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Ryan Grim
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Author of "The Squad" and "We've Got People." DC bureau chief at The Intercept. Co-host of Counter Points. DM for Signal. Views are my own, not yours.
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Apr 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So the “stabbed in the eye” report, which sent genuine fear rippling through Jewish communities, for good reason, turns out to be bogus. Here’s the video, it’s a grazing at most by a tiny flag, and turns out the “victim” is a known right wing provocateur Send in the National Guard quick
Mar 20 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Don Lu asked about his role in pressuring Pakistan to oust Imran Khan. "These allegations, this conspiracy theory is a lie," he says at a hearing.

The entire audience erupts, calling him a liar. It's not a few protesters, the entire audience shouting him down. Lu shouted down
Mar 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
❗️❗️After two in depth investigations by The Intercept into a World Bank cover-up a child sex abuse scandal at a for profit school network in Africa, the World Bank has finally acknowledged wrongdoing.

WB head Ajay Banga in an email to staff apologized to the victims and promised an independent investigation.

This comes after the bank and its client spent the last year denigrating and dismissing our reporting. First story with @NehaWadekar is here theintercept.com/2023/03/23/bri…
Feb 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Multiple NYT sources tell me that the paper is now cutting ties with Anat Schwarz after her social media history — “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse” — was exposed. Her explosive article shaped public understanding of 10/7 yet the team at The Daily has still been unable to produce an episode based on it, after producers found it full of holes. Her social media history was first exposed here
Feb 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some fascinating politics underway in a Houston Democratic primary where the war in Gaza is becoming a central issue. This text message went out to a bunch of voters, claiming to be from Lizzie Fletcher boasting of her AIPAC endorsement and her strong support for “Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorists.” She does say that and is indeed backed by AIPAC, but she’s crying foul, saying her campaign didn’t send the messages.

The suggestion in her statement is that her opponent or an ally did it to highlight her link to AIPAC.Image
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Image Her opponent Pervez Agwan denies having sent it.

But what’s remarkable about the whole thing is that none of what’s in the text message is untrue.
Oct 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The White House just compared “anti-Israel protesters” — the phrase used by the Fox News reporter in his question — to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville.

When it is no longer deniable what is being done in Gaza right now — I don’t know when that time will come, but it will — there will be a lot of people with an enormous amount to answer for.

To compare the people protesting that to Charlottesville is unhinged.
Jul 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This NBC “fact checker” is on the one hand telling Zeynep that there is no “media censorship” while on the other hand accusing her of “Greenwaldian” behavior for simply saying we don’t know how the pandemic started.

Ben, do you not understand that using your position as a major… https://t.co/fx8RNDFFpWtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Zeynep’s willingness early in the pandemic to challenge orthodoxy changed our conversation and arguably saved a lot lives. Ben — @oneunderscore__ — should look that up, and aspire to it, not attack it.
Jul 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The NYT was confronted with newly released messages from scientists coordinating about how to mislead its own reporter. A moment of truth for the paper.

The old NYT would defend its integrity by putting a new team of reporters on the story with a mission to follow the facts… https://t.co/giNHkQQO1wtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
There are so many good reporters at the Times, but the editorial leadership has apparently given up
Jun 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Biden is now picking a fight with Australia (after offending them by cancelling a trip there over the debt ceiling) by re-opening a case against Australian journalist Julian Assange even as the country calls for his repatriation Image The US, as you can see in the top left, is also suggesting that the Aussies are war criminals, and so might not be able to cooperate with our imperial forces, which operate only in the most ethical warring fashion.

This comes as we’re jockeying w/China for power in the region.
May 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you stumbled across this vicious post calling for the imprisonment of these bereaved parents, it’s worth reading this devastating @geneweingarten story first washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/maga… One of the things I’m most grateful for is that my kids are older now and I never did this, but it was always a fear of mine. I’m incredibly distractable, and I don’t think I’m inherently better than the people this has happened to.
May 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Looks like Erdogan demanded @elonmusk censor his political opposition a day ahead of the election and he immediately complied.

Musk is either the world’s most sanctimonious hypocrite, coward and fraud or actually wants to censor the opposition to help Erdogan. Or both. If you want to buy the platform to help right wing governments around the world, just say it with your chest. It’s your money, go for it, but spare us the free speech BS.

Old twitter rejected 50% of these demands, which isn’t perfect. New Twitter complies 100%.
Apr 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
For my first book, I obtained a letter written to Steve Jobs by Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD, reminding him that Jobs had credited LSD with some of his capacity for innovation, and urging him to devote a portion of his wealth to scientific research./1 ImageImage I posted it at the time in an article at HuffPost, but everything from the internet is broken from back then, so the letter itself is no longer there, just a transcript of it. Any advice on where I should post it so that it doesn't get lost to posterity? huffpost.com/entry/read-the…
Apr 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I love that people like @elonmusk & @catturd2 watched their engagement numbers soar as they did outrageous stuff...and then just assumed that line would go up and to the right for ever & ever

They can't imagine that people are bored of them. It must be rigged against us! Musk literally had his engineers check to see if he was throttling himself. They told him no, they are not. Obviously they're not throttling turd cat either.
Mar 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you were taking a media fluency course, and were shown this headline and this first paragraph, you could be forgiven for thinking that the article said what it claimed it was saying ImageImage Then you read further and you find out the new data proves that 1) there was Covid in the Wuhan market and 2) Raccoon dogs poop. I already knew the first thing. The second thing is news to me, but I could probably have guessed it. Image
Mar 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Just firing off some blatant ageism (Chomsky is 94, so what; Ellsberg is almost 92) is a weird choice.

Judge: Are you 14?

Protester: Are you 96? To reflexively assume that because you’re old you are necessarily bigoted is wrong both as a matter of fact and on principle.
Feb 7, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In case you only skimmed the DeSantis-Villages article, I wanted to highlight one truly gobsmacking part of it. In 2018, Brett Hage was elected to the statehouse district covering The Villages.

The Villages then *hired him* at $925,000 (!) a year /1 theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron… Hage then introduced legislation that DeSantis signed that blocked the local county commission from raising impact fees on the developer he worked for, saving them hundreds of millions of dollars
Feb 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Been working on a wild story of corruption and vengeance in The Villages, Florida. Here it is, I promise it’s worth the read:

How a grassroots revolt in an iconic retirement community ended with a 72-year-old political prisoner interc.pt/3HASSF9 After jailing a county commissioner who stood up to the local machine, they even came after him for a GoFundMe for his legal defense.

He has a new one up. Do with it what you want: gofundme.com/f/oren-miller-…
Jan 25, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
🚨🚨@ElonMusk complied when India’s right-wing prime minister asked him to block a BBC documentary critical of him, and even deleted MP tweets interc.pt/3XsVHyN by me & @mazmhussain Twitter even took down two posts in India from @johncusack promoting the documentary, though they’re still visible here in the US
Nov 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“My regulator at the CFTC, I bribed—I asked…”

One of the funniest moment on cable in a long time More here
Nov 2, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Our two big investigations at The Intercept this week -- one on DHS policing of online dialogue and the other on frightening safety lapses inside research labs -- are actually part of the same story of how groupthink and polarization are killing us: badnews.substack.com/p/disinformati… If you missed it, here's @lhfang & @kenklippenstein on the Department of Homeland Security pressuring private companies to police speech online theintercept.com/2022/10/31/soc…
Aug 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The New York Times, in its endorsement of Danny Goldman this weekend, somehow neglected to mention that he's a family friend of the Sulzbergers. /1 Goldman went to Sidwell Friends, the elite DC private school, with several Sulzbergers. Danny's mom, Susan Sachs Goldman, was chair of the board of trustees for Sidwell. Cathy Sulzberger also served on the board.