Every Winter Olympics I think of Surya Bonaly. I hope she is thriving.

Ruth Marcus on today's devastating cuts at the Washington Post: "Today, people in war zones are getting e-mails telling them that their positions have been eliminated. And you know what? I bet they’re gonna file stories, because that’s what we do. It’s what we’ve always done."

A beautiful obituary for an outstanding journalist. And this passage is everything: "Talton dreamed long ago of being a history professor. ... [But] an adviser told him that he wrote too clearly to be published academically. A journalism career quickly followed..."

Trump promised "some of the most aggressive housing reform plans" in US history. Six weeks later, none of the policies floated by his administration have gained traction.

I didn't know Dan. But as a @defector.com reader, I felt like I did. More than once, he made my day, including the day he fact-checked quotes in a New Jersey rest stop. defector.com/the-garden-s...

There is nothing weirder than reading your grandpas memoir and running smack into a sentence you could have written about yourself

If you missed @davidmcswane.bsky.social's investigation two years ago, there's no better time than to read it now. Stunning reporting. Stunning writing. It's a story you won't soon forget. @propublica.org

After the flood warnings comes...this

NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots. But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting. What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare. Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:

I hope you’ll check this out. We turned an investigative story about the "digital arrests" sweeping the world’s most populous country and turned it into a web comic that captures the psychological horror for victims. The brilliant Anand RK (anandrk.art) did the illustrations. @bloomberg.com 🎁 link:

Was reading this, fully hooked and immersed into the sheer horror, while constantly thinking 'Wait, why is this so good?! Who did this?' Until I got to the end and saw it was Anand RK, with lettering by @adityab.net and then it just made total sense lmfao. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

11 yrs ago, @themarshallproject.org launched our brand-new website with part 1 of a @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social investigation & our first Life Inside piece, by John J. Lennon. Since then, we've published >2,600 pieces. And still, so much work to do. www.themarshallproject.org/2014/11/15/d...

A pending story about a Philadelphia police officer stood a good chance of getting the Daily News sued, the newspaper's lawyer told Days. Days turned to the reporters. "He said, ‘I trust my reporters, I believe in my reporters, and we’re running with it.'" @wendyruderman.bsky.social

Fellow journalists: Please spread the word about the True Story Award, which is so much more than a journalism contest. It honors journalism’s indispensable role in the world and works to strengthen reporters everywhere. 1/3

In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

When you assume that 1 a.m. call from an international number is spam, then, when the phone rings again, put it on "do not disturb" and go back to sleep.

This remembrance of Susy Carroll, a great investigative journalist, by Lise Olsen, another great investigative journalist, says so much about the people who do this work. I miss Susy, and I'm grateful to Lise for finding such a fitting way to honor her work & memory. @liseolsen.bsky.social @ire.org

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...

Philip Gourevitch looks back on a 9/11 photo taken by Gilles Peress: "We see them standing in that ashen pall, like the last survivors of a lost time..." "There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors." @pgourevitch.bsky.social @newyorker.com

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...

Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Top three stories on @propublica.org right now

“I can see how this looks strange,” Greco's attorney said.

I love reading how writers edit themselves, so to read how E.B. White revised and revised to write this, "a single perfect paragraph," is delightful. (Also? I had no idea that anyone had ever been labeled a "paragrapher.") @nathanheller.bsky.social @newyorker.com link.newyorker.com/view/5be9f03...

Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp

Just folded everything. Kid went to camp with 12 PAIRS of socks. Came home with 3. Not three pairs. Three. Total. 1.5 pairs. But all three mismatched. I almost admire the skill, given that he never does this intentionally. That’s talent. Unmarketable, but a talent.,

Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a few NHL teams are intimately involved in running the youth levels of their sport. In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process. New investigative reporting: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

What would the "exploitation phase" of AI-driven airfare pricing look like? "Taking a relatively simple pricing structure and replacing it with a head-spinningly complex one, featuring many more fare classes with prices that swing wildly from one moment to the next."

"Hiroshima," published in 1946, changed journalism, Jane Mayer writes. It "was a model of what might be called the ethical exposé. It was built on rigorous reporting and meticulously observed details, and, through its quiet, almost affectless voice, the reader became another eyewitness."

Thank you, @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, for making this @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social story a top pick for the week. And congratulations on your 500th edition! (Story by Susan Berfield, @margimurphy.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social)

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

If you hit a paywall, here's a gift link for this @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social story: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem directed FEMA to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself & create a re-branded org. When the memo came back, it proposed 4 possible new names, including ... National Office of Emergency Management, or NOEM. @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social ‪@laurenthal.bsky.social

The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories. First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist: www.propublica.org/article/blac...

Thank you, @lastweektonight.com, for highlighting this @wpln.bsky.social @propublica.org story on tonight's show on juvenile justice. And yes, these children were jailed on a charge that is not an actual charge. That was just one of the ways in which the system broke down. For link to the story ⬇️

From an Oregon State Police email recruiting members for its SWAT unit: “Are you jonesing to fire 40mm less lethal rounds and gas munitions through windows, gables, cameras, and at fleeing suspects?” "Anyone want to shoot some pepperball into vehicles...?" @maxbernstein.bsky.social @oregonian.com

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Weekend read: This business story is a wild ride, featuring an elite hacker consistently underestimated by men; a party-loving day trader with a safe and a karaoke room; and the SEC, which, upon being embarrassed, reassures the public that it knows what it’s doing. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

You will not soon forget this 🔥🔥🔥 story's characters: ▪️Olga Kuprina, an elite hacker consistently underestimated by men ▪️Sungjin Cho, a day trader with a safe and karaoke room ▪️The SEC, in a moment of deep embarrassment And there's no one better to bring them together than @liamvaughan.bsky.social

i watched tom robbins give his goodbye speech at the village voice surrounded by reverent coworkers, and he took a phone call from a source in the middle of it. incredibly rad guy.

So many lessons in this terrific story annotation by @bloomberg.com's Rachel Adams-Heard. One takeaway: keep a running timeline and report things out to the minute. @niemanstoryboard.org @markarms.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social Fola Akinnibi

Susan Brownmiller's work was foundational. In "Unbelievable," my book with T. Christian Miller, we wrote at length about the criminal justice system's history of treating women's reports of rape with knee-jerk skepticism. And we started with an indelible line from Brownmiller.

His work was stunning. For examples, see here... g1.globo.com/pop-arte/not... and here: www.icp.org/browse/archi...

From @bloomberg.com: The Trump Family’s Money-Making Machine ▪️Trump digital trading cards ▪️$TRUMP and $MELANIA ▪️Trump Tower Jeddah ▪️Trump Sneakers ▪️Trump Media & Technology Group And on and on. "No modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House."

Happy publication day (or close enough -- it was yesterday!) to @claudiarowe.bsky.social, whose latest book, "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care," is just out. "An eloquent and compelling call for change," says Booklist.

Today's must-read, featuring incredible reporting by @jasonleopold.bsky.social. His story is wild—and scary as all get-out, if you care about the security of data at just about every federal agency. Then, as a companion piece, read Jason's new FOIA Files, which turns the craziness up to 11.

I have been beckoned. Tell my family I love them.