Freedom of Information at 60 nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...

Freedom of Information at 60. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...

🎉FOIA is 60! And President Trump wants to be treated like King George III and keep his own records… Today, FOIA is in a difficult spot: Can the legal right to know survive while the practical ability to exercise that right erodes? @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...

I cannot stress this to you enough. CNN now and for the last several years is a brand you recognize that has been take over by conservative control. It is crucially important that viewers understand this.

Brunch in DC used to be like

“Nixon says the left plays just as dirty as anybody.” “To hell with him.” “They would rig the World Cup if they could get away with it.” “He should be in prison. Now give me five hundred on the Americans.”

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Anna Paulina Luna Held a Hearing on CIA Mind Control. It Went Off the Rails. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cool video summary of @nsarchive.bsky.social article on the CIA & the Bicentennial.

Trump not knowing what’s in America’s foundational texts is very on-brand.

Schadenfourth

Here is the full posting with all of the receipts from @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The 4th of July: A time for fireworks, family cookouts, parades, and ... spying on American citizens?

happy 4th of July

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Anna Paulina Luna Held a Hearing on CIA Mind Control. It Went Off the Rails. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

50 years ago, the CIA released a pamphlet celebrating the spies of the American Revolution after it was caught surveilling American citizens. Coincidence? No.

Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece:

The 4th of July: A time for fireworks, family cookouts, parades, and ... spying on American citizens?

Happy 4th of July from the CIA

Read the documents here: “Exploiting the Bicentennial”: The Church Committee, the CIA, and the Politicization of the Revolutionary War nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Since MKUltra is back in the news, enjoy this YouTube short from last year. youtube.com/shorts/7sEiw...

State fairs need: 1. Janky rides run by felons 2. An ungodly amount of fried food 3. Giant cows and horses in barns for my kids and I to gawk at 4. Craft exhibits that no one but women over age 35 want to visit The Trump "state fair" has none of this.

This is a blatant bribe from a tech billionaire…

On Tuesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) held a House oversight hearing on MKULTRA, the notorious and failed CIA mind control program that is believed to have operated from 1953 to 1973. Predictably, things got really stupid, really quickly.

NEW: I wrote about yesterday's very odd and frustratingly pointless MKUltra hearing. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thanks to @annamerlan.bsky.social of @motherjones.com for checking in with me about the MKUltra hearing yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

50yrs ago, the CIA published "Intelligence in the War of Independence" to rehabilitate the Agency's public image as it was being investigated for decades of misdeeds. In this post for @nsarchive.bsky.social I write a little history on this CIA publication.

A pamphlet published in 1976 to celebrate the Bicentennial and highlight the role of secret intelligence operations in the Revolutionary War was part of an effort to push back against congressional investigations of CIA abuses, writes @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Thanks to @annamerlan.bsky.social of @motherjones.com for checking in with me about the MKUltra hearing yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: “Exploiting the Bicentennial”: The Church Committee, the CIA, and the Politicization of the Revolutionary War nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Man, was I right about this. The "MKUltra" hearing is now fully about NIH and Covid, masking, etc..

MKUltra: Declassification Task Force Should Focus on Real Secrets, Not Conspiracy Theories nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

MKUltra: Declassification Task Force Should Focus on Real Secrets, Not Conspiracy Theories @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

MKUltra: Declassification Task Force Should Focus on Real Secrets, Not Conspiracy Theories nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

MKUltra: Declassification Task Force Should Focus on Real Secrets, Not Conspiracy Theories nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Remember the mayor of Paris, the most populous city in France said that home AC is a plague. France's health minister said it wasn't necessary for all parts of a hospital - A HOSPITAL - to have AC.

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

I really love living in DC, and Trump has me feeling all

Awful: After SCOTUS ruling, Trump is free to deport thousands of Haitians from deep red Clark County, Ohio. It may now take a big economic hit. Oh, well. If you vote for the guys that lied in your faces so viciously about immigrants, this is what you get. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2124...

The lawyer for Dominic Pezzola, the man who did this to the Capitol on Jan. 6, while senators were evacuating, compares the widely documented attack to a 1960s sit-in at Woolworth's. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

So what large aircraft are we launching to please the Presisldent today? SR-71? Space Shuttle? Concorde?

Vance is right in that Nixon and Agnew look pretty great right now compared to the unserious group of racists and charlatans that are running the joint today.

As a Watergate historian, this might be the dumbest and worst take we’ve seen from JD Vance in a long time. And it’s also a complete misunderstanding of Nixon and Watergate.

It's been hours since I've seen a bomber overfly my neighborhood. Feels like we're due.

There should be no place in America for racist pigs like Emmer.

La Guaira is home to Venezuela’s main international airport...and is also close to some of the hillside communities that came under attack by US forces, when Donald Trump ordered the 3 January attack on Venezuela this year to abduct its president Nicolás Maduro. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Sending troops to take over American cities what a great way to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday

The president of the US, sharing his deranged fantasies.