A romping weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
In the small town of St. Helens, Oregon, where the news media is on life support, corruption thrived.
2,500 pages of new documents have finally revealed the clear story of what happened when Brian Greenway came for Halloweentown.
“Injustice Town” depicts the sexual exploitation practiced by Detective Roger Golubski—who helmed the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department’s homicide unit—as central to his corruption, not a by-product of it. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lzmmz4
"In the Baltimore study, a number of women said that they were pressured into sex as a way to avoid arrest; forty-four per cent of them were arrested anyway."
Entire article is horrific & there's this too (I didn't know, probably most people did) "In 2023, the Department of Justice established the first nationwide database documenting instances of police misconduct. On the first day of the second Trump Administration, it was eliminated."
bit.ly/40fbi83
According to a report by the Associated Press, nearly 1,000 police officers in the U.S. lost their licenses as a result of sexual misconduct between 2009 and 2014—a “sure undercount,” the report noted, since nine states didn’t keep relevant records. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AbyKqo
I wrote about a horrific police scandal in Kansas City, Kansas -- detailed in Rick Tulsky's new book, Injustice Town -- and the kinds of law enforcement abuse that don't get enough attention, namely police sexual exploitation
www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
A new book examines the case of a Kansas City, Kansas, detective who sexually exploited Black women—and the system that enabled him. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9onIX6
My driver's ed teacher used to be a prison warden at Chatsworth (...or so he said) & had lots of fun stories, like the one about the time that a guy tried to set Charlie Manson on fire during art class.
Read this
The front page of a newspaper: BIG BEND Sentinel Vol. 93 No. 44 • February 5, 2026 Our 100th Year Marfa, Texas • TWO DOLLARS BORDER WALL TO START CONSTRUCTION
This headline made me cry.
Evidence that mainstream journalism has adapted to the times, exhibit whatever:
An article about TX GOP animus towards Muslims that makes it clear from the top it’s entirely a cynical political project.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
If you're in or near College Station today--go to this!
This is a wonderful post if you are a little high
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
for the weekend crowd: I dug into a new podcast that pins a bunch of notorious murders on a long-dead Jewish man from San Diego. It's the ugliest true crime property in recent memory. [gift link] defector.com/michael-conn...
Immigrant families protest inside Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/i...
Oof this is really well done and incredibly damning
A few families have been duelling for control of Loving County for decades. Then the followers of a hustle-culture influencer moved in. Rachel Monroe reports on the battle for Texas’s least populated county. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/DU7S14
Thank you @rachelmonroe.bsky.social for writing about one of the weirdest Texas dramas.
In 2024, law enforcement in Loving County began receiving tips about “a guy doing online posts who says he’s going to come in and take over the government.” Rachel Monroe reports on the battle for one of the richest and smallest counties in Texas. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/p0FsHY
Because we could all use a little distraction: I wrote about all the drama that's been brewing in Loving County, a land of oilfields and family feuds and, most recently, a takeover attempt by an outside group www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The All-Star Game starters are 20% Ja(y)len, the strategy is correct
I humbly suggest my book from 2019! bookshop.org/p/books/sava...
NEW: The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of business in North Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. @stevanzetti.bsky.social, @wileydcope.bsky.social and I identified the men behind 4 of these companies.
omg yes!!!
(this is Frank Price, a longtime Texas judge who died in 2018)
Free network procedural idea: the judge who is also a close-up magician.
Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.)
Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic.
@burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The Dean “also clarified that faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material or include it on assignments or exam questions.”
And they call this an education?
