So, it’s come to this. The good ship USS Revenge Prosecution is sinking. And the deserting rats are deciding which rats should desert first, apparently based on nothing more than the current state of the organizational chart. Two people figured heavily into the disastrous attempt to prosecute a handful of Chicago residents for engaging in...
How the Administration Picks Its Targets, Then Picks the Crime
The Trump administration is using the Antifa label and other means to prosecute its opponents.
Bob Woodward’s New Book Presents Trump Staffers as Our Last Line of Defense. We’re Doomed.
Fear is full of stories of administration officials thwarting Trump in instances that don’t matter at all.
Andrew McCabe’s firing and Trump’s anti-Mueller tirade, explained
“The president of the United States is unhinged.”
How the FBI Stumbled in the War on Cybercrime — ProPublica
In this excerpt from “The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime,” the authors reveal how unprepared the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency was to combat online crime.
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation
The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklist
The lawsuit says Anthropic is being harmed "irreparably" and could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
More Than 90 Percent Of ICE Detainees Have Never Been Convicted Of Violent Crimes
To call the administration’s “worst of the worst” claims a ruse is to give this administration too much credit. It’s not clever enough to run a con. Going after criminals wa…
Trump DoD Axed a Program Meant to Limit Civilian Casualties — ProPublica
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.
Peters Report Finds Trump Administration Has Dismantled Critical Counterterrorism Infrastructure and Weaponized What Remains Against Political Opponents, Leaving Americans Vulnerable to Terror Threats - Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Senator Gary Peters released a new report detailing how the Trump Administration has systematically dismantled key elements of the nation’s post-9/11 counterterrorism infrastructure, diverting personnel and resources away from preventing terrorist attacks, and increasingly weaponizing other counterterrorism authorities for political purposes.
The Deaths of Effective Altruism
Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let’s also put his ruinous philosophy on trial.
ABC sues the FCC over Trump and Carr’s campaign of threats
The Trump admin is accused of retaliating against ABC.
Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
The Gang of Four Are Guilty
At this trial, the GOF were accused of many crimes, including misleading the world on what patterns were all about, and making intermediates think they could write code like experts. I wasn't there, but if I had been, this is what I would have said.]
The Eric Adams Indictment Is, Unfortunately, Very Funny
A brief roundup of the absolutely slapstick levels of corruption contained therein.
Preliminary Pentagon Findings Betray Trump's Outrageous Lies About Iranian School Massacre | Common Dreams
Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth "should be potentially charged and prosecuted for war crimes," said the advocacy group Just Foreign Policy.
