Castle’s Last Howl
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This is not my first rodeo with retaliatory false accusations. An "activist group" claimed I have a history of domestic abuse in the Dallas Express. I later found that Crowds on Demand had been hired by the publisher of the Dallas Express to create the group.
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government
Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push contro...
www.texasobserver.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is not my first rodeo with retaliatory false accusations. An "activist group" claimed I have a history of domestic abuse in the Dallas Express. I later found that Crowds on Demand had been hired by the publisher of the Dallas Express to create the group.
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
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As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental.
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
The dangers facing local reporters who cover extremism.
The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.
www.cjr.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental.
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
Brilliant stuff. My daughter - another biologist - hopefully just at the start of a PhD journey.
Ignore the fuckwits.
Ignore the fuckwits.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Brilliant stuff. My daughter - another biologist - hopefully just at the start of a PhD journey.
Ignore the fuckwits.
Ignore the fuckwits.
Money, Death And Profit.
The unholy axis of the US prison system.
The unholy axis of the US prison system.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Money, Death And Profit.
The unholy axis of the US prison system.
The unholy axis of the US prison system.
Blowing whistles like actual whistles?
Or blowing whistles like “Noem has channeled hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to friends, lovers, family and acquaintances“?
Or blowing whistles like “Noem has channeled hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to friends, lovers, family and acquaintances“?
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Blowing whistles like actual whistles?
Or blowing whistles like “Noem has channeled hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to friends, lovers, family and acquaintances“?
Or blowing whistles like “Noem has channeled hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to friends, lovers, family and acquaintances“?