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Spencer Ackerman
Ackerman in 2008[1]
Born(1980-06-01)June 1, 1980(age 44)
New York City, U.S.
EducationRutgers University(BA)
OccupationJournalist
Years active2002-present
Known forNational security journalism
Notable workReign of Terror
Awards2012 National Magazine Award for Digital Media
2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Websitewww.forever-wars

Spencer Ackerman(born June 1, 1980) is an American journalist and writer. Focusing primarily on national security, he began his career atThe New Republicin 2002 before writing forWired,The GuardianandThe Daily Beast.

He won a 2012National Magazine Awardfor reporting on biasedFBItraining materials and shared in a 2014Pulitzer Prizefor his coverage of the2013 global surveillance disclosures.His bookReign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trumpwas named a best nonfiction book of 2021 byThe New York Times,The Washington PostandForeign Policy.

Early life and education

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Born to aJewishfamily on June 1, 1980, Ackerman grew up in a politically active household and started attending protests at age ten.[2][3][4]He graduated from theBronx High School of Sciencein 1998 andRutgers Universityin 2002 with aBachelor of Artsin philosophy.[5][6]

While writing for Rutgers' student newspaper,The Daily Targum,he earned a Certificate of Merit from theColumbia Scholastic Press Associationin news writing for his coverage of therecount in Floridafollowing the2000 U.S. presidential election.[7]Ackerman also worked for theNew York Press,a free alternative weekly.[3]

Career

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Following his graduation from Rutgers, Ackerman moved toWashington, D.C.to joinThe New Republicwhere he covered national security.[8]In an interview withColumbia Journalism Review,Ackerman said witnessing theSeptember 11 attacksinfluenced his decision to cover national security, which he viewed as the most important issue facing the nation at the time.[9]With colleagueJohn Judis,he cowrote an article that led to thePlame affair.[10][11][12]

Initially a supporter of theinvasion of Iraq,Ackerman became disillusioned and, beginning in January 2004, expressed opposition to the conflict inIraq'd,a blog dedicated to covering post invasion developments in the country.[13][14]He worked atThe New Republic(TNR) until 2006, when he started a blog titledToo Hot for TNRand was fired over what he described as irreconcilable ideological differences.[15][16]EditorFranklin Foersaid he fired Ackerman for insubordination and disparaging the magazine on his blog.[17][18]

Ackerman next began writing forThe American Prospect[19]as well asTalking Points Memo.[20]In a column forThe Wall Street Journal,Marie Beaudette named Ackerman as part of a "blogging elite" in Washington, D.C.[21]Ackerman also contributed to theWashington Monthlyon national security.[22]

The Washington Independentand Attackerman

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In December 2007, Ackerman joinedThe Washington Independentas a senior fellow covering national security and foreign policy.[23][24]After ending publication ofToo Hot for TNRin April 2008, he started a second national security blog, called Attackerman, atThinkProgress.[25][26]In June 2008, Ackerman moved the blog toFiredoglake.[27][28]

In August 2009,Politicoreported Ackerman was one of numerous reporters profiled by theRendon Group,a public relations firm hired by the Pentagon to vet journalists requesting embeds with U.S. forces in Iraq.[29]The requests were granted based on whether their coverage of the conflict portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.[30][31]The revelations prompted the military to end their contract with the firm.[32]

Wired

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Ackerman joinedWiredmagazine'sDanger Roomin June 2010, a national security blog.[33][34]

In July 2010,The Daily Callerreported on Ackerman's membership inJournoList,a privateGoogle Groupsforum for discussing politics and the news media created byEzra Kleinin February 2007.[35]Responding to theJeremiah Wright controversysurroundingBarack Obama's presidential campaign, Ackerman stated, "If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them –Fred Barnes,Karl Rove,who cares – and call them racists ".[36][37]Ackerman was also quoted as saying, "find a right winger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously, I mean this rhetorically."[38]

Ackerman's comments were made while writing forThe Washington Independent.[35]In a column forThe Wall Street Journal,James Taranto criticized Ackerman for "privately strategizing about how to suppress the news."[36]Ackerman faced additional criticism from conservatives likeEd Morrissey,Daniel Foster, Matt Welch, andAndrew Sullivan.[39][40][41][42]Steve Krakauer ofMediaiteandJonathan ChaitofThe New Republic,however, questioned whether the forum represented a controversy,[43][44]and Chait noted that conservative bloggers participate in similar forums.[45]A spokesperson forWireddefended Ackerman, adding the publication was aware of his political views.[38]

Due to his blog's affiliation withFiredoglake,Ackerman experienced difficulties obtaining permanent press credentials from theCongressional Press Gallery.[46][47]He leftFiredoglakein December 2010 to host theAttackermanblog independently.[48]

In 2011, Ackerman won theNational Magazine Awardfor Digital Media for his series on exposing the use ofIslamophobicmaterial to train recruits in counterterrorism at theFBI AcademyinQuantico, Virginia.[49][50][51]Following the revelations, at the mandate of theObama administration,the FBI launched an investigation and turned to the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center atWest Pointbefore eventually purging the materials.[52]

In a January 2012 column forTabletmagazine, Ackerman expressed disagreement with the use of the term "Israel Firster", writing, "if you can’t do it without sounding likePat Buchanan,who has nothing but antipathy and contempt for Jews, then you’ve lost the debate. "[53]Identifying himself as part of theJewish left,Ackerman noted the term was first used byfar-rightactivistWillis Cartoandneo-NaziDavid Duke.[54]TheJerusalem Posteditorial board andCommentary'sthen assistant editor, Alana Goodman, came to Ackerman's defense.[55][56]

The Guardian

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In June 2013, Ackerman joinedThe Guardianas a national security editor, initially at their Washington bureau before relocating back to New York.[57]During his onboarding process, Ackerman's job orientation functioned as cover for a briefing on the 2013 global surveillance disclosures, which the publication had just received fromEdward Snowden.[58]He contributed to several stories on the NSA’s surveillance programs based on these leaks, leading toThe Guardianwinning the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[59][60]Ackerman and colleagues also shared theInvestigative Reporters and Editorsmedal for investigative journalisml[61]and the 2014Scripps Howard FoundationRoy W. HowardAward for Public Service Reporting.[62]

Alongside his colleague Zach Stafford, Ackerman was a 2016 finalist for theOnline News Association's Online Journalism Awards for their reporting on a previously little-known detention facility run by theChicago Policeknown asHoman Square.[63]The investigation began when Ackerman profiled the U.S. military's employment ofRichard Zuley,a Chicago Police investigator, to develop interrogation techniques on detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[64]A source mentioned the Chicago Police operated a facility resembling ablack site.[65]Ackerman uncovered the facility and revealed that interrogators engaged in beating, rape, excessive shackling, deprived arrestees access to counsel for extended periods, and turned attorneys away from the facility.[66][67]

Starting in 2015, Ackerman attached a statement to his email signature, warning that unilateral declarations of anonymity from potential sources would not be honored.[68]In an interview withCNN'sBrian StelteronReliable Sources,Ackerman explained that a reporter should only grant anonymity following a discussion with the source regarding the reasons for anonymity.[69]

The Daily Beast

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Ackerman joinedThe Daily Beastas a senior national security correspondent in May 2017, reuniting with his former editor fromWired,Noah Shachtman.[70][71]

Forever Wars

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In 2021, Ackerman stepped down atThe Daily Beast[72]and launchedForever Wars,aSubstacknewsletter focused on international politics through a socialist lens, critiquing American militarism and exceptionalism.[73][74]

Reign of Terror

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Main article:Reign of Terror (book)

Ackerman's bookReign of Terror,a history and critique of theWar on Terrorwas published in August 2021. It was named a best nonfiction book of 2021 byThe New York Times,The Washington PostandForeign Policy.[75][76][77]

Podcasts

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In 2019, Ackerman co-hosted, with Laura Hudson, the "Citadel Dropouts," aWiredpodcast about the final season ofGame of Thrones.[78]

Comics

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In 2023, Ackerman co-wrote, with Evan Narcisse, "Waller vs. Wildstorm" aDC Black Labelcomic mini-series. Starting in October 2024, he will write the new volume ofIron ManforMarvel Comics.[79]

Awards

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The Guardian

Wired

The Daily Targum

Works

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  • Ackerman, Spencer (August 10, 2021),Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump,Viking,ISBN9781984879776
  • Nance, Malcolm; Ackerman, Spencer (foreword) (October 10, 2016),The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election,Skyhorse Publishing, p. 216,ISBN9781510723320

References

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  1. ^"Iraq in Strategic Context".The Austin Chronicle.July 11, 2008.RetrievedJune 11,2021.While the media focuses on "the surge," this panel takes a holistic look at Iraq in geopolitical terms for the Middle East, the U.S., and the world. Young turks of the blogosphere Matt Yglesias and Spencer Ackerman are joined by the National Security Network's Ilan Goldenberg and A.J. Rossmiller.
  2. ^@attackerman (November 19, 2018)."I was born in 1980, so I technically count too..."(Tweet). Archived fromthe originalon May 17, 2021 – viaTwitter.
  3. ^abLippman, Daniel (June 1, 2018)."BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Spencer Ackerman, national security reporter at the Daily Beast".Politico.Washington, D.C.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  4. ^Ackerman, Spencer (September 17, 2021)."Mainlining Fear and Hatred: An interview with Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror".Jewish Currents(Interview). Interviewed by David Klion.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.
  5. ^"Contributors".Shadowproof.RetrievedMay 31,2021.A Brooklyn native, he graduated from Rutgers University in 2002 with a BA in philosophy
  6. ^Steve Scully and Spencer Ackerman (July 9, 2004).War on Terror(video). Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN. Event occurs at 27:10.RetrievedMay 31,2021.SCULLY:What did you study at Rutgers? ACKERMAN:I was a philosophy student at Rutgers.
  7. ^ab"2002 - Awards For Student Work Gold Circle Awards - Collegiate Recipients".Columbia University in the City of New York.Columbia Scholastic Press Association.RetrievedMay 31,2021.CM. Spencer Ackerman, "Too Close To Call," The Daily Targum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  8. ^Ackerman, Spencer (April 21, 2008)."INTERVIEW: Spencer Ackerman".Splice Today(Interview). Interviewed by Russ Smith.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.
  9. ^Ackerman, Spencer (August 10, 2009)."Q & A: Spencer Ackerman Part One".Columbia Journalism Review(Interview). Interviewed by Greg Marx. New York, New York.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  10. ^Wilson v. Libby,535 F.3d 697,702 (D.C. Cir. 2008) ( "Another article was published on June 19, 2003, in The New Republic. Entitled" The First Casualty: The Selling of the Iraq War, "the article alleged that the Vice President's office had prompted the former ambassador's trip to Niger and that, after the trip, administration officials `" knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie.' "Am. Compl. ¶ 19k (quoting Spencer Ackerman John B. Judis, The First Casualty: The Selling of the Iraq War, NEW REPUBLIC, June 30, 2003, at 14). Several news outlets carried the story on July 6, 2003." ).
  11. ^"Government's Response to the Court's Inquiry Regarding News Articles the Government Intends to Offer as Evidence at Trial"(PDF).U.S. Department of Justice.May 12, 2006.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.
  12. ^Kennedy, Daniel (October 28, 2005)."Libby's TNR testimonial".Media Nation.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.
  13. ^Smith, Jordan (August 22, 2010)."Will the liberal hawks fly again?".Salon.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.
  14. ^Ackerman, Spencer (September 17, 2021)."Mainlining Fear and Hatred: An interview with Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror".Jewish Currents(Interview). Interviewed by David Klion.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.The more I poked into the details of the wars, the more fucked up they looked. Peter Beinart [ed. note: now Jewish Currents' editor-at-large] was the editor of TNR at the time, and the Iraq War was looking pretty bad to him as well. He thought it was important for a magazine that had done so much to advance the cause of war to have a consistent chronicle of what it was in practice, and that became my job, in the form of a blog called "Iraq'd" that I started in January 2004. By that point Iraq was totally on fire; I thought I would be writing about the uneven struggle of the Iraqi people to organize a viable democracy, and instead I was blogging about torture jails and sectarian civil war. I realized pretty quickly that I no longer held the ideological position the blog was launched from, and I felt compelled to say that. It was just obvious—though unfortunately it hadn't been to me earlier—that Iraq was not only a mistake but a moral emergency requiring immediate redress.
  15. ^"Too Hot for TNR".October 31, 2006. Archived fromthe originalon August 7, 2010.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  16. ^Ackerman, Spencer (October 20, 2006)."Ok, let's get this overwith".Too Hot for TNR.Archivedfrom the original on June 19, 2019.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  17. ^Hendler, Clint."How Spencer Ackerman got Too Hot for TNR".The New York Review of Magazines.RetrievedMay 31,2021.The New Republic has never been a particularly modest publication; in the mid 90s it claimed to be the "in-flight magazine of Air Force One." The Libby indictment gave rise to a new boast: "When The New Republic Makes History, Are You There?" Ackerman wouldn't be there much longer. Less than a year later, his Boss Franklin Foer called and asked him to come in for a talk. Ackerman was working from home that day, maintaining the magazine's baseball playoffs blog and posting a bit on Too Hot for TNR, his personal blog which he had just set up that weekend. Ackerman says his relationship with Foer had begun to deteriorate eight months before, in March of 2006, when Foer, who was thirty-one at the time, was given the magazine's top job by Martin Peretz, TNR's then owner and editor-in-chief. "As I was on the bus on the way down, I thought, 'This is it. I'm probably going to be fired.' I'd thought that before, but this felt different," says Ackerman. This was different. Foer sat Ackerman down and told him that his behavior—both in the office and on his blog—had been unacceptable. His career at the magazine was over.
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  21. ^Beaudette, Marie (September 12, 2007)."D.C.'s New Young Blogging Elite".The Wall Street Journal.Washington, D.C.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
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  31. ^Shane III, Leo (August 29, 2009)."Army used profiles to reject reporters".Stars and Stripes.Washington, D.C. Archived fromthe originalon September 2, 2009.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  32. ^Baron, Kevin (August 31, 2019)."Military terminates Rendon contract".Stars and Stripes.Arlington, Virginia. Archived fromthe originalon September 2, 2009.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  33. ^Aaron, Weiner (June 23, 2010)."A Bittersweet Farewell to a TWI Icon, Spencer Ackerman".Washington Independent.Archived fromthe originalon June 26, 2010.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
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  38. ^abHagey, Keach (July 20, 2010)."Unlike Weigel, Ackerman keeps job".Politico.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  39. ^Morrissey, Ed (July 20, 2010)."Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists".Hot Air.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
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  42. ^Sullivan, Andrew (July 20, 2010)."The Corruption Of Journo-list".The Atlantic.Archived fromthe originalon October 26, 2013.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  43. ^Krakauer, Steve (July 20, 2010)."Journolist is Back: Attempted Coordination To Downplay Jeremiah Wright Story".Mediaite.Archivedfrom the original on July 23, 2010.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  44. ^Chait, Jonathan (July 20, 2010)."The Journolist Conspiracy Continues".The New Republic.Archived fromthe originalon June 2, 2021.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
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  47. ^Ackerman, Spencer (December 29, 2010)."A Bittersweet Goodbye Post".Attackerman.Firedoglake. Archived fromthe originalon December 31, 2010.RetrievedMay 31,2021.My departure is pretty mundane: the congressional press galleries are wary of giving me permanent credentials while I'm affiliated here, and I don't want to impede any of my reporting responsibilities at my day job with Wired's Danger Room.
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  50. ^Faiza, Patel; Goitein, Elizabeth (April 17, 2012)."Hearing on" Ending Racial Profiling in America ""(PDF).Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.
  51. ^Ackerman, Spencer (September 14, 2011)."FBI Teaches Agents: 'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'".Wired.Washington, D.C.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  52. ^Şekerci, Kristin Garrity (December 14, 2017)."Does Islamophobia Impact the Underreporting of FBI Hate Crime Data?".Bridge.Georgetown University.RetrievedNovember 4,2021.In addition to systemic undertraining with regards to hate crime laws, anti-Muslim law enforcement workshops, speakers and training materials have long been an issue in the U.S. In particular, the groundbreaking story in 2011 by Spencer Ackerman in Wired revealed a systemic anti-Muslim bias in "counterterrorism" training within the U.S. government. The Obama Administration cited Ackerman's report in a memorandum that mandated a federal agency-wide review of all "government counterterrorism training materials." The review resulted in the purge of countless documents and training materials that contained anti-Muslim bias.
  53. ^Ackerman, Spencer (January 27, 2012)."Sounding Off".Tablet.RetrievedMay 31,2021.But if you can't do it without sounding like Pat Buchanan, who has nothing but antipathy and contempt for Jews, then you've lost the debate.
  54. ^Ackerman, Spencer (January 27, 2012)."Sounding Off".Tablet.RetrievedMay 31,2021."Israel Firster" has a nasty anti-Semitic pedigree, one that many Jews will intuitively understand without knowing its specific history. It turns out white supremacist Willis Carto was reportedly the first to use it, and David Duke popularized it through his propaganda network...Throughout my career, I've been associated with the Jewish left—I was to the left of the New Republic staff when I worked there, moved on to Talking Points Memo, hosted my blog at Firedoglake for years, and so on. I've criticized the American Jewish right's myopic, destructive, tribal conception of what it means to love Israel.
  55. ^"Debunking the 'Israel-firster' slur".The Jerusalem Post.January 30, 2012.RetrievedMay 31,2021.On the Jewish website Tablet, left-wing journalist Spencer Ackerman, who said he has criticized the American Jewish Right's "myopic, destructive, tribal conception of what it means to love Israel," nevertheless admits that by using the term "Israel-firster" one loses the debate by revealing one's "antipathy and contempt for Jews." More profoundly, Ackerman pointed out that many on the Left who are fond of the "Israel-firster" smear and categorically deny its anti-Semitic undertone are "very good at hearing and analyzing dog-whistles when they're used to dehumanize Arabs and Muslims."
  56. ^Goodman, Alana (January 27, 2012)."Spencer Ackerman: Progressives Need to Reject" Israel-Firster "Comments".Commentary.RetrievedMay 31,2021.Spencer's column is important because it draws a line on the left between acceptable discourse – which includes plenty of discourse that may be stupid or inaccurate – and vulgar anti-Semitic fallacies that should be repudiated by all respectable progressive thinkers and writers. Every once in awhile, these lines need to be drawn.
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  65. ^Ackerman, Spencer (February 26, 2015)."A Black Site in Chicago? Police Accused of Running Secret Compound for Detentions & Interrogations"(Interview). Interviewed by Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh. New York, New York: Democracy Now!.RetrievedMay 31,2021.And as I was discussing this with a Chicago police reform activist, in the course of that conversation, that guy, Tracy Siska of the Chicago Justice Project, mentioned to me that institutional problems with Chicago policing ran so deep that Chicago even operates its own form of a black site. And I was just like, "What? That can't be right. That doesn't happen in the United States. That's nuts."
  66. ^Basu, Tanya (February 24, 2015)."Behind 'the Disappeared' of Chicago's Homan Square".The Atlantic.RetrievedNovember 5,2021.
  67. ^McKay, Tom (February 25, 2015)."Chicago Police Warehouse Used" Extraordinary Rendition "on American Citizens".Mic.RetrievedNovember 5,2021.
  68. ^@attackerman (June 3, 2015)."Many people have driven me to this, and they know who they are. My new email signature file"(Tweet). Archived fromthe originalon February 18, 2021 – viaTwitter.
  69. ^Ackerman, Spencer (June 6, 2015)."Reporter's war on off-the-record comments".Reliable Sources(Interview). Interviewed by Brian Stelter. CNN.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
  70. ^Stelter, Brian (May 7, 2017)."Spencer Ackerman joining The Daily Beast".cnn.Reliable Sources.RetrievedJune 1,2017.Spencer Ackerman, who turned heads when he left Guardian US last week, is moving over to The Daily Beast. He'll be senior national security correspondent for the news organization... covering homeland security, counterterrorism, intel and more... and reuniting with his former colleague Noah Shachtman, who's now the Beast's exec editor. Ackerman says via email: 'The Daily Beast is the place to do the kind of journalism that matters most right now...'
  71. ^Pompeo, Joe (May 9, 2017)."Now we know who Spencer Ackerman left The Guardian for".Politico.RetrievedJune 1,2017.The Daily Beast as a senior national security correspondent, 'covering homeland security, counterterrorism, intel and more... and reuniting with his former colleague Noah Shachtman, who's now the Beast's exec editor,' CNN's Brian Stelter reported last night
  72. ^@attackerman (April 30, 2021)."Getting this out of the way: today was my last day on staff at @thedailybeast. You'll still see me write there - I just filed a piece that will run Monday - but I'm going to be doing some other things I'll announce soon, both journalistic and otherwise"(Tweet). Archived fromthe originalon April 30, 2021 – viaTwitter.
  73. ^Klein, Charlotte (July 20, 2021).""The Forever War Doesn't End With Afghanistan": Joining The Substack Parade, Spencer Ackerman Wants To Reimagine National Security Coverage ".Vanity Fair.RetrievedNovember 5,2021.
  74. ^Ackerman, Spencer."Welcome to Forever Wars, a journalistic experiment".Forever Wars.Substack.RetrievedApril 4,2022.
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  79. ^"Iron Man Enters a New, Brutal Era".Marvel.July 17, 2024.RetrievedJuly 17,2024.
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