56 weeks ago today, Russia wrongly detained my friend and The Wall Street Journal colleague Evan Gershkovich for being nothing more than a journalist (and great one at that).

Hope lives on. The fight to free Evan lives on. And it will continue until he is back with us. #FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan

The Tortured Journalists Department:

-Election Night
-My Editor Only Cuts His Favorite Lines
-Who’s Afraid of My Little Old FOIA request?
-I Can Do It With a Broken Dataset
-I Can Make This Deadline (No Really I Can)
-I Hate It Here
-I Look in Public Records
-The Google Doc

Do not cite the deep magic to me. I was there when it was written.

people with journalism degrees are the real tortured poets

Being in journalism:

Please check out Peter Gill's frankly disturbing reporting on how Columbus Division of Police may have potentially failed to investigate key aspects of off-duty CPD officer Demetris Ortega's fatal hit-skip crash of a Somali woman in 2022:

dispatch.com/story/news/cri…

it’s essentially piano man for people who can’t afford to buy a house

OH-09 will be one of the most competitive congressional races in the country.

Karissa Waddick, Margie Cullen and I looked at how that seat and two others could inform Biden's fight to win back blue-collar voters. dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

Not to brag, but I once interviewed the Pumpkin Man.

She’s about to control the railways

Planter’s Peanuts 🥜
Columbus, OH

FirstEnergy gave $1M donation through dark money group to back Jon Husted, records show cincinnati.com/story/news/pol… via @enquirer

I got assigned to take photos out at Indian Lake for the eclipse. My mom texted our family group chat saying she was here, too!

2/2 on eclipse chasing with my mom 🌙

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If there's one thing I love, it's finding ways to write about history.

This story has everything: early American newspaper clippings, superstitions, mystery, and sticking it to William Henry Harrison.

Enjoy my latest #Eclipse2024 story ⤵️
dispatch.com/story/news/loc…

me: oooohhh i'm so unhinged. i'm unhingedmaxing.

random person writing into dear abby:

Bill Nye for Time Out

At this very moment:

The minimum ticket price on StubHub to get into the Men’s Final Four: $571

The minimum ticket price on StubHub to get into the Women’s Final Four: $970