John Patrick Pullen
@jppullen.com
Founding editor of @longlead.com, an award winning journalism studio publishing features that make an impact. Formerly: @Fortune.com, and @TIME.com. Yup, they call me JPP.
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10/10 do not recommend
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 10:54 PM
10/10 do not recommend
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"Federal agents have fired so much tear gas near Mindy King’s apartment in Portland, Ore., that she and her 13-year-old son bought gas masks to wear inside."
For Months, Tear Gas Has Entered Their Homes. Now They’re Suing ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...
For Months, Tear Gas Has Entered Their Homes. Now They’re Suing ICE.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
"Federal agents have fired so much tear gas near Mindy King’s apartment in Portland, Ore., that she and her 13-year-old son bought gas masks to wear inside."
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When covering the case of Lai Hang — a terminally ill mother who fatally shot her teenage son, George, fearing his untreated schizophrenia would lead him to commit a mass shooting — for the LA Times, @frankshyong.bsky.social found the story was more than just murder. It was rich with bigger details
February 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
When covering the case of Lai Hang — a terminally ill mother who fatally shot her teenage son, George, fearing his untreated schizophrenia would lead him to commit a mass shooting — for the LA Times, @frankshyong.bsky.social found the story was more than just murder. It was rich with bigger details
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She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.
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Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
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we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...
Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over
An incomplete breakdown of Jeff Bezos' financial priorities, weighing one piece of propaganda (Melania) against 300 journalists.
www.avclub.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...
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Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...
The Threshold
The right used to attack athletes who protested. Now they attack athletes who express feelings at all.
www.readtpa.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...
I emailed the Irish consulate and asked the taoiseach not to go to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day unless he’s coming out of it with Seamus Culleton.
Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help
Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I emailed the Irish consulate and asked the taoiseach not to go to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day unless he’s coming out of it with Seamus Culleton.
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What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
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This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
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February 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
Culleton is married to a US citizen and owns a plastering business in the Boston area. He was arrested on Sept. 9, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly 5 months, despite having no criminal record… He said conditions there are “like a concentration camp, absolute hell”.
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Culleton is married to a US citizen and owns a plastering business in the Boston area. He was arrested on Sept. 9, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly 5 months, despite having no criminal record… He said conditions there are “like a concentration camp, absolute hell”.
Hold on, the Jeff Bezos-owned Ring Camera Company!?
No... that just cannot be...
No... that just cannot be...
Yes. Ring cameras are ICE cameras.
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
February 9, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Hold on, the Jeff Bezos-owned Ring Camera Company!?
No... that just cannot be...
No... that just cannot be...
I didn't understand a single word Bad Bunny said, and I knew everything he was talking about—that's art. What a fantastic performance!
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I didn't understand a single word Bad Bunny said, and I knew everything he was talking about—that's art. What a fantastic performance!
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Your periodic reminder
February 8, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Your periodic reminder
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The players at the Super Bowl are going long, but not as far as free diver Alenka Artnik.
She dived 122 meters on one breath to set a world record in 2021. That's the equivalent of 1.1 football field.
Take a dip into the Long Lead archives to read her story:
thedepths.longlead.com
She dived 122 meters on one breath to set a world record in 2021. That's the equivalent of 1.1 football field.
Take a dip into the Long Lead archives to read her story:
thedepths.longlead.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The players at the Super Bowl are going long, but not as far as free diver Alenka Artnik.
She dived 122 meters on one breath to set a world record in 2021. That's the equivalent of 1.1 football field.
Take a dip into the Long Lead archives to read her story:
thedepths.longlead.com
She dived 122 meters on one breath to set a world record in 2021. That's the equivalent of 1.1 football field.
Take a dip into the Long Lead archives to read her story:
thedepths.longlead.com
Between this and what they did to Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, when do we rename The Streisand Effect?
HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
www.huffpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Between this and what they did to Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, when do we rename The Streisand Effect?
This was a really fun interview with @iamkeelinit.bsky.social, but what I appreciate even more are her reviews of Long Shadow's two most recent seasons. She engaged with the @vermontgmg.bsky.social-helmed podcast in a really thoughtful way. Thanks for the interview, Keelin!
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This was a really fun interview with @iamkeelinit.bsky.social, but what I appreciate even more are her reviews of Long Shadow's two most recent seasons. She engaged with the @vermontgmg.bsky.social-helmed podcast in a really thoughtful way. Thanks for the interview, Keelin!
This is such a great interview, and @tonyfrangie.bsky.social's newsletter "What Happened Last Week in Venezuela" is required reading for this moment in South America.
Get your news from journalists who are — and have been — there!
Get your news from journalists who are — and have been — there!
Kelly Kimball spoke with @tonyfrangie.bsky.social for DEPTH PERCEPTION, where the journalist imparts decades of lived experience reporting from within and outside the belly of Venezuela’s political machine.
Read now:
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/trump-oil-...
Read now:
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/trump-oil-...
What happened last week in Venezuela? Tony Frangie Mawad likely wrote about it.
Meet the Venezuelan journalist who has his finger on the pulse of the country’s future.
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
This is such a great interview, and @tonyfrangie.bsky.social's newsletter "What Happened Last Week in Venezuela" is required reading for this moment in South America.
Get your news from journalists who are — and have been — there!
Get your news from journalists who are — and have been — there!
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For journalist Tony Frangie Mawad, covering Venezuela came from the realization that there was a real hunger for good, reliable information through non-blocked channels. He launched VENEZUELA WEEKLY, publishing English and Spanish editions to report on dynamics that were ignored in reporting abroad.
February 5, 2026 at 8:12 PM
For journalist Tony Frangie Mawad, covering Venezuela came from the realization that there was a real hunger for good, reliable information through non-blocked channels. He launched VENEZUELA WEEKLY, publishing English and Spanish editions to report on dynamics that were ignored in reporting abroad.
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How did we get to the current state of the internet, where violent videos go viral, and cyberbullying, racism, and misogyny run rampant?
LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET tells the story of how the web, a tool with the power to fuel democracy, became a weapon aimed at the very heart of it.
LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET tells the story of how the web, a tool with the power to fuel democracy, became a weapon aimed at the very heart of it.
Long Shadow podcast: Breaking the Internet
Journalist Garrett Graff hosts season 4 of Long Shadow, a podcast produced by Long Lead. The series chronicles the evolution of the internet.
longshadowpodcast.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
How did we get to the current state of the internet, where violent videos go viral, and cyberbullying, racism, and misogyny run rampant?
LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET tells the story of how the web, a tool with the power to fuel democracy, became a weapon aimed at the very heart of it.
LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET tells the story of how the web, a tool with the power to fuel democracy, became a weapon aimed at the very heart of it.
Last night @maddow.bsky.social did an excellent segment on communities pushing back against the Trump administration's attempts to turn empty warehouses into prisons.
Americans clearly don't want detention camps, inside or outside their neighborhoods. Read below to see what it was like in WW2.
Americans clearly don't want detention camps, inside or outside their neighborhoods. Read below to see what it was like in WW2.
During World War II, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and forced to live in incarceration camps with only what they could carry from home.
Most of them were American citizens.
Most of them were American citizens.
February 4, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Last night @maddow.bsky.social did an excellent segment on communities pushing back against the Trump administration's attempts to turn empty warehouses into prisons.
Americans clearly don't want detention camps, inside or outside their neighborhoods. Read below to see what it was like in WW2.
Americans clearly don't want detention camps, inside or outside their neighborhoods. Read below to see what it was like in WW2.
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In Minneapolis, masked federal agents, dressed as soldiers, have fatally shot two American citizens. Both were victims of an occupation.
The lurid fantasy at the heart of the gun rights movement is playing out, but the leading roles, as they were previously imagined, have been reversed.
The lurid fantasy at the heart of the gun rights movement is playing out, but the leading roles, as they were previously imagined, have been reversed.
Minneapolis is the violent reckoning the gun rights movement has long wanted
The Second Amendment crowd isn’t fighting against tyranny.
www.motherjones.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In Minneapolis, masked federal agents, dressed as soldiers, have fatally shot two American citizens. Both were victims of an occupation.
The lurid fantasy at the heart of the gun rights movement is playing out, but the leading roles, as they were previously imagined, have been reversed.
The lurid fantasy at the heart of the gun rights movement is playing out, but the leading roles, as they were previously imagined, have been reversed.
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From 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters.
(H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
(H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
February 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
From 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters.
(H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
(H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
I just got a "top fan" badge on Facebook by continually pointing out that @gluesenkampperez.house.gov is perhaps the most useless member of Congress, repeatedly.
"Congrats!"
"Congrats!"
February 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I just got a "top fan" badge on Facebook by continually pointing out that @gluesenkampperez.house.gov is perhaps the most useless member of Congress, repeatedly.
"Congrats!"
"Congrats!"
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Context: one of the speakers at a packed Surprise, AZ city council meeting after it was revealed that ICE has purchased a massive warehouse in town to use as a detention facility. The City Council has said they didn't know about it, and have no authority to stop it.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Context: one of the speakers at a packed Surprise, AZ city council meeting after it was revealed that ICE has purchased a massive warehouse in town to use as a detention facility. The City Council has said they didn't know about it, and have no authority to stop it.