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My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Nah, fuck that - we don't need to export white supremacy and billionaire entitlement off this planet.

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from 24 February 2026 to 8 March 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity is high through the initial time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of 28 February. The continued drop in connectivity aligns with a nation-scale internet blackout imposed by authorities after joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN' indicating the disruption period, and the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan.

200 hours.

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.

Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.

Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.

NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Using the location, JetPhotos and the video above, I've been able to determine the F27 (Fokker 50) airframes are Karun Air's EP-PET #7340B4, Naft Air's EP-GAS #713C33 and EP-NFK #7338CB (all derelict).

Registrations are visible on the wings and mid-sections in the video.

In a well-functioning democratic republic with clear lanes of responsibility, that's the baseline of first planning, not commentary four days in.

Thank you for this thread, straight up.

But also: thank you for this comment because my search led me to an amazing b&w shot of Toni Morrison and Angela Davis walking in NYC that I hadn't seen before.

"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." ~ Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison at home by Katy Grannan for the NY Times
#Booksky

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h/t to @vcdgf555.bsky.social for the idea and, guessing, 60% of the list.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

None of it is distraction. It's willful, it's horrific, and evil at every turn.

The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀

Thanks for getting this... me on the megaphone.

P fkn' R baby

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

If they're using the video to justify it, doesn't that mean it's premeditated?

Administrative warrants are not judicial warrants. ICE shouldn't enter homes without court oversight. This is basic constitutional law. #NoWarrantNoICE

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

There are approximately 1200 detainees at the Dilley torture camp & one third of them are
children.

C👶🏾H🍼I👶🏾L🍼D👶🏾R🍼E👶🏾N FFS!

Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 today because there are voting on DHS and ICE funding tomorrow!

SAY NO FUNDING FOR ICE MURDERERS!

ABOLISH ICE!
#NoWarrantNoICE

🚨 URGENT: Federal agents deployed chemical weapons on detainees at the Dilley detention center including children. Tear gas and pepper spray used on families already caged, trapped, and unable to escape. Tell the Senate no funding for violence!

📞 Call 202-224-3121 now. #NoWarrantNoICE

Today is the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and I still vividly remember being confused and traumatized alongside my classmates.

I think about these kids being terrorized by ICE, and I think that trauma will also stay with them well into adulthood. It's unforgivable.

Rep. Ilhan Omar was charged at by a man during a town hall event in Minneapolis.

Video from the incident shows the man spraying a substance in her direction.

The violence will keep increasing. They think they have green lights.

Less a protest and more a spontaneous plea of desperation from our most vulnerable population in spite and view of the cruelest and most callous of 'humans'.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*