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Oliver Laughland

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US Southern Bureau Chief and Investigations Correspondent - The Guardian Presenter of the news documentary series Anywhere But Washington

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For six months, Emily Marris gave Brooklyn raw milk without incident. Then, on June 2, it all began to unravel." This is such a forensic & compassionate piece of reporting by @anniewaldman.bsky.social - showing the harm the raw milk movement did to a well meaning family, sucked in by bad actors
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. It will be released in cinemas in more than 50 countries in the coming weeks, and then will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free.
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NAZA - official trailer
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Sophie Sullivan @sophiemsullivan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Was happy to add "7-Eleven secret shopper" to my resume this summer and help report this excellent investigation into serial overcharging by America's convenience stores, alongside @jocelynzuck.bsky.social, @barryyeoman.com and @byardduncan.bsky.social. Thanks to our editor Mike Hudson! Read below.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
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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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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 27/08/2026
Here is RFK Jr's letter to the Samoan PM, where he uses the words vaccine or vaccination eight times www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Letter from RFK Jr
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
5 Raw Quotes From America’s Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner - by @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/5-qu...
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5 Raw Quotes From America’s Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner
I toured Mark McAfee’s Raw Farm for a story about raw milk’s foothold in America despite its health dangers. Here’s what he told me about recalls, outbreaks and his relationship with the federal gover...
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“It was mindless, gutter politics. It felt to Duncan that after three decades of fighting to clear his name in the courts, he was now being forced to do it again in public.” My profile of the extraordinary Calvin Duncan, his historic run for office & the Maga effort to eradicate his victory
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He won office in Louisiana after a murder exoneration. Maga wouldn’t let the election stand
Calvin Duncan studied law in prison to free himself and won his court clerk race in a landslide. Three hours in, the role was abolished in an act of ‘white supremacy’
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thousands of Americans are getting sick from a foodborne parasite, and federal regulators have still not publicly identified the source. So what's been happening in the federal government over the past year that might be a factor in this outbreak? 🧵⬇️
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/07/2026
This framing, from one of the better-read political newsletters, reads like a parody of cronyism. But it isn’t.
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined."
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Uefa accuses Fifa of ‘crossing a red line’ over lifting of Folarin Balogun’s red card ban
Uefa has hit out at Fifa’s decision to lift US striker Folarin Balogun’s one-game suspension for Monday’s last-16 tie with Belgium
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ultimately what has happened at this World Cup risks changing football for ever. Decisions made on the field may not count any longer, influence of the big powers over sport now impact what happens on the pitch and before that we had a unilateral decision that has divided the game into four quarters
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump called Infantino on Wednesday to get Balogun's red card lifted. Nice to ride alon with Tyler Pager on what will be seen (and is) in many parts as one of the biggest scandals in World Cup history. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...
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Trump Asked FIFA to Review Balogun’s Suspension. He Is Now Eligible to Play.
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary,Trump wanted to erase any “disparaging” history in the national parks. We documented + visualized the vast scale of this unprecedented censorship campaign. Very proud of this months-long team effort for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands
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Michael Hudson @michaelwhudson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
‘Extremely overwhelmed’: apartment renters face rising tide of fees Guardian investigation: Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar complain they’re deluged by ‘unfair’ and ‘inflated’ fees. The company denies these claims. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘Extremely overwhelmed’: apartment renters face rising tide of fees
Guardian investigation: Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar complain they’re deluged by ‘unfair’ and ‘inflated’ fees. The company denies these claims
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Sara Sneath @sarasneath.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Good news! I'm joining the Guardian US climate team next month. I'm excited to have a home among such badass journalists and at the only major news publication that doesn't take fossil fuel advertising. Send me tips.
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"There’s a strange mismatch between soccer as it actually exists throughout the United States and the red-meat Americana of Fox’s World Cup coverage, and no one better embodies this incongruence than the network’s resident carrot"
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The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
make america have kidney failure again! when they find that their raw milk is contaminated with E. coli, campylobacter, or listeria... they *make cheese* with it?? the donald j. trump administration: pioneers in diarrhea governance. www.propublica.org/article/mark...
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered,” he acknowledged. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” An astounding, beautifully written profile of the US’s largest Raw milk farm owner and MAHA darling Mark McAfee, by @anniewaldman.bsky.social
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Really lovely piece by my colleague @bryanagraham.bsky.social, who watched Game 1 of the NBA finals with some of the men incarcerated on Riker’s island
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‘The whole of New York is stressed right now’: how Knicks finals fever reached Rikers Island
Inside New York’s notorious jail complex, nearly 2,000 incarcerated people watched Game 1 together, arguing calls, roasting celebrity fans and sharing in a rare citywide moment
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New: Senator Ron Wyden has written to HHS and the non-profit operators of a proposed family and child ICE detention center in Alexandria, Louisiana - expressing concerns over conflicts of interest, environmental contamination, & “the absence of a public process” in the center’s planning
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Top Democrat urges end to secrecy over proposed ICE child detention center
Ron Wyden tells of ‘grave concerns’ over plan, first revealed by Guardian, to hold families at sprawling Louisiana facility
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In 2023, we found dozens of doctors were making millions of dollars performing risky – and possibly unnecessary – vascular procedures on patients. Earlier this month, a government watchdog broadly confirmed our findings, recommending CMS take action. www.propublica.org/article/vasc...
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More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds
A newly released report, which was based on a study that launched in 2024 following a ProPublica investigation, flags nearly 140 doctors across the country with "concerning" billing patterns.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We interviewed a Civil Rights activist who was tear-gassed in 1965 when he marched for voting rights in Selma. Charles Mauldin was 17 then. “Having people like ICE treat people the way we were treated 61 years ago, it’s horrible,” he said. A DHS spokesperson called his comparison "disgusting."
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy.
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 22/05/2026
Trump surgeon general pick sells a supplement that contains an ingredient prohibited by the US military and which health experts have warned can cause liver damage. Amazon opened an investigation into the products after the Guardian inquired whether they comply with its policies on supplement sales
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Trump’s pick for surgeon general sells supplement with ingredient banned by Pentagon
Amazon opens an inquiry into Nicole Saphier’s product compliance following Guardian inquiry. White House says she will be a ‘powerful asset’ for Maha agenda
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Jamil Smith @jamilsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Mississippi’s governor just called Bennie Thompson’s time in Congress a “reign of terror.” Who, precisely, is terrified here? And of what, or whom? My new column for @us.theguardian.com on what the post-Callais redistricting wave is actually building.
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The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter | Jamil Smith
New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The @us.theguardian.com has an excellent new video podcast! Congratulations to colleagues @cartersherman.bsky.social Kai Wright @rachump.bsky.social @jmenjivar.bsky.social and team First episode is here: youtu.be/k6iGsCJBsmo?...
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Stacey Abrams on why the gutting of the Voting Rights Act is 'evil'
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 11/05/2026
Exclusive: In letter 40 lawmakers demand the FAA address allegations of mistreatment of immigrants and the ‘urgent need for transparency’
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Democrats express ‘grave concerns’ over secretive ICE deportation flights
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A core statement of facts made by Samuel Alito in his decision overturning the VRA simply isn't true. He got the mistake from the DOJ. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Supreme court’s Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ
Exclusive: Data in justice department filing quoted by Samuel Alito in his opinion relied on unusual methodology, a Guardian analysis has found
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Lisa Maier @lisamaier.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
With this bridge struck, how will people still living south of the Litani continue to get access to aid, food, & medicine? How will hospitals replenish their medical supplies? The bridge was described to us as a lifeline by local officials and health workers An unfolding humanitarian catastrophe
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is a fascinating and revealing examination of Pete Hegseth’s particular sect of Calvinist evangelicalism, by @joolia.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran
The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 09/04/2026
Three years ago, Mississippi rolled back its strict school vaccine rules after a lawsuit funded by a Texas-based group called ICAN. In a Guardian investigation, I examined the close ties RFK Jr. has to ICAN's CEO and lawyer, and how the change ICAN brought is affecting children in Mississippi
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As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi’s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died
The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
He secured the conviction of a Black 16 y.o., comparing the boy to a dog & telling the jury to “get rid of it.” And withheld evidence in at least three death penalty cases. Now Hugo Holland is running for judge in Louisiana. @richardawebster.bsky.social for @veritenews.org + @propublica.org
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He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge.
Holland, who once compared a Black child to a dog, has had a career mired in controversy. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner of his judicial race.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We’re all living in the Mirror World now. Great interview and a reminder of how prescient Doppelgänger was.
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"An artist’s decision to remain anonymous should be respected. Creativity is one of the last great human mysteries."
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The Guardian view on anonymity in art: the ‘unmasking’ of Banksy and Ferrante should stop | Editorial
Editorial: Our fascination with the ‘real’ identities of artists and writers is revealing about attitudes to fame and authorship
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...
Status Scoop | ProPublica's Walkout Warning: The possibility of ProPublica staffers walking off the job just got far more serious. Unionized staffers at the nonprofit newsroom voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, Natalie Korach has learned. The ProPublica Guild represents about 150 journalists, videographers, and other newsroom employees. A major sticking point in the negotiations with management has centered on the use of artificial intelligence in reporting, with the union demanding protections from having jobs replaced by the rapidly advancing technology. “We are ready to walk off the job to show management that their refusal to agree to basic protections will not be tolerated and that we will not accept anything less than a fair contract,” said Agnel Philip, unit chair of ProPublica Guild.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The cost of the war in Iran is around $12 billion and rising every day. We visualized what we're actually paying for and what we are giving up to wage an undeclared war www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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The war on Iran cost the US $12.7bn by day six. Here’s how it’s been spent – in charts
Now, the total is likely to have exceeded $18bn and counting. Where are America’s war dollars going, in a war that was never declared in the first place?
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 17/03/2026
We didn't just find his videos - we also found Farage's outtakes, which show when his money-making sideline is interrupted by a text message or phone call, requiring him to re-record the video, he appears quick to anger.
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New: The Trump admin is on the brink of creating a 'first of its kind' short term facility at the Alexandria airport in central Louisiana to hold unaccompanied minors & families before deportation. Advocates say it will be a detention center in all but name.
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Trump administration set to expand migrant family detention at Louisiana airport
Alexandria airport center would hold migrant families and children inside converted barracks before deportation
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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS. "I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record." www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
A letter from Sen. Blumenthal to Kristi Noem dated March 4, 2026
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