"The legislation comes two years after an investigation by Business Insider's Matt Drange detailed evidence of decades of sexual abuse at Rosemead High School, which is located in Sen. Pérez's district." businessinsider.com/california-ena…

Meet Kyle Wool, the banker behind the Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s quick Wall Street scores (gift link to follow) Annie Massa bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Bay Area folks: I'll be interviewing the great Shoshana Walter ✏️ at the Oakland library Wednesday evening about her remarkable new book, "Rehab: An American Scandal." Come say hi and get your signed copy! oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68635de…

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter (Shoshana Walter ✏️) will be joined by journalist Matt Drange (Matt Drange) to discuss her book, "Rehab: An American Scandal." oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68635de…

It's crazy how much Ohtani has impacted the playoffs the past week despite looking *terrible* at the plate. Intentionally walking him has consistently backfired. Mookie Betts 👑 #GoBlue #NLCS

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from Matt Burgess and Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time wired.com/story/satellit…

Incredible reporting from Lighthouse, Mother Jones, and an international consortium of journalists into how a single company in Indonesia is able to track people worldwide through a vulnerability in the mobile phone system. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

my latest investigation for Consumer Reports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !

"Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway." x.com/michaelgartlan…

"Reported San Francisco crime, which was already low, is down nearly a third. Homicides are (on track to be at their lowest level in decades). Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer." Joe Eskenazi missionlocal.org/2025/10/marc-b…

Today, a yearlong investigation from the The Capital Times: Hundreds of Wisconsin teachers, administrators, substitutes and aides have been investigated for sexual misconduct and grooming students. State education officials have kept the public in the dark. captimes.com/news/education…

IMPACT: Gavin Newsom has signed a law barring the deals that have for years buried police misconduct across California — a law spurred by the Chronicle and UC Berkeley IRP investigation "Right to Remain Secret" by Katey Rusch and Casey Smith sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

"Attempts to clarify these inconsistencies with district employees were met with unanswered calls, wrong numbers, and voicemails." Dial Tones and Disengagement: A student election marked by silence peraltacitizen.com/2025/10/16/dia…

Following yesterday's report via The Capital Times, a Wisconsin lawmaker is already drafting a bill aimed at prohibiting educators being investigated by the DPI for sexual misconduct from surrendering their teaching license to avoid further investigation captimes.com/news/cap-times…

For the NYT, I wrote about Trump's crypto interests and the unprecedented form of corruption they enable. nytimes.com/2025/10/17/opi…

Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 back, but a few stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT. Link in the reply: wired.com/story/ftc-comp…

Out today, part 2 of the The Capital Times reporting on educator sexual misconduct and grooming in Wisconsin This time with a focus on school districts wanting thousands of dollars to provide staff investigation records Spoiler: the highest quote was $245,000 captimes.com/news/education…

"We need to have accountability, here. We cannot continue operating in the same way." California Senator Sasha Pérez discusses changes coming to how the state + school districts combat educator sexual misconduct after her bill was recently signed into law:cbsnews.com/losangeles/vid…

Congratulations to the recipients of the Student Press Law Center's FOI award! The nominations were incredibly competitive this year. If you want to be encouraged about the future of journalism, look no further than the stellar reporting recognized here: splc.org/2025/10/michig…

In the past year, the Secretary of State and bipartisan senators called on the Trump administration to tighten sanctions on Dodik. Today, the opposite happened with no explanation. Latest from Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project occrp.org/en/news/us-lif…