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Spencer Ackerman

@attackerman.bsky.social
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Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81

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Rozina Ali @rozinaali.bsky.social · 7h
Grateful for this wonderful review of "Seasons of Fury" in NY Times
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10h
Honored to review @rozinaali.bsky.social’s excellent and important book for the NYTBR.
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Book Review: ‘Seasons of Fury,’ by Rozina Ali
A new book by Rozina Ali traces the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of 9/11, showing how ordinary residents became targets of fear and suspicion.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Her fandom should be known as the Society of the Spectacle.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile Avril Haynes becomes the new Carnegie Endowment president.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Highly resonant piece from @charoshane.bsky.social, particularly in the wake of Cornell's nonpunishment for rape:
lux-magazine.com
This Season on Epstein Island
While predators run the world, all we can do is gawk.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
SOMERSET: Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still; and know us by these colours for thy foes, for these my friends in spite of thee shall wear. PLANTAGENET: And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose, as cognizance of my blood-drinking hate, will I forever and my faction fucking wear!
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to ‘go to war’ in the occupied West Bank and ‘do there what we did in Gaza.’
middleeasteye.net
'Do there what we did in Gaza': Smotrich calls for full-scale war in occupied West Bank
Finance minister says Israel should dismantle the Palestinian Authority and expand Israeli territorial control of occupied territory
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 27/09/2026
babe wake up we're vaping B12s now
vegan-branded vapes that provide B12 vitamine? who even knows
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peak double byline
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You might have seen a recent story from the @nypost.com, the country’s shittiest newspaper, suggesting that the Navy was going to use laser weapons in the Iran War. It was yet another reminder that the Post, once a great local tabloid, doesn’t know what it’s talking about.
forever-wars.com
No, The Navy's Lasers Are Not Ready for Iranian Drones
As it happens, I used to cover naval laser development. It's an endless hype cycle
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merritt @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026
i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You have to get this. It’s so good.
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'Repeat Offenders': Chris Condon on His Iraq War Comic Book
'Repeat Offenders': Chris Condon on His Iraq War Comic Book
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TRADE: I give Meta: My bank account information, my email inbox, etc. What could be the worst that can happen, right? Meta gives me: Grocery scheduling and optimizing my fantasy draft. Who says no?
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One reason why the National Book Awards didn’t have a lot of nonwhite nominees in the mid century was because immigration law kept out most nonwhite people until 1965, and Black people were under segregation. What we see now is at least partly the result of greater competition.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Been some legalistic misconstruing of my point, I have noticed, and so
forever-wars.com
Something More Powerful Must Replace The International Criminal Court
Once again, Donald Trump threatens Iran with 'annihilation.' That's supposed to be an actionable offense
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It would be an amazing thing if Iran ratified the Rome Statute just for this reason.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The white man with a Pulitzer AND a NYT column because of Conservative Affirmative Action in journalism has questions! Also, one of my best & oldest friends is a white man who was longlisted for the National Book Award for nonfiction. I think we don’t have to worry about white writers.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Classical theorists had a word for preponderant power minus obligation or restraint: Domination.” @vanjackson.bsky.social going hard this morning
un-diplomatic.com
Against Imperialist Multilateralism
Training as an international-relations scholar in the ‘00s meant getting pounded with the idea that multilateral institutions are good because they facilitate cooperation and, by logical extension, re...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s about to be Kol Nidre, meaning it’s my last moment online to tell you: preorder NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 by tomorrow! The link below explains how if you don’t know! I will not be able to respond to questions here! This is going to be an unmissable series about the horrors around us!
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Imagining the Scottish kid from Rushmore posted up here
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember to preorder NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 with your local comic store by MONDAY and I’ll give you a free year of FOREVER WARS, the newsletter everyone’s talking about! Details here:
forever-wars.com
Final Order Cutoff Is Monday
Those words sound ominous to you? They do to me. I need you to order NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 by then!
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Definitely pre-order this one. It's a politically daring comic meant for this moment and deserves to be read and talked about--will be--so be part of that.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes! If you pre-order NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC I will give you a free year of FOREVER WARS! If you want issue #1, I need you to pre-order it by Monday! And Monday is Yom Kippur so I won’t be online to remind you! Details of this incredible no-brainer of an offer are here:
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Final Order Cutoff Is Monday
Those words sound ominous to you? They do to me. I need you to order NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 by then!
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
US announces a $24 billion sale (taxpayer-funded subsidization) of 48 F-35s to Saudi Arabia. Just wait until the Ansar Allah video about downing a 5th-generation fighter.
state.gov
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft - United States Department of State
Transmittal #26-69 The U.S. Department of State has made a determination approving a possible foreign military sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their purchase of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike ...
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FAQs🔜NYCC @grandmasterfaqs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you’d like to learn more about No One Escapes the Dialectic for @boom-studios.com , @attackerman.bsky.social gave insight into the political thriller on the latest FAQs Project podcast #comicsky youtu.be/VX2dLY3cJtA?...
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Episode 227: w/ Spencer Ackerman for No One Escapes the Dialectic for Boom Studios
YouTube video by The FAQs Project
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just realized that I can put this in upcoming issues of NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC. Pre-order by Monday!
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Final Order Cutoff Is Monday
Those words sound ominous to you? They do to me. I need you to order NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 by then!
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s probably going to work out great for the reputation of the FBI now that you can just assume every agent is into bestiality
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
5-YEAR OLD: *doing homework* I’m not liking this
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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The perfect comic for the political moment. And if folks slept on Spencer's Insurgent Iron Man run, they should fix that too!
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah but he’s saying Kali Yuga
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They're saying, "No One Escapes the Dialectic is a timely political thriller of the highest degree, calling to mind those masterful paranoid conspiracy thrillers that dominated the cinema of the Nixon era." They're right! And here's where you come in – by Monday!
forever-wars.com
Final Order Cutoff Is Monday
Those words sound ominous to you? They do to me. I need you to order NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 by then!
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Chris Condon @christophcondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A reality-soaked political thriller for the here and now. @attackerman.bsky.social and Antonio Fuso do it like nobody else - make sure to pre-order!
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Writes @attackerman.bsky.social : "NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC is going to be a controversial comic. It's going to prompt a lot of questions about what we meant by the various aspects of the book. We'll be addressing those at FOREVER WARS, in detail."
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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NatSec comics pro-tip: Put @attackerman.bsky.social 's forthcoming series "NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC" on your LCS pull-list, take a photo, & redeem for a paid-tier-level subscription to his "FOREVER WARS" newsletter! (Details at link.)
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My Next Comic Book Series—And A Special Offer For You!
Get ready for NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC. That should tell you how hard we plan on going
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I told you we were going to go extremely hard.
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BOOM! Studios @boom-studios.com · 15/09/2026
Anonymity has been ripped from the Special Naturalization Operations agents—now they’re the ones on the run from a masked captor… Don’t miss pre-ordering the timely 𝗡𝗢 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗖 from writer @attackerman.bsky.social and artist Antonio Fuso by 9/21 cutoffs! boomstud.io/FOC
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are really not playing around with this book. Preorder at your local comic shop by September 21 to make sure you get issue 1 when it releases on November 4. If you follow this account for my journalism, this comic is going to be for you. And it’s going to go harder than I’ve ever gone before.
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 14/09/2026
“Ansar Allah has drones, but no known aviation assets otherwise to defend their assault,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social “There will be movies made about this some day. Just not in English.”
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Fanute The Houthi Coup
One decade. Three adversaries. Total domination. It's time to respect Ansar Allah
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s time — past time — to respect Ansar Allah’s military prowess, regardless of how you feel about the group. Read the headline in French Montana’s voice if you don’t get it.
forever-wars.com
Fanute The Houthi Coup
One decade. Three adversaries. Total domination. It's time to respect Ansar Allah
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
History made
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you plan on observing Yom Kippur, please let this be a reminder to step down caffeine intake this week lest you make the same mistake I always make and fast with a splitting headache
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/09/2026
The U.S. War on Terror unleashed chaos around the world, says journalist @attackerman.bsky.social, but a lot of repressive regimes also "saw what the United States was constructing and realized they wanted that for themselves."
democracynow.org
“Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”: Spencer Ackerman
“The 'war on terror' was always a construct to be waged, never quite to be ended.” We discuss the origins and impacts of the global “war on terror,” launched by the U.S. government in the aftermath of...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In our remembrances today, let us hold a thought for the true victors of the War on Terror: the defense contractors. Today we have a roll call of everyone awarded military contracts on 9/11/26. Leading off is $19.1 billion for Boeing to provide weapons to Israel (and Japan) for the next 9 years.
war.gov
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