Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
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Three Indian sailors were killed in a U.S. operation to enforce its blockade of Iran, an Indian official said.
For weeks, the activist disappeared from all tracking systems. The best Muhammad’s supporters could ascertain by early April was that they had been transferred to a “confidential location.” interc.pt/4ek7IQQ
This bizarrely cruel activity is brought to you by Donald Trump and his Supreme Court.
Look … we can’t see quotes like this guy, on the bottom, and be surprised anymore. Just read from The Intercept that is immediately above it.
This is the character of people at the switch.
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"I think everybody knows instinctively, something is wrong here, and that’s a concern” -- House Speaker Mike Johnson
Unconscionable: ICE deported one the organizers of the Union of People Kidnapped by ICE, Rogelio Bolufe Izquierdo, after he organized a hunger strike at the Tacoma, WA. detention camp. Bolufe Izquierdo is a Cuban national. They deported him to Guayaquil, Ecuador.
A terrific mural of ANTHONY BOURDAIN — Coin Street, London
This entire, miserable political party is so hyper-fixated on attacking trans people that even when they face a straight, white male like James Talarico, they don't know how to do anything except to pretend he's transgender
She's straightforwardly saying schools’ federal funds are at risk unless they reduce their Black student population to something Trump is more comfortable with
By design, the safest way for schools to avoid suspicion is to not admit Black students at all
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The deaths are the first known to have occurred from U.S. action to enforce its blockade.
Half the Answer #87: Why has Bari Weiss, a liberal-presenting Trump sycophant, been handed the reins to CBS News? What does her time running the Free Press tell us about how she thinks about "doing the f--king news," which is to say, journalism? Radley Balko joins Trent and Caitlin.
Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.
Not only are there multiple hunger strikes, prisoners in two ICE gulags in two different states recently formed La Union de Secuestrados por ICE, or the Union of People Kidnapped by ICE. The bravery of detainees taking collective action is off the charts.
This kind of post is so gross, it makes me truly hate Texas politics.
