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Tim Shorrock

@timshorrock.bsky.social
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Journalist, writer, musician, DC since 1982. Living with grief since losing my daughter Roxanne in March 2024. Writing on Korea, Japan, Cold War, Capitalism. Crazy Bob Dylan fan. Author of SPIES FOR HIRE. Was just exiled from X by vengeful hacker-thieves.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ABOLISH ICE.
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Progressive Witch @progressive-witch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@timshorrock.bsky.social brutal killing of Anna Yagi (age 39) in a hotel in Okinawa by a US soldier, read Keiko Yonaha substack.com/@timshorrock...
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
no this cannot be possible
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 13/09/2026
US universities conducted at least 70 research projects in collaboration with the Israeli military & sometimes explicitly incorporate environmental conditions in Palestine into the work. These projects are procured as “defense articles & services,” paid for w/US taxpayer dollars.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Crowds gathered in Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators using imagery featuring Trump, Epstein and Netanyahu to voice their criticism Our Irish friends are doing a better job in voicing their displeasure against the corrupt p€do war criminal than some Americans these days.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I post "Labor's Cold War" every year on 9/11 and will continue until the AFL-CIO apologizes for its role in helping Nixon and the CIA bring down the Socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973. This was one of my best stories ever. 🌺 www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Labor's Cold War
Freshly unearthed documents may force the AFL-CIO to face up to past betrayals.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/07/2026
The recently deceased former CIA director and Paladin Group founder taught Washington how to spin Islamophobia and "homeland security" into business gold. By @timshorrock.bsky.social
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R. James Woolsey, Godfather of Post-9/11 National Security Capitalism
The recently deceased former CIA director and Paladin Group founder taught Washington how to spin Islamophobia and "homeland security" into business gold.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Be the first one on your block/To have your boy come home in a box." - Country Joe McDonald, 1969.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is my first article in Truthdig. It describes the late CIA Director R. James Woolsey as the godfather of national security capitalism and reveals how his Paladin Capital and other defense-oriented private equity funds are financed: by America's largest labor unions and their pension funds.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🙏
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Same - you may enjoy this rumination on Bob Dylan and the young. timshorrock.substack.com/p/we-shall-b...
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We Shall Be Released: Bob Dylan in Another Concert for the Ages in Northern Virginia
For me and thousands of other fans, it was a night of redemption when the 85 year-old troubadour came to town and, with two new guitarists, recreated live his "thin, wild mercury sound" from 1966.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Oh dear.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My latest on Substack: a sublime night at Wolf Trap with Bob Dylan and his younger generation of listeners. timshorrock.substack.com/p/we-shall-b...
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Didn’t know that Ben Affleck’s mom was one of the original Freedom Riders. RIP.
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Chris Affleck, Mother of Oscar Winners Ben and Casey Affleck, Dies at 83
A schoolteacher, she was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died June 2, her family announced.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
so, well read too! that's a plus.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
He should run for public office.
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Bob Dylan - Live In The Same Old Cage - Time Out Of Mind 1998-2019 youtu.be/lSmuzGe7mC0?...
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Bob Dylan - Live In The Same Old Cage - Time Out Of Mind 1998-2019
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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Felicity and her family live in a community called Irrkerlantye, or White Gate, a stunning but ill-advised 5km stroll away from the giant American golfballs of death.

Even in the trillionaire age, contrasting circumstances are rarely more extreme than this. The CIA base is one of the most technologically advanced facilities on this planet. In the event of a nuclear war, the orders that kill the world will pass through it. Irrkerlantye does not have electricity.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Full blown communism" LOL
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My latest, on Substack: "Jim Woolsey, the apotheosis of national security capitalism, is dead." timshorrock.substack.com/p/jim-woolse...
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bob Dylan live, Positively 4th Street, Oslo 1996 youtu.be/lZpQrDtEAvM?...
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Bob Dylan live, Positively 4th Street, Oslo 1996
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bob Dylan live, Ballad Of Hollis Brown, Oslo 1996 youtu.be/ADiRYI79O3g?...
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Bob Dylan live, Ballad Of Hollis Brown, Oslo 1996
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bob Dylan FULL Philly SHOW 2026, July 14 -Fantastic field recording from... youtu.be/cHL23_R2csI?...
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Bob Dylan FULL Philly SHOW 2026, July 14 -Fantastic field recording from last row of The Mann Center
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My my, for what's supposed to be our nation's top domestic intelligence agency, DHS and ICE have quite a record in their hiring practices.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Agree. Absolutely.
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Bob Dylan - (The Last 35 Minutes Of The Concert) - 7/14/26 Mann Center P... youtu.be/H9x8bkIb3ZI?...
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Bob Dylan - (The Last 35 Minutes Of The Concert) - 7/14/26 Mann Center Philadelphia, PA
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Bob Dylan - Cincinatti 10th July 2026 - w/ another new guitarist (Jad Ta... youtu.be/ytTKXb0GJHs?...
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Bob Dylan - Cincinatti 10th July 2026 - w/ another new guitarist (Jad Tariq from Memphis, Tennessee)
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Behind The Scenes: Bob Dylan - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration youtu.be/hdbvCsJ-DYg?...
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Behind The Scenes: Bob Dylan - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/07/2026
For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Family of slain Iran girl invited to Hiroshima peace ceremony www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
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Family of slain Iran girl invited to Hiroshima peace ceremony | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A bereaved family member of one of the Iranian schoolgirls killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing raid in February has been invited to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony in August, sources said.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump is corrupt. FIFA is corrupt. And now Team USA is corrupted and coopted. A disgusting spectacle. Go Belgium!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
TRUMP: “I had nothing to do with the decision…” 🤔 (Politico just posted a full timeline of the pressure campaign)
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
😂
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Willie always calls it right.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Not a word about this on the Fox FIFA extravaganza. Disgraceful.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This monster could have electrocuted thousands of MAGA believers but he doesn't care and neither do they. What a lost country.
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Trump says he overruled plan to cancel Mall celebration amid weather evacuations
The chaotic scramble to seek shelter at the “Salute to America” event on July Fourth raised questions about whether officials had adequately prepared for severe heat and threatening storms.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
That game was great fun to watch! Especially the Viking row. 🇳🇴
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Watching these Fox broadcasters talk about FIFA's about-face, inc the American Alexi Lalas, and it almost sounds like they've been instructed to talk about everything but how Trump intervened in favor of the US team and the corrupt FIFA dickhead folded. I miss Jim McKay & ABC's Wide World of Sports.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
FIFA is corrupt.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Prophetic.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Scenes from the We the People 250 March that took place today in Washington, DC on the 4th of July.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
MAGA lemmings. I stayed home and was cool and safe and sound. This is what fascism does to people.
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Joe Cocker - I Shall Be Released Woodstock youtu.be/L6Nz-ZUe73A?...
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I Shall Be Released (Live At Woodstock 1969)
YouTube video by Joe Cocker - Topic
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
😂😂😂
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Dylan.FM @dylan.thefm.club · 03/07/2026
And people say he can’t sing. Fools.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The great Welsh journalist Jon Mitchell, a good friend, has written a new book about the resistance in Okinawa to the US military machine. Here's an excerpt from the book. "Islands of Peace? Resistance to U.S. and Japanese militarism remains strong on Okinawa."
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Islands of Peace? - FPIF
Resistance to U.S. and Japanese militarism remains strong on Okinawa.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ACTIVE DUTY AIR FORCE MAJOR CALLS FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF TRUMP! This speech is historical ✊
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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In New Bedford I will forever nerd out when I see the Seamen's Bethel and Mariner's Home from Moby Dick. I have a tattoo from one of the scenes inside. Also Portuguese food and baby seagulls as a bonus. #newengland
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