i say "actual DVEs" because the FBI also has a tendency to exploit that brand for political reasons, to manufacture conspiracy narratives, or simply to satisfy powerful special interests.

In a reversal that just underscored the administrative chaos created by all these priority shifts, many counterterrorism agents—pulled away to focus on immigration, which is not the FBI's forte—had to be abruptly recalled in June after the US strike in Tehran inflamed concerns about domestic terror.

The law enforcement briefings + counterterrorism training materials were obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org / @rshapiro.bsky.social and shared with @us.theguardian.com. Experts say US officials’ claims linking emojis to the Venezuelan gang are “ludicrous,” “baseless,” “uneducated” + “absurd”

Law enforcement training documents we obtained and shared with @kenklippenstein.bsky.social contributed to this big new piece on Trump and the FBI's coming war on transgender people. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

BIG: US law enforcement claims certain *emojis* could signal Tren de Aragua gang membership, leading to deportations, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained & shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @maanvisingh.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US law enforcement officials have claimed the use of certain emojis could signal affiliation with Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang, according to internal records reviewed by the Guardian and obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org, a government transparency non-profit.

NEW: US law enforcement have claimed the use of certain *emojis* could signal affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang, records reveal. The "ludicrous" claims, like assertions about tattoos, could further fuel false gang labels + deportations. W/ @propertyofthepeople.org emoji docs excerpted here ⬇️

"The emoji claims, repeated by the New York police department (NYPD), were made in four reports disseminated among law enforcement in 2024 and 2025 and obtained through records requests by @propertyofthepeople.org, a government transparency non-profit." nice work @rshapiro.bsky.social

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

NEW: “Gaza is burning,” says Israel’s Defense Minister as Israel starts their ground invasion of Gaza City after bombing over 50 residential towers in the biggest Palestinian city in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. [Videos] unicornriot.ninja/2025/israel-...

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Our work contributed to this piece on Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter, including a document we obtained revealing earlier FBI concerns regarding the possibility of political violence at a Kirk speaking event. #FOIA @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/charli...

9. In 2023, the country declared LGBTQ+ organizations to be “extremist” in nature, closely tracking with some of the rhetoric used by the administration and its supporters in the wake of Kirk’s killing. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

8. The latest escalation tracks closely with similar steps taken by Vladimir Putin in Russia to target nonprofits and LGBTQ+ organizations and other left-leaning NGOs in recent years. In 2016, the country banned NGOs deemed a threat to public order by creating a new “undesirable” label.

7. The weaponization of laws against non-profits is something that Republicans have been exploring for some time. In late 2023, Republicans in Florida heavily pushed a bill that would have essentially outlawed LGBTQ+ groups from being considered nonprofits. www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-bi...

6. Later, the New York Times confirmed that the administration was reviewing various ways they can further crack down on left-leaning non-profits, stating it would focus on designating some groups as aiding domestic terrorism.

5. Trump used a press conference to escalate the threat. He floated the idea of designating “Antifa” a terrorist organization and said he was exploring RICO charges against “some of the people you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation.”

4. Later, Vance singled out the Ford Foundation and Open Society for the role he claimed they played in The Nation publishing an article that accurately described Charlie Kirk as an “unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGJ...

3. Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller used the segment to label some left-leaning nonprofits “terrorist networks” that push “messaging designed to trigger and incite violence.” Vance then confirmed they would target “the NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence."

2. On Monday, JD Vance took over a special edition of the Charlie Kirk Show following the death of its namesake. Framed as a tribute, the broadcast quickly became a vehicle for announcing sweeping new crackdowns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGJ...

1. Vance, Miller, and Trump announced crackdowns on left-leaning NGOs that the regime views as responsible for Charlie Kirk's death. They targeted specific nonprofits for an article calling Kirk a racist and transphobe, the Ford Foundation and Open Society. Subscribe to support our journalism.

They're putting the confederate monument back up at arlington cemetery and taking down the signs about john brown & slavery at harpers ferry. A completely confederate-occupied government unashamedly trying to rehabilitate slavery

Our work contributed to this piece on Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter, including a document we obtained revealing earlier FBI concerns regarding the possibility of political violence at a Kirk speaking event. #FOIA @dell.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/charli...

Benny Gantz emails (11.8 GB) Over 25,000 emails and attachments from Benny Gantz, an Israeli politician who has held numerous roles. The emails range from 2007 to 2017. ddosecrets.com/article/benn... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social discussing our latest: LA anti-ICE protests spurred US military to identify "hotels to avoid" due to "harassment," as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When ICE + Border Patrol agents were spotted at hotels across LA region, communities organized sustained rallies that forced them out + pressured hotels to take action. Intelligence records obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared with @theguardian.com show how the US military responded:

Our latest: LA anti-ICE protests spurred US military to identify "hotels to avoid" due to "harassment," as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA

Civil liberties advocates have warned about this for years: an ICE agent used data about remittances to Mexico to track down an immigrant, solely on a charge of unauthorized reentry — not money laundering or any other crime often used to justify such surveillance theintercept.com/2025/08/21/i...

Surveillance company Flock is now using AI to report us to police if the bot registers *our everyday movements* as “suspicious” www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

A country of concentration camps.

(after @rshapiro.bsky.social kept obtaining copies the author quit sharing them as pdfs)

@rshapiro.bsky.social sent me a law enforcement bulletin last week that included headshots of a young woman, her name and alma mater (Harvard). her big offense was saying ICE should be “treated like domestic terrorists.”

The Department of Energy HQ is purportedly cancelling all pending #FOIA requests submitted before October 1, 2024, unless the requester emails a specific address w/i 30 days asking the agency to continue processing. This is wildly illegal. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15490.pdf

Yeah, I think this what makes it hard for Americans who haven’t experienced autocracy elsewhere to realize—life under authoritarianism can still look like pleasant summers, bbq on the weekend, after work happy hour with friends—until snap, a coworker or family member goes missing

Last year NARA denied FOIA requests based on reasons other than exemptions 204 times. This year....they denied requests this way over 4450 times. That's basically 1 in 5 of the FOIAs it processed this year. This happened even though the agency received 20k fewer requests.

Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social re: ‪Four National Guard armories breached in previously undisclosed incidents, sensitive military equipment taken, evidence points to inside job, as revealed in new intel doc we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/myster...

DC National Guard deployment order leaked to me. Read it here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-trump...

Val Broeksmit was an FBI informant who tried to entrap me and frame me as Phineas Fisher. Along the way, he tried to hack and inform on his enemies, journalists and Epstein. This is his story.

Our executive director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: ‪FBI significantly increasing size of terrorist watch list, including addition of supposed gang members, family members, and associates, as revealed in new intel docs we obtained and shared w/ @reuters.com. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! An index from an 8-year-old #FOIA lawsuit shows what's in FBI's Epstein files: bank and phone records, photographs, communications with foreign government agencies and other revealing material related to its 2006 investigation www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

FBI significantly increasing size of terrorist watch list, including addition of supposed gang members, family members, and associates, as revealed in new intel docs we obtained and shared w/ @reuters.com. #FOIA

NEW: Four National Guard armories were breached weeks apart in incidents previously undisclosed, with evidence pointing toward a possible inside job. Sensitive equipment was taken. We learned FBI took point, but it declined to confirm its involvement. By me w/ records via @propertyofthepeople.org

Four National Guard armories were breached in previously undisclosed incidents, sensitive military equipment taken with evidence pointing toward an inside job, as revealed in a new intel document we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com. #FOIA www.wired.com/story/myster...

Rather than call them what they truly are, the Trump administration has designated an assortment of violent neo-Nazi and incel groups as "nihilist extremists," as revealed in new intel documents we obtained and shared w/ @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-agen...

Elephants killed the owner of one of South Africa’s top “game reserves” and honestly good for the elephants. Nature is healing and all that. www.the-sun.com/news/1479487...

An elite Chinese cyberspy group hacked at least one state’s National Guard network for nearly a year, the Department of Defense finds. The report was provided through the national security transparency nonprofit Property of the People.

Gaza, Volume 01 (384 GB) An archive of early war crimes evidence compiled by Israel Exposed. According to Israel Exposed, a copy of the data was provided to the International Criminal Court. ddosecrets.com/article/gaza... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...

Ty to @propertyofthepeople.org, whose FOIA work brought this to light.