Jesselyn Radack
@jesselynradack.bsky.social
Dir. of Whistleblower & Source Protection at ExposeFacts.org; Contributing Writer at Salon.com; natsec and human rts nerd; Snowden lawyer; Brown, Yale Law & Justice Dept alum; Mom of 3.
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Whistleblower and Source Protection Program
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With so many avenues of legal accountability for #Trump closing, I’ve never seen so many calls on social media for #leaks. If you have natsec or intel info to disclose, I can help you do it safely. Always pro bono.
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Women literally made men.🤰
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Women literally made men.🤰
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The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
25/47
25/47
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
25/47
25/47
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Turn the tables on this @govpritzker.illinois.gov
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Turn the tables on this @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Such a misleading headline. Justice Jackson didn’t rule on the legality of White House’s let-kids-starve. She just imposed a pause to give appeals ct more time to weigh legal arguments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Curtail Food Stamp Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Such a misleading headline. Justice Jackson didn’t rule on the legality of White House’s let-kids-starve. She just imposed a pause to give appeals ct more time to weigh legal arguments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents
A federal judge in Chicago issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
RIP #JamesWatson. Thank you for co-discovering the structure of DNA! Sorry you spent your final year listening to Luddites trample research.
#ScienceMatters 🧬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
#ScienceMatters 🧬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
RIP #JamesWatson. Thank you for co-discovering the structure of DNA! Sorry you spent your final year listening to Luddites trample research.
#ScienceMatters 🧬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
#ScienceMatters 🧬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
Maybe Trump will stop trying to make a literal federal case out of acts of protest. Congrats Sean Dunn & Sabrina Shroff!
#SandwichGuy🥖
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
#SandwichGuy🥖
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Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer
Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Maybe Trump will stop trying to make a literal federal case out of acts of protest. Congrats Sean Dunn & Sabrina Shroff!
#SandwichGuy🥖
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#SandwichGuy🥖
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This happened in the most conservative court in the country! 😳
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
Judge Berates Justice Dept. in Its Prosecution of Comey
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This happened in the most conservative court in the country! 😳
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
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The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
US extrajudicial assassination of civilians has a dark history. Even worse, OLC (the “constitutional conscience of the Justice Department”) is acting more like a rubber-stamp than a guardrail.
#LatinAmericaDroneStrikes
www.salon.com/2025/11/04/t...
#LatinAmericaDroneStrikes
www.salon.com/2025/11/04/t...
Trump has free rein to kill, courtesy of the Justice Department
The Office of Legal Counsel is rubber-stamping extrajudicial killings in Latin America
www.salon.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
US extrajudicial assassination of civilians has a dark history. Even worse, OLC (the “constitutional conscience of the Justice Department”) is acting more like a rubber-stamp than a guardrail.
#LatinAmericaDroneStrikes
www.salon.com/2025/11/04/t...
#LatinAmericaDroneStrikes
www.salon.com/2025/11/04/t...
I won’t make any jokes abt #Cheney going to the dark side, but he was proud of the torture prgm & called @Snowden “a traitor…and one of the worst violators of the #EspionageAct in history.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I won’t make any jokes abt #Cheney going to the dark side, but he was proud of the torture prgm & called @Snowden “a traitor…and one of the worst violators of the #EspionageAct in history.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Glad the White House SCIF is secured in scagliola & fallalery.
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Glad the White House SCIF is secured in scagliola & fallalery.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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It took years of shaming before we got NYT to call torture torture (they used Enhanced Interrogation Technique).
Open to suggestions how we accelerate the process here.
M-U-R-D-E-R
Open to suggestions how we accelerate the process here.
M-U-R-D-E-R
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the Pentagon carried out another "lethal kinetic strike" at President Trump's direction on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four men.
Pete Hegseth says U.S. carried out another strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific Ocean, killing 4 people
The defense secretary's announcement marks the 14th known strike the U.S. has conducted on alleged drug traffickers in recent months.
nbcnews.to
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It took years of shaming before we got NYT to call torture torture (they used Enhanced Interrogation Technique).
Open to suggestions how we accelerate the process here.
M-U-R-D-E-R
Open to suggestions how we accelerate the process here.
M-U-R-D-E-R
I wish it didn’t take #Guiffre’s suicide & book for ex-Prince Andrew to be stripped of his royal title. Don’t @ me abt cancel culture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I wish it didn’t take #Guiffre’s suicide & book for ex-Prince Andrew to be stripped of his royal title. Don’t @ me abt cancel culture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
Superb piece on #EspionageAct weaponization & how “official channels for lawful #whistleblower disclosures are compromised or futile.” Discusses our clients #Snowden & Tom Drake (@witnessblower.net)
www.justsecurity.org/122491/weapo...
www.justsecurity.org/122491/weapo...
Weaponizing the Espionage Act: What It Means for Whistleblowers, Reporters, and Democracy
How the Trump administration could weaponize the Espionage Act and its chilling effect to control the press and justify suppression.
www.justsecurity.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Superb piece on #EspionageAct weaponization & how “official channels for lawful #whistleblower disclosures are compromised or futile.” Discusses our clients #Snowden & Tom Drake (@witnessblower.net)
www.justsecurity.org/122491/weapo...
www.justsecurity.org/122491/weapo...
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After 11 years the full Emmy-nominated SILENCED doc now finally available — highlighting the ordeals of 3 national security whistleblowers, including Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake & John Kiriakou — detailing the extreme personal toll they each endured under Bush & Obama Admins.
youtu.be/J7UXdr1l1lY
youtu.be/J7UXdr1l1lY
SILENCED (2014) - Full Whistleblower Documentary
YouTube video by jspione
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October 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
After 11 years the full Emmy-nominated SILENCED doc now finally available — highlighting the ordeals of 3 national security whistleblowers, including Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake & John Kiriakou — detailing the extreme personal toll they each endured under Bush & Obama Admins.
youtu.be/J7UXdr1l1lY
youtu.be/J7UXdr1l1lY
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This is why I have long thought that Devin Nunes was working for someone besides Trump, because he appears to be actually getting taken care of and Trump does not take care of people.
September 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is why I have long thought that Devin Nunes was working for someone besides Trump, because he appears to be actually getting taken care of and Trump does not take care of people.
Lincoln: “[W]orse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast & fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation… [leaving] their countrymen mouldering in the dust.”
cc: @ezraklein.bsky.social
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cc: @ezraklein.bsky.social
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How much money is Trump making off of the presidency?
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the David Kirkpatrick of The New Yorker about his investigation into how much the Trump family has profited from both presidencies.
www.npr.org
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Lincoln: “[W]orse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast & fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation… [leaving] their countrymen mouldering in the dust.”
cc: @ezraklein.bsky.social
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cc: @ezraklein.bsky.social
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This should come with a trigger warning. So upsetting. I was a West Wing alum, but no part of the #WhiteHouse was Trump’s to destroy.
#BoycottDemolitionDonors
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
#BoycottDemolitionDonors
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Here are the donors contributing to Trump’s White House ballroom
Companies such as Google, Amazon and Meta are on the list of donors to the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom. The East Wing has been demolished as part of the project.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This should come with a trigger warning. So upsetting. I was a West Wing alum, but no part of the #WhiteHouse was Trump’s to destroy.
#BoycottDemolitionDonors
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
#BoycottDemolitionDonors
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Inflation Edged Higher as Tariffs Raised Prices. . . making Trump an idiot or a liar. Really a both/and.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: Inflation Edged Higher in September, as Tariffs Raise Some Prices
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Inflation Edged Higher as Tariffs Raised Prices. . . making Trump an idiot or a liar. Really a both/and.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
The Justice Dept OLCs history of secretly blessing torture, drone strikes on Americans, and now extrajudicial assassination of drug runners.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | The Secretive Office Approving Trump’s Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Justice Dept OLCs history of secretly blessing torture, drone strikes on Americans, and now extrajudicial assassination of drug runners.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...