Daniel Nima Moattar
@danielmoattar.bsky.social
articles editor @motherjones.com
Guess who had the integrity not to accept $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year?
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Turned Down Million-Dollar Offer to Perform in Saudi Arabia: ‘I Don’t Need to Take Any Money if It Makes Me Feel Icky’
'Weird Al' Yankovic revealed he turned down a seven-figure offer to perform at the state-sponsored Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
variety.com
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
ICE agents keep killing people. Now, they aren’t even trying to explain it away. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE didn't say about its latest killing
The agency is no longer even claiming its officers feared for their lives.
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Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
I suspect that this killing was the same as Renée Good. If I had to bet, I'd bet that Lorenzo was shot as he was turning around. As he pulls away (after seemingly being rammed in the side by an ICE vehicle), you can see ICE agents to the side of his vehicle (not in front) on the passenger side...
Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.
Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me For Days over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
thedrive.com
Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative
The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
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During a photo session with a young fan, Egyptian staff are assaulted by cops in Dallas. Egypt is Australia's opponent tomorrow morning. Aus squad include six players of African heritage plus another from Sri Lanka. This could easily have been us ... #Profiling #WorldCup #AustraliaEgypt #Socceroos
A dentist documents how extreme heat is turning Pakistani farmworkers’ mouths into hostile environments for their own teeth. #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat https://www.thexylom.com/post/pakistani-farmworker-mouths-climate-change-extreme-heat
When the Heat Steals Your Smile
After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented pH readings below 5.5 in 42 of my 73 climate-exposed patient...
thexylom.com
The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.
Air conditioning fails at Delaney Hall as heat wave leaves detainees struggling to breathe • The Jersey Vindicator
Advocates say temperatures became unbearable inside one housing unit as the region's heat wave intensified.
jerseyvindicator.org
Dude is really dedicated to this idea—an idea so bad that when he announced it in 2013 as a potential product for schools, 9 of the 12 ethics board members resigned.
CEO of Taser maker Axon: Drones that stun perpetrators are in our future
The Taser maker makes a push into drones.
finance.yahoo.com
⚠️ The US believed Israel was plotting to assassinate FM Araghchi or Speaker Ghalibaf during negotiations. (The leaking and confirmation of this story by unnamed current and former American officials is notable in itself.) Gift link:
U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators
nytimes.com
Gaza's breast cancer patients face immediate mastectomies as doctors plead for end to blockade - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-breat-cancer-patients-immediate-mastectomies-doctors-please%20end-blockade
Gaza's breast cancer patients face immediate mastectomies as doctors plead for end to blockade
Revelations about the devastated health sector come as Gaza marks '1,000 days of genocide' since 7 October 2023
middleeasteye.net
“He’s Mister Iran”: How Netanyahu made a better Iran deal impossible.
“He's Mister Iran”: How Netanyahu made a better Iran deal impossible
The inside story of US-Iran negotiations—and what Israel did to them—from the National Security Council's former Iran director.
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🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
nytimes.com
Journalist Kelly Davis (@kellylynndavis.bsky.social) has died of cancer at 53
Kelly Davis, intrepid reporter who exposed death and despair in San Diego County jails and gave voice to the downtrodden, dies at 53
The 2023 San Diego journalist of the year beat cancer for more than a decade before being diagnosed with a new tumor earlier this year; she leaves a lasting legacy in her adopted hometown.
sandiegouniontribune.com
Jeremy Carl had to withdraw his nomination to be a top State Dept. official under Trump after senators pressed him on his remarks on challenges to “white culture” in a multi-racial America.
When it comes to getting mental health help, Tom Kean Jr.'s logic appears to be "It's okay for me, but not for thee."
Tom Kean Jr. sought help for depression. He hasn’t made it easy for others to do the same.
The lawmaker spent nearly two decades voting against paid leave.
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Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.
Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
Rep. Tom Kean took leave to get help for depression. But as a member of Congress, due to voting for Medicaid work reqs, and as part of the New Jersey state leg, he hasn't made it easy for others to do the same. New w/ @hurwitz.bsky.social at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Tom Kean Jr. sought help for depression. He hasn’t made it easy for others to do the same.
The lawmaker spent nearly two decades voting against paid leave.
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Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all. Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it. It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die.
An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗
Trump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portrait
The Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site.
share.inquirer.com
Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
Sometimes you gotta think about all the people who were absolutely prepared to execute this guy in spite of this.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.Just an insane case, folks. boltsmag.org/chris-duncan...
