Nate Halverson

We won an Emmy for The Grab! Truly honored and so happy for the WHOLE TEAM. We were nominated for four Emmys, including Best Documentary, Outstanding Investigative Documentary, Best Reporting in a Documentary and Best Promotional (trailer). We won for Best Reporting! So many people made this possible, including the incredible reporting team at The Center for Investigative Reporting, including Emma Schwartz, JoeBill Muñoz, Mallory Newman, David Ritsher, Yinuo Shi, McKenzie Funk, Bob Salladay, and so many others. And of course director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who made all that reporting truly shine. And fellow producer Amanda Pike, who was the engine making it all happen, as she somehow is with all the amazing documentaries at CIR. We couldn't have done any of it without so many brilliant, brave sources who were willing to share what they know, and take us into the world of food and water conflict. And of course producers Blye Faust and Nicole Rocklin. And the incredible editing team of Davis Combe and Tessa Malsam. The brilliant cinematography of DP Jon Ingalls, Scott Anger, and Curren Sheldon. And the incredible team of Executive Producers at Impact Partners, and the amazing teams at Participant Media and Magnolia Pictures. It takes all these people - and so many more - to make a documentary happen. I'm just so grateful to so many for spending so long to tell this critical story.

So grateful for everyone who helped make The Grab into a powerful and gripping film. When Amanda Pike and I first discussed it as a film project oh so many years ago, we couldn’t have imagined that we’d be lucky enough to team up with the amazing director @gabriela.cowperthwaite , and then the incredible team we built at The Center for Investigative Reporting, including David Ritsher, Mallory Newman, JoeBill Muñoz, Emma Schwartz and Yinuo Shi and so many more. And we never could have done it without the incredibly supportive Executive Producers, and also the powerfully brave and brilliant sources who helped pull it all out of the shadows, and into the spotlight. So grateful 🙏

Gold and oil are the riches of the past. Today’s powerful few are focused on something else: Food and water. “Who controls our food and water?” They’re questions straight out of your dad’s favorite conspiracy theory. Still, they’re also very real questions at the heart of The Grab, a new film from the acclaimed director of BLACKFISH and our partners at the Center for Investigative Reporting—streaming on Hulu TODAY! Access to clean water and nutritious food is more important than ever. But a disturbing trend has emerged: Wealthy governments and corporations are acquiring food and water resources worldwide, leading to a global crisis. From how powerful entities are buying up land and water rights to leaving many struggling to access basic necessities, THE GRAB reveals important questions—Will control of food and water become the new form of global power? What can we do to ensure everyone has access to clean water and healthy food?—about the future of our planet’s resources. Director @gabriela.cowperthwaite follows journalist @natethecurious and takes viewers on a journey not to be missed. We at Mother Jones are excited for our new colleagues at CIR and this massive and illuminating visual investigation, so check out the trailer now and stream the “HOLY S*** DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR” this weekend on @hulu !

This spring, federal agencies plan to spray glyphosate—the world's most controversial and widely-debated weedkiller—across thousands and thousands of acres of public land. Land where families camp, hikers explore, hunters pursue game, and children swim in mountain streams. And almost no one knows it's happening, reports @natethecurious . Glyphosate, introduced by agri-giant Monsanto in 1974, has been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Bayer, the multinational conglomerate that acquired Monsanto in 2018, is now on the hook for over $12 billion in legal settlements and payouts to thousands of people who claim Roundup gave them cancer and other serious illnesses. Scientists have also linked the chemical to decimated Monarch butterfly populations, mass frog die-offs, and widespread ecological damage. And yet in February, President Trump signed an executive order declaring glyphosate critical to national security, invoking the Defense Production Act to guarantee its continued use and shielding its producers from legal liability. So why is one of the most litigated chemicals in American history being quietly sprayed across our national forests? To get to the bottom of it, my colleague Melissa Lewis and I pulled California pesticide application records going back to 1995 and analyzed more than 5 million data points. What we uncovered was deeply troubling: glyphosate spraying in California forests has quintupled since 2005—the fastest-growing market for the chemical in the state—and the public has been left almost entirely in the dark. This is the secret plan to cover the world in herbicide—that they don't want you to know about. Find the full 22 minute documentary on our YouTube channel.

My Democracy Now! interview. Holy buckets, let me just say, I was more than a little tired. I had a 1030pm hockey game in Oakland the night before, so not off the ice until after midnight, and I joined Amy's show at 4:45am. Sooo....this is me still half asleep. Incredibly grateful they featured our reporting and the video I did with @sam.vp . Hopefully @democracynow will have me back sometime, despite my, err, low energy showing here

When the Forest Service sent a routine letter about wildfire recovery in, one word buried in the text stopped me cold: herbicides. This spring, federal agencies plan to spray glyphosate—the world's most controversial and widely-debated weedkiller—across thousands and thousands of acres of public land. Land where families camp, hikers explore, hunters pursue game, and children swim in mountain streams. And almost no one knows it's happening, reports @natethecurious . Glyphosate, introduced by agri-giant Monsanto in 1974, has been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Bayer, the multinational conglomerate that acquired Monsanto in 2018, has now paid over $12 billion in legal settlements to thousands of people who claim Roundup gave them cancer and other serious illnesses. Scientists have also linked the chemical to decimated Monarch butterfly populations, mass frog die-offs, and widespread environmental destruction. And yet in February, President Trump signed an executive order declaring glyphosate critical to national security, invoking the Defense Production Act to guarantee its continued use and shielding its producers from legal liability. So why is one of the most litigated chemicals in American history being quietly sprayed across our national forests? To get to the bottom of it, my colleague Melissa Lewis and I pulled California pesticide application records going back to 1995 and analyzed more than 5 million data points. What we uncovered was deeply troubling: glyphosate spraying in California forests has quintupled since 2005—the fastest-growing market for the chemical in the state—and the public has been left almost entirely in the dark. This is the secret plan to cover the world in herbicide—that they don't want you to know about. Find the full 22 minute documentary on our YouTube channel.

This “fish-fluencer” loves ice but he really, really hates ICE. “I'm just a local ding dong, you know, I'm nothing special,” said Nate Pischke (@shorelunch_with_nate_p ). “We make dumb fishing and cooking content.” Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown. “I don’t feel comfortable putting out fishing content when, you know, our neighbors are getting kidnapped by goons on the street. And so we pivoted quickly to start talking about this,” he said. He and his collaborator Erik Sudheimer have built a small but dedicated audience of a few thousand people who tune into his YouTube show, Shore Lunch with Nate P. (https://bit.ly/4kyq6bd), for fishing tips, outdoor cooking lessons, and a good amount of profanity-laced laughs. But that changed when the ICE surge began. He has turned his indignation and outrage about the largest deployment of masked and armed ICE agents in US history into a call for hunters and fishermen to speak out.. “If you don't think that what's happening here is a problem, open your eyeballs up and come here and I'll buy you a beer. We can talk about it. I'll show you around. Open invite and I'll buy the beers," he said. “Beers within reason, okay?” Editor’s Note: No Nate Pischkes were harmed in the making of this video.

"We wanted to have people who knew him speak about his memory—and to correct the record on some of the smear campaigns that we're seeing." Alex Pretti’s coworkers and community gathered at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs on Sunday, sharing memories and stories of him—and called out the lies the federal government has been spreading about their friend. "The lies told about him," said Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn), who recently announced her candidacy for Minnesota governor. "Calling him a domestic terrorist, were the most hurtful things that they could ever imagine be said about their son." "You've inspired and motivated the entire world with your final words: 'Are you okay?'" read Alex's coworker Josh Green, referencing the final words we hear Pretti say in the video of his killing. Reporter @natethecurious was there to share what those who knew Pretti wanted you to know. Watch.

“If there is complete impunity now, it will spread, and it will be far, far worse. Even regular police will say, ‘You know what? They can do it, I can do it.’” Reporter Nate Halverson caught up with former special FBI agent and 9/11 whistleblower Colleen Rowley during the Minnesota's massive general strike march in Minneapolis on Friday. The Constitutional law expert decried what she describes as ICE’s unlawful actions in the state and beyond. “People should follow [Minnesota’s] model, if they want to preserve the law in their own state.”

“We were just trying to get him medication… But he was already gone.” Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman (@the_sioux_chef ) told reporter @natethecurious that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. The agents said his co-worker matched the description of someone they were looking for, and asked for documents to confirm his identity. By the next day, Sherman said, his employee was already out of Minnesota. He was discovered to be in Texas. “Our employees are not criminals,” Sherman told Nate in the Twin Cities. “They don’t have police records and they’re just here to come to work. We’re literally a nonprofit trying to serve healthy indigenous food to people. We shouldn’t have to worry if we’re going to have guns pulled on us on the way to work at all, but this is our reality.” Sherman said his team tried to intervene. “We were just trying to get him medication,” he added. “But he was already gone. And like, how do we get his medication to Texas now?” Sherman also pointed to a troubling historical resonance at Fort Snelling—the area where people are now being brought and detained in the Twin Cities: This is not the first time it has been used as a detention site. Fort Snelling is where Dakota prisoners following the 1862 Dakota uprising were brought and detained before being forcibly relocated down the river to the Crow Creek Reservation in what is now South Dakota. “It’s just more salt in the wound,” Sherman said.

"Minnesotans are at the vanguard right now...Take what we’re doing and bring it to your cities.” Reporters @natethecurious and @sam.vp spoke with first-time protesters, vets, and religious leaders at a demonstration outside of the federal Whipple building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The building is where much of the federal activity is happening, and has become ground zero over the last months of regular and growing protests as the federal occupation of the city continues. But the Minnesotans from far and wide have a message for people in the rest of the country who may watching. Here's what they have to say:

"We all say an oath when we graduate from nursing school, and he upheld that oath until the very end." Nurses at Alex Pretti's memorial in Minneapolis spoke to our reporters @natethecurious and @sam.vp on Monday about gathering to honor a fellow nurse, who they say helped others until the very end. Pretti, a US citizen and Minneapolis local, worked in the intensive care unit at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Videos detail the last moments leading up to his death: He was directing traffic on the street while filming immigration agents, attempted to assist another observer who was pushed to the ground by immigration enforcement, pepper-sprayed by the agent who ends up shooting him, and tackled by several agents onto the street. "That's what nurses do," labor and delivery nurse Sarah Evans said. "We care and protect. So we'll do what we can to be in between harm and another person."