Kind: Reads

. . . and the need for a binding Supreme Court ethics code.

Mass shootings are happening with a frequency that numbs, but Republicans are working to loosen, not tighten, gun restrictions.

NPR now labeled "Government Funded" despite getting under 1% of funds from US.

Twitter vs Substack, an Explainer

Substack CEO Chris Best fires back at Elon Musk claiming the company violated Twitter’s terms of service.

Matt Taibbi says he’s leaving Twitter following the social media platform’s fight with Substack that lead it to ban users from liking or retweeting posts from the platform, as well as ones that link to it.

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

Substack users are currently unable to embed tweets into their stories. That’s just the tip of the iceberg for the problems being caused by Twitter’s API changes.

How to stop worrying about Alvin Bragg and learn to love the legal system.

A Maryland investigation into Baltimore's Catholic Church discovered a yearslong cover-up of the sexual abuse of more than 600 children. “We will do everything we can to bring those abusers and those who enabled them to justice,” said State Attorney General Anthony Brown. WBAL’s David Collins reports.

Jordan Hamlett is still putting his life back together—and has an eye on how much more gently Trump is being treated.

Plus: Overlearning the lessons of history

Plus: the GOP loses Wisconsin

Happy Arraignment Eve.

As Trump faces criminal charges, a look back at the last law enforcement action against him that was supposedly going to cause terrible things, but didn't

The former president and his minions are endangering a judge’s family.

He was forced to return to the island that rejected him—not in triumph, but in disgrace.

Twitter failed to scare legacy verified accounts into paying for Twitter Blue by Matt Binder

These bleak numbers might be why Twitter checkmarks were merged.

NPR Was Twitter’s Example Of What Should NOT Be Labeled ‘State-Affiliated Media.’ Then Musk Added The Label And Retconned The Policy by Mike Masnick

For years I’ve joked that everyone who hasn’t thought about trust & safety thinks that it’s easy: just do what I would do. The assumption is that there’s a “right” set of ways to handle these questions, when the reality is that there’s a very broad set of unclear areas, where there are reasonable arguments […]