John Emerson

One of the most horrific and heartbreaking of our investigations: hospital by hospital in Gaza targeted, put under siege, invaded…mass graves of patients, children and medical staff desparately dug in courtyards. A step by step recon. of this systematic and widespread crime.

Writers, and I cannot emphasise this enough, FINISH THE DRAFT. It is only when you have a complete draft that it can later be posthumously published by your friend and literary executor, possibly in direct contravention of your own express wishes

“Pedestrian deaths will have increased for the 12th consecutive year, nearly doubling from 4,302 in 2010 to an estimated 8,126—the highest number in more than 40 years.” prospect.org/infrastructure…

This afternoon I created a tool to automatically email myself when I have an overdue records request. When I'm done making it better I plan to roll it out for anyone else to use for free #FOIAFriday

“Moving on” - These were all published in the last week.

BREAKING: A judge has signed off on our agreement with LA County, which holds them accountable to improving conditions inside LA County jails. This is a huge win for the rights of incarcerated people held in the biggest jail system in the country.

Discovery in this case will unearth the use of NYC-area High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area's facial recognition tool/database by NYPD and cops in NJ. I've come across a number of cases over the years involving this end-run, tho defense attys were too reticent to go on record

🧵 If reforestation could work anywhere, it's in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. I followed two reforestation projects for 3+ years to find out why it's so hard. Threats at gunpoint, botanical mysteries, here's what I found. 1/ reuters.com/investigates/s…

Henry Kissinger turns 100 today. Here is Anthony Bourdain on the esteemed American statesman.

A 🧵 || My Twitter feed of my people in Gaza is literally everyone saying goodbyes to each other and apologizing to anyone who they might have hurt. Asking for forgiveness from each other and solving any beef they may have had with each other.

Over the past decade, some 900 soldiers facing criminal charges were allowed to leave the Army rather than go to trial. More than half of them were accused of violent crimes. Incredible reporting by @ViannaDavila @renLarson_ & @davis_winkie propublica.org/article/milita…

@ME_McCullough Never Gonna Give You Up: The Use of Pop Culture References in Journal Article Titles.

When I was coming out (back in what feels like the Axial Age), it was axiomatic even in more conservative parts of the LGBT movement that parental authority was a wellspring of oppressive abuse. It wasn't neutral or apolitical. Curtailing it was where politics began.

It'll never stop being funny to me that the Malay nickname for a proboscis monkey is orang belanda, meaning Dutch guy. They must have had different names, and then one day the Dutch arrived and everyone was like lol yeah that's them for sure.

A ~twenty year difference in life expectancy driven mostly by young deaths. This is the American tragedy in one map.

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

A new report finds that more than 121,000 people globally were injured or killed by crowd-control weapons since 2015. truthout.org/articles/polic…