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ブライアン・コバート 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘯 authory.com/BrianCovert

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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And to find out more about who Allen Nelson was and what he stood for in his lifetime, check out this in-depth interview with Nelson — the only such interview with him to be found anywhere on the Web — which I published shortly before his passing. Read on: www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...
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Interview with veteran and peace activist Allen Nelson (pt. 1) : Indybay
Allen Nelson, Vietnam war veteran and peace activist from the U.S., shares his extraordinary experience in war, his personal transformation, his work for peace in and outside Japan, and his hopes for ...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An important new film opens in Japan today September 11, the 25th anniversary of 9/11: 𝙈𝙧. 𝙉𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚? (ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか?) is the story of the late Allen Nelson, a soldier-turned-peace activist who was fairly well known in Japan. A must-see film... www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_lc...
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Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?_Official Trailer
YouTube video by キノフィルムズ
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can't wait to see it!
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Now it's time for you to get back in there and show those cowardly corporate weasels at the 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 what journalism is all about.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing your bylines in the 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 once again.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And my own three-part tribute to Gary Webb and his original "Dark Alliance" series of 18-20 August 1996 — the first investigative news report to be published on the Web back then. Webb may have since fallen, but the legacy of his high-quality work in the media lives on. authory.com/BrianCovert/...
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Remembering ‘Dark Alliance’ (1)
It was late in the afternoon on a September day in 1996, when my wife and I and our young son, then just a couple years old, visited a small retail store in West Los Angeles that U.S. filmmaker Spike ...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
• REMEMBERING GARY WEBB & "DARK ALLIANCE" (3/3) And finally, thirty years ago today, 20 August, reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper in the USA published the last part of his explosive three-part investigative series "Dark Alliance". Day Three: web.archive.org/web/19961220...
Official website logo of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper's "Dark Alliance" investigative series by reporter Gary Webb, 1996.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And the chapter of a book that I later researched and wrote for the media watch group Project Censored in 2016 on the "Dark Alliance" controversy and legacy. You can freely download the full pdf version of the book chapter here.... inochi-life.net/archives_dar...
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ARCHIVES: “Dark Alliance” — The Controversy and the Legacy
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
• REMEMBERING GARY WEBB & "DARK ALLIANCE" (2/3) Thirty years ago this day, 19 August, reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper in the USA published the second part of his explosive three-part investigative series "Dark Alliance". Day Two: web.archive.org/web/19961220...
Official website logo of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper's "Dark Alliance" investigative series by reporter Gary Webb, 1996.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And my journalistic tribute to Gary Webb, featuring a transcribed speech by Webb and an exclusive interview with him that I later published in 2006... www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...
Image of a website tribute to report Gary Webb and his "Dark Alliance" series, published on the Independent Media Center website in 2006
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
• REMEMBERING GARY WEBB & "DARK ALLIANCE" (1/3) Thirty years ago today, 18 August, reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper in the USA began publishing the three-part investigative series "Dark Alliance" to a firestorm of controversy in 1996. Day One: web.archive.org/web/19961220...
Official website logo of the San Jose Mercury News newspaper's "Dark Alliance" investigative series by reporter Gary Webb, 1996.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Remembering today the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945. A decade ago, a sitting president from the USA, Barack Obama, became the first president to visit the city. Obama's visit left a lot to be desired. My blog piece on it: authory.com/BrianCovert/...
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POTUS Comes to Hiroshima
History was made one month ago when POTUS (President of the United States) Barack Obama landed in the city of Hiroshima, Japan — the first sitting American president to ever visit the site since it wa...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 06/08/2026
Read more from HRW:
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Lebanon: Israel’s Killing of Journalist an Apparent War Crime
The Israeli military’s April 22, 2026, attacks in Lebanon that killed one journalist and severely injured another included apparently deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, which would ...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“They [Democrats] have failed tremendously to stand up to billionaire power because the only people as addicted to billionaire money in American politics as the Republicans are the Democrats” — Gil Durán
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An historically important book, "Hiroshima, 8:15", has just been published today — the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing by the USA in 1945. This is the recently discovered memoir of the late Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto of Japan. A must-read for us all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The lost Hiroshima memoir
How I came to edit a harrowing and gripping account of the first act of nuclear warfare.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Congratulations, from Japan! Now please come over here to Japan and teach socialist party members how to stop bleeding voters and start winning elections of their own. Hope to see you in the U.S. Congress come November.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
And a link to that upcoming book, "Hiroshima, 8:15", authored by Koko Kondo's father, the late Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto. It's an historically significant book that deserves to be read widely.... www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/823961...
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Hiroshima, 8:15 by Kiyoshi Tanimoto: 9798217197972 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors—bringing unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event. “A...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
An extensive interview piece, just published today in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 newspaper of London, with 𝗞𝗼𝗸𝗼 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 by the United States. Kondo also contributes the foreword to an upcoming book, "Hiroshima, 8:15". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘I never mentioned it for 25 years. I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo on horror, anger and forgiveness
On that fateful day in 1945, Kondo was just a baby in her mother’s arms. She talks about her father’s newly discovered eye-witness account of the aftermath – and why she decided to continue his work a...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
And here is an interview with Chris Hedges himself from back in 2003, on a live radio show episode I produced. Go to the episode titled "Punching Holes in the Myth of War" to hear Hedges cut through all the hype of America's newly declared "war on terrorism".... inochi-life.net/studio.html
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LifeTimes | STUDIO
LifeTimes | Studio page, featuring broadcast media appearances and production by Brian Covert
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An informative, incisive interview with the brilliant thinker and writer Ece Temelkuran on fascism in the world today and what rebuilding Home means in these troubled times. Check it out.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtXQ...
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Rebuilding 'Home' in the 21st Century (w/ Ece Temelkuran) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Politico @politico.com · 10/07/2026
Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. But as the surprise wears off, a sense of isolation has begun to set in among some. 🔗 politi.co/4vSW46T
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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 10/07/2026
"You don’t win by abandoning the ground where the nest is growing. You win by digging in. The right has always known that. The only question is when the left will." thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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The South is democracy’s front line, and the left must send reinforcements
Sustaining this work takes an investment the South has never been given.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Is the Islamic Republic of Japan one of those "sh*thole countries" Trump keeps talking about?
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The new Japanese movie about Allen Nelson is slated for release on September 11, 2026 — the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Check out my original interview with Allen Nelson (below) to understand who he was and what he stood for in his lifetime. Then, go see the movie... www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...
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Interview with veteran and peace activist Allen Nelson (pt. 1) : Indybay
Allen Nelson, Vietnam war veteran and peace activist from the U.S., shares his extraordinary experience in war, his personal transformation, his work for peace in and outside Japan, and his hopes for ...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A new major motion picture in Japan now tells the story of the late 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻, a U.S. marine during America's war in Vietnam and later a devoted advocate for peace. 『ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか?』(Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?) is directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto. nelsonsan.jp
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映画『ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか?』公式サイト|9月公開
監督・脚本・撮影・編集:塚本晋也(『野火』、『斬、』、『ほかげ』)/“戦争加害者の傷”というタブーに切り込む衝撃作。
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Goodbye, Diana Degette. Hello, Melat Kiros!
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Melat Kiros @melatkirosco.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I’m running for Congress! It’s time for a new generation of leadership to tackle the greatest issues facing everyday Americans: housing affordability, healthcare, and the rising cost of living. Learn more about the campaign at KirosforCO.com!
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Politico @politico.com · 28/06/2026
The Supreme Court is spending millions to beef up security amid a rise in threats to the justices. Along with restricting the justices' personal freedoms, the move threatens to further cocoon them in ideological bubbles as they decide controversial cases.
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The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force
The Supreme Court is spending millions to beef up security. At what cost?
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 22/06/2026
Crackdowns on writers and #FreeExpression during war emerged as a key trend in this year’s #FreedomToWrite Index, notes Pen America’s Liesl Gerntholtz. Time and again, those who write about war – novelists, commentators, poets, even economists – suffer the consequences:
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As Governments Silence Critics During War, Writers Are Among the First to Pay the Price
Crackdowns on writers during wartime emerged as a key trend in PEN America's 2025 data gathered for the latest annual Freedom to Write Index.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Exceptional review of the new book "Nation of Strangers" and an interview with its author, journalist Ece Temelkuran of Turkey: on coping with the rising tides of fascism lapping at the shores of democratic societies the world over and the resulting loss of Home, whoever and wherever you may be.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Welcome once again to the Trump Concentration Camps®. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Death rate in ICE immigrant detention centers more than doubles under Trump, Reuters analysis finds
Experts have raised concerns about medical care and supervision in ICE detention centers.
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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 15/06/2026
This country was built on contradiction. Liberty for some. Exclusion for many. Most politics is reaction. Resist, respond, repeat. But history shows change starts with imagination first. We are living inside someone else’s vision of this country. It is time to imagine a new one.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The American war in Vietnam in the 1960s-70s included the spraying of millions of gallons of highly toxic chemicals onto the Vietnamese people for a full decade. Here's a recent report on it by Japan's public broadcaster, NHK.... www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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In the Wake of Agent Orange: 50 Years After the Vietnam War | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
The harm left in the wake of Agent Orange still impacts Vietnam's environment and its people. We follow filmmaker Masako Sakata who has spent two decades documenting the victims of this toxic legacy.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
One organization that is doing good work right on the ground to protect voting rights for us all is 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. We can donate to and support them here: blackvotersmatterfund.org
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Black Voters Matter
Our goal is to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities. Effective voting lets a community determine its own destiny.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁, under far-right chief justice John Roberts, make clear that the court is on a path to desecrate voting rights in the USA — starting with, but certainly not limited to, Black voting rights in U.S. southern states. This must be stopped now.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Welcome to America's version of Los Desaparecidos — the "disappeared" ones.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/06/2026
They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
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They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
Immigrants are frequently being sent all over the country, and often families and attorneys don’t know where they are.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Keep on fighting.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
More from Ece Temelkuran on her new book "Nation of Strangers" and related issues....
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Author Ece Temelkuran finds solidarity in her 'Nation of Strangers' • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Author and journalist Ece Temelkuran, on losing her native Turkey to the F-word (fascism) and what people in other democratic societies can do when fascism comes a-knocking at their nation's door too. An excerpt from her powerful new book "𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨" — a must-read for these perilous times.
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An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country
Nation of Strangers is the conclusion of a decade-long odyssey. My ten-year saga began in 2016 when I wrote a book called Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy. Before the book, I’d enjoyed a succe…
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It's all part and parcel of the Trump Concentration Camps®.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
An informative, urgently motivating talk, Ms. Ifill. Thank you for all your work. I had been thinking of maybe passing this election cycle by and not voting this time, but after watching you on the show, I understood how crucial it is now to exercise our voting rights — before we lose them all.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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New York Exhibit Turned 3.5M Pages of Epstein Records Into a Public Archive
Exhibit spokesperson David Garrett told Military.com there's a "lot of evidence."
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A deep dive: When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
www.courthousenews.com/latino-new-y...
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Latino New Yorkers file sweeping class action against Trump over ‘race-based’ ICE arrests
The plaintiffs are seeking to stop ICE agents from “indiscriminately stopping and arresting” New Yorkers without warrants or reasonable suspicion.
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Welcome to the Trump Concentration Camps®....
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙣, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙮 41-𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧-𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 24 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 [𝙐.𝙎.] 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙮....” english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-...
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Afghan asylum seeker dies the day after being detained by ICE: ‘His family deserves answers’
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, who worked for the US government in Afghanistan for 15 years, was not suffering from any illness when he was arrested, according to his family
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨....." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/84-y...
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8 decades after Japanese American incarceration, history repeats | Op-Ed
The same logic that justified incarcerating Japanese Americans — that rights can be suspended in moments of perceived crisis — undergirds today’s system.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
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Brian Covert @boc-j.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Excerpt: “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” [the teenage girl] recalled Trump saying, according to the FBI report." Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump
Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.
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