Missed this last week, but superb reporting from @willcarless.bsky.social here.

Continuing a long trend that has continued for 30 years or so I am currently flying to a country on vacation that is experiencing a significant news event. This time I’m on a plane heading to Tirana, Albania, where people are protesting a luxury resort on untouched coastline planned by the Kushners

New from me @notus.com: The DOJ has cancelled biannual election-crimes classes for investigators. It deleted the manual that explains how to avoid tampering with votes. And it isn't prepping for the usual Election Day command center at FBI hq. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

It’s wild how many people are in my mentions saying things like “All thanks to the SPLC” — like that’s something witty or clever. The SPLC paid informants to infiltrate groups like this, sure. To suggest those few people account for most extremists is just ignorant and smacks of denialism.

ICYMI: I had a pretty big story today: A source leaked me Patriot Front’s internal guidance, membership list, and other documents. More coming …

⬇️ With a couple words from me

"Members of Patriot Front idolize Hitler, they joke about the Holocaust, they use racial slurs and they very much want to psychologically traumatize nonwhite groups – they are very comfortable being white supremacists in private.” -- @jtischauser.bsky.social

I was leaked Patriot Front’s manuals, membership list and other key documents from inside the racist hate group:

SCOOP: I got exclusive internal documents from the white supremacist group Patriot Front, showing the group is in 49 states and has grown fast. The docs outline strict rules on propaganda and show the group’s expansion into racist “active clubs”: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

"The words 'replace' or 'replacement' appear on 14 of the 75 pages of the document being studied by law enforcement."

The FBI says these teenagers "didn't discriminate" in their hate. They did. They left a document laying out explicitly who they discriminated against, and why. Experts say it clearly espouses a mishmash of far-right neo-fascism:

The two men who attacked a San Diego mosque on Monday left a document showing they were steeped in racist, white supremacist ideologies, including accelerationism and the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory. LATEST: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

This is getting so boring. Stop doing this.

#IMPACT:

Earlier this year, @writerbarton.bsky.social & I wrote the story of a horrific death in an Alabama jail & a sheriff hanging on to power despite nearly half his staff being charged. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... The sheriff just lost his reelection bid: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

To wit: www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

Very curious whether Trump’s $1.8 billion January 6 fund includes money for journalists traumatized by the events of that day, including watching colleagues get assaulted, fearing for their lives, seeing people die and witnessing countless unprovoked attacks. Asking for a friend

It’s absolutely bonkers to me that Americans are being completely gouged at the pump, ostensibly because of geopolitics, and at the same time oil companies are making record profits! Why are we all OK with this? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

FWIW: I worked as a bartender for years before I became a journalist. We would “86” people all the time. This meant banning them from the premises. Not killing them.

It was very interesting interviewing Hasan Piker this morning. We had a long, respectful conversation about rising antisemitism in America and the responsibility involved with shaping the conversation

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... Important perspective on the SPLC story from @willcarless.bsky.social (Will is excellent and it is not his fault that USA Today has added an "AI Overview" section up top)

An indictment is literally a list of allegations. That just what it is.

Is it fraud if nobody thinks they’ve been defrauded?

People keep pointing out that the big #SPLC indictment is a *fraud case But I didn’t see a shred of evidence in the indictment that a single donor was actually concerned about informants being paid to infiltrate hate groups That seems … relevant?

Today would be a great day for current and former FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors to reach out to me and detail some of the hate group infiltrators the feds have paid over the decades. Reach me confidentially on signal/telegram at 415.416.5231

Former fed prosecutor told me: “The idea that people who contribute to the SPLC would have objected that some of their funding was going to pay people who infiltrated extremist far-right groups like the Ku-Klux Klan is ridiculous on its face … it’s stupid. It doesn’t pass the laugh test”

In announcing yesterday’s indictment, FBI Director Kash Patel claimed the SPLC was essentially supporting extremism by paying high-level informants That’s the *exact criticism that’s been made of the FBI & DOJ’s use of paid confidential informants for decades. Stones. Glass houses.

The DOJ indicted SPLC for paying informants. But the FBI does it too Paying sources to infiltrate hate groups is a tried-and-tested tactic long employed by federal law enforcement agencies. My latest for @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

BREAKING: I'm suing the federal government for access to evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis. It's astonishing this lawsuit is even necessary, but in Minnesota, nobody is above the law.

Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Follow me on Instagram! www.instagram.com/will_carless... For gems like this: www.instagram.com/reel/DV94Cq7... This: www.instagram.com/reel/DVzYq4p... And this: www.instagram.com/reel/DT0zI3e...

As attacks and threats continue, Americans — especially Jewish Americans — should be vigilant in public spaces, particularly places of worship, experts say: #LATEST www.instagram.com/reel/DVzYq4p...

I spent the last week in the UK visiting family and friends. The paranoia and fear about visiting the US is very real. People are genuinely scared to fly here. They think they'll be arrested or shot. My plane home was half-empty

“Literally” ♟️

Last year, I learned the horrific story of Tony Mitchell, who froze to death in a bare concrete jail cell in Alabama. The sheriff overseeing the jail still has his job. But half of his jailers have been charged in Mitchell's death. This is that story: eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

My colleague @willcarless.bsky.social traveled to Alabama and I dug through hundreds of pages of records to get to the bottom of how Tony Mitchell froze to death after two weeks in the Walker County jail. The sheriff remains in power and is running for re-election. buff.ly/f63cjTt

I'm extremely proud of this story, with @writerbarton.bsky.social. Please check it out, and let us know what you think!

Tony Mitchell froze to death over two weeks in January 2023 in a cell with no running water, toilet or bunk. He lay, dying, in his own feces and urine in a paper-thin suicide smock. "We did it. We killed him," a jailer later admitted.

Last year, I learned the horrific story of Tony Mitchell, who froze to death in a bare concrete jail cell in Alabama. The sheriff overseeing the jail still has his job. But half of his jailers have been charged in Mitchell's death. This is that story: eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The crusade against truth and journalism continues. It will not win. We can't let it.

Messaging from federal agencies is increasingly echoing language, imagery and even music made popular on white supremacist and far-right extremist websites and social media: My latest for @USATODAY With @heidibeirich.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reels/DTvj29...

@malcolmgladwell.bsky.social You didn't get the chance to ask @RobertKennedyJr whether he believes in the teachings of Louis Pasteur/germ theory. I did. At 19:51 in the video

WATCH: My full interview with @RobertKennedyJr from last week: youtube.com/watch?v=vFTC... Feat. 💣 Vaccine talk 💣 5G 💣 Whether RFK believes in germs 💣 Crunchy Moms 💣 Why he only eats meat & fermented food 💣 Why he thinks his voice is like that 💣 Whether he'll run in 2028

Meet the "Crunchy Moms" at the heart of the MAHA movement. They trust science. But only *some science. They're not vaccinating their kids, and they see RFK Jr. as their guy in government. Episode 2 of Extremely Normal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk8f... #crunchy #Crunchymom #vaccines

They oppose vaccines and only trust *some science. Meet the "Crunchy Moms" at the heart of the MAHA movement. Episode Two of Extremely Normal! www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Extremely Normal Episode Two examines "Crunchy Moms," supporters of RFK Jr's MAHA movement, who are pro-beef tallow and anti-vaccines. Learn how this fringe movement became a mainstream political powerhouse, and why that concerns experts in virology and disease: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk8f...

They oppose vaccines and only trust *some science. Meet the "Crunchy Moms" at the heart of the MAHA movement. Episode Two of Extremely Normal! www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Coming today! Episode Two of Extremely Normal looks at how vaccine skeptic “Crunchy Moms” went from the fringe to shaping health policy: www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...