Adam Federman - Type Investigations https://www.typeinvestigations.org/reporter/adamfederman/ A Newsroom for Independent Journalists Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:27:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-ti-favicon-32x32.png Adam Federman - Type Investigations https://www.typeinvestigations.org/reporter/adamfederman/ 32 32 Exclusive: FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas “Antifa” Trial  https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2026/03/26/exclusive-fbi-files-counter-government-argument-in-texas-antifa-trial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exclusive-fbi-files-counter-government-argument-in-texas-antifa-trial Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=40266 Fort Worth, Texas—On the last day of testimony in the federal “Prairieland” trial—wherein nine activists faced charges related to a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center—the government called its star witness back to the stand. Kyle Shideler, director of counterterrorism research at the right-wing think tank Center for Security Policy, had been […]

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]]> “I Am Not Afraid” https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2025/06/04/i-am-not-afraid-protests-trump-activists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-am-not-afraid-protests-trump-activists Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=39685 On a Wednesday morning in mid-February, Boston University ecology professor Nathan Phillips staged one of the nation’s first protests against Elon Musk’s central role in gutting government agencies and firing tens of thousands of federal workers. It was a lonely one: Phillips and a close friend holding signs reading “Defund Musk” on the sidewalk outside […]

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]]> Trump’s Greenland Problem https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2025/01/16/trumps-greenland-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trumps-greenland-problem Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=39317 When Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland last week — flying in aboard ​“Trump Force One,” with two of his father’s top advisors, plus right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, in tow — he claimed that he’d come as a tourist. Speaking to a small group of spectators at the recently opened international airport in Nuuk, a city of about 20,000 people just below the Arctic circle, he intimated […]

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]]> A Slippery Slope https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2024/12/09/a-slippery-slope/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-slippery-slope Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=39210 The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska may be the most misleadingly named landscape in North America. Its ungainly title conjures images of a huge oil field dotted with pumpjacks and drilling rigs—it sounds like the mirror image of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In reality, the tundra landscape looks largely the same as it did […]

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]]> If Trump Wins the Election, U.S. Parks and Wildlife Face a New Age of Mining https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2024/09/28/if-trump-wins-the-election-u-s-parks-and-wildlife-face-a-new-age-of-mining/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-trump-wins-the-election-u-s-parks-and-wildlife-face-a-new-age-of-mining Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=39011 This article was produced in partnership with the Guardian, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. Imagine, for a moment, oil and gas infrastructure carving up Alaska’s far northern tundra, a refuge for migrating caribou and polar bears. Copper-nickel mines on the doorstep of one of the largest wilderness areas east of the Rockies, a […]

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]]> The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2024/06/20/the-crackdown-on-campus-protests-is-just-beginning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-crackdown-on-campus-protests-is-just-beginning Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=38754 At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

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]]> The War on Protest https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2024/04/17/the-war-on-protest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-war-on-protest Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=38660 Amin Chaoui had been in Atlanta less than 24 hours when things took an unexpected turn. Chaoui, then 31, drove down from Richmond, Va., to attend a March 2023 music festival organized by activists trying to stop the construction of the police training facility known as Cop City. The sprawling compound in one of Atlanta’s […]

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]]> How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2024/02/14/how-the-us-government-began-its-decade-long-campaign-against-the-anti-pipeline-movement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-us-government-began-its-decade-long-campaign-against-the-anti-pipeline-movement Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:45:00 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=38506 Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.

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]]> The New Cold War in the Arctic https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2023/10/30/cold-war-militarism-greenland-inuit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cold-war-militarism-greenland-inuit Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:55:41 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=38201 In the spring of 1953, when Regina Kristiansen was 14, she and her family were forced to leave their village of Uummannaq in northwestern Greenland, hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle. At the behest of Danish authorities, who promised them new homes, they were given just a few days to gather their belongings. Kristiansen drove a dogsled across […]

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]]> How the FBI Used ‘Cop City’ Protests to Snoop on Activists in Chicago https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2023/03/23/fbi-assessment-cop-city-atlanta-chicago/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fbi-assessment-cop-city-atlanta-chicago Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:55:07 +0000 https://www.typeinvestigations.org/?post_type=investigations_posts&p=37256 This article was produced in partnership with Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter here. Last summer, a “Chicago Against Cop City” Twitter account was created and began sharing information about a campaign unfolding some 700 miles away. Its first tweet, posted on July 18, promoted a […]

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