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Apr 13, 2023 • 27 tweets • 18 min read
We got 50,000 pages of records Energy Transfer fought to keep secret. Unprecedented detail about a fossil fuel company’s counterinsurgency-style playbook for defeating Indigenous-led water protectors at Standing Rock & beyond 1/ w/ @NaveenaSivam + @gristtheintercept.com/2023/04/13/sta…
It’s been 6 years since the first camp was set up by Standing Rock citizens to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline — we’re still learning how the company fought to suppress them. A surprising new detail: how closely TigerSwan worked with the National Sheriff’s Association. 2/
Jan 27, 2023 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
I dug into the arrest warrants for 19 Atlanta Cop City forest defenders and street protesters charged with domestic terrorism in December and January. Here’s what I found 🧵 1/
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The killing of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as Tortuguita, by Georgia law enforcement last week was the climax of an escalation of police tactics aimed at the wider movement to stop the Public Safety Training Center known as “Cop City” 2/
Nov 4, 2022 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
As DeSantis positions himself as a Republican leader on climate & a potential challenger to Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, I investigated Florida's prison crisis & the dangerous heat inside unairconditioned detention facilities for @grist 1/ grist.org/equity/ron-des…
Public records I obtained suggest that Florida lacks any comprehensive policy at all to safeguard the health of thousands of people locked in its 53 unairconditioned prisons. 2/
Jan 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
We’ve been fighting in court against @EnergyTransfer for 16,000 documents from the mercenary security contractor ET hired at Standing Rock. I wrote about why the docs matter & about Energy Transfer’s aggressive legal moves against environmentalists 1/ interc.pt/3zx35xS
Kasowitz Benson Torres, a firm founded by a longtime Trump lawyer, is representing Energy Transfer in court. The company has been credited as the architect of a strategy of using RICO charges to drain Greenpeace of resources. 2/
Jul 12, 2021 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
Last week I published a deep dive investigating whether the pipeline company Enbridge is breaking its permit as it works with law enforcement to suppress the anti-Line 3 movement. Here’s what I found: 1/
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To understand what's happening u have to go back to Standing Rock. In 2017 me, @alicesperi & @willparrishca reported that private security hired by @EnergyTransfer saw the NoDAPL movement as an insurgency. 2/
The oil and gas industry is working to erode tribal nations’ power now that half of Oklahoma has been affirmed as reservation land by the Supreme Court. A thread on what I found 1/ interc.pt/3qzM7sP
Right after the McGirt ruling Governor Stitt appointed a Commission on Cooperative Sovereignty to advise his administration on how to handle McGirt. 7 of 10 members had oil and gas industry ties – including commission chair Larry Nichols CEO of Devon energy. Zero tribal leaders
Feb 22, 2021 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
It’s true that ICE has left asylum-seekers in detention without heat in southern states after extreme weather hit last week. But the most important takeaway of my reporting on this is that much of what happened is inherent how ICE detention works. 1/
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First of all: detainees being left in frigid cold is standard at many ICE detention centers. Read this letter from January by @BklynDefender + @BronxDefenders + @LegalAidNYC about a facility in NEW JERSEY — a state that gets freezing cold every year 2/
This was one of the wildest docs leaked to us by former TigerSwan contractors. It reads like the oil and gas industry’s master plan for crushing anti-pipeline movements, and its author was just charged for bribery in PA this week
