Last winter, I began looking into a historic wolf hunt on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park.
Nearly eight months later, here’s the end result. The wildest story I’ve ever reported.
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“I think it’s a mistake to expand Title 42, one, because it will make the humanitarian crisis worse, and two, because the far-right extremists in the Republican Party are not engaging in a policy debate,” told reporters.
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Heading into 2023, House Republicans spent a large chunk of their first border and immigration hearing asserting that the president is an international crime boss
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Great reporting from on the tens of millions of dollars that poured into the Memphis PD's jump-out boys unit before being disbanded over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols
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"It's a clown car of absurdities here. The people that are coming up with these ideas are totally misinformed about what really is going on."
How Montana's hard right political turn shattered a biologist's faith in the state to recover grizzly bears.
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I just returned from Montana where a new legislative session is underway with a historic Republican supermajority. I spoke with famed bear biologist Chris Servheen about how the state's lurch to the right changed his mind about delisting grizzlies
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I reviewed 20 arrest warrants for 19 Cop City activists charged with domestic terrorism.
0 are accused of seriously injuring anyone
9 are based on only misdemeanor trespassing
The docs:
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The story:
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Killer reporting on a wild and evolving story.
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For @thisisinsider, I talked to former FBI agent Charles McGonigal's ex-lover about his cash-fueled double life. Here is what she told me...
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Harrowing experience of an American whose name is on the FBI terrorism watchlist and who local cops now reflexively treat as an actual possible terrorist every time they pull him over:
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Reflections on the #AtlantaForest defender Manuel Teran (“Little Turtle”) the protester killed on Wednesday who was ’s primary source for our story “The Forest For The Trees.” Tonight, David’s perspective on this week’s tragic news. bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/l
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If you aren’t already, follow for coverage of a truly historic trial opening up in NYC. This a big one.
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NEW: Mexico’s former top cop is on trial in New York. Genaro García Luna, the "architect" of the drug war, is accused of working with organized crime.
Will the U.S. government be implicated?
Here's what we may expect from the trial:
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Documenting the shipping container wall being removed from the Coronado National Forest yesterday -- this time standing on the Mexico side. Big news: work crews have removed 257 containers out of a total 923 in a week. At this rate they should all be out by February.
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New piece on the terror that gripped Sinaloa after El Chapo’s son was rearrested last week and how it will color (or not) President Biden’s historic visit to Mexico City
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I'm looking to speak with people who were affected by mass arrests or the special registration after 9/11 in the U.S. Please DM or email at: rozi [dot] ali [at] gmail [dot] com
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Latest on the shipping container border wall mess in southern Arizona:
Coronado National Forest has just issued a temporary area closure notice starting January 3, 2023 through March 15, 2023 to begin removing the containers that the governor illegally installed.
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“When we realized that this wasn’t just a protest, that we could actually sit down in the road and stop it, it was the biggest eureka moment. ...I’ve never felt that — that this was real, that this had direct positive impact.”
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Update on Arizona's shipping container border wall debacle: despite agreeing to take down his unauthorized wall, Gov. Ducey is continuing his lawsuit arguing that the project was legal and seeking oral arguments. Will be a case to watch.
Filed today:
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For background on how we got here, we've got a feature-length article and short doc here: theintercept.com/2022/12/14/dou
And a special episode of that just went up today here: theintercept.com/2022/12/21/int
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Breaking: Arizona has agreed to remove 's wall of shipping containers on the border — the move comes in a just-filed stipulation w/ the DOJ following a lawsuit the feds filed over the unauthorized border wall last week
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This is an incredible account by and of the lengths Italian authorities have gone to target, infiltrate and prosecute humanitarian aid organizations rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean.
US-Mexico border parallels abound.
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Hacked phones, undercover cops, and the conspiracy theory at the center of Italy’s crackdown on humanitarian rescue interc.pt/3WiwR44
go behind the scenes of the case against the rescue ship known as the Iuventa
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Big thanks to for having me on this week to share this remarkable and unlikely story. Check it out.
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New @intercepted: @rdevro tells the story of everyday people along the border who stood up to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and won interc.pt/3G9fBbI
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If you haven’t following Arizona’s “shipping container wall” debacle, please read this story of spontaneous resistance and solidarity by , and check out the accompanying thread:
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“How Neighbors in the Borderlands Fought Back Against Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s Illegal Wall — And Won.”
A story I’ve been working on the past couple months — about people with nobody to count on but each other who achieved something nobody expected theintercept.com/2022/12/14/dou
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"The story of Arizona’s wall of shipping containers is a story about immigration and conservation, of public lands and insurrection, but as the weeks went by, it turned into something more." By
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“How Neighbors in the Borderlands Fought Back Against Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s Illegal Wall — And Won.”
A story I’ve been working on the past couple months — about people with nobody to count on but each other who achieved something nobody expected
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Some great reporting from and on the illegal and environmentally destructive shipping container wall being built in one of the more biodiverse parts of the country.
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At the depot, it looked like the governor’s contractors were trying to get containers out in a hurry and left a huge muddy mess. When we arrived the department of transportation was closing a lane to clean it up
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This particular contractor ran into trouble on his way to Tucson — unclear what the issue was
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Driving further south to check out the depot, we saw a steady stream of containers heading the opposite direction— up to one truck every minute for a stretch — away from the border.
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Heading out to the prison complex a few hours ago, and I also saw several trucks hauling shipping containers coming in, with perhaps a hundred or so being stored near a shooting range at the facility.
Here’s one.
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At this very moment, the governor's contractors are hurriedly moving scores of containers that they've been keeping in a vacant lot near the border, north to a state prison complex on the edge of Tucson.
first noted the activity yesterday.
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On Tuesday, along I-10 in Southern Arizona, dozens, if not hundreds, of shipping containers were hauled one-by-one westbound along the highway from unincorporated Cochise County to the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson. twitter.com/UR_Ninja/statu…
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Among other things, the suit seeks an award for damages caused by the project, "including any costs and expenses incurred by the United States in removing Arizona’s containers," and an injunction halting further installation.
Here's the complaint.
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Some significant breaking developments on Arizona's shipping container saga.
After nearly two months of inaction and just hours after our story published, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the governor over his illegal container wall.
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This is a real inspirational story of the kind you don't get to see too often working on stuff about the border and environmental issues.
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old-fashioned, put-your-body-in-the-way protest is stopping the Arizona governor from building a stupid border wall of shipping containers: theintercept.com/2022/12/14/dou
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This is a must-read story. At turns beautiful, shocking, outraging... and incredibly hopeful. This is a gem.
Thanks for writing this
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How a group of locals, enviros & protesters shut down Ducey’s illegal boxcar border wall. ’s reporting for is intimate & piercing. Reads almost like a novel. Deveraux was on scene day after day. This is a rare gem of journalism.
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old-fashioned, put-your-body-in-the-way protest is stopping the Arizona governor from building a stupid border wall of shipping containers:
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In addition to the print piece, we have a short documentary shot by and edited by . If long articles aren’t your thing — or even if they are — make time for it. It’s gorgeous and captures this bizarre and inspiring moment perfectly
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