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Spencer Ackerman
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Is Jonathan Hickman on this app
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Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social |
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Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, plus WALLER VS WILDSTORM for DC Comics. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: www.forever-wars.com
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Spencer Ackerman
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Is Jonathan Hickman on this app
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Spencer Ackerman
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"The Administration’s policy in Gaza is a failure and a threat to U.S. national security...[&] has ensured our undeniable complicity in the killings and forced starvation of a besieged Palestinian population in Gaza," write 12 officials who resigned from the Army, State Dept., USAID, etc, over Gaza.
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Spencer Ackerman
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I don't know how many years of my life I've been writing Close-Guantanamo-Before-It's-Too-Late stories and while this would be a highly ironic end for Liz "The al-Qaeda Seven" Cheney the joke won't be funny for very long
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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WE MUST BUILD GRASSROOTS POWER IN SOLIDARITY ACROSS COALITIONS
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Adam Serwer
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Spencer Ackerman
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Bro I literally wrote the book, I’ve been warning about this for most of my adult life
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Spencer Ackerman
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I’m saying that if there is no penalty for official lawbreaking then calling this-or-that act criminal is reduced another way of saying only “This is bad.” What the court did today is a foundational tear at the fabric of the rule of law.
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Spencer Ackerman
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At least there's no War on Terror-built surveillance and detention apparatus for an elected American Emperor to wield. Really good we dismantled all that long ago. Oh wait
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Spencer Ackerman
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That's a distinction without a difference, or rather one that amounts to a moral judgment.
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Spencer Ackerman
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OK, amid the Supreme Court making the president officially an elected king, here's a crucial debate moment that's gotten overshadowed – and one that clears away the wishcasting around what happens when Trump inherits the Israeli destruction of Gaza.
www.forever-wars.com/the-moment-b...
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Spencer Ackerman
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Never been a better time to add: do not use WhatsApp, use Signal.
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Spencer Ackerman
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And that’s gonna be true no matter who wins the election.
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Spencer Ackerman
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Nothing is illegal and there is only what 68 Senators will not permit
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Spencer Ackerman
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The president can legally order the Purge
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Spencer Ackerman
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They are so endlessly creative, able to envision anything except freedom
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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I think if you write something like this you should be laughed out of every room you're in
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Spencer Ackerman
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Fourth spouses really catching a stray there
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Spencer Ackerman
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Damn they’re getting the foot soldiers out in advance
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Spencer Ackerman
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Buddy, don’t read posts so literally. I’m reacting to how many tops of stories today quote donors on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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Spencer Ackerman
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I bought this candidate and now he shortcircuits right out of the box????
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Spencer Ackerman
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It feels like a tell about what American ‘democracy’ truly is that the people who are freaking out the most about Biden in the press are Democratic donors
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Spencer Ackerman
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Straight class-war from the Supreme Court bench
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Spencer Ackerman
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Yeah me too but that doesn’t work for this joke format
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Spencer Ackerman
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I’m not saying there should or even could be a Dead Kennedys record in 2024 with Peligro dead and Jello perpetually at war with Ray and Klaus, but with what we saw last night AND a Kennedy running for President,
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Spencer Ackerman
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Sundown for Democracy
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pool boy bitch
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imagine getting in a boat, plane, or car with a Kennedy
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Spencer Ackerman
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Excuse me
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Spencer Ackerman
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Trump said the wildest, most insane, psychotic bilious shit imaginable and he *did* sound more coherent than Biden. That’s how disastrous it was for Biden.
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Spencer Ackerman
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“They’re taking the place of our citizens” slipped in there
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Spencer Ackerman
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It really is the This Immigrant Wants Your Cookie meme
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Spencer Ackerman
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Whether he would pardon the J6 insurrectionists, with the echo hanging of whether he would coup again.
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Spencer Ackerman
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It was the most pertinent question of the entire debate
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Spencer Ackerman
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The Founding Fathers never heard of abortion
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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Wirecutter calls Alito the best budget pick but notes that Roberts is fully tricked out with all the bells and whistles
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Jonathan Cohn
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Just so disgusted by the (all but 2) Republicans and 62 Democrats (see below) who voted to ban US officials from acknowledging the death toll in Gaza.
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024313
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gamera obscura
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Spencer Ackerman
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Your question immediately suggests an answer
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Spencer Ackerman
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On one hand, it’s ambient bellicosity that goes with American Exceptionalism; on the other, this kind of casual advocacy accustoming elite audiences to the inevitability of conflict is a self-fulfilling prophesy. These coy pieces that deny they’re advocating war were a fixture ahead of invading Iraq
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Spencer Ackerman
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That piece via Alex Lo, who writes "Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy...are fast becoming a crime scene as an increasing number of influential contributors to the journals are openly declaring an intention to bring down the Chinese government, in a neo-imperial agenda"
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Spencer Ackerman
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US-sponsored regime change in China? Hahaha jk.... unless?
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hilzoy
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This is really good, and really depressing, and absolutely worth reading. A war between Israel and Hezbollah would be a complete catastrophe.
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ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻
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This is a remarkably informative interview for many reasons and I can't recommend it enough. Also terrifying, because it confirms: 1) Policymakers are ignoring intel and analysts 2) Very possible the US gets involved if israel commits to Lebanese war 3) Very possible Iran will be forced to as well.
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Spencer Ackerman
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If you never read any other FOREVER WARS edition, read this interview with a US Army major who worked in military intelligence on the Mideast before resigning over Gaza.
www.forever-wars.com/harrison-man...
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Allison Good
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Spent my Katrina semester in high school with Harrison. Smart, smart dude.
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Spencer Ackerman
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“Now we’re asking whether the administration, which has very rarely said no to Netanyahu in a serious way, will finally take a stand and refuse him at a time when Israel will actually be suffering. There will be extensive footage of neighborhoods in Israel getting struck with missiles, or burning”
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Spencer Ackerman
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Before he resigned over Gaza, Army Maj. Harrison Mann was a senior Mideast analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency. With an all-out Israel-Hezbollah war looming, he walked me through what the next phase of escalation could look like. And it’s *real* scary.
www.forever-wars.com/harrison-man...
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Spencer Ackerman
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I moved to pull the plug and proceed to the endgame of my toddler’s bath and she told me to take a deep breath
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Spencer Ackerman
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Recently I learned from a friend of mine who’s working on upkeep on Mount Vernon that the human teeth he extracted from the persons he enslaved were held together/in place with joiners made of lead. He had lots of lead in his mouth for years and years
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ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻
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"[...]an historic campaign: what the Associated Press calls 'the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II,' back during the birth of the aircraft carrier era of naval warfare. And that campaign, to stop Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, has to be considered a failure."
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Spencer Ackerman
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Thank you!
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