Jeremy Stahl
@jeremystahl.bsky.social
Jurisprudence Editor, Slate.com
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My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...
ftw
Jury LOLification.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
ftw
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This story is NUTS. A southern sheriff celebrated as a folk hero (and memorialized in the Walking Tall movies) almost certainly murdered his wife, faked his own shooting, then blamed it all on an ambush by the "Dixie Mafia" he was investigating.
His fans today refuse to believe it—or don't care!
His fans today refuse to believe it—or don't care!
Stunning story by @jesspish.bsky.social: He became the most famous sheriff in the U.S. after his hunt for his wife's "real killers" inspired a $60 million 1973 blockbuster ($430 million in today dollars). It was all a lie and his hometown can't deal.
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This Tiny Southern Town Became Famous off a Gruesome Lie. Now It Can’t Let Go.
A mythical sheriff was immortalized in movies. In August, a stunning report changed everything.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This story is NUTS. A southern sheriff celebrated as a folk hero (and memorialized in the Walking Tall movies) almost certainly murdered his wife, faked his own shooting, then blamed it all on an ambush by the "Dixie Mafia" he was investigating.
His fans today refuse to believe it—or don't care!
His fans today refuse to believe it—or don't care!
Stunning story by @jesspish.bsky.social: He became the most famous sheriff in the U.S. after his hunt for his wife's "real killers" inspired a $60 million 1973 blockbuster ($430 million in today dollars). It was all a lie and his hometown can't deal.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This Tiny Southern Town Became Famous off a Gruesome Lie. Now It Can’t Let Go.
A mythical sheriff was immortalized in movies. In August, a stunning report changed everything.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Stunning story by @jesspish.bsky.social: He became the most famous sheriff in the U.S. after his hunt for his wife's "real killers" inspired a $60 million 1973 blockbuster ($430 million in today dollars). It was all a lie and his hometown can't deal.
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This is an autoclick.
I wrote for @slate.com about a legendary (and violent) Tennessee sheriff who more likely than not murdered his wife and the people who want to keep him on a pedestal.
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Her Husband Claimed She Was Murdered by the Mob. Hollywood Made a Hit Film About It. The Truth Was Far Darker.
A mythical sheriff, a murder—and a Tennessee town that wants none of it.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is an autoclick.
Defense team at the table with a yellow note pad prior to cross-examination whispering to each other: [hushed]"Let's do it and be legends."
Defense is now questioning Lairmore on cross-examination. They show a video still of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground, post-throw.
"Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks.
Lairmore won't confirm.
"I did not go back to collect it," he says.
"Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks.
Lairmore won't confirm.
"I did not go back to collect it," he says.
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Defense team at the table with a yellow note pad prior to cross-examination whispering to each other: [hushed]"Let's do it and be legends."
Can't argue with anything @alexkirshner.com writes here, except to note the Dodgers good fortune these last weeks was hella' fun to watch. slate.com/culture/2025...
The World Series Outcome Was Astonishing—and, Frankly, Obscene
The Los Angeles Dodgers had so many dumb things go right at the exact right moment.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Can't argue with anything @alexkirshner.com writes here, except to note the Dodgers good fortune these last weeks was hella' fun to watch. slate.com/culture/2025...
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Much of America is afraid. Afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid America’s legal and judicial institutions will no longer protect them. If Americans don't wake up, organize, and fight harder to defend the rule of law, we'll find ourselves living in an authoritarian system
How Will You Know That America Has Become a Dictatorship? After 20 Years Living in One, I Can Tell You.
Much of the country is afraid: afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid U.S. laws will no longer protect them.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Much of America is afraid. Afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid America’s legal and judicial institutions will no longer protect them. If Americans don't wake up, organize, and fight harder to defend the rule of law, we'll find ourselves living in an authoritarian system
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Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Really smart and useful work from Aymann Ismail here:
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Charlie Kirk Helped Create an American Culture That Would Laugh at His Death
It’s hard to take the outrage about this kind of dark humor seriously.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Really smart and useful work from Aymann Ismail here:
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I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...
No, Bluesky Isn’t Celebrating the Death of Charlie Kirk
Despite what right-wing influencers want you to believe, liberals actually hate political violence.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...
DOJ's argument in this case appears to be "we're not in charge, the police chief still is," and also "we have absolute authority over everything done by the in D.C."
DOJ: If administrator Cole told the chief of police, look, I need a lot of people in Dupont Circle right now to address open alcohol. Yeah, I think he is entitled to do that under the statute and under the order. And I don't see a problem with that.
August 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
DOJ's argument in this case appears to be "we're not in charge, the police chief still is," and also "we have absolute authority over everything done by the in D.C."
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Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.
This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
August 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.
Nothing the least bit incriminating here, I tell you that. You say otherwise, and the president will sue you.
July 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Nothing the least bit incriminating here, I tell you that. You say otherwise, and the president will sue you.
LOL. Slate @samadams.bsky.social mapped Andrew Cuomo's venturous two-block journey in his "hitting the streets" campaign launch. slate.com/culture/2025...
July 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
LOL. Slate @samadams.bsky.social mapped Andrew Cuomo's venturous two-block journey in his "hitting the streets" campaign launch. slate.com/culture/2025...
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Oh man. This piece by @benmathislilley.bsky.social is *so good*. I want to make it assigned reading for every pundit in the country, and every Democrat, and every consultant.
Democrats Are at a Historic Low Point. A Certain Kind of Advice Brought Them Here—and They Can’t Stop Listening to It.
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
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July 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Oh man. This piece by @benmathislilley.bsky.social is *so good*. I want to make it assigned reading for every pundit in the country, and every Democrat, and every consultant.
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How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
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July 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...
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well, you do if there's a fucking wolf
Q: Was there any discussion to evacuate before it was too late?
RICE: What we don't want to do is cry wolf
RICE: What we don't want to do is cry wolf
July 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
well, you do if there's a fucking wolf
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
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June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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Criminals.
Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
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Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
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June 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Criminals.
Criminals.
Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
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June 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Criminals.
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Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is poisonous homophobia that gives parents a de facto right to ban books in public school classrooms. It's violently stigmatizing toward LGBTQ families and filled with lies and bigotry. Every justice who joined it should be ashamed. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Samuel Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Is a Disgrace to the Supreme Court
The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.
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June 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is poisonous homophobia that gives parents a de facto right to ban books in public school classrooms. It's violently stigmatizing toward LGBTQ families and filled with lies and bigotry. Every justice who joined it should be ashamed. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Important, devastating interview about the post-Roe revival of "maternity homes," where many women are forced to give their children up for adoption—denied choice over every aspect of their lives and bodies. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Adoption Should Also Be a Choice. In Post-Roe America, It’s Increasingly Not.
It’s been three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the right to legal abortion in the United States.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Important, devastating interview about the post-Roe revival of "maternity homes," where many women are forced to give their children up for adoption—denied choice over every aspect of their lives and bodies. slate.com/news-and-pol...