Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social

Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social
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Quite literally the only reason to tell people this is to convince them to commit crimes
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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In his tirade against MAGA war critics, Trump blasted Alex Jones for calling Sandy Hook a hoax.

This seemed odd. So I went back and checked. At the time Trump hailed Jones as "amazing" and rebuffed demands that he denounce lies about the shooting.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/208951/trump-maga-war-critics-alex-jones-surprise-admission
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This is mad emperor shit. It will be fun to watch it implode when the next administration tears it down, though.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
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I thought my BlueAnon hate mail would be nicer than the stuff from QAnon folks but it’s exactly the same: Jewish stuff, conspiracists claims about being bought, psyop accusations, “protecting pedos”, and a lot of refusing to read but yelling at me anyway. Anyway! www.ms.now/news/sascha-riley-trump-epstein-conspiracy-theory
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social
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In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social
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We can be fairly certain Melania's statement last night was at least partly an attempt to stave off Amenda Ungaro's claims bc AFTER she made it, Paolo Zampolli told the Daily Mail he would back her story under oath.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/09/melanias-immigration-witness-paolo-zampelli-asked-to-get-his-baby-mama-deported/
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social
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We are the ones who insisted that NATO defense obligations be geographically limited to the defense of Europe and North America, because we did not want to be dragged into defending European empires around the world.
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Federal immigration officers shot a man six times during a traffic stop. They say he weaponized his car. Video suggests he at worst was trying to flee, and he says he was fleeing after they'd already started shooting. So far, they've been shown to have lied after nearly every one of these incidents.
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Happiness is the start of a new Taskmaster series.
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The Board of Immigration Appeals has issued a final administrative removal order against Mahmoud Khalil. His lawyers, who anticipated this, said it didn’t impact the status quo, they’ll appeal to the 5th Circuit, & that he cannot be detained while his habeas case is pending.
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U.S. military service members claimed the Pentagon was not telling the truth about Iran's deadliest attack on America's troops during President Donald Trump's most recent war.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social
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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com
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The perfect millenial phishing scheme does not exi-
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These would be deplorable, inhumane conditions for any prison. The majority of these people have never been accused of a crime, much less convicted of one. Most, at worst, entered the country illegally seeking a better life. Some, not even that.
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Melania comes to the podium each day for the next week to make a new denial.

"I know nothing about the Paula Abdul mystery plane crash"
"I am not the subject of the song 'You Oughtta' Know"
"I had nothing to do with Flight 370"
"I am not Banksy."
"I did not pay a lot for this muffler."
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Beth Gulsby @bethgulsby.bsky.social
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Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2026/04/09/renee-good-killing-minneapolis-jonathan-ross-videos/
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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Speaking of Melania Trump and press conferences, this year marks ten years since her husband promised she’d hold a press conference to address questions about her immigration history. We’re still waiting: www.inquirer.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/Big-questions-about-Melania-Trumps-immigration-status-linger.html
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On Facebook, Rep. Thomas Massie is still spreading the “gait analysis” bullshit from this hack to smear the Capitol officer.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social
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Yes! Hahaha yes!
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social
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"JD Vance is historically the least popular vice president at this point in their vice presidency."

More unpopular than Dick Cheney. 😬
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social
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🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody.

@kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.
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ran into your girl at the aquarium
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Keep campaigning, JD

www.newsweek.com/viktor-orban-hungary-election-jd-vance-rally-11804123 href="/search?t=posts&q=Echobox=1775738074">#Echobox=1775738074
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Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE at the newly relaunched @informant.news: We've obtained secret documents showing that a former Navy SEAL whose testimony helped overturn a war crimes case against his platoon leader has recently joined the white supremacist group Patriot Front.

www.informant.news/patriot-front-corey-scott-navy-seal/
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com
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Hall of fame FT correction
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com
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“I believed that the U visa meant that we would finally be safe. [I]nstead, they put me and my child on a plane and sent us into the arms of the person we had sought protection from.”
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net
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Somehow, the bodycam footage of Alabama police arresting a Black pastor watering his vacationing neighbor's flowers makes the story even more surreal than the headline suggests. They keep threatening to cuff a man who is *actively spraying planter boxes the entire time*.
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"There are threes of us. Threes!"
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Third Rate Podcasts Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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The best and the brightest
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social
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This seems bad.
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