Noah Lanard
@nlanard.bsky.social
Reporter at Mother Jones. Previously
@washingtonian and freelancing from Mexico City. Now New York.
@washingtonian and freelancing from Mexico City. Now New York.
Higgins has denied holding a gun to his ex-wife's head and it is unclear if the claimed child support debt was later settled.
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Higgins has denied holding a gun to his ex-wife's head and it is unclear if the claimed child support debt was later settled.
This story also has one of the most memorable quotes I've ever been told.
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This story also has one of the most memorable quotes I've ever been told.
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
From my investigation last year into Higgins' friendship with Leon Boudreaux, a former cop who was convicted of incest after a teenage relative accused Boudreaux of sexually assaulting her between the ages of 14 and 18.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
From my investigation last year into Higgins' friendship with Leon Boudreaux, a former cop who was convicted of incest after a teenage relative accused Boudreaux of sexually assaulting her between the ages of 14 and 18.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Wrote about Mamdani’s successful 15-day hunger strike in solidarity with taxi drivers in 2021, what it was like to be there, and how it foreshadowed his campaign
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Wrote about Mamdani’s successful 15-day hunger strike in solidarity with taxi drivers in 2021, what it was like to be there, and how it foreshadowed his campaign
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
A solid turnout in Brooklyn for No Kings running along much of Prospect Park
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A solid turnout in Brooklyn for No Kings running along much of Prospect Park
Daniel Levy, the head of the US/Middle East Project, has been one of the sharpest people I've talked to over the past two years about the war in Gaza.
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Daniel Levy, the head of the US/Middle East Project, has been one of the sharpest people I've talked to over the past two years about the war in Gaza.
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New: Inside the Kafkaesque legal battle that's resulted from ICE sending people without due process to a maximum security prison in Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New: Inside the Kafkaesque legal battle that's resulted from ICE sending people without due process to a maximum security prison in Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How Robert Malley—a veteran US peace negotiator and the co-author of a new book on the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process— is looking at the recent moves to recognize Palestine.
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
How Robert Malley—a veteran US peace negotiator and the co-author of a new book on the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process— is looking at the recent moves to recognize Palestine.
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"In Washington, as in Riyadh, it turns out that persuading people to make peace with an oppressive, anti-democratic regime dominated by an unspeakably wealthy ruling family is not as hard as you might think. All you have to do is make them rich."
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"In Washington, as in Riyadh, it turns out that persuading people to make peace with an oppressive, anti-democratic regime dominated by an unspeakably wealthy ruling family is not as hard as you might think. All you have to do is make them rich."
Great lede from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social in this story on American comedians heading to Riyadh and people folding to autocrats more broadly
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Great lede from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social in this story on American comedians heading to Riyadh and people folding to autocrats more broadly
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
He ends with this:
"I fear President Trump believes
the American people are so divided that today they will not
stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional
values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own
personal interests are not affected.
Is he correct?"
"I fear President Trump believes
the American people are so divided that today they will not
stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional
values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own
personal interests are not affected.
Is he correct?"
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
He ends with this:
"I fear President Trump believes
the American people are so divided that today they will not
stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional
values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own
personal interests are not affected.
Is he correct?"
"I fear President Trump believes
the American people are so divided that today they will not
stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional
values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own
personal interests are not affected.
Is he correct?"
Also something I have never seen: Young quotes his wife then uses the quote to tear apart Trump.
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Also something I have never seen: Young quotes his wife then uses the quote to tear apart Trump.
Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment.
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment.
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
These are the only 4 federal cases Lindsey Halligan—a former Florida insurance defense lawyer—is listed as an attorney on.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
These are the only 4 federal cases Lindsey Halligan—a former Florida insurance defense lawyer—is listed as an attorney on.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
A look at the legal background of the person who Trump just made one of the top prosecutors in the country so that she can go after his enemies
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A look at the legal background of the person who Trump just made one of the top prosecutors in the country so that she can go after his enemies
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here is some of the history of the former Green Beret now in charge of the heavily armed American contractors accused of misconduct in Gaza.
Read the full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read the full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here is some of the history of the former Green Beret now in charge of the heavily armed American contractors accused of misconduct in Gaza.
Read the full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read the full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What he and more than 200 other Venezuelans experienced at CECOT was hellacious.
"They’re going to kill me here,” Alvarado thought as he was brought into the prison. “If I survive, I’ll be locked up my entire life.”
"They’re going to kill me here,” Alvarado thought as he was brought into the prison. “If I survive, I’ll be locked up my entire life.”
August 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What he and more than 200 other Venezuelans experienced at CECOT was hellacious.
"They’re going to kill me here,” Alvarado thought as he was brought into the prison. “If I survive, I’ll be locked up my entire life.”
"They’re going to kill me here,” Alvarado thought as he was brought into the prison. “If I survive, I’ll be locked up my entire life.”
After Alvarado was detained in February, an ICE agent questioned him about whether he was part of Tren de Aragua.
Alvarado recalls the agent telling him: "You came to the United States to do good. You have nothing to do with Tren de Aragua."
Nevertheless, he was sent to CECOT.
Alvarado recalls the agent telling him: "You came to the United States to do good. You have nothing to do with Tren de Aragua."
Nevertheless, he was sent to CECOT.
August 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
After Alvarado was detained in February, an ICE agent questioned him about whether he was part of Tren de Aragua.
Alvarado recalls the agent telling him: "You came to the United States to do good. You have nothing to do with Tren de Aragua."
Nevertheless, he was sent to CECOT.
Alvarado recalls the agent telling him: "You came to the United States to do good. You have nothing to do with Tren de Aragua."
Nevertheless, he was sent to CECOT.
There are many links between the Juggernaut Nihilism username and Cooper. David Simon/ @audacityofdespair.bsky.social surprisingly provided one of them.
Cooper did not respond to requests for comment.
Cooper did not respond to requests for comment.
July 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
There are many links between the Juggernaut Nihilism username and Cooper. David Simon/ @audacityofdespair.bsky.social surprisingly provided one of them.
Cooper did not respond to requests for comment.
Cooper did not respond to requests for comment.
In a previously unreported comment, a person with a username associated with Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made wrote on a white nationalist website:
"Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process..."
"Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process..."
July 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In a previously unreported comment, a person with a username associated with Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made wrote on a white nationalist website:
"Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process..."
"Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process..."
Incredibly powerful moment as some of Neri Alvarado's relatives see him walking off the plane in Venezuela after his release from CECOT.
He was targeted because of his tattoos—the largest of which is an autism awareness ribbon featuring his brother's name
He was targeted because of his tattoos—the largest of which is an autism awareness ribbon featuring his brother's name
July 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Incredibly powerful moment as some of Neri Alvarado's relatives see him walking off the plane in Venezuela after his release from CECOT.
He was targeted because of his tattoos—the largest of which is an autism awareness ribbon featuring his brother's name
He was targeted because of his tattoos—the largest of which is an autism awareness ribbon featuring his brother's name
Amazing AP image from Ariana Cubillos of Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan musician sent to CECOT, walking off the plane. (Identified to me by a relative.)
“We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”
“We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Amazing AP image from Ariana Cubillos of Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan musician sent to CECOT, walking off the plane. (Identified to me by a relative.)
“We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”
“We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”
From our story in March: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
From our story in March: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...