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).
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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?
We are deep into the dog days of summer, where leaves wilt from the August heat, families enjoy their last few weeks of vacation before school resumes, and when New York City’s reactionary establishment flails in search of a line of attack against Zohran Mamdani’s surging mayoral campaign.
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'
April 8 Update: Announcing IMPERIAL FEEDBACK
Take a break from staring at those sharply dropping market charts, go outside and take in the electric green leaves sprouting on the trees. Spring is a gorgeous time of year and not to sound too New Age or anything, but it's also when new energy kicks into
Paid Subscriber Preview: Greasing the Skids on Turkey's Slide Towards the Abyss
Bleeding Edge just hit 1,000+ subscribers this week, which means yet another fee hike for Ghost.io's hosting. I love this platform, but it is not free. In the interest of giving unpaid subscribers a taste of the reporting I run behind the paywall, I'm
Greasing the Skids on Turkey's Slide Towards the Abyss
March 21 Update: A New Great Game in the Baltic Sea; Tech 'Rationalism' and Serial Killers; French Prisons go American; It's Meir Kahane's Israel Now; LASD Challenges Civilian Oversight.
Having fun living through a sped-up version of the 1930s? Or are we slowing wending our way through a redux of the workup to Archduke Franz Ferdinand's 1914 assassination in Belgrade? Either way you slice it, Israel's imperial expansion into Syria and Lebanon plus the Trump
Court filing: Terrorgram Collective Leaders in direct contact with 2 mass killers, fascination with Satanist murder & sexual abuse
February 17 Update: Toxic Tesla's Turmoil; German Youth Swing Rightwards; Yet Another Zionist Land Grab; Red State Renewables at Risk; Trump's Pro-Rapist Presidency; BBC Correspondent Nails MI5 on Lies, Abuse Coverup
It's been a rough bad week for those out there who still think the rule of law matters in the 'Home of the Free' - not only do you have an unelected billionaire and his band of children with undeveloped frontal cortexes rooting through the Treasury,