#Mississippi is 37.7% Black, the highest percentage in the country. It has only one Black representative in Congress, #BennieThompson, elected by the only Black-majority district in the state. Governor #TateReeves says that a new map with no Black-majority districts would save the state from the current "reign of terror".
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-governor-vows-thompsons-reign-of-terror-is-over-but-cancels-redistricting-plans/

#USPol #USPolitics #VotingRightsAct #VRA

The #House #HomelandSecurity Committee is holding a hearing right now on #DHS #oversight, but #ICE acting director Todd Lyons refused to come.

Rep. #BennieThompson (D-MS), the top Democrat on the panel, in his opening remarks calls Lyons’ absence, "an absolute disgrace."

#law #Trump #immigration #Congress #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST

Meanwhile - follow the money - and the #EpsteinFiles and #WarCrimes

Some thoughts from Nancy Sinatra & Bill Madden - and the Congressman seeking truth & accountability, through 'oversight'.

https://twitter.com/NancySinatra/status/2000064347113210102?s=20

> When the fascist authoritarian Trump regime's reign of terror comes to its inevitable conclusion, many people are going to prison... America will have its Nuremberg trials. 😳👇

#TrumpVirus #Constitution #BennieThompson #treason #emoluments #justice #accountability #truth

How Many Members Does #Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The #FBI Has No Answers.

Despite saying that antifa is the biggest U.S. domestic threat, the FBI couldn’t explain how the movement is a “terror organization” — or an organization at all.

by Matt Sledge, December 11 2025

Excerpt: "At one point, the FBI’s #MichaelGlasheen fumbled with his hands as he tried to find an answer for the question from Rep. #BennieThompson, D-Miss.

" 'Well, the investigations are active,' Glasheen said.

" 'You said antifa is a terrorist organization. Tell us, as a committee, how did you come to that?'

"Glasheen’s comments came three months after President Donald #Trump proclaimed that antifa is a 'major terror organization,' even though it the broad political movement does not have a #hierarchy or #leadership.

"Trump followed his designation with a presidential memo on September 25 directing the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Forces to investigate and prosecute antifascists and other adherents of 'Anti-Americanism.'

"The formless nature of the antifascist movement, however, appears to have flummoxed the FBI as it attempts to carry out Trump’s orders.

"Glasheen called antifa 'our primary concern right now' and called it 'the most immediate, violent threat' from domestic terrorists. That led Thompson to ask him where antifa is located and how many members it has.

" 'We are building out the infrastructure right now,' Glasheen said.

" 'So what does that mean?' Thompson shot back. “I’m just — we’re trying to get the information. You said antifa is a terrorist organization. Tell us, as a committee, how did you come to that? Where do they exist? How many members do they have in the United States as of right now?'

" 'Well, that’s very fluid,' Glasheen said. 'It’s ongoing for us to understand that. The same, no different than Al Qaeda or ISIS.'

"Glasheen visibly struggled to answer the question before saying that the FBI’s investigations were 'active.'

"Glasheen is a veteran FBI official who was appointed to serve as the Terrorist Screening Center director under the #Biden administration in 2023 and selected by current FBI Director Kash Patel as one of the agency’s five operations directors earlier this year.

"The FBI’s shift to focusing on alleged #LeftWing violence comes despite researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies finding that despite an increase this year, it remains 'much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by #RightWing and jihadist attackers.' "

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/11/fbi-antifa-terrorist-location/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/uINZl

#USPol #DHS #SilencingDissent #Fascism #AntiFascism

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this is worth your time because it's absurd comedy

watch as #Mississippi Rep #BennieThompson brutally dismantles some turd who works for the #FBI about the big scary #Antifa 😱

i don't know his name and i don't even care, and Bennie runs circles around him

laugh, and then cry this is our govt

"Where, in the United States, does Antifa exist?"

"hurr durr..."

https://newrepublic.com/post/204308/fbi-leader-threat-antifa-questions-congress

EDIT:

@donray points out he's not a #Trump #MAGA appointee, i was wrong. still a mindless lackey

Thank you #BennieThompson, https://bsky.app/profile/benniethompson.bsky.social!!!

Thank you for voting against #HR719!!!

presidential citizens medal to Mary L Bounato! Yes!!

#LizCheney and #BennieThompson , too
#presidentialcitizensmedal

Mastodon Post

Former Jan. 6 panel chair seeks to
strip Secret Service protection from
felons

-- The Hill headline

:

#benniethompson #benniethompson #democrats #felon #felons #felony #felonydon #jan6 #january6 #repbenniethompson #secretservice #secretserviceprotection

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