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April 7 Update: ICE Undercuts Fed Narcotics Trial; South Africa & the Modern Mercenary; Trump's Chickenshit Club; TSA's Deportation Program; Anduril's Smoke & Mirrors; Newsrooms Revolt over AI; California Journalism's Beating Heart
Happy Spring to you all, if one can call it that. We're in the midst of yet another hot war with no end in sight, since the Epstein Files are apparently bottomless and there's no way out of the current morass that the increasingly senescent occupant
February 19 Update: Billionaires Panic at Calif. Wealth Tax; LA DA's Police Amnesty; Brazil's Police Massacre Exposed; ICE Snubs Courts; The CIA's Nordstream 2 Connection; Wagner's Sabotage Ring; Palantir's Federal Billion
(This week's update is in memory of Rubi, who fought the good fight and never sought out the limelight)
Hello strangers. 2026 came out of the blocks fast, and I've barely had time to pick my head up. Between the lethal immigration blitz in Minnesota, the
Operation Metro Surge's Israeli Connection
Jonathan Ross is the Poster Boy for Post-9/11 America
BIG TERROR E4: Torture to Keep You Safe
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