Spencer Ackerman

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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: https://www.forever-wars.com

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Intelligence committee chairman, not a dismissible figure. (Unfortunately!) If Biden has to drop out, doesn’t he have to resign? I don’t understand how he could be incapable of being the nominee but capable of governing.

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Sen. Mark Warner seeks to assemble group of Democratic senators to ask Biden to exit racewww.washingtonpost.com Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to go to the White House on Monday and ask that Joe Biden exit the presidential race, according to two people with dir...

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Homeowners can't get insurance in certain states because climate change is making it prohibitively expensive, but there's SEXUAL ASSAULT INSURANCE for churches

grooming industrial complex in shambles

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

Today’s edition of the newsletter of my man @mattbors.bsky.social has some of the best political/cultural writing I’ve read this year. What can’t this guy do?

This is Warmattbors.substack.com Thoughts on Civil War, Gaza, The Purge, and fun stuff like that.

Is Jonathan Hickman on this app

in the end Peter Parker voted Trump and died alone

"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.

Service in Dissentjointstatement.tiiny.site Service in Dissent

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

Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunalswww.nytimes.com A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.

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WE MUST BUILD GRASSROOTS POWER IN SOLIDARITY ACROSS COALITIONS

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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...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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

Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump a book by Spencer Ackermanbookshop.org A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman's deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result...

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...

The Moment Before The "Bad Palestinian" Slurwww.forever-wars.com At the debate, what Trump had to say about Biden's illusory ceasefire was as revealing as his use of "Palestinian" as an epithet. It seems like a harbinger of his restored presidency

Nothing is illegal and there is only what 68 Senators will not permit

The president can legally order the Purge

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I think if you write something like this you should be laughed out of every room you're in

A UN Trusteeship for Palestinewww.foreignaffairs.com A temporary fix that can lead to an enduring peace.

Damn they’re getting the foot soldiers out in advance

Breaking news: Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with obstruction, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Supreme Court says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 rioterswww.washingtonpost.com Supreme Court’s decision on obstruction charge will impact trials of hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters and, potentially, former president Donald Trump.

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

Straight class-war from the Supreme Court bench

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges"

Sundown for Democracy

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imagine getting in a boat, plane, or car with a Kennedy

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.

“They’re taking the place of our citizens” slipped in there

It really is the This Immigrant Wants Your Cookie meme

It was the most pertinent question of the entire debate

I hate you Jake Tapper. I hate you for letting him avoid the fantastic question he was asked

The Founding Fathers never heard of abortion

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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

can someone please rank the republican supreme court justices by affordability

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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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62 Democrats Join 207 Republicans in Vote to Conceal Gaza Death Tolltheintercept.com Democratic leaders did not tell members to vote against an amendment to block the State Department from citing Gaza’s Health Ministry.

US-sponsored regime change in China? Hahaha jk.... unless?

Against China, the United States Must Play to Winforeignpolicy.com Washington’s competition with Beijing should not be about managing threats—but weakening and ultimately defeating the Chinese Communist Party regime.

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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.

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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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.