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Michael Evans

@colombiadocs.bsky.social

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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

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...

The Chiquita Papers

Documenting how the world's most famous banana company financed terrorism in Colombia

nsarchive.gwu.edu

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 23h

It's not looking good for DHS's account of yet another shooting theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 2h

I'm originally from Cleveland, and it never felt right saying that I grew up in the Midwest like it was Kansas or Missourri. It's the Great Lakes region, and that's what I call it now.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 21h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, couple of quick questions.

First, what year is it? Second, who was president in 2017?

Ken Vogel via Twitter:
https://x.com/kenvogel/status/1975654772620599691

NEW: In 2017, Hunter Biden pursued a deal to sell land around the US Embassy in Romania, & possibly the land on which the embassy sat, to a joint venture that included a Chinese government-linked company.

The venture, & the Chinese company, collapsed.

4:09 PM · Oct 7, 2025

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 1d

I play bluegrass, and you are not wrong.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

First instance I’ve seen of CBP paramilitaries inserting for one of these urban operations by helicopter (fast-roped from Black Hawks, presumably CBP AMO ones).

Hard to imagine a plausible tactical rationale, but easy to guess another one: this is *great* content for CBP’s aggro recruiting videos.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 8d

Don't miss this riveting new piece from @katidoyle.bsky.social and @cldorfman.bsky.social on the DEA intercepts that contain critical information on the 2014 Ayotzinapa student disappearances @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The DEA and Ayotzinapa

Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like that is important to remember. Because one day a lot of people will distance themselves from this very obvious, very much on the record monopsony and authoritarianism and claim it was all a conservative boogeyman.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 3d

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 3d

Vance is one of the luckiest, least sympathetic people there is, and yet the grievances never stop, nor does his weird insistence that he is somehow personally responsible for every American success story and that ppl should be personally grateful to him for having a good life.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · Aug 28

A fun graph I like to share occasionally: the Pentagon reviewed their own record in the 20th + 21st century, and awarded themselves wins, losses, and ties for each conflict. Some of the determinations are wack, but even granting them their own crooked umpire, the US military went 11-9, with 43 ties.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 4d

The largest federal employees union filed a lawsuit accusing the Department of Education of violating the First Amendment by inserting partisan language into the out-of-office emails sent from accounts of furloughed workers during the government shutdown
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d

These people hate our country. They hate Americans and have declared war on our constitution and freedoms. They should repent and resign

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Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 @mfcannon.bsky.social · 5d

Had to see it with my own eyes. It's true. Everyone involved should face prosecution.

www.justice.gov/jmd/...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like Chad Pergram, Fox News.

Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 4d

That ICE thug is shaking so hard. Big mad energy.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5d

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"

ICE crosses another big, important line.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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