Paul Blest

NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973./

In 2023, Rhonda Jewell accidentally left 10-month-old Ariya in a hot car, resulting in the baby's death. Rhonda was acquitted of manslaughter — which would have required a finding of culpable negligence — but convicted of third-degree felony murder www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...

This is my last story for HuffPost, but I’m looking forward to continuing to report on the criminal legal system. You can reach me at jess.schulberg@protonmail.com or on Signal at jessicaschulberg.01 bsky.app/profile/jess...

An all-new Discourse Pod is here featuring @jscros.bsky.social and @pblest.bsky.social! We talk about: —The MI and WI primaries —AOC breaking up with her fiance (!!!) —Woke 1 —The need for shame around AI and MORE. Tune in! www.discourseblog.com/p/drafting-t...

some new good stuff on the channel... @pblest.bsky.social's band Long Relief, @serendipityjones.bsky.social's band Trash Panda Go Kart...there's some Polish-language L.A. darkwave??

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Nice to see @pblest.bsky.social back in the Indy indyweek.com/news/culture...

EXCLUSIVE My big behind-the-scenes look into how Gov. Josh Shapiro has courted Amazon amid the mounting backlash to data centers Complete with internal emails, memos, an “exclusive” offer for help with faster permitting and a NDA no one would explain to me. My latest for @heatmap.news 😌

I've never been more confused by this site than the response to this. 800 QTs!

a fun part about this chart is you can see the 1973 oil crisis in it.

Jesse Jackson carried the fire. a true American hero prospect.org/2026/02/17/t...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

I wrote for @discourseblog.com about abolishing ICE and the Democrats standing athwart history yelling "reform and retrain" www.discourseblog.com/p/the-anti-a...

"Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices." Nice investigation by @barryyeoman.com & @jocelynzuck.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MY LATEST: Dollar General will pay at least $15 million to settle claims that it overcharged shoppers at many of its 20,000 stores. Earlier, @jocelynzuck.bsky.social and I reported that the chain failed 4,300+ price-accuracy inspections over four years. @theguardian.com @michaelwhudson.bsky.social

Wrote this fun piece about women who quit their corporate city gigs for Hallmark jobs! It was a real blast to report out (and lowkey inspiring) www.bustle.com/life/hallmar...

I spoke with @hellgatenyc.com about our negligent landlord and the dangerous conditions they’ve created in their rent-stabilized buildings (including in my own apartment).

If any news outlets would like to chat about Pinnacle, I’m happy to connect you to our tenants union @thecity.nyc @hellgatenyc.com @wnyc.org

Our negligent management company (Pinnacle) has allowed our apartment building to degrade so considerably that a pipe burst in our bathroom and destroyed our kitchen.

looking for someone in the greater charlotte area who has spectrum internet to test something for me. if you do pls DM or signal me: @jason.404

Talked with the @discourseblog.com buds on Friday about elections tomorrow and beyond www.discourseblog.com/p/discourse-...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Surprise Crutchfield sisters record means we’re getting six more weeks of fall

The Trump administration has denied it canceled what would’ve been one of the largest solar projects in the U.S. I stand by my reporting, as I was first to break the cancelation. A quick thread about why…

Michigan Avenue right now.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Seeing how @sbworkersunited.org seamlessly connects right-wing culture-warring to workplace safety & the need for a fighting American labor movement like this underscores just how poorly most incumbent unions have met this moment despite having more $ and influence: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Man why is this guy a billionaire and not a heel wrestling manager. This is humiliating for the rest of us

Ezra Klein keeps saying that "politics is about winning power" and Democrats have "gotten way out of step with the public" on immigration and trans kids in sports but he is blind to the fact that to win power you have to convince people you have the right position, not cede to the other side

Finally listened to the Coates/Klein thing and thought this was pretty funny

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!