An Uzbek man, tortured by his govt, spent two years in ICE detention waiting on asylum claim. Separated from, lost track of wife and daughter. Claim denied, he attempted suicide, then disappeared. Deported to Uzbekistan. From @mariannedhe.bsky.social newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/asylum-seeke...

Wonderful, wonderful podcast. Guest after guest is remarkably articulate and discussing exactly what is most relevant and prescient right now, beyond Britain. Thank you.

"He remembers one 2017 email thread between Epstein and an intermediary, in which Epstein offers $300 to a girl for a topless massage. The intermediary tells him that the girl wasn’t available because she had school on Monday. Epstein then ups the offer to $400."

If you don't know anything about Sde Teiman, I wrote about it a bit here (with links to other good reporting): www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/welcome-to...

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ star Motaz Malhees says he cannot enter the U.S. for the #Oscars this Sunday because of his Palestinian citizenship: “It hurts. But here is the truth. You can block a passport. You cannot block a voice.”

The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

A review of Puerto Rico business records shows that SK2 LLC — the firm ICE hired in November to broker the purchase of warehouses around the U.S. — filed to dissolve the company in February. The company had just been added to the WEXMAC TITUS contract vehicle in January.

Democrats should be focusing on voting rights and due process, the places where we all belong.

..there are spheres in our society..where everyone belongs unconditionally...the ability to participate in the political process, to express one's views..must be protected..necessary to liberty or freedom or human dignity that must also be protected...is the right to “due process.”

Poland’s electricity operator detected a suspicious disruption in late December when several solar power stations suddenly disconnected from the grid despite continuing to generate power.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled on Saturday that the Trump administration effort to install Kari Lake as the “acting CEO“ of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent organization of the Voice of America, was unconstitutional and violated federal law. At Law Dork, I dive in:

"..it's these gigantic planes dropping gigantic bombs .. they have shock waves in a city of 15 million people. They've bombed 10 hospitals already, neonatal units, schools, 181 kids under the age of 10 have already been documented as having died. Over a thousand civilians have already died."

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

Daily reminders of what we’re up against, pretty much for the rest of our lives.

Textbook corruption

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

"The Republik investigation itself is genuinely worth reading, and not just because Palantir desperately doesn’t want you to."

Stay strong Kansas.

@wyden.senate.gov @johnlarsonct.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: The Justice Department sued five new states Thursday demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I have a lot of Trump supporters very mad at me

Note that the bail decision does not involve the DA or the defense attorney. Up to two weeks in jail based off the testimony of the police alone, before an ill-trained judge. One journalist once told me he heard a magistrate defend the system on the grounds of "what's two weeks in jail? NBD."

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

Still, Laura Burns name was removed from the credits. The single mother who made the expose of Andrew and Epstein possible was not on any of the BAFTA award submissions either. To call her erasure unfair is to put it mildly.

"The Rule Was Issued Despite Overwhelming Opposition... ..Pretends that a Completely Different President Is in the White House... ..Pretends Politicization Is Not Occurring... ..Misrepresents and Ignores Actual Research ...Is Moving toward the Claim that the Civil Service is Unconstitutional"

Divest from ChatGPT if you haven’t already. Support programs that help support & defend survivors instead, like RAINN:

Thank you podcasters letting this man cook.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

If you are in Tennessee, call 844-HELP4TN to speak to a licensed Tennessee attorney who can give you referrals to attorneys in your area. "ambulance chasing" is illegal, real attorneys will never do this.

Palantir's most recent scandal, covertly working with Topham Guerin to discredit the work of Good Law Project, is just the latest in a career littered with this kind of activity, beginning with the "Team Themis" scandal in 2011. They've been doing this for decades. goodlawproject.org/how-palantir...

Indeed, The Guardian ignores the fact that The Guardian's own political editor was about to print the smears of Josh Simons and Labour Together as the latter tried to shut down Paul Holden's investigation - as Holden himself points out on p1 of his book The Fraud. h/t Nicholas Guyatt

The world is starting to see the disgraceful, underhand & undemocratic behaviour of Josh Simons & Labour Together. This is largely thanks to the courageous journalism of Paul Holden. Buy his excellent book, The Fraud @orbooks.bsky.social here: orbooks.com/catalog/the-... 🧵 1/4

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

”Instead of leading the opposition to Trump’s crypto plans, many prominent Democrats have stood meekly by—or worse, encouraged them.” Economist Gerald Epstein on the pro-crypto interests behind the White House’s deregulatory project:

"So the first point is to escape the mental trap ... that we have a spontaneous tendency towards this capitalist economy. What I show in the book is that capitalism is far from spontaneous. It requires constant violent enforcement of those policies of austerity to preserve the system in place."

Listen closely to every word of this

"After the rapid growth of data centers triggered pushback from politicians, utilities and local residents over the pressures they place on the grid, tech companies are now building their own fleet of private power plants, mostly fueled by natural gas."

"I would love that understanding that this isn't an either/or. You can have those kind of street level reassuring patrols to stop phone theft while also having really well resourced, well-intelligenced law enforcement agencies going after the kingpins who are moving this money."

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"Howard Lutnik,.., his financial institution, Kant Fitzgerald, provided banking services for Tether essentially managed to keep them on the road for a long time. And and if they do float this company, his family will probably make something around profit of around $25 billion from doing that."

if any reporters want to chat about this, you know where to find me :)

"...the support network for the world's worst people. This is what allows terrorism to happen.. cartels to happen...people trafficking to happen is because they are able to take their wealth, feed it into this underground financial system, move it around a lot and then make it look legitimate.."

Presenting the Big Tech Lobby Playbook. An exploration of "the tools and tactics of Big Tech’s global influence over law and policymaking." www.somo.nl/presenting-t...

"Lobbying might become redundant if a small group of actors controls the information flows and algorithms that shape elections, not just laws."

"Participants hope to create unpowered networks of sensors and tags, to gather operational information about machinery and infrastructure without the need for human intervention. The consortium also sees a role for this tech to gather data to feed into machine learning systems.."

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