JTM: ProPublica is hiring a reporter to cover the South. Position is based in Atlanta, unless the right remote candidate elsewhere in the region comes along: aajacareers.org/display-job/97…

🎙️Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad: Alicia Montgomery, Slate's head of audio and a longtime NPR producer, on the converging-diverging words of public and for-profit media. Slate, a digital news OG, just had its most profitable year on record.
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Don't miss our Amicus Live show in DC Sixth & I on May 14th feat an all-star guest lineup of Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_), Madiba Dennie (@AudreLawdAMercy), HI Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, Dahlia Lithwick & Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC)

More info & tix
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Cigna Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly, Says Former Cigna Medical Director propublica.org/article/cigna-…

This is the true story. Of 50 GEN Z teen girls. Asked to live together. And have their lives taped. Find out what happens, as they compete for cash and prestige, and wonder… is it all rigged against them? First 2 eps of THE COMPETITION PODCAST out today!🥇shorturl.at/ruDPZ

Interviews and unearthed documents reveal that Clarence Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees. propublica.org/article/claren…

Everyone needs to read this to understand how thoroughly WAMU 88.5’s leadership has decimated the region’s flagship public radio station. It’s tragic. Worse yet, it didn’t have to be this way.

Ten years after launching the podcast ‘Death, Sex & Money,’ Anna Sale is still getting people to open up to her and dish about life’s most uncomfortable subjects. trib.al/WJUKCnF

This week's Working features a lovely ohitsBigRon interview with Anna Sale. A masterclass on asking tough questions, gently. slate.com/podcasts/worki…

Are Arabs in Michigan really prepared to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump? In a word: yes.

My latest in Slate:
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“Do not let corporate values determine how you spend your days and what your priorities are… Reclaim your time and reclaim your humanity.”

I, too, have, asked the White House directly about the use of police force on campus, and have not received any comment about that.

The single most jarring thing I’ve learned from social media time and time again is that so many people *sincerely* cannot imagine that anyone would simply care about other humans

The law alone won’t stop Trump. w/ Dahlia Lithwick bit.ly/3TQgZDY

“NPR has been both a beacon of thoughtful, engaging, and fair journalism for decades, and a rickety organizational sh*t show for almost as long.” w/ Alicia Montgomery
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Charges dropped against all 57 arrested in connection to UT-Austin pro-Palestinian protest statesman.com/story/news/loc…

A periodic reminder to be skeptical if someone tells you a simple narrative about how border crossings are up or down bc of X. Is their evidence merely correlative? What motivations may they have to push the narrative? Any factors they may be leaving out, intentionally or not?

The scales fall off our eyes. But there are more scales underneath somehow? With Mark Joseph Stern on SCOTUS immunity argument

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Just a reminder that Slate gives funny, insightful, & thoughtful advice on just about anything you could imagine—nothing too tame or wild for our eyes (and venting through a letter can be very therapeutic 😌): slate.com/human-interest…

Doctors who perform life-saving abortions may soon be required to document whether they first tried to transfer the patient to another facility to avoid terminating the pregnancy, a move some say goes beyond the language of the law. bit.ly/4aQtLvu