For those who don’t like my “complicated” explanations of our complex 20yr agenda in the Middle East, here’s an easy 3-step way to see that Mike Flynn is part of this shadow policy agenda. Step 1. Mike Flynn, Bijan Kian, and James Woolsey all worked together at Flynn Intel Group.

A federal judge in Virginia will allow a lawsuit to proceed challenging the Trump's plans for a $1.8 billion fund for alleged victims of political “weaponization,” despite statements from US officials that the plan won’t move forward bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.

BREAKING: Ohio secretly gave 100% sales tax breaks, lasting up to 40 years, to tech giants for data centers, per Cleveland.com. The exemptions—signed by Gov. Kasich—give Google, Meta and Amazon at least $600 million each. Legislators say the contracts can't be undone.

Prosecutors initially had the blessing of a Trump appointee to move forward with the investigation into Justice’s companies, but this spring, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General intervened to shut the probe down. propublica.org/article/trump…

Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.

FBI records obtained through a Judicial Watch lawsuit reveal that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged two emails with Trump shooter Thomas Crooks before the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt. The records remain heavily redacted, concealing the nature of the communications. The documents also reveal a SWAT officer recovered a cell phone and a remote device with an antenna from Crooks after he was killed.

Under Trump, the wars will continue—from Chicago to Caracas. It’s not a reckless adventure; it’s all part of the plan. Until Trump says it isn’t. motherjones.com/politics/202…

A US group founded to “enhance Israel’s image” & staffed by ex-Israeli officials (including Netanyahu’s negotiator who got US to send $3.8B per year to Israel) is revealed to have helped blueprint the new Republican push to fuse the Israeli & US militaries.zeteo.com/p/trump-fdd-iran-w…

Craig Spence was a CIA asset whose private parties drew CIA Dir. William Casey, & a friend Roy Cohn. His associate Larry King ran the Franklin Credit Union as an Iran-Contra money-laundering op within what Atty John DeCamp called an international crime syndicate/child abuse ring.

Fascist thugs.

Scoop from me and @CarolLeonnig: Kash Patel fired a group of FBI intelligence analysts Friday over a rescinded 2023 memo citing “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology” that has long been a focus of MAGA activists despite an investigation that found no anti-Catholic bias, three people familiar with the matter told MS Now. At least five analysts were let go, the sources said. The analysts worked in the FBI’s Richmond office, where the memo originated. It was titled, “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” The memo argued that some white supremacists and racially motivated violent extremists were attempting to recruit a small subset of "radical traditionalist Catholics" and suggested that Catholic congregations could present opportunities for intelligence gathering. After it became public, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray ordered it withdrawn.  He apologized for it in several Congressional hearings, saying it didn’t meet the the FBI’s standards.  Then Attorney General Merrick Garland called it “appalling.” A review in 2024 by the Justice Department’s Inspector General found no evidence of anti-Catholic bias or bad intent on the part of the FBI personnel who prepared the memo.  But the IG concluded it suffered from significant analytical problems and poor tradecraft. Some if the information in the memo came from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an anti-extremist organization that which is now the subject of a deeply controversial fraud indictment. Republicans and MAGA activists have seized on the memo for years as evidence that the FBI was targeting Catholics, despite the inspector general’s findings. The FBI declined to comment.

A U.S. citizen who worked in China as a state-media journalist pleaded guilty to acting illegally as a Chinese government agent in the U.S., the latest in a series of prosecutions of Americans accused of secretly working for Beijing on.wsj.com/4g1xITh

On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing. Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges. apnews.com/article/delaney-h…

"high income countries"

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former senior Trump administration official, said she resigned last month in part because she was increasingly frustrated with the lack of oversight of the intelligence community’s use of taxpayer funds—including gold bullion. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4anptxd

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed. Here's what happened: He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all. These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees. Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him. A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it). The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth. But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress. With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not. And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her. The threat does all the work. By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress. Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch. If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place. Here's the full story: bit.ly/4dQN5N2

We shouldn’t have to learn this from UK newspapers. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

In a new court filing, the Southern Poverty Law Center says DOJ inappropriately sent a draft grand jury indictment of SPLC to reporters, with even the prosecutor in the case unaware of what was going on. storage.courtlistener.com/re…

Ex-FBI Agent Linked to Gaddafi Gold Plot has ties to CIA & CIA Officer in court this week lamag.com/crimeinla/gaddafis…

"We should be clear: Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes. She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but with malice aforethought. She is doing it at the behest of her corporate patron." lnk.thebulwark.com/4uHFXZt