Noah Lanard

How Robert Malley—a veteran US peace negotiator and the co-author of a new book on the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process— is looking at the recent moves to recognize Palestine.

Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the two-state solution became a “big, expedient lie” In a new book, Robert Malley, a veteran US peace negotiator, argues it is well past time to think beyond an idea he spent much of his career pursuing.

Really enjoyed doing this Q&A with Robert Malley, the former Clinton, Obama, and Biden foreign policy official whose new book with Hussein Agha pushes readers to think beyond the two-state solution.

We also covered Biden's response to October 7 and recent moves to recognize Palestine.

"In Washington, as in Riyadh, it turns out that persuading people to make peace with an oppressive, anti-democratic regime dominated by an unspeakably wealthy ruling family is not as hard as you might think. All you have to do is make them rich."

Great lede from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social in this story on American comedians heading to Riyadh and people folding to autocrats more broadly

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From a story published yesterday by @nlanard.bsky.social

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He ends with this:

"I fear President Trump believes
the American people are so divided that today they will not
stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional
values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own
personal interests are not affected.

Is he correct?"

Also something I have never seen: Young quotes his wife then uses the quote to tear apart Trump.

Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment.

Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.

Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The wildly unqualified lawyer Trump just named to prosecute his enemies Lindsey Halligan, the new US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has no experience as a prosecutor.

Wrote about Halligan and her legal background here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These are the only 4 federal cases Lindsey Halligan—a former Florida insurance defense lawyer—is listed as an attorney on.

3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.

A look at the legal background of the person who Trump just made one of the top prosecutors in the country so that she can go after his enemies

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How to survive a Republican power grab Texas Democrat Greg Casar spent his summer fighting for his job—and plotting a progressive revival.

Spent some time shadowing Greg Casar (and Dolores Huerta!) during the redistricting fight. His predicament embodied the party's: a rising generation of leaders, caught between a defiant old guard and an opposition willing to change the rules to stop them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: “I’m pretty sure that Chuck E. Cheese has more of an in-depth prior hiring process."

Mother Jones investigates the man sending armed military contractors to Gaza in an operation some of his own employees have called "amateur."

“Amateur hour”: The man sending US military contractors to Gaza How a little-known former Green Beret went from starting a company to prevent hangovers to the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza.

New: "These guys are literally cowboys."

A look at the former Green Beret and hangover prevention company founder now in charge of the heavily armed American contractors accused of misconduct in Gaza.

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“Amateur hour”: The man sending US military contractors to Gaza How a little-known former Green Beret went from starting a company to prevent hangovers to the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza.

"These guys are literally cowboys... They’re not aid workers who have any understanding or any ability to do this work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here is some of the history of the former Green Beret now in charge of the heavily armed American contractors accused of misconduct in Gaza.

Read the full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Amateur hour”: The man sending US military contractors to Gaza How a little-known former Green Beret went from starting a company to prevent hangovers to the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza.

New: How Jameson Govoni—a little-known former Green Beret and serial small-time entrepreneur—ended up at the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza.

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‪Video by @samveep.bsky.social

New: We just published a video featuring parts of our interview with Neri Alvarado, who spent more than 4 months in CECOT after the Trump administration falsely accused him of being a gang member.

As you can see in the video, his largest tattoo is an autism awareness ribbon.

“What they did there was torture us” Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.

“There’s no family here, there are no lawyers here, nobody exists here.”

For four months, Neri Alvarado, Julio Zambrano, and so many others wondered if they were ever going to leave CECOT alive. Now, they want to clear their names and justice for what they had to endure. With @nlanard.bsky.social:

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

As well as by the Washington Post here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

I also highly recommend the excellent reporting that has been done about the Venezuelans sent to CECOT by places like ProPublica here:

www.propublica.org/article/vene...

What he and more than 200 other Venezuelans experienced at CECOT was hellacious.

"They’re going to kill me here,” Alvarado thought as he was brought into the prison. “If I survive, I’ll be locked up my entire life.”

After Alvarado was detained in February, an ICE agent questioned him about whether he was part of Tren de Aragua.

Alvarado recalls the agent telling him: "You came to the United States to do good. You have nothing to do with Tren de Aragua."

Nevertheless, he was sent to CECOT.

“What they did there was torture us” Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.

NEW: We spoke to 3 Venezuelans about the hell they experienced at CECOT in El Salvador.

Neri Alvarado, the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg, told us that even the ICE agent who questioned him concluded he was not part of a gang.

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How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.

This is a great reporting by Noah Lanard www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.

Full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There are many links between the Juggernaut Nihilism username and Cooper. David Simon/ @audacityofdespair.bsky.social surprisingly provided one of them.

Cooper did not respond to requests for comment.

In a previously unreported comment, a person with a username associated with Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made wrote on a white nationalist website:

"Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process..."