Jose Pagliery

I am at the Virginia federal courthouse where former FBI director James Comey will be arraigned today.

I will be reporting for NOTUS. There are no electronics allowed, so you'll all hear from me afterward.

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Yeah, this hits the spot.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Jim Comey's arraignment is tomorrow. Let me just do some resear–

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Senators Grill Pam Bondi over FBI’s Alleged $50,000 Tom Homan Bribe Bondi responded to the questioning in increasingly combative and personal terms.

“First of all, is there a tape that has audio and video of the transfer of the fifty thousand?” Senator Welch asked.

“You would have to talk to Director Patel about that,” Bondi responded.

“No, I’m talking to you,” he said.

@notus.com:

www.notus.org/senate/pam-b...

Vermont Senator Peter Welch asks why the attorney general of the United States has zero apparent interest in figuring out what happened to the $50,000 undercover FBI agents gave border czar Tom Homan.

She... doesn't take it well.

Today, Josh Hawley -- who voted to overturn the 2020 election after fanning the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Trump, the same lie that fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection that Hawley was egging on -- is outraged the FBI reportedly analyzed some GOP senators' phone records in its Jan. 6 probe.

Asked about the Texas state troops invading Illinois against that state's wishes, AG Bondi just testified that the National Guard is "on its way" to Chicago right now, along with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy AG Todd Blanche.

He Refused to Drop Charges Against Eric Adams. Now He’s Running for Congress. Ryan Crosswell was a prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, which has been all but obliterated under Donald Trump.

Last week, I spent time with Ryan Crosswell as he knocked on doors in suburban eastern Pennsylvania.

People told him they fear for this country under Trump. He pointed to his track record cracking down on public corruption.

My profile for @notus.com:

www.notus.org/campaigns/ry...

AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ has been sued "more than 400 times" by people trying to stop Trump administration actions over the past 260 days.

Hmm. That seems like a lot. Wonder why.

Senator Durbin is tearing apart Attorney General Pam Bondi for having "a network of unqualified MAGA loyalists masquerading as prosecutors."

Nevada US Attorney Sigal Chattah
New Jersey US Attorney Alina Habba
Virginia Eastern District US Attorney Lindsey Halligan

"Where do you find these people?"

The Trump administration has until late tomorrow night to explain to a judge exactly what its military plans for Chicago are.

Something tells me the president's edgelord post last month about "war" is going to become relevant in this court.

Illinois, California and other states prepare to withdraw from the National Governors Association as it refuses to support governors against Trump on national guard issue, after it did this against Biden.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

This thought kept me up last night for a bit.

Chicago and Illinois Sue Over Trump's National Guard Deployment “The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military,” the lawsuit states.

Chicago and Illinois sound the alarm.

Pritzker calls it an invasion.
Newsom warns about Martial Law.
Abbott boasts about his Texas troops.
And Trump keeps railing about antifascists.

www.notus.org/courts/chica...

The modern era will be studied for generations.

Democracy Forward just sued the DOJ for undercover FBI videotapes that would show Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, accepting a $50k bribe to steer government contracts.

Bari Weiss Named CBS News Editor-In-Chief, Solidifying Network's Rightward Shift The network will also acquire her publication, The Free Press, for a hefty sum.

Bari Weiss was named the editor-in-chief of CBS News, cementing the rightward shift of one of media's most storied newsrooms

I keep pointing to Jade Helm and wondering if anyone remembers.

Answer: 12406

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."

George Orwell, 1984

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