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  1. The indictment, which was handed up by a federal grand jury in Alabama, charges the organization with 11 BS counts, including bank fraud, wire fraud, & conspiracy to commit money laundering.

    #ToddBlanche told reporters Tuesday that between 2014 & 2023 #SPLC paid at least $3 million to 8 people, including affiliates of the #KuKluxKlan & #Nazi parties in the #US.

    #law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #PoliticalViolence

  2. #Update

    Southern Poverty Law Center indicted over alleged use of paid informants in #extremist groups

    The #SPLC was indicted Tuesday over a discontinued program that used paid confidential informants to penetrate white supremacist & other organizations, Acting Attorney General #ToddBlanche announced.

    #law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence #CivilRights
    cnn.com/2026/04/21/politics/sp

  3. #House #Republicans hosted a hearing centered on the #SPLC in December, saying it coordinated efforts with President Joe Biden’s Democratic admin “to target Christian & conservative Americans & deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech & free association.” [only if they’re planning or performing acts of #violence & then all they do is report them & publish articles about them… so???]

    #law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #heterosexism #racism #sexism #PoliticalViolence

  4. #FBI Dir #KashPatel said last year that the agency was severing its relationship with the #SPLC, which had long provided law enforcement with research on #HateCrime & domestic #extremism. Patel said the SPLC had been turned into a “partisan smear machine,” & accused it of defaming “mainstream Americans” with its “hate map” that documents alleged anti-government & hate groups inside the US.

    #law #Trump #DomesticTerrorism #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence

  5. The Southern Poverty Law Center has faced intense criticism from #conservatives, who have accused it of unfairly maligning right-wing organizations as #extremist groups because of their viewpoints [you know the viewpoints of — #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #WhiteChristianNationalism etc]. The #SPLC regularly condemns #Trump’s rhetoric & policies around #VotingRights, #immigration & other issues.

    #law #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #racism #sexism #PoliticalViolence

  6. The investigation could add to concerns that the #Trump Republican admin is using the #DOJ to go after #conservative opponents & his critics. It follows a number of other investigations into Trump foes that have raised questions about whether the law enforcement agency has been turned into a political weapon.

    #law #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence #CivilRights

  7. He said the organization “will vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, & our work.”

    The #SPLC, which is based in Montgomery, Alabama, was founded in 1971 & used civil litigation to fight #WhiteSupremacist groups. The nonprofit has become a popular target among #Republicans who see it as overly leftist & partisan [because #WhiteSupremacy is a-okay with Republicans].

    #law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence

  8. “When we began working with informants, we were living in the shadow of the height of the #CivilRights Movement, which had seen bombings at churches, state-sponsored #violence against demonstrators, & the murders of activists that went unanswered by the justice system,” Fair said. “There is no question that what we learned from informants saved lives.”

    #law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism

  9. The #SPLC previously paid informants to infiltrate #extremist groups & gather information on their activities, often sharing it with local & federal law enforcement, Fair said. It was used to monitor threats of #violence, he said, adding that the program was kept quiet to protect the safety of informants.

    #law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence #CivilRights

  10. The #CivilRights group made the announcement Tuesday, saying the #Trump admin appears to be preparing legal action against it or some of its employees.
    “Although we don’t know all the details, the focus appears to be on the #SPLC’s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely #violent groups,” CEO Bryan Fair said.

    #law #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence

  11. #Trump is going after the people who expose #DomesticTerrorism operations.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center [#SPLC] says it’s the subject of a #criminal investigation by the “Justice” Dept & faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate #extremist groups.

    #law #DOJ #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence #CivilRights
    apnews.com/article/southern-po

  12. FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center

    'President Trump's budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists.

    The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September.

    Though public opposition to #ICE succeeded at forcing the administration to back down in Minnesota — even firing both Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino — the #FBI is doubling down its #domesticterrorism obsession.

    In other words, if your political views are practically anything other than #MAGA, you’re on notice, courtesy of the FBI...'

    kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new

    #NSPM7 #USA #Repression #Antifascism

  13. #ConspiracyTheorists #DomesticTerrorism #GeorgiaGuidestones

    "Conspiracy theories may explain why someone blew up the Georgia Guidestones

    In September, I set out with a team to solve a mystery. We wanted to figure out who destroyed a strange monument in Elbert County called the Georgia Guidestones on July 6, 2022, and why.

    That journey is the subject of 'Who Blew Up the Guidestones?' a six-part narrative audio series produced by Goat Rodeo and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

    (. . .)

    As we traveled down rabbit holes, through granite quarries and graveyards, and into fringe corners of the internet, something odd began to happen. The question at the heart of our investigation — 'Why did someone blow up the Guidestones?' — had morphed into a new question. I started to wonder, 'Why didn’t someone blow up the Guidestones sooner?'

    It felt like every day reporting this story I would learn about a new conspiracy theory aimed at the enigmatic granite structure, sometimes referred to as 'America’s Stonehenge,' calling for its demise.

    The monument was the source of so much intrigue that the 42-year history of the Georgia Guidestones is basically just a history of popular conspiracy theories over that same period. Whatever the conspiracy theory du jour, the Guidestones had a place in it. I soon came to see them as blank slates onto which each generation could project their own anxieties and fears.

    The details would vary, of course. The Georgia Guidestones were either satanic, extraterrestrial or otherwise sinister for some reasons I had trouble following. But the prescription was always the same: The stones must fall."

    archive.ph/9T9bR#selection-461

  14. Why We Have to Fight Back Against ICE Protesters’ Terror Convictions

    Since his first inauguration, Trump has been throwing charges at protesters and seeing what sticks. He always failed — until now.

    Natasha Lennard, March 17 2026

    Excerpt: "It started on President Donald Trump’s very first day in office in 2017. Over 200 #InaugurationDay #protesters were mass arrested and charged with hefty riot and conspiracy felonies for simply being present and wearing black at a rowdy demonstration.

    "Since then, the government has sought and failed to convict left-wing activists on thin, unconstitutional claims of collective guilt.

    "Just as the J20 prosecutions, as the inauguration cases were known, fell apart, so too did cases accusing dozens of participants in the Atlanta-based #StopCopCity movement of #DomesticTerrorism, #racketeering, and conspiracy.

    "It became a pattern of sorts. Prosecutors on both the federal and state level throwing extreme and overreaching charges at leftists, based on infirm theories of collective liability, aiming to paint #antifascist, #AntiRacist movements as criminal terrorist networks. The evidence marshaled in these cases was consistently no more than typical #FirstAmendment-protected activity, like making protest signs, raising bail funds, or being present at a demonstration. The cases drained movement energies and resources.
    Again and again, though, they failed.

    "This was the pattern repeated in the malign, overreaching cases against protesters in #FortWorthTX. The #AntiICE activists had mounted a demonstration at a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement jail in nearby #Alvarado.
    There were consistencies with other anti-protest cases. There had been some illegal activity outside the #PrairielandDetentionFacility last July, and a police officer was shot. The government latched onto these circumstances to build its strategy of criminalizing dissent through guilt by association.

    "Even in conservative Texas, I didn’t think a jury would buy the government’s case that these defendants were 'North Texas Antifa Cell operatives' — an organization fabricated whole cloth by the Trump administration — who had orchestrated an elaborate ambush of the ICE facility.

    " 'Most people looking at this case are still stuck on the shooting aspect, but the jury decided the shooting was beside the point,' a member of a support group for the defendants told me. 'The verdict is that a normal #NoiseDemo deserves to be called terrorism and people should spend potentially the rest of their lives in prison. The implications of this are obvious, and people should know that the DOJ is going to try this again.' "

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2026/03/17/ic

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/uvx92

    #USPol #DomesticTerrorism #AntiICEProtests #Texas #ResistICE #SilencingDissent #AntiTerrorismLaws
    #CriminalizingProtest #Resistance

  15. Will #DomesticTerrorism charges be brought against these #AntiICE #protestors?

    #ICE enforcement action leads to #protest, violent clashes in #SouthBurlington, #Vermont

    by Derek Brouwer, Liam Elder-Connors, Zoe McDonald, March 12, 2026

    "A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington, Vermont house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of #activists who tried to impede the apprehension.

    "It marked the first major confrontation between protesters and federal immigration authorities in Vermont. Federal law enforcement deployed #TearGas and #flashbangs on a normally busy street in the state’s second largest city to disperse the activists who had surrounded their vehicles. Roughly 60 local and state law enforcement officers were also on scene, though the departments sought to distance themselves from ICE’s conduct.

    "The incident began when a man fled Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who had been surveilling a Dorset Street residence where he was staying.

    "According to an ICE affidavit, the subject of the warrant was Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez, a Mexico native who was removed from the United States in 2022, and later illegally reentered the country. In January, Corona-Sanchez was arrested by Middlebury police and charged with drunk driving, the affidavit says.

    "Following a multi-vehicle crash, Corona-Sanchez escaped to a house on Dorset Street, authorities said.

    "A growing number of protesters and police assembled outside throughout the day as immigration authorities waited for a criminal warrant to enter and arrest him.

    "A neighbor, Richard Landsman, said an Ecuadoran family with two children had lived in the house for roughly a year. At one point in the afternoon, people helped a child leave the house; they were driven away.

    "When the warrant came through after roughly nine hours, federal agents approached the front door with #TacticalGear and weapons drawn. They were supported by #VermontStatePolice troopers.

    "Police wrenched away protesters blocking the front entrance and ICE agents broke down the door. Federal agents removed three people from inside, forcing them into an unmarked car. They attempted to drive off, but protesters linked arms and blocked the street. Confrontations ensued, and the agents eventually managed to drive off by running over a median and exiting via a driveway."

    Read more:
    wgbh.org/news/local/2026-03-12

    #ResistICE #SilencingDissent #AntiTerrorismLaws #CriminalizingProtest #Resistance #USPol #VTPol #ACAB

  16. Anonymous artists placed a Titanic-themed statue of Trump and Epstein on the National Mall in Washington DC.

    No doubt they will be hunted down and jailed (or shot)

    #Trump #Epstein #Statue #DomesticTerrorism #USA #Artists

  17. Why is this threat not domestic terrorism?:
    "NH Libertarian Party says ‘perfectly permissible to kill’ former Executive Councilor for income tax plan"
    #domesticterrorism #threatsofdeath #NewHampshire #terrorism #Libertarianparty

  18. @inthehands
    Siri, what is the definition of perverse incentives? ( #DomesticTerrorism )

  19. #Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?

    From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.

    Nick Turse, February 2 2026

    " '#Terrorist' is the word that the Trump administration employs to describe the victims of its most egregious acts of #StateViolence.

    "President Donald Trump has used the word 'terrorist' to justify the #ExtrajudicialKillings of civilians in the #CaribbeanSea and #PacificOcean. And his deputies used it to explain away the killings of #AlexPretti and #ReneeGood in Minneapolis by federal agents.

    " 'Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua #NarcoTerrorists,' Trump wrote following the initial boat strike on September 2, 2025. He said the attack 'occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters.'

    "Secretary of Homeland Security #KristiNoem said that Good and Pretti were guilty of '#DomesticTerrorism.' And top White House adviser #StephenMiller used similar language to describe both.

    "These killings were conducted thousands of miles apart by different agencies in very different contexts. But the connection between them could be more than semantic."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2026/02/02/tr

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/7VepO#

    #USPol #ICESucks #DomesticTerrorist #CriminalizingDissent #TrumpSucks #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #DefundICE #DefundDHS
    #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity