Michael Evans
@colombiadocs.bsky.social
Editorial Director at National Security Archive. FOIA enthusiast. Colombia specialist. Bluegrass guitarist. He/Him nsarchive.gwu.edu
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Michael Evans
@colombiadocs.bsky.social
· Nov 24
The Chiquita Papers
Documenting how the world's most famous banana company financed terrorism in Colombia
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One of the things that I've focused on at the @nsarchive.bsky.social has been Chiquita and its associations with armed groups in Colombia. You can learn more about that here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/chiq...
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NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Disgraceful
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Disgraceful
This is interesting, because I'm a Cleveland Cavs fan and was thinking the same thing. www.fearthesword.com/nba-news/404...
Cade Cunningham on 2021 NBA Lottery: ‘Don’t let me go to Cleveland’
Cade Cunningham is glad the Cavs couldn’t draft him.
www.fearthesword.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is interesting, because I'm a Cleveland Cavs fan and was thinking the same thing. www.fearthesword.com/nba-news/404...
Summers: [Reads 2014 article about prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, involving White House personnel.]
Summers (in email to Epstein): "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
Summers (in email to Epstein): "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Summers: [Reads 2014 article about prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, involving White House personnel.]
Summers (in email to Epstein): "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
Summers (in email to Epstein): "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
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This is the culmination of everything the Republican Party and Corporate Media have been fighting for for last 10+ years (anti-PC/DEI/CRT/woke): the right for powerful rich white men to yell "Quiet! Quiet, Piggy" to a female reporter and face no accountability for their thin skinned misogyny.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is the culmination of everything the Republican Party and Corporate Media have been fighting for for last 10+ years (anti-PC/DEI/CRT/woke): the right for powerful rich white men to yell "Quiet! Quiet, Piggy" to a female reporter and face no accountability for their thin skinned misogyny.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Political cartoon by Peter Aldor that appeared in El Tiempo, ca. 1961.
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Political cartoon by Peter Aldor that appeared in El Tiempo, ca. 1961.
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
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Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
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BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
Political cartoon by Peter Aldor that appeared in El Tiempo, ca. 1961.
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Political cartoon by Peter Aldor that appeared in El Tiempo, ca. 1961.
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
Source: www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer...
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Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Just going over to the Home Depot to do some ethnic cleansing.
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just going over to the Home Depot to do some ethnic cleansing.
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As THE HARDEST PLACE describes, the US evolution in Kunar was opposite—from light/flexible to heavy/motorized, driving MRAPs as wide and heavy as Soviet BTRs.
This is the earliest photo I’ve found of US troops in Kunar—Rangers working out of Topchi (later FOB Wright), an old Soviet base, in 2002.
This is the earliest photo I’ve found of US troops in Kunar—Rangers working out of Topchi (later FOB Wright), an old Soviet base, in 2002.
February 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
As THE HARDEST PLACE describes, the US evolution in Kunar was opposite—from light/flexible to heavy/motorized, driving MRAPs as wide and heavy as Soviet BTRs.
This is the earliest photo I’ve found of US troops in Kunar—Rangers working out of Topchi (later FOB Wright), an old Soviet base, in 2002.
This is the earliest photo I’ve found of US troops in Kunar—Rangers working out of Topchi (later FOB Wright), an old Soviet base, in 2002.
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"In 2002, we barely had maps," one of the early Rangers in Kunar told me. "We basically had Russian maps."
He wasn't exaggerating. Here's a map used by Marines in the Pech early in the war.
He wasn't exaggerating. Here's a map used by Marines in the Pech early in the war.
February 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"In 2002, we barely had maps," one of the early Rangers in Kunar told me. "We basically had Russian maps."
He wasn't exaggerating. Here's a map used by Marines in the Pech early in the war.
He wasn't exaggerating. Here's a map used by Marines in the Pech early in the war.
Pedophile clubs are bad, sure, but let's not forget to shed a tear or two for what's been lost.
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Pedophile clubs are bad, sure, but let's not forget to shed a tear or two for what's been lost.
Has anyone asked Larry Summers about this email he sent to Epstein attaching an article revealing that a presidential advance team member had slept with a prostitute in Cartagena?
Summers: "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
Summers: "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Has anyone asked Larry Summers about this email he sent to Epstein attaching an article revealing that a presidential advance team member had slept with a prostitute in Cartagena?
Summers: "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
Summers: "I fear she should have pulled out last week."
Epstein: "i have some ideas. call when you have a moment."
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Nothing to see here (literally!). Just the US State Department secretly deleting 15 pages of declassified official documents published in 2021 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series about a 1983 NATO nuclear weapons exercise that unexpectedly increased the risk of a nuclear war.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Nothing to see here (literally!). Just the US State Department secretly deleting 15 pages of declassified official documents published in 2021 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series about a 1983 NATO nuclear weapons exercise that unexpectedly increased the risk of a nuclear war.
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My friend @foianate.bsky.social with a must-read story about how the State Dept scrubbed an online historical study (FRUS) of key records about the 1983 Able Archer nuclear scare after he sued the CIA for its records on the near-disaster.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My friend @foianate.bsky.social with a must-read story about how the State Dept scrubbed an online historical study (FRUS) of key records about the 1983 Able Archer nuclear scare after he sued the CIA for its records on the near-disaster.
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Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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Just torching important relationships with allied countries. Wild to see.
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just torching important relationships with allied countries. Wild to see.
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The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
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Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Censored History of Able Archer 83
Washington, D.C., November 14, 2025 - The State Department quietly deleted important archival records from an official history detailing how a 1983 NATO war game could have led to a catastrophic nucle...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...