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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“He is one of the most tender souls and so desperate to please, and desperate to have a place to belong.”
theguardian.com
Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“We live in a world where even the momentary frustration of a teenager can have real-world consequences. That is the reality that all of us are living in for the first time.”
inquirer.com
A man from Amish country bet on the U.S. Open, then sent the USTA a bomb threat. Things will only get worse.
He wanted to keep his money, and the only way to do it, he thought, was to disrupt the tennis match. From his Lancaster County home, he had thumb-typed and sent the threat to the USTA.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Lucy did not commit any crimes,” a nurse who had worked on the unit for thirty-six years replied. “If there had been CCTV the footage would have proved her innocence.”
newyorker.com
What the New Lucy Letby Inquiry Reveals
The British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced to life in prison for murdering babies on her ward. Rachel Aviv writes about the recently published findings of a three-year inquiry into the deaths—and the ...
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The UK government was aware for years of his history of self-harm and suicide attempts before moving him to Eswatini, where his arrival was publicly condemned by a local politician.
thenewhumanitarian.org
British-held asylum seeker dies by apparent suicide in Eswatini
Kishanth Peramaiya spent two years in a legal limbo after a British authority granted him international protection.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“We cannot use excuses like security. We have to be overtly pro-LGBTQI.” (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
thenewhumanitarian.org
“Avoid using the term”: Oxfam in Africa retracts LGBTQ censorship guide
The move comes as anti-LGBTQ legislation advances across the continent, fuelled by a powerful interfaith coalition backed by the US Christian right.
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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Data of 600,000 Gaza households exposed in @wfp.org cyber-attack:this kind of incident is a matter of when/how, not if. I suggest @6oldberg.bsky.social and @irwinloy.bsky.social and the @newhumanitarian.bsky.social to keep echoing @sixfouronea.net: what are people supposed to do with a notification?
thenewhumanitarian.org
Data of 600,000 Gaza households exposed in WFP cyber-attack
With over 2 million people registered in Gaza, it may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A cyber-attack targeting @wfp.org has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to some 600,000 households in Gaza in what may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date.
thenewhumanitarian.org
Data of 600,000 Gaza households exposed in WFP cyber-attack
With over 2 million people registered in Gaza, it may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“We are not even allowed to probe to find out details about such cases. We are expected to stay silent.”
thenewhumanitarian.org
“We are going to die”: The frontline costs of Uganda’s new US health agreement
Abortion rights and marginalised communities pay the price of Washington's new aid strategy.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
At least seven of these businesses recently promoted products and services directly related to settlement, including housing, an expedited gun license programme, and machinery used in the demolition of Palestinian property.
thenewhumanitarian.org
Google and Meta run thousands of ads promoting West Bank settlement businesses
The tech giants are running ads for illegal settlement housing, a gun license programme, and machinery used in the demolition of Palestinian property.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Scores of poor Black Louisianans had volunteered for what was effectively Russian roulette, risking their own lives in the hope of a onetime payout. The attorneys were well educated and mostly white, and would almost certainly have been loath to go looking for a truck to hit.
newyorker.com
The Car-Crash Conspiracy
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Before his ill-fated presidential run in 2019, which only lasted three months, Alex Evans, a former senior Swalwell adviser, put together an informal inventory of possible reasons he could lose. The first word on the list: hubris.
politico.com
Eric Swalwell Thought He Was Untouchable — Until He Wasn’t
The allegations that ended Swalwell’s gubernatorial bid fit a longstanding pattern of behavior.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated. A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.
theatlantic.com
The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Others in the business intelligence sector have cast doubt on Steele’s analytic abilities – a shortcoming that may have led him to place unjustified trust in unverified reports from his sources. ‘He’s very bad at distinguishing truth from fiction.’
lrb.co.uk
Vadim Nikitin · Among the Private Spies: Christopher Steele’s Assertions
‘The name’s Steele, Christopher Steele.’ That’s the way a former MI6 operative who wrote the notorious dossier...
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The breathtaking fall was nudged along by the influencers... They went so far as to craft talking points in advance of publication of reports they had never seen. “We didn’t know exactly what’s going to be in it,” Hunt said. “Turns out, we were spot on.”
politico.com
The whisper network that caught up to Eric Swalwell
Warnings about the lawmaker had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far...
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“I have a lot of regrets about our Middle East policy, and it’s hard to see Brett as anything but the singular driving force behind it.”
foreignpolicy.com
The Man Who Shaped Washington’s View of the Middle East
Brett McGurk advised four presidents on a contested region—but to what end?
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”
newyorker.com
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
One former cook recalled that one night in 2011 Mr. Redzepi noticed that he had left a tiny tweezer mark on a flower petal as he placed it onto a dish. Mr. Redzepi, he said, grabbed the straps of his apron and slammed him against the wall, then punched him twice in the stomach.
nytimes.com
Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The group’s July 2025 report lays out a novel methodology for demonstrating sexual violence on 7 October, one that lowers the evidential standards typically relied upon in conflict situations: “Our goal is to propose a scheme of deducing premeditation from circumstantial evidence.”
novaramedia.com
UK Gave £90k to Sexual Violence Report Central to Israel’s Genocide Propaganda
Exclusive: The Foreign Office funded a sexual violence report subsequently used in a £33m Israeli campaign to whitewash its genocide in Gaza. Rivkah Brown reports.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“Moon treated Japanese members like slaves. There was part of me that was, like, it’s awful that someone died, but finally people are going to see just how fucked up things are.”
newyorker.com
How Shinzo Abe’s Assassination Brought the Moonies Back Into the Limelight
A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hungary’s national tax and customs administration said it had opened a money-laundering investigation over the shipment, which it said was made up of $40m and €35m in cash, as well as 9kg of gold. It said one of those arrested was “a former Ukrainian intelligence service general”.
theguardian.com
Hungary seizes millions of euros in cash and gold from Ukrainian convoy
Seven Ukrainians arrested and money-laundering investigation launched in latest spat between Kyiv and Budapest
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Experts say that Hindmarsh’s calculations are wrong and the prosecution theory that insulin was delivered via the feed bags is not plausible.
theguardian.com
Lucy Letby case expert witness was under fitness-to-practise investigation during trial
Exclusive: Jury was never told about inquiry into key prosecution witness Peter Hindmarsh, which looked into allegations including of harm to patients
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Former Adeso staff described a culture of fear and bullying at odds with the organisation’s external messaging on decolonisation. At least six board members resigned in 2024. New investigation by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social
thenewhumanitarian.org
Bullying allegations and board resignations: Inside Adeso’s governance crisis
A whistleblower alleging mistreatment sparked an investigation that uncovered broader problems around leadership and financial mismanagement.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The withheld files included FBI notes documenting a series of interviews a woman gave to agents in 2019 in which she alleged sexual misconduct by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor.
wsj.com
There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says
Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The operation was "highly likely" to have been state-directed. The state in question is Ukraine – the very country the German government has been supporting with many billions of euros since the Russian invasion.
spiegel.de
(S+) Nord Stream: How Early Did the CIA Know about the Pipeline Attack?
In 2022, a Ukrainian commando blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the CIA may have spoken to the saboteurs during the planning stage.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A former [Myanmar military intelligence] chief propagandist was simultaneously supplying the armed forces and holding a financial stake in a major media outlet, a conflict of interest never disclosed to Frontier’s journalists, funders or audience.
myanmar-now.org
Delta-X: A company founded by ex-military intelligence officers
Delta-X Solutions is a corporate vehicle established and helmed by former senior MI officers, serving as a procurement link for Myanmar's current junta
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"The Epstein files will serve to reinforce the suspicions of those who claim that a highly networked Norwegian cosmopolitan elite, living in luxury and harbouring deep contempt for ordinary people’s lives, regard themselves as masters and architects of the world by right."
theguardian.com
The Jeffrey Epstein files have shattered Norway’s illusions about itself | Sindre Bangstad
Norway built its global brand on diplomacy and egalitarianism. The cosying up of its elite to the sex offender can only boost the far right, says the academic Sindre Bangstad
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The PRIDE Centre @intl-pride-centre.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Remember: even if @unocha.org & others CAN 'ringfence' US funding, ALL recipients of the funds, and UN implementing partners, are still 100% subject to the rule - so this is just offloading the problem to NGOs and CSOs
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Rather than pushing back [against aid worker arrests], several aid workers complained that senior humanitarian leadership — particularly within the UN — has opted to fall in line with the authorities, even helping them reinforce official narratives that the conflict is getting better."
thenewhumanitarian.org
Arrests and red tape: How Burkina Faso’s junta is throttling humanitarian aid
Military rulers are tightening control through access bans, legal threats, and control of data.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The @intl-pride-centre.bsky.social is urging donors to stop giving money to the @unocha.org pooled funds “until the funds’ independence is guaranteed”.
thenewhumanitarian.org
Inklings | Humanitarians’ global gag dilemma
More ethical dilemmas for US funding, why some are urging donors to stop giving money to UN pooled funds, and what’s a “tiger team”?
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“It’s just impossible to imagine a negative interaction with him. And the fact that he was killed on city streets — as an employee of the U.S. government, by the U.S. government — it’s blowing my mind.”
washingtonpost.com
ICU nurse fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis cared for veterans
Alex Pretti, 37, identified by Minnesota’s attorney general as the man killed Saturday, was dedicated to caring for veterans, friends and colleagues said.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New reporting shows @iom.int is invoking UN “privileges and immunities” to refuse disclosure of documents about its EU-funded Assisted Voluntary Returns and Reintegration (AVRR) programme in Greece – even though it’s paid with public funds.
thenewhumanitarian.org
Reporters’ diary: IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns
IOM’s disregard for accountability will continue to hamper its ability to comply with its own principles of transparency and migrant protection.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
McCarthy came to consider Greene a good-faith actor who sometimes lacks good information... “So she assumes certain things,” McCarthy said. “But you can break through that.”
newyorker.com
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Big Breakup
The congresswoman split with the President over the Epstein files, then she quit. Where will she go from here?
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
During the breakup of Flight 7, the FAA kept airspace closed for roughly 86 minutes. However, Diez, the SpaceX executive, told attendees at the industry conference that, in fact, it had taken “hours” for all the debris to reach the ground.
propublica.org
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
He said there was now an established pattern of Thailand taking action against Cambodia's "scam-invested oligarchs" followed by Cambodia escalating tensions with Thailand then issuing "a punishing, over the top military response".
abc.net.au
Thailand bombs Cambodian casinos and scam centres
An expert says the Thai military's strikes on Cambodian casinos and suspected scam centres could be putting the lives of civilians and human trafficking victims at risk and may be considered war crime...
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Yes, Lakanwal was radicalized, but it was the CIA, not the Taliban, who accustomed him and thousands of other Afghan men to wanton violence. – @alibomaye.bsky.social
breakthroughnews.org
Made in America: The Suspected DC National Guard Shooter’s CIA Ties Deserve More Scrutiny  « BT News
BT News
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thieren accused the UN of enabling antisemitism and compared world leaders’ discussions on Palestinian statehood to making a deal with a “Nazi devil”.
thenewhumanitarian.org
WHO disavows Israel representative’s Gaza comments
Michel Thieren said UN discussions on Palestinian statehood were like making a deal with a “Nazi devil”.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This account is the most comprehensive to date of the backlash against Kirk’s critics, tracing how senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, local Republican lawmakers and allied influencers mobilized to enforce the Trump movement’s views.
reuters.com
The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people. Republican officials have end...
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Anduril’s setbacks underscore a broader challenge: America’s defense industry, long defined by costly world-class systems such as jets, missiles and aircraft carriers, must adapt to a battlefield where cheap, mass-produced drones have become central to modern warfare.
reuters.com
Exclusive: US defense firm Anduril faces setbacks from drone crashes
A U.S. military plane soared over Florida's Eglin Air Force Base earlier this month and released a drone made by the defense tech giant Anduril Industries to test whether it could take flight and cond...
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Victoria was quiet on the other end of the line. I actually emailed the professor, I explained. “And she said she never spoke with you.” In the silence that followed I realized Victoria had hung up. She has not responded to my emails since.
thelocal.to
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Professor Wisit Wisitsora-at promised to speed up fraud investigations when he became SEC Chairman. 16 months later, he's done nothing on Finansia X. Documents reveal why: he is compromised.
whalehunting.projectbrazen.com
The Regulator Who Won't Regulate
Professor Wisit Wisitsora-at promised to speed up fraud investigations when he became SEC Chairman. 16 months later, he's done nothing on Finansia X. Documents reveal why: he is compromised.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
reuters.com
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The next phase of the administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the Maduro government could be sabotage or some sort of cyber, psychological or information operations.
nytimes.com
Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
That means that in the 48 days between Oct. 6, when he landed in Albania, and Sunday, when he is scheduled to return to New York, Mr. Adams will have spent roughly 27 percent of his time thousands of miles away from the city he governs.
nytimes.com
Eric Adams, Still the Mayor, Is Increasingly Out of Office
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
He has dedicated years to research and has interviewed more than 100 people who say they either know of or have entered the supposed tunnels. But the owners of the historic homes that allegedly lead to them have uniformly declined to participate in his inquiry.
washingtonpost.com
One man’s obsessive quest to uncover Brazil’s buried Nazi past
The story of Brazil’s fugitive Nazis is clouded by uncertainty and conspiracy theories. But one local journalist is convinced he is closing in on the truth.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
More than 60 percent of Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues in 2024 came from just five benefactors who cut eight-figure checks to the group, including one who gave $58.9 million and another who gave $51.4 million, according to the filings.
politico.com
How the left’s dark money behemoth spent its millions
The Sixteen Thirty Fund dropped more than $300 million on a range of liberal causes in 2024.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It is extremely unusual for judges to examine how prosecutors act in front of grand juries, let alone to openly criticize their conduct. But that is exactly what Judge Fitzpatrick did to Ms. Halligan.
nytimes.com
Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
“The Austrian government and intelligence service helped Mossad and helped their war criminals,” Mr. Almousa said. “This is the worst level of criminality.”
nytimes.com
War Crimes Indictment Reveals a Hard Road to Justice for Syria
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
After everything the Nordenströms had told me about her, she assumed I might take their side: “The babysitter always goes down, right?” But after months reviewing court documents, family photos, and copies of several forged checks, I found that the contours of her story turned out to be true.
thecut.com
The Nanny Who Moved in and Wouldn’t Move Out
A couple thought they’d found Mary Poppins. Until she refused to leave.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Former union officials interviewed by ESPN said that Players Way appeared to be a landing spot for Clark's loyalists -- and, said one, "Few players knew anything about it."
espn.com
Sources: Feds eye MLBPA venture over spending
Players Way was cited in an anonymous whistleblower complaint last November that triggered an ongoing criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn.
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Jacob Goldberg @6oldberg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nearly every judge who reviewed Fraser’s trial found something wrong with it—even if they didn’t agree on what that was.
texasmonthly.com
She Ran Waco’s Most Sought-After Daycare. Until an Infant’s Death Turned the Community Against Her.
The evidence against Marian Fraser was circumstantial, and her prosecution was riddled with irregularities. Yet many came to believe she had long harbored a secret that explained her preternatural gif...
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