steven monacelli
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ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account
Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.
www.texasobserver.org
NEW: ICE remains mum regarding prosecutor exposed as white supremacist.
"They want to signal to the other white supremacists...out there that under this administration things are going to be different and you’re not going to have to worry about losing your job"
www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
"They want to signal to the other white supremacists...out there that under this administration things are going to be different and you’re not going to have to worry about losing your job"
www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Access journalism is already a cancer. This is something worse than cancer.
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Access journalism is already a cancer. This is something worse than cancer.
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Now up: Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...
A History of Violence • Protean Magazine
Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War-era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality ta...
proteanmag.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Now up: Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...
Oh man these are some real EMAILS
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Oh man these are some real EMAILS
I don't know when but a day is gonna come
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I don't know when but a day is gonna come
The GOP and a small group of Democratic senators have cleared the path to taking away your edibles
The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks. www.wired.com/story/propos...
A Proposed Federal THC Ban Would ‘Wipe Out’ Hemp Products That Get People High
The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The GOP and a small group of Democratic senators have cleared the path to taking away your edibles
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Featured story: Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been relatively minimal. Now, rates of suspected wage theft are increasing, and the state labor law enforcement system is straining to keep up.
Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints
State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.
www.texasobserver.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Featured story: Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been relatively minimal. Now, rates of suspected wage theft are increasing, and the state labor law enforcement system is straining to keep up.
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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JD Vance in 2021: "What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…"
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
JD Vance in 2021: "What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…"
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NEW: Trump says America needs more foreign workers.
His company requested a record 184 of them for 2025.
me, for @Forbes
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His company requested a record 184 of them for 2025.
me, for @Forbes
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Trump Organization Sought Record Number Of Foreign Workers In 2025
Labor Department data show President Donald Trump’s businesses applied to hire at least 184 foreign workers for seasonal jobs at golf courses, a winery and Mar–a-Lago.
www.forbes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
NEW: Trump says America needs more foreign workers.
His company requested a record 184 of them for 2025.
me, for @Forbes
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His company requested a record 184 of them for 2025.
me, for @Forbes
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I'll be joining Refusing to Forget for this important and timely panel on the ongoing battle for historical truth in Texas
Our virtual event is just one week away! Join us as we bring together these powerful voices to reflect on this urgent moment & the ongoing struggle to protect truthful history.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'll be joining Refusing to Forget for this important and timely panel on the ongoing battle for historical truth in Texas
We are facing what can only be described as a Situation
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We are facing what can only be described as a Situation
The specific claims of the QAnon movement almost invariably were unfounded. But their big picture narrative — that a global pedophile cabal has captured the United States government — might have a sliver of truth to it, except not in the way they thought.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The specific claims of the QAnon movement almost invariably were unfounded. But their big picture narrative — that a global pedophile cabal has captured the United States government — might have a sliver of truth to it, except not in the way they thought.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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ICE still being very quiet about this guy www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
ICE still being very quiet about this guy www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
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Really nice investigative work from Monacelli of the Texas Observer.
Note "courtroom observation": the reporter sat in on his trials, noted the times he appeared to be typing on his phone, and watched his tweets appear in real time.
Note "courtroom observation": the reporter sat in on his trials, noted the times he appeared to be typing on his phone, and watched his tweets appear in real time.
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Really nice investigative work from Monacelli of the Texas Observer.
Note "courtroom observation": the reporter sat in on his trials, noted the times he appeared to be typing on his phone, and watched his tweets appear in real time.
Note "courtroom observation": the reporter sat in on his trials, noted the times he appeared to be typing on his phone, and watched his tweets appear in real time.
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“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
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GOP Chair, Tarrant County, Texas (Fort Worth).
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
GOP Chair, Tarrant County, Texas (Fort Worth).
Lebensraum for the late American Century
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Lebensraum for the late American Century
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I'm going to drink some coffee and listen to Tom Paxton
The JCO post about Elon not liking anything is something I've said before about a lot of politics poisoned posting addicts. People who never once post about a band they like or anything at all. There are so many like that.
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm going to drink some coffee and listen to Tom Paxton
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Thanks for including the podcast series @stevanzetti.bsky.social and I did on lethal injection on the thread, @americanstudier.bsky.social
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thanks for including the podcast series @stevanzetti.bsky.social and I did on lethal injection on the thread, @americanstudier.bsky.social