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Alan Davidson’s bright red suitcase containing correspondence with Patience Gray and drafts of Honey from a Weed. Stored in a barn in Northumbria.
The United States is turning Kodiak Island—and the Aleutian archipelago—into the tip of the spear in a new battle for control of the Arctic. My latest for @grist and @typeinvestigate. With support from @pulitzercenter.
grist.org/politics/alaska-go…
"The CIA secret investigation into suspected foreign influence on the New Left and anti-Vietnam War movement had 42 officers working the case at its peak. Court records show 119 HSI agents worked on the Minnesota 15 case alone." @awinston
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The path to Trump’s ‘Arctic dominance’ runs through this Alaskan island
Type Investigations reporting fellow Adam Federman @adamfederman reports in partnership with @grist, with support from @pulitzercenter: typeinvestigations.org/inves…
📢 A rapid military buildup in Kodiak, AK, driven in part by spending on missile defense--along with the promised arrival of new polar icebreakers and secretive construction at the Navy seal training base--has residents worried that big changes are coming to the island. 1/
This project is a collaboration with @grist, @typeinvestigate, and @KmxtNews in Kodiak with essential support and funding provided by the @pulitzercenter. Photos by Nathaniel Wilder.
Print feature is here (and at Type):
grist.org/politics/alaska-go… 2/
Link to the three-part series by KMXT's @DavisMHovey is below with the third installment airing later today.
kmxt.org/news/2026-10-26/we-…
These contradictions no longer seem to register but it is astounding that this backroom deal has been unfolding as the Trump administration raises the alarm--often with false claims--about Russian & Chinese investment and influence in Greenland.
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
Snow crab collapse in the Bering Sea has led to the proliferation of a rare hybrid species.
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Spoke with @PodcastGreenRed about evidence that was either omitted from the Prairieland investigation, and crime scene reconstruction, or withheld until trial and that may feature in forthcoming appeals.
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Tomorrow, DHS is slated to begin uprooting thousands of saguaro cacti on the Tohono O’odham Nation, marking the first step in what could become the Trump administration’s most contentious border wall battle yet.
The tribe is condemning the plans in the strongest possible terms.
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As first reported by @adamfederman for @PDInvestigates and @highcountrynews in August hcn.org/articles/arctic-dril…
The Trump administration is handing Big Oil another free pass to exploit and destroy America's public lands.
This time, it's gutting environmental oversight in one of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet: the Western Arctic. 🧵
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Actions exempt from NEPA under the proposed categorical exclusion for wintertime oil/gas exploration in the NPRA, a 23 million acre chunk of land on Alaska's North Slope. This will undoubtedly be challenged in court, which could complicate plans for drilling & seismic this winter
Categorical exclusion allowing industry to bypass NEPA to conduct wintertime oil/gas exploration activity in the NPRA--the largest chunk of federally managed land in the U.S.--publishes tomorrow.
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Scoop: @Interior is preparing a new “categorical exclusion” that will speed up permitting for winter drilling activity in the NPRA, including seismic surveys and test wells. With @highcountrynews and @PDInvestigates.
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From the Senate's new permitting bill. State's would be able to assume responsibility for implementing what is arguably the most important provision of the Endangered Species Act. This would be a massive change to the ESA, and will be *very* controversial.
Still getting records related to a 2012 FBI investigation of Tar Sands Blockade, a group of activists in Texas who were part of a tree sit on private property seeking to block the govt's use of eminent domain to build the KXL pipeline. FBI is releasing only 5/50 responsive pages.
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
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