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Tim Shorrock

@timshorrock.bsky.social

Journalist, writer, musician, DC since 1982. Living with grief since losing my daughter Roxanne in March 2024. Writing on Korea, Japan, Cold War, Capitalism. Crazy Bob Dylan fan. Author of SPIES FOR HIRE. Was just exiled from X by vengeful hacker-thieves.

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Tim Shorrock@timshorrock.bsky.social · last wk.

This is my first article in Truthdig. It describes the late CIA Director R. James Woolsey as the godfather of national security capitalism and reveals how his Paladin Capital and other defense-oriented private equity funds are financed: by America's largest labor unions and their pension funds.

Truthdig@truthdig.com · last wk.

The recently deceased former CIA director and Paladin Group founder taught Washington how to spin Islamophobia and "homeland security" into business gold. By @timshorrock.bsky.social

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov · 3w ago

Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.

Tim Shorrock@timshorrock.bsky.social · 3w ago

My my, for what's supposed to be our nation's top domestic intelligence agency, DHS and ICE have quite a record in their hiring practices.

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last mo.

For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.