“james adomian”

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:

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AI is going to solve screen addiction by flooding the zone with so much slop that actual human beings just abandon ship and go back to IRL.

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"abolish ICE and jail everyone involved" is the moderate position

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Yes the audience was bridled and commanded to pay attention to Joe Rogan

Nowhere near even a plurality of actual people

They’re artificially pumped by billionaire-programmed algorithms, a fake popularity base under all of it

Cartoon showing the dove of peace, but made up of many ruined buildings.

Cartoon showing Netanyahu driving a Trump-shaped mech, firing missiles and shooting a laserbeam from the mouth. Behind the mech, a bomb has fallen on a school. Drones shaped like Esptein files follow the mech.

Cartoon showing a general standing in front of a board with the text 'Operation Epstein distraction'. The general has used a red pen to cross out the letters 'stein' and 'distraction' and replaced them with 'ic' and 'fury'. Trump is sitting, looking up at the board. The caption reads 'Let's not be too obvious, Sir.

Cartoon showing Trump as a little boy with his finger in a dike. Water labeled 'Truth' is about to spill over the dyke. An elephant is running away.

Some of my favorite cartoons from @cartoonmovement.com this week, by Andrew Winters, @emadhajjaj.bsky.social, Oleksiy Kustovsky and @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social

More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

#PoliticalCartoons #Iran #Trump

“I am become Shiva, destroyer of jobs”

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

What stage of the apocalypse is this?

polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

“E for Eclipse”

#orsonwelles #fforfake #lunareclipse

hard to express how sickening it is for me to call anything worse than the iraq war in any way but "at least they used their lies to ask for permission" is really where we're at

A false flag done *upon* Saudi Arabia?!? 🔄🎪🔄

Or a baby that just threw a bottle on the floor

Whenever some fascist hegseth type is trying to compliment himself by bellowing the word ~warfighter~ it just sounds like something brainless that a Will Ferrell character would yell in an ego tantrum: “I am a WARFIGHTER!”

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I like that @jadomian.bsky.social’s specials are also wine now.

Wag The Don.

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

Board of Peace - Season 1

A cold comfort: in the final act of the mass extinction event that the billionaires are currently gaming, if they enter their escape arks and survival bunkers as planned, more than half of them will be ~replaced~ by their most trusted bodyguards (whom they intended to betray and jettison)

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

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