Scoop: self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk and Twitter are sending subpoenas to public interest groups like FAIR and the Union of Concerned Scientists, demanding their communications with Media Matters motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Today is also my last day at the paper after nearly 13 years, and this will be my last column. I'm grateful that it happened to be one about saying goodbye.

Speaking in Glendale Arizona, Trump just said that, if elected, he would be able to end Russia’s war in Ukraine even before moved back into the White House in January 2025. “I will have the war in Ukraine ended as president-elect,” Trump said.

“The trans community is burning to the ground here. It’s a nightmare. Where are the national LGBTQ+ organizations?” Sam Levin reports from Missouri, as trans kids and their parents struggle in the wake of healthcare bans and intense misinformation: theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

“We are truly doing what we can to keep our children alive." Parents of trans youth across the St Louis region said they were desperately trying to protect their kids' wellbeing. That meant rationing medications & traveling hours out of state for care. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

NEW: Trans youth in Missouri are stockpiling medications, traveling 10 hours out of state for care and fighting for basic dignity in school. I met w/ families across St Louis. Here's how they're surviving some of the most hostile anti-trans laws in the US:theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Am very late to this and it's still on my stack but if mike spies reported and wrote it, I'm reading it. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

once again, if you're not signed up for The Stakes you're really missing out theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

“Our jobs are increasingly risky and sometimes dangerous. In many countries, the killers of journalists go unpunished. Not so in Las Vegas.” theguardian.com/us-news/articl… Lois Beckett The Guardian

“The police just don’t seem to care. If the police think a shooting is gang-related, they have this attitude like: ‘Let them all kill each other, it’s less work for us.’” In Delano, a mother investigates her son's gang-related killing. Maanvi Singh: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Urban areas may have more total shootings--but gun homicide rates are actually higher in California's rural areas, like Kern County, north of Los Angeles. An in-depth investigation on gun homicides in rural California, from Maanvi Singh: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Kern, San Joaquin and Fresno are the central valley counties with California's highest rates of gun homicide: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…