FBI is As Fascist As It Was in the Hoover Era, Now Joined by DHS

Members of community groups and non-profits are outraged by revelations that federal law enforcement infiltrated community meetings and surveilled anti-ICE activists in Minnesota over the winter.

Minister JaNaé Bates, co-executive director of the non-profit Faith in Minnesota, said sending undercover federal agents into meetings at places like churches and union halls is a “horrific” violation, because those are spaces where people safely gather to exercise basic rights like free speech.

“It is something that the American people and Minnesotans absolutely shouldn't tolerate,” Bates said. “Nothing is normal about departments being weaponized against people who are doing what Minnesotans do: love their neighbors and take care of them, deliver them food, make sure that they're safe.”
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The revelations about widespread surveillance are contained in legal documents released Thursday as part of a motion for discovery in the case of 15 Minnesotans charged with felony conspiracies tied to anti-ICE protests.

The incomplete reports show federal agents scanning license plates outside protests and compiling personal information on people as part of a program they called Operation Puppet Master. The program was apparently intended to find what the government described as "violent opportunists," but undercover agents seem to have focused mostly on meetings in church basements and public protests. The federal government also subpoenaed financial records from local nonprofits and labor unions they saw as supporting anti-ICE efforts.
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The revelations about widespread surveillance are contained in legal documents released Thursday as part of a motion for discovery in the case of 15 Minnesotans charged with felony conspiracies tied to anti-ICE protests.

The incomplete reports show federal agents scanning license plates outside protests and compiling personal information on people as part of a program they called Operation Puppet Master. The program was apparently intended to find what the government described as "violent opportunists," but undercover agents seem to have focused mostly on meetings in church basements and public protests. The federal government also subpoenaed financial records from local nonprofits and labor unions they saw as supporting anti-ICE efforts.

This is the same authoritarian bullshit that the FBI pulled during the 1960s. Doesn't matter if you have a Consitutional right to protest, the FBI and the DHS is going to put you under a microscope. Note that their agents tried to gin up "direct action", but the people of Minneapolis didn't take the bait.

None of these birds should be allowed to function in a civilized society. They are our Nazis and they should be ostracized.

Fat Clueless MoFo

He cares for the sailors and their families:

Reporter: Family members of service members are concerned about conditions on the Lincoln.

Trump: No they’re not.

Reporter: Has the deployment gone on too long?

Trump: No. Not nearly long enough.

And for working Americans:

Trump: "The economy is doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street."

Those need to go onto attack ads to demonstrate the utter fecklessness of Oue Sundowner-in-Chief.

Because It's Friday

Something you don't see every day: A Mallet tank locomotive:

Reasoning These Down, Here

Riding in the presidential food cart.

Failing the Basic Test of Military Leadership

That is seeing that your guys are cared for. Kegseth has failed that, miserably.

Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran. ... Mike Levin, a Democratic member of Congress from California, has sounded the alarm over conditions onboard the warship, which is in its fifth month of combat operations against Iran. He described the lot of the crew on X as “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”

Steam is generated by the reactor plant and that steam is used to heat fresh water for "hotel use". How it can run out of hot water is beyond my understanding.

So is how the Lincoln can run out of personal care items. It's a fucking aircraft carrier, they can land cargo airplanes on it. It's beyond ridiculous that the conditions on warships in the Gulf theater are this bad.

It's a basic failure of leadership, but that's what you get when the SecDef is a former O-4 who was allegedly booted out of the Army for substance abuse and who qualified for his job by appearing on Fox News, and who has fired competent general and flag officers in favor of promoting sycophants.

Carting These Down, Here

Also on the food truck were his "executive assistant" (mistress, allegedly), the guy who does his AI slop on Truth Social and maybe a couple other minions.
If Little Marco had any balls, he'd quit today. Bessett has no balls, so fuck him. He can ride Bait Force One and be happy for the honor of being Cadet Bone Spurs's personal human shield.

ICE, Now With Even More Torture Devices

ICE agents will soon be equipped with gloves to help them torture people on the street.

And they're lying about people "almost running them over" with cars as a pretext to shoot them.

these guys are just out of control animals

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM

Every ICE agent is a lying, soulless ghoul. Avoid having any interaction with them. They are beyond humanity.

Shorter Trump: All Y'all Can Die in My Place

Once a draft-dodging coward, always a coward.

President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was flying on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post.

Offering up a planeload of people as unwitting decoys doesn't matter a bit to the Orange Coward. He hasn't changed since his alleged bone spurs. He hasn't changed since the only people he ever assaulted were his wives and at least one random stranger in a dressing room.

He's an obese, senile, obnoxious narcissistic coward. And as for those who continue to support him, I humbly submit that says volumes about their own character, or lack thereof.

ETA: There are other places he can hide.

Dismissing These Down, Here

Just Morons

If you take your mdical recommendations from a dementia case and a brain-damaged drug addict, then I feel sorry for your kids.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

Next up will, no doubt, be an executive order that declares that the Earth is flat and the Sun orbits the Earth.

Dear Mr. President: