Occasionally I click on a link to this site and remember it still exists and I have an account here.

In Venezuela, Trump Is Engaged in Plain and Simple Murder Donald Trump’s assassinations of alleged drug traffickers in Venezuela with zero due process represent some of the greatest dangers of his second term. They can’t be understood apart from the bipartis...

In @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social, I look at Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, how they may be a prelude to wider war with Venezuela, and where they fall in the history of US extrajudicial killings, including Cold War assassinations and the drone program.

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I logged into this site for the first time in a month and this the first thing i see.

I remember why Gabbard's office asked me to help draft the Protect Brave Whistleblowers Act!

I don't know where Rep. Gabbard is, but I wish she would call Director Gabbard.

Mahmoud Khalil’s Legal Battle Is Far From Over After 104 days in ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil was released on a judge’s order last weekend. But the Trump administration remains committed to deporting him.

After a legal whiplash, Mahmoud Khalil is finally free on bail.

But his legal battle continues.

My latest report on Khalil's case for
@jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

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After his excellent reporting on the sentencing of CIA analyst Asif Rahman, who released files on Israel's plans to strike Iran, I had @chipgibbons.bsky.social join me for further discussion of this Espionage Act case that was largely ignored by the US news media thedissenter.org/imprisoned-f...

I didn’t realize it was you until you brought back that emoji!

CIA Employee Sentenced For Leaking Israel's War Plans A CIA analyst, who pleaded guilty to violating the Espionage Act, was sentenced to prison. He leaked files on Israel's plans to strike Iran.

Here is my report from Asif Rahman's sentencing hearing.

Rahman pled guilty under the Espionage Act to disclosing documents about a potential Israeli strike on Iran.

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I am headed to Alexandria, Virginia for the sentencing hearing of Asif Rahman.

Rahman pled guilty to violating for the Espionage Act, likely for revealing Israeli plans for a military strike on Iran.

His cases remains cloaked in remarkable secrecy.

It bodes poorly for a regime if the delivery of baby formula and crutches for child amputees poses such an existential threat that they must deploy armed thugs to commit a brazen act of lawless piracy in international waters.

Doesn't really seem like a position of strength.

Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Is About the Future of Free Speech Despite some recent advances in his case against the Trump administration, Mahmoud Khalil remains confined for opposing genocide in Gaza — an imprisonment that makes a mockery of the First Amendment.

In my latest report on Mahmoud Khalil's ongoing legal cases for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social I write "every minute Khalil remains confined for opposing a genocide casts a shadow across the First Amendment."

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I am extremely disturbed by reports of a drone flying over the Madleen Gaza flotilla.

Given Israel's history of piracy and terrorism against those trying bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, we need all eyes on the freedom flotilla right now.

They must be guaranteed safe passage.

Why does this ominous message warning me about potential prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act pop up when I try to log into the State Department FOIA portal to check the status of my request?

Exactly when does filing a FOIA become "unauthorized personal business?"

Saturday

Art history with Mr. Marcus

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There is nothing, absolutely nothing that justifies the killing of diplomats or embassy staff on the streets of DC.

It's also how jarring how these two deaths are being treated as a far bigger news story than the mass slaughter of innocents in Gaza.

Here's the report I produced on this hearing for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

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New intelligence suggests Israel is preparing possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, US officials say | CNN Politics The US has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Tehra...

Israel is potentially planning an attack against Iran in violation of international law if we reach a deal with Iran they don't approve of.

The goal of such a strike is to undermine our diplomacy.

This is not an ally.

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221 - New Setback In Trump's ICE Crackdown ft Chip Gibbons YouTube video by Left Reckoning

New episode of this great and handsome show on all the nazi policy going on rn ft @chipgibbons.bsky.social

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The Heritage Foundation beginning in the mid-1970s devoted an incredible amount of resources to essentially rebranding McCarthyism as counter terrorism. This history is largely lost today (though it's going to be a major part of my book).

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Full story.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

As a civil libertarian, I am thankful our Constitution has a narrow definition of treason and am disturbed by overly broad foreign agent registration laws.

But I feel like conspiring with a foreign government to deprive Americans of their 1A rights warrants legal consequences.

I am headed off to Alexandria, Virgina where I will be attending a hearing for Badar Khan Suri, the detained Georgetown scholar abducted by the Trump administration over his wife's support for Palestine.

Wait, what more did you need?

Good evening from Mr. Marcus

Incredible show

Is this my seventh time seeing Arcade Fire? Yes.

I mean if those regulations lead to criminalizing an apartheid state's genocide I think they are hard to ignore?