Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode, Kevin and D talk to journalist Ali Winston, journalist and author of one of our favorite books, The Riders Come Out At Night. We get into the Oakland Police Department’s struggles to come out from under federal oversight. We also get into the threat of ICE and the decline of legacy media.

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The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-cbp-srt-bortac-units-immigration-operations/?_sp=89056ad2-22f7-47e3-8bdb-03abd0e6fd75.1771231781879

What Oakland, Calif., Tells Us About Why Police Reform Is So Hard

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/books/review/the-riders-come-out-at-night-ali-winston-darwin-bondgraham.html

Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing

Online Predators. Targeting Kids On Discord, Minecraft & Roblox. Ali Winston, Investigative Reporter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDOOwHsuQLk

The Violent Rise of ‘No Lives Matter’

https://www.wired.com/story/no-lives-matter-764-violence/

One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did

https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime/

85. Oakland Police and federal oversight with Ali Winston