Ken Klippenstein

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

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Just got this tip from an airline pilot

I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

Luigi's Manifesto

Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

ICE just adopted new policies making it harder for Congress to prevent deportations, per memo leaked to me:

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)

god damn he's cooking

Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

The judge presiding over the Luigi Mangione case is married to a former Pfizer executive. More about the judge here:

Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive

Judge overseeing case involving murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson owns millions in stock, including Pharma and healthcare, through husband

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few people had so much wealth and so much power."

"In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. We have an oligarchy here, too.

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Vigil for Renee Good here in front of Wisconsin’s capitol building right now:

David Hogg is cooking lately

No shit murder is bad. The jokes about the United CEO aren’t really about him; they’re about the rapacious healthcare system he personified and which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation about

Never in my decade of filing FOIA requests have I gotten a response like this. Customs and Border Protection denies my request, saying "Due to law enforcement sensitivities we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records." No exemption cited, no name of who wrote this.

NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK."

"I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."

I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles “Show of Presence”

Leaks from military's LA deployment reveal Coca Cola vs. Pepsi rivalry, sweaty guardsmen, and abject failure

ICE will no longer consider if "an alien is a victim of a crime...a positive discretionary factor" in determining whether to deport them, per new ICE memo leaked to me

Evergreen

Never had as many govt leakers reach out as I have today. Not even close

The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show

I tweeted about this guy last night and got all these replies from random people who said he'd saved their baby's life. Fuck being rich I would love to have been this guy, imagine how cool it would be to know you'd helped so many people. We need to name an airport after him or something