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This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.

Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:

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ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.

“There’s a lot of secrecy and game playing right now. I’m sick of it.”

Previously: The Observer has repeatedly requested updates from ICE about James Rodden’s employment. Three members of Congress have also demanded answers, without results.

This is a good read, but one of the great frustrations of seeing everyone react to the (not-at-all-surprising) "revelation" that the manipulators on Twitter are foreign accounts is that Musk & his cronies were the ones that attacked & defunded the researchers who were telling everyone about this!

Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...

tovarisch, our presidentski is a very stupid man. you must speak to him in the manner to which he is accustomed www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hm, seems like before sending a funding bill to this president, Democratic senators could have written some guarantees into the bill that the funding would actually get spent

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

Veteran Career DOJ Immigration Litigator Erez Reuveni Joins Democracy Forward to Bolster Team Addressing Threats to People and the Rule of Law - Democracy Forward

BREAKING: Erez Reuveni — the DOJ whistleblower who was fired following a hearing in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case — joins Democracy Forward as a senior counsel.

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The Trump administration made erroneous claims to the Supreme Court, mischaracterizing the responsiveness of local police and the actions of protesters in a filing asking the justices to sign off on the deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago, a New York Times investigation found. The emergency request, filed by the solicitor general, D. John Sauer, which draws heavily from court declarations made by two Homeland Security officials, misstates what happened in the aftermath of a car crash and shooting on Oct. 4 in Chicago that involved Border Patrol agents. A Times analysis of hours of police radio and hundreds of videos posted to social media refutes the federal government’s claims that the Chicago Police Department didn’t respond quickly to the scene, leaving federal agents to fend for themselves during what they called a riot.

This is the same playbook the Trump administration ran in Portland, where DHS officials falsely accused local police of failing to help them (or not arriving quickly enough). Strikes me as a problem that the government lies so freely to the Supreme Court now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

No. But, thank you.

ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.

NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.

President Trump may have had enough of Kash Patel, according to sources The president is weighing whether to oust the FBI director after scrutiny of Patel's stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend’s security detail and use of a government jet.

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clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit

In Tarrant County, a Grassroots Coalition Pushes Back on Christian Nationalists The recent redistricting of county commissioners court precincts has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.

“There are enough voters out there who can absolutely turn an election and blow up what they are trying to do.”

New from Edward Brown: A broad coalition in Tarrant County are fighting for the spirit of their community, after GOP redistricting galvanized community organizers into action.

Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2 Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director

This is a pro death march. People, especially kids, will get sick and some will die.

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The brief moment when every state GOP candidate promise a DOGE of their own... you had to be there subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

2/2 They found nothing, obviously, but they did destroy entire agencies and their dedicated staff, turned over reams of government data to Elon to train his AIs, dismantled our nation's soft power, and then slunk away with zero guilt, shame, or regret.

DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2

2 of 4 PETITIONERS-PLAINTIFFS' RESPONSE TO THE COURT'S NOVEMBER 24, 2025 ORDER In response to this Court's order of November 24, 2025, Petitioners-Plaintiffs ("Plaintiffs") respectfully provide their position on how the Court's fact-finding inquiry should proceed. First, the Court should immediately require the government to promptly file declarations) identifying all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025, regardless of whether they were the ultimate decision-maker or had direct input into the decision, as well as all those with knowledge of the decision-making process. Second, once these declarations are filed and depending on what information they disclose, the Court should then determine the appropriate sequence of witness testimony, and the manner in which that testimony should be provided. At this initial stage, Plaintiffs list as potential witnesses only those identified in the whistleblower disclosure of Erez Reuveni, former Acting Deputy 1 Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 193 Filed 11/25/25 Page 2 of 4 Director of the Department of Justice ("DOJ") Office of Immigration Litigation ("OIL"), see ECF 158-1 ("Reuveni Disclosure"): 1. Former Acting Deputy Director of OIL Erez Reuveni' 2. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign 3. Former Acting Director of OIL August Flentje 4. Counselor to the Deputy Attorney General James McHenry 5. Associate Deputy Attorney General Paul Perkins 6. Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security James Percival 7. Acting General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security Joseph Mazzara 8. Former Acting Assistant Attorney General (now Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General) Yaakov Roth 9. Former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove This list is not intended to be exhaustive: it reflects only those individuals expressly identified in the whistleblower materials. Beyond these individuals, the whistlebl…

As Judge Boasberg considers how to move forward with contempt proceedings re: Alien Enemies Act flights, plaintiffs provide list of names for potential witness testimony.

The list includes former DOJ official Emil Bove, who is now a federal judge on the 3rd Cir.

Trump is the most corrupt president in US history, and the openness of his corruption is an essential feature of it. It's particularly bad that this comes as Trump is using state power to punish Sen Mark Kelly for correctly warning against breaking illegal orders.

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Today @rutgerbregman.com posted a transcript of his Reith Lecture showing that the version that BBC aired removed the line about Trump's world-historical corruption.

BBC emailed me: "we made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice.”

newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

ICE agent carrying away a yard sign that says “ICE kidnapping happened here”

An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀

Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders' The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. ...

It'll only help elevate Mark Kelly. They need a new scandal after their bullshit case against Comey and Letitia James just fell apart.

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Internet Providers Can Monitor Their Own Cybersecurity Standards, Says Trump’s FCC In what the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls a "terrible idea," the Federal Communications Commission has rescinded the requirement for telecom companies to issue yearly cybersecurity reports.

ISPs and cellular carriers will no longer be required to meet minimum cybersecurity standards after an FCC vote Thursday. “This is such a terrible idea. This is rolling out the red carpet for another attack,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @CNET.com. www.cnet.com/home/intern...

they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.

“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
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really a sign of how fragmented and basically lost the admin has become in the last six weeks or so. Imagine having secretary focus on this dress up for your 90 minute flight thing.

America Is Finally Starting to See Trump for the Bullsh*t Artist He Is He came to power through a relentless assault of lies. But the debt owed to the truth is coming due.

So much pain that could have been avoided.

So much pain still to come.

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