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peterjholley.bsky.social

@peterjholley.bsky.social
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Senior writer at TX Monthly. Formerly WAPO. Texan. Explorer. Excessive asker of questions.

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Sandi Villarreal @sandivillarreal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“Do you think if you started bulldozing Gettysburg that people would accept it?” For descendants of the Porvenir massacre and all who helped uncover its history, the sight of bulldozers & new roads through the site is devastating. —by @peterjholley.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Trump’s Border-Wall Construction Is Set to Bulldoze the Porvenir Massacre Site
It is considered sacred ground for the descendants of those killed in a mass execution. The border wall threatens to erase it from history.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A heartrending, sensitively told account of the two factions that have formed around the question of Camp Mystic's future. by @peterjholley.bsky.social in @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
I met Evie, now ten years old, and her mother at a park in Kerrville overlooking the Guadalupe River on a warm afternoon in late February. Though we were a hundred yards away from the water, the lanky girl with sandy blond hair admitted that she was feeling “a little fidgety” about being this close to the same river that had tormented her last summer. I asked Evie if she could explain why she wanted to return to Camp Mystic, a place where she’d lost so many friends. She pondered my question for some time before answering. “Because that’s where they passed on and that’s where they went up to heaven,” she said, explaining her thoughts carefully. “If I stand where they stood when they passed on, I feel like I’m connecting with heaven.”
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peterjholley.bsky.social @peterjholley.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CiCi and Will Steward's beloved daughter, Cile, died at Camp Mystic. Since then, they say, the camp has ignored them and failed to acknowledge their devastating loss despite newly-announced plans to reopen next summer. My latest for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Their Daughter Is Still Missing. They Say Plans to Reopen Camp Mystic Are “Unthinkable.”
"You are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body when you plan to ‘open your gates,’” the new statement from CiCi and Will Steward reads.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
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Longreads @longreads.com · 25/06/2025
"Though I didn’t know it at the time, I would soon learn that there was something about Jason’s case that transcended the lurid intrigue that tends to drive interest in viral crimes." —Peter Holley for @texasmonthly.bsky.social‬ www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/j...
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peterjholley.bsky.social @peterjholley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My latest story is about Jason Landry, who vanished after striping naked and walking into the Texas wilderness. What I found was a world unto itself –– w/a mysterious figure at the center who seemed to know more about Jason’s disappearance than anyone else. www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/j...
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A Missing Student, a Suburban Mom, a Mysterious Facebook Profile: Inside the Jason Landry Disappearance
The Texas State University student’s disappearance confounded investigators. When thousands of online sleuths got involved, intrigue turned into obsession.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2025
THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
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peterjholley.bsky.social @peterjholley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... “I knew buying a Cybertruck would turn heads, but I never expected it to turn people against me.” At the Cybertruck Rodeo, in Texas, Cybertruck owners said they’re confused the public doesn’t separate Elon Musk’s divisive politics from his company’s products.
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Cybertruck Drivers Don’t Understand the Hate
At the second annual Cybertruck Rodeo, in Central Texas, the EV owners said they’re confused that the public doesn’t appear to separate Elon Musk’s divisive politics from his company’s products.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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peterjholley.bsky.social @peterjholley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My first opinion piece for @washingtonpost.com is about the performative absurdity of moving Facebook's safety and content moderations teams to Texas of all places––a place that is waging war of free expression. "This is pandering,” as one expert told me. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Meta will move staff to Texas to counter bias. Good luck in Austin.
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement seems largely performative.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/01/2025
The California wildfires have created chaos for the dogs, cats and other animals that consider Los Angeles home. While some owners fled with their pets in tow, animal shelters in the Los Angeles area are straining to care for the hundreds of animals that were left behind.
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Los Angeles Animal Shelters Struggle With Influx of Displaced Pets
Some owners fled with their pets, but a network of facilities in the Los Angeles area is straining to care for the hundreds of animals left behind.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What a phenomenal and terrifying piece of journalism.
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Texas--with one of the country's strictest abortion bans, highest maternal mortality rates, and the most women without health insurance--faces an "epidemic" of abandoned babies, some being found in ditches and dumpsters wapo.st/3ZXDbks
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‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/12/2024
“Can the C.E.O. class drop its indifference to the suffering and death of ordinary people? Is it possible to do so while achieving record quarterly profits for your stakeholders, in perpetuity?” Jia Tolentino writes about Brian Thompson’s murder.
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A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing?
What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.
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