SCOOP: While OK AG Gentner Drummond has been blustering about retrying Richard Glossip for murder a third time, behind the scenes he long ago -- and in writing -- cut a deal to release Glossip Read the deets here, from me and @lilianasegura.bsky.social : theintercept.com/2025/07/16/r...

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond made a deal in 2023 to release Richard Glossip. Read more @theintercept.com w/ @jordansmith.bsky.social:

SCOOP: While OK AG Gentner Drummond has been blustering about retrying Richard Glossip for murder a third time, behind the scenes he long ago -- and in writing -- cut a deal to release Glossip Read the deets here, from me and @lilianasegura.bsky.social : theintercept.com/2025/07/16/r...

"We don't think he killed anyone. But we can convict him if we pick the right jury."

Surreal day in Oklahoma City. Mere months after AG Gentner Drummond won big at SCOTUS—persuading the justices to vacate Richard Glossip’s conviction due to the lies of the state’s star witness—the AG now seeks a 3rd murder trial (despite having no new evidence). w/ @jordansmith.bsky.social

@lilianasegura.bsky.social and I were in court today where the OK AG's office made clear it is going to retry Richard Glossip for murder -- even though the AG has already said Glossip didn't murder anyone. Our latest here: theintercept.com/2025/06/09/r...

Because of course HHS would have to rely on AI to make its case

Comprehensive list.

Plenty of alarms to raise amid this relentless, terrifying conflagration, but the looming expiration of the ACA tax credits is one that, imo, is not being sounded loud enough

It has become incredibly clear to me that I have vastly underestimated the number of truly terrible people there are in the world

So interesting that I can never get through to an actual person when calling my elected U.S. Senators. Hmmmm.

A fascinating and horrifying article by @jordansmith.bsky.social at @theintercept.com. If there's one thing cops DON'T need, it's another tool to perpetuate racial biases and justify targeting the wrong people.

I smell junk forensics! From the great @jordansmith.bsky.social:

I wrote this and you should read it ... please? It's about a company selling cops on the notion that they can use DNA to tell you what a perpetrator looks like. The problem is that leading scientists say this isn't currently possible. theintercept.com/2025/02/02/f...

Driving across the Florida Panhandle on I-10 is like being JoBeth Williams trying to make it down the hallway in Poltergeist.

I had the most amazing dream the other night wherein the secrets of the universe were revealed to me by a guide named Roberta, a middle-aged woman in a cat sweatshirt

I'm clean like dish detergent 🏄‍♀️

Remind me to tell you about the time I was at SCOTUS to cover an oral argument and the minute I sat down in the courtroom my pants ripped alllll the way up the seam. That was really fun.

I walked into the bathroom this morning to find the room smelled like ... celery. Why does the bathroom smell like celery? Also, I now kinda want some celery, which is odd because I don't think most people, including me, are like, oh, hells yes: CELERY!

New rule for those who do narration for audiobooks (or, really, any audio): No more accents. For real. Cut it out. For starters, you really don't know what the person sounds like and your assumptions are, well, mostly cringe. Relatedly, you're really not very good at them. Please stop.

I love Wang Chung's soundtrack for To Live and Die in LA and I don't care who knows

Oklahoma's AG conceded that constitutional violations tainted Richard Glossip's conviction and that he should be granted a new trial. For SCOTUS, this should be an easy case, and yet ... theintercept.com/2024/10/10/s...

TFW you're looking for something for a story you're working on when you get distracted by something that pops up about the book Tuck Everlasting, which you loved as a kid, but don't remember the plot, so you figure that out then realize you've forgotten what you were searching for in the first place

I am 💯 a fool for Lil Jon's 'Turn Down for What.' That and clothes with sequins. Fun facts.

SCOTUS this week will consider whether a federal non-discrimination law meant to ensure care for all during medical emergencies actually includes pregnant folks. Idaho is like, nah, it don't. I wrote about the law and about what's happening in ID @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2024/04/19/i...

"In the years before Roe fell, near-total bans on abortion had become commonplace...Since the fall of Roe, several states have sought to codify its protections, as Biden said he would do given the chance...But that just reimagines the same inadequate framework." Always read @jordansmith.bsky.social:

That time Mojo Nixon was on Crossfire and argued with Pat Buchanan about censorship and record warning labels

If you're in MO (like me), now is an excellent time to write appropriate electeds re: how compounding a problem like executing people for crimes they can prove they didn't commit is a) fucked up, and b) surely destabilizes/destroys the credibility of the criminal justice system.

A galaxy brain take by the MO AG: we must execute the innocent or else the system that executes the innocent might fall apart.

I had a dream last night that I was inside a forensic DNA mixture trying to deconvolve it. I think I've been reading too many papers about DNA mixtures

I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.

Big news today: StL Co. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is seeking to vacate Marcellus Williams' conviction. The MO AG thinks that revisiting wrongful convictions destabilizes the criminal legal system. So, yeah, expect the state to fight this. theintercept.com/2024/01/29/m...

"We will eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas." -- Greg Abbot, September 2021

Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations is currently ranked #10 on Amazon under the Computer Hacking category, which is pretty good considering I’ve been explicitly recommending people buy it from anywhere but Amazon

The OK DA’s lobby is the engine behind the state’s push to kill Richard Glossip. Since the evidence against him has fallen apart, they've taken to insisting that the AG is an abolitionist squish. He’s not, but if that’s all you have, that’s what you use, I guess theintercept.com/2024/01/25/r...

Crime scene DNA does not match Marcellus Williams, but Gov. Mike Parson says it's time to move on. He's ready to execute Williams and is asking the MO Supreme Court to sign off. My latest at @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2024/01/14/m...

I've done Wordle, Quordle and Murdle today. What am I missing?

The prosecutor didn't strike the potential juror because he was Black! It was because he LOOKED LIKE the Black defendant. And, to boot, he was a USPS employee and we all know what they're like

How two men convicted by a Houston-area prosecutor uncovered the dark secret to her success. Part 2 of a series originally published by our friends @jordansmith.bsky.social and @lilianasegura.bsky.social at @theintercept.com:

Want to know what former prosecutor turned “Cold Justice” star Kelly Siegler says about our series?

Click click click.

very grateful to the Texas Observer for publishing my and @lilianasegura.bsky.social's new investigative series about Kelly Siegler, the former Houston prosecutor turned true-crime reality TV star of "Cold Justice"

In Part 3 of our series @theintercept.com, the informants themselves “spill the beans” on the scheme to gin up evidence to help send Jeff Prible to death row.

Outstanding piece. Could not stop reading. Although this is one reason I'm wary of people who seem way too into true crime. That community valorizes people like Siegler, whose career seems built on prosecutorial misconduct to pad conviction statistics and bolster her own celebrity.