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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This is a genuine question, not a stupid rhetorical device or a provocation. Let’s say Trump gets sentenced to prison time in New York in September. Then let’s say he wins the election. Is Vance the president? Does imprisonment count as vacancy or incapacitation under the 25th amendment?

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"They start by talking about how evil the enemy is—antifa or whatever—and how they supposedly assault women and children and the elderly," Elle Reeve tells @attackerman.bsky.social. "Then they start talking about self-defense, how they'll protect themselves against the enemy."

'They Want To Be A Part of History': Elle Reeve on the Extremely-Online Fascist Resurgencewww.forever-wars.com As we brace for the fallout of the attempted Trump assassination, the journalist and 'Black Pill' author talks to FOREVER WARS

Just did a really good Q&A with @ellereeve.bsky.social about her new book BLACK PILL, along with some thoughts about where we are post-Trump shooting.

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"I will not send the 2,000 pound bombs [to Israel]" www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

Exclusive: US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7www.reuters.com The totals suggest there has been no significant drop-off in U.S. military support for its ally, despite international calls to limit weapons supplies and a recent administration decision to pause a shipment of powerful bombs.

Biden is clearing the “I can talk coherently” bar. Back to disagreeing with him on America as an “Indispensable Nation” and the coalescence of a Cold War with China.

War on Terror ironies on War on Terror ironies

Seems like the US tried to sanction a far right Israeli settler and ended up sanctioning someone else with the same name

lol. Lmao

Mark Ruffalo's Trump, Biden comment takes off onlinewww.newsweek.com In a social media post, the actor urged President Joe Biden to "start limiting the scope of the damage [Donald Trump] can do now."

Public version of the piece (the one below is only available to paying FOREVER WARS subscribers, which can and should be you, gorgeous)

Read @attackerman.bsky.social's latest on the corporations reaping returns from the war on Gaza. (Spencer is one of the independent journalists I support because of his singular foreign policy reporting.) www.forever-wars.com/these-corpor...

These Corporations Are The True 'Winners' of The War on Gaza (Director's Cut)www.forever-wars.com From Colt to Caterpillar, American companies are earning big profits off of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, turning the horrors of war into boardroom victories

These Corporations Are the True “Winners” of the War on Gazawww.thenation.com From Colt to Caterpillar, American companies are earning big profits off of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, turning the horrors of war into boardroom victories.

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Mah gawd it’s… it’s @attackerman.bsky.social’s music!!!………

FUN. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

He Wrote the Bush-Era ‘Torture Memos.’ Trumpworld See Him as a ‘Guiding Light’www.rollingstone.com Trump and his allies are fans of John Yoo’s work and his views on punishing their enemies and expanding presidential power.

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the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

HUGE scoop from Jeremy Scahill & @ryangrim.bsky.social about the court-appointed federal monitor for the UAW abusing his power to pressure the union into silence on Gaza.

The UAW’s federal monitor twice pressured the union to back off its call for Gaza ceasefire, then launched an investigationwww.dropsitenews.com The rise of UAW President Shawn Fain has been met with alarm in powerful corridors

ALL THREE BEASTIE BOYS: Grass bunnies

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I completely agree with @attackerman.bsky.social - and always have - it matters to be constantly reminded Patriot Act / AUMF powers are still in force and still protect Art II governance. In light of SCOTUS’ recent decisions, are we sure this is what we want? www.forever-wars.com/biden-must-a...

Biden Must Abolish War on Terror Now or We Risk Trump's Political 'Retribution' Campaignwww.forever-wars.com Trump already used the institutions and authorities of the 9/11 era on Americans in 2020. What will he do with "absolute immunity"?

Trump is promising retribution. The Supreme Court is teeing it up for him. Biden has to act like he has six months to abolish as much of the War on Terror as possible. Abolition is central to retaining what passes for democracy in the US, and time is running out. New from me at Zeteo.

Biden Must Abolish War on Terror Now or We Risk Trump's Political "Retribution" Campaignzeteo.com Trump already used the institutions and authorities of the 9/11 era on Americans in 2020. What will he do with "absolute immunity"?

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Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch* Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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.