Margot Williams
@margotwilliams.bsky.social
Journalist, news researcher, data editor, factchecker @The Intercept. Ex-Washington Post, ex-NYT, ex-NPR, +more. Member of ICIJ. Still researching Guantanamo, JFKFacts and Jan 6 riot. My SubStack is Desk Set Research https://margotwilliams.substack.com
Note to #searchers, #archivists, #librarians
New #JFKFiles Are Now Searchable at @maryferrellorg & enables what the @USNatArchives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to #JFKAssassination #JFKFacts open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts... open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
New #JFKFiles Are Now Searchable at @maryferrellorg & enables what the @USNatArchives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to #JFKAssassination #JFKFacts open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts... open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
New JFK Files Are Now Searchable at Mary Ferrell Foundation
Leading JFK site enables what the National Archives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to JFK's assassination
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Note to #searchers, #archivists, #librarians
New #JFKFiles Are Now Searchable at @maryferrellorg & enables what the @USNatArchives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to #JFKAssassination #JFKFacts open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts... open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
New #JFKFiles Are Now Searchable at @maryferrellorg & enables what the @USNatArchives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to #JFKAssassination #JFKFacts open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts... open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
Come on down to the House Visitor Center room 210 tomorrow 2pm for @realannapaulina hearing on the #Declassification of the #JFKFiles! Or watch on #Oversight comm, site. Witnesses include @TheOliverStone & @jeffersonmorley #JFKFacts #FreeTheFiles
March 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Come on down to the House Visitor Center room 210 tomorrow 2pm for @realannapaulina hearing on the #Declassification of the #JFKFiles! Or watch on #Oversight comm, site. Witnesses include @TheOliverStone & @jeffersonmorley #JFKFacts #FreeTheFiles
Why I can’t read food blogs;
“Cottage cheese has taken the world by storm this year and for good reason.”
“Cottage cheese has taken the world by storm this year and for good reason.”
March 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Why I can’t read food blogs;
“Cottage cheese has taken the world by storm this year and for good reason.”
“Cottage cheese has taken the world by storm this year and for good reason.”
Federal Court Blocks Transfer of #Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq
...while the judge considered the prisoner’s claim that he would be at risk for abuse and inadequate health care there.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/guantanamo-iraq-transfer-court.html?smid=bs-share
...while the judge considered the prisoner’s claim that he would be at risk for abuse and inadequate health care there.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/guantanamo-iraq-transfer-court.html?smid=bs-share
Federal Court Blocks Transfer of Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq
The Iraqi prisoner had sued the Biden administration, saying he would be at risk for abuse at a prison in his homeland.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Federal Court Blocks Transfer of #Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq
...while the judge considered the prisoner’s claim that he would be at risk for abuse and inadequate health care there.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/guantanamo-iraq-transfer-court.html?smid=bs-share
...while the judge considered the prisoner’s claim that he would be at risk for abuse and inadequate health care there.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/guantanamo-iraq-transfer-court.html?smid=bs-share
On Desk Set Research, I ask about #GoogleAlerts and note the 23rd anniversary of #Guantanamo detention open.substack.com/pub/margotwi...
Google Alerts to the Past
Old news is good news?
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January 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
On Desk Set Research, I ask about #GoogleAlerts and note the 23rd anniversary of #Guantanamo detention open.substack.com/pub/margotwi...
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Satellite imagery is a vital tool for covering everything from war zones to environmental disasters, but too often small newsrooms think it's too time-consuming or expensive to get.
Not true! Come to @gijn.org's webinar on 1/27 to learn how to access—easily, & for free—this key reporting resource.
Not true! Come to @gijn.org's webinar on 1/27 to learn how to access—easily, & for free—this key reporting resource.
GIJN Webinar: How to Acquire Free Satellite Imagery for Your Investigations
This GIJN webinar brings together leading experts to share practical advice and tips on navigating this often-overwhelming field. Attendees will learn the best platforms and techniques for obtaining f...
gijn.org
January 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Satellite imagery is a vital tool for covering everything from war zones to environmental disasters, but too often small newsrooms think it's too time-consuming or expensive to get.
Not true! Come to @gijn.org's webinar on 1/27 to learn how to access—easily, & for free—this key reporting resource.
Not true! Come to @gijn.org's webinar on 1/27 to learn how to access—easily, & for free—this key reporting resource.
The declassification of a file on Oswald compiled by the Finnish intelligence service (SUPO) in December 2023 (first reported in English on JFK Facts) sheds new light on Oswald’s time in Helsinki. You can download it here. #JFKFacts
open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
The Finland File: Asked How Did Oswald Get to Helsinki?
The Finnish intelligence service recently declassified its file on the accused assassin. It sheds new light on an old question.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The declassification of a file on Oswald compiled by the Finnish intelligence service (SUPO) in December 2023 (first reported in English on JFK Facts) sheds new light on Oswald’s time in Helsinki. You can download it here. #JFKFacts
open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
I’m recommending this new SubStack weekly feature from Trevor Aaronson, a journalist with great knowledge of the #FBI and national security issues. This will be a useful guide to the upcoming changes in the new administration.
open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
Kash Patel and the Future of the FBI
Trump's nominee for FBI director raises questions about whether his leadership will reform the agency or deepen its politicization.
open.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I’m recommending this new SubStack weekly feature from Trevor Aaronson, a journalist with great knowledge of the #FBI and national security issues. This will be a useful guide to the upcoming changes in the new administration.
open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
A New Year remarked by a #Freelancer:
Daily emails and messages are no longer from organizations that “need me” for projects and work, but the same organizations that “need me” to give them money.
Daily emails and messages are no longer from organizations that “need me” for projects and work, but the same organizations that “need me” to give them money.
December 27, 2024 at 2:05 PM
A New Year remarked by a #Freelancer:
Daily emails and messages are no longer from organizations that “need me” for projects and work, but the same organizations that “need me” to give them money.
Daily emails and messages are no longer from organizations that “need me” for projects and work, but the same organizations that “need me” to give them money.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
The #CIA jets flew detainees to black sites, including in #Syria torture prisons. Those of us who broke those stories in the years after 9/11: are you on #Bluesky? www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/12/o...
Our Man in Damascus: When Syria Deployed Its Torture Chambers and Torturers for the CIA
With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not that long ago, when Assad was on more amicable terms ...
www.counterpunch.org
December 13, 2024 at 4:16 PM
The #CIA jets flew detainees to black sites, including in #Syria torture prisons. Those of us who broke those stories in the years after 9/11: are you on #Bluesky? www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/12/o...
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The @icij.org has unveiled a new API to enhance its Offshore Leaks Database, a critical tool in their groundbreaking investigations.
ICIJ's @pirhoo.com will lead a live training session to demonstrate the tool’s capabilities on Fri, Dec. 13 / 8 AM ET: https://twp.ai/1KbIy6
ICIJ's @pirhoo.com will lead a live training session to demonstrate the tool’s capabilities on Fri, Dec. 13 / 8 AM ET: https://twp.ai/1KbIy6
Offshore Leaks Database API Launch - YouTube
We're thrilled to announce the official launch of the Offshore Leaks Database API. This brand new tool will transform how you access, explore, and utilize ou...
twp.ai
December 12, 2024 at 9:04 AM
The @icij.org has unveiled a new API to enhance its Offshore Leaks Database, a critical tool in their groundbreaking investigations.
ICIJ's @pirhoo.com will lead a live training session to demonstrate the tool’s capabilities on Fri, Dec. 13 / 8 AM ET: https://twp.ai/1KbIy6
ICIJ's @pirhoo.com will lead a live training session to demonstrate the tool’s capabilities on Fri, Dec. 13 / 8 AM ET: https://twp.ai/1KbIy6
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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
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DDoSecrets launches searchable library to sort through millions of hacked and leaked files
The ‘Library of Leaks’ hosts over 10 million files. www.dailydot.com/debug/ddosec...
The ‘Library of Leaks’ hosts over 10 million files. www.dailydot.com/debug/ddosec...
DDoSecrets launches searchable library to sort through millions of hacked and leaked files
The 'Library of Leaks' hosts over 10 million files.
www.dailydot.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:15 AM
DDoSecrets launches searchable library to sort through millions of hacked and leaked files
The ‘Library of Leaks’ hosts over 10 million files. www.dailydot.com/debug/ddosec...
The ‘Library of Leaks’ hosts over 10 million files. www.dailydot.com/debug/ddosec...
Trevor's podcast revealed an inside look at the Syrian civil war from a deceased American member of ISIS.
Revisiting 'American ISIS' After the Fall of Syria's Brutal Regime open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
Revisiting 'American ISIS' After the Fall of Syria's Brutal Regime open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
Revisiting 'American ISIS' After the Fall of Syria's Brutal Regime
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government comes after 13 years of civil war. My 2021 Audible series tells part of that history.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Trevor's podcast revealed an inside look at the Syrian civil war from a deceased American member of ISIS.
Revisiting 'American ISIS' After the Fall of Syria's Brutal Regime open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
Revisiting 'American ISIS' After the Fall of Syria's Brutal Regime open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...
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Historian Lee Mordechai has compiled, in English and Hebrew, this database of the genocide in Gaza: witnessing-the-gaza-war.com
Home - Witnessing the Gaza War
Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War Read Full Document Last updated: December 5, 2024 (v. 6.5.5)You can read the full document above (parts are updated to June-Dec. 2024), or focus on any of the ch...
witnessing-the-gaza-war.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Historian Lee Mordechai has compiled, in English and Hebrew, this database of the genocide in Gaza: witnessing-the-gaza-war.com
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Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
December 8, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
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Don't destroy the records in bases throughout Syria - seize them. Publish them. Open the servers up.
Assad has documented his crimes. Let the world see.
Assad has documented his crimes. Let the world see.
December 8, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Don't destroy the records in bases throughout Syria - seize them. Publish them. Open the servers up.
Assad has documented his crimes. Let the world see.
Assad has documented his crimes. Let the world see.
I'm trying to decide and trying to accept if this is inevitable: Will the skill set (and now a newsroom role) called #OSINT (which is better described as #VisualInvestigations and/or #SocialMediaInvestigations) replace the skill set (and my newsroom role) called #NewsResearch?
#Thread?
#Thread?
December 1, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I'm trying to decide and trying to accept if this is inevitable: Will the skill set (and now a newsroom role) called #OSINT (which is better described as #VisualInvestigations and/or #SocialMediaInvestigations) replace the skill set (and my newsroom role) called #NewsResearch?
#Thread?
#Thread?
Non-profits: do you think i don’t know that “Giving Tuesday” is coming?
Do you really think that sending multiple appeals a day is going to make me want to make a donation to you? Or maybe not?
If I also work for you, am I also supposed to give you $$$?
And skip the Thanksgiving emails, please.
Do you really think that sending multiple appeals a day is going to make me want to make a donation to you? Or maybe not?
If I also work for you, am I also supposed to give you $$$?
And skip the Thanksgiving emails, please.
November 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Non-profits: do you think i don’t know that “Giving Tuesday” is coming?
Do you really think that sending multiple appeals a day is going to make me want to make a donation to you? Or maybe not?
If I also work for you, am I also supposed to give you $$$?
And skip the Thanksgiving emails, please.
Do you really think that sending multiple appeals a day is going to make me want to make a donation to you? Or maybe not?
If I also work for you, am I also supposed to give you $$$?
And skip the Thanksgiving emails, please.
Rep. Steve Cohen Renews Call for a JFK Review Board
Calls on President-elect Trump to deliver on his promise to release all #JFKassassination related file #Nov22 #JFKFacts
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Calls on President-elect Trump to deliver on his promise to release all #JFKassassination related file #Nov22 #JFKFacts
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Rep. Steve Cohen Renews Call for a JFK Review Board
Calls on President-elect Trump to deliver on his promise to release all assassination-related file
substack.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Rep. Steve Cohen Renews Call for a JFK Review Board
Calls on President-elect Trump to deliver on his promise to release all #JFKassassination related file #Nov22 #JFKFacts
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Calls on President-elect Trump to deliver on his promise to release all #JFKassassination related file #Nov22 #JFKFacts
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber: "Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and moved to the United States in the 1980s, named her "Lantian" in Mandarin — which literally translates to "blue sky.""
www.yahoo.com/tech/ceo-blu...
www.yahoo.com/tech/ceo-blu...
The CEO of Bluesky's Actual Name Means "Blue Sky" in Chinese
Twitter alternative Bluesky has skyrocketed in popularity ever since Donald Trump was reelected earlier this month. Over the last week alone, its userbase doubled to 15 million users. Since then, it h...
www.yahoo.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber: "Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and moved to the United States in the 1980s, named her "Lantian" in Mandarin — which literally translates to "blue sky.""
www.yahoo.com/tech/ceo-blu...
www.yahoo.com/tech/ceo-blu...