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I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.
MAGA: Children shouldn’t learn about slavery.
Also MAGA: We’re reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.
New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again
"The straightforward explanation for Trump’s Confederacy fetish is that he’s a virulent racist who would’ve enslaved people himself. If you think that’s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."
The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.
" After all, precisely because Mills’s seat is safe, Republicans could break with him without worrying that he’d be replaced by a Democrat. That, however, would violate the spirit of Trump’s Washington, which grants near total license to the president’s allies." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
Some nutty things about this excerpt: (1) It says facts are “undisputed” and then cites only press releases for those facts; (2) It defines giving people’s names as “doxxing”; (3) It conflates bureaucrats with street cops when making arguments about physical danger.
NEW: DOJ asks Judge Breyer to close next week's trial on the Trump admin's possible violations of the Posse Comitatus Act to remote public access, arguing that it endangers DoD/DHS/ICE officials to let the public see who they are. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW: DOJ asks Judge Breyer to close next week's trial on the Trump admin's possible violations of the Posse Comitatus Act to remote public access, arguing that it endangers DoD/DHS/ICE officials to let the public see who they are. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Yesterday on Twitter, RFK Jr. blatantly accused doctors of vaccinating patients solely for money. Earlier in the week, he cancelled $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines.
Then a man who apparently thought his illness was caused by the COVID19 vaccine fired numerous rounds at the CDC, killing a man.
On this day in 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury refused to indict the officer, who was never held accountable.
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
UNPOPULAR: “Now would be a good time to stock up on coffee. We know that Trump's tariffs are unpopular... Trump is underwater on trade in 40 of 50 states.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-is-u...
“This is not how we do things in the United States,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State College of Law. “Or at least not how we’re supposed to.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has said the FBI granted his request to help bring Democratic lawmakers back to the state. But the bureau appears to have taken few concrete steps.
Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.
