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Will and CiCi Steward said in their lawsuit the camp gave them “explicit promises and assurances” that the safety and well-being of their daughter was a “paramount priority.” They had been told that the camp’s cabins were built on “high, safe locations.” “Cile was killed not because of an unavoidable act of nature, but because of preventable failures and broken promises,” they wrote. “Cile did not die because there was nowhere to go. She died because she was told not to go … Cile did exactly what she had been ordered to do.” Camp Mystic passed state inspection two days before deadly flood According to the lawsuit, key aspects of Camp Mystic’s program and culture were “obedience to a rigid hierarchy” and “penalized deviation.” Cile’s parents argue those lessons set the conditions that made shelter-in-place instructions during the flood a “death sentence.” “These children were trained, incentivized, and conditioned to follow rules,” the lawsuit states. “When the Eastlands ordered the youngest campers in the Flats to remain inside their cabins unless told otherwise, they knew that command would be obeyed.”

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AP photo of camp mystic after the July fourth flood in 2025

Lawsuit calls Camp Mystic’s culture a ‘death sentence':

“These children were trained, incentivized, and conditioned to follow rules. When [they] ordered the youngest campers to remain inside their cabins, they knew that command would be obeyed.”

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A former pastor in Round Rock, Texas would download CSAM at his church, collecting 100k+ pictures and 5k+ videos.

He pled guilty in 2023. Fourteen of the kids in these, all of whom are now adults, sued him on Tuesday for damages.

Here's my story for @kxan.com: www.kxan.com/news/crime/1...

"[First name] Doe is an adult," reads each plaintiff's entry in the lawsuit's parties section. "'[Name]' is the pseudonym for the victim depicted in the [redacted] child pornography series."

I don't know how to speak with others about about the psychic damage that this, and an unrelated CSAM arrest affidavit I read last month, have dealt me.

Story coming on this lawsuit later.

i'm different. when i care about discourse and annoying people on twitter it's important and worthy of my time. when someone else does it they're a buffoon.

The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up.

Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas said in a post on social media that he had picked up Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from the Dilley detention center on Saturday night and escorted them to Minnesota on Sunday morning. He shared photos of the two on social media, including one showing Liam at the airport clutching what appeared to be a Pikachu toy and wearing a Pikachu backpack. Mr. Castro was part of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who visited Liam and his father at the detention center last week, where he said Liam’s father had reported that the child was “very depressed” and hadn’t been eating well since they were detained earlier this month.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:

A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"

But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

We Have to Talk About Dr. Ting and Epstein The Epstein files don't reveal wrongdoing from the doctor, but his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile is concerning Editor's note: I want to be clear that I am not accusing Dr. Je...

For my newsletter, I wrote about Dr. Ting's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the trans talk in the Epstein files, and how hard it is for trans people to talk about abuse.

(Dr. Ting is not implicated in any malfeasance or criminal activity) www.burnsnotice.com/we-have-to-t...

One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!

random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;)

JE: we must invent trans phobia,,

National, local news ignores trans people amid 2025's anti-trans attacks Newsrooms' failure to substantively cover anti-trans legislation have compounded over the first year of Trump's second term in office.

"“If you don’t include trans people, then we never get to seriously interrogate who gets protected in our society and who doesn’t," @trevellanderson.bsky.social, executive director of @transjournalists.org told @transitics.substack.com.

"At one point, D’Avignon ... asks whether she will be investigated as a faculty member or as a student. [UNT Compliance Officer] Simmons answers faculty, but the details on what actual penalties look like are slim."

It's not a crime to party with the crime party guy

This is the Occam's Razor take. They do it because they can. A world with a power structure that even slightly tilts away from them is simply intolerable to them.

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

Whenever a deadname is in a computer system it never really goes away, in my experience

Alex Consani & Alex Consani Speed Date Each Other

It's a screengrab of this video from them: www.them.us/video/watch/...

Congratulations!!

Many Texas prisons are regularly topping 90 degrees. The state is about to defend itself in court. A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups. The state will be back i...

Today I published my last story for The Texas Newsroom @KUTNews.

We analyzed years of data from Texas prisons w/o AC and found — more often than not — temps would violate standards for county jails.

Jails must keep temps between 65-85°. State prisons don’t. www.kut.org/crime-justic... #txlege

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
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Huge crowd at anti-ICE rally in East Austin. This is a very random angle from the playground area -- but basically Pan Am is packed to the gills.

Peter Attia 1752 Niall Ferguson 59 HR McMaster 35 Janna Levin 27 Roland Fryer 9 Derek Thompson 6 Mark Hyman 5 Roger Carstens 3 Arthur Brooks 2 Reihan Salam 2 Elliot Ackerman 0 Masih Alinejad 0 Caroline Chambers 0 Clare de Boer 0 Andrew Huberman 0 Casey Lewis 0 Patrick McGee 0 Lauren Sherman 0

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge

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Frankly, he was never going to bring prices down and didn't ever have a plan to do so! 50-year mortgages and mass deportations were as far as he got with it

I'm looking to talk with Texans who lost a job or otherwise suffered a material loss after being arrested at a protest, esp. if your charges got dropped.

Please DM me if this happened to you!

When KXAN asked Partridge about "second-screen viewing," he admitted that he's been "guilty" of "doom scrolling ...  while having something on in the background. But it's not something he does during a serious viewing of a work, nor is it something he recommends others do. Rather, he said that viewers should appreciate the art before them, and the hard work that created it. "What you're seeing on screen is something that is the product of years and years of work on the part of hundreds if not thousands of people. They channeled a lot of time, a lot of love into putting that work together," he said. "Turn off your phone and, you know, just try and absorb and let that experience wash over you. I think you'll appreciate the movie a little bit better that way." "We are seeing the arts being kind of denigrated," Partridge added. "We're seeing social divides being put up, and I think pushing back on this issue and ... protecting an experience within the theater is one way that we can contribute towards social good."

Today, I spoke with the Austin Film Critics Association president about Alamo Drafthouse's upcoming mobile ordering plans. He called it "a gross self-inflicted wound."

We also talked about distracted audiences and why paying attention while watching matters.

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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I need to know, what's your preferred build?