Ken Klippenstein, an independent journalist who left The Intercept, publishes reporting on US national security, the FBI, and leaked government documents.
Commenters link his reporting on NSPM-7 and FBI targeting of extremists, recommending him as an independent journalist.
I don't think that it's reasonable to see this behavior as anything but threatening given the location and the ample context provided by ICE's behavior up to this point.
> The ICE person states they will not try to enter and if the clerk touches them, they will yank the person out of the building.
Does that not amount to a threat?
It sounds as though most of these agents are poorly trained at best. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
> “The brand new agents are idiots,” an experienced ICE agent assigned to homeland security investigations told me.
> The new ICE officer continued: “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” observing as well that the new guys “have some weird tattoos.”
It's not unreasonable, you can read the NSPM-7[0][1] which is an overarching strategy for agencies like the FBI to follow.
NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.” In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference Minority Report. The whole order is pretty dystopian, using loose labels like "anti-Americanism", "anti-capitalism", "anti-Christianity", and "extremism on migration" as indicators of an extremist.
0: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/
1: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
Which government are you talking about? Like the US banned tiktok because Israel did not like it [1]?
Let us be honest here.. China censors directly. US censors indirectly through the private companies [2] and through covert use of force [3]. If you had a pro-Russian stance in 2022 or pro-Palestine stance, you will see your content censored in very subtle ways in US.
1. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban-fueled-by-israel-not-china 2. https://indi.ca/why-i-left-medium-they-defenestrated-me/ 3. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-fbi-knocked-on-my-door
It is surprising how people in US cannot see the disinformation campaign they are being subjected to.
I believe this is the one the media outlets are saying is a fake. Doesn't match the length of the one described by law enforcement and doesn't contain phrases quoted by major media outlets.
This one has been confirmed by some major media outlets as being genuine and matches the description by law enforcement and the select quotes published by established media:
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
There could of course be other writings by the suspect, and this could be one, but it's definitely not confirmed.
* "FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals": https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming (www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming) ... Mirror: https://archive.ph/wR8BD
* "U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says": https://theintercept.com/2025/12/16/trump-domestic-attack-dtos/ (theintercept.com/2025/12/16/trump-domestic-attack-dtos/) ... Mirror: https://archive.ph/PUlJt
By your tone, I would bet that your cited "writers from both ends of the political spectrum and points between" read the fake manifesto [0].
The (more likely) real [1] one isn't as easily dismissed.
0 - https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2024/12/fact-check-fake-manifesto-supposedly-by-luigi-mangione-posted-on-substack-taken-down-for-impersonation.html
1 - https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto