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Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR. Comics like WALLER VS WILDSTORM & IRON MAN. Not here anymore bc 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻this place, same handle on IG & Bsky

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Used to be at WIRED, the Washington Independent, TPM, etc. Internet-supremacist. Foul mouthed. Somewhere on the geek/nerd spectrum.

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The Strait Is Giving Iran The Leverage The U.S. Feared A Nuke Would

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| forever-wars.com
Cars line up to pay the toll and enter the Holland Tunnel in 1985. (Jet Lowe, National Parks Service.) Edited by Sam Thielman THE PAST 24-PLUS hours have brought the United States and Iran back to volleyed air and missile strikes and threats of worse.
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First in Gaza, Now in Lebanon, This Is The Destruction She Saw

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By Spencer Ackerman Verified
| forever-wars.com
Edited by Sam Thielman RECENTLY, A SOURCE for my WIRED piece on Gaza during the false ceasefire reached out to mention that she had returned from Lebanon. She had comparisons to draw with Lebanon's own false ceasefire. Trapped between a genocide and a regional war, the ordeal of Lebanon, attacked by Israel this latest time on March 2 under the rubric of the Iran War, usually gets treated like a sideshow in U.S. media, ifit gets mentioned at all.
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The Iran Capitulations (with Amy Goodman and Behrooz Ghamari)

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| forever-wars.com
I was on Democracy Now! to discuss the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding—and what it represents historically Edited by Sam Thielman BEFORE WE BEGIN, we have to acknowledge the astonishing abuse of power represented by the sentences in the Prairieland ICE protest cases. Read Sam Levine in The Guardian on this. Four defendants acquitted of firearms charges received 50-70 year sentences.
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