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December 11 Update: DHS' Surveillance State Targets Dissent; UK to Scrap Most Jury Trials; Tallying Trump's Retribution; Outrage Scamming, Inc; LAPD's Shadow Warrants; UCLA Circles the Drain; Illegal Mining in French Guiana; Russia's Hybrid War in Europe

The last few weeks of 2025 show zero letup in a breakneck year strewn with mayhem, as tens of millions of Americans stand to lose their healthcare thanks to Congressional and Presidential fecklessness, the Department of War (I'm honestly fine with the renaming and dealing away with the

Nov. 21 Update: The Border Patrol's Highway Dragnet; Bosnian Sniper Tourism; Border Patrol Gone Wild in SoCal; ICE's TX Gulag; Endangered Species Rollback; Tech's Trump Bump; Rikers Violence Spirals; LAPD Bankrupts LA

Zohran Mamdani completed his inexorable ascent to power earlier this month, beating Andrew Cuomo for a second time in six months and becoming the first New York City mayor to win more than a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969. Unlike the White Collar Wasp and media darling, Mamdani

BIG TERROR E3: The Deviancy of British Spy Cops

October 29 Update: Justice for Robert Brooks; NYC Overdose Deaths Plummet; Silicon Valley's Israeli Collusion; Election Deniers to 'Secure' Elections; Police Oversight Backsliding in Oakland; Homan & Noem at War; SoCal ICE Watching; Datacenter Desiccation

CHICAGO POLS CHARGED Three days. That's all Congress has left to act before the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (once known as food stamps) runs out of money thanks to the ongoing government shutdown. On November 1, 42 million people will lose their last grip on a key filament

October 14 Update: BIG TERROR #2; Trans Terror Panic at the Heritage Foundation; Young Republicans Go Full Fash; Gaza Protest Crackdowns are a Canary in the Coalmine; Renewable Power's Inexorable Rise; Baader-Meinhoff Redux.

Fall's in the air, and so is the tear gas. Despite federal judges finding ICE is making illegal warrantless arrests and systematically assaulting journalists during the latest 'enforcement' surge/Epstein distraction mechanism, there's been no let up in 'Operation Midway Blitz,' with

BIG TERROR E2: Green Scare Rising

BIG TERROR E1: Patriot Act or Die

On Monday, Jake Hanrahan and I released the first episode of Big Terror, a podcast exploring the authoritarian creep and radical expansion of policing and surveillance over the past three decades (and beyond).

August 22 Update: German murder charges for 764; Meta's pedophile AI; How 'sanctuary' cities feed ICE's datamining; DoD gets into deportation; SFPD, surveillance & the crypto mogul; CA economy suffers under immigration sweeps; Transnational crime omnibus

How far we've fallen as a country. No, I'm not talking about the Texas legislature holding Democrats hostage inside their own chamber to force through a gerrymandering effort that Republicans hope will stave off a massive wave of dissatisfied voters during next year's midterm

"A Deeply Entrenched Criminal Enterprise" - Will Zohran Mamdani Take on a Corrupt & Broken NYPD?

July 29 Update: Feds Flail in L.A. Courts; Silicon Valley Dreams of Dictatorship; NYC's Kafkaesque Immigration Courts; Supreme Court Fight Looms Over Warrantless Raids; Israel's Permanent Genocide; Roblox's Diddy Fetish; the Nerd Reich's Footsoldiers

Well, it's summer. If you couldn't tell by the lingering scent of fireworks - or perhaps that's the latest round of Canadian megafires providing that particular scent and orange cast to the sky - we're halfway through 2025 and well on track

A Deep Dive into Noah Lamb and the Terrorgram Collective's Hit List

June 18 update: Florida AG at War with Federal Courts; UAVs & Military Weaknesses; Crypto Buys off SFPD; Waymo Spies on You; Iowa Farming & Cancer; CA Cops Illegally Share ALPR Data with ICE; Bolsonaro's Spying ring; France Targets Anti-Fascists

Hate it when I'm right, but the last two weeks proved a prediction I made here when the first round of protests against ICE's dragnet raids kicked off in San Diego. Americans do not like seeing their neighbors dragged away by squads of masked, rifle-toting plainclothes

June 3 Update: NYPD Skates on Summer 2020 Cop Riots; Stephen Miller's Anti-ICE turn; Patel & Bongino's War with the FBI; Trump's Total Information Awarness project; Thielverse's Perversions of Tolkien

Summer's coming up fast, and with college campuses emptying out amidst craven administrators cracking down on students speaking up against Israel's ongoing genocide layered on top of growing outrage at militarized immigration raids across the country (see San Diego last weekend, where a bunch of ICE

764 Leaders Trippy, War Charged by US authorities, Group Classified as 'Nihilistic Violent Extremists'