Michael Scott Moore

Trinidad Feature, and a Reading in L.A. The horrors of spring

A new feature by me about Trinidad and the US drug-boat campaign; plus a book launch and reading in LA.

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Tariff refund is gonna be a fucking disaster, especially because they’re gonna have to tax people to pay them back for the taxes they charged them that they weren’t allowed to charge.

Trinidad Feature, and a Reading in L.A. The horrors of spring

A new feature by me about Trinidad and the US drug-boat campaign; plus a book launch and reading in LA.

michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/trinidad-f...

Orange text: "ICE agents don’t get to pick and choose when the First Amendment applies." Orange text: "We have a right to record law enforcement in public." Orange ACLU logo. Black background.

When ICE agents are working, we have a right to film them in public. Period.

Hats off to the geniuses on the Trumpy Left who insisted that Trump was anti-war, anti-interventionist, anti-regime change, anti-imperialist, whatever. Some of us argued that this view was delusional. The Trumpy Left stridently dismissed those critics. Any rethinking of that position now?

On Episode 28 of Radio Free Mike I compared notes with Pralav Dhyani about being held hostage by Somalia pirates. He has a memoir out in India called HIJACKED:

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The Shooting Death of Renée Good: The Investigation that Wasn’t Allowed to Happen The Minnesota mother was fatally shot by a federal agent. And in the hours that followed, the routine investigation into her death was quietly blocked from ever finding the truth.

What halted it was not a judge’s ruling or a missing fact, but an instruction from Washington. Federal agents who were ready to execute a signed warrant stood down.
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On Episode 28 of Radio Free Mike I compared notes with Pralav Dhyani about being held hostage by Somalia pirates. He has a memoir out in India called HIJACKED:

michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/028-pralav...

Nights In White Satin YouTube video by The Dickies - Topic

Signing off with Nights in White Satin. "Letters I've written, never meaning to send" sounds different with the Dickies singing instead of the Moody Blues.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 195:
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First victim of AI agent harassment warns 'thousands' more could be next • FRANCE 24 English YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Adam Skolnick on his new novel AMERICAN TIGER, about a tiger on the loose in Southern California. Based on real events!

Quite possible👇

I’m sorry, you didn’t know about it already?

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards...she kept hearing the same thing from them...'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that'”

Europe Is America’s Secret Weapon. And We’re Giving It Up. The principal agreement of the Munich Security Conference is that a key American relationship is severely damaged.

"NATO is not a charitable enterprise but a force multiplier for American power."

The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting

Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

Trump’s Man in Munich Completely Lashed Out at Mette Frederiksen: »Little Lady« Trump’s close ally Lindsey Graham completely lost his temper in Munich. During a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, he yawned loudly and called her »little lady«, Berlingske has lea...

The "bizarre incident" with Lindsey Graham at the Munich Security Conference confronting and insulting Danish leaders has caused enough disquiet that Berlingske newspaper has done two unusual things with the story: translated it into English, and unpaywalled it.

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@daniellebeckman.bsky.social Danielle, can we chat by DM? It’s for a possible magazine piece.

Adam Skolnick talks about his new novel AMERICAN TIGER, about a large cat on the loose in California.

Based on real events! Episode 27 of Radio Free Mike:
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😅

And only because there‘s resistance 👇

Let no one deceive you.

Deborah Kapchan, American folklorist and ethnographer, on her new memoir TAKING LEAVE, about her complicated relationship with Judaism, Christianity, and Sufi Islam. Episode 26 of Radio Free Mike:

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Deborah Kapchan, American folklorist and ethnographer, on her new memoir TAKING LEAVE, about her complicated relationship with Judaism, Christianity, and Sufi Islam. Episode 26 of Radio Free Mike:

michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/026-debora...

this photo is enraging

101st Airborne 'pauses' major exercise as bases brace for possible snowpocalypse Expected to hit Sunday, the storm could bring up to a foot of snow in the mid-South with several major military bases directly in its path.

Miller: Nobody can stand against us. Your little ice nation will be ours.

US army: *sees snow* we’re all gonna die

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#optimism

A *lot* like Them’s cover

Saw her coming

Exactly how Putin talks about Ukraine.