Mastodawn

bwaz Jan 14

flexghost.Jan 14

The government says it’s intimidating a reporter because of “sharing government secrets”

Okay…

Did the agents check the bathroom, or seize the servers before they could drain the pool?

This is a dangerous precedent

This.

Fuck Ford, returning to its Henry Ford fascist roots. It's now on my list with Hilton and Target.
Ford Motor has suspended a worker who heckled President Trump during a tour of a Michigan truck factory on Tuesday https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/ford-suspends-factory-worker-for-heckling-trump-fa6d59b1?st=c1TDHY

Pass it on.

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

Trump Warned of a Tren de Arag...

Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story

Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

WIRED

bwaz Jan 14

A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 14

Let me give you a thought experiment:

Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.

https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/

Absolute Immunity

Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.

The Reframe

First they came for the immigrants, then they came for the LGBTQi, then they came for all POC, then they came for the ...

"Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

The Guardian

bwaz Jan 14

Heidi Li Feldman Jan 14

Trump-Bondi went into a WaPo reporters home to seize information about her sources. So far Bezos, CEO Will Lewis, and Executive editor have been mum - tells you something about their commitment to the 1st A. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson

FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case

The Guardian