Zach Dorfman
National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
- The 1st amendment applies to—belongs to—everyone, not just professional journalists. I’m glad that Rumeysa Ozturk has been freed, but it’s unconscionable to have someone imprisoned for 6 weeks for the “crime” of writing an op-ed. That’s it, end of story. A fundamental betrayal of the constitution.
- An Irish woman who has lived in California for nearly 30 years as a permanent resident went home to visit her ailing father, came back to the US, was abducted by ICE because of an expunged, decades-old run-in with the law, and was imprisoned for weeks. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
- Interesting thought experiment: What if, instead of slapping an embargo on a tiny, poor country like Cuba, with a negligible trading relationship with the US, we imposed one on a top-3 trading partner, with an economy deeply integrated w/ our own? And also that country happened to be a superpower?
- Reposted by Zach DorfmanAt which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.
- BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- Andor Episode 8, my lord.
- Reposted by Zach DorfmanBreaking: Another F/A-18 fighter jet from the Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, per 4 people familiar w/the incident. 2 aviators ejected and were recovered by helo with minor injuries. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
