If they have “no navy,” how did Iran lay mines?
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If they have “no navy,” how did Iran lay mines?
Tom Jennings talks about his New Yorker doc ROVINA'S CHOICE, which covers the sudden destruction of USAID and its instant effect on a mother from South Sudan.
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At least it’s a functional society
I can't stop thinking about my fellow biographers who had their NEH grants taken away last year to save taxpayers' money.
I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
A new feature by me about Trinidad and the US drug-boat campaign; plus a book launch and reading in LA.
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Tariff refund is gonna be a fucking disaster, especially because they’re gonna have to tax people to pay them back for the taxes they charged them that they weren’t allowed to charge.
A new feature by me about Trinidad and the US drug-boat campaign; plus a book launch and reading in LA.
michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/trinidad-f...
Orange text: "ICE agents don’t get to pick and choose when the First Amendment applies." Orange text: "We have a right to record law enforcement in public." Orange ACLU logo. Black background.
When ICE agents are working, we have a right to film them in public. Period.
Hats off to the geniuses on the Trumpy Left who insisted that Trump was anti-war, anti-interventionist, anti-regime change, anti-imperialist, whatever. Some of us argued that this view was delusional. The Trumpy Left stridently dismissed those critics. Any rethinking of that position now?
On Episode 28 of Radio Free Mike I compared notes with Pralav Dhyani about being held hostage by Somalia pirates. He has a memoir out in India called HIJACKED:
michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/028-pralav...
What halted it was not a judge’s ruling or a missing fact, but an instruction from Washington. Federal agents who were ready to execute a signed warrant stood down.
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On Episode 28 of Radio Free Mike I compared notes with Pralav Dhyani about being held hostage by Somalia pirates. He has a memoir out in India called HIJACKED:
michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/028-pralav...
Signing off with Nights in White Satin. "Letters I've written, never meaning to send" sounds different with the Dickies singing instead of the Moody Blues.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 195:
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Adam Skolnick on his new novel AMERICAN TIGER, about a tiger on the loose in Southern California. Based on real events!
Quite possible👇
I’m sorry, you didn’t know about it already?
"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards...she kept hearing the same thing from them...'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that'”
"NATO is not a charitable enterprise but a force multiplier for American power."
Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...
The "bizarre incident" with Lindsey Graham at the Munich Security Conference confronting and insulting Danish leaders has caused enough disquiet that Berlingske newspaper has done two unusual things with the story: translated it into English, and unpaywalled it.
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@daniellebeckman.bsky.social Danielle, can we chat by DM? It’s for a possible magazine piece.
Adam Skolnick talks about his new novel AMERICAN TIGER, about a large cat on the loose in California.
Based on real events! Episode 27 of Radio Free Mike:
michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/027-adam-s...
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And only because there‘s resistance 👇
Let no one deceive you.