Ethan Brown

Special Projects Editor, @deepsouthtoday. Author: Murder in the Bayou, Shake the Devil Off, Snitch, Queens Reigns Supreme. Murder in the Bayou on @Showtime

[Ethan Brown @ethanbrown72]

News: @garrisonproj will fold its operations into @deepsouthtoday, a nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today and Verite News. Enormous thanks to all of my reporters and a 🧵of some of their stories. 1/8
https://t.co/TOVWv8pI2d

[Maya Kaufman @mayakauf]

INVESTIGATION 🚨 A #Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who in turn hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.

We uncovered $350,000+ flowing this way in 2025 and early 2026.

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

When it comes to Democratic primaries, moderates are making the exact mistake progressives make in the general election by discounting the importance of ideology.

Liberals are now the majority in the Democratic primary, not moderates.

https://t.co/Xmc5BQC9jX

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

Interviewed Spencer Pratt about former LAPD cop Gabriel Espadas and LAPD accountability.

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

3rd opinion is Pitchford v. Cain. A 5-4 court holds the Mississippi Supreme Court was unreasonable when it determined the defendant waived his opportunity to rebut the prosecutor's race-neutral reasons for peremptory strikes of 4 black prospective jurors.

https://t.co/XtEx9smEfS

[Richard A. Webster @RichardAWebster]

La. Gov. Jeff Landry has dismissed experts’ concerns that his policies could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have already begun to impact Louisiana. @veritenewsnola @propublica https://t.co/WiK3xaA4RQ

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Incredible. The DNC autopsy of 2024 is 192 pages.
*Zero* mentions of the words "Israel," "Palestine," or "Gaza."

(DNC Chair Ken Martin concedes the autopsy does not meet his standards, nor would it meet yours).

[Floodlight @FloodlightNews]

Louisiana senator helped secure Meta's largest data center. Then he sold the land beside it.
🗞️ https://t.co/qsDel8srm8

[Sam Karlin @samkarlin]

Louisiana's Republican attorney general is threatening to remove New Orleans Democratic leaders from office

[Alex Lubben @alexlubben]

The New Orleans flood protection board president let the agency's police chief write his own employment contract, which could have paid out up to $910,000 in severance.

He didn't run the contract by the agency's lawyer because the attorney was 'not in town that week.'

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: By the time Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry suspended ongoing elections to give lawmakers time to redraw the state’s congressional map, roughly 42,000 Louisianans already cast their votes — and it’s likely many voted in the House primaries.

Now, their ballots are at risk of being thrown out. https://t.co/YGCUUE3UKX

[skooks @skooks]

Important piece in Slate getting to the heart of why Jeff Landry's so-called "tough on crime" policies are not actually tough on crime. Instead they are just cruel for the sake of being so. https://t.co/zx6uh9O96p

[Slate @Slate]

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing a slate of bills to punish majority-Black, majority-Democratic New Orleans voters for making decisions state officials dislike. https://t.co/cdOsGK83v2

[Richard A. Webster @RichardAWebster]

Prosecutors asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the murder conviction and death sentence against Jimmie Duncan. A judge had tossed out that conviction as it was based on bite mark analysis now considered to be junk science. @veritenewsnola https://t.co/NhJxMAVskY

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

On Monday, a Manhattan judge vacated the murder conviction of a man who spent 25 years in prison – while calling out the trial attorney for refusing to participate in the reinvestigation.

Reached by phone, the ex-prosecutor, Helen Sturm, told the AP she didn't see the point.

[Mission Local @MLNow]

A national story credited San Francisco's "anti-Woke DA" with the city's big drop in crime.

It did not mention that 4X the murders have been recorded in the city compared to this time last year

The article's premise, it turns out, was silly

From @esksf https://t.co/BLvCdTvLza

[Alex Lubben @alexlubben]

A New Orleans flood agency's board president signed a generous contract with his police chief. He said criticism in the press made him do it: "He's doing a good job, but people want to beat him up."

When asked about the leaked document, he called his own employees "rats."

[LACAG.org @LacagOrg]

I’m a lifelong Republican, but today I had to speak truth to power. I testified against SB 256—a corrupt "un-election" designed to destroy a seat won by Calvin Duncan with 68% of the vote. If we don’t stand for the rule of law, we stand for nothing. #lagov #lalege #NoOnSB256

[Andrew Barber @fakeshoredrive]

30 years ago today, Master P dropped what I consider to be his breakthrough album, Ice Cream Man. It marks his pivotal transition from the Bay to New Orleans & solidifies him as an artist AND exec.

"Mr. Ice Cream Man" receives heavy airplay on BET & P takes "I'm Bout It Bout It" from TRU's 'True' album from 8 months earlier, reworks & repackages it as "part 2" and turns it into a smash -- which leads to a movie & soundtrack within a year.

P catches lightning in a bottle yet again with another huge UGK collab and ignites a beef with Luniz over the Ice Cream Man moniker. It becomes No Limit's first album to go Gold & eventually Platinum.

[Jim Mustian @JimMustian]

NEW: A confidential informant for @DEAHQ failed to pay taxes on more than $4M he earned for undercover work from Lima to Los Angeles

Now he's cooperating in the misconduct investigation into the DEA's infamous "world debauchery tour"

w/@APjoshgoodman

https://t.co/HvoR6iSCZR