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Delaney Nolan
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Journalist for @thelensnola. Work in The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, Fortune, Sierra, etc

Debut novel HAPPY BAD out now!

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327/happy-bad-by-delaney-nolan/9781662603280/
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Delaney Nolan @delaneynolan.bsky.social · Oct 14
My debut novel, HAPPY BAD, is out today! Come see me in New Orleans, New York, Chicago, wherever.
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#TheLensNola🔍 In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard’s other missions...

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February 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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For sure. thelensnola.org/2026/02/11/i...
In departure from norm, Coast Guard demands immigration papers on Louisiana docks | The Lens
In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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I wonder what the Broad Street stingray is doing right now
February 11, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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📚💙 Starting today: climate disaster novel Happy Bad by Delaney Nolan.
#booksky #books #reading #currentlyreading
December 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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(4/4)

And only 1/3 through but digging my last novel of 2025–
Happy Bad, Delaney Nolan
December 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Thank you to @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social over at Gulf States Newsroom for these generous questions and for reading Happy Bad so closely! <3

@wwno.org @gulfstatesnewsroom.bsky.social

www.wwno.org/arts-culture...
Q&A: How New Orleans author, journalist Delaney Nolan finds hope in her new novel
Nolan discusses the journey of writing her debut novel, how her journalism informs her fiction and more with the Gulf States Newsroom’s Drew Hawkins.
www.wwno.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Last question at presser:

Reporter: Will you take any accountability for the two lives lost?

Bovino: Two suspects have been shot...it goes back to the choices, to interfere and obstruct agents...whether it's based on ideology, we don't know.
January 25, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Bovino at this press conference talking about "choices" and "consequences" like a mob boss in a Pacino movie
January 25, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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They're crying in Boston, this time it's different
troubledminnesotan.bsky.social Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 24d
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Timeless mistake. Never invade a winter people in the winter time.
January 25, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
delaneynolan.bsky.social
When I was in Kyiv last month, I went around talking to people about how they were coping with blackouts. At a salon, they kept their generator in a shed out back.

I tried to be like "haha please please move this, you're going to get carbon monoxide poisoning" but no luck. Godspeed to that salon
katzindc.bsky.social Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 26d
PSA: if you hear someone say that they have a generator, ask them where they plan to put it while using it. Plenty of smart people genuinely don’t know why it’s critical to give it plenty of space.
cpsc.gov U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26d
A few people pointing out that their homes are all electric and therefore they do not need carbon monoxide alarms. Do you have a neighbor? Do you know if they own a portable generator? Do you trust them to not place it too close to your house?
January 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
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January 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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The movie Ice Age (March 15, 2002) is older than ICE’s age (March 1, 2003)
January 20, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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"Big Erdoğan vibes," I joke, as federal agents haul me off to a blacksite dungeon in the marsh
January 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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How many fucking chemical plants does one state need
thelensnola.bsky.social The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · Jan 13
#TheLensNola🔍 Lawsuit targets rezoning of land for industry, which would displace hundreds in Modeste, a predominantly Black community in Ascension Parish.

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#redzoning #modeste #ascensionparish
January 13, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Lawsuit targets rezoning of land for industry, which would displace hundreds in Modeste, a predominantly Black community in Ascension Parish.

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Read full story: buff.ly/lV5WnbM

#redzoning #modeste #ascensionparish
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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I haven't had signal for hours. Oh god i'm free
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jan 14
Verizon network is completely down in Boston. There's a national carrier outage on multiple carriers right now.
Android quick settings screen showing “Emergency calls only,” Wi-Fi connected, Bluetooth enabled, and status bar icons with the cellular signal/data indicator circled in red showing no cell connection Grid of internet and mobile provider logos—Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Fios, Xfinity, and Google—each with a small red line graph beneath, showing mostly flat lines with a sharp rise at the end.
January 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM