Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
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AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg appears to be on what I would characterize as a crime spree
In 2012, 30 states allowed no-excuse mail-in voting. In 2016, 8 states saw more than a fourth of voters send in their ballots.
Taibbi has either gotten a lot dumber, or he just doesn't give a shit anymore.
This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
It isn't about who is deserving. It's about whether civilized societies permit the the government to carry out premeditated killings (they do not), and whether the government is capable of doing so fairly, justly, and under equal protection of the law (there is zero evidence that it is).
I’ve also noticed lately that YouTube is full of nutty videos narrated by an AI-generated David Attenborough.
we’re bombing iran and destroying the economy to impress greg gutfeld
Hard to stress how important screw worm eradication was for the Texas cattle industry modernization back in the 1960s and 1970s.
Fed. judge grants a PI to block Texas' thug AG Ken Paxton from using civil processes to harass ActBlue in retaliation for supporting James Talarico Senate bid.
Among other things, cites Paxton's "well-known history of filing retaliatory lawsuits."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025
The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died?
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...
You know the tale well
Immigrants imprisoned by the Trump administration-at a privately run, for profit facility-start a hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions
They speak to members of Congress. The rent-a-cops punish them
You’ve heard it before
Except it isn’t Delaney Hall
It’s Adelanto
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
Recently, while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpb...
defector.com
In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui, other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?
#BREAKING Federal prosecutors in Chicago have moved to permanently dismiss charges against two defendants in a fraud case tied to Loretto Hospital in what appears to be a bid to avoid a hearing over prosecutorial misconduct before a grand jury:
Dana Bash: "Sources tell CNN that President Trump is growing more and more furious, especially this week, after he ordered new strikes in Iran. They say he felt both Tehran and the media didn't view US military action as powerful enough, so he ordered another round of strikes yesterday."
New data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas.
This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs.
Video
Today, Boelter pleaded guilty to assassinating two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota *because* federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. Democrats should be roaring over this. The man deserves death by the state.
apnews.com/article/hort...
Aaron Rupar
Jon Seidel
Team Talarico
The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband has pleaded guilty in federal court after prosecutors said they would not seek the death pena...
“I’m not going to wait. I’m not waiting two weeks. No.”
Federal judge in Chicago sets June 17 hearing over alleged grand jury misconduct by prosecutor, with only one way out: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
The Editorial Board
Allegations of improprieties before grand juries first surfaced in the now-tainted Broadview case. The former lead prosecutor in that case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg, also handled the ...
