Ali Winston
@awinston
Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT, w/@Darwinbondgraha//[email protected]//@awinston.bsky.social
For the past 2 years, @DarwinBondGraha & I have been plugging away on our history of OPD & Oakland, trying to get at the deeper story behind the longest-running police reform saga in the US. THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT publishes 1/10/23. Preorder here simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ride…
Remember when the CEO got raided by the FBI no you don't it's all lost to the mist of time
*POLYMARKET BUYS EXCHANGE TO RE-ENTER US AFTER DOJ ENDS PROBE
🇬🇷 Israeli tourists recently attacked locals in #Athens for wearing pro-Palestine t-shirts, so anti-fascists there took to the streets in Palestine t-shirts as a show of force.
They did this to detainees in Abu Ghraib, they’re doing it to migrants now, they’re gonna do it to American inmates next theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Our week wouldn't be complete without some Y Combinator founder guy extolling the virtues of the Klan – or in this case, the c. 1856 California proto-Klan.
Hey @typesfast and @garrytan, cowards, while you’re learning, maybe you should learn about General Sherman, too.
For anyone halfway paying attention, Sequoia has long been hard right, with a nice neoliberal sheen cultivated by would be moguls like Mike Moritz. Only the naked, unapologetic racism that triggered this coverage nytimes.com/2025/07/19/tec…
I legitimately feel like I am going insane
Under a potential deal, Bari Weiss would serve as an "ideological guide of sorts" at CBS News, according to Puck. (paywall) puck.news/was-colberts-c…
“PEOPLE OF NYC” AKA “LETS GO ASK BOOMERS WITH ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE THAT VOTE THE SAME WAY THEY BUY KETCHUP “I KNOW THAT NAME!”
We asked people in NYC what they think of Zohran Mamdani and his far-left agenda. The answers speak volumes. 🏙️
LOOOOOL
New: Discovery in the civil sexual assault case against Mayor Adams has hit a snag as his lawyers say they can't produce his NYPD employment records because they all apparently got destroyed in Hurricane Sandy over a decade ago. nydailynews.com/2025/07/17/ada…
CBS is gonna buy the free press and try to give the late show to Bari Weiss
Latest for @AP: ICE officials will have access to all 79 million Medicaid enrollees' personal data, including addresses and ethnicities, according to an extraordinary agreement signed on Monday. w/ @kimberlykindy apnews.com/article/immigr…
SCOOP: The manifests for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador contain the names of dozens of people who have not been acknowledged in any way by the US government. Experts following the case say they don't know where these people are 404media.co/flight-manifes…
Tell me again why Zohran should keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner? thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/nyp…
Why is this legal? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Irish tourist jailed 100 days by ICE after overstaying US visit by 3 days — because he was too sick to fly: report rawstory.com/ice-arrest-267…
Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.
Just to be clear, without any oral briefs or hearing, the Supreme Court just allowed the executive branch to dismantle a department created by Congress. In a shadow docket. No nothing. The admin said they are wrecking it actually but not officially. And scotus says okey dokey
Breaking News: The Supreme Court agreed to allow the Trump administration to proceed with dismantling the Education Department by firing thousands of workers. nyti.ms/4lUrGUu
Trump did the impossible and turned the average American into an open borders activist latimes.com/california/sto…
Jaime Alanis Garcia was murdered by ICE during that military-assisted raid in Camarillo last week. He suffered a broken neck from falling off a roof while being chased by immigration agents latimes.com/california/sto…
in college, Keith Rabois was an early member of Peter Thiel's conservative "Stanford Review" they trafficked in shock—Rabois famously yelled "f*ggot f*ggot, hope you die of AIDS" outside the home of a faculty member
this incident didn’t occur. if it did, there would be a video captured by *anyone.*. FYI every statistic proves that IDF is the most ethical military in world history. your friends should have not raped murdered and killed kids.