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contributing writer at @RollingStone // contributing editor at @Wired // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // noah.shachtman@protonmail.ch
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Apr 2, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
You may recall this rather, ahem, unorthodox interview Trump attorney Joe Tacopina gave a few weeks ago ... Well, turns out members of Trump's team saw it — and some other moves by Tacopina — and were not particularly pleased.
Sep 16, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Kanye West has opened a private religious school. Families of students there are required to sign NDAs, two sources tell @RollingStone

rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… A consultant to the school claims only parents sign, and described it as an “informal agreement.” But it is hardly the only strange thing about the school. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
Aug 11, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Trump asks allies: which one of you is a "rat" for the Feds, and which one of you is "wearing a wire"? rollingstone.com/politics/polit… Trump has asked close associates if they think his communications are being monitored — per his phrasing — “by Biden.” As a source close to Trump describes it: “He has asked me and others, ‘Do you think our phones are tapped?’” rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
May 17, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: @RollingStone spoke to 20 sources, including several of Taylor Hawkins’ best friends, about the Foo Fighter's career, legacy, and outlook before the drummer's untimely passing. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… Hawkins was open about how tough it was to tour so hard at his age. “[I'm] trying really hard to figure out how to continue to keep the intensity of a young man in a 50-year-old’s body, which is very difficult,” he told Rolling Stone. At another point he said he was “in hell.”
May 10, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Trump was an even bigger conspiracy freak than we knew. rollingstone.com/politics/polit… "The then-president had a pressing question for his aides: Does China have a secret weapon to create man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the U.S.? And if so, would this constitute an act of war, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily?" rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Apr 20, 2022 7 tweets 1 min read
In honor of 4/20 I will tell my favorite weed story. It's 1998? 99? I'm on tour in Amsterdam. We're playing the Melkweg that night. Obviously, we binge on space cakes that morning.
Apr 4, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
our august, 2021 cover -- complete with retro logo rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… september, 2021. i forgot how painfully prescient this headline turned out to be. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
Mar 24, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Oligarch offered payouts for a Nazi false flag scheme in Ukraine rollingstone.com/politics/polit… Pavel Fuks' camp offered between $500 and $1,500 for street level criminals to vandalize city streets with pro-Nazi graffiti, multiple sources tell @RollingStone rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Mar 11, 2022 11 tweets 5 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Texts & 36 sources tell the true story of how CNN's Jeff Zucker & his cronies manipulated the news.

That includes *literally* cheerleading for their favorite pols like Andrew Cuomo. As one exec texted the former guv: “Cuomo-W. Trump-L.” 🧵

rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… For the first time, @TatianaSiegel27 shows just how close Zucker and CNN’s top comms exec Allison Gollust were with Governor Andrew Cuomo. It's not just that she provided talking points (and more) to Cuomo for on-air appearances during the pandemic... rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Mar 7, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Mar 3, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
.@RollingStone is good as hell today .@jscros on fleeing the destruction of Kharkiv rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Mar 1, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine Pushes to Unplug Russia from the Global Internet rollingstone.com/politics/polit… According to an email reviewed by @RollingStone, Ukraine is asking the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to take down all .RU domains and shut down the primary Domain Name System servers there. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Feb 26, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
We are all Deepti tonite. Oh, Natalie! Thank fucking God.
Feb 8, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
🧵🧵🧵 We've got some pretty amazing jobs opening up here at @RollingStone 🧵 🧵🧵 @RollingStone Political news reporter on our breaking desk recruiting2.ultipro.com/PEN1022PEKM/Jo…
Jan 4, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
NEW: Peter Navarro tells @RollingStone "there were over 100 congressmen — both the House of Representatives and senators — that were lined up to execute [my] plan" to overturn the 2020 election. rollingstone.com/politics/polit… @RollingStone Navarro also tells @7im that "the president himself had distributed" his bogus election research "to every member of the House and Senate."
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Dec 29, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Dec 21, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
NEW: She accused a Delta Force soldier of rape. He was set to be tried in civilian court. Then the Army swooped in. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… What follows is completely fucked up. The Army persuaded the local D.A. to drop the charges so the Delta Force soldier could be tried by the military. No transcript was made of the court-martial. And when he was acquitted, the Army deleted the audio. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Nov 29, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Facebook's @WhatsApp service promises privacy. But an FBI document obtained by @RollingStone shows that the feds can get your WhatsApp data in near-real-time.

rollingstone.com/politics/polit… The news isn't much better for users of @Apple's iMessage. If they back up their data to iCloud, the feds can get it all.

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Nov 22, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: leaked texts obtained by @RollingStone show Jan. 6 rally organizers talking about their White House meetings and taking "POTUS' lead."
rollingstone.com/politics/polit… We've had plenty of evidence already that the Jan. 6 rally team was coordinating with the Trump White House. But these leaked texts show -- in the organizers own words -- that they believed they were taking orders the Oval Office.

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Nov 15, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
You've probably heard some of the allegations against Marilyn Manson. A nine-month @RollingStone investigation reveals the truth is much, much worse. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… Turns out, Marilyn Manson's disturbing treatment of women started long before he got famous. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
Nov 11, 2021 6 tweets 1 min read
Passenger two rows over in this flight is bragging about how she brought all of these bags of pretzels and drinks so she can avoid wearing a mask. Ugh. Now she's threatening to turn it into a 'YouTube incident' if the stewardess enforces the mask mandate.