It’s very unusual that the DC Disciplinary Counsel filed this complaint against Ed Martin, which makes it much more serious
“Acting in his official capacity and speaking on behalf of the government, he used coercion to punish or suppress a disfavored viewpoint, the teaching and promotion of DEI”
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Since the CFPB has been stripped of its power, Credit Bureaus aren't correcting mistakes on consumers' credit reports.
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NEW: After CBP's FOIA office released a "Privacy Threat Analysis" of the face recognition app Mobile Fortify, 2 staffers were reassigned and leaders order PTAs to be mislabeled to prevent their release. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-pr...
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”
1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP
First the jokes about illegally killing people on boats allegedly carrying drugs, now a comedy routine about torpedoing an unarmed ship in an undeclared war
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7
A reminder. Opposition is more than resistance. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Oh, shoot wrong link, sorry sorry
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NEW: A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced she will not seek reelection when her term ends next year.
Her departure will create an open seat that could allow liberals to deepen their majority on a court that’s increasingly shaping the state’s voting rights.
💥Moscow has sent a team to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The US has also shared intelligence with allies on the task force overseen by Sergei Kiriyenko.
“A new study from Northwestern University warns that coordinated scientific fraud is becoming increasingly common. From fabricated data to purchased authorships and paid citations, researchers say organized groups are manipulating the academic publishing system. To investigate the issue, scientists combined large scale analysis of scientific publications with detailed case studies. While misconduct is often portrayed as the work of individual researchers cutting corners, the Northwestern team discovered something far more complex. Their findings reveal global networks of people and organizations working together to systematically exploit weaknesses in the publishing process. The scale of the problem is striking. According to the researchers, traudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in s E ence begins to erode.”
“This study is probably the most depressing project I've been involved with in my entire life…It's distressing to see others engage in fraud &in misleading others. But if you believe that science is useful & important for humanity, then you have to fight for it”🧪
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with.
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Very revealing about what the Epstein files show - women, girls, everywhere, but never anywhere where men would have to take them seriously as equals. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
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I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
Judge Royce Lambert in Washington rules that Kari Lake’s appointment violates both the Constitution and federal law, and that all her actions as acting head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media—including attempted firings—are invalid and cannot be ratified.
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NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Another document in the Epstein files shows that in September 2016, the FBI alerted its legal attaché in Paris that Epstein planned to travel there, underscoring how federal authorities continued to track his movements after his 2008 guilty plea in Florida.
United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.
BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.
Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.
Haiti TPS is safe for now.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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Steep Decline in Visas Issued to Students in India India has been the engine of the post-pandemic international-enrollment rebound. But visa issuances to students in India in May through August 2025 nosedived by 61 percent compared to the same time period in 2024. from https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-drop-in-international-students-last-year-was-worse-than-we-thought
this is a remarkable chart
Are you wondering if your police department is coordinating with ICE?
Our research editor Ethan Corey explains how to find out. Many local agencies have visible contracts to hold detainees for ICE, but other forms of cooperation are more subtle.
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An imperfect solution to something that should never have been a problem. But there's something fitting about the fact that this went up at the hands of AOC employees who simply showed up to do their jobs today, just as the folks it honors did on Jan. 6. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
- cancel all EOs
- fire political appointees
- strip clearances
- appoint special prosecutor for DHS
- hire a zillion IGs
- investigate and prosecute crimes
- investigate and refer policy violations for disciplinary action
- recode ICE and CBP jobs out of 1811 series
- revert name changes
