(@yseriel) — Bluesky Profile

10 hours ago

Why doesnt America send some warships? i thought they won the not-a-war with iran, they should have plenty of capacity to patrol the seas now...

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1 day ago

What a boss answer, zohran is the goat

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1 day ago

What? no way - is Merz saying that... that... that theres no exit strategy from a war dick fucking cheney thought shouldnt be fought? I dont know man... I guess merz is a visionary, a very stable genious...

or he is carrying the demon spawn of DJT after a torrid night last week idk

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5 days ago

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

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2 weeks ago

Get fucked is what it means

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3 weeks ago

Writing is a technology. Imagine calling a publishing house a tech company.

Agriculture is essential tech to human life. Imagine a mom and pop company being considered tech...

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3 weeks ago

Im going to be repeating this line every time i can.

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1 month ago

great goal if you are a power lifter - to be the strongest. If youre governing a country, one would expect you want ability towards something. Not simply to lift even harder.

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1 month ago

Poty that the ioc considers "I'm sad my friends died" to be political speech... I guess it should have read "I don't care my friends died as long as I go fast vroom vroom"

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1 month ago

LOL cope

cooooooooooope

cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope

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1 month ago

thats cause they only mean pro white, anglo-saxon, upper class life. Everyone else is cattle.

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1 month ago

great plan to kill a newspaper. it is almost as if that was the goal all along and the rest was seeing if they could edge out a little profit lol

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1 month ago

Im sorry, biden had 4 years to prosecute this pos and all j6ers... much like america visavis jefferson davies, dems are indeed soft on crime.

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1 month ago

You don't have it on YouTube music...

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1 month ago

Whaaaat? Elon doing wildly unethical and illegal shit for money? No waaaaay...

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1 month ago

Remember, This guy used his clout to protect a child. What had Barack Obama done with his? What has Hillary Clinton done with hers?

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1 month ago

Wow he is gonna have some fun with him, I guess he is going to jump in a time machine back to when Trevor was a child and have sex with him...

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1 month ago

At best, this is a bad decision that will cause a lot of pain to 30k people!

At worst, it also means the degradation of our logistics infrastructure for the sake of a make-believe story that the company is more efficient when it is just less effective with minus 30k people!

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1 month ago

Bovino is a henchman. Noem too. Get Miller out.

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1 month ago

molotov ribbentrop 2 - electric boogaloo

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1 month ago

this post hits hard.

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1 month ago

Please share. 💔

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1 month ago

the problem is precisely that the plan is to kill you all. Not just in Minneapolis, everywhere. theres a reason why thiel was so reticent to say he is for the preservation of the human race. These technofascists all want a cleansing of the planet. And we aint invited.

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1 month ago

stay safe, survival is resistance!

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1 month ago

This is a winning headline.

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1 month ago

I'm sorry, did you get this from the part where he said he definitely was getting Greenland or from the part where he said we are a great power followed by saying Denmark lost to the nazis in 6 hours?

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1 month ago

Indeed amazing you're quoting mandelson, but not surprising that he is saying it is no time for grandstanding, he and his friend epstein always had a preference for children and they tend to be rather short

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1 month ago

i came to see this from europe thinking omg did the pope actually do something? but no, it was just big man make throw with his arm and other big man caught.

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1 month ago

mate, wait until the inevitable 4h long daily talk show hosted by the talkshow host in chief...

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1 month ago

Good luck defending America from the people who will lose their pensions when the chickens come home to roost lol ... Guess Miller wont be holding America by then

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