Ryan Grim

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Reporter for The Intercept, co-host of Counter Points and Deconstructed

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@ryangrim.bsky.social Investigated the $15 donation to ActBlue and found the ad to which Thomas Matthew Crooks responded to make it. Not really indicative of progressive leanings www.dropsitenews.com/p/trumps-sho...

Trump’s shooter gave $15 to a “progressive” PAC — but there’s more to the storywww.dropsitenews.com He was also a registered Republican. Here’s what else we know.

Big story today at @dropsitenews.bsky.social on Arshad Sharif’s assassination www.dropsitenews.com/p/acclaimed-...

Acclaimed Pakistani Journalist Arshad Sharif Was Tortured Before State Murder, Kenyan Court Concludeswww.dropsitenews.com The judge thoroughly rejected the state's flimsy claims

Feels like we’ve already forgotten he was an hour late to his own proof-of-life press conference

Hey look we have an [email protected]

Drop Site (@dropsitenews.bsky.social)dropsitenews.bsky.social Independent news on politics and war dropsitenews.com

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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

Samuel Alito is quite a radical. theintercept.com/2024/06/10/d...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audiotheintercept.com “One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

I see this place has DMs now, which is great. Are people still here? This worth giving a go?

Americans doctors trapped at Gaza hospital and facing dehydration theintercept.com/2024/05/13/r...

American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Lifetheintercept.com Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza, some at the European Hospital, due to Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing.

Why is AIPAC targeting Harry Dunn? theintercept.com/2024/05/11/m...

Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race?theintercept.com Neither Harry Dunn nor Sarah Elfreth has been particularly outspoken in support of or against Israel. So why is AIPAC getting involved?

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AIPAC trying to swing a deep-blue congressional seat in Oregon

Here’s the link theintercept.com/2024/05/10/p...

AIPAC and Republican Donors Raising Big Money for Maxine Dexter Against Susheela Jayapal in Oregontheintercept.com A donor to Maxine Dexter’s congressional campaign in Portland, Oregon, tells The Intercept: “I give all my contributions through AIPAC.”

I’m here! And if you read this story in some decent number I promise to come back. Deal? It’s a crazy story, you’ll be glad you read it

The IDF sent a prisoner into a hospital to warn the people inside to leave, then shot and killed him as he left the hospital. This would not be believable stuff in a movie about an evil army platoon and yet theintercept.com/2024/02/14/g...

Little scoop coming from me and @kenklippenstein.bsky.social John Kirby claimed we warned Iraq of the impending strikes. That was false. We did not. Story TK.

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Famine has arrived to Gaza. "“We don’t have the numbers but we can say that children are dying as a result of the humanitarian situation on the ground as well as due to the direct impact of the fighting,” said Tess Ingram, a spokesperson for the United Nations Children Fund, who is in Rafah."

‘No food, no water’: aid officials think pockets of famine exist in Gazawww.theguardian.com UN agencies issue joint plea for entry routes to Gaza, where Israel’s war with Hamas has damaged swaths of territory

Bluesky do video yet?

What’re we talking about over here? Ackman, right?

Came to see how Bluesky is doing, walk in the room and there’s a raging debate over vaccines and long covid with people arguing we should still be masking and social distancing. How do I add the Abe Simpson gif where he walks in and walks right back out?

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"Ninety percent of those plastics were small enough to qualify as nanoplastics: microscopic flecks so small that they can be absorbed into human cells and tissue, as well as cross the blood-brain barrier." www.latimes.com/environment/...

Researchers discover thousands of nanoplastic bits in bottles of drinking waterwww.latimes.com Researchers discovered thousands of nano-sized bits of plastic in bottled water

Israel is now killing journalists in Gaza at least 10 times faster than other civilians if you do the macabre math

Climate change and skiing in Vermont

The Biden administration misled Congress to believe it was reviewing Trump’s designation of Cuba as a terror sponsor. In fact, they aren’t, even as the listing drives the migration crisis theintercept.com/2023/12/14/c...

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84 Dems voted for Rep. Stefanik's cynical, overreaching amendment calling for the firing of university presidents. Great statement from Rep. Nadler: "But mostly, I'm voting against this resolution because the cynicism of it makes me sick." nadler.house.gov/news/documen... The 84:

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We're streaming our first ever telethon live on Monday from 12 to 8PM EST! Tune in to ask our staff your burning questions and special guests Hasan Piker, @ryangrim.bsky.social, @franifio.bsky.social, @emmavigeland.bsky.social, @samseder.bsky.social and more! Get a notification when it starts:

Prospect LIVE: Holiday Telethonwww.youtube.com We're streaming live from 12 to 8PM EST on Monday, December 18! Can you make a one-time donation today to help us reach our end-of-year fundraising goal and ...

People are overlooking the barbarity of the second blooming onion

And you thought the dril candle tweet was a joke

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Whither The Squad? by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social h/t @ryangrim.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/whither-th...

My colleague @mazmhussain.bsky.social and I have documents implicating India in one assassination and one foiled assassination in Canada and the US. Big story here. theintercept.com/2023/12/10/i...

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“Hamas has always publicly stated its commitment to eliminating the state of Israel. But each payout was a testament to the Israeli government’s view that Hamas was a low-level nuisance, and even a political asset.” www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/w...

‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamaswww.nytimes.com Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state.

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i talked to @ryangrim.bsky.social about his excellent new book "the squad: aoc and the hope of a political revolution" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

‎The New Abnormal: No One Is Shedding a Tear for Kevin McCarthy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show The New Abnormal, Ep No One Is Shedding a Tear for Kevin McCarthy - Dec 7, 2023

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Friday AMERICANA is out - including a conversation with the legend @ryangrim.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

🟡 Good vibes at the DGA | Semaforwww.semafor.com In this edition: Democratic governors say they can carry Biden to a win, Republicans hold their least-watched debate, and the best-sourced reporter on “the Squad” explains what happened to the pol...

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i really hope people truly understand how catastrophic the bandcamp situation is, and the kind of militancy and persistence that is going to be required to fight these attempts to basically destroy all culture outside of the biggest and richest names. this is not just "a sad situation" or whatever.