This story only gets wilder -- update is coming

*Today* at noon ET, I’m moderating this forum with an amazing panel of experts and advocates. Registration info is below - hope you can join us 😀 Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Sozosei Foundation

New from me: My December The Atlantic piece about a brutal miscarriage of justice in Hawaii now has a stunning coda that you simply won’t believe (or at least I didn’t)

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Our Literary Thursdays series continues with Bob Kolker, author of "Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family." Join us on September 5 at 6PM! queenslibrary.org/calendar/liter…

LM Live's first event of the season will peek into the journalism behind film and TV hits like "Hustlers" and "Inventing Anna." with Bob Kolker & Jessica Pressler twn.nyc/blog090924

Most of the reporting on scam compounds--where thousands of people are trafficked to run crypto scams--wouldn't have happened without Mech Dara. He should win journalism prizes. Instead he's imprisoned in Cambodia on bogus charges. Free Dara! Reporting is not a crime!

The Letter to the Editor that the Baltimore Sun won't publish:

Lawrence O’Donnell “The most important thing to know about Robert Kennedy Jr. Is that there are probably people dead tonight because of him. Thousands of people who followed his medical advise on vaccines in the middle of a deadly pandemic.”

As people continue to leave Twitter I wanted to tell the story of when I was 16, a junior in high school and on the swim team (though, I had frozen with such anxiety that I didn’t compete only trained with my friends) My brother had been a championship diver and swimmer, coach

that tyson / paul fight was like watching my peers date 27 y/olds

The suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings has been charged in the death of a seventh woman, new indictment says cnn.it/3BuAsHd

NEW, from me: Shaken baby syndrome--a diagnosis that has resulted in wrongful convictions across the country--continues to shape criminal prosecutions and child welfare investigations, under the name "abusive head trauma." What happened to one family: propublica.org/article/shaken…

I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Infuriating to see Miriam Restaurant — one of my absolute favorites — vandalized (again) overnight with antisemitic graffiti. Miriam serves and welcomes everyone, regardless of religion or politics, and doesn’t bring either into the restaurant. They serve delicious Israeli

We’re thrilled to announce that Kirsten Danis is our new Investigations editor. nytco.com/press/kirsten-…

Inside the 30 year hunt for a serial killer who targeted sex workers. From Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus comes Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, premiering March 31

Netflix has shared the first trailer for Gone Girls, the upcoming docuseries about the Long Island Serial Killer. Watch: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…

Looking forward to this! Please join us.

T-minus 26 days before my memoir, "An Exercise in Uncertainty," is published. Learn more about it (and please pre-order!) here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760582/a…