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Tampering with evidence? 🤔 Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina testified under oath he and other high-ranking APD officials have been routinely deleting text messages about official business since 2018, violating state law requiring gov't agencies to keep communications for at least one year

Stuffing? ✔️ Turkey? ✔️ Public access to government? Always. 🦃 #Transparency #OpenGov #DC

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Why is the PACER service center spam emailing like a Texas Democratic senate candidate

Ominous

As CBP agents menaced Chicago area residents, caravans of protesters followed, honking their horns and blowing whistles...Protesters decked their vehicles out in anti-ICE flags, or scrawled things like “Bovino, you a BITCH” on the back windows of their pickup trucks.

Bodied by my eldest , frankly

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Can't believe nobody told me there was a Star Trek FOIA episode

FOIA guarantees your right to know whether a federal employee, Trump Appointee, or even Greg Bovino used the words "bubba" and "Trump" in the same email, text, or Teams chat this week.

Gm

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.

Apparently this was from the unreleased Michael Wolff profile of Epstein for New York Magazine that was killed by their factchecker Alex Yablon whose email I was seeing below. Appears in full at _022727

"don't be evil" from HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026351

favorite part of the epstein release so far is this untitled video [NATIVES/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026678.mov] of a dog chewing on a stuffed ??? person while plush hillary clinton(?) looks on aghast

Law professors recommending bright young students to OLC would better serve them by feeding their letters of recommendation directly into a wood chipper

Kitties at the pub trivia last night

Thousands of EPA employees are furloughed. Some of those who remain are busy loosening pollution regulations, a key priority of the Trump admin. Great reporting from @mollytaft.com

Has anybody found any of the DOJ quarterly reports detailing the "progress" of the weaponization working group? The reports are supposed to be provided to the WH once a quarter. I just filed a FOIA for them but feel one or two must be floating around.

“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of FPF's lawyers in our latest FOIA lawsuit against the immigration agency.

New @dcogc board member @kevinok.bsky.social has filed an important case on behalf of @freedom.press efforts to get ICE to respond to public records requests via #foia.

ICE is tearing apart families, placing people in secretive detention centers beyond the reach of congressional oversight, that's why @freedom.press is suing the agency to obtain emails it received Congress. "ICE is the most lawless agency in government," FPF attorney @kevinok.bsky.social says.

If ICE is too busy stalking daycare pickups to read their emails from Congress, they should really be thanking Lauren for FOIAing them

Suing the government is so back

Federoo Departments and Agencies What do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!

I loved working at FERC but I cannot imagine how my sleepy little grid management agency is handling this surging buffoonery

it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue

Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.

Just finished drafting my first FOIA Complaint in 3 years, get hype for suing the government

There it is www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

Mark Carney, my country cries out for freedom

People: Churches should take care of poor people. Churches: Okay. People: No, not like that. Now we’re suing you. episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/30/a...

Greeting the trick or treaters

As good a post as any to announce that I've joined the board of the DC Open Government Coalition! Stay spooky👻 and don't get redacted ⬛⬛🅱️😱⬛⬛

I wrote this back in June, but I stand by the assessment of the significance of this election and the threat represented by this increasingly rancid and useless establishment. I know NYC politics is exhausting and stupid, but it's going to be a lot of this, everywhere. defector.com/andrew-cuomo...

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

"they were able to live their lives in peace and transport but only because of the hard men of Gondor. It is time to ally with the Ring of Power"

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

April keeps demanding to break into federal facilities on our walks

April was a big hit at the community costume party

"things get bad when people are hungry" has been the #1 rule of societies since the literal beginning of civilization as a concept to the point saying hunger causes unrest isn't a prediction so much as it is an observation

Opening a law firm that sues the government: haha yes, fuck yeah, yes!! The government is closed and not suable: what the fuck no, this sucks