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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 16d
This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Slate @slate.com · 1d
“It obviously would be a presidency-ending scandal in any other administration in history.” slate.trib.al/2kIUqe3
Why Trump Keeps Pardoning Crypto Criminals
Trump’s entry into the predictions market brings things full circle to his ol’ casino days.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11h
UPDATE on U.S. citizen who was shot by ICE in Ontario on Thursday, October 30th, The lawyers representing him are seeking the public’s help for tips, videos, and info identifying the three men stopped and potentially taken by ICE who are witnesses. No one knows what happened to them.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 1d
A reminder of a prior U.S. operation in Nigeria.

"The United States played an unacknowledged role in the 2017 bombing of an internally displaced persons’ camp in Nigeria that killed more than 160 civilians, many of them children." theintercept.com/2022/07/28/n...
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 1d
“Even if Congress authorized it, this would still be illegal under US and international law because we are not in an armed conflict with these cartels,” said @sarajacobs.house.gov. “And so this is just murder.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 23h
The Pentagon officials, in a classified briefing, acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 1d
Kat Abughazaleh on the Right to Protest
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Kat Abughazaleh on the Right to Protest
Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh on why more Democrats aren’t taking direct action and how leaders should be responding to the right.
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 1d
This image perfectly captures the absurdity of it all.
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 1d
"Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE."
sambiddle.com Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 2d
ICE is planning to offer private sector bounty hunters cash bonuses for quickly tracking down the home addresses of immigrants across the US, according to a DHS document I reviewed. ICE encourages potential contractors to use "all technology systems available.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 1d
“Even if Congress authorized it, this would still be illegal under U.S. and international law because we are not in an armed conflict with these cartels,” Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee told The Intercept. “And so this is just murder.”
nickturse.bsky.social Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...
Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who Exactly It’s Killing in Boat Strikes
Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 4d
If six people nonviolently protesting outside an ICE facility constitutes a criminal conspiracy, all First Amendment-protected activity is at risk... latest, on egregious fed charges facing @katmabu.bsky.social, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/29/k...
Feds Say Kat Abughazaleh “Impeded” ICE Agents. That Would Put Her on the Right Side of History.
Kat Abughazaleh allegedly protested in Broadview, Illinois, where ICE was “forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed,” feds said.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 4d
The DOJ indicted a congressional candidate for protesting. Here's what happened: theintercept.com/2025/10/29/k...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 3d
This is how the drug war has obstructed health care.
Episode Four: Criminalizing Care
The remarkable life and cruel death of Peter McWilliams, an AIDS and cancer patient who played a critical role in the legalization of medical marijuana.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 3d
“[Mamdani] fundamentally reconstituted the electorate. … He was able to put together a coalition of, frankly, almost everyone, just other than the very wealthy.”
The Struggle for the Future of the New York Democratic Party
In the final days of the New York City mayoral race, the Democratic Party faces a choice between a future defined by Zohran Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2d
@jonahmv.bsky.social and Matt Sledge discuss the latest on the Gaza “ceasefire,” an eyebrow-raising crypto pardon, and more published on The Intercept this week.
From Trump, With Impunity
Jonah Valdez and Matt Sledge discuss the latest on the Gaza “ceasefire,” an eyebrow-raising crypto pardon, and more published on The Intercept this week.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d
This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.

Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
Speaking at the Univ of Mississippi in Oxford, Vice President JD Vance claimed that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice,” adding that “Christian civilization ended the practice.”
JD Vance talks Israel, abortion, AI and immigration at Ole Miss Turning Point rally
Thousands packed Ole Miss’ pavilion as Vice President JD Vance took unscripted questions on faith, policy and Trump-era politics.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Oklahoma County Judge Susan Stallings recused herself tonight from presiding over the 3rd trial of Richard Glossip, following an all-day hearing probing her impartiality. She's the third judge (and ex-prosecutor) to recuse since the state announced it would retry Glossip. Story to come.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4d
Another illegal US maritime strike—again in the Pacific.

Against a vessel allegedly operated by an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."

Four reported fatalities—dubbed w/o ID or evidence "narco-terrorists."

There's a word for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict.
Earlier today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Eastern Pacific. This vessel, like all the others, was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel—and killed—during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. No U.S. forces were harmed in this strike. The Western Hemisphere is no longer a safe haven for narco-terrorists bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans. The Department of War will continue to hunt them down and eliminate them wherever they operate.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 4d
There’s a lot going on in this godforsaken country but if you have found yourself wondering “What’s up with Richard Glossip’s case?” here you go. My latest for @theintercept.com:
Her Mentor Sent Richard Glossip to Death Row. Can She Give Him a Fair Trial?
Judge Susan Stallings refuses to recuse herself from the third trial of Richard Glossip, despite her ties to the Oklahoma County DA’s office.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 4d
Update: The charges against Larry Bushart Jr have been dropped! About time.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d
New: After acquiring The Free Press for $150 million, Paramount is officially carrying out layoffs, including at CBS.

CEO David Ellison (son of second richest person on Earth) says in internal memo they are phasing out roles “no longer aligned with our evolving priorities.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d
noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people
convolutedname.bsky.social Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4d
it is mostly driven by this guy who represents large dollar donors.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d
CBS News' Race & Culture unit is cut.

Weiss criticized it last year after it met with Tony Dokoupil, who ignored show plan & said Ta-Nehisi Coates's book could be "in the backpack of an extremist."

Now: Unit cut & Dokoupil just did a softball Netanyahu interview right before Israel broke ceasefire
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d
Cuomo’s closing pitch is just gutter racism against his opponent bsky.app/profile/bfis...
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