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Journalist, bylines in @Jacobinmag @thenation, working on history of FBI for @VersoBooks Policy Director @RightsDissent Views my own
Washington, DC
Joined October 2012
Via FOIA, I exposed the FBI's multiple terrorism investigations into a nonviolent Palestinian solidarity organization, predicated on First Amendment activity, such as anti-capitalist philosophy. Took five years, but here's the story.
theintercept.com
The FBI investigated the International Solidarity Movement for nothing more than First Amendment-protected protests against Israel’s occupation.
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Cooked some mussels yesterday for a belated Bastille Day celebration.
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To be clear, it's a single instance of monitoring a leftwing event. Will be more specific when we publish, but it certainly fits into the FBI's general behavior.
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I also obtained new Russigate documents this week, which I will be posting about next week. They don't reveal new info about team Trump, but do show how the FBI used the investigation to monitor leftwing activists and journalists. Watch this space and @RightsDissent.
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So is the official position of AOC here that Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Al Green, and Summer Lee by voting for the amendment were "adding to the death count of innocent victims to this war?". Because that's a pretty incendiary position.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to.
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Four of the six votes were from progressive democrats (Tlaib, Omar, Green, Summer Lee), two Republications (MTG, Massie). For the left, what is the argument of voting no?. That you're going to own Marjorie Taylor Greene by voting to fund a genocide?. This is where we are at?.
Breaking: House overwhelmingly rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's amendment to cut funds to Israel 422-6.
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RT @RepRashida: Our country is obsessed with war. Every year, Congress votes to invest in death and destruction instead of health care, hou….
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RT @MattLech: .@ChipGibbons89 going into the long history of free speech suppression from the ludicrous Holy Land five case back to the Pal….
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In about 30 minutes, I'll be joining @majorityfm to discuss Trump's ideologically motivated deportations, Mahmoud Khalil, and free speech in the age of Trump!.
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I attended an ADL briefing where their Senior Vice President for Counter Extremism and Intelligence complained Congress focused on the illegality of Trump's Iran attack, not its impact on Iran's nuclear program. Antisemitism is real and evil. This is not the org to tackle it.
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Working on the Obama chapter of my FBI book and stumbled across news items about Julian Assange speaking to Occupy London. Probably illegible to folks now, but in line with zeitgeist of the moment. Wild how politics have changed since, for better and for worse.
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RT @RightsDissent: BREAKING: In response to our FOIA request about the government’s collusion with private blacklisting organizations like….
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Tucker Carlson claimed there is a taboo against criticizing the Israeli government in the U.S., so now current and former Israeli government officials are on social media interfering in U.S. political life. Not sure they thought through the optics of this one.
An Open Letter to @charliekirk11 . Dear Charlie,.Like many others, I’ve been following your remarkable journey from afar - your pursuit of truth, integrity, and love for your country. Very few young people are as gifted as you, and even fewer possess such a strong moral
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I saw David Cronenberg's The Shrouds in theaters in New York back in April and now that it's on the Criterion Channel rewatched it. Certainly grew on me a lot with the second viewing, but didn't leave the same impression on me as Crimes of the Future did.
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The chief difference between the Harris and Trump campaigns was that the Trump campaign was willing to at times lie to certain audiences about its war stance. It was a lot narrower than the Trump is antiwar people falsely claimed, but it was an intentional effort. And he won.
Not that I endorse this but what’s interesting about Democrats and war messaging / Israel messaging is that they know it’s unpopular but they won’t just lie about it to get elected and then not follow through. For some reason they would rather risk the loss dying on the hill.
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RT @RightsDissent: BREAKING: The FBI likely has 28,240 pages of files on @wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange, excluding any fi….
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Another American murdered by the Israeli military or Israeli settlers. Does our government even care?.
NEW: Israeli settlers killed a young Palestinian-American from Florida, where he helped run a family ice cream shop. Comes days after we asked senators how many Americans have been killed in Palestine & Lebanon since 10/7. None knew. He is now the 7th.
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Sure. And Biden was very, very, very cross with Netanyahu. 🙄.
SCOOP:. @FBIDirectorKash and @dbongino are LIVID with @AGPamBondi over her DOJ Memo and the lack of transparency from her office regarding the Jeffery Epstein files. Source tells me Dan Bongino is taking the day off today from his job as Deputy Director of the FBI, and there’s.
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In court today, not to cover a proceeding as a journalist, but for @RightsDissent lawsuit to compel the FBI to release its @wikileaks file.
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I've never heard evidence beyond baseless speculation that Epstein was running a blackmail op, but the initial prosecutor was told to lay off Epstein because he "belonged to intelligence.". This has never been explained and feels like a cover up the public is owed an answer to.
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