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The Bar of Ireland has distanced itself from an event that was due to be hosted at its premises in Dublin featuring an address from Ghislaine Maxwell’s long-time lawyer about recent efforts to secure the Jeffrey Epstein accomplice’s release from prison. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Spirit Airlines is the Canary in Trump's Fossil Fuel Mine - emptywheel by @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/s...

Brian is just a 25 year old kid & a US BORN CITIZEN...and he was picked up by ICE & deported after repeatedly begging agents to let him retrieve his birth certificate & social security card. They forced him into a voluntary deportation. www.newsweek.com/who-is-brian...

As I have repeatedly laid out, before Trump rolled out a Fraud Task Force run out of the WH (and so inherently political), he fired the Inspectors General who had found the underlying fraud, effectively weaponizing fraud. CATO lays out how he wants to do more of this. www.cato.org/blog/trump-c...

@raskin.house.gov @durbin.senate.gov Have your committees inquired why the FBI wasn't able to use an ADL tip to prevent the Evergreen shooting? emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/k...

ODNI scrubbed its entire FOIA website after a bombshell release to @freedom.press - so @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA'd to find out what happened. What he uncovered reeks of unlawful, partisan interference in the agency’s FOIA office at public expense - no matter what doc prompted the takedown.

Yesterday, reporting from Denver confirmed that ADL was the source of a tip IDing Evergreen shooter Desmond Holly. Kash got a tip from the ADL, failed to use it to prevent a Nazi shooting, then cut ADL and SPLC off. Oops. Gonna make for AWK trial. emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/k...

Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC To Demonstrate Their Importance (and His Negligence) emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/k...

The news out of the Middle East might have seemed less dire lately, but oil futures are now basically as pessimistic as they've ever been. This could be a concern that the current war continues, or it could be concern about a rising risk of future geopolitical shocks.

Two weeks ago, we walked out of @propublica.org’s offices for a one-day strike to demand a fair contract. We haven’t gotten ANY proposals from management since then. Tell our bosses that you’ll support us if we have to strike again: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Her partner died in the Baltimore bridge collapse. The Biden administration offered her a way to stay in the U.S. Their 7-year-old is a U.S. citizen. The Trump admin is deporting her. www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

Note, this batshit insane sanctions document was signed by Darren Beattie, noted conspiracist and far right bigot. In case you had any questions about whether this is an attempt to forcibly export far right ideology into democratic countries.

You are all 100% correct is staying the fuck away from the Nazi Bar but I feel obliged to inform you that two of the worst people in the world are having a fight to the Xitter death over there and it's the most hilarious shit ever.

“What has gone missing are the institutional consequences that disapproval used to trigger. Public opinion is working. The machinery that once converted public opinion into accountability is not. The jury came back. The foreman spoke and then everyone went out to lunch, including the accused.”

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

One thing I've not seen smart lawyers comment on abt the SPLC indictment (many people falsely call it a lawsuit) is how rare it is for DOJ to charge a corporate entity, especially w/o biological persons as well. It would seem that in and of itself would bespeak malice.

Is Housing truly the big problem of the anglosphere? And if it is solved it would solve a lot of other problems - wealth inequality, racism, social mobility, unstable banking and financial system, climate and car-dependency? www.ft.com/content/dca3...

“Scott Perry used pretty plane AI slop to argue that if you shield businesses from consequences of their decisions, “there’s no incentive to act responsibly.”” Yes, making people immune from the consequences of their actions is a terrible idea, Scott. Excellent point you make there.

"Trump’s claim this is about jobs when he destroyed far more than 14,000 jobs with DOGE is rank bullshit... Trump wants to use taxpayer dollars to hide from taxpayers what a catastrophic economic disaster Trump caused with his incompetence."

My for-real initial response: Why would a guy decide to commit a crime to harm brown people when he could just join ICE and get $50,000 and QI?

Trump is threatening Spain over its refusal to allow air bases be used for the Iran war. Meanwhile, Russia provides Iran with targeting info and intelligence to kill Americans. Trump just invited Putin to the G20. www.reuters.com/world/pentag...

Spirit Airlines is the Canary in Trump's Fossil Fuel Mine emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/s...

Trump claims no one expected Iran to hit Gulf countries, which should have the GOP screaming about getting in competent advisors.

The Irish Bar is hosting a pro-Ghislaine Maxwell presentation on Monday by a longtime buddy of Ghislaine's. www.ontheditch.com/ghislaine-ma...

Incidentally, the Special Forces guy accused of insider trading, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, was NOT accused of leaking. It's all Title 7 and wire fraud stuff. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/me...

NEW: Researchers at SentinelOne decoded malware known as Fast16, the first public mention of which appeared in a 2017 NSA leak. Turns out, it’s a Stuxnet precursor. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/fast16...

EXCLUSIVE: EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas allegedly violated professional conduct rules of the ​Virginia State Bar by refusing to enforce key provisions of federal civil rights laws, according to a complaint submitted to the bar Thursday, shared ‌with Reuters. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The failson, who was implicated in Daddy's Foundation fraud and Trump Org bank fraud, who invoked 5A rather than explain whether he traded dirt on Hillary for sanctions relief, and who was accused by Justin Sun of fraud just ... yesterday wants to lecture you about perfect vehicles for fraud.

DailyMail continues to be the one-stop shop for DHS smut, this time about Madison Sheahan, the inexperienced Noem aide who is running for Congress in OH. This one is not all that interesting--tho it focuses on Sheahan's sexual orientation. BUT archive.is/pG7jf

DOJ arrested one of the commandos involved in the Maduro raid for insider trading on a predictions market on it. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

The plan is to blame Biden for Trump's catastrophic fuck-up.

Blanche and Kash implied yesterday that SPLC defrauded its donors by paying the same people whom it listed as baddies on Hatewatch. But SOME of this indictment seems to suggest they defrauded the poor helpless Klan wizards. emptywheel.net/2026/04/23/w...

Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works emptywheel.net/2026/04/23/w...

I'm working on a post on how SPLC indictment works legally b4 I do one abt how it works as content (to feed the trolls). But just a hint of how it IS feeding trolls, see how zillionaire who 1) replatformed Nazis & 2) allowed them to monetize on Xitter pretends to be horrified abt paying Nazis.

Two and a half decades of Tea Party work, down the drain.

Julio Cortázar is ghost writing from the dead for BBC. Also if I were Julio Cortázar writing from the dead I would have placed it at Menai Suspension Bridge, but I guess she wouldn't have been wading under that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: The Trump administration has cut more than 4,000 employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it vowed to crack down on crime, according to ​records obtained by Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

Anyone who goes and pretends that Trump isn't currently waging a war on the free press should be ashamed of themselves and should find a new field. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I attended the trial of Renea Gamble, the Alabama woman arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest. Like the viral video of her arrest, it was both funny and enraging. New from me @theintercept.com:

This is by far the most serious international law analysis the Trump Administration has offered for the Iran War. Its most significant flaws: (i) the lack of explanation for the necessity of the war ... [1] @justsecurity.org @rgoodlaw.bsky.social www.state.gov/releases/off...

And is likely to lead to the collapse of a goodly number of governments, with uncertain outcomes.

If you love content about the Alfa Bank anomaly!

One thing that happened w/Michael Sussmann prosecution that I suspect will happen with the SPLC prosecution: He said, give me all my comms with FBI. Not only did it show Durham fucked up the 2016 communications, but it showed FBI relied on the very same DNS analysis that found Alfa Bank anomaly.

NEW: Apple fixed the bug that law enforcement, like the FBI, were taking advantage of to extract chat messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically. Until now the iPhone stored deleted or disappered messages in a database, allowing authorities to access them with forensic tools.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Great new stat from @senatebudget.bsky.social: of the $140 billion that Trump & Republicans gave ICE & CBP in the Big Beautiful Bill, $103 billion is still unobligated as of the end of March. Now they’re asking for another $70 billion even though about 75% of the OBBBA money still remains unused.

I think that we should simply run on prosecuting the rich for their crimes instead of creating a low trust society that will sow the seeds for further fascism

Much coverage of how Donald Trump, who proved unable to run Shuttle Inc, is about to take over Spirit Airlines seems to be missing this bit: It would have come out of BK by itself if Trump had not created a global catastrophe. fortune.com/2026/04/20/s...

Carter Page is the next person who'll get to loot Treasury bc Trump wants to discredit investigating Russian spies.