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Spencer Ackerman

@attackerman.bsky.social

Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81

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Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

05.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 2826    🔁 929    💬 46    📌 55

Deniz is going to win your 2026 and beyond

05.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Surprise Zone of Interest We are All Responsible for What Happens in our Community

A dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social

“Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”

05.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 469    🔁 146    💬 9    📌 8
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JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS #AEWDynamite

05.02.2026 03:04 — 👍 9213    🔁 2515    💬 164    📌 600
Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

04.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 16625    🔁 4993    💬 7    📌 332

Because a good product, in this case, would educate people to the point where they would demand wealth redistribution

04.02.2026 21:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

04.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 2021    🔁 806    💬 29    📌 16

We’ve reached the point in this insane cold snap where it’s 31 degrees and balmy

03.02.2026 23:53 — 👍 192    🔁 5    💬 11    📌 1
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"These practices must end now."

Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.

03.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 1547    🔁 523    💬 52    📌 60
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I Guess We're All Just Supposed To Be OK With Bombing Iran Again Watching the buildup for regime change in Iran happily echo the buildup for regime change in Iraq. PLUS: The ghost of NSEERS returns to DHS

"Teheran is getting the surrender offer that Trump is said to have offered Nicolas Maduro ahead of the Jan. 3 Caracas raid," writes @attackerman.bsky.social

03.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 37    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1

As @attackerman.bsky.social points out today we shouldn’t lose sight of the way Democratic administrations allowed for the present crisis.

www.forever-wars.com/i-guess-were...

03.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 146    🔁 45    💬 6    📌 2
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I Guess We're All Just Supposed To Be OK With Bombing Iran Again Watching the buildup for regime change in Iran happily echo the buildup for regime change in Iraq. PLUS: The ghost of NSEERS returns to DHS

We’re drifting toward an unambiguous military aggression against Iran, with the intention of overthrowing its regime, and the treatment of it in US politics is somewhere between normalization and avoidance.

03.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 110    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 2
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I Guess We're All Just Supposed To Be OK With Bombing Iran Again Watching the buildup for regime change in Iran happily echo the buildup for regime change in Iraq. PLUS: The ghost of NSEERS returns to DHS

The problem with @attackerman.bsky.social being cursed by Apollo with the power of prophecy is that we keep having to add things he’s predicted to his pieces as I edit them

03.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 79    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
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A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

03.02.2026 14:54 — 👍 4613    🔁 2491    💬 36    📌 33
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Exclusive | Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.

There’s a highly classified whistleblower complaint about Tulsi Gabbard that’s been held up and not sent to Congress for 8(!) months

And a former aide to Gabbard runs her agency’s watchdog office & she got rid of the top attorney in that watchdog office

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

02.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 383    🔁 162    💬 10    📌 9
Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.

Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.

A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!

A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

01.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 2556    🔁 1308    💬 30    📌 115

Maybe Liam is too wee yet for Spider-Verse, but I ❤️ Miles Morales and Nueva York is covered in snow too!

Much thanks to @julioanta.bsky.social for the translation so that I could include both spideys.

#Comics4Liam FREE THE CHILDREN!!! Shutter forever these evil detention centers; ABOLISH ICE.

01.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 863    🔁 201    💬 4    📌 6

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

31.01.2026 20:31 — 👍 9683    🔁 3306    💬 84    📌 54
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Big arms sale to Israel announced, including nearly $4 billion worth of attack helicopters.

30.01.2026 23:12 — 👍 85    🔁 34    💬 6    📌 6
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Texas Democrats Demand Release of ‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia, Compare ICE Facility to ‘Internment Camps’ State Rep. Salman Bhojani said the 33-year-old is living in inhumane conditions and has been running “a high fever for several days.”

NEW: Rep. Salman Bhojani said lawmakers were denied entry to Prairieland Detention Center, where Leqaa Kordia has been running “a high fever for several days” due to what he called inhumane conditions.

In May, her cousin said she had already lost 50 lbs.

thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/30/t...

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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Military Tells Key Middle East Ally to Prepare for Attack on Iran In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.

“‘This isn’t about the nukes or the missile program. This is about regime change,’ said a former senior U.S. intelligence official who consults for Arab governments and is an informal advisor to the Trump administration on Middle East policy.”

30.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 57    🔁 21    💬 7    📌 2
The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

“We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement: “We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

30.01.2026 16:55 — 👍 2763    🔁 1110    💬 23    📌 38

More and more people are saying* that this book explains the origins of what we’re seeing on our streets:

*it’s not a bit this time. They’re really saying that!

30.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 139    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 0

They're going to get sympathetic treatment. On the cover of the Magazine. It's Been Ten Years Since [TK ATROCITY]. But People Won't Leave This Former ICE Agent In Peace. And you will be the villain of the story.

30.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 254    🔁 41    💬 10    📌 5

when all of this gets slightly less heated the NYT is going to be profiling anonymous ICE agents like they’re regretful Trump voters just you watch

30.01.2026 14:59 — 👍 811    🔁 149    💬 17    📌 7

I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon.

30.01.2026 14:59 — 👍 1209    🔁 146    💬 22    📌 6

This was 15-ish years ago. My immediate recollection is they filled the little handle wells by the seats

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I have been on a Gulfstream 4 and it is indeed incredible. This particular private plane is public: it belongs to the Chief of Naval Operations. I interviewed Adm. Roughead as he flew from Rhode Island to DC. It took maybe an hour and there were individually wrapped peppermints everywhere

30.01.2026 00:41 — 👍 51    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

That most relatable of causes: the economic health of the number-one name in private jets

30.01.2026 00:38 — 👍 182    🔁 18    💬 9    📌 1

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.

This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

29.01.2026 04:34 — 👍 8048    🔁 3475    💬 46    📌 36

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