They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

The motions are “unopposed” because Trump now sits on both sides of the case—as the defendant and as the glowering visage who looks out from tall banners on the walls of a subjugated DOJ—and Judge Cannon did not allow any of the third parties who sought to intervene to argue for disclosure.

Republicans once promised a chicken in every pot, but now we've got RFK working towards an 8-ball on every toilet seat.

I’m on a trip with my family so I wasn’t going to do a newsletter but then I saw that visualization of very grim data that I thought deserved some comment. And then I added other stuff, too. www.howtoreadthisch.art/a-visualizat...

Great thread:

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

GALLEGO: Why is the agent who shot Renee Good holding a camera phone & weapon? LYONS: The US attorney was requiring to have video leading up to arrests, so officials have used phones for that GALLEGO: Maybe you shouldn't be trying to be an influencer and wielding a weapon at the same time

I called up one of the White House "special government employees" linked to the Fulton County ballot seizure. I ended up on the phone for nearly two hours. It got weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

Multiple election deniers are cited in this affidavit by name or can be identified: Kurt Olsen, Clay Parikh & Kevin Moncla. All of them have gone on a QAnon-affiliated show dedicated to election fraud claims. Parikh, who's gone on it repeatedly, even told the channel that it’s "how I get my news."

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

“Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,”a former staffer claimed of incidents they recalled going back to 2021. nymag.com/intelligence...

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

Radley is so on the mark zeroing in on this: the creation of new "privacy" rights for federal police. The right to be anonymous to the public. The right not to have anyone know why they shot someone and tried to hide the evidence. "right to privacy" fascism addition.

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

New from 404 Media: DHS says critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was actually never recorded and doesn't matter. "Due to a technical issue, the Video System failed to record video or audio footage during that period." www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

Beyond the obvious need for tribunals for the crimes Noem and others have committed and enabled, bringing shame back seems fundamental to the enterprise of rebuilding this country. No society can survive without a general understanding that this kind of shameless lying is unacceptable.

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Sneako, and Clavicular were all in a night club in Miami singing and dancing to the Kanye song "Heil Hitler" which they requested be played.

Just want to stress that this was a woman who was simply trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

Mike Lee, who fancies himself an intellectual, advances the premise that US agents can walk into the Venezuelan president’s rooms in Caracas at any time and exercise a plenary police power, and if anyone in that sovereign state might get in their way the military can just start blowing shit up.

Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

This piece by @jamellebouie.net is so good: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

We don't need massive SCOTUS reform in the abstract. Fixed terms, some small things. But the problem isn't the Court. It's the justices. These six people are so bad, such enemies of the Constitution, they must be removed or otherwise disempowered even if it means things I'd generally rather not do.

FT has a piece on how particularly poisonous the Juan Orlando Hernández pardon was (but is a good overview and unlikely many pieces did note that Roger Stone himself needed a pardon). www.ft.com/content/1dc4...

In the end, it didn’t cut government spending, and there was no promised “savings.” In the end, DOGE destroyed countless lives, ravaged American soft power, killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world (soon millions), & stole your data. Elon Musk should be on trial.

New: On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command." www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

Rumble, an alternative video platform, can be tricky to navigate and harder to research/investigate. That's where we come in. Our researchers looked closer at the Rumble data we have, starting with the platform's power users. What they found was eye-opening. 🧵 1/n openmeasures.io/rumble-power...

This is amazing, amazing work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ABANDONED THE TODDLER IN THE BACKSEAT Arrest these motherfuckers for child endangerment

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

In our (longer) video in here, near the end of it, I ask @katmabu.bsky.social about how per our sources the trump wh is pressuring doj to arrest/indict more people — including/esp. journalists, dem electeds, dem candidates — for “obstructing” ICE and other enforcements. I tell her yes her name…

That’s uhh insane.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

You know, I thought it would be obvious that I question DHS’s claim they have done nothing wrong when this is an article about a bullshit arrest and also me personally getting shot at. But apparently some people cannot grasp things unless they’re spelled out.

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

Louisiana's attorney general intends to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that banned capital punishment for minors, the Louisiana Illuminator reports.

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...