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You can't hide your lying ICE: The covered-up killing of Ruben Ray Martinez
(Note: This article is part of an ongoing series about how the Trump administration has brazenly lied about abuse by immigration officers. You can find links to previous posts below.)
Ruben Ray Martinez was the first person shot and killed...
You can't hide your lying ICE: The shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis
(Note: This article is part of an ongoing series about how the Trump administration has brazenly lied about abuse by immigration officers. You can find links to previous posts below.)
This week Hennepin County Prosecutor Mary Moriarty anno...
Truth, power, and honest journalism
Reporter Dion Lim, speaking at a conference in 2018 (Photo by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)
Over at X, Garry Tan, the president and CEO of the venture capital firm Y Combinator, put up a long post this week touting a new book by San Franci...
A conversation with Dawn Deaner, a public defender running for judge
Photo courtesy of Dawn Deaner
Dawn Deaner led the public defender’s office in Nashville and Davidson County for ten years. She left in 2018 and started the Choosing Justice Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the appointe...
Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit?
Image by Andriy Onufriyenko for Getty
Note: A version of this article was originally published at The Intercept.
You might spend your Saturday mornings sipping coffee, attending your kid’s soccer game, or just recovering from a tou...
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