I've handled polygraph cases for over 25 years & regularly lecture on topic. I've sued FBI over its policies. I've also rep'd many polygraphers & American Polygraph Association. My knowledge is broad on both sides. This is not how FBI or USG historically operates & is very disconcerting.

The biggest Bill, some would say - the most beautiful.

My Antifa book is on the New York Times Bestseller list 8 years after publication. Thank you to everyone who has supported me (and my family) in so many ways (including buying books). #NoPasarán

My first @zeteo.com byline!

all you are being very cruel to a man who is trying his best to hit one of the two nails he’s seeing

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Cities in Washington tried to come up with many reasons why they shouldn’t have to release information collected by ALPR cameras. A court has shot them down and reaffirmed the public’s right to know. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I think this is burying the lede. The CEO of the shady company benefiting from this deal is Tricia McLaughlin's husband??

Trump is forcing NINE lifesaving tsunami monitoring centers to close by the end of November, just four months after a Pacific-wide tsunami warning. 🧵

Via @andreadotweb.bsky.social: The changes were sought by rural school districts, which said they struggled to find candidates under stricter guidelines.

McLaughlin’s husband, Strategy Group CEO Ben Yoho, didn’t respond to questions. It’s not clear how much his company has been paid. Sheahan also didn’t respond to questions.

Asked about the firm’s work for DHS, DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin said, “We don’t have visibility into why they were chosen.” “I don’t know who they’re a subcontractor with, but I don’t work with them because I have a conflict of interest and I fully recused myself," she said.

We’re still reporting on Kristi Noem, contracts at DHS, and the ad deal. If you have any information we should know, my email is [email protected] and I’m on the encrypted messaging app Signal (you can message me at js_kaplan.85)

Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

The same year the company got that big South Dakota ad contract, it sent up to $25k to one of Noem’s closest aides. That aide, 28-year-old Madison Sheahan, now second-in-command at ICE.

This isn’t the first time the firm has gotten public money through a Noem contract. When she was governor of SD, the company got $8.5M in state funds for another ad campaign (starring her). A former Noem admin official told us that Noem quietly intervened to push the deal.

This is the latest ad in the campaign, made by the Strategy Group at Mount Rushmore. Noem filmed it on the second day of the government shutdown. It’s aired in recent days on “Fox & Friends.”

The consulting firm, the Ohio-based Strategy Group, has longstanding personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. It played a central role in Noem’s 2022 reelection campaign. And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS.

Where that $220M ended up has been unknown. The main recipient listed on public docs was a Delaware LLC created days before the deal was signed. We found there's been a secret beneficiary: a GOP consulting firm with a much longer — & more interesting — track record.

First, let's back up. Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Utah Legislators are having a hissy fit over having to follow the law and Utah’s own constitution This is what happens when a legislature’s legal brief is FoxNews horseshit

Russia is temporarily cutting mobile Internet access for SIM cards that connected to foreign networks while roaming, hoping to disrupt Ukrainian drone operations. Here’s how the system works and why it won’t be enough.

If you are ever a juror in a criminal case, you will be instructed that you can make reasonable inferences from the evidence presented at trial. What reasonable inference can you make from the evidence of Donald Trump's actions here?

Today, Democrats have uncovered more damning Epstein + Maxwell correspondence on Trump. “The dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him...” — Epstein to Ghislaine Trump was clearly implicated in Epstein's crimes. Denying it is delusion.

Democrats say Donald Trump molests children. As president, he's been far more likely to starve or deport them. Two Pinocchios.

If Democrats release files showing that Trump was complicit in Epstein's pedophilia, and Trump tries to distract from it by starting a war with Nigeria or Venezuela, then Democrats will have blood on their hands.

When Megyn Kelly says it’s not a big deal if she’s 17, she’s not talking about her own daughter but about the underclass

I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon

Guys like Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell are 100 percent good with white supremacist policy and demagoguery. They just think it’s crude to openly admit it.

The NYT Ed Board published a piece today w/ a few correct criticisms of both Trump & the Supreme Court, which I thought was curious Then suddenly the last line was like 'the Court should rule against Trump in the tariffs case' and I thought ahh that explains it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...

The FBI launched a “Rapid Response” X account yesterday, which comes across as Kash griping that nobody appreciates how great he is. This is its debut post; its second one was to refute something Tucker Carlson said about the Butler assassination attempt investigation.

Serious credit to protestors consistently going to ICE's Broadview detention center—including members of the clergy, candidates for office such as Kat Abughazaleh, and other people putting themselves on the line—to keep drawing public attention, while also stretching the regime's limited resources.

Different agency but many like me warned that there would be waivers to exempt politically protected individuals.

Donald Trump has very strongly pledged to investigate EVERYONE implicated in the latest Epstein emails that is NOT one of his friends or allies, or himself

Chicago ICE detention center:

If you don’t take a polygraph, can’t fail a polygraph.

As the FBI’s deputy director, Dan Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say. @williamturton.bsky.social @chrisbing.bsky.social

Don't look at that man behind the curtain! The favored reading material of wealthy white men on Wall Street who like to have a little fun with underaged girls firmly believes that wealthy white men on Wall Street must be beyond the reach of the law.

IN FACT I have used a wood chipper! We had a felled tree in the yard and it was an efficient way to get rid of a lot of the branches. We turned the main trunk into firewood for our fire pit in the backyard.

Mafia governance in action "the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth." Buddha 🌀

he’s crashing out

This has a whole lot of “OJ looking for the real killer” energy

Now singing a catchy tune, “All you fascists bound to lose.”

Crowd singing “Which side are you on?” as state troopers grab another protester.

State troopers in riot gear join the mix of cops. They just arrested at least six more immediately after this scene.

Cook County deputies, Illinois State Police, and Broadview police just arrested at least 8 to 10 people, including several faith leaders. State police in riot gear now arriving.

Police seem worried about this gap. Setting up the flimsiest barricades they could find.

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.