Tessera
Folgen

Keri Blakinger

@keribla.bsky.social

Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)

2584 Posts47043 Follower1293 Folgt
Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · 6h ago

The LA Sheriff’s Dept is just so consistently unhinged. If they’re repeatedly putting so much effort into seemingly attempting to frame one of their own sergeants, it really does not inspire confidence in their criminal investigations of civilians www.latimes.com/california/s...

Top commander of elite L.A. County sheriff's unit leaves job amid dishonesty probe

An internal memo reviewed by The Times said Cmdr. Oscar Barragan, who oversaw the special enforcement bureau at the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, was recommended for discharge after violating poli...

latimes.com

St. John Barned-Smith@stjbs.bsky.social · 15h ago

“It’s a war,” he said. “We are Ukraine and she is Russia. There are atrocities on both sides. It’s absurd that this is continuing this far.” My latest -- a truly wild story about a mysterious SF landlord and a 3-year-rent strike www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l...

A mysterious landlord. A tenant revolt. Inside a bizarre, only-in-San Francisco housing battle

After a new San Francisco landlord cut services and threatened evictions, these tenants banded together for a bitter, yearslong housing war with little end in sight.

sfchronicle.com

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 3d ago

VA Gov. Abigail Spanberger just restored voting rights for 66,000 people (!!) with past felony convictions. In November, VA voters will decide whether to change this process so voting rights can be restored automatically, not up to the governor's discretion. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions

The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.

democracydocket.com

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...

propublica.org

Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · 4d ago

i think if both joyce carol oates and susan orlean absolutely panned something i wrote i would literally melt into the floor and perish. would actually prefer to be eaten by cyclops.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d ago

One of the biggest opponents of air conditioning in Texas prisons, as I wrote a few years ago, is now the Mayor of Houston: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

How Houston Mayor John Whitmire kept Texas prisons hot as 'living hell'

"The real solution is don't commit a crime, and you stay at home and be cool."

chron.com

Slate@slate.com · 6d ago

13 percent of deaths in un-air-conditioned Texas prisons between 2001 and 2019, roughly 271 people, were attributable to extreme heat, an average of 14 a year. slate.trib.al/q1sSHua

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · last wk.

fascinating tidbit in this @texasmonthly.bsky.social piece: The ice industry has been impacted by ICE raids because Latino communities buy a ton of ice for social gatherings — gatherings they aren't having because they're worried about being nabbed by ICE. www.texasmonthly.com/culture/bill...

Inside the Billion-Dollar Industry That’s Keeping Your Beer Cold—and Saving Lives

Ice is essential in so many ways. So why does thinking about it give some of us a case of brain freeze?

texasmonthly.com

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · last wk.

The GOP candidate running to represent the congressional district where the Houston ICE shooting happened has "full confidence" in an investigation led by the federal government which has already created false claims that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had illegal drugs in his van

"In an interview this week, Mealer addressed the shooting in detail for the first time, expressing full confidence that ongoing investigations by the Texas Department of Public Safety, FBI and Houston police will produce a “fulsome accounting” of what happened."
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2w ago

i saw One Battle After Another in 70mm IMAX at this theater in Dallas, it was a treat to hear from the projectionist who explained pre-show why the showing was so special: www.texasmonthly.com/culture/texa...

There’s Currently Only One Theater in Texas You Can See ‘The Odyssey’ the Way Nolan Intended

Why is seeing 'The Odyssey' in 70mm film such a big deal? A Cinemark Dallas employee's viral explanation of the format might inspire a hunt for tickets.

texasmonthly.com

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting: DoorDash is supporting the GOP bill in Congress to limit D.C.'s ability to increase or decrease taxes and fees, largely in response to the D.C. Council's recent vote in impose a new 20-cent delivery fee to help fund food-access programs. www.notus.org/metro/uberea...

That Food Delivery Is Soon Going To Cost You a Little More in D.C.

DoorDash unsuccessfully fought a 20-cent fee approved by the D.C. Council that will also affect UberEats deliveries.

notus.org

Pamela Colloff@pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Houston friends! I'll be at Murder By the Book this Thursday night, July 16, with the great @mimiswartz, talking about my new book, CATCH THE DEVIL. Come join us at 6:30 pm! The event is free. Here's a rave review of the book: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...

The Snitch Who Put Four Men on Death Row

In “Catch the Devil,” Pamela Colloff vividly tells the true story of the con man who traded on other prisoners’ “confessions” for clemency.

nytimes.com

Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · 4w ago

Is it standard these days for therapists to record the entirety of zoom therapy sessions? This one asked me to sign a form granting permission for them to *AI TRANSCRIBE* every session which also implies the sessions would be recorded... Is this an outlier or is this standard practice?

Lomi Kriel@lomikriel.bsky.social · 4w ago

The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.

Bild
Lomi Kriel@lomikriel.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sons of man killed by ICE in Houston demand investigation: “My father would have complied." “To have been killed by our own federal government, aided by federal policies that are deliberate choices, just makes me so angry,” another said. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/08/t...