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As part of their inquiry, the documents show, #DHS officials used an array of invasive tactics during the first half of this year to gather information on many groups & individuals who were NEVER even accused of crimes, crossing the line that has traditionally stood between investigating criminal activity & political #dissent.
#law #Constitution #Trump #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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As part of their inquiry, the documents show, #DHS officials used an array of invasive tactics during the first half of this year to gather information on many groups & individuals who were NEVER even accused of crimes, crossing the line that has traditionally stood between investigating criminal activity & political #dissent.
#law #Constitution #Trump #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Instead, it was several #left-leaning #political organizations — #labor #unions, a #ClimateChange group, #socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help & money to what they described as the “violent opportunists & agitators” on the street, acc/to newly released government documents.
#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Instead, it was several #left-leaning #political organizations — #labor #unions, a #ClimateChange group, #socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help & money to what they described as the “violent opportunists & agitators” on the street, acc/to newly released government documents.
#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Four days after #AlexPretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown in #Minnesota, the #DHS quietly opened an investigation at its office in St. Paul.
The target was not the #BorderPatrol agents who had killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old government nurse, in late January.
#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Four days after #AlexPretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown in #Minnesota, the #DHS quietly opened an investigation at its office in St. Paul.
The target was not the #BorderPatrol agents who had killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old government nurse, in late January.
#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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The #Trump Admin Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During #Minnesota #Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive #surveillance, infiltrated group chats & obtained financial records of organizations NEVER accused of any crimes.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #dissent #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.i09v.hWC6KV6iZlnt&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The #Trump Admin Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During #Minnesota #Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive #surveillance, infiltrated group chats & obtained financial records of organizations NEVER accused of any crimes.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #dissent #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.i09v.hWC6KV6iZlnt&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Ferguson said he’s been surprised to see the “growing community backlash” against #Flock specifically, given that the #technology isn’t new & other companies sell it as well. But Flock & the movement against it have “captured people’s sense that maybe they don’t want to be surveilled all the time,” he said.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Ferguson said he’s been surprised to see the “growing community backlash” against #Flock specifically, given that the #technology isn’t new & other companies sell it as well. But Flock & the movement against it have “captured people’s sense that maybe they don’t want to be surveilled all the time,” he said.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a professor at the George Washington University Law School whose scholarship has focused on #policing, #BigData #surveillance & the #FourthAmendment, said Thursday’s shifts were “better than the opposite” but called for further scrutiny of the #technology in the form of “sustained democratic engagement with the rules & judicial checks on access at a minimum.”
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a professor at the George Washington University Law School whose scholarship has focused on #policing, #BigData #surveillance & the #FourthAmendment, said Thursday’s shifts were “better than the opposite” but called for further scrutiny of the #technology in the form of “sustained democratic engagement with the rules & judicial checks on access at a minimum.”
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Robert Frommer, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that’s led litigation over the #tech, called the changes “window dressing” from a company in “panic mode.”
“This is window dressing that doesn’t address the fundamental problem, which is that police officers are the ones deciding who & when to search, & that should be done by #judges with real warrants,” he said.
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Robert Frommer, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that’s led litigation over the #tech, called the changes “window dressing” from a company in “panic mode.”
“This is window dressing that doesn’t address the fundamental problem, which is that police officers are the ones deciding who & when to search, & that should be done by #judges with real warrants,” he said.
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Critics of the company reacted skeptically to the changes, which they said appeared designed to address the growing bipartisan anger about the cameras but could still leave room for #police to abuse the system.
The ACLU said that the shortened evidence retention window could be “a step in the right direction,” but it characterized the other changes as “retreads” of inadequate safety measures.
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Critics of the company reacted skeptically to the changes, which they said appeared designed to address the growing bipartisan anger about the cameras but could still leave room for #police to abuse the system.
The ACLU said that the shortened evidence retention window could be “a step in the right direction,” but it characterized the other changes as “retreads” of inadequate safety measures.
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Customers will also be allowed to decide which offense types — such as homicide or arson — outside agencies can search their data for, which would allow a customer to block outside searches related to #immigration enforcement, the company said.
Langley said that change will give individual cities & departments control to use the system in a manner “consistent with community values.”
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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Customers will also be allowed to decide which offense types — such as homicide or arson — outside agencies can search their data for, which would allow a customer to block outside searches related to #immigration enforcement, the company said.
Langley said that change will give individual cities & departments control to use the system in a manner “consistent with community values.”
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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The company operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers & other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day. Thousands of #LawEnforcement agencies in 49 states can search & share Flock’s data across jurisdictions to aid their investigations.
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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The company operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers & other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day. Thousands of #LawEnforcement agencies in 49 states can search & share Flock’s data across jurisdictions to aid their investigations.
#Flock #law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #tech #AbuseOfPower #deflock
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#Flock Safety, the #surveillance #technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates & citizens across the #US, announced Thursday that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell #privacy concerns & address documented abuses of its system by some members of #LawEnforcement.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #AbuseOfPower #deflock
https://apnews.com/article/flock-license-plate-cameras-surveillance-deflock-2a93bc075e2f7ffcca9e04a35d75a3fe?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link -
#Flock Safety, the #surveillance #technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates & citizens across the #US, announced Thursday that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell #privacy concerns & address documented abuses of its system by some members of #LawEnforcement.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration #MassSurveillance #AbuseOfPower #deflock
https://apnews.com/article/flock-license-plate-cameras-surveillance-deflock-2a93bc075e2f7ffcca9e04a35d75a3fe?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link -
The first frame of the video #CarolinaMolina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked #ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #immigration #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
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The first frame of the video #CarolinaMolina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked #ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #immigration #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
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AP Exclusive: #ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction & de-escalation devices” for officers & agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by #DHS.
#law #Trump #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
AP Exclusive: #ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction & de-escalation devices” for officers & agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by #DHS.
#law #Trump #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
Neckarstadt Police Department in Mannheim, Germany, playing with the victim's basketball during a so-called official raid on June 27, 2026. These are the same criminals who kidnapped me, tortured me, sexually assaulted me in the cell where they took me UNLAWFULLY
@eff @amnesty_digital_de @amnestynl @Polizei_BW @AshevilleAntiRacism
#PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #Germany #Mannheim #Neckarstadt #Accountability #Justice #EULaw #FreeSpeech #Whistleblower #InstitutionalRacism #AbuseOfPower
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Neckarstadt Police Department in Mannheim, Germany, playing with the victim's basketball during a so-called official raid on June 27, 2026. These are the same criminals who kidnapped me, tortured me, sexually assaulted me in the cell where they took me UNLAWFULLY
@eff @amnesty_digital_de @amnestynl @Polizei_BW @AshevilleAntiRacism
#PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #Germany #Mannheim #Neckarstadt #Accountability #Justice #EULaw #FreeSpeech #Whistleblower #InstitutionalRacism #AbuseOfPower
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Neckarstadt Police Department in Mannheim, Germany, playing with the victim's basketball during a so-called official raid on June 27, 2026. These are the same criminals who kidnapped me, tortured me, and sexually assaulted me in the cell where they took me.
@eff @privacy @amnesty @Polizei_BW @PolizeiBerlin @germany @deutschland#PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #Germany #Mannheim #Neckarstadt #Accountability #Justice #EULaw #FreeSpeech #Whistleblower #InstitutionalRacism #AbuseOfPower
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Neckarstadt Police Department in Mannheim, Germany, playing with the victim's basketball during a so-called official raid on June 27, 2026. These are the same criminals who kidnapped me, tortured me, and sexually assaulted me in the cell where they took me.
@eff @privacy @amnesty @Polizei_BW @PolizeiBerlin @germany @deutschland#PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #Germany #Mannheim #Neckarstadt #Accountability #Justice #EULaw #FreeSpeech #Whistleblower #InstitutionalRacism #AbuseOfPower
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117020170442905628
Jesse Lee: "Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche brought this wretched persecution of an innocent patriotic American, all to appease his client’s* pathetic ego, and he doesn’t have the tiniest ounce of remorse about it. He would do it again and again. He’s** a goon and should be disbarred."
* Trump
** Blanche
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117020170442905628
Jesse Lee: "Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche brought this wretched persecution of an innocent patriotic American, all to appease his client’s* pathetic ego, and he doesn’t have the tiniest ounce of remorse about it. He would do it again and again. He’s** a goon and should be disbarred."
* Trump
** Blanche
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department For “Unlawful,” “Unethical” And “Unseemly” Conduct
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department For “Unlawful,” “Unethical” And “Unseemly” Conduct
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The deal also extended unusual tax protections to #Trump, his family & their businesses, shielding them from all past tax claims — an extremely lucrative benefit for Trump who has repeatedly complained about burdensome #IRS audits.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #ToddBlanche #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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The deal also extended unusual tax protections to #Trump, his family & their businesses, shielding them from all past tax claims — an extremely lucrative benefit for Trump who has repeatedly complained about burdensome #IRS audits.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #ToddBlanche #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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…At issue for both senators is the agreement #ToddBlanche & the #DOJ announced in the spring to resolve #Trump’s lawsuit against the #IRS over the leak of his personal tax returns.
The deal, which was NOT approved by a #court, would have created a nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded pool of money to reward people who claim they were victims of politically motivated prosecutions.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice -
…At issue for both senators is the agreement #ToddBlanche & the #DOJ announced in the spring to resolve #Trump’s lawsuit against the #IRS over the leak of his personal tax returns.
The deal, which was NOT approved by a #court, would have created a nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded pool of money to reward people who claim they were victims of politically motivated prosecutions.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice -
I have been wondering about the families of these criminal politicians and those that surround them; how do they justify their behavior? Is it all about money and temporary comfort the criminal provide or there's more to it? or their families are just a corrupt as them so it's "just the way it is" for them?
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Crap. Now #Trump is saying he’ll just wait until #JohnCornyn & #ThomTillis leave the #Senate, & then he’ll re-nominate #ToddBlanche.
Trump suggested Thursday that he could withdraw Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general until next year, as a standoff continues with the 2 Republican senators who are demanding concessions from the admin before supporting Blanche.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/30/republicans-struggle-way-forward-blanche-ag-nomination/ -
Crap. Now #Trump is saying he’ll just wait until #JohnCornyn & #ThomTillis leave the #Senate, & then he’ll re-nominate #ToddBlanche.
Trump suggested Thursday that he could withdraw Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general until next year, as a standoff continues with the 2 Republican senators who are demanding concessions from the admin before supporting Blanche.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/30/republicans-struggle-way-forward-blanche-ag-nomination/ -
#Trump said Thursday he may pull the nomination of #ToddBlanche for Attorney General, looking to avoid concessions to holdout #Republicans. Lawmakers on Wednesday scrapped a planned committee vote after key Republicans demanded more assurances about the “settlement” of Trump’s lawsuit against the #IRS.
That would give the Trump admin 3 AGs in less than 2 years.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
https://apnews.com/live/trump-iran-news-updates-07-30-2026 -
#Trump said Thursday he may pull the nomination of #ToddBlanche for Attorney General, looking to avoid concessions to holdout #Republicans. Lawmakers on Wednesday scrapped a planned committee vote after key Republicans demanded more assurances about the “settlement” of Trump’s lawsuit against the #IRS.
That would give the Trump admin 3 AGs in less than 2 years.
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #fraud #law #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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The reasons for creating the #SlushFund, #ToddBlanche told lawmakers, “remain as important as they were before.”
[Cornyn & Thillis better stay strong & yovte against this confirming this corrupt lickspittle. More #Republicans should be against him!]
#TaxpayersMoney #Trump #criminal #fraud #law #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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The reasons for creating the #SlushFund, #ToddBlanche told lawmakers, “remain as important as they were before.”
[Cornyn & Thillis better stay strong & yovte against this confirming this corrupt lickspittle. More #Republicans should be against him!]
#TaxpayersMoney #Trump #criminal #fraud #law #DOJ #LegalEthics #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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“This answer is, at best, misleading &, at worst, disingenuous. The court was available to review any pleading by any party at any time during this lawsuit,” the judge wrote.
Another federal judge, Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia, has left alive a lawsuit seeking to dismantle the #SlushFund.
#TaxpayersMoney #Trump #ToddBlanche #fraud #law #LegalEthics #DOJ #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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“This answer is, at best, misleading &, at worst, disingenuous. The court was available to review any pleading by any party at any time during this lawsuit,” the judge wrote.
Another federal judge, Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia, has left alive a lawsuit seeking to dismantle the #SlushFund.
#TaxpayersMoney #Trump #ToddBlanche #fraud #law #LegalEthics #DOJ #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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Vaughn will receive a seven-figure settlement from the US government, his lawyers said, making him among those aligned with the #Trump admin who have received a payout by an alternative means.
…The continuing ability of the #DOJ to make such payouts with or without a formal fund structure is one of the sticking points between the Trump admin & Republican senators as they weigh the nomination of #ToddBlanche….
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #law #LegalEthics #MafiaState #autocracy #AbuseOfPower
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Vaughn will receive a seven-figure settlement from the US government, his lawyers said, making him among those aligned with the #Trump admin who have received a payout by an alternative means.
…The continuing ability of the #DOJ to make such payouts with or without a formal fund structure is one of the sticking points between the Trump admin & Republican senators as they weigh the nomination of #ToddBlanche….
#SlushFund #TaxpayersMoney #law #LegalEthics #MafiaState #autocracy #AbuseOfPower
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As senators delayed a crucial vote on #ToddBlanche’s nomination to be attorney general over the so-called weaponization fund, a million-dollar payment the #DOJ made to an #AntiAbortion activist underscored how it could still funnel #TaxpayersMoney to people who claim to be victims of government persecution [& whose politics #Trump agrees with].
#SlushFund #law #LegalEthics #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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As senators delayed a crucial vote on #ToddBlanche’s nomination to be attorney general over the so-called weaponization fund, a million-dollar payment the #DOJ made to an #AntiAbortion activist underscored how it could still funnel #TaxpayersMoney to people who claim to be victims of government persecution [& whose politics #Trump agrees with].
#SlushFund #law #LegalEthics #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
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The #MAGA #SlushFund is Still Active Despite Court Order Payouts to #Trump Allies Continue
A seven-figure “settlement” was announced hours before senators skeptical about the so-called weaponization fund delayed a crucial vote on #ToddBlanche’s nomination to be #US #AttorneyGeneral.
#TaxpayersMoney #law #LegalEthics #DOJ #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/us/politics/todd-blanche-weaponization-payouts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.7CIC._WREIrthsuVO&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Asylum seekers could be sent directly to #deportation under new federal rule
The #Trump admin rule, which took effect immediately, could transfer nearly 450,000 cases to #immigration “judges” [immigration judges are part of the #DOJ not the #judiciary], who could dismiss the asylum petitions.#law #DueProcess #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/28/asylum-seekers-could-be-sent-directly-deportation-under-new-federal-rule/