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Crusty old Silicon Valley-based investigative reporter. Judicial branch, criminal justice, civil and family law, government accountability, FOIA, public records law, government transparency. Member IRE, SPJ, ONA.
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@joshtpm.bsky.social Next up: VA and public hospitals converted to Soylent Green-style assisted death factories. They’ll have Orwellian names like “Death with Dignity Center.” Orderly opening shiny stainless steel door “Right this way my friend … “

@driftglass.bsky.social Looking forward to the verdict on this. 🤷‍♂️

“Trade” “Deficits” explainer for the dense:

i want to make a t shirt out of “everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”

Pete Hegseth’s attempt to explain his leak is laughable. This parody is the best thing you’ll see all week! 🤭✌🏼🩷 Thanks to Day from TikTok

So smart www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

👀 oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

🎯 Shockingly spot-on. The last 10+ years have shown us that many of the rich are just entirely detached from the real world, and form self-serving belief systems based on that detachment. They live in bubbles apart from the rest of us. They are … CLUELESS.

Gift article, no firewall.

It's #SunshineWeek, a time to celebrate freedom of information and the public's right to know! To recognize the occasion, here's a thread of RCFP resources to help journalists and others access public information 👇

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

🎯 Wisdom

Today’s truth:

Is there a right to defy a U.S. court order provided one does so outside the bounds of the U.S.? No, says equity whiz Samuel Bray, who’s exactly the person I was hoping would weigh in on the legalities. He says it’s straight contempt.

So good that it must be shared🙏🇨🇦🙌 vimeo.com/1056619122

⚡️Journalist Viktoria Roshchyna receives posthumous human rights award. Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, received the award for her "work dedicated to portraying issues threatening the democratic order of Ukraine, which she did not compromise on, even at the risk of her personal safety."

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

USAID cuts have impacted hundreds of outlets in places where public interest journalism is chronically underfunded and often under attack.