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Trump DOJ Files 9/11-Era Charges Against Leftists Across the Country Across the country, federal prosecutors are upgrading what would have been routine...

Jeff Breinholt, a longtime former DOJ counterterrorism prosecutor, compared it to the "COINTELPRO days of the Hoover administration back in the sixties."

“You’re declaring a sort of informal law enforcement war on this shadowy group.”

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Trump DOJ Files 9/11-Era Charges Against Leftists Across the Country Across the country, federal prosecutors are upgrading what would have been routine...

Federal prosecutors are upgrading what would have been routine prosecutions into terrorism cases when they involve people President Trump has cast as his political enemies.

Extremely cool to have an excerpt from my new book, To Catch A Fascist: The Fight To Expose The Radical Right, in @talkingpointsmemo.com today.

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

There are apparently many space lasers doing many things.

2020’s Most Insane Conspiracy Theory, ItalyGate, Returns President Trump is bringing back the most bizarre conspiracy theory for why...

As the FBI (and Tulsi Gabbard) raided Fulton County, Georgia's, election office, Trump was posting about a conspiracy theory that contends Italian satellites in 2020 switched swing-state ballots from Trump to Biden by zapping voting machines. Things will surely soon get even weirder.

Triumph Of The Bill: Amazon’s $75 Million ‘Melania’ Movie Is A Corrupt, Fascistic Cinema Fest The latest offering from Trumpworld’s robust propaganda machine

"Melania" tries its best to keep the real, menacing reality of Trumpism from intruding into the scene it paints. It fails spectacularly.

A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Why Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Protests Are Falling Flat In Ward 3, the Minneapolis neighborhood where ICU nurse Alex Pretti was...

The Trump administration's attempts to insist its dark conspiracy theories are true have run aground in the face of Minnesotans' care for one another, writes @kellyweill.bsky.social

FBI execution of search warrant in Fulton #ELB Justin here. Rick linked earlier today to what he called a “dangerous escalation” of DOJ/FBI aggressiveness in pursuing election records, when they executed a search warrant at a Fulton County electio...

This new Fulton Cnty. election search warrant raises _a lot_ of questions.

The apparent relevant crime is allegedly throwing away docs in '21 or '22.

What probable cause do they have that Fulton threw stuff away 4 years ago, and why do (some) 2020 records help prove what they threw away in 2022?

Trump Finally Achieves His Ambition To Seize the Voting Machines (Or, at Least, Their 2020 Tabulator Tape) The FBI executed a search warrant on Wednesday at an election office...

Trump finally makes good on all his feverish plans from January 2021.

Don’t Fall for the Bogus Claims That the Feds Are Probing the Pretti Shooting Morning Memo Live! A small number of tickets are still available for...

Since the Trump admin abandoned its initial false claims about Alex Pretti—reportedly authored by Stephen Miller—it has repeatedly fallen back on the position that it cannot comment on the fatal shooting by 2 CBP agents because there is an ongoing investigation.
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Churches Are on the Front Lines in the Fight Against Mass Deportation Churches have become a central hub and a flashpoint in the fight...

After a couple months and nine stories, this is the final installment for my TPM stories looking at the fight against mass deportation in NYC.

This piece goes inside churches to show how they have become a central hub and a flashpoint in the growing resistance. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/churche...

"You provide the democracy dying, we'll provide the darkness!" -Jeff Bezos

Thirty-One False Starts Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ One minor mystery...

This is a really good explanation of the prima facia lawlessness of the attacks on protesters: they don't bring charges any more, because judges laugh them out of court every time they show the supposed "evidence."

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One of the weird things about this second Trump term is, during moments of crisis, it's unclear if the president is getting real information and spinning that real information, or if he is getting the same disinformation from his advisors that they are giving to the public.

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing.

A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."

There are all these moments from the first term — like "shithole countries" — that are burned into our mind. Trump's rhetoric is often even worse now, but no longer treated as news.

Not sure I've ever seen anything quite like this.

DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.

They say they witnessed guards kill an ICE detainee. DHS wants them gone: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

There’s More at Stake Than Just Interest Rates. Here’s What Trump Could Do With the Whole Federal Reserve Toolkit On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether President...

A Trump takeover of the Federal Reserve could give the president power to slash interest rates at will, punish blue state banks, influence lending to his corporate allies, and more talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

Trump Says Help 'On the Way' to Iran Protesters as Death Toll Climbs by Multiple Thousands After President Trump's pledge on Tuesday to send help to Iran, the world is watching to see how the White House will re

This didn't get coverage in regular media, but this week Christian Zionists held an invite-only gathering at Mar-a-Lago, and Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Shah of Iran, spoke to them

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Trump Admin Terrorist Designations Show Latest Attempt to Target Domestic Enemies When Secretary of State Marco Rubio added four European anti-fascist groups to...

We know, unfortunately, that the administration pays a lot of attention to these people, and has hosted Posobiec and Ngo at the White House as supposed "antifa experts."

How a Grainy Video of Renee Good’s Anguished Wife Convinced Right-Wing Media to Blame the Widow In the days before the Trump Justice Department asked Minnesota federal prosecutors...

The Trump DOJ's wild directive to investigate Renee Good's widow — which reportedly prompted several prosecutors to resign today — builds on a claim that has been slopping around right-wing media for days, pushed by Jack Posobiec, Tim Pool, Andy Ngo, others.

3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

seems like a bit of an own goal for the administration to push out the person who was running the (legitimate) fraud investigation used (illegitimately) as justification for the mn crackdown

How Redistricting and the Fate of the Voting Rights Act Might (Not) Impact the Midterms The midterm elections are often treated by voters as a referendum on...

Many of the still-outstanding questions about this year's midterms will be decided by the Supreme Court

VA faced the most attrition in 2025 Hundreds of thousands of employees left agencies across the federal government, most quitting or retiring, including 50,000 at Veterans Affairs. QuitRetirementOther separationRIF 0 10K 20K 30K 40K VA 50K 26K 16K 9K Treasury 29K 19K 8K Army 28K 13K 9K 6K Agriculture 25K 12K 8K 5K DHS 24K 10K 9K 5K Navy 23K 11K 9K 3K Air Force 23K 12K 7K 5K Defense 22K 10K 8K 4K HHS 19K 5K 6K 4K 4K Interior 15K 6K 6K Totals for separated employees represent separations between January and November 2025. New hires are not represented. Source: Office of Personnel Management Clara ence morse / THE WASHINGTON POST

WaPo. catalogs who left govt and via what means.

These will be useful to show that Trump effected a SHIFT--from spending on things that help people (like VA care) TO snatching grannies.

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