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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 28/09/2026

Primetime puts Chris Hansen in the chair. But To Catch a Predator was NBC's show, and the network that built the format walked away as Dateline turned into all true crime, all the time. My review: jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-decoy-...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 21/09/2026

On one case I side with the jury. On the other I side with the man who says the jury got it wrong. Opposite conclusions — and the same assumption underneath both: the country is quietly with me, and the people typing are what's left over. New essay. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-silent...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 13/09/2026

Wrote a piece a minute ago imagining I'd come back from an alien abduction and gone looking for a comic shop and a movie theater. Since then I've been back to several, rebuilding the 1980s collection I thought was lost. Updated: jaysonblair.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 11/09/2026

There are clouds today. In 2001 there weren't, and the blue is the thing everyone kept — the last ordinary detail before it stopped being an ordinary morning. Twenty-five years later, most of what I have from that day has been corrected by other people. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/there-are-...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 08/09/2026

I will never be called to testify in a court case. But I can bear witness. New essay on the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, decades with bipolar disorder, and a question I don't think anyone can answer. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-butter...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 07/09/2026

I joined Tavis Smiley last week to talk newsroom ethics, Karen Attiah, my Death of Truth piece, Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, and the passing of Jason Arday — all reminders of why principled storytelling matters. You can listen below. open.spotify.com/episode/7Biu...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 05/09/2026

I ran a photo of an actress through three AI systems to find out if it was real. They disagreed. Fifteen minutes. On a hamburger photo. It sent me back to 1993, and a death three investigations agreed on. The country never did. A longread on truth's death. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/a0a7cbda-1...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 31/08/2026

I was researching what the Internet does to people. I stopped and started looking into a basement in Granite City, Illinois. New essay: jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-fortre...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 25/08/2026

The "good guy" AI proved it could be the bad guy. OpenAI's model hacked Hugging Face. Claude tried to help investigate but it couldn't tell defender from attacker. An unrestrained Chinese model could. I've seen this movie before. Literally. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-good-g...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 16/08/2026

We don't know why Jason Arday died. We do know what we turned him into first — a cudgel, a symbol, a paper doll dressed up to be beaten. I've been that doll. New essay: jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-paper-...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 06/08/2026

If aliens abducted you in 1999 and dropped you back today, the first thing you'd do is go looking for the comic shop. I wrote it that way — four stops through a dead shopping center, an ending I didn't see coming until I got there. New on The Center Holds: jaysonblair.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 06/08/2026

Aaron Habel, also the co-host of The Generation Why Podcast, charges straight into the bigger picture questions about thel justice system in this season of Framed, which explores Scott Macklem's murder and the conviction of Fred Freeman, who now goes by Temujin Kensu. bit.ly/4wpdBUv

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 29/07/2026

Some stories get told as human. Too many get sorted into types instead — by race, by geography, by whether we've decided to like the person. This one's about the cognitive biases that do that work quietly. New essay, link in bio. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/there-are-...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 15/07/2026

After Minneapolis, ICE didn't stop. It went quiet. A son named his father. A neighbor named the man killed. The government still hasn't named the agent who fired. Every name came from someone who refused to let it stay hidden. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/when-nobod...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 13/07/2026

David Carr once asked if I wanted to come up to the new Times newsroom. I said no. I've thought about it for 20 years. A new essay on expulsion, audits that never happen, the people who cross the line anyway, and why redemption doesn't come on letterhead. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-room-w...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 07/07/2026

Ashley Loring HeavyRunner carried the name of a chief killed holding the Army's own safe-conduct papers. My family shed its name fleeing South Carolina. Last June, our lines converged in the Montana grass — her sister, her classmate, and me, searching for her jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-miracl...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 05/07/2026

Maybe it was the movie. Maybe it was the actress I’d already dismissed. Maybe it was the theater that came back to life. I’ve stopped trying to choose. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/two-blocks...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 04/07/2026

I was born in a city upon a hill, and I love America for its blemishes and am proud of its corrective. My latest piece on Substack. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/a-city-upo...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 04/07/2026

It seems Mr. Miller puts nationhood above the idea that we’re all God’s children. Nations are just tools for managing shared resources — not measures of human worth; also doesn't seem to get birthright citizenship does not apply to children born on foreign public vessels. But hey, alternative facts.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 03/07/2026

The conservative legal movement and evangelicals struck a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump in 2016 — a marriage of necessity. If this Supreme Court term is any indication, the divorce is not going well. bit.ly/4wrIhEs

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 24/06/2026

Personality development - especially in twins and other siblings - shows how profoundly we each walk the world alone, what Emerson called “the sweetest of solitude” even within a crowd.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 24/06/2026

My pre‑Humphrey’s Executor‑being‑overturned rant: The Constitution does not authorize this Court to create an agency Congress never enacted.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 20/06/2026

It really is clever play on words, Reverend. As Jesus famously said, "Blessed are those who check the water first."

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 20/06/2026

Forty years ago, we lost a generational talent before he ever stepped on an NBA court. Len Bias embodied power, grace, and possibility — a reminder of how fragile greatness can be, and how trust, mentorship, and care must anchor every institution that shapes young lives.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 19/06/2026

When institutions fail, it’s rarely sudden. It’s erosion—trust lost grain by grain. My latest piece looks at how we rebuild what’s been allowed to crumble. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/the-archit...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 19/06/2026

The algae in the reflecting pool is a perfect metaphor for corrupt authoritarianism. You hire cronies on no‑bid contracts or appoint them to top jobs; they fail, because only the incompetent tend to be sycophants.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 17/06/2026

Meta has been a scourge. It's nice to see them reaping what they sow. Their data could’ve been a gift to anyone who cares about human wellbeing. Instead, it became a mirror of human distress — and it's now paying the price it’s inflicted on society. jaysonblair.substack.com/p/metas-data...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 19/05/2026

Since we’re talking reparations, President Trump — my friends and I figure we’re owed about $1.7 trillion for our ancestors’ unpaid labor.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 22/04/2026

The funniest leaks are always the ones about the leak investigation itself. That’s when you know the walls aren’t just thin — they’re gone www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 25/01/2026

Well, this breaks new ground. I have never seen a case where state law enforcement has had to file a suit to get evidence of a police shooting within it's jurisdiction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 25/01/2026

This is what it is. An execution.

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 25/01/2026

Excellent piece. "The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child. His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world. A functional Congress would impeach and remove him." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Norway Letter Proves This Isn’t Sustainable

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 25/01/2026

Adriene Caldwell shares her story of pain, truth, and hope—proving one voice can save a life. 🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/4sPlDVl #Resilience #TheSilverLiningsHandbook

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 25/01/2026

An ICE pause in Minneapolis is the only rational path open.substack.com/pub/jaysonbl...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 24/01/2026

The media has missed the real story in the Olivia Nuzzi scandal @ryanlizza.bsky.social has breathlessly been reporting. open.substack.com/pub/jaysonbl...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 23/01/2026

Reposting a December True Crime Times piece I wrote.Zoe and Mia remind us how campus violence keeps evolving while our laws stay frozen in another era.This is exactly the kind of reckoning my new Substack, The Center Holds, was built for. open.substack.com/pub/jaysonbl...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 23/01/2026

I thought I’d be gone by now. A year in, I’m putting the maple leafs down. open.substack.com/pub/jaysonbl...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 23/01/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s unfolding in Minnesota — how an unexpected state has become a uniquely formidable states’‑rights flashpoint and how the federal government has inverted its traditional role. open.substack.com/pub/jaysonbl...

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 23/01/2026

I’ve started a new Substack called The Center Holds — a place to write from the moral and constitutional center when everything else feels loud and fractured.Here’s the intro open.substack.com/pub/jaysonbl....

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 23/09/2025

Jessica Olive Cash was a shooting star—brief, brilliant, unforgettable. In her honor, we’re raising funds for the Transgender Law Center, a cause she championed with heart and conviction. Help us carry her light forward. 💜 gofund.me/7b23ee5f5

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 18/09/2025

Ashley Loring Heavyrunner vanished from the Blackfeet Reservation at 20. In a bonus episode, I talk to Cameron Santana of @Santanacrime about her case from Montana—meeting a suspect, exploring theories, and exposing the barriers to justice. 🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/3Is82AS

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 16/09/2025

Charlie Kirk’s murder wasn’t just a tragedy—it was an attack on free speech. Jayson Blair’s latest dives into how violence has repeatedly silenced voices in the public square—from MLK to Melissa Hortman. 📖 bit.ly/3IsoH7v

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The Murder of Charlie Kirk and the Fragility of Free Debate

Violence, Speech and the American Public Square

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 16/09/2025

Indigenous lives aren’t vanishing—they’re being erased. In Part 2 of “Vanishing Natives,” Ed Dentzel returns to spotlight disappearances like Olivia Lone Bear & Ashley Loring Heavyrunner—cases buried in silence. 🎧 bit.ly/vanishingnativesPt2

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 16/09/2025

Indigenous lives aren’t vanishing—they’re being erased. In Part 2 of “Vanishing Natives,” Ed Dentzel returns to spotlight the disappearances of Olivia Lone Bear, Ashley Loring Heavyrunner, Jermain Charlo & more. 🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/vanishingnativesPt2 📍#MMIW #MMIP

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 16/09/2025

What happens when entire communities vanish from the narrative? 🕵️‍♂️ In Part 1 of “Vanishing Natives,” historian Ed Dentzel uncovers the stories of Indigenous peoples erased from memory—and why it matters now. 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/vanishingnativesPt1

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 16/09/2025

In this bonus episode from the Santana True Crime podcast now on Patreon, I discuss the disappearance of Ashley Loring Heavyrunner, my recent visit to Montana, meeting one of the suspects and the jurisdictional issues that appear to be getting in the way. bit.ly/3K69pWt

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Jayson Blair @silverliningshandbook.com · 10/09/2025

What does it mean to vanish from the very place meant to protect your presence? In Part 1 of this powerful conversation, Ed Dentzel of @Unfoundpodcast joins me to explore the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons in America. 🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/vanishingnat...

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