Taylor Barnes
@tkbarnes.bsky.social
Field Reporter, @inkstickmedia.bsky.social. Equity Rises grantee, Ploughshares Fund. Atlanta.
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#nukesky Our hearing with Northrop Grumman and Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity starts in 20min, watch along here:
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January 30, 2026 at 3:43 PM
#nukesky Our hearing with Northrop Grumman and Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity starts in 20min, watch along here:
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Bottomless cruelty, and so painful to hear Wael's final words asking for his father.
www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
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Family blames ICE for disabled son’s death after father’s detention
Wael Tarabishi died after weeks in intensive care while his father, his primary caregiver, was held in ICE detention.
www.aljazeera.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Bottomless cruelty, and so painful to hear Wael's final words asking for his father.
www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Terrific new @purgepalantir.bsky.social interactive allows you to view politicians accepting campaign funds from Palantir.
The tracker notes that the company targets members of the armed services committees, the most influential when it comes to defense contracts.
purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...
The tracker notes that the company targets members of the armed services committees, the most influential when it comes to defense contracts.
purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...
January 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Terrific new @purgepalantir.bsky.social interactive allows you to view politicians accepting campaign funds from Palantir.
The tracker notes that the company targets members of the armed services committees, the most influential when it comes to defense contracts.
purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...
The tracker notes that the company targets members of the armed services committees, the most influential when it comes to defense contracts.
purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...
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Who takes Palantir’s money? A new tracker finds out.
Who takes Palantir's money? A new tracker finds out.
ICE relies on the firm for deportation tech—and its PAC pays it forward to Congress.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Who takes Palantir’s money? A new tracker finds out.
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#NukeSky
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
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Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p...
Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
Our Journalism’s Impact, According to Northrop Grumman
With Newsmatch, your donation will be doubled and support our reporting on the world’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer. They’ve told a judge that our reporting is, well, an existential threat.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:52 PM
#NukeSky
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p...
Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p...
Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
#NukeSky
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p...
Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p...
Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
Our Journalism’s Impact, According to Northrop Grumman
With Newsmatch, your donation will be doubled and support our reporting on the world’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer. They’ve told a judge that our reporting is, well, an existential threat.
inkstick.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:52 PM
#NukeSky
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p...
Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join.
utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p...
Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...
Not surprised that Fox News gets facts wrong but this particular fact is one that’s hard to not get right? Especially in a whole story about Fulton County, a place people only know bc it’s home to Atlanta?
“Fulton, *a suburb of Atlanta* and the state's most populous county…”
“Fulton, *a suburb of Atlanta* and the state's most populous county…”
FBI agents search election hub in Fulton County, Georgia (Fox News)
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January 28, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Not surprised that Fox News gets facts wrong but this particular fact is one that’s hard to not get right? Especially in a whole story about Fulton County, a place people only know bc it’s home to Atlanta?
“Fulton, *a suburb of Atlanta* and the state's most populous county…”
“Fulton, *a suburb of Atlanta* and the state's most populous county…”
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The Coming Chokepoint in US Nuclear Warhead Production in South Carolina
By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social / read & subscribe for free
By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social / read & subscribe for free
The Coming Chokepoint in US Nuclear Warhead Production in South Carolina
A dispute playing out between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico over this year could place a major speed bump in the United States’s new nuclear arms race.
inkstick.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:36 PM
The Coming Chokepoint in US Nuclear Warhead Production in South Carolina
By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social / read & subscribe for free
By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social / read & subscribe for free
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In opposition to the Vietnam War, organizations such as the International War Toys Boycott argued that war-themed toys glorified violence. Companies such as Sears Roebuck stopped selling war toys for almost fifteen years. [1/3]
January 27, 2026 at 5:06 PM
In opposition to the Vietnam War, organizations such as the International War Toys Boycott argued that war-themed toys glorified violence. Companies such as Sears Roebuck stopped selling war toys for almost fifteen years. [1/3]
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Join us on Feb. 5, 2026 at 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET for an interdisciplinary panel reflecting on the political costs of war for the U.S. today.
All participants must register in advance for in-person attendance; the event will also be streamed live.
Register here: events.brown.edu/watson/event...
All participants must register in advance for in-person attendance; the event will also be streamed live.
Register here: events.brown.edu/watson/event...
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Join us on Feb. 5, 2026 at 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET for an interdisciplinary panel reflecting on the political costs of war for the U.S. today.
All participants must register in advance for in-person attendance; the event will also be streamed live.
Register here: events.brown.edu/watson/event...
All participants must register in advance for in-person attendance; the event will also be streamed live.
Register here: events.brown.edu/watson/event...
In our latest @inkstickmedia.com report from rural South Carolina we highlight a chokepoint that could stall the new generation of nuclear weapons the US plans to deploy in the coming years.
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January 27, 2026 at 6:27 PM
In our latest @inkstickmedia.com report from rural South Carolina we highlight a chokepoint that could stall the new generation of nuclear weapons the US plans to deploy in the coming years.
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Devastating that his parents have to watch the video of their son being killed, just hours after it occurred, in order to put out a statement rebutting the claim that he was brandishing a weapon. I would be devastated and furious every day for the rest of my life.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Devastating that his parents have to watch the video of their son being killed, just hours after it occurred, in order to put out a statement rebutting the claim that he was brandishing a weapon. I would be devastated and furious every day for the rest of my life.
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When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
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Live: Man shot by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
Bari Weiss’s CBS News Won’t Even Condemn Israel for Killing a CBS Contributor
Instead, the network’s new top anchor Tony Dokoupil peddles Israel’s talking points about it killing a Palestinian journalist. A CBS source calls it a ‘disgrace.’
zeteo.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
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#nukesky
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM
#nukesky
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
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#nukesky
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
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January 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM
#nukesky
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
#nukesky
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM
#nukesky
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
A dispute between rural South Carolina and a desert waste dump in New Mexico playing out this year could place a major speed bump in the new nuclear arms race.
Check out our latest article diving into a bit of a fib that we caught a weapons contractor telling South Carolinians
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ICE detained a Purple Heart veteran for 8 hours for watching an arrest. They denied him his constitutional right to an attorney.
ICE continues to act deliberately above the law. An agency recognizing no accountability puts everyone’s rights at risk.
ICE continues to act deliberately above the law. An agency recognizing no accountability puts everyone’s rights at risk.
Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
www.kare11.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM
ICE detained a Purple Heart veteran for 8 hours for watching an arrest. They denied him his constitutional right to an attorney.
ICE continues to act deliberately above the law. An agency recognizing no accountability puts everyone’s rights at risk.
ICE continues to act deliberately above the law. An agency recognizing no accountability puts everyone’s rights at risk.
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I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
![May 12, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel
FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)
Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifrzrvaszfhj4bzhgtyvx3fm6ht4kc2zrwtvozijyxl3zxgp7vx6a@jpeg)
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
#nukesky
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
DRA 2020
A free app to create, analyze and share redistricting maps for any state.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM
#nukesky
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
Flagging that a newly competitive Congressional district (1) in Utah with progressives in the race includes a key Northrop Grumman facility for the new ICBM (Magna/ West Valley -- solid rocket motor production)
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap... (Zoom in to see ATK Bacchus Works)
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Our @inkstickmedia.com reporting fellow @hurwitz.bsky.social has documented some of the about-fact on DEI in the arms industry during the second Trump admin:
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The Year Arms Contractors Stopped Sponsoring Pride
Lockheed, Boeing, and other major players have quietly dropped sponsorships across the US, raising questions about queer solidarity, protest, and corporate influence.
inkstickmedia.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Our @inkstickmedia.com reporting fellow @hurwitz.bsky.social has documented some of the about-fact on DEI in the arms industry during the second Trump admin:
inkstickmedia.com/the-year-arm...
inkstickmedia.com/largest-lgbt...
inkstickmedia.com/the-year-arm...
inkstickmedia.com/largest-lgbt...
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Anduril's handout photo of its new Ohio employee cohort.
I feel old remembering the defense contractors who were publishing their DEI reports and demographic stats just a few years ago.
I feel old remembering the defense contractors who were publishing their DEI reports and demographic stats just a few years ago.
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Anduril's handout photo of its new Ohio employee cohort.
I feel old remembering the defense contractors who were publishing their DEI reports and demographic stats just a few years ago.
I feel old remembering the defense contractors who were publishing their DEI reports and demographic stats just a few years ago.
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Another wow re: Anduril's planned autonomous weapons plant in Ohio
A company rep told local media that the drones produced will not be "considered weapons."
www.dispatch.com/story/busine...
Not according to the Pentagon's weapons catalog! See p 1-27
comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/D...
A company rep told local media that the drones produced will not be "considered weapons."
www.dispatch.com/story/busine...
Not according to the Pentagon's weapons catalog! See p 1-27
comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/D...
January 20, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Another wow re: Anduril's planned autonomous weapons plant in Ohio
A company rep told local media that the drones produced will not be "considered weapons."
www.dispatch.com/story/busine...
Not according to the Pentagon's weapons catalog! See p 1-27
comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/D...
A company rep told local media that the drones produced will not be "considered weapons."
www.dispatch.com/story/busine...
Not according to the Pentagon's weapons catalog! See p 1-27
comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/D...