Spencer Ackerman

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the pierogis.

It feels intentional when an airline quotes me a ticket price of $1488

Top ministers Levin, Katz declare time now ripe to annex West Bank * * *

Israel's Justice and Defense Ministers issue a joint statement saying "at this very moment" Israel should annex the West Bank.

If you don’t recognise a genocide as a genocide you are, by definition, a genocide denier.

It doesn’t matter if you make yourself feel better by saying after nearly 2 years of genocide that starving children is ‘indefensible’. You’re still a genocide denier.

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Sadism And Depravity in The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation "We treat these civilians in Gaza worse, with less dignity, than we treated the ISIS fighters that surrendered in Baghouz in Syria." PLUS: Free Chris Smalls

Have you checked out any of former Green Beret officer Anthony Aguilar’s interviews about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get this out of my head:

Read this by the always brilliant @attackerman.bsky.social as it expands on something we’ve recently discussed quite frequently on Bluesky dot com: the people who have suddenly woken up from a moral coma and decided that the situation in Gaza is indeed unbearable
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The Belated Voices Against The U.S.-Israeli Genocide of The Palestinians Why did the onset of famine, and not any of the previous 21 months of collective slaughter, not compel them to speak out?

What will they do now that they tell us their eyes are open?

The ideology is in fact "what people care about." The two are inextricable.

These organizations will go down in history as opposing genocide only at the last minute. They should be ashamed of themselves.

I highlight this not bc B’Tselem’s assessment is any more valid than any Palestinian’s, but because an Israeli human-rights organization’s assessment makes it harder for Israel and America to deny what they’re doing. That on its own will not change a single material fact about the genocide but still

My actions facilitating a genocide really weigh on me

Just trying to be like you, Greg

IRON MAN #10: Inside The Issue For what is an Iron Man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. The record shows, I wrote the prose. And did it my way

Want to know who Iron Man’s love interest would have been if my run had continued? I have one final newsletter’s worth of BTS for you…

DOJ meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell set for Thursday: Sources Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche arrived at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee on Thursday for an expected meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell.

they're going to pardon her in exchange for lying about the fact Trump fucks children

First volume is out now. The second one… no idea!

A farewell message in IRON MAN #10 about the importance of organizing.

Best of all, I got to sign off with this.

Iron Monger vs Iron Man on the cover of IRON MAN #10, by Yasmine Putri. I’m not crying, you are

It’s here: IRON MAN #10, the last issue of my run. Thanks to everyone who checked it out. For everyone else, if you like critiques of surveillance capitalism, technocratic liberalism, private equity, great-power competition and the spy agencies in your superhero stories, pick it up in collected form

‘It Still Haunts Me’: A Dallas ER Doctor Says He Left His Heart in Gaza Thirty-two-year-old Adil Husain will spend the rest of his life thinking about the patients he couldn’t save on his 2-week trip to Palestine: A 9-year-old boy who was bleeding out. A 16-week-old fetus...

32-year-old Adil Husain tells @thebarbedwire.com he’ll spend the rest of his life thinking about the patients he couldn’t save on his 2-week trip to Palestine. Our in-depth interview with a Dallas ER doctor who remains haunted by the incomprehensible devastation.

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A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You As of today, there are even more ways to enjoy WIRED’s journalism, including premium newsletters and livestream Q&As. Join us.

I think this is as forward-thinking an approach to future-proofing quality journalism during what we can think of as a crisis of distribution as can be. Bravo to @katie-drummond.bsky.social and her immensely talented team.

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

A heartwarming novel about robots and food that you’ll really like by @annaleen.bsky.social

Iron Man #1 by Spencer Ackerman

Finally found time to read @attackerman.bsky.social 's Iron Man and it was everything I hoped: cutting, opinionated, inventive. Can't wait to pick up the next one!

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 1000 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC 20301-1000 JUL 15 2025 The Honorable Herb Conway U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative Conway: Consistent with Section 2815 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328), I am writing to inform the Committee that I certify that the provision of Department of Defense real property at Camp Atterbury, Indiana and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, for temporary use by the Department of Homeland Security to house illegal aliens will not negatively affect military training, operations, readiness, or other military requirements, including National Guard and Reserve readiness. I am sending an identical letter to the Committee on Armed Services of the U.S. House of Representatives and Members of Congress representing the area in which the real property is located. Sincerely,

NEW: Pete Hegseth sent a letter to Congress on Tuesday announcing that the Department of Defense will allow DHS to detain immigrants on two military bases: Fort Atterbury in Indiana and Fort Dix in New Jersey.

There is no further detail at this time as to when or how this will be done.

Spencer Ackerman’s New York State of Mind: Peace, Populism, and Zohran Mamdani | Ep. 250 Award-winning journalist, author, and lifelong New Yorker Spencer Ackerman joins the show to talk about the world from a New York point of view:

Great listen this morning on Un-Diplomatic Pod with @vanjackson.bsky.social and @attackerman.bsky.social talking Mamdani, Trump, and what it all means for U.S. foreign policy.

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They hate Jamelle because he sees through them so thoroughly. And also the other thing!

So sadly true.

Interesting! I don’t have a sister

It’s not fair, and you and all these other creators deserve so much more.

For those who follow me for journalism or because I’m hot and may not know: Bryan Hitch is a legend. This is the artist who created the Widescreen movement in comics art. His jersey is guaranteed to hang in the rafters of the medium. He co-created the Engineer character in the current Superman movie

I had his exact case in mind when I wrote something you’ll see in my final issue of IRON MAN, out next week.

I was on a podcast once and after we stopped recording I mentioned to the host I had just inked a deal with one of the Big 2 companies to write characters that were featured in movies. “Wow!” they said. “You’re gonna make so much money!” I said, no, *they’re* gonna make so much money.