, Parker did the only thing he could to bring himself some relief: He ate them."

The Parole Board (which took the time to directly address those viewing on YouTube to explain "medical furlough") just granted relief to Kentrell Parker. You can read about his extraordinary story here: lailluminator.com/2024/03/30/l...

“Every few weeks, I drive about four hours to a prison in upstate New York. Then, using my lights and camera, I try to break someone out,” says the filmmaker Matt Nadel, who produces short films about incarcerated people in New York.

News: The Garrison Project will fold its operations into @deepsouthtoday.org, a nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today and Verite News. Enormous thanks to all of my reporters and a 🧵of some of their stories. 1/8 deepsouthtoday.org/2025/08/12/t...

Very excited to announce that The Garrison Project, an award-winning investigative reporting initiative that explores criminal justice issues, is folding its operations into @deepsouthtoday.org. deepsouthtoday.org/2025/08/12/t...

Did the legal realists foresee Dobbs? Or the presidential immunity decision? Or the book-ban affirmation? Or SCOTUS' refusal to enforce Congressional spending prerogatives? When will all this realism begin to influence ... you know ... reality?

This line by Klein, unsurprisingly, really gnawed at me. So a few months back I wrote a rebuttal to it @newrepublic.com. The tl;dr: Klein is right that we cannot fact-check our way out of vibes on crime ... bc media and podcasters (like him!) keep the general public afraid of it!

Publishers Weekly gave GILDED RAGE a starred review: "an ominous window into the extremism, accelerationism, and “fusion of corporate and state power” at the highest levels of U.S. politics." www.publishersweekly.com/9781399419987

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

As a media witness to the last two executions, Tuesday's was different. Whether it was the Pentobarbitol causing pulmonary edema or the defibrillator that courts ruled did not have to be turned off, Byron Black was in obvious pain. “Oh, it’s hurting so bad,” he said minutes before dying.

1—In 2021, Jefferson Parish Deputy Julio Alvarado was caught on video dragging Shantel Arnold, a Black woman, by her hair and slamming her head into the ground. Four years later, that incident has resulted in a $300,000 settlement and a new police accountability law. THREAD