Top three stories on @propublica.org right now

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...

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 ⬇️

Also?
"...there are people very far from Washington, D.C., who are making decisions that have a dramatic impact on how the White House's immigration policy is carried out on the ground. And I think a lot of these more local decisions get ignored
because they seem routine or boring or small..."

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.

Two of the @nytimes.com top three headlines right now:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

When the first two lines are as great as this...

"I'm not going to lie," Sam Bankman-Fried told me.

This was a lie.

... it's no surprise the next 242 pages fly by.

To understand crypto—or to understand why there is no understanding crypto—you gotta read "Number Go Up," by @zekefaux.bsky.social.

"After President Donald Trump canceled a report on the state of nature in the US, the scientists ... say they’ll continue their work and build on it."

"Many publishers have since stepped forward..."

"Copy editors, artists and others have volunteered to help."
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

For what it's worth, these are the eight non-existent cases the lawyers' AI platform "hallucinated":

Recently finished this book by @ahylton26.bsky.social and can't recommend it enough. Brave, brilliant, illuminating, enraging. An extraordinary work that says so much about where we've been and where we are.

Thank you, @csobelwrites.bsky.social @wsj.com, for including "Scoreboard, Baby" in your five best books on college football.

Quite confident this will be the only time that anything I've written will appear on the same list as a novel by Don DeLillo.

And in this @bloomberg.com story by Olivia Carville on teenagers caught up in sextortion scams, Carville provides a text exchange between a 17-year-old who’s unraveling and a scammer applying unrelenting pressure.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

At year’s end, when thinking of stories that hit me hard, it’s often dialogue I remember most. Two examples from 2024:

In this @propublica.org story, @davidmcswane.bsky.social builds and builds until he confronts a doctor with a question that's chillingly direct.
www.propublica.org/article/thom...

You should always read @jasonleopold.bsky.social, but this week in particular you must read Jason Leopold, because, I mean, just look at this lead. Jason's work is a testament to the power of public records—and to the persistence needed to get them. He's a force of nature.
@bloomberg.com

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