"How Her Fight to Free the Innocent Shaped This Attorney’s Murder Mystery Novel": innocenceproject.org/news/how-her-f…

A lot of these early defamation cases brought by women for reputational damages are American, including precedent setting slander law in New Jersey, New York & North Carolina. Who knew?! Fascinating and very relevant to today’s climate.

ISO of Valentine's Day reading? Check out "Swanna in Love." "For a deep exhumation and inventory of our romantic escapades, it may be a helpful exercise to analyze our first love as a key to life-long sexual and romantic patterns." via BeautyNewsNYCOfficial beautynewsnycofficial.com/city-pulse/art…

“The podcasts are willing to go above + beyond for us,” says PR whiz Juda Engelmayer, who reps Harvey Weinstein. “If we have a counter-narrative that in some way makes the prosecution look like they have been faulty, a lot of media won’t run it.”hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit… via @thr

Powerful weekend in play w💘 leading into Year of the Iron Horse and Mahashivaratri.

If Nancy Guthrie is alive, whoever took her knew bout meds, got script or has access to pills. But then no need to break in. Vulnerable person especially cruel if she was targeted, not robbery gone awry. Staging seems far fetched, but who knows. Like everyone else, I am hoping

‘Domestic violence suicides are already growing at such a rate that a woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner.’ theguardian.com/society/2026/f…

The only hope in this world right now relies on the ex wives of billionaires.

Many people have asked about Gisele’s relationship with her daughter Caroline. Our interview gives the most up to date account of their complicated relationship. (More) nytimes.com/2026/02/13/mag…

These are just some of the books Republicans have banned in school and public libraries around the country. Who's read any of these ??

My latest, with ProPublica + NYT Magazine: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? propublica.org/article/oklaho…

Answers split right down the middle. Real interesting thread.

Scott Stringer is worried that the brand of liberalism he long identified with — pro-civil rights and progressive, but also pro-Israel and business friendly — was at risk of dying out without “a tactical political awakening.” Why is being Pro Israel aligned with progressive

No mention of this as an excuse or explanation for murder, but rejection is cited over and over as the “reason” for many men killing partners who leave- or threaten to. Big problems with this focus on women as sufferers apple.news/AOHML-gtTSeqVS…