Spencer Ackerman

America’s ‘War on Terror’ expanded surveillance of Muslims 25 years ago, placing many on watchlists. Now, that strategy is being used for domestic political repression across the U.S. Spencer Ackerman explains how Trump’s counterterrorism strategy explicitly targets the American left. Read the full story at zeteo.com, link in bio.

Journalist Spencer Ackerman: With NSPM-7, Trump is attempting to criminalize left-wing activism From our panel with @dropsitenews featuring former FBI agent Terry Albury and our policy director Chip Gibbons — watch the full discussion at our YouTube channel /@RightsDissent

🚨 THIS SATURDAY!! 🚨 All are invited to march with me and my @comixaction friends to commemorate Nakba Day. We will be marching for Palestinian liberation, an end to the Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation and the right of return for all Palestinians. This is a @nycpym organized protest in Brooklyn. We will be meeting at 1:50pm on the corner of Bay Ridge Ave & 5th Ave. and will join the march together as a group. Please DM me if you have any questions. We hope to see you there!!

Comix Action is joining the #Nakba78 protest in NYC! Please feel free to join our contingent at 2 pm on Saturday, May 16, in Bay Ridge!

The great @attackerman laying down the beat at the May Day march in NYC today! #MayDayStrong

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Now Loading: CEREBRO Season 5 Angelica Jones (Firestar) feat. @joshcornillon & @goblin_gavotte will be in your ears shortly! As I’m getting that ready for you, I want to open questions for the first *six* episodes of Season 5: Marius St. Croix (Emplate) feat. @meakoopa & @alsopurp Danger feat. @losthiskeysman Elizabeth Twoyoungmen (Talisman) feat. @saracentury Sofia Mantega (Wind-Dancer) feat. @oneguynamedalex Clarice Ferguson (Blink) feat. @jordanblok and Ambassador Gabrielle Haller feat. @attackerman Episode order subject to change, but this is the first docket. Send your questions to cerebrocast at gmail dot com with the character’s name in the subject line.

This is my 27th year as a journalist. I started when I was 19. In that very long time, I’ve written thousands of stories. Some of those stories have proven to be very consequential. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror and the honor to report. For it is a story about the genocide of Palestine. It’s a story about the doctors who try desperately to save as many Palestinian lives as possible, despite the stranglehold of the state of Israel, maintained through the material and diplomatic support of the United States of America. This is a story about the conditions in the remaining hospitals of Gaza, told through the doctors who work in them through a false period of ceasefire, which, they show, is simply another phase of the genocide — a phase that carries its unique complications, pressures and agonies. You can read this piece at Wired.com. I’ll put the link in my bio. I am too close to this story to know if I did it justice. I don’t wish to center myself but I should tell you that reporting and writing it cratered my mental health under the weight of the subject matter, so take care when reading it. Most importantly: free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Why is there never talk of invading North Korea? Well, because it has a nuclear weapon. This week @attackerman joins @parismarx to give us the background on the US and Israel’s war on Iran, why they didn’t go to war in the past, and the wider repercussions this war is having. This clip is from episode 321 of Tech Won’t Save Us, published on March 26, 2026.

Founded in Vilna in 1897—the same year Theodor Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress—the Jewish Labor Bund was a revolutionary society whose tenets were socialist, secular, and staunchly anti-Zionist. From its origins in tsarist Vilna to the height of its influence in interwar Poland, Bundists fought antisemitism, nourished working-class solidarity, celebrated the Yiddish language, and built vast political and cultural networks across eastern Europe. In her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (Penguin Random House), the artist and writer @mollycrabapple recreates the revolutionary world of the Bundists, and explores the interwoven histories of the Bund, the Russian Revolution, and the Holocaust. Join us Thursday, May 14, at BISR Central at 7pm as we welcome @mollycrabapple for a wide-ranging conversation about Here Where We Live Is Our Country, featuring BISR Interim Executive Director @suzyleesr and journalist @attackerman . Together, they will discuss the past and future of the Jewish left, the radical diasporas, the politics of assimilation, and the Bund’s cultural and intellectual legacy. @taylorcobooks will be on site with copies of the book. What can the transnational history of the Bund teach us about working-class organization, education, and culture? How can the Bund’s radical vision of solidarity inform liberation struggles in the present? Admission is $5 to attend, or $32 for admission and a copy of Here Where We Live Is Our Country. To purchase a ticket, please visit @taylorcobooks website and scroll down to “Register for Upcoming Events.” Beer, wine, seltzer, and snacks will be served.

"An Iran in chaos... is a formula for drawing the United States in deeper, not letting Washington get out and move on." Spencer Ackerman explains how the war on Iran has united the US and Israel… for now. Read more at zeteo.com, link in bio.

The War on Terror paved the way for Trump’s rise—now he’s making it his own. The results of their victory are on display from Minnesota to Venezuela. Never again can America afford the delusion that what it does abroad is cordoned off from what it does at home. But that is a lesson for after the destruction of this latest phase of the American empire. Read more from Spencer Ackerman at the link in our bio.