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“…there was something inherently pure about the city of Brotherly Love holding line on the Al Gore-era of the Internet vibes.”
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We’ve reviewed hundreds of court dockets this week to find news stories that went unreported. Please don’t also make us write a clever social media post to get you to read it.
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The benefit of having your own news site is you can publish reporting pieces that go deep and wonky on seemingly esoteric topics quietly bubbling in the background and then wait a few months till it becomes not an esoteric topic for larger media outlets and the public at large.
“The past year of denaturalization cases has proven that the legal process is viable, the law enforcement tool is available, but how it’s wielded is simply subject to the policy whims of whatever political party holds office.”
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“The current state of journalism in this country is perfectly reflected by the fact that no one in the fourth estate has noticed this opinion.”
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“The current state of journalism in this country is perfectly reflected by the fact that no one in the fourth estate has noticed this opinion.”
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New - The DNC has filed a lawsuit challenging the new mail in voting executive order.
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This is the story of deception, shady online figures, sensitive U.S. government contracts, and a 600 million dollar heist.
New The Rabbit Hole piece by @pwbeck.bsky.social
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“We’re not really sure how to feel about our first piece of reporting that ended up in a federal appellate court being about a children’s online video game.”
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We temporarily dropped the paywall this morning to bring you a story about a rising number of mass shootings can be traced back to a young and violent online community obsessed with death
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feds charged a Raleigh teen with communicating a threat. The complaint "outlines the story of a young man accused of being engrossed in neo-nazi, mass shooter glorification, and nihilistic culture." from @courtwatch.bsky.social
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“We shouldn’t be the only ones with bloodshot eyes and a nagging sense of impending doom about Gen Z.”
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Scooplet: Authorities have arrested an Ohio man, Wyatt Brzoski, accused of threatening numerous people, advocating for a Christchurch shooter, and staking out a mosque in Ohio in tactical gear
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In this week’s The Rabbit Hole, we look at past activities by the Iranian government and its intersection with the U.S. criminal justice system to understand how a wounded but still deadly regime may try to respond within America.
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We train thousands of journalists a year on PACER. For the public, we’re showing our tricks for finding stories in the federal courts to the next 100 new paid subscribers between now and Friday evening.
Take advantage of the limited time offer here.
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Undercover informants. A crime lab. Operations like Middleman, Chameleon & Long Tailed Liberation.
For more than a century, one law has protected all of god's little creatures
Our Sunday story on the most important conservation act you've never heard of
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Come for the legal writing smackdown, stay for the music recommendations. Never heard of Nathan Evans Fox before this morning and now I have his song stuck in my head. It’s a cousin song to Childer’s “Bitin’ List”
Try as we might, we don’t think we’d ever reach the level of petty disdain that is oozing from these footnotes in this judge’s opinion.
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In this week’s The Rabbit Hole, reporter Peter Beck takes a look at how the distance between cutting-edge technology and decades-old criminal statutes is impacting our ability to protect the most vulnerable of society.
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