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The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 18h

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

He studies fascism. Is he now living through it?

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Schuyler Mitchell @schuylermitchell.bsky.social · 22h

A professor had to flee the country last week after receiving death threats for his work on antifa. I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about his experience being targeted by the far-right and what the history of fascism can teach us about this moment.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

After death threats for his work on antifascism, a Rutgers University professor fled the United States. "It's too late for preventative antifascism," he said. "I think we're in a new era."

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 22h

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder

Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder

Jared Leto, actor

Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson

Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a secretive firm called First Wap ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 1d

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse.

Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

she's just so happy to be there

AI image of a crowd with two identical smiling women in different rows

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

flannel and hat dude really into whatever's to his right

An AI image of a crowd with two of the same dude with a red flannel hat and red ski cap

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

twins!

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

must have the same illness

Another AI image of a basketball fan with disturbing markings

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

poor guy

AI image of a basketball fan with disturbing markings all over

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, I'm worried about the fans sitting behind me in the SeatGeek view-from-my-seat

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

A tiny firm with no experience, but lots of Trumpworld ties, got a massive contract from DHS. A rival says the award was rushed and "unlawful."

Massive DHS "self-deportation" contract challenged as secretive and "unlawful"

The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 4d

Joseph Ladapo was once a successful normie: A Harvard Medical School grad w/ faculty positions at NYU & UCLA

Then his wife & an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru came along 👀

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I on the pair of mystics who seem to lack any Western medical training yet have inspired FL's top doc:

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

About draining the swamp… bit.ly/3KZni9g

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

The growing surveillance infrastructure could be “deployed by an authoritarian executive to coerce and control the US population at scale” (2/x)

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

How a lobbying shop with deep ties to Trumpworld helped land a lucrative no-bid ICE deal for a company that for years had struggled to break into federal contracting (1/x)

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

In July, a subcontractor died in a workplace accident.
In August, Fort Bliss began accepting immigrant detainees.
In September, ICE’s own inspectors found that conditions at the facility violated at least 60 federal standards for immigrant detention. (4/4)

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

The Navy’s deal with Acquisition Logistics to build a detention facility at Fort Bliss is akin to “a guy who is running a one-taxi firm” getting a “giant transportation contract” (3/x)

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

“It’s weird.”
“It seems messy.”
That’s what experts had to say about the $1.3 billion contract handed to a tiny firm called Acquisition Logistics to run a detention facility at Texas’ Fort Bliss Army base. (2/x)

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO Ken Wagner is circling retirement at 77. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility? (1/x)

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 5d

Very helpful visuals of ICE's enormous expansion due to the BBB by @motherjones.com : www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

Seizing the Means of Reproduction

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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 5d

I joined @juliekkohler.bsky.social on the White Picket Fence podcast to discuss the growing pronatalist movement: who's behind it, what it stands for, and its links to Christian Nationalism. Listen here: lnk.to/wpf-ep3

Lately, our government has seemed a little...baby crazy. President Trump declared he will be the "fertilization president." Vice President JD Vance announced he wants to see "more babies in the United...

lnk.to

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 5d

Did you hear about the tiny company based out of a random house in Virginia that won $1.3 billion to build an ICE detention center?

How did it get that deal? Turns out a lot of the money is going to a bigger firm—whose owner is friendly with the Trump fam. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile, red-state governors have been gleefully proposing their own versions of Alligator Alcatraz, with alliterative names such as “Cornhusker Clink” (Nebraska) and “Speedway Slammer” (Indiana) (6/6) bit.ly/48SIJCP

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

At 13 feet above sea level and surrounded by swampland, Alligator Alcatraz is vulnerable to hurricanes and tropical storms, which hit the area every two years on average. (Officials claim the site can withstand a Category 2 storm.) (5/x)

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.