Update from David Corn on the DOJ continuing to file in support of Alexander Smirnov’s appeal. I reported in November he had been quietly furloughed even tho judge said he was a flight risk.

Why...did CNN do this

Great

This is a wild, must-read to find out some of the people the Trump pardon-seeking cottage industry is benefiting

Daily Wire reports a doc shows a third company (out of only four) allowed to bid for the Noem ad campaign was a company owned by Kash Patel’s longtime personal publicist and spokesperson.

Time to pull out Jim O'Neill's kidneys walking around seasteading clip, as Nature is reporting Trump plans to nominate him as next leader of the National Science Foundation. Story link below

Following this story's publication, a local reporter found that Rakhi Israni only recently registered as a Democrat from “No Party Preference" in Nov. 2025 and infrequently voted. Someone else tipped me off to the fact that she was endorsed by the 4th largest donor to MAGA Inc/

Here’s Brian McGinnis’ last Instagram video from before the protest

NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors. Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer. theintercept.com/2026/03/04/c...

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

As U.S. and Israeli bombs started to fall, Trump took to social media to link the unauthorized military actions with the Big Lie. Trump posted an article asserting that “Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States.”

The second case is an absolutely WILD case about a postal service employee refusing to deliver someone's mail because they are Black. The majority is a conservative win, 5-4, with Gorsuch joining the liberals to dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

ICYMI: We obtained the missing three FBI interviews with the woman who said Epstein and Trump abused her in the early 1980s. The FBI memos reveal unsubstantiated and at times outlandish claims. House Dems opened an investigation earlier this week into why the files were missing from the public files

UPDATE: The plane was towed to the terminal around 3pm. Migrants are reportedly "at the terminal," though it's unclear to me if that means still on the plane or off of it. And if off, unclear if they are still shackled. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

People who want a fairy tale that they will find some hidden memo of Trump raping kids somewhere emotionally don’t want to contend with the fact that people voted for Trump and all that means and that his banal evil won’t be magically vanquished by some secret revelation to save us all

Jesus Christ. The Susan Hamblin who wrote this 2014 email was not a Mormon woman married in a Seattle temple in 1987. That's who runs the adoption agency, Susan Hamblin Lawrence, a widow with four kids.

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

This story is wrong. It combines two separate women-- the woman Kimbal dated and another anonymous victim from a lawsuit who is seven years younger, as seen in the very documents the story cites. Epstein had more than one female pair marry each other.

A Leonord Leo-linked watchdog group, Americans for Public Trust (APT) did a report on several nonprofits and their grant-making on climate. Then state AGs--led by the chair of the Republican Attorneys General (RAGA) Montana AG Austin Knudsen, a group funded by Leo and big energy-- wrote this letter/

Had to pull out my pencil on paper of Ralph Nader from 10th grade for this one

When Rep Scanlon asked Pam Bondi about NSPM-7 and if she had a list of domestic terrorists in a Congressional hearing this week, Bondi replied by pointing out Kyle Wagner's cyberstalking case.

Update: The federal indictment against Kyle Wagner confirms our reporting, that Wagner was arrested and charged with cyberstalking right-wing agitator Jayden Scott (who allegedly stalked a Minnesota reporter before this) and NOT federal agents. /

NEW: Reps Khanna and Massie pushed the DOJ to unredact a file in the Epstein files. Then Khanna read four men's names from it in a House floor speech, calling them "wealthy and powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason." / www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Is Extinction Rebellion NYC on Pam Bondi's Secret Domestic Terrorist List? After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7. theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...

Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’. Endangerment finding rollback will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

This is not true. There are several people with that name, and the Salvatore Nuara in the files has a different birthday. It's a random guy from Queens who had a grand larceny charge and even more importantly, no one yet knows what this page in the files means or why it is there!

ICE finally released the report on Santos Reyes Banegas's death in ICE custody in Nassau County jail last fall. New report indicates he died of alcohol withdrawal, and not liver failure, as ICE said at the time. / www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/...

AP, ABC and CBS all reported that Wagner was charged with threatening federal agents— which wasn’t reflected in the complaint or even said by DOJ explicitly. AP has now finally changed their headline and added a correction.

BP agent Charles Exum bragged about his shooting skills and putting seven bullet holes in Marimar Martinez. Bovino emailed him the day of the shooting calling his service in Chicago “excellent.”

NEW: The Trump admin publicized the arrest of an "antifa domestic terrorist," implying he was charged with threatening federal agents. But the criminal complaint suggests Kyle Wagner was charged with Instagram beefing with controversial rightwing agitator Jayden Scott. zeteo.com/p/trump-admi...

Harmeet Dhillon said the DOJ is investigating a recent protest at Rep. Suozzi's event as possible antisemitism. Several of the protesters were Jewish--they were protesting Suozzi's ICE funding vote. The event was not a religious ceremony, but billed as a "community conversation" at a synagogue. /

Someone just described the last Epstein file drop as having "real industrial grade Russia stuff" and it's true, and so far pretty underreported

IDK who needs to hear this (Ok, I do, but I'm being diplomatic) but you cannot simply report what DHS says as fact in 2026 without looking into it

NEW: 70 organizations—Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Unitarian, civil rights, academic, legal, peace, and human rights groups —submitted a formal request to DOJ’s National Security Division seeking a FARA investigation into Canary Mission, citing our Drop Site story.

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

Sometimes I feel bad about being 45 and getting older but then I remember I’m four years older than Bari Weiss and I feel better

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

Tulsi Gabbard Arranges Trump Call With F.B.I. Agents After Georgia Search NYT Gift Article In case you (or anyone you know) had any doubts about whether the seizure of Fulton County ballots is innocent or for a real investigation, read this and share! Blockbuster front page article bit.ly/4khwW4T

Here is Raymundo (Ray) Gutierrez, the second agent to shoot Alex Pretti (seen at a 2013 Halloween party in a Border Patrol vest and more recently.)

Here is Jesus (Jesse) Ochoa

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Thanks to CNN airing Kayla Schultz’s video of Pretti’s killing in higher resolution we have the best face shots of the first and main shooter— and in addition to the Texas flag it’s been noted he wears on the back, he also wears a vertical Texas flag in front.

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm." A must read.

There are Border Patrol agents involved in recent violent incidents in Minneapolis with badges and hats for everything from Texas to Thailand, the New York Yankees to the Arizona Wildcats...these guys are from all over

4/4 out of the shooters of Martinez, Pretti and Good are current or former Border Patrol agents

The Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about putting seven bullet holes in her in text messages is a 23-year-veteran of Border Patrol. Before Maine, Charles Exum was stationed at Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he won a nationwide police shooting contest.

More images of this agent “NS-919,” one of two who shot Pretti and a main instigator of the Pretti incident— from January 21. NS-919 pushed the woman that started the Pretti violence on January 24.

ALERT: Per CBS News Feds have arrested Don Lemon