But We Are Not Timid

And a sandwich-making, tree-trimming shitposter

Welcome back to KTB.

Back in May, KTB “revealed” its sources, most of which are just “news articles, websites, publicly accessible databases, and other public-facing sources - including the social media of the individuals who KTB profiles.”

Using those sources is NOT doxxing - a practice KTB eschews. Because “if this were doxxing, then we doxx ourselves by simply being present in online environments, which is just rather ridiculous.”

That comment was made last week by Dominick Skinner about his own project, ICE List, which calls out ICE agents and catalogues ICE operations.

According to a new WIRED analysis, ICE List is NOT doxxing. Rather, it “relies heavily on information that apparent DHS [Department of Homeland Security] employees have posted publicly online themselves.”

There’s no fancy trick to finding ICE officers on LinkedIn. WIRED was able to surface hundreds of profiles belonging to people who say they are ICE employees by simply clicking the “Show more results” button on the “People” tab of ICE’s LinkedIn page.

This is unsurprising to anybody who gets that social media is, well, social. But WIRED’s analysis isn’t intended to be a revelation. It is intended to be a rebuttal, a counter to DHS’s intentional and disingenuous efforts to conflate reporting with doxing, to declare all info about a person to be private information.

Don’t let DHS fool you. ICE List does not report private info, such as the home addresses of ICE thugs, their family members’ names, etc.

Nor does KTB report that type of information - and it never will. Rather, KTB will continue to report public-facing info about the Trumpers it names and shames.

And that isn’t doxxing. It’s accountability.

Make sandwich, chop tree, mean tweet

In February 2021, Dylan Johnson declared, “We have a lot of questions that remain unanswered about what Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, a lot of those folks knew and when they knew it!”

Dylan was referring to the previous month’s Capitol insurrection and made his conspiratorial remark while being interviewed by former Missouri governor Eric Greitens on the alt-right Real America’s Voice network.

Dylan had been riding Greitens’ coattails since 2016 when he was a 17 year old staffer on Greitens’ campaign; and when Greitens won, Dylan got a job in Greitens’ administration…which he had to leave when Greitens resigned two years later, having been caught having an affair with his hairstylist and blackmailing her.

But Dylan didn’t go far. He briefly worked as an Advance Associate for the first Trump Administration, but then he went back to work for Greitens. Dylans’ portfolio quickly expanded from general ass-kissing to making sandwiches for Greitens’ children and trimming the ex-governor’s trees.

Then, Greitens hired Dylan to run his comeback campaign for U.S. Senate. Under the management of his sandwich-making tree trimmer, Greitens netted a whopping 19% of the Republican primary vote, finishing a distant third.

Shitposters

Why did Dylan fail so badly as a campaign manager? Perhaps he was distracted by his other job: while running Greitens’ campaign, Dylan also tried his hand as a columnist, writing essays for the far-right online magazine American Greatness.

One of Dylan’s essays was about the 2020 election being fraudulent and how various election officials were either “criminally negligent” or “simply criminals.”

Another of Dylan’s essays, overwrought with ridiculous hyperbole, demonized Democrats as similar to “Pol Pot, Mao, or Stalin” and as wanting “to keep swinging until they have compliance. Until they have obedience. Until dissent is eradicated. Until the undesirables are silenced or destroyed.”

Chill, paranoid kid, Joe Biden isn’t coming to get you.

And a third essay of Dylan’s was a weird, rambling call for Donald Trump to pardon Julian Assange because of…um, something incoherent about General Michael Flynn, Greitens, “the Trump-Russia collusion hoax,” and that “Without [Trump’s] intervention, Julian Assange will likely die in a British prison.”

(Spoiler alert: he didn’t.)

After Greitens’ defeat, Dylan joined Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign (his boss described him as a “shitposter[] fueled by a lot of black coffee and Zyn”). And in 2025, he was appointed Special Assistant to the President and Assistant White House Communications Director.

In those roles, Dylan attacked Democrats, media figures, and Trump critics with rude and juvenile tweets. A la Trump, his favorite insult seems to be “low IQ” and his favorite tantrum, “fake news!” He has also retweeted conspiracy theorists such as Jack Posobiec, and back in 2022, he retweeted this:

That retweet now seems prescient. The original tweet is from alt-right crazy Gavin Wax, who Trump has since appointed to the State Department; in it, Wax is praising notorious bigot and conspiracy theorist Darren Beattie, who Trump also appointed to State; and the retweet is from State’s newest acting Assistant Secretary.

Yup, that’s right: last week, Trump appointed Dylan Acting Assistant Secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Global Public Affairs.

In that role, Dylan will now report to the same totally not racist Under Secretary who Wax and Beattie also report to. All of them will be working together to MAGA-ize State’s public diplomacy and public affairs operations.

I wonder how long before Dylan joins these guys?

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