Occasionally I click on a link to this site and remember it still exists and I have an account here.

In @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social, I look at Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, how they may be a prelude to wider war with Venezuela, and where they fall in the history of US extrajudicial killings, including Cold War assassinations and the drone program. jacobin.com/2025/09/vene...

After a legal whiplash, Mahmoud Khalil is finally free on bail. But his legal battle continues. My latest report on Khalil's case for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/06/khal...

After his excellent reporting on the sentencing of CIA analyst Asif Rahman, who released files on Israel's plans to strike Iran, I had @chipgibbons.bsky.social join me for further discussion of this Espionage Act case that was largely ignored by the US news media thedissenter.org/imprisoned-f...

Here is my report from Asif Rahman's sentencing hearing. Rahman pled guilty under the Espionage Act to disclosing documents about a potential Israeli strike on Iran. thedissenter.org/cia-employee...

I am headed to Alexandria, Virginia for the sentencing hearing of Asif Rahman. Rahman pled guilty to violating for the Espionage Act, likely for revealing Israeli plans for a military strike on Iran. His cases remains cloaked in remarkable secrecy.

It bodes poorly for a regime if the delivery of baby formula and crutches for child amputees poses such an existential threat that they must deploy armed thugs to commit a brazen act of lawless piracy in international waters. Doesn't really seem like a position of strength.

In my latest report on Mahmoud Khalil's ongoing legal cases for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social I write "every minute Khalil remains confined for opposing a genocide casts a shadow across the First Amendment." jacobin.com/2025/06/mahm...

I am extremely disturbed by reports of a drone flying over the Madleen Gaza flotilla. Given Israel's history of piracy and terrorism against those trying bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, we need all eyes on the freedom flotilla right now. They must be guaranteed safe passage.

Why does this ominous message warning me about potential prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act pop up when I try to log into the State Department FOIA portal to check the status of my request? Exactly when does filing a FOIA become "unauthorized personal business?"

Saturday

Art history with Mr. Marcus

Hair cut selfie

There is nothing, absolutely nothing that justifies the killing of diplomats or embassy staff on the streets of DC. It's also how jarring how these two deaths are being treated as a far bigger news story than the mass slaughter of innocents in Gaza.

Here's the report I produced on this hearing for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/05/suri...

Israel is potentially planning an attack against Iran in violation of international law if we reach a deal with Iran they don't approve of. The goal of such a strike is to undermine our diplomacy. This is not an ally. www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/p...

New episode of this great and handsome show on all the nazi policy going on rn ft @chipgibbons.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/XCdEkrF...

As a civil libertarian, I am thankful our Constitution has a narrow definition of treason and am disturbed by overly broad foreign agent registration laws. But I feel like conspiring with a foreign government to deprive Americans of their 1A rights warrants legal consequences.

I am headed off to Alexandria, Virgina where I will be attending a hearing for Badar Khan Suri, the detained Georgetown scholar abducted by the Trump administration over his wife's support for Palestine.

Good evening from Mr. Marcus

Incredible show

Is this my seventh time seeing Arcade Fire? Yes.

I am proud to count both Tighe Barry and Ann Wright as friends. Two of the most courageous people I know. I am thankful everyone on board is safe--I vividly remember the Mavi Marmara massacre--if Israel is responsible for this act of terrorism they must be held accountable.

Israel has once again attack a humanitarian aid ship in international waters, this time with drones. Will there ever be any accountability for Israel's monstrous crimes?

Saw Jean-Luc Mélenchon speak tonight

Real sicko hours not only am I seeing a movie by myself in the middle of the day, it is the new Cronenberg.

US intelligence has consistently found for two decades Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon. The US must make it clear to Israel that if they launch a war on Iran they are the aggressor and we will not come to their aid. Congress should invoke War Powers Act now. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Obviously not a Trump fan, but Israel dragging us into a war with Iran is one of the greatest dangers his presidency poses. So it's great to see him listen to people like Gabbard and (for now) reject Israel's efforts to get us into war. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

Meanwhile over on Elon Musk's "free speech" platform, apparently criticism of Israel's role in killing a Palestinian-American teenager is not allowed

An immigration judge's ruling that Mahmoud Khalil can be lawfully deported for his pro-Palestinian political speech sets a dangerous precedent for the future of free speech in America. Read the rest of this @jacobinmag.bsky.social story by @chipgibbons.bsky.social:

The two biggest enablers of Trump's authoritarianism are the failure to hold anyone accountable for Bush-era War on Terror crimes and the bipartisan Palestine exception to civil liberties. Any analysis that doesn't include these factors is worse than useless.

I feel like I am in a Claude Monet painting.

Filed my report late last night for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on the latest in the Mahmoud Khalil legal case(s). Yesterday was a terrible setback for Khalil and free expression rights, but the fight is far from over. jacobin.com/2025/04/mahm...

Mr. Marcus is a very literary cat.

Turns out, I will not be covering today's hearing for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social as the judge made the decision not to admit the public. I know at least one other journalist, Katrina Kaufman of CBS News, who tried to join and was unable to do so.

In moments, Mahmoud Khalil will appear before an immigration judge for a remote hearing. I will be attending the hearing remotely and covering for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

Marcus is captivated by the season finale of The White Lotus and aren’t we all.

In the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Israeli settlers murdered Omar Mohammad Rabea, a 14 year-old Palestinian-American child. Will our government uphold its obligations to defend its citizen or will it yet again side with Israeli murderers? www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Marching

This banner carried by activists with Jewish Voice for Peace sent chills down my spine.

Holding a protest right now that ignores the intensifying genocide in Gaza, Trump's war in Yemen and his growing drive for war with Iran while valorizing military alliances is certainly a choice. And it's a horrible one.

I am not really interested in your thoughts on fascism, authoritarianism, or democracy if you're willing to support a genocide by sending 2,000 pound bombs to be dropped on starving people in tents.

I have to say the person who has stolen my credit card information and made $3,700.93 worth of fraudulent charges at executive housing, vacation rentals, restaurants, and clubs in Baltimore has some very excellent taste in restaurants.

I am less concerned about whether these messages are classified than I am as to whether they will be admitted into evidence at a war crimes tribunal.

Oh wow the anti-First Amendment, anti-Palestine McCarthyite crew are really going with "maybe SJP had advanced knowledge of October 7." It's amazing how apartheid apologists don't even bother to try to make their propaganda believable, yet our media and politicians parrot it!

The 18 members of the U.S. Intelligence Community have once again concluded Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, consistent with findings since the Bush years. But if you watch corporate media or listen to war mongering U.S. politicians would you know this was the case?

Thanks Landmark. Yes, you shuttered a beloved theater showing the best films in DC, but thank you for offer me as a condolence $10 off concessions (but not alcohol), but only valid in DC and Maryland.

Writing in @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I situate the Trump administrations abduction of Mahmoud Khalil within the long history of abusing immigration law to silence dissent. jacobin.com/2025/03/khal...

The Israeli military has murdered two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Hossam Shabat of Al Jazeera Mubasher and Mohammad Mansour of Palestine Today. If you're an US citizen like me, you provided the weapons they were murdered with. www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...

Do not look away from Gaza. Do not be silent about this.