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

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

I’ve been saying the Palestinian resistance is the front line against Skynet

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: A company backed by Eric Trump is in talks with the Israel Defense Forces to supply humanoid robots to patrol Hamas tunnels beneath Gaza and potentially engage in combat. https://t.co/LHM4PCfHRl

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Hakeem Jeffries kept his members in line for this critical vote by allowing them to duck out to meet with their AIPAC tied PACs

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Katherine Clark is the Democratic Whip in the House, and it is thus her responsibility to ensure members are there to vote.

Clark is also a founding member of EDW, which hosted an event tonight from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, overlapping with the 5:30pm vote on the Hegseth impeachment.

Of the 11 members who missed the Hegseth vote, 8 have received support from EDW or its AIPAC-tied super PAC EDW Action. Of those 8, two are sitting board members.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Likudnik warlord and Dee Snider impersonator Miriam Adelson once again describes Donald Trump, and by extension, the US government, as vehicles for achieving the Israeli plan of "true change" (read: regime change) in Iran

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

Miriam Adelson: "Leaders and governments may change, but [the US-Israel] alliance must remain strong."

"We have two years in this administration to create true change—to face and defeat our true common enemy together."

"That is our responsibility."

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

CENTCOM's Bradley Cooper is kibitzing with Israel lobbyists and laying the groundwork for a major escalation with Iran with minimal scrutiny from the media and Congress

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Max Blumenthal explains why he thinks CENTCOM Chief Bradley Cooper is one of the most dangerous men on Trump's team

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Paraguay's Santiago Peña was a key pillar of Trump's Shield of the Americas project

Now, after the collapse of Ueno Bank, which left 3 million Paraguayans without funds, he's under house arrest

Ueno was a top sponsor of a "Latino Wall Street" gala at Mar-a-Lago last February

In attendance with Peña: operative Fernando Cerimedo, who's now in jail for allegedly attempting to ice his girlfriend

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Will Paraguay's bank collapse unravel Trump's Latin American project?

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has been one of the most outspoken defenders of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in Latin America.

And he’s just presided over a financial scandal so devastating to the citizens of his country that it might herald the demise of the entire hemispheric project of Trump's neocolonial Donroe Doctrine.

On November 6, Peña was impeached, arrested and placed under house arrest following the collapse of Ueno Bank - an institution that held funds belonging to millions of citizens, as well as significant public deposits.

Three million Paraguayan citizens in a country of six million woke up this November 5 and found that their funds had been frozen by their central bank. Retirees no longer had access to their funds. About $800 million in public funds was gone.

The Grayzone explains why the Paraguayan financial catastrophe has engulfed Peña's government in chaos, and how it traces back to Trump's Washington through the network of the jailed political operative Fernando Cerimedo.

[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