George Zornick
@gzornick.bsky.social
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US political enterprise editor, The Guardian 🦬🦬🦬
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🚨🚨 We are hiring a White House enterprise reporter -- a fantastic opportunity to do original coverage of the Trump administration for the Guardian.
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
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White House Enterprise Reporter
The Guardian is a global, reader-funded news organization that delivers fearless, independent journalism. From breaking news and award-winning investigations, to in-depth coverage of technology, sport...
https://workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/editorial/washington-dc-united-states/white-house-enterprise-reporter/1153
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Whoever made today's Wordle is just angry at the world.
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Undersecretary Michael’s profits in xAI — reportedly up to $24 million — get some scrutiny.
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Get Akbar's book!
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about 2 months ago
I think this is worth a listen/view for understanding the trap of escalation in Iran.
#WITHPod
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‘Longtime DISASTER’: Political science professor Robert Pape discusses war in Iran with Chris Hayes
YouTube video by MS NOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OW4UUmEaQE
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The Guardian has obtained the missing 302s from the Epstein files, describing accusations against Donald Trump. Story from
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor
Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/trump-epstein-files-fbi?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Will Craft
3 months ago
The Guardian has a blockbuster analysis of rhetoric in the UK parliament. A very cool look into language and political debate:
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How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis
In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2026/feb/25/how-rightwing-rhetoric-has-risen-sharply-in-the-uk-parliament-an-exclusive-visual-analysis
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Julia Carrie Wong
3 months ago
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling
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Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation
Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/jeffrey-epstein-cbp-officer-st-thomas
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I already fret about different ways I could die, I didn’t need “Pete Hegseth incinerates my Southwest flight with a laser”
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Jose Pagliery
3 months ago
Tulsi Gabbard went straight to Susie Wiles! This is... not how sensitive intel is supposed to be handled. What a scoop from
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
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Christopher Mathias
4 months ago
No game for my beloved Buffalo Bills today after heartbreaking loss last wknd (that was NOT an interception). Instead of drowning in sorrow, gonna tell story of a great Buffalo victory: when city got together to unmask white supremacists. No, not ICE (we’ll get to them later) but the 1920s Klan.
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Lydia Polgreen
4 months ago
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive. by
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www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Made A ‘Perfect Storm’ Even More Deadly — And The 'Shame And Humiliation' Is Hard To Fathom
A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-south-sudan-usaid_n_69497c2ce4b0c3ddb2231ae5
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Adam Serwer
4 months ago
I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
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‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/media/cbs-evening-news-bari-weiss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.VDJQ.0WgSSItp7vxi&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Matt Novak
7 months ago
"Several sources say CIA officials have been trying to play a more central role in the foreign policy objectives of the Trump administration in the hemisphere."
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CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say
Exclusive: sources say the agency is providing real-time intelligence collected by satellites and signal intercepts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/us-strikes-caribbean-cia-role
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Anna Bower
7 months ago
The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Phil Lewis
8 months ago
The Trump admin told furloughed workers to set out-of-office email messages blaming Dems for the shutdown, according to an email obtained by
@jamieson.bsky.social
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Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown
One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of-office-email-government-shutdown_n_68dd73b8e4b06c0a3a8c12e3
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn
8 months ago
Every time you hear Trump, Vance or a GOP leader talk about “illegal aliens” getting health care, remember they are trying desperately to dodge blame for an insurance premium jump about to hit 20M+ Americans Also they are lying
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The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie
No, Democrats aren’t trying to fund health care for “illegal aliens.”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/republican-trump-gop-government-shutdown-argument-illegal-aliens-is-giant-lie?r=f7jf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Jacqueline Sweet
8 months ago
NEW: A young new associate deputy attorney general at the DOJ directing US attorneys to call repeated grand juries if they don't get indictments in DC, and to prioritize charges against protesters in LA, was convicted of a DUI while a federal prosecutor. /
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US justice department official pleaded guilty to DUI charge four years ago
Aakash Singh’s elevation to high-ranking post is unusual in light of arrest, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/23/doj-official-dui
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Alanna Vagianos
8 months ago
It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.
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Democrats Urge Trump Administration To Stop ICE Arrests Of Pregnant Women
It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-urge-trump-admin-to-stop-ice-arrests-of-pregnant-women_n_68c43be8e4b0b50574083c8c?4zq
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Michael
8 months ago
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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Chris Hayes
8 months ago
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
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Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/trump-globalx-airline-deportation-immigration
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Excited to get started at the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/guardian-us-...
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The Guardian announces formation of new US political enterprise team
George Zornick and Aram Roston appointed amid increased investment in the Guardian’s US operation
https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-us-press-office/2025/aug/18/guardian-announces-new-us-political-enterprise-team
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed
10 months ago
In Gaza, reports a high-ranking UN official now being forced out of his job by Israeli pressure, “I have seen first-hand what appears to be the systematic dismantling of the means to sustain Palestinian life.”
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I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/03/gaza-aid-israel-authorities-hospitals
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Jerce Reyes Barrios describes his time in CECOT - powerful reporting from
@jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
@mattshuham.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
10 months ago
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Jessica Schulberg
10 months ago
At the end of a very intense interview, we asked Jerce if there was anything else he wanted our readers to know. He smiled and said, "Just that even with everything I’ve gone through, I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid.”
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Jessica Schulberg
10 months ago
Jerce was accused of being a gang member based on a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock-and-roll" hand gesture he made on social media years ago. For this, he was disappeared from the US and sent to one of the most infamous prisons in the world, where he endured "countless" beatings
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Jessica Schulberg
10 months ago
pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social
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Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There
“Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-soccer-player-cecot-experience-trump_n_688ced10e4b09332e3ae150b
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After 6 incredible years, today is my last day at HuffPost. I was blessed with the very best team - reporters who covered the hell out of a pandemic, mass civil rights movement in the streets, an election, an insurrection, and then the return of Trump.
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A powerful story from
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, bearing witness to what's happening in immigration courts as people that show up for hearings are snatched by federal agents:
www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...
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I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like.
"This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/five-days-in-new-york-city-immigration-court-federal-agents_n_68640763e4b0aa65edbb4642
10 months ago
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Sarah Posner
10 months ago
Man, the kicker on Adam Shatz's latest: "In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier."
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Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n13/adam-shatz/the-world-since-7-october
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Matt Shuham
10 months ago
One of the men
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and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:
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onion person
11 months ago
i love how insane everyone is becomeing
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11 months ago
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Brady Klopfer
11 months ago
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
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Justin Baragona
11 months ago
Trump is gonna make Karoline Leavitt do a Sean Spicer later tonight.
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Jen Bendery
11 months ago
This was the crowd by the main stage at the military festival a bit ago.
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Governor Tim Walz
11 months ago
I will provide an update on last night’s targeted shootings shortly:
youtube.com/live/VHtHNAb...
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State officials provide update on overnight incidents in Brooklyn Park, Champlin
YouTube video by Minnesota Department of Public Safety
https://youtube.com/live/VHtHNAbFnow?feature=share
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Sounds of explosions heard in Iran's capital, Tehran. JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister announces 'special situation' after Israeli attack on Iran.
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Paul Blumenthal
11 months ago
The essence of Trumpism is the declaration of domestic war on his political opponents and disfavored racial, cultural and ethnic groups and the creation of a police state. The means is mass deportation. The end: the destruction of the liberal order.
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Trump's Real War Is Against America
What Trump is doing in Los Angeles is a warning for the rest of the nation.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-los-angeles-military_n_68487014e4b0682b100c4d80?lp
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Chris Hayes
12 months ago
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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I sometimes tell aspiring journalists there's no point studying communications if you have nothing to communicate - augment your courses with political science, economics, earth sciences, whatever you are interested in. Anyway!
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Alanna Vagianos
12 months ago
NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago. I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten.
www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...
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Jessica Schulberg
about 1 year ago
Honored that this story won a
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award, and is a finalist for an
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award — I want to take the opportunity to share an update on Tremane's case
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