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Max Daly
@maxdaly.bsky.social
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Drugs and organised crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, Narcomania. Former Global Drugs Editor, Vice. Subscribe to my new substack for free: maxdaly.substack.com
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · Aug 17
I wrote an epic read about how the Italian mafia expanded in Germany via the pizza restaurant, and how this is linked to a global rise of organised crime.

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How the mafia infiltrated Germany
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 11h
Great time to run a drug gang in the US, as agents join the yank gestapo
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h
Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.
A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data
Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 13h
Dubious
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h
A dangerous drug trend called “bluetoothing,” in which people inject themselves with the blood of other drug users to get a cheap high, is contributing to spikes in HIV rates in infection hot spots around the world.
‘Bluetoothing’: Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Alarming Global H.I.V. Surge
The practice, in which users inject the blood of already intoxicated individuals, has fueled one of the fastest-growing H.I.V. epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17h
New from 404 Media: cocaine in private jets. Drug traffickers entering sailing races to move drugs. And mountains of meth hidden in sex toys. These are some of the things the FBI saw on its secretly backdoored encrypted chat app according to newly leaked documents
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Cocaine in Private Jets and Sex Toys: What the FBI Found on its Secretly Backdoored Chat App
New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.
www.404media.co
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 18h
Just noticed I've been shortlisted for 'Best Feature' at this year's Freelance Journalism Awards for ‘A Hackney story’, my long read for @thefence.bsky.social about London’s changing street gang scene.

Read it here: www.the-fence.com/a-hackney-st...

Awards shortlist: substack.com/home/post/p-...
A Hackney Story
The real-life story that inspired Top Boy.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 1d
Good idea
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 1d
In a 2015 article for VICE, I tried to predict the future of drugs.

10 years down the line, how did I do?

www.vice.com/en/article/t...
Revisiting VICE's Big Predictions About the Future of Drugs—10 Years On
Way back in 2015, VICE made 16 predictions about what drug taking would be like in 2025. Let's see how right—and wrong—we were.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 1d
Judgy robots
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 1d
'Pink cocaine is the narcotic equivalent of a pastel green matcha latte or a bright orange Aperol Spritz'

I wrote about the rise of 'tusi' aka 'pink cocaine'. No more is it a random drug mishmash, but a well-marketed, gimmicky product on the rise globally.

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Why are kids snorting pink cocaine?
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 1d
What Nadene says
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 2d
Jesus wtf
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d
Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze
Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 3d
👍

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Green Party membership overtakes Liberal Democrats under Polanski
Around 20,000 people have joined the Green Party in the past few months, and new leader Zack Polanski says he has "undoubtedly" had a role in this success.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 4d
America needs to rise up against Trump. It didn’t vote for fascism.
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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 4d
These people who look at America going fascist and think, ‘great idea’.

Jenrick, Farage, Yaxley, Truss, Suella, Kemi, supported by our demented right wing press.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 4d
Appears that hate crimes against Jewish people in the UK have not jumped in the last year out the blue. Like the attack in Manchester, this is about Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, enabled by the West. Al-Shamie is not the only one with blood on his hands.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 5d
The way much of the right has used people’s deaths to fuel their deluded agenda is shameless. Just look at the comment section of the Telegraph and Mail. Urgh.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 5d
Israel’s regime aligning itself with Britains top racist. Holocaust dead turning in their graves.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 5d
The Telegraph has zero shame
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 5d
Some of the shit written in the right wing press since this incident is unbelievable.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 6d
Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt.

Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.
On trial for journalism in Kentucky.
Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 6d
I’m criticising people for what they leave out, I’m making no iffy grand statements myself
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 6d
They are shit
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 6d
Both are racism driven, but pretending this incident (or the imagined Tommy one) have happened in some kind of a vacuum where national/world events have not occurred, is bizarre, especially for journalists.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 6d
When things like this happen, you need to ask why, and ignoring this elephant in the room is just dishonest.

Tbh I'm surprised there's not been a lot more of these terrible incidents, or even another 9/11 style attack on the US, due to the West's refusal to stop the genocide in Gaza.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 6d
No, I think we just have to be realistic about the drivers. The Tommy extremist attacking a mosque this week would most likely be driven by the recent explosion of anti immigrant racism in the UK, and Muslim extremist would most likely be driven to do this because of the slaughter in Gaza.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 6d
cheers David