Josh Manning
@joshmanning.bsky.social
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Iraq War vet. Former intelligence community Russia then counterterrorism analyst. Now: middling flak. MI —> MT —> WA. Warren-Occupy core. Social justice warrior. Opinions, quirks mine. Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera
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joshmanning.bsky.social
So here is what I think is happening, because I had a front row seat to Mike Flynn doing this sort of thing at DIA … The agencies are collecting intelligence from bad sources or dictating what they want their sources to say so it ends up in raw reporting. They can then weaponize this intel.
pbsnews.org
Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s foreign minister said on Saturday, underlining strained relations with the United States.
https://to.pbs.org/46hft5R
Venezuela says U.S. warship raided a tuna boat as tensions rise in the Caribbean
Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s foreign minister said on Saturday, underlining strained relation...
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joshmanning.bsky.social
We need more hosts like these two. Fucking hot 🔥. They didn’t let the senator blame game, they kept it 100.
paleofuture.bsky.social
"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
joshmanning.bsky.social
Beautiful flight in. The mountains in the distance. It was dusk too.
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schooley.bsky.social
Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.
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wajali.bsky.social
The Trump Administration should honor Charlie Kirk and his birthday by fulfilling his wish of releasing the Epstein Files.

Pass it on.
joshmanning.bsky.social
*stares in January 6th*
oregonian.com
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
joshmanning.bsky.social
I loved the week I spent in Albuquerque
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truthseekercg.bsky.social
Yes!
Do it @azagmayes.bsky.social ! ✊🏻
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...
joshmanning.bsky.social
They’re too busy mocking some of the user base.
joshmanning.bsky.social
Whe airports understand federal law better than the federal officials that run them …
briantylercohen.bsky.social
Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.
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johndroutsas.bsky.social
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House called No Kings protests “hate America rallies”. Nothing could be further from the truth. These are true patriots exercising 1st Amendment rights to say we do not want dictatorship by Trump. We don’t want unneeded military troops in our cities. We want democracy.
joshmanning.bsky.social
No, it means we like the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It means we support democracy over monarchy. Unlike the Trump administration.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
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irhottakes.bsky.social
There being a government without kings was supposed to be the point of this country, asshole.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.
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indivisible.org
Are you ready for the largest peaceful protest in modern US history? In five days, millions of Americans will stand up and speak out on a massive scale to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy looks like. We’ll see you on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
joshmanning.bsky.social
Rhonda LaCenzo! A very very Jewish name!
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swin24.bsky.social
This administration is deploying the War On Terror playbook largely now to crack down on free, protected speech and assembly that Donald Trump doesn’t approve of, and they’re using armed troops deployed to blue cities in their efforts to normalize this; zeteo.com/p/inside-tru...
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kudingincher.bsky.social
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Live today as you would any day, strong and free. May our peoples live for another 10,000 years and on! I truly believe this was a year of change for our people and see a future that we must work for. We must protect ourselves and our those whom we must call brother
joshmanning.bsky.social
Wow. Did not expect them to be that sharp. So great.
joshmanning.bsky.social
It’s such a fantastic movie. My all time favorite spy movie.
joshmanning.bsky.social
And CIA needs to protect its secrets. ICE less so.
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joshuaeaton.bsky.social
FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.
michaeljkramer.bsky.social
Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?