Max Blumenthal

Editor, @TheGrayzoneNews

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

When federal agents seized my phones at Dulles Airport, they flagrantly violated several 4th circuit rulings which explicitly forbid advanced forensic searches of devices without a warrant or individualized suspicion.

Was the order to seize my devices delivered under pressure from unregistered Israel and Ukraine lobbyist Laura Loomer, who boasted about calling Trump cabinet officials to demand I be jailed for my reporting from Iran, and effectively took credit for the confiscation of my devices?

We're filing this lawsuit to answer that question, and to prevent the unconstitutional weaponization of federal law enforcement against journalists whose reporting complicates their malign, Israeli-directed agenda.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

The @adc is suing DHS Secretary Mullin over the seizure of Max Blumenthal’s phones after he returned from reporting in Iran

The lawsuit accuses the govt of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him for his journalism
https://t.co/WfdOs5p9n8

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

“Traffic” is the new senate parliamentarian. And if you don’t like that one, the Dems have entire Santa bags full of excuses yet to deliver

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

They said they were stuck in traffic

In this town, AIPAC apparently controls the stop lights

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

The 11 Democrats who did not vote to Impeach Pete Hegseth:

Julia Brownley (CA) @RepBrownley
Lou Correa (CA) @RepLouCorrea
Laura Gillen (NY) @RepLauraGillen
Steven Horsford (NV) @RepHorsford
Jonathan Jackson (IL) @rep_jackson
Nancy Pelosi (CA) @SpeakerPelosi
Brittany Pettersen (CO) @RepPettersen
Melanie Stansbury (NM) @Rep_Stansbury
Haley Stevens (MI) @RepHaleyStevens
Marilyn Strickland (WA) @RepStricklandWA
Frederica Wilson (FL) @RepWilson

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

During an unsolicited call-in rant to C-SPAN, Trump boasts that he “saved Israel” by bombing Iran in June 2025

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

This is what Ukrainian men represent to pro-war Democrats like Gallego: hired hit men and bullet stoppers in the new Cold War

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

@Switch82Vet No that’s the beauty of this, we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The accused operative, Mohammed Al-Saadi, has been in US prison for five months

According to the new indictment for RAF Fairfield, he “allegedly sent coded messages to assist in future acts of violence”

[CNN @CNN]

An Iranian operative helped direct a failed plot to attack a key UK air force base used by the US military from a New York jail, DOJ alleges. https://t.co/mYYSxGllJT

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

This was the only example I could think of in which a VP publicly broke with the president over a war prior to JD Vance blaming the Iran war for the Republicans' midterm disaster

Like Humphrey's Salt Lake City speech, Vance's statement was too little, too late

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Max Blumenthal compares JD Vance's statement blaming the Iran war for the GOP's midterm losses to Vice President Hubert Humphrey's too-little, too-late break from LBJ on the Vietnam War

Blumenthal explains how Humphrey had the power to stop Nixon and the war after learning that Nixon's campaign was secretly colluding with South Vietnam to undermine the Paris Peace Talks

But he kept quiet, dooming his own presidential ambitions as the war escalated

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Remember when a masked cyclist in a fedora spraypainted a swastika on a Brooklyn yeshiva one day after Mamdani's election?

The Mayor's foes exploited the still-unsolved crime to stoke hysteria about his danger to the city's Jewish population

A year later, FOIA records we obtained show the NYPD stonewalling citizens seeking information on the case

A NYPD press officer told me he has no update on their investigation

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

One year since a strange antisemitic hate crime marred the first hours of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new term, the NYPD is stonewalling FOIA requests seeking information about its investigation

The NYPD told The Grayzone it has no update on the case
https://t.co/55GjQfRkS9

[عبود بطاح🇵🇸 @abod_bt]

غزة الليلة

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

The coastal line of Israel (occupied Palestine) and Gaza in one picture, where one group of people is living an apocalyptic life and the other is living high on the hog.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Max Blumenthal on midterms and Iran war fallout w/Mario Nawfal https://t.co/8V5bKwffB8

[marah khalad @mar80549]

We are drowning in our tents

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Initial reports indicate that a sand dune has collapsed onto two families sheltering in a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, leaving several people trapped beneath the sand.

The incident occurred following heavy rainfall across the central Gaza Strip this evening. Civil Defense teams have been alerted and are being contacted to launch a rescue operation.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.

Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.

I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.

We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.

I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.

What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?

I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

The “intelligence” that Kennedy is referring to are Israeli talking points pushed by Israeli lobbyists like Dubowitz.

In the lead up to the war Israeli gov officials & lobbyists were pushing this nonsense but there was zero actual intel to support these outlandish claims.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The J Street poll’s internals show 20% of American Jews under 34 sympathize more with Israel

78% of Jewish Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians or “both” Palestinians and Israelis

94% of Jewish Republicans sympathize more with Israel

[Shibley Telhami @ShibleyTelhami]

Jews under the age of 50 sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis - in stark contrast with those 50 or older
https://t.co/GFnmiHC6T8

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The US DOJ request to extradite pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers contains several mistranslations which seemed designed to exaggerate the accusations against him

Chambers has not been indicted

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

“The CENTCOM commander is now a podcaster” 😂

[محسن رضایی @ir_rezaee]

You lost the war and the election.Vance has conceded,Rubio is heading for the exit,Hegseth is about to be fired,and the CENTCOM commander is now a podcaster!
So٫Who exactly in Washington do we need to get this message across to? Start a war,and you’ll face a devastating response.

[Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع @dn_osama_rabee]

Gaza Civil Defense: Entire displacement camps were flooded across all areas of the Gaza Strip early this morning.

[Meqdad Jameel @Almeqdad]

المشهد من حي الرمال الآن وأشهر شوارع مدينة غزة والذي تحول إلى مأوى كبير للنازحين.

[Sam Husseini 4 Congress MD-04 - The Real Deal @samhusseini]

Chuck Schumer, uber warmonger.

Back in early June 2025, when it looked like Trump might not attack Iran, Schumer attacked the prospect of peace. It’s way worse than he hasn’t stopped Trump from war, he’s pushed for aggression:

“When it comes to negotiating with the terrorist government of Iran, Trump's all over the lot. One day he sounds tough, the next day he's backing off. And now all of a sudden we find out that Witkoff and Rubio are negotiating a secret side deal with Iran. What kind of bull is this? They're going to sound tough in public and then have a side deal that lets Iran get away with everything? That's outrageous. We need to make that side deal public. Any side deal should be before Congress and, most importantly, the American people. If TACO Trump is already folding on Iran, the American people need to know about it. No side deals.”