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If anyone knows of files that have been withheld by the DOJ please reach out to me via email jbrown@miamiherald.com or Signal @jkbjournalist.25

Someone please make Moneyball 2: WNBA labor negotiations, starring Meryl Streep as Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin, and take my money.

Shout it from the rooftops!!! Research is thinking. Outlining is thinking. Writing is thinking. Any portion of that done by AI is less thinking done by you.

Depressing to come on here & see pro writers/journalists talk about using AI to "streamline" the process of writing. Really shows how many players have no love for the game. The process is the whole point! Trying to figure it out, & then figuring it out, is why you write!

I didn’t go to college, but I did once unexpectedly end up at Princeton University’s “reunions weekend.” The way they do it, every 5th year class has their reunion on campus at the same time. So every year, on one weekend, the Princeton campus will be filled with people celebrating their 5th, 10th, 15th, and so on class reunions— all the way up until there’s nobody alive anymore. The beginning of reunions weekend kicks off with a parade! It is a parade of the Princeton graduates: featuring themselves, in honor of themselves, for… themselves. It works like this: all the graduates pack the sidewalks of the parade route, but ordered by graduation year. The recent graduates are standing at the end of the route, and the oldest graduates are at the beginning. Then, the parade begins. The oldest living graduate steps off the sidewalk and leads the parade. When everyone older than you has gone by, you step into the street and become the parade. Until you become part of the parade, you’re cheering the parade. You cheer and witness everyone before you, and then you are cheered and witnessed by everyone after you. It is a bizarre ritual. To see it, though, is like seeing the entire fossil record of Princeton graduates. The person leading the parade — the oldest living graduate in that cohort — is a white guy. And then, for a reallllly lonnnnnng time, it’s just white guys! After 30 minutes… a woman! A white woman. With people in the parade maybe holding signs like “first coed graduating class!” And then another 30 minutes of slowly, incrementally, more white women in the parade. And then… the first black man! Another 30 minutes of slowly, incrementally, more black men. And so on. By the end — the most recent class — is the exact opposite of the beginning. A mix of everyone you can think of. For some reason that parade really stuck with me. It’s simultaneously a representation of how much the world has changed, but also a representation of how many “minutes of parade” are still walking around having lived and ended up where they are under very different circumstances.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 propublica.org/article/trump…

I used to cover pediatrics and this admission is wild. Case reports are considered the lowest form of evidence. Nothing like a randomized controlled study that’s much bigger but still to completely make them up? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Just a stunning, horrifying—and riveting—piece of reporting and writing by Rachel Aviv. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Family relationships can be tough and @jonathanihirsch, host of the #1 hit Dear Franklin Jones podcast, has quite a story to tell about his own. His audio memoir poses the question: What do we owe each other as family? Grab your copy of The Mind is Burning now: bit.ly/43fWZ4g

What we learned today is that the FBI can retrieve footage from any camera at your house at any time even if they were not set to record and even if you do not have a subscription

twas the night before the cottage

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

“If you want to be a story editor, don’t just listen to podcasts. Deconstruct them,” wrote @cslwrites in her Transom manifesto about becoming an editor. She continues, “Listening widely strengthened my editorial judgment.” Read more here: transom.org/2021/how-to-buil…

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Man is this true.