Jayson Blair
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Jayson Blair
@silverliningshandbook.com
Former NYT reporter; Current Doer-of-Good at Goose Creek Consulting | Host of at The Silver Linings Handbook podcast where we are making conversations that inspire at https://silverliningshandbook.com
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.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:17 PM
This is what it is. An execution.
January 25, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Adriene Caldwell shares her story of pain, truth, and hope—proving one voice can save a life.
🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/4sPlDVl #Resilience #TheSilverLiningsHandbook
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 PM
An ICE pause in Minneapolis is the only rational path
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January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The media has missed the real story in the Olivia Nuzzi scandal @ryanlizza.bsky.social has breathlessly been reporting.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I thought I’d be gone by now. A year in, I’m putting the maple leafs down.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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.

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January 23, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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
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January 23, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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
September 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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...
September 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“The justice system is imperfect, but it is so heartening when you do see justice done in a case like this where you have such an injustice.” —Brett of @prosecutorspod.bsky.social

The Delphi murders shook a nation. Brett & I reflect on the long journey to justice. 🎧 bit.ly/3K5xj4j
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🕯️Ashley Loring HeavyRunner wanted to fight for MMIW. Then she became one.

I joined Santa True Crime to discuss her disappearance from the Blackfeet Reservation—a case buried in heartbreak and jurisdictional failure.

🎧 Listen: apple.co/3RjYyZp

#MMIW #BringAshleyHome
September 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“We never lost sight of the girls. That was always the center of everything.” — Brett Talley of @prosecutorspod.bsky.social

In this powerful episode of Silver Linings Handbook, Brett reflects on the Delphi Murders and the human cost of justice.

🎧 bit.ly/3K5xj4j
September 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Libby filmed the man. Abby hid the phone.

In their final moments, Abby & Libby cracked the Delphi case.

Hear their story in Shadow of the Bridge on Silver Linings Handbook 🎧
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September 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🎬 Bringing voice to the voiceless isn’t just a mission—it’s a method. Filmmaker Amanda Erickson joins The Silver Linings Handbook to show how documentary storytelling can expose injustice and restore dignity. Art isn’t just aesthetic. It’s accountability.

🔊 Listen in: bit.ly/4lQX3ij
September 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In Part 2 of my conversation with Kevin Greenlee & Áine Cain—hosts of The Murder Sheet and authors of Shadow of the Bridge—we walk through the investigation, the trial, and the emotional aftermath of the Delphi Murders.

🎧 This is the second of two episodes released today. 🔗 bit.ly/3UWLA5F
September 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
🎧 New Podcast Episode: Shadow of the Bridge – The Delphi Murders In Part 1 of my conversation with Kevin Greenlee & Áine Cain, we explore their new book, the case, and the cultural reckoning that followed.

🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/47XePgm
#DelphiMurders #ShadowOfTheBridge #AbbyAndLibby
September 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🌀 New episode: “The Love Has Won Cult” with Andrew-Ryan Profaci

Amy Carlson claimed to be Jesus,
Marilyn Monroe, and Trump’s daughter. But behind the headlines was a movement built on grief, control, and conspiracy.

We unpack how cults live in ideas—not just compounds.
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August 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM