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Nicole Childers

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🖤🏳️‍🌈👑 Investigative Journalist. 🕵🏽‍♀️🫆Talent whisperer. Story concierge. Trusted by your favorite movers + shakers. 🤩🔒 Frmr Foster Kid 🧡 | Ex–network news tv exec | DJ 🎶 | @uofpenn grad 🤓 #Range #Rhythm #Receipts. 💪🏾

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Aug 11

It’s time to brush up on night of the long knives…. History repeats itself…

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 8

Everything from military radios to AI can be hacked. At the Defcon hacker conference, researchers showed how they hacked into these systems—not for gain—but to point out vulnerabilities.

First, a student who found that vape detectors installed at his high school could be used for surveillance: 🧵

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

www.wired.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Jul 13

Now seems the time to repost this big story we did a few years ago... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

www.motherjones.com

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Jul 7

… scaring residents and picking a fight with MS13. Though it should be noted Mayor Karen Bass has gone to great lengths as recently as a few months ago to clean up the park www.calonews.com/communities/...

LA city officials tout results of interventions at MacArthur Park

Following almost three months of intervention through police, cleaning and health services at MacArthur Park, city officials Monday touted violent crime dropped significantly around the area and offic...

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Jul 7

My guess here is that Trump will say they were at #macarthurpark to “clean it up” and cite it as a known MS13 gang territory…. And will cite 47’s Jan exec order citing MS13 as a terrorist org to justify federal show of force…. To be clear… in the process the admin is…

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Jul 7

MacArthur park is literally where the unhoused live. This has zero to do with criminal anything. Nothing to do with immigration. This is photo op bullshit.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Jul 7

Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 3

So it’s convict leasing.

Step and fetch @fetchstep.bsky.social · Jul 3

The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Jun 5

I’ma need for the history books to document this time as a true play by play…. With screenshots of social media postings. Drake v Kendrick ain’t got nuthin’ on this Trump v Elon beef. #imsayin #shotsfired

a man in a red shirt is eating something with his hand in his mouth .

ALT: a man in a red shirt is eating something with his hand in his mouth .

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Apr 16

2025 has been exhausting…. And we aren’t yet 5 months in….

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Apr 11

Certainty bends reality.

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Apr 9

So, Grammarly doesn’t know how to correctly spell accoutrement?!?!

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Apr 1

Breaking WaPo:

Members of Trump's National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by WaPo and interviews with three U.S. officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say

Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Apr 1

“Fear is a necessary precondition to courage.” — @booker.senate.gov

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Apr 1

Senator @booker.senate.gov has been talking for close to 18 hours now. In his suit & tie. With just 2 small glasses of water & a massive binder he’s been reading from. He’s not reading green eggs n ham. He’s attacking maga policies. I know John Lewis & the ancestors are proud and helping fuel him.

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 28

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The woman who killed Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole

Yolanda Saldívar, who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez, has been denied parole by a Texas board.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 25

If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · Mar 24

From the farewell of the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat.

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 25

Is it really only day 64?

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 24

People can BE bad luck, too.

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ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 18

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is a critical victory for trans rights.

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Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 18

Crypto Arena will always be Staples to me…

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 7

Now would be a good time for reporting on diversity commitments companies made in 2020 to see what’s happened since…

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 7

Meghan Sussex’s #netflix lifestyle show just got a season 2 greenlit. Season 1 has been a great escape from dystopia this week…

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 3

Barbie has a Celia Cruz doll 😍😍

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 3

Same!

Nicole Childers @nicolechilders.bsky.social · Mar 3

Gutted for Demi Moore….

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Mar 1

Extraordinary quote from the German president about Trump/Vance's ambush of Zelensky:

"I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

Shocked by Trump Meeting, Zelensky and Ukraine Try to Forge a Path Forward

After President Trump’s rebukes, President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to repair the relationship with his counterpart while also reaching out to European allies.

www.nytimes.com

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