Ali Gharib
@ali-gharib.theintercept.com
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Ali Gharib
Akela Lacy
10 months ago
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him.
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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
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Heard a tourist refer to the dreaded, adjacent neighborhood as "Doom-bo" and it warmed my heart.
about 2 years ago
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My new troll for 2024 is that whenever someone messages me about being in LA i'm gonna say "Louisiana or Los Angeles?"
about 2 years ago
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Josh Gondelman
about 2 years ago
I have updated my newsletter's Year In Review (
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) to reflect an overlooked accomplishment. (Singing the praises of Polar Seltzer for Slate.)
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One Seltzer Brand Towers Above the Rest—and It’s Not Even Close
I don’t even have words for the seasonal flavors.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/07/best-seltzer-sparkling-water-soda-ranking-polar-la-croix.html
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Samhita ironically used the word “HERSTORY” in a tweet and I admonished her to use the gender-neutral “thistory.”
about 2 years ago
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Just found an IG account that’s basically all donkeys at a ranch braying.
about 2 years ago
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I need to get back to posting here. How y'all been?
about 2 years ago
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Ali Gharib
Brendan C. Byrne
about 2 years ago
since Garland's CIVIL WAR trailer is making people React, here's my piece on the Speculative American Civil War novel
@ali-gharib.theintercept.com
let me write in '17
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The Speculative Civil War Novel Comes Home
Christopher Brown's "Tropic of Kansas" and Omar El Akkad's "American War" reimagine speculative secession novels with haunting overtones for the Trump era.
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/14/tropic-of-kansas-american-war-el-akkad-book-review/
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Why isn't everyone on here fighting about Israel? What kind of twitter clone is this???
over 2 years ago
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Here's
@sambiddle.bsky.social
on the mysterious funding behind the group trying to trade your digital security in the name of a far-reaching campaign against sex abuse: New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed by U.S. Political Dark-Money Network
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New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed by U.S. Political Dark-Money Network
The Heat Initiative, formed to attack Apple encryption in the name of stopping child abuse, is part of a political dark-money network.
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/01/apple-encryption-iphone-heat-initiative/
over 2 years ago
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Wild scoop from
@natashalennard.bsky.social
about the extent to which the far-right is willing to go in their vigilante campaign against abortion rights: Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court
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Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court
The lawyer behind Texas's bounty hunter abortion ban is retaliating against people who get abortions and those who help them.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/29/texas-abortion-funds-patient-information/
over 2 years ago
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Hawley took campaign cash from the Big Three and took a bunch of anti-union positions. Now he wants you to believe he's pro-worker.
@premthakker.bsky.social
has the details:
theintercept.com/2023/09/29/j...
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Sen. Josh Hawley Received Campaign Donations From General Motors and Ford
The senator, who joined striking UAW workers on the picket line this week, no longer accepts money from corporate PACs.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/29/josh-hawley-gm-ford-donations-uaw-strike/
over 2 years ago
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Menendez Indictment Looks a Lot Like Egypt Recruiting Intelligence Source, Say a Bunch of Former CIA Officials
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
&
@drboguslaw.bsky.social
report:
theintercept.com/2023/09/27/m...
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Menendez Indictment Looks Like Egypt Recruiting Intelligence Source, Say Former CIA Officials
The indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez looks like an effort by Egyptian intelligence to recruit a spy, former CIA officials said.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/27/menendez-indictment-egypt-intelligence/
over 2 years ago
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Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It Codenamed GAMECHANGER, an AI program helps the military make sense of its own “byzantine” and “tedious” bureaucracy. by
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/20/p...
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Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It
The Pentagon budget is so bloated that the Department of Defense built an AI program called GAMECHANGER to make sense of all its policies.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/20/pentagon-ai-budget-gamechanger/
over 2 years ago
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Uninvited and Unaccountable: How CBP Policed George Floyd Protests Thousands of pages of newly released documents detail CBP’s involvement in policing the 2020 racial justice protests. by
@premthakker.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/21/c...
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Uninvited and Unaccountable: How CBP Policed George Floyd Protests
Thousands of pages of newly released documents detail CBP’s involvement in policing the 2020 racial justice protests.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/21/cbp-george-floyd-protests/
over 2 years ago
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AIPAC Targets Black Democrats — While the Congressional Black Caucus Stays Silent AIPAC has given at least $3.6 million to the CBC’s old guard since last year, while members of the Squad draw the Israel lobby’s ire. by
@akelalacy.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/21/a...
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AIPAC Targets Black Democrats — While the Congressional Black Caucus Stays Silent
AIPAC has given at least $3.6 million to the CBC’s old guard since last year, while members of the Squad draw the Israel lobby’s ire.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/21/aipac-cbc-progressive-black-democrats/
over 2 years ago
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UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.” by
@drboguslaw.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/21/u...
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UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.”
“Telling workers they’ll be fired for striking is violating federal labor law, and that’s not something becoming of a senator.”
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/21/uaw-strike-tim-scott/
over 2 years ago
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Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal Leaked documents show how the U.S. helped Pakistan get a bailout from the International Monetary Fund through a secret arms deal to Ukraine. Deconstructed podcast with
@ryangrim.bsky.social
@mazmhussain.bsky.social
& Arif Rafiq
theintercept.com/2023/09/22/d...
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Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal
Leaked documents show how the U.S. helped Pakistan get a bailout from the International Monetary Fund through a secret arms deal to Ukraine.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/22/deconstructed-pakistan-us-arms-deal-ukraine/
over 2 years ago
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Menendez “Appreciated” Meeting With Egypt Dictator Amid Alleged Bribes for Arms Sales Sen. Robert Menendez was indicted Friday for taking bribes to approve arms sales to Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. by
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/22/m...
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Menendez "Appreciated" Meeting With Egypt Dictator Amid Alleged Bribes for Arms Sales
A federal indictment says Sen. Bob Menendez took bribes in exchange for approving weapons sales to Egypt’s dictatorship.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/22/menendez-indictment-egypt/
over 2 years ago
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North Carolina GOP Hides Redistricting Process From State Public Records Law The change, snuck into the state budget at the last minute, will shield lawmakers from scrutiny in a state with a history of partisan gerrymandering. by
@schuylermitchell.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/22/n...
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North Carolina GOP Hides Redistricting Process From State Public Records Law
Republicans in North Carolina shielded the redistricting process from the public records law in a state with a history of gerrymandering.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/22/north-carolina-redistricting-public-records/
over 2 years ago
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The Secret History of How the Super-Rich Have Kept the Working Class Out of Work Tim Gurner, the viral Australian multimillionaire who wants more workers to be unemployed, was debunked by an economist in 1943. by
@schwarz.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/23/t...
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The Secret History of How the Super-Rich Have Kept the Working Class Out of Work
In a viral speech, the Australian multimillionaire argued for more unemployment as a corrective to workers’ attitudes toward employers.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/
over 2 years ago
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Omg what is going on? Is the EARTH in retrograde???
over 2 years ago
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Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three by
@ryangrim.bsky.social
and
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/15/u...
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Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three
A UAW official said the union’s paid Twitter account was verified until Friday morning, hours after the strike began.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/15/uaw-strike-twitter-verification-elon-musk/
over 2 years ago
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The death penalty is so noxious that even giant corporations don't want to be involved: Companies Already Ban the Use of Their Drugs for Lethal Injection. Now They’re Blocking IV Equipment. by Lauren Gill & Daniel Moritz-Rabson
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Manufacturers Say States Can’t Use Their IV Equipment for Lethal Injection
Companies already ban the use of their drugs for lethal injection. Now they’re blocking IV equipment.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/14/lethal-injection-medical-equipment/
over 2 years ago
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"Public defenders across America regularly work triple the cases they can effectively handle, and some work upwards of 10 times too many cases"
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Public defenders work 3 times too many cases, milestone study and new data show
https://www.stltoday.com/news/nation-world/crime-courts/public-defenders-attorneys-dangerously-overworked/article_5a63628b-63d0-56dc-bc91-ce908820ac75.html
over 2 years ago
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Ali Gharib
David Klion
over 2 years ago
Rarely have I said yes as quickly or enthusiastically to an assignment as when The Baffler asked me to review Marty Peretz's memoir
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Everybody Hates Marty | David Klion
Martin Peretz still has something to say—but is anyone listening?
https://thebaffler.com/latest/everybody-hates-marty-klion
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Trump Lawyer Cleta Mitchell Escaped Georgia Indictment — and Still Leads Election Denial Movement Here's Andy Donohue reporting in
@theintercept.com
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Trump Lawyer Cleta Mitchell Escaped Georgia Indictment — and Still Leads Election Denial Movement
Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell is arguably the most central player in the attempt to steal the 2020 election who isn’t facing prison time.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/13/trump-indictment-cleta-mitchell-election/
over 2 years ago
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A weird thing is the different pronunciations of quixotic and Quixote.
over 2 years ago
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Ali Gharib
Eize Basa
over 2 years ago
This is the Nissan Snail, a small utility van from the late '80s. Except it wasn't actually called the Nissan Snail...its real name was much much better, possibly the greatest corporate product pun ever. This snail-shaped small cargo van was...the Nissan S-Cargo.
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The Biden Administration Is Keeping Thousands of Afghans in Limbo Abroad by Alice Speri in
@theintercept.com
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The Biden Administration Is Keeping Thousands of Afghans in Limbo Abroad
Human rights groups sued government agencies for info about Afghans stuck at processing sites while their applications to come to the U.S. are pending.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/13/afghan-refugee-resettlement-camps/
over 2 years ago
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Tech Companies and Governments Are Censoring the Journalist Collective
@ddosecrets.com
by
@micahflee.com
in
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2023/09/12/d...
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Tech Companies and Governments Are Censoring DDoSecrets
X and Reddit prevent users from sharing links to the nonprofit journalist collective. Russia and Indonesia are also blocking access.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/12/ddosecrets-censorship-reddit-twitter/
over 2 years ago
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A Trump Appointee Is Trying to Gut the FEC’s Ability to Investigate Campaign Finance Crimes by
@premthakker.bsky.social
in
@theintercept.com
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A Trump Appointee Is Trying to Gut the FEC’s Ability to Investigate Campaign Finance Crimes
A new proposal would require the FEC’s investigators to get explicit approval from the commissioners for any investigative activity, no matter how big or small.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/12/fec-campaign-finance-investigation/
over 2 years ago
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Great colors happening outside right now.
over 2 years ago
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Judge Reverses Course on 2020 Protest Settlement Because Police Union Doesn’t Like It The police union lawyer is the judge's long-time friend with whom she co-hosts a Super Bowl party, and also Ben Smith's dad.
@nickpinto.bsky.social
for
@hellgateny.bsky.social
hellgatenyc.com/police-union...
over 2 years ago
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Remember when I got put on the watch list and had to endure all kinds of (modest) humiliations at airports? Thanks a bunch, Al Qaeda!
over 2 years ago
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reposted by
Ali Gharib
Daniel Harper
over 2 years ago
Excellent piece from
@kellyweill.bsky.social
detailing the ways in which the slightest hints of social democracy put up during the early days of the pandemic are being ripped away at the first of next month. We truly live in hell.
momleft.substack.com/p/at-what-cost
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Ali Gharib
John Washington
over 2 years ago
On how I've been digging into the ongoing spate of deaths in Pima County jail. My latest for
@azluminaria.bsky.social
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Behind-the-scenes of ongoing Pima County jail deaths coverage - AZ Luminaria
How Arizona Luminaria is covering the story of the high rate of deaths in the Pima County jail in Tucson, AZ.
https://azluminaria.org/2023/09/08/behind-the-scenes-of-ongoing-pima-county-jail-deaths-coverage/
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Gen Z Candidate Launches Campaign That Ignores His Generation’s Priorities Democrat Isaiah Martin’s platform for his Texas congressional race indicates support for Israel — and makes no mention of climate change. by
@premthakker.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/07/t...
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Gen Z Candidate Launches Campaign That Ignores His Generation’s Priorities
Democrat Isaiah Martin’s platform for his Texas congressional race indicates support for Israel — and makes no mention of climate change.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/07/texas-congress-campaign-isaiah-martin/
over 2 years ago
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Pentagon Misled Congress About U.S. Bases in Africa by
@nickturse.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/08/a...
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Pentagon Misled Congress About U.S. Bases in Africa
A general failed to mention six U.S. outposts and described a quarter-billion dollar drone hub as “low-cost.”
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/08/africa-air-base-us-military/
over 2 years ago
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Vice Pulled a Documentary Critical of Saudi Arabia. But Here It Is.
@theintercept.com
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Vice Pulled a Documentary Critical of Saudi Arabia. But Here It Is.
Vice’s hard-nosed coverage on Saudi Arabia changed after investment deals with the repressive kingdom. A deleted documentary is not completely gone, however.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/09/vice-deleted-documentary-saudi-arabia/
over 2 years ago
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Top Biden Cyber Official Accused of Workplace Misconduct at NSA in 2014 — and Again at White House Last Year Noah Kulwin &
@sambiddle.bsky.social
report:
theintercept.com/2023/09/06/a...
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Top Biden Cyber Official Accused of Workplace Misconduct at NSA in 2014 — and Again at White House...
Anne Neuberger was accused of workplace misconduct at the NSA in 2014 and, as a top Biden cybersecurity official, again last year at the White House.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/06/anne-neuberger-nsa-cybersecurity/
over 2 years ago
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Never forget.
add a skeleton here at some point
over 2 years ago
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Covid ain't what it used to be.
over 2 years ago
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In Guatemala’s presidential election, the progressive Bernardo Arévalo overcame long odds to restore a distant hope for democracy. But his struggle is only beginning. Victor Blue captures the momentous election in words and photos.
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Bernardo Arévalo and the Restoration of the “Guatemalan Spring”
Guatemalans guarded the memory of democracy through years of war and corruption. Now they see an opening.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/10/bernardo-arevalo-guatemala-election/
over 2 years ago
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Ali Gharib
Parker Molloy
over 2 years ago
I am once again thinking about this deleted 2021 tweet
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Gonna write a big NYT essay about how a Saudi-Israel agreement is great for the US but never mention that it would further entrench a ruthless dictatorship and an apartheid state.
over 2 years ago
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Who sent me cookies?
over 2 years ago
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Honduras Defense Official and U.S. Drug War Ally Tied to Narco-Trafficker Documents & interviews link Col. Elias Melgar Urbina to a convicted drug trafficker and a security company accused of assassinating activists. by Jared Olson &
@jbwashing.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/08/25/h...
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Honduras Defense Official Tied to Drug Trafficker, Mercenary Firm
Elias Melgar Urbina, a U.S. drug war ally, has been linked to a narcotrafficker and a company accused of assassinating activists.
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/25/honduras-military-elias-melgar/
over 2 years ago
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Louisiana Rushes Buildout of Carbon Pipelines, Adding to Dangers Plaguing Cancer Alley by Delaney Nolan in
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2023/08/24/c...
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Louisiana Rushes Buildout of Carbon Pipelines, Adding to Dangers Plaguing Cancer Alley
Residents opposing carbon sequestration projects worry about exploding pipelines and mass asphyxiation from leaks.
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/24/carbon-pipeline-ccs-air-products-louisiana/
over 2 years ago
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