Jon Kleinow (@jonkleinow) — Bluesky Profile

5 days ago

18 Dems just voted *today* for Trump’s agenda. Does it make sense yet why they’re so unpopular?

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5 days ago

My thoughts are with you during this difficult time

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6 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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6 days ago

I sometimes grab a laptop and go work at this one favorite cafe. Like many businesses, they had a sign on the door saying ICE is not welcome here without a signed judicial warrant. I talked about it with a barista there who was really glad the sign was up. I went the other day and the sign was gone.

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1 week ago

The thing he should be the *least* afraid of right now is a primary. That’s the nice thing people could do.

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1 week ago

An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988.

May he rest in peace.

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1 week ago

He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives

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1 week ago

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

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3 weeks ago

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1 week ago

You love to see it.

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1 week ago

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve never read a more heartfelt, honest endorsement than, “Describe your image here. Use catchy text to tell people the story behind the photo.
Go to “Manage Media” to add your content.”

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1 week ago

Guy who's paid to be really into sonic the hedgehog: The Democrats lost because they didn't talk enough about sonic the hedgehog

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1 week ago

“Resistance is futile,” a thing famously said by history’s good guys

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1 week ago

error! at the bookmark

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1 week ago

This whole idea that someone could be peer-pressured into transitioning, and that this pressure would come from medical professionals, it just fails the smell test on so many levels.

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1 week ago

Meat slop is out. We’re fiber-maxxing now We’re getting grainpilled. We’re not mewing protein, we’re chewing bran. Three squares a day straight from the heartland. Got blood work done last week and my bad cholesterol it in half.

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2 weeks ago

SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated The policy is the latest in a trend of organizations capitulating to Trump over transgender people.

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.

The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

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2 weeks ago

picking up the banana phone and the voice on the other end just says "revolution"

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2 weeks ago

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

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2 weeks ago

They literally made an entire movie about this with Matthew Broderick in it decades ago to warn us away from this trajectory and here we are excitedly building the WOPR-brand Torment Nexus anyhow

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2 weeks ago

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading:

JUST WALK OUT
work social thing movies home class dentist
figure skating
too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships
IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!!
Real winners quit
You can leave!!
Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

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2 weeks ago

You can't even contribute pro-snake-oil content to state-aligned media after corresponding enthusiastically with a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker anymore, because of woke

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2 weeks ago

Hold On, I'm Comin' by Sam & Dave. they are riding a cartoon turtle

learning that classic stax track hold on I'm comin' has the greatest cover of all time

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3 weeks ago

TMZ article:
Mar-A-Lago Armed Gunman
Fixated On Epstein Files Week Before Shooting

The armed man shot and killed by Secret Service agents outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property Sunday <underlined>had grown increasingly obsessed with the Epstein files and was also a vocal supporter of Trump</underlined> … TMZ has learned.

tweet from November @postoctobrist:
the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted from him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile.
Jul 17th 2025.

god damn, @postoctobrist.bsky.social almost on the button.

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

me normally:

an extremely secular jew who has only ever lived in coastal states

me when pope leo craps on jd vance:

*extremely chicago accent* da pope babyyyyy

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3 weeks ago

I’ll be curious to see if I still have it by the time I get on a plane again in April, seeing as they’ve revoked it from people recording ICE agents or questioning them.

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3 weeks ago

This. The right has been livestreaming their intentions forever. FRC’s Meg Kilgannon, now at US Dept of Ed, outlined the strategy of attacking top surgery as a way of delegitimizing trans people and “dividing the T from LGB”, back in 2017 at the Values Voter Summit to thousands, including lawmakers.

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3 weeks ago

I thought it was a bowl to puke in if you can taste metal.

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3 weeks ago

Nobody could have predicted our
current predicament, except for
everyone, and nobody knows how
to fix it now, except for everyone!
Yeeeee-hawwwwwww!

yeehaw

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