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Robert Mackey

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Robert Mackey

@RobertMackey

Now @GuardianUS. Previously @ForensicArchi vimeo.com/913426020 | @theintercept vimeo.com/935228869 | +2,500 @nytimes bylines

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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Feb 20, 2024
When you hear "Police Say" in a news report, be aware the reporter means they have no idea if what comes next is true or not. I worked with survivors of a deadly attack on antifascists in Portland and @ForensicArchi to show how the police misled the public theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Nov 24, 2022
Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ theintercept.com/2021/11/10/pro…
Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Dec 30, 2022
I deleted a tweet mocking Andrew Tate's arrest because these details of the horrific crimes he is accused of make it clear that this is not a funny story, but a deeply disturbing one for his victims diicot.ro/mass-media/382…
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Jan 29, 2025
I looked into it, and despite what @PressSec says @elonmusk told her, the US has spent exactly $0 on condoms for Gaza, not $50 million
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Jan 28, 2025
Karoline Leavitt: "DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer dollars."
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theguardian.com
White House orders all federal staff to return to in-office work or resign – as it happened
Memo offers employees who don’t want to serve in ‘reformed federal workforce’ seven months’ salary if they quit by 6 February
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Oct 17, 2023
This tweet was just edited to remove video @Israel presented as evidence that Gaza hospital was struck in an outgoing barrage fired by militants — likely because NYT reporter @AricToler had already noted the clip was recorded about 8pm local time, 40 minutes after hospital strike
Israel ישראל
@Israel
Oct 17, 2023
Breaking: IDF Spokesperson From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit. According to intelligence information, from several sources we have,
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Apr 26, 2024
It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.
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Alexandra Halaby
@iskandrah
Apr 25, 2024
A CNN crew witnessed at least two professors detained by Atlanta police, including @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin and Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department. #FreePalestine cnn.com/business/live-…
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Sep 23, 2018
Kavanaugh boasted in his yearbook that he and his friend took part in drinking 100 kegs of beer in 1982-1983; if those binge drinking sessions we know took place are not noted in his calendars, they are not a full record of his activities.
The New York Times
@nytimes
Sep 23, 2018
Breaking News: Brett Kavanaugh has calendars from 1982 that his team says don’t show a party matching his accuser’s account. He plans to give them to the Senate. nyti.ms/2xzQsn4
Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Oct 2, 2024
Here is Netanyahu *22 years ago* arguing that a US invasion of Iraq "will have, I guarantee you, enormous positive reverberations on the region."
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Jan 8, 2021
Here's video of @GovLarryHogan saying Maryland's National Guard was repeatedly denied authorization to deploy to defend Congress on Wednesday during the 90 minutes after a panicked phone call from senior House and Senate leaders who were hiding from the president's mob
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Laura Rozen
@lrozen
Jan 8, 2021
“I was actually on the phone with Leader Hoyer who was pleading with us to send the guard,” Maryland Gov. Hogan. But Hogan said Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, head of the Maryland National Guard, was *repeatedly rebuffed by the head of the National Guard on the federal level.* Why?
Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Apr 21, 2023
Mission accomplished. While everyone was distracted by his blue-check removals, Musks's Twitter deleted labels that alerted users that they were reading news from state-run propaganda outlets of authoritarian governments. Potemkin news channels now free to inject disinformation.
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Aug 6, 2020
The White House is playing "Live and Let Die" before Trump's arrival at a thinly disguised campaign event in Ohio that the state's governor cannot attend because he just came down with Covid-19, the disease that killed over 1,400 Americans yesterday.
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Jan 29, 2025
Strange, there was a community note on this tweet a while ago, citing my reporting that what @PressSec said @elonmusk told her is not true, but now that note has been removed. I wonder why? Here are the facts again, for those who prefer not to be lied to:
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Jan 28, 2025
Karoline Leavitt: "DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer dollars."
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theguardian.com
White House orders all federal staff to return to in-office work or resign – as it happened
Memo offers employees who don’t want to serve in ‘reformed federal workforce’ seven months’ salary if they quit by 6 February
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Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Sep 13, 2019
An appalling Republican ad during the Democratic debate attacked @AOC for the genocide in Cambodia a decade before her birth, but it was a Republican president, Richard Nixon, whose secret bombing created the conditions for the Khmer Rouge to seize power static.theintercept.com/amp/debate-ale…
Robert Mackey
@RobertMackey
Apr 26, 2024
Replying to @Mel1612ancholia
Talking to the police while an officer is kneeling on the head of a protester is not interfering, it is potentially preventing a murder.
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