@justinglawe.bsky.social
Journalist for Zeteo, Guardian, Rolling Stone etc. and creator of @americandoom.bsky.social. Peoria born. Pre-order my dark American memoir now. https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Your-Something-Terrible-Happened/dp/1588385736
#OnTheAir COUNTERPOINT RADIO airs Mondays 8-9:30 pm ET WPKN.org 89.5FM Bgpt #CT: @justinglawe.bsky.social of @americandoom.bsky.social re: FBI Raid on Georgia Election Center & What it Really Means; Branko Marcetic of @jacobinmag.bsky.social staff writer on "Trump Is in Way Over His Head in Iran."
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In the coming days, depending on the news, I’ll have an investigation into deaths of detainees in U.S. immigration custody. Troubling findings that will hopefully prompt some accountability. For now, thanks for reading and supporting my work. Spread the word.
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You can read an excerpt here and pre-order it at the link below. Also, you can support your local, independent book seller by asking them to pre-order the book for you.
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In other news, the first review of my book for @ugapress.bsky.social is out, courtesy @rachelwrighting.com. Really humbling to be mentioned in the same breath as a writer and reporter like @tomjunod.bsky.social
Read it at Arts ATL:
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With just a few months until a July 1 deadline, Georgians don’t even know what type of ballots they’ll vote on — and how those votes will be counted — in November. We have the strength of the election denial movement and its power among lawmakers to thank for that.
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Today at @newrepublic.com and @americandoom.bsky.social Doom: Republicans in Georgia are setting up the midterms to fail as a crucial deadline looms.
TNR: newrepublic.com/article/2068...
Doom: www.american-doom.com/p/the-electi...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
By framing the person as a criminal, the Trump administration attempts to diminish their death — and life. By obscuring the fact that detainees — 40 of them, now — have died after being detained in ICE facilities, they attempt to distance themselves from responsibility.
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Ignore, for a moment, that each of these begins by noting the detainee's criminal record before noting their death, and think of the misleading nature of the headline: "dies at hospital."
This man died at a hospital after being taken there during a medical emergency from an *ICE facility.*
The reason the Trump administration has done things like kick reputable outlets out of Pentagon briefings is because the broader American right simply does not accept any framing of facts and narratives that they do not like.
See: ICE press releases on detainee deaths.
The same people who love creating AI versions of themselves and other strange stuff like this say voting machines are rife with fraud.
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Demas’ death comes within a week of the death of Alberto Gutierrez in Adelanto, 48, who had been complaining of medical issues for weeks before he died.
His son has said his father’s face was yellow.
A 10th person has died in custody of ICE. Emmanuel Demas, 56, died of complications from a tooth infection at Florence, AZ, per a source.
He is the 10th death this year and 40th since Trump took office — the highest number since ICE was created in 2003.
More to come at the @theguardian.com.
Pre-2020: Few seriously talked about election fraud.
Pre-last week: Few seriously talked about attacking Iran.
The commonality? Falling in line.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
(AP) — The gunman who killed two people at a bar in Texas early Sunday in a mass shooting that left 14 others wounded was wearing a sweatshirt that said “Property of Allah,” and another shirt with an Iranian flag design, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press
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Just because our leaders have serious weapons, that does not mean they are serious people.
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A federal judge in Atlanta decided in American Doom’s favor and has ordered the Justice Department to release documents related to the Jan. 28 FBI raid on a Fulton County elections warehouse.
Read more at American Doom:
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Wait until he finds out about all the people Republicans kicked off food stamps and the Republican states who refuse to expand Medicaid.
26.02.2026 00:35 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.
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President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.”
A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:
I have much more coming on this and other ICE deaths.
19.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 81 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0Because in states like Georgia a noncitizen’s drivers licenses explicitly says “not a U.S. citizen.”
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This is one sentence.
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On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
“One thing that you should know is that it’s the mission of the Department of Homeland Security to defend the homeland.”
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These forces are working to implement hand-counted ballots on a mass scale in GA. If you thought there were errors in 2020, when machines counted six million votes, wait’ll you see what happens in November when those votes are counted by hand.
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But instead of trying to reduce the capacity for human error, Republican lawmakers and election denial activists in Georgia are trying to increase the possibility of human errors in elections here.
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Those mistakes were the result of a chaotic, pandemic-era election and the many people it took to carry it out. All elections have mistakes and 2020 was no different.
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There’s been much talk of the fact that the affidavit was based on the work of election denial activists, and while that’s true, much of those claims reflect actual technical mistakes during the 2020 election.
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