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A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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This is also a field test.

If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.

Nothing.
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”:
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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So exhausting..
September 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Good morning. Here is a love song to the filth we left behind.
And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible iandunt.substack.com/p/a-love-son...
A love song to the filth we left behind
And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible
iandunt.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Kurt Vonnegut man
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.

I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.

Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Why would fans of a man they hail as a ‘free speech champion’ be so triggered by literally listening to him speak his ‘truths’?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James, Maybe a topic for tomorrow's show is to define the definition of free speech.You seem to be getting a lot of flack on Twitter about you playing tapes of Charlie Kirk and they said it dishonoured him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Bit of a paradox that it takes a US Democrat to challenge Farage, whereas UK Labour does a decaf tribute act for him
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:

"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
August 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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A *third* of the Commons has called on the PM to recognise Palestine as a state. Never seen anything quite like this.
July 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Memo from Private Eye to our broadcasters
June 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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I would not overstate the significance but the week of nationwide protests, the Wisconsin election, Cory Booker’s speech and the tariff fiasco feels like the end of phase one. It’s clear he’s unpopular and the pushback is gathering steam at last
April 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Seriously, if you worry that upholding the law might be politically bad for the 'optics‘, and could give a boost to the people you want nowhere near power, you have already given up on the principles you claim to be defending.
March 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I'm so tired of Trump's face, his voice, his ridiculous words, his nutty cabinet members, his awful voters, his imploding country. This 24/7 rolling atrocity of a presidency that poisons the entire world.
March 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" #3E #EndOligarchy
March 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Perhaps… we might even remember that Europe & Britain together nurtured the values we fight for today: liberty, reason, diversity, tolerance & the scrutiny of power… [and] defend those values against their natural enemy: authority, obscurantism, conformity, extremism & untrammeled executive might."
Ukraine: Some disparate thoughts on a horrifying day...

This is basically a scream of hatred and anguish, which gradually develops into something marginally more positive.

I'm going to have a drink. It's not too early.

iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
Some disparate thoughts on a horrifying day
American leadership is over. Ukraine has been betrayed. What happens next is up to us.
iandunt.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.

Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
One of the Grimmest Days in American Diplomacy
At an Oval Office meeting, the president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally.
theatln.tc
February 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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My heart broke for Ukraine a long time ago, but today is a new low.

The Europe leaders' summit in the UK on Sunday is now important than ever.

Slava Ukraini.
February 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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For all the horror, something potentially positive is happening. We seem to be witnessing the birth of an independent Europe before our very eyes inews.co.uk/opinion/a-ne...
A new, independent Europe is being born – and the UK is at the heart of it
This could be one of the most important political developments of our lifetime
inews.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM