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Jesselyn Radack
@jesselynradack.bsky.social
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Dir. of Whistleblower & Source Protection at ExposeFacts.org; Contributing Writer at Salon.com; natsec and human rts nerd; Snowden lawyer; Brown, Yale Law & Justice Dept alum; Mom of 3. Posts=opinion
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · Jan 8
With so many avenues of legal accountability for #Trump closing, I’ve never seen so many calls on social media for #leaks. If you have natsec or intel info to disclose, I can help you do it safely. Always pro bono.
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Whistleblower and Source Protection Program
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Remember this.
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 1d
US extrajudicial assassination of civilians has a dark history. Even worse, OLC (the “constitutional conscience of the Justice Department”) is acting more like a rubber-stamp than a guardrail.
#LatinAmericaDroneStrikes
www.salon.com/2025/11/04/t...
Trump has free rein to kill, courtesy of the Justice Department
The Office of Legal Counsel is rubber-stamping extrajudicial killings in Latin America
www.salon.com
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 1d
And too busy…
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 1d
His mind is permanently in 1950 and he missed the entire de-institutionalization movement. He realizes neither his mistake, nor how antiquated it is.
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 1d
The icing on the cake of reasons not to vote for Cuomo…
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 1d
I won’t make any jokes abt #Cheney going to the dark side, but he was proud of the torture prgm & called @Snowden “a traitor…and one of the worst violators of the #EspionageAct in history.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 1d
Republicans aren’t just passively buying Trump’s lies. They’re actively enabling his malfeasance & inflicting it on others.
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 3d
That looks really uncomfortable!
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 3d
At least no one went full-on blackface…
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 3d
And your boobs inflate!
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 3d
Botoxication 🥂
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 4d
Maybe ASSASSINATION has more of a warrior ethos ring to it…
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 4d
Glad the White House SCIF is secured in scagliola & fallalery.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d
Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d
It took years of shaming before we got NYT to call torture torture (they used Enhanced Interrogation Technique).

Open to suggestions how we accelerate the process here.

M-U-R-D-E-R
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 6d
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the Pentagon carried out another "lethal kinetic strike" at President Trump's direction on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four men.
Pete Hegseth says U.S. carried out another strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific Ocean, killing 4 people
The defense secretary's announcement marks the 14th known strike the U.S. has conducted on alleged drug traffickers in recent months.
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 5d
I wish it didn’t take #Guiffre’s suicide & book for ex-Prince Andrew to be stripped of his royal title. Don’t @ me abt cancel culture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title
www.nytimes.com
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 7d
Superb piece on #EspionageAct weaponization & how “official channels for lawful #whistleblower disclosures are compromised or futile.” Discusses our clients #Snowden & Tom Drake (@witnessblower.net)
www.justsecurity.org/122491/weapo...
Weaponizing the Espionage Act: What It Means for Whistleblowers, Reporters, and Democracy
How the Trump administration could weaponize the Espionage Act and its chilling effect to control the press and justify suppression.
www.justsecurity.org
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Thomas Drake @witnessblower.net · 10d
After 11 years the full Emmy-nominated SILENCED doc now finally available — highlighting the ordeals of 3 national security whistleblowers, including Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake & John Kiriakou — detailing the extreme personal toll they each endured under Bush & Obama Admins.
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SILENCED (2014) - Full Whistleblower Documentary
YouTube video by jspione
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · Sep 27
This is why I have long thought that Devin Nunes was working for someone besides Trump, because he appears to be actually getting taken care of and Trump does not take care of people.
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 10d
Lincoln: “[W]orse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast & fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation… [leaving] their countrymen mouldering in the dust.”
cc: @ezraklein.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...
How much money is Trump making off of the presidency?
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the David Kirkpatrick of The New Yorker about his investigation into how much the Trump family has profited from both presidencies.
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 11d
Information is the currency of power. What’s the solution?
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 11d
Yes!
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 12d
This should come with a trigger warning. So upsetting. I was a West Wing alum, but no part of the #WhiteHouse was Trump’s to destroy.
#BoycottDemolitionDonors
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Here are the donors contributing to Trump’s White House ballroom
Companies such as Google, Amazon and Meta are on the list of donors to the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom. The East Wing has been demolished as part of the project.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 12d
Inflation Edged Higher as Tariffs Raised Prices. . . making Trump an idiot or a liar. Really a both/and.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: Inflation Edged Higher in September, as Tariffs Raise Some Prices
www.nytimes.com
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Jesselyn Radack @jesselynradack.bsky.social · 12d
May his righteous indignation be contagious.
#UseYourWords
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