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Nate Rogers
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After Jason Lee opened a camera shop in Eagle Rock, I thought, man, that'd be a fun story to do. I did not know that it would eventually lead to him threatening to take me to court. For
@defector.com
, the whole bloody affair:
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A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector
If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” pai...
https://defector.com/a-complimentary-profile-of-jason-lee-that-was-surprisingly-difficult-to-publish
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Aaron Schaffer
28 days ago
I've been on a different team than this group for years but I've (greedily) tried to work with them as much as possible because they're an awe-inspiring group of journalists and so fun to work with. Hire them ASAP or you'll be sorry!
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Naomi Nix
27 days ago
I remain as hungry as I have ever been to pursue deeply, consequential journalism. Please send any job openings, freelance opportunities, or news tips to
[email protected]
or Signal at naominixwrites.66
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Defector
28 days ago
What we loved about Dan McQuade:
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What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuade’s funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Dan’s widow Jan,...
https://defector.com/what-we-loved-about-dan-mcquade
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Susan Rinkunas
29 days ago
"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-amazon-beat-reporter-1236651840/
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John Williams
29 days ago
Definitely worth noting since it wasn't announced in that way.
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Joseph Menn
29 days ago
Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
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Tatum Hunter
29 days ago
Lost my job at the Washington Post today, along with many of the best in the business. I want to keep covering tech and the internet. If you have leads on jobs for me or my colleagues, please reach out. I’m so proud of our work.
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nitasha tiku
29 days ago
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's
@washingtonpost.com
. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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Tom Ley
about 1 month ago
I’ve been thinking about Dan non-stop, and what I’ve come to understand is just how much I admired him. Dan built his life and moved through the world in a way I wish I could emulate more easily. I’ll keep trying, and in moments when I succeed I’ll think of him again.
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Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
https://defector.com/dan-mcquade-1983-2026
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Defector
about 1 month ago
Prediction markets are betting on a grim future:
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Prediction Markets Are Betting On A Grim Future | Defector
During last summer’s NBA Finals, a fully AI-generated commercial featuring people in man-on-the-street interviews yelling towards the camera about all the things they were going to bet on (football…
https://defector.com/prediction-markets-are-betting-on-a-grim-future
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Scott Nover
about 1 month ago
NEW: Trump has ramped up lawsuits against the media. Here’s where they stand. A new lawsuit tracker from me and
@laurawags.bsky.social
for the
@washingtonpost.com
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www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump has ramped up lawsuits against the media. Here’s where they stand.
While the president has settled some suits, and judges have dismissed others, his court fights continue with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/25/trump-media-lawsuits/
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Tom Scocca
about 1 month ago
Just reading the affidavits from the pediatrician and the kids' facepaint artist about what they saw when the federal agents killed the nurse outside the donut shop
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Defector
about 2 months ago
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams launched a memecoin to combat antisemitism, and someone connected to the coin's launch appears to have executed a clean rug pull within an hour of its launch, making off with roughly $1 million. Maybe they felt antisemitism had been solved?
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Let Your Buyers Become Your Criers When You Pull The Rug Out From Beneath The Table Of Success | Defector
I have some unsurprising news: Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched a memecoin to combat antisemitism, and someone connected to the coin’s launch appears to have executed a clean rug pull…
https://defector.com/let-your-buyers-become-your-criers-when-you-pull-the-rug-out-from-beneath-the-table-of-success
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Drew Harwell
about 2 months ago
Guards may have choked a man to death inside an ICE tent encampment on the Mexican border. Had three children, been in the U.S. for 30 years.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
@douglasmac.bsky.social
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Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/
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Andrew Couts
about 2 months ago
NEW: It's not just Jonathan Ross—or even the Trump administration. Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed at least 25 people. Not a single one appears to have faced criminal charges.
@lilahassan.bsky.social
reports:
www.wired.com/story/why-ic...
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Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity
Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-ice-can-kill-with-impunity/
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Laura Jedeed
about 2 months ago
A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate
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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
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Jason Koebler
about 2 months ago
use your eyes
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/
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"At Turning Point, she works for the 'Frontlines' division—which, she said, is dedicated to 'neutral,' fact-based reporting, providing the ostensible newsroom of an enterprise otherwise focused vociferously on opinions."
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Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez on her journalistic position.
Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez on her journalistic position.
https://www.cjr.org/feature/savannah-hernandez-turning-point-usa-canal-street-ice-raid-law-and-order-influencer.php
about 2 months ago
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Jameel Jaffer
2 months ago
Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
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Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/nyregion/mamdani-revoke-israel-orders.html
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Mehdi Hasan
2 months ago
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
https://zeteo.com/p/venezuela-attack-trump-maduro-oil
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The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-recruiting-brochure-for-new
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Scott Nover
2 months ago
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with
@liamjscott.bsky.social
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/21/cbs-news-bari-weiss-intervention/
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“It gave people cover — you could send her stuff around even if you wouldn’t be comfortable saying those things yourself."
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Bari Weiss in Wonderland
Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return to New York.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bari-weiss-cbs-news-comeback-new-york-return.html
3 months ago
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How Trump’s tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI
President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting states’ power to regulate AI split his supporters and highlighted Silicon Valley’s growing influence over his agenda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/14/trump-ai-executive-order-divisions/
3 months ago
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Defector
3 months ago
Sources: The opening domino of the 2025 Shamsy selection process has fallen invariably, will spawn numerous pathways for unique news
defector.com/nothing-but-...
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Sources: The Opening Domino Of The 2025 Shamsy Selection Process Has Fallen Invariably, Will Spawn Numerous Pathways For Unique News | Defector
The year is progressing along in its ramp-down process, according to the calendar. Fittingly, and justifiably, given the gulf between the iron-fisted thrall of winter and the honey-laden proceedings…
https://defector.com/nothing-but-respect-2025-shamsy
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Johana Bhuiyan
3 months ago
New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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ICE is tracking pregnant women all the way to the delivery room: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labour and delivery
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/10/ice-tracking-pregnant-women?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Defector
3 months ago
'Train Dreams' is afraid of its own shadow:
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‘Train Dreams’ Is Afraid Of Its Own Shadow | Defector
By now, you have probably heard about Train Dreams. Since premiering this past January at Sundance, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella has been lauded by critics, screened at…
https://defector.com/train-dreams-is-afraid-of-its-own-shadow
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Review | Olivia Nuzzi tries and fails to save her reputation in ‘American Canto’
The flashy reporter who lost her job at New York magazine over a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returns with a memoir light on gossip — and reckoning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/02/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-memoir-review/
3 months ago
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"The arbitrator found POLITICO violated the collective bargaining agreement when it launched two AI-driven products [...] without providing required notice, bargaining, or human oversight, as required by the contract."
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PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
This decision marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalists' work.
https://wbng.org/2025/12/01/pen-guild-wins-landmark-arbitration-on-ai-protections/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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“It’s frankly embarrassing that executives would make baseless claims about a fact-checker.”
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Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing
The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/21/conde-nast-new-yorker-firings-labor-dispute/
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Julia Carrie Wong
4 months ago
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/mahmood-mamdani-father-interview-zohran
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Courtney Milan
4 months ago
This really feels like we are at the Bored Ape stage
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Made for each other! Rooting for those two crazy kids
4 months ago
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Julie Kliegman
4 months ago
Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for
@defector.com
, would mean a lot if you give it a read
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What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...
https://defector.com/what-does-a-great-trans-athlete-deserve?giftLink=1b5908e0eb15385b7517d95a4bdf6b70
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Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist's Child Doesn't Care About Sports Gambling | Defector
In the final hours before the Nov. 1 UFC bout between featherweights Isaac Dulgarian and Yadier Del Valle, the betting odds on Dulgarian, the favorite, abruptly dropped from -250, meaning a bettor wou...
https://defector.com/everybody-stand-down-new-yorker-columnists-child-doesnt-care-about-sports-gambling
4 months ago
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh
4 months ago
BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the
@post-gazette.com
to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Scott Nover
4 months ago
New with
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>> Bari Weiss was hired to remake CBS News — and she's already doing it. Staffers are weathering a flurry of layoffs, shifting resources and a cultural collision with Weiss’s ideas for the news. Our latest in
@washingtonpost.com
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Bari Weiss was hired to remake CBS News. Here’s how it’s working out so far.
Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/07/bari-weiss-cbs-news-remake/
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Caroline Haskins
4 months ago
SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
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Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
4 months ago
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/wealth-billionaires-increase-trump
4 months ago
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Scott Nover
4 months ago
Longtime CBS News journalist John Dickerson, the co-anchor of the CBS Evening News, announced he is leaving the network. He's the first major CBS News on-air talent to resign since David Ellison and Bari Weiss took charge. Latest with
@laurawags.bsky.social
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@washingtonpost.com
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John Dickerson announces he’s leaving CBS News
The evening news co-anchor is stepping down amid big changes at the top of the network.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/27/dickerson-cbs-news-paramount/
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Zeteo
4 months ago
“My findings were beyond reasonable doubt that this was an intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.” Retired Army Colonel Steve Gabavics tells
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
that the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, was intentional according to his findings. Watch the episode:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-a...
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The Drift
5 months ago
“If Mamdani is elected, the most reactionary voices in the department will have their knives out.” In a new preview from Issue Sixteen,
@k80way.bsky.social
considers Bill de Blasio’s relationship with the NYPD, and what lies ahead for Zohran Mamdani:
www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-...
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Walking the Thin Blue Line
Bill de Blasio, Zohran Mamdani, and the NYPD
https://www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-thin-blue-line/
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patrick
5 months ago
Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great
@tcraggs22.bsky.social
. Subscribe now, Or Else!!!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small. Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/only-if-you-get-caught/id1826568874
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Jewish Currents
5 months ago
"I announced, in case some camera somewhere was rolling, “I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, 'We don’t give a fuck,' and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port."
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Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity
A journalist captured on a flotilla mission recounts treatment at the hands of the Israeli navy, border police, and prison guards.
https://jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-hours-in-israeli-captivity
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Chris Morran
5 months ago
NEW: Among the 170+ US citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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