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After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections, propaganda, and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
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“After we clean things up in DC…” Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale wrote this six months ago… Note how he also wants to build “freedom” cities “out West.”
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Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale co-founded the University of Austin Texas (UATX) in 2021. UATX’s recent “Convocation Address” was titled, “In Defense of Inequality.” “To the class of 2029: you have chosen to rebel. Not against hierarchy, but against its abandonment.” 1/ x.com/uaustinorg/s...
Rep. Carlos A. Giménez of Florida is getting really strange over on the Twitter. This all seems highly inappropriate and concerning. What exactly is going on? His map is from this Newsweek article: Map Shows Where Trump Has Sent U.S. Forces to Venezuela's Doorstep share.google/2fO2ebPMEYmK...
This is Lacey yesterday, wondering why I was leaving the back yard on a beautiful day.
“Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trump’s Lawfare” In May, Trump’s FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced a “partnership” w/ Palantir to “establish an ‘AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).’” The CDU promptly began “work at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)” 8/29/25…1/
8/ Weird how Pulte & Trump have said nothing about **Republican** Texas AG Bill Paxton reportedly claiming three primary residences. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/k...
8/ Weird how Pulte & Trump have said nothing about **Republican** Texas AG Bill Paxton reportedly claiming three primary residences. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/k...
“'No one is above the law,' Pulte dramatically declared at a press conference as if his liege, Trump, does not routinely act otherwise." So many foxes signing on to "guard" our henhouse, each with its own book of favorite chicken recipes.
7/ “Palantir teams up with Fannie Mae in AI push to sniff out mortgage fraud” 5/28/25 www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/p...
5/ “Trump administration's newest allegation against political foes: Mortgage fraud” 8/20/25 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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“Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trump’s Lawfare” In May, Trump’s FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced a “partnership” w/ Palantir to “establish an ‘AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).’” The CDU promptly began “work at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)” 8/29/25…1/
“Palantir co-founder and current CEO Alex Karp predicted, ‘This partnership with Fannie Mae will set off a revolution in how we combat mortgage fraud in this country. We are bringing the fight directly to anyone who attempts to defraud our mortgage system and exploit hardworking Americans.’” 3/
In May, Bill Pulte “announced that he had entered into a partnership with [Peter]Thiel’s Palantir to establish an ‘AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).” The “newly formed CDU would immediately start work at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)…” 8/29/25 … 2/
🏠x🗳 cross-reference mortgage databases with voter records, and youve got yourself a retribution-executing machine
“The obscure Trump official behind Lisa Cook’s firing *** If Trump doesn’t like you, Bill Pulte may be looking into your mortgage soon.” 8/26/25 … 1/ www.vox.com/politics/421...
“A MAGA influencer says there’s no space for her in women’s media.” In reality, the “womanosphere is … just one more entry into a crowded conservative media landscape, powered by the same old warped sense of victimization.” www.vox.com/culture/4595...
“Top FDA official [Vinay Prasad] demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines Channel was an attempt to ‘preserve’ what Trump officials in current Trump administration said during the pandemic” 8/31/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Alarm in Texas as activist faces hate-crimes trial over anti-Israel graffiti *** Experts say use of hate-crimes statute conflates state of Israel with Judaism and infringes on free speech rights” 9/1/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
#MorningVibe You can make your own bread and still subscribe to Democratic values. YOU CAN CHOOSE.
I don’t use AI because I’m infuriated for the artists and writers and philosophers who’ve had their intellectual property stolen. I also hate boring and impersonal shit. If someone can’t be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it?
If you know California voters, tell them that if Trump rigs the next election and Republicans keep Congress, they will most certainly not certify the election in 2028 if they don't like the result. No one is saying gerrymandering is good, but unilaterally disarming could be the end of our democracy.
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Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
Important @jennycohn.bsky.social thread on Leonard Leo’s Supreme Court. It’s not the Roberts court. Leo close confidants - like Tim Busch - recognize it for what it is. Leo’s court and a huge victory for the efforts to Opus Dei America. Next up - President Opus JD.
Sorry to spoil your Sunday morning, but you really need to read this thread to see what else is coming down the pipe.
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
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This seems ominous. Trump just appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail the distribution of abortion pills—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the OLC at the DOJ. 1/
I reported on these remarks last year. See Brief #3. 2/ crownewsletter.substack.com/p/christian-...
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
The Catholic Christofascist undoing of 250 years of democracy and not a peep from NYT, Wapo, Mother Jones or any legacy MSM. @jayrosen.bsky.social @sulliview.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social linktr.ee/dissentinbloom dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/one-blood-...
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Thanks to the oligarchs, Federalist Society, Heritage Society, Leonard Leo and all who jones for the former’s money, we no longer have a fully independent judiciary. Democratic institutions don’t hold when grifters and fascist hold the positions within them.
Leonard Leo used Fed Soc as a cover, in exactly the same way he used trump. Leo has his own agenda. Best evidence - Fed Soc whale Barre Seid gave Leo, not Fed Soc, $1.6 billion. These are Leo judges, not Fed Soc’s. @uofmass.bsky.social @umasspress.bsky.social www.rawstory.com/federalist-s...
ICYMI — JUDGE: “This case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcast…” 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. 🤷🏻♂️ www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
Powerful piece by @markhertling.bsky.social. “I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Meet the new acting director of the CDC. Yet another close ally of Peter Thiel. www.notus.org/health-scien...
Peter Thiel discussing his relationship w Opus Dei priest Arne Panula. x.com/DBrozeLiveFr...
“After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators serious data security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens' most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear"
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Citizens United. Presidential immunity.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Who could have guessed she’d go the poor persecuted Christian route?
“DR's report on Wednesday gave details of a visit by one American to Greenland's capital Nuuk, saying he was seeking to compile a list of Greenlanders who backed US attempts to take over the island. The aim would be to try to recruit them for a secession movement, DR said.” 8/27/25
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
We obtained emails that appear to show the White House ordered government officials to put Grok back on the list of approved vendors “ASAP” www.wired.com/story/white-...
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
“Denmark summoned the head of the U.S. Embassy … after allegations emerged that three Americans with close ties to President Trump were running ‘covert influence operations’ in Greenland.” Is there a Nobel prize for creating a conflict by threatening to seize the territory of a democratic ally?
I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland
Meet the new acting director of the CDC. Yet another close ally of Peter Thiel. www.notus.org/health-scien...
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC. Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky *** Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” 8/28/25 arstechnica.com/science/2025...
If you thought that Peter Thiel had disappeared from DC, think again. “[T]he most coveted invitation for a MAGA gay in Washington is to one of the parties that Mr. Thiel… has been throwing at his mansion near Embassy Row.” 8/28/25 … 1/
“FDA’s New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies” Meanwhile, RFK Jr’s commission issued a report that was “later found to be filled w/ citations for fake studies … We still don’t know if the commission used Elsa [the FDA’s AI tool] to generate that report.” 7/23/25…1/ h/t @awkword.bsky.social
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
Looks like Ken was a naughty boy—again!
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”
