Scores of poor Black Louisianans had volunteered for what was effectively Russian roulette, risking their own lives in the hope of a onetime payout. The attorneys were well educated and mostly white, and would almost certainly have been loath to go looking for a truck to hit.
Before his ill-fated presidential run in 2019, which only lasted three months, Alex Evans, a former senior Swalwell adviser, put together an informal inventory of possible reasons he could lose.
The first word on the list: hubris.
Members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated. A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.
Others in the business intelligence sector have cast doubt on Steele’s analytic abilities – a shortcoming that may have led him to place unjustified trust in unverified reports from his sources.
‘He’s very bad at distinguishing truth from fiction.’
The breathtaking fall was nudged along by the influencers... They went so far as to craft talking points in advance of publication of reports they had never seen.
“We didn’t know exactly what’s going to be in it,” Hunt said. “Turns out, we were spot on.”
“I have a lot of regrets about our Middle East policy, and it’s hard to see Brett as anything but the singular driving force behind it.”
“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”
One former cook recalled that one night in 2011 Mr. Redzepi noticed that he had left a tiny tweezer mark on a flower petal as he placed it onto a dish. Mr. Redzepi, he said, grabbed the straps of his apron and slammed him against the wall, then punched him twice in the stomach.
The group’s July 2025 report lays out a novel methodology for demonstrating sexual violence on 7 October, one that lowers the evidential standards typically relied upon in conflict situations: “Our goal is to propose a scheme of deducing premeditation from circumstantial evidence.”
“Moon treated Japanese members like slaves. There was part of me that was, like, it’s awful that someone died, but finally people are going to see just how fucked up things are.”
Hungary’s national tax and customs administration said it had opened a money-laundering investigation over the shipment, which it said was made up of $40m and €35m in cash, as well as 9kg of gold. It said one of those arrested was “a former Ukrainian intelligence service general”.
Experts say that Hindmarsh’s calculations are wrong and the prosecution theory that insulin was delivered via the feed bags is not plausible.
Former Adeso staff described a culture of fear and bullying at odds with the organisation’s external messaging on decolonisation.
At least six board members resigned in 2024.
New investigation by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social
The withheld files included FBI notes documenting a series of interviews a woman gave to agents in 2019 in which she alleged sexual misconduct by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor.
The operation was "highly likely" to have been state-directed. The state in question is Ukraine – the very country the German government has been supporting with many billions of euros since the Russian invasion.
A former [Myanmar military intelligence] chief propagandist was simultaneously supplying the armed forces and holding a financial stake in a major media outlet, a conflict of interest never disclosed to Frontier’s journalists, funders or audience.
"The Epstein files will serve to reinforce the suspicions of those who claim that a highly networked Norwegian cosmopolitan elite, living in luxury and harbouring deep contempt for ordinary people’s lives, regard themselves as masters and architects of the world by right."
Remember: even if @unocha.org & others CAN 'ringfence' US funding, ALL recipients of the funds, and UN implementing partners, are still 100% subject to the rule - so this is just offloading the problem to NGOs and CSOs
"Rather than pushing back [against aid worker arrests], several aid workers complained that senior humanitarian leadership — particularly within the UN — has opted to fall in line with the authorities, even helping them reinforce official narratives that the conflict is getting better."
The @intl-pride-centre.bsky.social is urging donors to stop giving money to the @unocha.org pooled funds “until the funds’ independence is guaranteed”.
“It’s just impossible to imagine a negative interaction with him. And the fact that he was killed on city streets — as an employee of the U.S. government, by the U.S. government — it’s blowing my mind.”
New reporting shows @iom.int is invoking UN “privileges and immunities” to refuse disclosure of documents about its EU-funded Assisted Voluntary Returns and Reintegration (AVRR) programme in Greece – even though it’s paid with public funds.
McCarthy came to consider Greene a good-faith actor who sometimes lacks good information... “So she assumes certain things,” McCarthy said. “But you can break through that.”
During the breakup of Flight 7, the FAA kept airspace closed for roughly 86 minutes. However, Diez, the SpaceX executive, told attendees at the industry conference that, in fact, it had taken “hours” for all the debris to reach the ground.
He said there was now an established pattern of Thailand taking action against Cambodia's "scam-invested oligarchs" followed by Cambodia escalating tensions with Thailand then issuing "a punishing, over the top military response".
Yes, Lakanwal was radicalized, but it was the CIA, not the Taliban, who accustomed him and thousands of other Afghan men to wanton violence. – @alibomaye.bsky.social
Thieren accused the UN of enabling antisemitism and compared world leaders’ discussions on Palestinian statehood to making a deal with a “Nazi devil”.
This account is the most comprehensive to date of the backlash against Kirk’s critics, tracing how senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, local Republican lawmakers and allied influencers mobilized to enforce the Trump movement’s views.
