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George Zornick

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US political enterprise editor, The Guardian 🦬🦬🦬 gzornick@protonmail.com Signal: gzornick.45

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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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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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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He's Buzz Windrip-maxxing
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
NEWS from @catebrown.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show
Ben Black’s lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactions
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨🚨 We are hiring a White House enterprise reporter -- a fantastic opportunity to do original coverage of the Trump administration for the Guardian. workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
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White House Enterprise Reporter
The Guardian is a global, reader-funded news organization that delivers fearless, independent journalism. From breaking news and award-winning investigations, to in-depth coverage of technology, sport...
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Whoever made today's Wordle is just angry at the world.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Undersecretary Michael’s profits in xAI — reportedly up to $24 million — get some scrutiny. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Get Akbar's book!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I think this is worth a listen/view for understanding the trap of escalation in Iran. #WITHPod www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OW4...
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‘Longtime DISASTER’: Political science professor Robert Pape discusses war in Iran with Chris Hayes
YouTube video by MS NOW
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Guardian has obtained the missing 302s from the Epstein files, describing accusations against Donald Trump. Story from @jsweetli.bsky.social and @jgedeon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor
Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Guardian has a blockbuster analysis of rhetoric in the UK parliament. A very cool look into language and political debate: www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis
In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling
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Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation
Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I already fret about different ways I could die, I didn’t need “Pete Hegseth incinerates my Southwest flight with a laser”
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Tulsi Gabbard went straight to Susie Wiles! This is... not how sensitive intel is supposed to be handled. What a scoop from @catebrown.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
No game for my beloved Buffalo Bills today after heartbreaking loss last wknd (that was NOT an interception). Instead of drowning in sorrow, gonna tell story of a great Buffalo victory: when city got together to unmask white supremacists. No, not ICE (we’ll get to them later) but the 1920s Klan.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive. by @brandibuchman.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Made A ‘Perfect Storm’ Even More Deadly — And The 'Shame And Humiliation' Is Hard To Fathom
A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
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‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Several sources say CIA officials have been trying to play a more central role in the foreign policy objectives of the Trump administration in the hemisphere."
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CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say
Exclusive: sources say the agency is providing real-time intelligence collected by satellites and signal intercepts
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals
Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Trump admin told furloughed workers to set out-of-office email messages blaming Dems for the shutdown, according to an email obtained by @jamieson.bsky.social
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Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown
One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Every time you hear Trump, Vance or a GOP leader talk about “illegal aliens” getting health care, remember they are trying desperately to dodge blame for an insurance premium jump about to hit 20M+ Americans Also they are lying www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
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The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie
No, Democrats aren’t trying to fund health care for “illegal aliens.”
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW: A young new associate deputy attorney general at the DOJ directing US attorneys to call repeated grand juries if they don't get indictments in DC, and to prioritize charges against protesters in LA, was convicted of a DUI while a federal prosecutor. / www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US justice department official pleaded guilty to DUI charge four years ago
Aakash Singh’s elevation to high-ranking post is unusual in light of arrest, experts say
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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.
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Democrats Urge Trump Administration To Stop ICE Arrests Of Pregnant Women
It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Excited to get started at the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/guardian-us-...
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The Guardian announces formation of new US political enterprise team
George Zornick and Aram Roston appointed amid increased investment in the Guardian’s US operation
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
In Gaza, reports a high-ranking UN official now being forced out of his job by Israeli pressure, “I have seen first-hand what appears to be the systematic dismantling of the means to sustain Palestinian life.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Jerce Reyes Barrios describes his time in CECOT - powerful reporting from @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social @mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
At the end of a very intense interview, we asked Jerce if there was anything else he wanted our readers to know. He smiled and said, "Just that even with everything I’ve gone through, I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid.”
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Jerce was accused of being a gang member based on a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock-and-roll" hand gesture he made on social media years ago. For this, he was disappeared from the US and sent to one of the most infamous prisons in the world, where he endured "countless" beatings
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
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Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There
“Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
After 6 incredible years, today is my last day at HuffPost. I was blessed with the very best team - reporters who covered the hell out of a pandemic, mass civil rights movement in the streets, an election, an insurrection, and then the return of Trump.
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A powerful story from @mattshuham.bsky.social, bearing witness to what's happening in immigration courts as people that show up for hearings are snatched by federal agents: www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...
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I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like.
"This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Man, the kicker on Adam Shatz's latest: "In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:
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onion person @junlper.beer · 30/06/2025
i love how insane everyone is becomeing
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🚶[minisoldr has logged on]
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Brady Klopfer @bradyklopfer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
Tweet from the Durham Bulls that reads "Y'all means all. #PrideNight"Tweet from a user saying "Please delete," and Durham Bulls responding "No."Tweet from a user saying, "Actually, no it does not! Stop dividing people." with a response from the Durham Bulls saying, "Inclusion's actually the exact opposite of division"Tweet from someone saying "Maybe don't promote gay sex to children?" with the Durham Bulls responding, "Okay, sexyman159861581242902587231848675309"
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump is gonna make Karoline Leavitt do a Sean Spicer later tonight.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This was the crowd by the main stage at the military festival a bit ago.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 14/06/2025
I will provide an update on last night’s targeted shootings shortly: youtube.com/live/VHtHNAb...
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State officials provide update on overnight incidents in Brooklyn Park, Champlin
YouTube video by Minnesota Department of Public Safety
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George Zornick @gzornick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Sounds of explosions heard in Iran's capital, Tehran. JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister announces 'special situation' after Israeli attack on Iran.
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The essence of Trumpism is the declaration of domestic war on his political opponents and disfavored racial, cultural and ethnic groups and the creation of a police state. The means is mass deportation. The end: the destruction of the liberal order. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump's Real War Is Against America
What Trump is doing in Los Angeles is a warning for the rest of the nation.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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