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Writer working on book about the history of FBI political surveillance, policy director Defending Rights & Dissent

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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Occasionally I click on a link to this site and remember it still exists and I have an account here.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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...
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In Venezuela, Trump Is Engaged in Plain and Simple Murder
Donald Trump’s assassinations of alleged drug traffickers in Venezuela with zero due process represent some of the greatest dangers of his second term. They can’t be understood apart from the bipartis...
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Legal Battle Is Far From Over
After 104 days in ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil was released on a judge’s order last weekend. But the Trump administration remains committed to deporting him.
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Kevin Gosztola @kgosztola.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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...
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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...
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CIA Employee Sentenced For Leaking Israel's War Plans
A CIA analyst, who pleaded guilty to violating the Espionage Act, was sentenced to prison. He leaked files on Israel's plans to strike Iran.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Is About the Future of Free Speech
Despite some recent advances in his case against the Trump administration, Mahmoud Khalil remains confined for opposing genocide in Gaza — an imprisonment that makes a mockery of the First Amendment.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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?"
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Saturday
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Art history with Mr. Marcus
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Hair cut selfie
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Here's the report I produced on this hearing for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/05/suri...
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Trump’s War on Palestine and Free Speech Hits a New Setback
With a judge’s ruling this week that Georgetown postdoctoral researcher Badar Khan Suri should be released from detention, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio’s McCarthyite campaign to squash protest against...
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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...
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New intelligence suggests Israel is preparing possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, US officials say | CNN Politics
The US has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Tehra...
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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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...
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221 - New Setback In Trump's ICE Crackdown ft Chip Gibbons
YouTube video by Left Reckoning
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Good evening from Mr. Marcus
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Incredible show
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is this my seventh time seeing Arcade Fire? Yes.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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?
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Saw Jean-Luc Mélenchon speak tonight
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Real sicko hours not only am I seeing a movie by myself in the middle of the day, it is the new Cronenberg.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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...
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Exclusive: Israel still eyeing a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities
Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months despite President Donald Trump telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. was for now unwilling to support such a move, according to an Israeli official and two other people familiar with the matter.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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...
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Trump Waved Off Planned Israeli Strike on Iranian Nuclear Sites
Israel developed plans for attacking Iranian nuclear facilities that would have required U.S. assistance. But some administration officials had doubts.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Meanwhile over on Elon Musk's "free speech" platform, apparently criticism of Israel's role in killing a Palestinian-American teenager is not allowed
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15/04/2025
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:
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Battle Is Not Over
Yesterday an immigration judge ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be lawfully deported for his pro-Palestinian political speech. It sets a dangerous precedent for the future of free speech in America.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I feel like I am in a Claude Monet painting.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Battle Is Not Over
Yesterday an immigration judge ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be lawfully deported for his pro-Palestinian political speech. It sets a dangerous precedent for the future of free speech in America.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Mr. Marcus is a very literary cat.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Marcus is captivated by the season finale of The White Lotus and aren’t we all.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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...
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Palestinian teenager with U.S. citizenship killed by Israeli forces in West Bank
A Palestinian teenager with U.S. citizenship was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, Palestinian officials said on Sunday, with the Israeli military saying it shot a "terrorist" who endangered civilians by hurling rocks.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Marching
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This banner carried by activists with Jewish Voice for Peace sent chills down my spine.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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!
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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?
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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...
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Crushing Dissent Through Immigration Law
Throughout US history, reactionary forces have used immigration law to silence political speech — just as the Trump administration is trying to do against Mahmoud Khalil and several others.
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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...
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Israel kills Al Jazeera and Palestine Today journalists in separate attacks in Gaza
Mohammad Mansour and Al Jazeera Mubasher's Hussam Shabat were killed in air strikes across the Gaza Strip
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chipgibbons.bsky.social @chipgibbons.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Do not look away from Gaza. Do not be silent about this.
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