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Jaisal Noor

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Multimedia journalist, troublemaker, dog-guy. PERSONAL ACCOUNT

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW: We obtained bodycam footage showing ICE violently arresting farm workers in Oregon and using a facial recognition app to try to ID them. The officers later admitted they had no warrants and no idea who the people were when they stopped them. Four of the workers were later deported.
theguardian.com
Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition
Exclusive: Body-cam footage shared with the Guardian shows agents forced workers out of a van in what a judge has called ‘unlawful’ arrest
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We reviewed DHS' list of immigrants + protesters who "weaponized" their vehicles to "assault" ICE agents. Nearly all claims have been debunked or dropped, with only one of 26 cases ending in an assault conviction. Inside the govt's stunning failure to prove DHS' claims of violence against agents:
theguardian.com
ICE keeps accusing immigrants of ‘weaponizing’ vehicles. Most claims fall apart
Nearly all car ‘assault’ cases promoted by DHS in press releases have been disproven or dropped, a Guardian analysis of court records reveals
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Inside DHS' "mass spying campaign" targeting leftist groups + ICE protesters: -undercover agents posed as protesters at meetings + secretly recorded -agents infiltrated Signal chats + encouraged others to do "direct action" -DHS got financial records of major groups, incl SEIU + Sunrise Movement
theguardian.com
US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They spent $200 million demonizing trans people. But faced with one officer who briefed this president, 25 years of service, and a name? They can't. Saying it means admitting they needed a trans person. With @samtlevin.bsky.social at The Guardian on how the White House has weakened America.
theguardian.com
The trans CIA official ousted by Trump: ‘We’re a government crippled by its own decisions’
Julia Curlee, a former senior CIA officer, speaks on Trump administration’s purge of national security staff, attacks on DEI and failures in Iran war
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
theguardian.com
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 6h
NEW: A Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari has been pulled from Penguin Random House just before its release. As a result of the dispute, a long-running series of nonfiction books by marginalized folks on the histories of their peoples is also ending at Penguin Alana + Jenan speak out:
theguardian.com
Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari pulled from Random House before release
Authors withdraw book planned for young readers after disputes with editors over characterizations of 7 October
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I don’t have any idea what the solution to the bigger problem for literature is, but it strikes me as completely outrageous that the Atlantic would level such a serious charge against an author without an iota of actual evidence. And no, a black box analysis by another AI program is not evidence.
theguardian.com
Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story
Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/10/2026
After about, I dunno, 40 years of data?, CNBC acknowledges that the rich are getting richer while the rest of us are getting poorer. Kudos to Jim Marx over here for noticing.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 14/10/2026
Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self
One of a troop of three soldiers patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box, October 14, 2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026
that’s right
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By vote to 47 to 51, with John Fetterman siding with the Republicans, the US Senate officially declared it was perfectly fine with Israel murdering nine Americans, and it had no interest in demanding any explanation for the murders. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US Senate blocks resolution demanding accountability over Israeli violence in West Bank
Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week, @prismreports.org is co-publishing my latest investigation with @us.theguardian.com, focused on a farmworker whose employer subjected him to deadly working conditions that resulted in a catastrophic heat stroke. The story will also be published in Spanish by @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s so routine and wild, the degree to which everyone knows the NYT steals stories and doesn’t credit and it’s just a thing we all know is happening to our stories.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I lost my healthcare, I can't afford gas, and I can't sleep due to the hum of the data center across the street. But at least Trump is pressing forward with dismantling the International Criminal Court.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Workplace heat rules lead to "robust and significant" reductions in worker injuries www.nber.org/papers/w35772
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Cooler Laws, Safer Workers: Evaluating California’s Heat Standard and Injury Reduction
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Jaisal Noor @jnoor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tomorrow @redemmas.org‘s Book Festival Tent— learn the buried history of freedom fighters that wanted America to live up to its founding ideals— and were targeted by their own government
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026
Mamdani is a superb administrator, it turns out, at least by the standards of NYC mayors www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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More Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City Government
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/09/2026
Organizers in Palm Beach County, Florida, are fighting to stop the county from investing further in bonds that help fund Israel’s genocide. The county already holds $1 billion in Israel Bonds, making its investment the largest in the world and 3 times the next highest investor, the State of Florida.
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Organizers Aim to Thwart Purchase of Israel Bonds by World’s Largest Investor
Palm Beach County, Florida, has invested $1 billion in Israel Bonds — more than any other single investor in the world.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Arizona Star is doing stand-out reporting on the plight of Ahmed Soliman, who grew up in Phoenix (since he was 4). ICE paid $7.5 million to Equatorial Guinea, a repressive dictatorship with a history of torture, to send him and others there. Now he's been tortured. 1/2 tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Six key points on the ‘retaliatory’ arrest of a Phoenix man deported to Africa
The Arizona Daily Star has been reporting on the plight of dozens of people imprisoned at a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, including one man who grew up in Phoenix,
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If spending more on schools raises the earnings of the children who benefit, does it eventually make the whole economy richer? My new NBER paper examines this using school-finance reforms. 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w35755
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The Macroeconomic Returns to School Finance Reforms: Micro-Calibrated Predictions Meet Causal Evidence
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the degree of both autonomy and corruption inside tiny police departments in the U.S. is ridiculous.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bret: Millions of Americans, including me, not only hate the parties but also hate the party for which we typically vote. That means there's a market of the dissatisfied. I hear this all the time among my friends in New York City: They can't believe they're stuck with Zohran Mamdani as mayor, and they felt the same way about Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio before him. But when you ask them if they voted in the primaries, the usual answer is: Uh, no — we were on the Vineyard or in Greece. The point is that it's on them, or us, and the remedy is some civic
entrepreneurship, philanthropically funded, to change this.
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Jaisal Noor @jnoor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looks like the Post changed their headline. But just compare their abysmal framing with The Guardian, whose reader revenue is up 17% over last
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party
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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
RECALL all those right-wingers over the years warning about the dangers of a Police State & NOTE how eager they are to become one.
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 15/08/2026
Stephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
publicnotice.co
Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.
WNBPA
A MESSAGE FROM
WNBPA PLAYER LEADERSHIP
To everyone who loves this game: The WNBPA represents 200+ individual people with different lived experiences, cultures, lifestyles, and opinions.
We embrace justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change.
Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns.
Support the Players. Support the Fans. At games, notify security if you witness hateful, violent, or abusive behavior. Online, report abusive posts and drown out the bots and bad actors. At home, tell your elected officials to strengthen Title IX.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It can’t be overstated how many people have legitimately lost their minds and had mental breakdowns due to Twitter
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Jaisal Noor @jnoor.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
radical sharia communism socialism
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
substack.com/@newsgirls/n...
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The Fired 60 Minutes Team Is Building a $50 Million Rival Show
Scott Pelley, Bill Owens and other journalists pushed out of CBS could reunite for a new investigative newsmagazine—and honestly, it may be more 60 Minutes than the show CBS will air this fall.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 08/08/2026
“Voters are hungry to have a clear, fair, and transparent process to decide the future of our state,” says the director of a campaign that fought a Republican-led effort to restrict direct democracy in Missouri.
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Missourians Reject Measure That Threatened to Kill Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives - Bolts
Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly sided against a measure to restrict direct democracy, as Missouri officials are trying to block even more citizen-led reforms from the November ballot.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026
I wrote a chapter on this.
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Florida cops are quietly using Meta smart glasses
Privacy advocates warn the glasses could let cops record people without them noticing.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
CBS and Bari Weiss may have created their own biggest competitor. Reports say journalists fired from 60 Minutes are planning to reunite with former exec. producer Bill Owens working bring on Scott Pelley, and other former correspondents/producers. This is how you do it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Because Up is Down, and the Moon is made of blue cheese.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
PENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is really making me laugh www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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