Michelle Shephard

A woman with tattoos and pink hair stands in front of green foliage. A headline reads: "She Despised Charlie Kirk. A Former Mayor Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay." Photo by Desiree Rios for The New York Times

Hundreds of people have been doxxed, fired or threatened for social media posts that were seen as callous or celebratory after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In a Texas town, people flooded online feeds with attacks that spilled into the real world for a paramedic. nyti.ms/4n7CSND

Criminal A Podcast About Crime

Thank you Criminal Podcast, for such a thoughtful episode.

Appreciate the interview and care Phoebe Judge & @jackiesojico.bsky.social

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“I know that’s not as interesting as muzzling a comedian, but it’s so important to have a free press and it is nuts that we aren’t paying more attention.” 🙏🏻 @jimmykimmel.com …

Good piece by Allan Woods @thestar.com (And I hope he’s right ..)

Journalists should not face such harassment or threats for doing their job. Informed reporting or analysis is part of free expression and a cornerstone of democracy. #journalismisnotacrime

Pardoned insurrectionists are using Charlie Kirk’s death to call for civil war “Charlie Kirk's assassination pulled me out of retirement. More work must be done.”

J6ers and militia leaders are newly energized in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. “I’m going to be rebuilding Oath Keepers,” vowed Stewart Rhodes, leader of the militia group. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... by @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and me

“(T)he President doesn’t care one bit about all those sanctimonious calls for healing,” writes @sbg1.bsky.social. “It is not a dialogue about the crisis of political violence in America that he wants right now but an aggressive new policy of political vengeance.”

BREAKING: Canada has now joined a coalition of 27 other governments in calling on Israel to allow immediate foreign media access to Gaza and to protect journalists.

Will do!!!

Code Name: Pale Horse: Scott Payne with Michelle Shephard - TIFA Scott Payne risked everything to take down America’s most dangerous white supremacist groups, living undercover as “Pale Horse” inside The Base—a violent neo-Nazi network. A decorated agent dubbed the...

If you’re in Toronto, and a fan of our book “Code Name: Pale Horse,” or the CBC podcast series, White Hot Hate, please join us Saturday! Scott will be in town for the MOTIVE festival. The lovely @debdundas.bsky.social will be our moderator.

Passes 👇🏻

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I’m trying!!

Code Name: Pale Horse: Scott Payne with Michelle Shephard - TIFA Scott Payne risked everything to take down America’s most dangerous white supremacist groups, living undercover as “Pale Horse” inside The Base—a violent neo-Nazi network. A decorated agent dubbed the...

A belated big thanks for this post and kind words, John!! We’re getting Scott to Toronto this weekend (warned him that 🇨🇦doesn’t have bourbon any more due to tariffs). Please join us, Torontonians! festivalofauthors.ca/event/code-n...

The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’ to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country "Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department...

for a look at what could come next in the Trump administration’s war on immigrants, read @davidgilbert.bsky.social on the upcoming US ‘Office of Remigration’ —

Remigration is an immigration policy touted by extremists that calls for the removal of all migrants—including “non-assimilated” citizens.

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.

This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

Trump Is Deploying National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Power President Trump bypassed the authority of Gov. Gavin Newsom by sending 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protesters.

President Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protesters in California, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾

This was about an hour ago…

“I suppose if there were something valuable that I could leave you with, it would be to say that you can play tiny invisible games inside of your plainest tasks.” The comedian and writer Jenny Slate offers some words of wisdom to new graduates.
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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.

“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”

‘Code of silence’: Jail guards broke rules, then misled investigators probing crackdown on Maplehurst inmates, internal reports show The ministry launched its investigation into the violent incident one day after the Star sent questions about it to Ontario’s solicitor general.

NEW: We obtained the province's internal investigations into the Dec 2023 crackdown on inmates at Maplehurst jail. The reports show widespread institutional failure, from the supt to rank-and-file guards. Solicitor General Michael Kerzner didn't respond to questions.
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Everyone must see this photo — thousands of lives depend on it Saying “it’s complicated” has become synonymous with “look away.”

“It’s not ‘complicated.’ “

And it’s too late.

But let the image of Ward grab hold and save what lives we still can.”

A short column for @thestar.com.

#Gaza

Until Donald Trump put it front and centre again, Guantánamo was meant to be a “footnote” in US history—but it wasn’t. “It was always,” writes @michelleshephard.bsky.social, “a harbinger of what could come.” thewalrus.ca/guantanamo-bay/

Thanks Scott for your kind words…

“The cognitive dissonance begins from above.”

On her twenty-eighth visit to Guantánamo Bay, journalist @michelleshephard.bsky.social confronts the stark contrast between the tropical splendour and dark history of the prison dubbed “the gulag of our times.” thewalrus.ca/guantanamo-bay/

Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post? The Amazon founder was once thought to be the newspaper’s savior—now its journalists are fleeing for the exits. Clare Malone reports on how the paper that brought down Nixon is struggling to survive t...

Why is the paper that brought down Richard Nixon struggling to survive the second term of Donald Trump? @claremalone.bsky.social reports on changes afoot at the Washington Post.

The Unbearable Pain of Leaving Gaza Journalist Abubaker Abed never wanted to leave his homeland. He describes the excruciating decisions he was forced to make.

"The first thing I saw outside of Gaza was the rest of occupied Palestine—something I had never dreamed of seeing in my life. We drove past signs to Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Yaffa, Haifa, and Jericho... But I only got a brief glimpse of it, before we crossed the border into Jordan." Abubaker Abed:

Gaza faces ‘critical’ famine risk, experts say, as Israel blocks aid The world’s leading body on food emergencies, the IPC, said Gaza was at “critical” risk of famine, two months into an aid blockade by Israel.

One in five Gazans are facing starvation, while the entire territory is confronted with a critical risk of famine that is projected to worsen in the coming months, the globe’s leading body on food emergencies said Monday.

This.

Made it to the @nytimes.com Best Seller list with Mr. (not on BlueSky yet) Scott Payne!

Honoured to take part in Free Speech Centre (formerly “Free Speech Hub) for their #WorldPressFreedomDay panel, on behalf of @cjfe.bsky.social.

Please consider supporting their organization: freespeechhub.org