Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

founder, @CivRightsCorps civil rights lawyer author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (2025) views here are my own, not civil rights corps civilrightscorps.org/team/alec-kara… Washington, DC Joined February 2014

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

3 hours ago

A reminder that I’ll be back home in Pittsburgh, staying with my grandma, and doing a big event about Copaganda at the Carnegie library tomorrow night. We are at over 500 RSVPs but there’s still space left. Join us! pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/alec-…

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Drop Site @DropSiteNews

2 days ago

⭕️ NYT Called Every Major Gaza City a “Hamas Stronghold,” New Book Documents A new book by media critic Adam Johnson, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza, documents how the New York Times used the term “Hamas stronghold” 154 times between October 2023 and October 2024, almost always while reporting on war crimes or pending war crimes. Johnson shows the paper applied the label to all five of Gaza’s most populated cities, including refugee camps like Jabaliya, where an Israeli strike killed upwards of 120 people in an October 2023 attack. The NYT headline read: “Israel Strike Targets Hamas Stronghold in Dense Gaza Area.” The book argues the framing militarized civilian areas in the public imagination to justify their destruction.

Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu

3 days ago

Reading How To Sell A Genocide, the NYT called every major population centre in the Gaza Strip a "Hamas stronghold" at some point. They actively worked to militarise civilians in Gaza to justify genocide

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Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski

4 days ago

It should disturb you to no end that the US government is doing extrajudicial murder of random people on the ocean. No trial, no evidence, no due process. And now nobody even bothers to talk about it. The number of people killed may be over 200 now.

U.S. Southern Command @Southcom

5 days ago

On May 29, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking

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Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI

4 days ago

fun fact: the NYT hasn't had a breaking news headline about a bombing in Gaza (~1000 killed by US/Israel since Oct 2025) or Lebanon (3,400+ killed by US/Israel since Oct 2025) since Oct 2025.

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

4 days ago

I wrote about the strategic and moral depravity of the many elite Democrats and media pundits who don’t take repression seriously. It’s one of the great crises of our time: equalityalec.substack.com/p/the-liberal-…

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

4 days ago

This lawyer represents New Jersey Democrats and national Democratic Party. He cheers using militarized state troopers to crush protesters as a *strategic move* to protect residents from being brutalized by different cops. The Democratic establishment will walk us off a cliff.

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

5 days ago

pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/alec-…

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

5 days ago

Thursday June 4 is the most important Copaganda event for me. Returning home to Pittsburgh, where I grew up, to talk about the role of liberal institutions in this authoritarian moment in front of family and friends at the historic Carnegie Library. Join us! Link below.

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Prem Thakker @prem_thakker

6 days ago

An Israeli-born, Trump-appointed US attorney — who's referred to Palestinians as “animals,” called for Gaza to be wiped “off the map,” and suggested “even the children” in Gaza are terrorists — dropped charges against an Israeli tied to a biolab in Nevada.zeteo.com/p/trump-backed…

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

6 days ago

In this case, of course, there are other extremely troubling allegations that the public cannot fully appreciate--such as partisan political activity by the judge in support of prosecutors--because the details are kept secret.

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

6 days ago

We must insist on ethics proceedings being open to the public, and on a new era of honest and rigorous accountability for misconduct committed by those in power. You can read a bit about our work here: civilrightscorps.org/accountability/

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

6 days ago

THREAD. I've written before about some of the vital ethics and accountability work we do in a system defined by impunity. But this week's scandal of a federal judge having loud sex with a cop in chambers and then lying about it reveals huge *systemic* problems.

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

a week ago

@ro11otomasi2 The free version is already a paperback so that it can get into prisons. And yes, eventually the regular book will be sold as a paperback!

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

a week ago

THREAD. Everything I wrote in Copaganda is becoming more relevant as they manufacture bipartisan consent for authoritarian control. And it's important to me that all my work is accessible for free. I want to remind teachers: we have free copies of the book for your students.

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Scott Hechinger @ScottHech

a week ago

READ: A short story that's happening right now. Something deeply dangerous in SF. A waste of taxpayer dollars. A decision driven by greed. One that will undermine community health & safety. No one knows about it. Please read & share. There's still time to change how it ends.