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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

SpyTalk’s Tomas Dinges profiles another star in the MAGA national security firmament: Rick Crawford who runs the vital and previously bipartisan House Intel Committee open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

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New in SpyFaces in the Crowd: Rick Crawford, from Bomb Tech to Intelligence Committee Chair

The Arkansas Tea Party Republican’s loyalty to Trump has paid off big time

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Marc Cooper, who witnessed the history recounted in my book, calls it “magnificently reported” and the definitive investigation of the killings of Americans Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi in Chile’s coup. hhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thecoopscoop/p/strongly-suggested-summer-reading?r=911zl

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Strongly Suggested Summer Reading

"Chile In Their Hearts" by John Dinges.

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... On the right: “girlboss logic with a MAGA facelift”, or… Kristi Noem is a hat act, right? Botox gets you facetime with Trump.

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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA

Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

www.commondreams.org/news/mahmoud... Shame on Columbia University for its role in encouraging this authoritarian act. It is the first of many such detentions to come, and history will remember it was our university that provided the false charge of antisemitism.

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'This Felt Like a Kidnapping Because It Was': Family of Mahmoud Khalil Releases Arrest Video | Common Dreams

The family of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States now at risk of deportation because he helped lead pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last spring, released ...

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Read SpyTalk to keep up with the head spinning developments in intel, like this exclusive about the conspiracy theorist Tulsi Gabbard named to be the president’s daily briefer. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

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Conspiracy Theorist in Line to be Top Gabbard Deputy at ODNI

Retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis would have control over President’s Daily Brief

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

x.com/time/status/... For the record, this a montage. Trump really is still President.

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Pres Sheinbaum to Trump: “We reject the White House’s slanderous claim that the Mexico government has alliances with criminal organizations… If there is anywhere that such an alliance in fact exists, it is in the United States gun factories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups.

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Busco contactar personas que vivieron en Chile durante la Unidad Popular de Salvador Allende. Porfa divulgar. Gracias

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I’m looking to connect with anyone who was in Chile during the Allende/Popular Unity period. I was there ‘72-‘78, experienced the coup and stayed to write about the dictatorship. Pls send this around.

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide... Genocide studies abounded in recent decades. But the scholars’ focus on the Holocaust, in many cases, made them unwilling to consider that Israel could be the perpetrator of genocide, as many argue it is in Gaza. This is a great article, in Jewish Currents.

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Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

What you can do open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Ten practical steps we all can take in these critical years. Do not give up or give in. Do not spin into futile outrage. Robert Reich is one of the cool heads we can trust as a guide.

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What you can do

Ten ways to resist Trump II

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Recently joined. Here's my new book: www.ucpress.edu/books/chile-... Chile in Their Hearts The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup, By John Dinges

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Isikoff is one of the best informed on Syria. Now on SpyTalk.

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'm a fan of Marcus A: The best revenge is to not be that. And of the saint from Hippo, who said, Love and do what you will. Think about it.

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John Dinges @jcdinges.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Migrating from toxic X and disappointing Threads. Hoping to find community of journalists, readers and other thinkers. Please follow me. I have a new book coming out soon.

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