Alexander Chee

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Aaand, I just added Human Authored certification to the copyright page for the paperback edition of I WANT TO BURN THIS PLACE DOWN. Feels nice.

It seems Trump endorsed a challenger for his seat.

LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.

Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.

It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.

Let's take stock of where we are.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

I have a new essay out today. For Welcome To Hellworld I wrote about my home, Minneapolis, again; I worked through some thoughts on why the concept of "victory" feels so hollow right now but why it might signal something far more important in the future.
www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Welp! Palantir is looking for former employees to be on a plane Day 1 and mentions foxholes!!

“I promise you nothing other than the sense of satisfaction that comes from the purpose and intensity of the most intense deployments you ever worked on.”

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

So many of us have spent years warning about the dangers of Christian dominionists in the U.S. government...

Toward an Understanding of Fascist Aesthetics, Part I The question of whether or not we are living “in fascism” is, I’ve always thought, a kind of useless one, mostly because history does not go backwards: today there is not a “return” to fascism so much...

hello I am now a member of @flaminghydra.com and am kicking things off with a multi part series on fascist aesthetics and what their whole deal is flaminghydra.com/toward-an-un...

I mean I guess it’s just a denial to the plaintiff to hear the case but I’m still over here happy about it.

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

It’s so rare to get a decision like this. I hate to be grateful for the bare minimum but I’m grateful to the work of everyone involved in obtaining this victory. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

When I was on the bus up to NH in 2016 to interview for the job I have now, the bus played the VHS(!) of the original cut, undoctored, and I had a moment when I exited where I nearly offered the driver cash for the tape.

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

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Reinventing picadillo but without any of the peppers or flavor is the most white person thing ever

Ah! Well, I’m glad to see them acting with so much wisdom. Congratulations!

Prof. Robert Pape:

"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

This was the age I first saw it.

So pathetically jealous.

MPD body cam footage from DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace RECEIVED 😎

I'll be watching and sharing news and takeaways in the coming days. Stay tuned!

IV. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiffs' motion for a stay of agency action, ECF 49, is GRANTED. The challenged January 8 notice policy, including the purported ratification on February 2, is STAYED pending conclusion of these review proceedings, and the temporary restraining order entered by the Court on February 2, 2026, ECF 52, is hereby dissolved. A separate order accompanies this memorandum opinion. SO ORDERED. duall.Co ЛА М. СОВВ United States District Judge Date: March 2, 2026

BREAKING: Judge Cobb finds that Sec. Noem's second and third efforts to restrict congressional oversight access to federal immigration facilities still likely violate Sec. 527, issues an order blocking both during litigation.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

It's true.

Cheers to this!