Dairy Queen writes: Read. I have no value add commentary, just impotent political rage and overwhelming horror at what gun violence victims and their families go through. This is a great, hard piece.

Heebie's take: It's a good angle for a story, though - how kind journalists cover such grim stories humanely.

And yet Barden and Hockley consider Saslow as one of the good journalists they've dealt with in the last six years. The Sandy Hook parents keep a list of journalists to whom they won't talk with because of how they've been treated, and a list of those they will. Saslow is on the latter list. He's the kind, they said, who comes in not with his own agenda, and not with a goal of simply asking questions that will make them cry, but who wants to do his best to understand their reality.

Anticipatory thread for the heavily-redacted, ultimately disappointing Mueller Report, as well as the Barr shitshow surrounding it.