Noah Lanard
@nlanard.bsky.social
Reporter at Mother Jones. Previously
@washingtonian and freelancing from Mexico City. Now New York.
@washingtonian and freelancing from Mexico City. Now New York.
Some details from this investigation:
-Friends with a guy convicted of incest
-Accused by first of 4 wives of holding a gun to her head
-Accused by second wife of owing more than $100,000 in child support
-Assaulted an unarmed Black man then lied about it while working as a cop, per police records
-Friends with a guy convicted of incest
-Accused by first of 4 wives of holding a gun to her head
-Accused by second wife of owing more than $100,000 in child support
-Assaulted an unarmed Black man then lied about it while working as a cop, per police records
Republican Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Clay Higgins built his brand on law and order. He pals around with a man guilty of incest.
A Mother Jones investigation has revealed troubling connections between the Louisiana Republican congressman and fellow former cops accused of severe misconduct.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Some details from this investigation:
-Friends with a guy convicted of incest
-Accused by first of 4 wives of holding a gun to her head
-Accused by second wife of owing more than $100,000 in child support
-Assaulted an unarmed Black man then lied about it while working as a cop, per police records
-Friends with a guy convicted of incest
-Accused by first of 4 wives of holding a gun to her head
-Accused by second wife of owing more than $100,000 in child support
-Assaulted an unarmed Black man then lied about it while working as a cop, per police records
Reposted by Noah Lanard
MoJo reported on Higgins last year: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Clay Higgins built his brand on law and order. He pals around with a man guilty of incest.
A Mother Jones investigation has revealed troubling connections between the Louisiana Republican congressman and fellow former cops accused of severe misconduct.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
MoJo reported on Higgins last year: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Noah Lanard
Republican Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Clay Higgins built his brand on law and order. He pals around with a man guilty of incest.
A Mother Jones investigation has revealed troubling connections between the Louisiana Republican congressman and fellow former cops accused of severe misconduct.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Republican Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In 2019, a Higgins staffer resigned after police alleged that the staffer was part of a sex-trafficking ring involving Chinese women who were reportedly forced to live and perform sex acts at local massage parlors. (The staffer resigned and charges were not pursued.)
Republican Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Clay Higgins built his brand on law and order. He pals around with a man guilty of incest.
A Mother Jones investigation has revealed troubling connections between the Louisiana Republican congressman and fellow former cops accused of severe misconduct.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In 2019, a Higgins staffer resigned after police alleged that the staffer was part of a sex-trafficking ring involving Chinese women who were reportedly forced to live and perform sex acts at local massage parlors. (The staffer resigned and charges were not pursued.)
This story also has one of the most memorable quotes I've ever been told.
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This story also has one of the most memorable quotes I've ever been told.
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
From my investigation last year into Higgins' friendship with Leon Boudreaux, a former cop who was convicted of incest after a teenage relative accused Boudreaux of sexually assaulting her between the ages of 14 and 18.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
From my investigation last year into Higgins' friendship with Leon Boudreaux, a former cop who was convicted of incest after a teenage relative accused Boudreaux of sexually assaulting her between the ages of 14 and 18.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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with @nlanard.bsky.social we ran the numbers on where Mamdani-mentum peaked—and checked back on the neighborhoods where Democratic support cratered in 2024 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Democrats collapsed here last year. How’d Zohran do?
New York's mayor-elect launched his campaign by talking to non-voters and Trump supporters. Some of them even came along.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
with @nlanard.bsky.social we ran the numbers on where Mamdani-mentum peaked—and checked back on the neighborhoods where Democratic support cratered in 2024 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Wrote about Mamdani’s successful 15-day hunger strike in solidarity with taxi drivers in 2021, what it was like to be there, and how it foreshadowed his campaign
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Wrote about Mamdani’s successful 15-day hunger strike in solidarity with taxi drivers in 2021, what it was like to be there, and how it foreshadowed his campaign
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
DHS has said over and over that immigration enforcement is so dangerous that ICE agents needs masks and the military to protect them.
ICE's own records show that no ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant. Covid-19 is by far the leading cause of death.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE's own records show that no ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant. Covid-19 is by far the leading cause of death.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
DHS has said over and over that immigration enforcement is so dangerous that ICE agents needs masks and the military to protect them.
ICE's own records show that no ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant. Covid-19 is by far the leading cause of death.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE's own records show that no ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant. Covid-19 is by far the leading cause of death.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Noah Lanard
So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
October 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
A solid turnout in Brooklyn for No Kings running along much of Prospect Park
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A solid turnout in Brooklyn for No Kings running along much of Prospect Park
Daniel Levy, the head of the US/Middle East Project, has been one of the sharpest people I've talked to over the past two years about the war in Gaza.
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Daniel Levy, the head of the US/Middle East Project, has been one of the sharpest people I've talked to over the past two years about the war in Gaza.
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the latest black hole ICE is reporting to with no due process or national connection www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the latest black hole ICE is reporting to with no due process or national connection www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New: Inside the Kafkaesque legal battle that's resulted from ICE sending people without due process to a maximum security prison in Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New: Inside the Kafkaesque legal battle that's resulted from ICE sending people without due process to a maximum security prison in Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How Robert Malley—a veteran US peace negotiator and the co-author of a new book on the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process— is looking at the recent moves to recognize Palestine.
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
How Robert Malley—a veteran US peace negotiator and the co-author of a new book on the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process— is looking at the recent moves to recognize Palestine.
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Really enjoyed doing this Q&A with Robert Malley, the former Clinton, Obama, and Biden foreign policy official whose new book with Hussein Agha pushes readers to think beyond the two-state solution.
We also covered Biden's response to October 7 and recent moves to recognize Palestine.
We also covered Biden's response to October 7 and recent moves to recognize Palestine.
How the two-state solution became a “big, expedient lie”
In a new book, Robert Malley, a veteran US peace negotiator, argues it is well past time to think beyond an idea he spent much of his career pursuing.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Really enjoyed doing this Q&A with Robert Malley, the former Clinton, Obama, and Biden foreign policy official whose new book with Hussein Agha pushes readers to think beyond the two-state solution.
We also covered Biden's response to October 7 and recent moves to recognize Palestine.
We also covered Biden's response to October 7 and recent moves to recognize Palestine.
Great lede from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social in this story on American comedians heading to Riyadh and people folding to autocrats more broadly
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Great lede from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social in this story on American comedians heading to Riyadh and people folding to autocrats more broadly
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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![The judge goes on to write that the case he is deciding is “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.” He concludes that there was not an “ideological deportation policy” targeting pro-Palestine speech. Instead, there was something more sinister:
“[T]he intent of the Secretaries was more invidious—to target a few for speaking out and then use the full rigor of the Immigration and Nationality Act (in ways it had never been used before) to have them publicly deported with the goal of tamping down pro-Palestinian student protests and terrorizing similarly situated non-citizen (and other) pro-Palestinians into silence because their views were unwelcome.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o5r6qogow4bhwr5b3xpr7h6l/bafkreicu7dh57haibrrpo2vpxstp73bsoafp7kbrzfe2kpn6d6ygp6njta@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment.
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment.
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.
Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
These are the only 4 federal cases Lindsey Halligan—a former Florida insurance defense lawyer—is listed as an attorney on.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
These are the only 4 federal cases Lindsey Halligan—a former Florida insurance defense lawyer—is listed as an attorney on.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.
A look at the legal background of the person who Trump just made one of the top prosecutors in the country so that she can go after his enemies
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A look at the legal background of the person who Trump just made one of the top prosecutors in the country so that she can go after his enemies
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Spent some time shadowing Greg Casar (and Dolores Huerta!) during the redistricting fight. His predicament embodied the party's: a rising generation of leaders, caught between a defiant old guard and an opposition willing to change the rules to stop them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How to survive a Republican power grab
Texas Democrat Greg Casar spent his summer fighting for his job—and plotting a progressive revival.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Spent some time shadowing Greg Casar (and Dolores Huerta!) during the redistricting fight. His predicament embodied the party's: a rising generation of leaders, caught between a defiant old guard and an opposition willing to change the rules to stop them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...