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Co-Host, @CBSMornings. Author of “The Last Pirate.” Husband to @KatyTurNBC. Father of four.
Jun 17, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
If you've ever sent a private photo to someone, this could happen to you -- with zero criminal repercussions for the porn site that hosts it -- and the fact is it may have *already* happened to you and you just don't know it. Nearly half the women in the lawsuit say they were children when their videos were uploaded to Pornhub. More than a dozen are victims of convicted or charged sex offenders. And yet no law explicitly prevents a site like PornHub or its competitors from hosting the vids.
Jul 24, 2020 10 tweets 2 min read
Lots of questions on our vote-by-mail experiment this morning, so I thought I'd do a big wrap with some extra info.
- 21% of our mock ballots hadn't arrived after 4 days
- 3% hadn't arrived after 7 days Those results align with the Postal Service's own audits of First Class and political mail.
- The Postal Service has missed its own goals for First Class mail delivery for 5 years running, with about 20% of mail failing to arrive after 5 days.
Jun 9, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
I am *loving* how much people are into my darker history of Fenn's Treasure, so here's a bonus anecdote from my old reporting. Fenn has been "a person of interest" in archaeological looting cases for decades, as one Parks Service investigator put to me, but never prosecuted... He was, however, nearly caught in the act one day in Arizona. He was in a cave with his buddies, "digging to their hearts' content," according to family who heard the story first hand, when they heard a helicopter landing outside. "We're screwed," was the general feeling.
Jun 8, 2020 27 tweets 5 min read
I don't believe that Forrest Fenn's treasure has really been found. And I'm certain that if it has been found, the finder has no idea what he or she is holding. I'll explain, but first here's the news today: cbsnews.com/news/treasure-… I wrote the first big, national story on Fenn back in 2012. Remember when @TinaBrownLM supposedly lost $100M at @Newsweek, well, she might have spent it all on my hare-brained adventures and Fenn was one them. (Love you, Tina.)
Mar 27, 2020 6 tweets 1 min read
In 2009, I interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg about the “upsides” of the Great Depression, which got me mocked on Gawker. (Deserved it.) It was part of a series with people who lived through the Depression and it got burned off the web in the many fires of Newsweek's demise. But I found the original text in an old email this morning and as we confront another hard time, I thought this passage from Justice Ginsburg was especially worth bearing in mind: