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redneck nazgul posted:http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/myths-over-miami-6393117 Yes! Thank you!
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DumbparameciuM posted:Let us not forget the controversial LF by Gay Talese, The Voyeurs Motel. Roman à Clefs are okay ITT right? Controversial because he says he witnessed (and maybe caused) a murder, or because the whole thing is prescription-strength STDH.txt?
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Avshalom posted:the child exchange a multi-part investigation into online groups where parents sell off their adopted children that haven't worked out to people who don't want to shell out cash to do the whole adoption process themselves. you know how you adopt a dog, but it pees on your floor, so you palm it off to someone else? like that, but with humans! Seconding this one. Read this if you're interested in learning about a gray market trafficking ring you never knew could exist, let alone in America, but definitely skip it if you don't want to spend the next day or two hating humanity.
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for sexual abuse and general horror, but it's an excellent piece of journalism.
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RNG posted:The Crossing Reaaaally long (33 parts) article about the worst traffic accident in Colorado history (a train striking a school bus). It goes into the stories of everyone affected both then and now; kind of a tearjerker. That piece is amazing. And really awful in that many of the families kept suffering tragedies.
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I'm trying to work my way through most of the articles linked here, but I won't be able to read The Crossing. Back in 2006, when I lived with my family, a van full of my stepsisters' classmates was in between a school bus and a semi; the truck driver fell asleep at the wheel. All seven children and teens in the van were killed and I can't remember offhand if anyone in the bus was injured. This was just months after my stepsisters' mother's girlfriend killed herself.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Controversial because he says he witnessed (and maybe caused) a murder, or because the whole thing is prescription-strength STDH.txt? Both. Still a fun read, but it reads about as truthfully as Fay Resnick's book about Nicole Brown Simpson.
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Here's one of my favorites about 2 Ukrainian brothers, both famous mathematicians, and their quest to solve for as many digits of Pi as possible The Mountains of Pi Pron on VHS has a new favorite as of 00:01 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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RC and Moon Pie posted:That piece is amazing. And really awful in that many of the families kept suffering tragedies. quote:Duane Harms decides he wants to write something to sum up his thoughts about that fatal day he drove his school bus onto the crossing. Something about the 45 years that have since passed. Something that will answer the questions that never go away. It's a warm evening in Southern California. He gets out a pencil and a yellow notepad with a blue cover. He prints very neatly.
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Apraxin posted:To cap it off, pretty much right after the final parts of The Crossing were published, the parts that included this: Jesus  I got a bit teary at that article, especially when it talked about the really little kids, the 6 year olds, that died, and the families that lost all their children, and the family who had more children die in accidents later, but that. The poor guy. He lived with that accident his whole life. He was twenty loving three years old. e: His wife ended up severely mentally ill. Duane cared for her alone for at least a decade. His only daughter, Lynda, who was 3 weeks old when the school bus accident happened, was injured in a car accident at 18-19, and subsequently developed some unspecified mental illness that meant she rarely left home. I guess he cared for her too. I can't even imagine. eating only apples has a new favorite as of 01:01 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1 Laywer power-couple plants drugs in a school PTA president's car as revenge over some perceived slight. This backfires, and the power couple loses everything.
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A few of my favorites have been posted already, but here is the story of The Estonia. I could read this article again and again and it would still have the same effect. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-story/302940/
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Ready! Set! Blow! posted:http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1
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Does anyone have any other good pieces about 9/11? That Politico oral history has made me want to go back down that incredibly depressing memory lane.
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This is a Guardian longread article that appeared today What will happen when the Queen dies I found it morbidly fascinating as it's going to happen soon and this article details the sheer amount of planning that is involved and also talks about the psychological impact to be expected. It also mentions that this hasn't been done since 1952 and there are not many people alive with actual experience of this type of event. Helith has a new favorite as of 13:49 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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An American Void: Stephanie McCrummen in the Washington Post: A look at the residents of the trailer where Dylan Roof hung out before committing mass murder (Joey Meek and family mostly). Found this fascinating especially as, in contrast to such a shocking crime, a lot of it is fairly banal. Interesting to reread post-hillbilly elegy being flavour of the month. The Lost Girls of Panama: The Full Story: Jeremy Kryt in Daily Beast: Deep dive into the story of two young Dutch tourists who went missing hiking in Panama. A recovered digital camera with lots of photos and signal logs from a phone gives the whole thing a really creepy urban-legend/found-footage kind of vibe, and the story looks into whether or not they were victims of a crime or if it was just a tragic accident. Was going to post Framed, but someone beat me to it. That's some good (crazy) poo poo.
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The Blow It All Up Billionaires: A bunch of billionaires sat out this election (think Koch bros) and this new team came in. Their whole goal is to dismantle the US as we know it using their money and power. Steve Bannon Used To Invest in World of Warcraft Gold (Goes About As Well As You Expect: Title pretty much says it all, Trump adviser used to invest in WoW gold farming. Flaggy has a new favorite as of 15:01 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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Jayme posted:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire Jesus, this is rough. The article is from 2009. Did anything else ever come of this?
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Jesus, this is rough. The article is from 2009. Did anything else ever come of this? Yea I wouldn't google him if I were you.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Jesus, this is rough. The article is from 2009. Did anything else ever come of this? Not a longform, but this seems to be the current state of affairs: Justice Deferred Basically, the prosecutor made a deal with the main witness (the jailhouse informant, aka the only one to claim that Willingham confessed while in prison) to lessen the witness's sentence, presumably in return for testifying; however, he never disclosed that deal to anyone on the defense's side, or indeed to anyone. The prosecutor's facing disciplinary charges for that and some other underhanded poo poo he pulled, but the worst he'll likely face is disbarment if the jury finds against him.
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Does the auditory equivalent of a longform count? The podcast You Must Remember This has an incredible series called Charles Manson's Hollywood that's effectively a multi-part longform on the culture surrounding the Manson Family and the crimes they committed. Very highly recommended listening. http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/?category=CharlesManson%27sHollywood
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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart by Scott Anderson is a 5-part series about the Middle East and Northern Africa from 2001 to the present, told through the stories of 6 individuals - a Kurdish urologist and peshmerga fighter, an Egyptian dissident, an Iraqi women's activist, a Syrian college student trapped in Homs, a Libyan Air Force cadet, and an Iraqi ISIS gunman. After reading this piece last year I went out and bought and enjoyed Anderson's book about the disappearance of Fred Cuny in Chechnya called The Man Who Tried to Save the World, which itself reads like a long longform piece. soylon has a new favorite as of 23:23 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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soundsection posted:http://reprints.longform.org/angels-demons It took me about 3 hours to get through this. Sweet Jesus, what an awful, terrible story. Here's a postscript: Oba Chandler was finally executed in 2011.
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New York Times series on the girls basketball team of Carroll Academy, an alternative school in Tennessee. It hits a little close at times when your own hometown isn't far removed at all from this situation: It Ain't About the Record, Court-ordered basketball and no fans, 'Bad Decisions, Good Intentions. And a follow-up of sorts, That's as Bad as It Gets. The Innocent Man. A two-part Texas Monthly article on Michael Morton, convicted in 1987 of killing his wife and the legal struggle to prove his innocence.
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Alaois posted:Does the auditory equivalent of a longform count? The podcast You Must Remember This has an incredible series called Charles Manson's Hollywood that's effectively a multi-part longform on the culture surrounding the Manson Family and the crimes they committed. Very highly recommended listening. Can't recommend this podcast more - it's mostly within a longform-esque series and the host does her work and then some.
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Ian Frazier - Travels in Siberia I, Travels in Siberia II. "I have been in mosquito swarms in beaver meadows in northern Michigan, in boreal wetlands in Canada, and near Alaska’s Yukon River. Western Siberia has more. On calm and sultry evenings as we busied ourselves around the camp, mosquitoes came at us as if shot from a fire hose." Mister Mind has a new favorite as of 10:04 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ A digital mapping company assigns its "default" location for the United States at a point near, but not right at, the geographical center of the U.S. This point happens to be in someone's front yard, and turns their lives into absolute hell.
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Mister Mind posted:Ian Frazier - Travels in Siberia I, Travels in Siberia II. fyi the first one is a dead link
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Your Gay Uncle posted:fyi the first one is a dead link If you amend the first URL using the format of the second you can see that it should be: Part 1: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/03/travels-in-siberia-i Part 2: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/10/travels-in-siberia-ii
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NYT has a good two-parter on the horrifying consequences of permission being given for no-knock SWAT raids for increasingly minor crimes: Part 1: Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood Part 2: Murder or Self-Defense if Officer Is Killed in Raid? quote:For the most part, governments at all levels have chosen not to quantify the toll by requiring reporting on SWAT operations. But The Times’s investigation, which relied on dozens of open-record requests and thousands of pages from police and court files, found that at least 81 civilians and 13 law enforcement officers died in such raids from 2010 through 2016. Scores of others were maimed or wounded.
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fits posted:‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’, an oral history of the confusion and chaos in the hours after 9/11 and where Bush's staff took him to the safest place they could think of: in Air Force One, with American airspace completely shut down On a related note, here's a long piece that details the 11th of September, 2001 minute by minute: http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/terrorism/september_11/. Possibly  - the page itself is safe, but it is from rotten.com, after all.
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jimmy breslin died. heres a thing he wrote Digging JFK's Grave
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Riot Baby, about the life of a boy who was born during the LA riots and the changes in the city afterwards. I wonder every so often where all the people in this story are now.
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This is a really awesome series of articles on Trinity, its author, as well as Infocom, and the history of the atomic bomb.
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Alaois posted:Does the auditory equivalent of a longform count? The podcast You Must Remember This has an incredible series called Charles Manson's Hollywood that's effectively a multi-part longform on the culture surrounding the Manson Family and the crimes they committed. Very highly recommended listening. I started listening to this tonight and it's really nicely put together.
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EightDeer posted:On a related note, here's a long piece that details the 11th of September, 2001 minute by minute: http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/terrorism/september_11/. Possibly Ehh, some of this borders on  and loose change territory. You're better off reading Wikipedia's timeline to be honest.If you want a super long read about 9/11 that's readable but informative, the 9/11 commission report is pretty thorough. https://9-11commission.gov/report/
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JPrime posted:This is a really awesome series of articles on Trinity, its author, as well as Infocom, and the history of the atomic bomb. Thanks for this.
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Bamabalacha posted:Does anyone have any other good pieces about 9/11? That Politico oral history has made me want to go back down that incredibly depressing memory lane.
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This is a Texas Monthly article about the serial killer Dean Corll (and his two teenage accomplices) and the massively botched investigation by the Houston PD. http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-lost-boys/
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The Man Who Broke the Music Business, about the CD factory worker who helped leak most of the major albums of the 2000's. I also enjoy the A.V. Club's Oral Histories, which range from the movie Airplane!, to the construction of the Double Dare obstacles.
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Tom Wolfe wrote about Manhattan elites and the Black Panthers, way back in 1970. How can you have black servants when you are having radical black guests is just one of the dilemmas facing the better-class hostess. http://nymag.com/docs/07/05/070529radical_chic.pdf
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