Mike German

Did you know that there has NEVER been a Democrat as the FBI director. Not a single time.

When license plate readers get it wrong Automated license plate reader technology is used by law enforcement agencies in communities across the U.S. — but the systems sometimes get things wrong.

What happens when license plate readers get it wrong

Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

1/ Yesterday, the Trump administration announced its AI Action Plan - a pillar of which is an executive order that vows to end federal procurement of “woke AI.” The order would not only chill speech but also make the technology more unreliable and untrustworthy.

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Absolutely, it would be my honor. You can email me at michael.german@nyu.edu to schedule something.

UNIDOS Speaker Series: Policing White Supremacy Join us July 19 for “Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within” featuring former FBI agent Mike German, co-sponsored by the NAACP Snohomish County.

I have deep appreciation for all your efforts to oppose white supremacy in combat sports. Here's an event I'm speaking at that you might be interested in (Sat. 7/19 in Everett, WA): naacpaowsac.org/event/unidos...

YouTube video by Fighting Matters A statement on Josh Saunders

A statement on Josh Saunders.
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How DHS Laid the Groundwork for More Intelligence Abuse The DHS I&A's new guidance validates an expansive view of legal authorities that permit abuse of counterterrorism and other powers.

The office, called I&A, targets activists thanks to permissive authorities and weak safeguards. Its rules allow agents to target First Amendment-protected activity: environmentalists, racial justice demonstrators, people simply talking politics online.

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Incoming DHS Intelligence Lead Promotes Unlawful Activities The public, Congress, and the media should insist that the DHS's domestic intelligence practices be sunset, rather than expanded.

NEW: Incoming DHS Intelligence Lead Promotes Unlawful Activities

Last week, Matthew Kozma, who hopes to lead DHS Intelligence & Analysis, claimed he could direct officers to enter nonpublic online chats using covert identities.

This would be clearly illegal:

www.justsecurity.org/116094/dhs-i...

LAPD tells officers to ‘keep the peace' when called to ICE arrests and confrontations The instructions were issued in recent days following numerous citizen reports of “attempted kidnappings,” when federal agents often wearing face coverings attempt to detain people.

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New guidelines for LAPD officers dispatched to reports of ICE incidents to keep the peace, try to verify the identities of people making arrests, and document the events on body-worn video if those claiming to be federal agents refuse to cooperate.

How Long Before ICE and DHS Start Rounding up Trump's Political Enemies? Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex

We speak with Mike German about the unprofessional nature of ICE and DHS law enforcement with officers beating immigrants, pointing guns at bystanders while arresting immigrants, the majority of whom have no criminal records. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

1/ The government is fielding AI to gather intelligence, patrol borders, and fight wars. My latest in @lawfaremedia.org explains how Congress should step up its scrutiny of the ways taxpayer dollars are spent on acquiring and developing these systems: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/narr...

The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’ Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’

Federal officers from across US government depts have joined ICE to execute raids, but we don't know who they are while they widely cover their faces + refuse to identify themselves.

"Masked agents in casual clothing using force against people in public is associated with police states."

The Church Committee Report is, to date, the most detailed articulation of the government's playbook for disrupting, surveilling, and crushing political movements. It was written in 1975 but could not be more relevant or useful in 2025.

The @nytimes.com is reporting that the Trump administration has requested deployment of 20,000+ National Guard members to help with immigration enforcement inside the U.S. This is an unprecedented move that raises a host of legal and practical concerns. 1/8

Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development.

Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system.

Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

A new report from @404media.co covers a company that uses AI to create social media bots that impersonate "college protesters," along with traffickers and others, and interact with users to feed the information back to police. www.404media.co/this-college...

The Unmovable Sink How do you make impossible things possible? Same way anyone ever did: By trying.

I wrote about the practical strategic necessity of doing "impossible" things, the moral and strategic emptiness of making the middle your destination, and the way persuasion requires vision, and vision requires standing for something.

www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...

The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense After weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests, the Proud Boys and other far-right extremist groups are showing up to back Elon Musk's beleaguered car company.

Guess who showed up to defend Tesla? The Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, and a guy dressed as Hitler.

More on the "Tesla Takedown" protests here:

Missing Jan. 6th texts due to Signal, personal phone use - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Missing text messages for Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli around January 6th could be due to their use of the encrypted messaging app Signal as well as Cuccinnelli’s use of a personal phone for governmen...

Remember this?

"Missing January 6th texts due to #Signal, personal phone use."

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This is what I was talking about earlier today @rethinkintel.bsky.social

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Pardon Tracker will soon publish an investigative report on the statements, activities, and networks of the pardoned Capitol Rioters.

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EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month

BREAKING NEWS: A high level source at the DOD has informed me that the Trump Administration authorized deployment of Signal onto government phones last month and it is a primary means of communicating with the White House. Read my exclusive story: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Ut oh. Tulsi was overseas during the Signal chat too.

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She refuses to answer whether she was using her own phone or not.

A good JAG officer could have warned them against discussing sensitive national defense information on unclassified mobile apps. Oh, wait...

Screenshot of tweet by Tyler Austin Harper (@Tyler_A_Harper) Tweet reads: “Must read. Among other things, a frank discussion of how the Laptop Class championed policies—lockdowns and school closures-that primarily impacted the Have Nots, while the Haves enjoyed remote work, online shopping, booming stock portfolios, and groceries delivered by the poor.” Below text is an image of a book titled: “IN COVID'S WAKE: HOW OUR POLITICS FAILED US” by STEPHEN MACEDO & FRANCES LEE

This classic shallow argument runs cover for real ways that the response to the Covid pandemic has been all out class warfare, and is the perfect example of lazy, superficial “class analysis” that ignores the basic material conditions which actually define class under capitalism.

Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within Somewhere between the tendency to see everything through the lens of race and racial oppression and the tendency to dismiss those dynamics altogether lies the truth in any given setting, including cri...

I'll be speaking with @pgeddington.com and Michael Fox about my book, "Policing White Supremacy," on Wednesday, March 26 at 1pm at the Cato Institute in D.C. @cato.org Join us for a lively discussion! Register here: www.cato.org/events/polic...

Chinese students slam GOP bill that would ban them from U.S. schools, say it's ‘new Chinese Exclusion Act’ “We are not spies," one student said. "We are students who want to get a better education.”

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Along with all of the other things that this is, it is also the direct & inevitable consequence of the failure to put a lot more senior executive branch officials in jail for a very long time for Watergate, Iran-Contra, torture, & all of the other things in the last 50 years.

I wrote about why this is. part of it is that the system advantages white voters. part of it is that we live in a white supremacist society where everyone feels white voters are the only real voters. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-do-ds-...