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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

New from me:

Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.

This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

Accusing Jordan Silverman

A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · 7d

More than a decade ago, the Pentagon hired a team to interview dozens of high-ranking ex-narcos sitting in U.S. prisons

The report never saw the light of day—until @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social got his hands on it!

via @theintercept.com, with contributions by me theintercept.com/2025/10/26/d...

Internal Report Shows the Military Always Wanted to Join the Drug War

An Obama-era Pentagon report called for “direct military action” in the drug war, presaging Trump’s brazen strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

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Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · 9d

I obtained a report funded by the Pentagon under Obama on drug cartels. Researchers interviewed dozens of high-level traffickers in US custody, then tailored what they were told to what the generals wanted to hear

For @theintercept.com w/ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social

theintercept.com/2025/10/26/d...

Internal Report Shows the Military Always Wanted to Join the Drug War

An Obama-era Pentagon report called for “direct military action” in the drug war, presaging Trump’s brazen strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

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Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 29d

‘If you spend that much time thinking about the worst, most transgressive thing you could do in any given moment, that feeling eventually hardens into desire.’

Max Pearl on Samanta Schweblin's ‘Good and Evil and Other Stories’

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A danger to myself and others

In Samanta Schweblin's Good and Evil and Other Stories, the horror comes from realizing maybe you're the monster.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Sep 22

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important
www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract

404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

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Mikey Sandmel @mikeysandmel.bsky.social · Aug 21

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · Jul 18

Trump disappeared immigrants with tattoos to the notorious CECOT prison, alleging they were gang members.

But Border Patrol agents are allowed to have literal gang tattoos, as long as they're covered?

Read more: interc.pt/4nTELz3

✍️ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

CBP Agents Can Have Gang Tattoos — as Long as They Cover Them Up #politics #trump

YouTube video by The Intercept

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Rembrandt Q. Einstein @harfenist.bsky.social · Jul 17

The double standards are not just maddening, they’re evil. Timely reporting by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social

CBP Agents Can Have Gang Tattoos — as Long as They Cover Them Up

U.S. immigration officials have sent people to CECOT because of what they deemed gang tattoos. CBP grooming standards allow them.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Jul 14

NY Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Adriano Espaillat are here at 26 Federal Plaza for an unscheduled attempt to visit the 10th floor detention facility where ICE has been holding detainees — sometimes for weeks — after arresting them outside immigration court

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · May 25

🚨Border Patrol detained a nursing mother in Watertown, NY Thursday, separating the woman from her 6-month-old infant daughter.

The baby is now “inconsolable” and the mom, unable to nurse, has suffered from extreme pain, according to Workers Center of Central New York

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · May 22

If you are an immigration attorney who had a client detained this week before, during, or after a hearing, I'd like to speak with you!

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · May 22

ICE agents camped outside immigration courtrooms across the country yesterday, pouncing on people as they left their hearings, with reports of arrests in NYC, AZ, FL, IL, CA, TX, WA, and more.

@theintercept.com by @akelalacy.bsky.social, Jose Olivares, and me theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests

The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · May 6

There’s no paywall!

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · May 6

On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody

Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory

My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · May 6

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case. Must-read reporting by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social byhttps://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ice-raid-farm-labor-union-new-york-ufw/

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

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Snacks Pearl @max-pearl.bsky.social · May 5

Hi everybody. My name is Max. I’m a book critic and this is my newsletter, SEPARATOR, edited by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social maxxpearl.substack.com/p/this-is-my...

This is my blog about books

Welcome to Separator.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Apr 7

NEW: A mother and her three school-aged children detained by ICE/CBP on March 27 in Sackets Harbor, NY, have been RELEASED after an outpouring of anger from locals in northern New York theintercept.com/2025/04/07/t...

Family Detained in Immigration Raid in Tom Homan’s Hometown Is Released

Residents of Sackets Harbor, New York, protested the detention of a mother and her three school-aged children.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Feb 4

“We defeated ISIS in Kobane, but they burned down everything…Now Turkey is doing the same. They want to annihilate the Kurds here.”

Reporters w/ @theintercept.com, spent 12 days in Kobane, a majority-Kurdish Syrian city on the brink of siege by Turkey theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

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James Miller (Millermena) @jamesmiller.bsky.social · Feb 4

A City on the Brink:

Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey.

Great reporting from Patrick Hilaman,
@noahhurowitz.bsky.social & others theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey and its militias have cut off the Kurdish city of Kobane from the rest of Syria.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Feb 4

Kobane is cut off from power and running water and surrounded on three sides by enemies

I wrote this story in collaboration with Patrick Hilsman, Henri Sulku, and Maryam Ashrafi, who did incredible reporting under extremely difficult conditions
theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey and its militias have cut off the Kurdish city of Kobane from the rest of Syria.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Feb 4

“We defeated ISIS in Kobane, but they burned down everything…Now Turkey is doing the same. They want to annihilate the Kurds here.”

Reporters w/ @theintercept.com, spent 12 days in Kobane, a majority-Kurdish Syrian city on the brink of siege by Turkey theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Dec 12

For the first time in their lives, exiled critics of the Assad regime can speak openly with family in Syria, without fear

I wrote for @theintercept.com about what Assad’s fall means for families long separated by war and surveillance theintercept.com/2024/12/12/a...

Syrian Activists Feared Assad’s Retaliation. His Fall Frees Them to Speak Openly.

The Syrian regime’s ouster unleashed a collective unmasking across the country and its vast diaspora.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · Dec 6

For this week's @theintercept.com Briefing, I talked to @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social about the ways Congress is poised to give Trump sweeping powers to crush non-profit groups (H.R. 9495) and silence critics in the press:

theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...

Silencing Dissent: Attacks on Free Speech and Nonprofits Are Already Ramping Up

Trump may soon have a new weapon to target critics: the ability to label any nonprofit “terrorist-supporting” and take away its tax-exempt status.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here's my story on the passage of H.R. 9495, which critics say would empower President-Elect Trump to target his political foes.

Via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2024/11/21/g...

The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill

Attacking civili society is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes — and the House, including some Democrats, just gave Trump the power to do it.

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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · Nov 21

Dems who voted "Yes" on H.R. 9495:

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