The most disruptive thing a brand can do is be human - DesignObserver Creative director Kim Devall argues that in an era of automation, human craft, taste, and imperfection remain a brand’s most disruptive advantage.

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How Vince Gilligan designed 'Pluribus' to destroy every sci-fi trope Gilligan and his crew gave us an inside look at how they built 'Pluribus' into a happy-ish apocalypse.

What a wonderful piece exploring the sci-fi genre, its troupes and the power of distilling until the storytelling gets you face to face with being human. www.fastcompany.com/91464601/how...

How We Told the Story of Criminal Justice Through Visuals in 2025 Through evocative illustrations and photography, we tackled themes of deplorable prison conditions, healing after gun violence and deaths in custody.

In 2025, through evocative illustrations and photography, The Marshall Project’s visual storytelling tackled themes of deplorable jail conditions, judicial power, the racist origins of the juvenile justice system, love behind bars, deaths in custody and healing after gun violence.

Trump’s Union Order Endangers Federal Prison Officers, Labor Leaders Say Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis.

Many federal prison workers voted for Trump three times. Now he wants to gut their union.

“We were voting on the fact that he was going to back law enforcement”

@journo-beth.bsky.social & Christie Thompson @themarshallproject.org

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

How Journalists Can Investigate Deaths in Prisons and Jails When you get a tip about a death or multiple deaths in your local jail or prison, there are concrete steps you can take to start investigating.

Great journalism resource that I wish we didn't need from The Marshall Project.

Covering incarcerated populations is hard and will become even harder as the privatization of prisons increases under the Trump Administration.

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

for the @inquirer.com, I wrote about the importance of a free press to democracy and how it's not just investigation, scandals, & poll-driven predicting. Authoritarians don't care about scandals. We need to focus on bearing witness, humanizing, and contextualizing.

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