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Delaney Nolan

@delaneynolan.bsky.social

Journalist for @thelensnola. Work in The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, Fortune, Sierra, etc Debut novel HAPPY BAD out now! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327/happy-bad-by-delaney-nolan/9781662603280/

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Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

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The SFF Librarian Reviews: January 2026 SFF Librarian Reviews Jeremy Brett As a voracious reader, and as someone for whom science fiction and fantasy are part of my daily job as a science fiction librarian, I come across a lot of wonderf…

The SFF Librarian Reviews: Jeremy Brett looks at Rambo's RUMOR HAS IT (@torbooks.bsky.social), Cooney's SAINT DEATH'S HERALD (@solarisbooks.bsky.social), Nolan's HAPPY BAD (Astra House), and THE ESSENTIAL AKUTAGAWA, tr. Medhurst (@tuttlepublishing.bsky.social):

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This is important β€”>

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"Flores came to Louisiana decades ago, to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina."

β€œImmigrant labor has literally developed Louisiana’s seafood industry,” Green said, referring to the Croatian, IsleΓ±o, Acadian and Vietnamese immigrants who settled the state’s coast.

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The Coast Guard is now conducting immigration raids and demending proof of citizenship from deckhand in Louisiana.

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In departure from norm, Coast Guard demands immigration papers on Louisiana docks β€’ Louisiana Illuminator Seafood workers say that the Coast Guard, in a departure from the norm, has conducted about seven sweeps since early November, resulting in multiple arrests.

In departure from norm, Coast Guard demands immigration papers on Louisiana docks

In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps – not by ICE, but the Coast Guard

lailluminator.com/2026/02/18/c...

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β€œastrology for men” was too generous

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Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor | Defector As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math a...

The feeling of having known something to be true, deep within your very being, only to have it confirmed as such. There's just nothing like it: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...

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[personally driving a bulldozer through an unhoused person’s worldly possessions] we must support mutual aid

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πŸ“£ Submissions are now OPEN for the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards! πŸ””

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#TheLensNolaπŸ” In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard’s other missions...

✍ Delaney Nolan

Full Story: buff.ly/c1yZGuQ

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In departure from norm, Coast Guard demands immigration papers on Louisiana docks | The Lens In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard...

For sure. thelensnola.org/2026/02/11/i...

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I wonder what the Broad Street stingray is doing right now

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πŸ“šπŸ’™ Starting today: climate disaster novel Happy Bad by Delaney Nolan.
#booksky #books #reading #currentlyreading

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(4/4)

And only 1/3 through but digging my last novel of 2025–
Happy Bad, Delaney Nolan

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Q&A: How New Orleans author, journalist Delaney Nolan finds hope in her new novel Nolan discusses the journey of writing her debut novel, how her journalism informs her fiction and more with the Gulf States Newsroom’s Drew Hawkins.

Thank you to @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social over at Gulf States Newsroom for these generous questions and for reading Happy Bad so closely! <3

@wwno.org @gulfstatesnewsroom.bsky.social

www.wwno.org/arts-culture...

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Last question at presser:

Reporter: Will you take any accountability for the two lives lost?

Bovino: Two suspects have been shot...it goes back to the choices, to interfere and obstruct agents...whether it's based on ideology, we don't know.

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Bovino at this press conference talking about "choices" and "consequences" like a mob boss in a Pacino movie

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Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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They're crying in Boston, this time it's different

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Timeless mistake. Never invade a winter people in the winter time.

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

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Alex Pretti’s last words were β€œare you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

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Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

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When I was in Kyiv last month, I went around talking to people about how they were coping with blackouts. At a salon, they kept their generator in a shed out back.

I tried to be like "haha please please move this, you're going to get carbon monoxide poisoning" but no luck. Godspeed to that salon

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

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