“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. […] We want to put them in trauma.”

—— Russell Thurlow Vought

-White House Counsel William Scharf letter to incoming Congressional majority threatens lawmakers with criminal prosecution

Leon Black sues Rep. Garcia over remarks about his relationship with Epstein Politico

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Faith in financial markets is as close to a definition of insanity as we will ever get

The midterm elections in the USA have still not all been called, but what was clear from the results was that the people in that
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We Need More Than the Ballot to Defeat Authoritarianism

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“With the US midterm elections approaching on 3 November, the balance of power in Congress could shift. 

Yet many of the legal and institutional tools used for political repression were established long before Trump’s return to office, through 25 years of bipartisan counterterrorism policies. Less than a year into his second term, the Trump Administration issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), a directive to federal law enforcement to target people they believed were motivated by antifascism. 

The memo articulates this ideology as “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.” In short, the administration was openly announcing their intention to persecute and prosecute people for a wide range of political beliefs….[h/t Barclay Walsh]