Tim Shorrock
@timshorrock.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, musician, DC since 1982. Living with grief since losing my daughter Roxanne in March 2024. Writing on Korea, Japan, Cold War, Capitalism. Crazy Bob Dylan fan. Author of SPIES FOR HIRE. Now on Substack at EMPIRE BLUES.
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How I went from being an antiwar hippy on the road in Oregon to breaking a major story on US complicity in the ROK Army's suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The story of my life in journalism. timshorrock.substack.com/p/dmz-empire...
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How I went from being an antiwar hippy on the road in Oregon to breaking a major story on US complicity in the ROK Army's suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The story of my life in journalism. timshorrock.substack.com/p/dmz-empire...
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
How I went from being an antiwar hippy on the road in Oregon to breaking a major story on US complicity in the ROK Army's suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The story of my life in journalism. timshorrock.substack.com/p/dmz-empire...
Love hearing Bob Dylan in his earliest recordings singing about joining a union and paying his dues. The American way. Or should be. 🇺🇸
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Love hearing Bob Dylan in his earliest recordings singing about joining a union and paying his dues. The American way. Or should be. 🇺🇸
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Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl".
The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
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The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...
Bari Weiss Crosses Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Picket Line
This week, Bari Weiss, the controversial new right-wing head of CBS News, crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to participate in a front-page puff piece that painted her as a scrappy “Pitts...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl".
The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...
The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...
"Health" Man lol
BREAKING: RFK Jr. flees the scene after Novo Nordisk Executive Gordon Findlay collapsed in the Oval Office.
Findlay is reportedly ok.
Findlay is reportedly ok.
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"Health" Man lol
Bluto is very mad.
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Bluto is very mad.
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🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
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They’re selling postcards of the hanging…
Ellis is walking through the testimony heard yesterday. She said Oak Park Township Trustee Juan Munoz's arrest made him a "prop" for DHS videos. Ald. Julia Ramirez "ran away from tear gas while eight-and-a-half months pregnant."
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
They’re selling postcards of the hanging…
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Zohran Mamdani’s Bob Dylan-Themed Ad Removed From X After Publisher Denies Song Clearance
Zohran Mamdani’s Bob Dylan-Themed Ad Removed From X After Publisher Denies Song Clearance
Zohran Mamdani's Bob Dylan-themed ad was removed from X after Dylan's music publisher UMPG denied the use of the song “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”
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November 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s Bob Dylan-Themed Ad Removed From X After Publisher Denies Song Clearance
South Korea is not at your beck and call, Rep. Raskin. It has its own agency and does not answer to Democratic Party liberals. Perhaps it had its own reasons to do this.
Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
South Korea is not at your beck and call, Rep. Raskin. It has its own agency and does not answer to Democratic Party liberals. Perhaps it had its own reasons to do this.
OK, now we get it. Nippon Steel helped create the largest South Korean steel mill - POSCO - in the 1970s. Now it's trying to out-compete the Koreans in the US market. Funny in part because US Steel once formed a joint venture with POSCO in the Bay Area.
Nippon Steel bolsters U.S. Steel to head off South Korean competition
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/materials/nippon-steel-bolsters-u.s.-steel-to-head-off-south-korean-competition
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/materials/nippon-steel-bolsters-u.s.-steel-to-head-off-south-korean-competition
Nippon Steel bolsters U.S. Steel to head off South Korean competition
Japan steelmaker to invest $11bn in new acquisition's capabilities
asia.nikkei.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
OK, now we get it. Nippon Steel helped create the largest South Korean steel mill - POSCO - in the 1970s. Now it's trying to out-compete the Koreans in the US market. Funny in part because US Steel once formed a joint venture with POSCO in the Bay Area.
NEW: Dick Cheney is dead - morte - and Pete Hegseth's privatized "Department of War" is his legacy. An in-depth piece on how Cheney helped create the intel-based concept of netcentric war being carried out by the Trump administration. #Spies4Hire
HAWKING THE EMPIRE: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the Origins of Pete Hegseth's Dangerous Strategy of Assassination Warfare
How the former Vice President and Secretary of Defense cleared the way for "net-centric warfare" and the murderous air strikes carried out today by Trump's Department of War. A Hidden History.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
NEW: Dick Cheney is dead - morte - and Pete Hegseth's privatized "Department of War" is his legacy. An in-depth piece on how Cheney helped create the intel-based concept of netcentric war being carried out by the Trump administration. #Spies4Hire
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
CNN is totally freaked out that Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his militant speech tonight lol.
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
CNN is totally freaked out that Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his militant speech tonight lol.
Just finished a lengthy story on the death of Neocon Man and how Cheney & Rumsfeld created the intel-based concept of netcentric warfare being carried out by Hegseth & Trump. Watch for my Substack story Wednesday morning. 🌺#Spies4Hire
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just finished a lengthy story on the death of Neocon Man and how Cheney & Rumsfeld created the intel-based concept of netcentric warfare being carried out by Hegseth & Trump. Watch for my Substack story Wednesday morning. 🌺#Spies4Hire
Forgot about this post. The Times really outdid itself on Charlie Kirk. Astonishing, really.
The New York Times has no less than 10 stories on its front page about the "marytred" fascist Charlie Kirk. A mawkish display of sensationalist reporting from what was once a great newspaper. More than JFK, more than 9/11. No wonder Trump's so mad.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Forgot about this post. The Times really outdid itself on Charlie Kirk. Astonishing, really.
Sickening.
MAGA continues to feign surprise over their racist and bigoted members.
Donald Trump commuted this man’s 17 year prison sentence related to January 6.
Trump also referred to the 2017 deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville as having good people on both sides.
Donald Trump commuted this man’s 17 year prison sentence related to January 6.
Trump also referred to the 2017 deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville as having good people on both sides.
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Sickening.
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RIP Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay
Helluva singer who worked with the Grateful Dead & Elvis and put up with a shitload of misogyny. Tough, special lady.
Helluva singer who worked with the Grateful Dead & Elvis and put up with a shitload of misogyny. Tough, special lady.
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
RIP Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay
Helluva singer who worked with the Grateful Dead & Elvis and put up with a shitload of misogyny. Tough, special lady.
Helluva singer who worked with the Grateful Dead & Elvis and put up with a shitload of misogyny. Tough, special lady.
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"US Marine arrested in Okinawa for alleged assault on restaurant worker"
Is this what the US military means when it says its personnel are in Japan to protect people?
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Is this what the US military means when it says its personnel are in Japan to protect people?
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
US Marine arrested in Okinawa for alleged assault on restaurant worker - The Mainichi
NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A U.S. Marine was arrested Monday on suspicion of injuring a restaurant employee by grappling the man by the throat in Naha, Ok
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November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"US Marine arrested in Okinawa for alleged assault on restaurant worker"
Is this what the US military means when it says its personnel are in Japan to protect people?
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Is this what the US military means when it says its personnel are in Japan to protect people?
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
The trees are lovely in DC today.
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The trees are lovely in DC today.
He's trying way too hard.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
He's trying way too hard.
Goddam it I used to have this red record. Lost it somehow over the years.
💥NEW💥 THE BEATLES 🇯🇵 Abbey Road
I just had to have it.
#thebeatles #nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #nowspinning #vinylasky *repost* @support.bsky.team please add Update functionality 🙏🥺
I just had to have it.
#thebeatles #nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #nowspinning #vinylasky *repost* @support.bsky.team please add Update functionality 🙏🥺
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Goddam it I used to have this red record. Lost it somehow over the years.
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Excellent analysis of how the new leaders of Japan and South Korea could reframe trade relations with the MAGA Embecile, from the UK's Aidan Foster-Carter, who's been around Korean studies for as long as I have.
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asia.nikkei.com/opinion/to-b...
To be Japan's 'Iron Lady,' Takaichi should call Trump's bluff with Lee
Tokyo and Seoul must unite to counter US pressure on trade
asia.nikkei.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Excellent analysis of how the new leaders of Japan and South Korea could reframe trade relations with the MAGA Embecile, from the UK's Aidan Foster-Carter, who's been around Korean studies for as long as I have.
asia.nikkei.com/opinion/to-b...
asia.nikkei.com/opinion/to-b...
"Haecho knew she might die. Trying to bring aid to Gaza was worth the risk." Kim A-hyun, who goes by the activist moniker “Haecho,” became the first Korean to join a Gaza relief flotilla. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
[Interview] Haecho knew she might die. Trying to bring aid to Gaza was worth the risk.
Kim A-hyun, who goes by the activist moniker “Haecho,” became the first Korean to join a Gaza relief flotilla. She recounted her preparation for the voyage and her mistreatment in Israeli detention in...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Haecho knew she might die. Trying to bring aid to Gaza was worth the risk." Kim A-hyun, who goes by the activist moniker “Haecho,” became the first Korean to join a Gaza relief flotilla. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
50 years ago this week...I wrote this memory about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour in response to an interview with Roger McGuinn in @raypadgett's great newsletter ‘Flagging Down the Double E’s.’ It’s a must for any Dylan fan.
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Tim Shorrock (@timshorrock)
50 years ago this week, Bob Dylan kicked off his Rolling Thunder tour in New England. I missed it - I didn’t have the dough!
I wrote this memory in response to an interview with Roger McGuinn in Ray ...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
50 years ago this week...I wrote this memory about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour in response to an interview with Roger McGuinn in @raypadgett's great newsletter ‘Flagging Down the Double E’s.’ It’s a must for any Dylan fan.
substack.com/@timshorrock...
substack.com/@timshorrock...