Weaponized Washington Never Sleeps
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 3/20/2026 6:23:18 PM
Recent news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was spying on the Trump campaign again in 2024 wasn't lost on me, but it clearly got lost in the mainstream media. It wasn't exactly news to me because I was also spied upon by the FBI while I worked on the 2024 Trump effort. In fact, the Bureau started surveilling me soon after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021. (snip) days after Donald J. Trump beat the socks off Kamala Harris, the FBI served a secret warrant on Google/Gmail, my bank, my cellphone company, and more for all my data (snip.)
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter to 43 million Americans with student loans -- about 9 million of whom are in default -- to notify them that the Treasury Department is taking over debt collection, the Post has learned. (snip) There's currently $1.7 trillion in outstanding student debt -- roughly 25% of which, or $425 billion, was believed to be in default as of last year. (snip) The Treasury Department includes the IRS, which has the power to garnish up to 15% of a delinquent borrower's paycheck.
The U.S. Justice Department participated in a court-authorized law enforcement operation today to disrupt Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by Aisuru, KimWolf, Mossad Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. The operation was conducted simultaneously to law enforcement actions conducted in Canada and Germany (snip.) the four botnets (snip) infected millions of devices worldwide. (snip) The operators (snip) used a "cybercrime as a service" model to sell access to the infected devices (snip.) The operators and their customers forced the victim devices to participate in hundreds of thousands of DDOS attacks (snip) throughout the world. the number of infected devices hijacked worldwide (snip) exceeded three million (snip.)
Recent news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was spying on the Trump campaign again in 2024 wasn't lost on me, but it clearly got lost in the mainstream media. It wasn't exactly news to me because I was also spied upon by the FBI while I worked on the 2024 Trump effort. In fact, the Bureau started surveilling me soon after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021. (snip) days after Donald J. Trump beat the socks off Kamala Harris, the FBI served a secret warrant on Google/Gmail, my bank, my cellphone company, and more for all my data (snip.)
The Little Orange Rooster
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I should call today's newsletter Sophie's Choice. She (snip) likened our situation with NATO to that of the Little Red Hen. (snip) when it came time to eat the bread, each one volunteered to help. The Little Red Hen told them "No. You did not help (snip.) I will eat the bread myself." The other animals shrugged their shoulders, went to the store, took out their EBT cards, and ate lobster and steak. (snip) Which brings up America's Little Orange Rooster. (snip) Each nay-saying nation wants and needs that oil from the strait of Hormuz (snip.) the rest of the NATO countries believe they still have EBT cards.
Roughly 200,000 immigrant truck drivers in the United States are set to lose their commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) this week under a new Trump administration rule that went into effect Monday to keep illegal immigrants off the road. Under the rule, non-citizens, including asylum seekers, refugees, and recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), will no longer be eligible to obtain CDLs, even if they are legally authorized to work in the United States. Those who already hold licenses will not be able to renew them when they expire.
A Minnesota state senator recently took to social media to voice her concerns with her party's caucus and convention process, alleging "deeply troubling incidents" that "undermine the rules of the process." Republican Rep. Jim Nash suggested that DFL Sen. Pha's concerns about delegate residency requirements highlight the need for voter identification laws. (snip) Pha (snip) outlined complaints (snip) about this year's DFL caucus and convention process (snip) including the "recruitment of individuals from outside the district to serve as delegates and instances where (snip) people list addresses where they do not live in order to qualify as delegates."
"We Can't Send This To DOJ:" New Doc Alleges
More Deception From Russia Hoaxer Kevin Clinesmith 3 replies
More Deception From Russia Hoaxer Kevin Clinesmith 3 replies
A newly released document from Sen. Chuck Grassley adds a significant and troubling dimension to what was previously known about the conduct of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, a central figure in the surveillance of Trump campaign associates in the Russia Collusion investigation. (snip) The new information shows that his misconduct was not limited to a single target, but (snip) extended to another investigation against Trump adviser Walid Phares. (snip) it had become obvious that (snip) there was no case against him. (snip) Despite this, Clinesmith (snip) prevented these conclusions from being sent to the DOJ officials responsible for (snip) FISA renewal applications.
As I have reported for months, the Trump Department of Justice is having a hell of a time securing criminal indictments from D.C.-based grand juries. (snip) Which is why the issuance of two grand jury subpoenas in January related to the DOJ's investigation into the Federal Reserve represented a major score for Jeanine Pirro (snip.) According to a filing by Pirro's office, Powell's personal attorney (snip) suggested to (Pirro) that Chair Powell would step down from the board when his term as Chairman expires -- but only if the subpoenas were withdrawn and the chair was no longer under investigation (snip.) Did that suggestion rise to obstruction or even bribery?
US Intel Hid Chinese 2020 Election Meddling
From Trump Because They Opposed His Policies,
Memo Says 13 replies
From Trump Because They Opposed His Policies,
Memo Says 13 replies
Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn't want their intel used by "that vulgarian in the Oval Office" to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with. The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by (snip) analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community's handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions is that intelligence analysts downplayed China's actions (snip.)
Our New Ungracious Immigrants
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Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded ebay, Google, Nvidia, Space, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others. The Greek American Elia Kazan's 1963 film "America, America" is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director's uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Anatolia. The film summed up Americans' traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and, once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.
Multiple parents in Fairfax County, Virginia say a man groped their daughters in crowded school hallways. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is asking "Virginia Sanctuary Politicians" to not allow the alleged perpetrator, who is an illegal alien, back into the community. (snip) He is in the 11th grade at Fairfax High School (snip.) "This 19-year-old should not have been attending high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls," DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. Florez-Ortiz now faces nine counts of assault and battery. (snip) DHS has logged a (snip) detainer for Ortiz
Britain Had Meltdown When China Hacked
Voter Files, But U.S. Intel Kept It Secret
In America 2 replies
Voter Files, But U.S. Intel Kept It Secret
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The United States expressed outrage when Great Britain revealed two years ago that its voter registration databases were hacked by scandal in what became a global scandal. But it turns out the U.S. intelligence harbored its own secret (snip.) Last June, FBI Director Kash Patel turned over to Congress a (snip) raw and unverified intelligence report (snip) bluntly titled "Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver's Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden" (snip.) CBP (snip) "seized a total of 19,888 counterfeit frivers licenses"
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leave a restaurant because employees felt 'threatened' 37 replies
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Arkansas GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that she was asked to leave a restaurant in Little Rock last week because her presence made employees and customers feel "threatened."
Sanders previously served as White House press secretary during President Donald Trump's first term and has since been a supporter of the president's immigration policies.
The governor said she was dining with two other moms at the restaurant, which has been identified as The Croissanterie, when the owner allegedly told members of her security detail that Sanders must leave because her "presence made their employees feel threatened."
"Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and while that restaurant didn’t meet
Later this month, protesters will gather across the U.S. for the third “No Kings” rally since President Donald Trump returned to office, and the Minnesota Capitol is set to host the largest rally. The national flagship rally at the Capitol in St. Paul is among more than 3,000 events planned on Saturday, March 28 as part of the national “No Kings” movement protesting Trump and his administration. Celebrity activists including Jane Fonda, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers are slated to join Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, Attorney General Keith Ellison and other Minnesota officials for the big event. Dozens of other
As more and more people flee blue states and their high-tax, soft-on-crime, expensive cost-of-living environments, Democrats are going to become more desperate to stop the population hemorrhaging. Some places, like California, have tried exit taxes. New York Governor Kathy Hochul begged wealthy New Yorkers to return to fund her fraudulent, expensive welfare programs.
In Washington, they're now forcing people to prove their houses have an acceptable "home energy score" before they're allowed to sell.
Useful idiots in California want to bend the knee to Islam, removing all doubt that this state can be saved.
KTXL reported on Sunday that Democratic State Assemblyman Matt Haney has introduced a bill that would officially recognize two Muslim holidays — Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — as state holidays.
Eid al-Fitr, as the BBC noted, means “festival of the breaking of the fast,” marking the end of Ramadan. Muslim community leaders commended the bill as a “historic step” in efforts to combat Islamophobia, per KTXL.
In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.
At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to “complete the job within another $10 million,” before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.
Officials projected a 2025 completion date for the overpass, and estimated that the entire project — which includes the bridge and other ancillary developments — would cost $92 million, some of it coming from private philanthropists.
Given Iran’s half century of cruel barbarism in the Middle East, it’s hard to understand why the Democrats seem to be rooting for them in the current war. I have two theories.
One is the obvious one. The Dems are not so much rooting for Iran, as rooting against Iran’s enemy. Bad as Iran is, its enemy is even worse in the eyes of the Dems.
Iran’s enemy, you see – or at least the Dems see – has a history of its own cruel barbarism going back to at least 1619. Iran’s enemy has engaged in genocide against native people. Iran’s enemy has wrongly oppressed workers of the world
California lawmakers said Thursday they planned to change the name of “César Chavez Day” to “Farmworkers Day” after sexual abuse allegations against the late civil rights leader arose earlier this week.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Chavez had groomed and sexually abused young girls within the labor rights movement while he served as leader of the United Farm Workers Union. One of those women was Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the union with Chavez in 1962.
Huerta came forward this week with allegations that she was victimized by Chavez in her 30s.
In 2018, then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was eating at the Red Hen in Lexington when the owners asked her to leave because of her politics. It was a huge controversy (and not to be confused with the September incident when President Trump and those who were with him were harassed by protesters at the D.C. eatery with the same name).
That Red Hen location closed permanently in 2023.
Now, an Arkansas eatery has started the clock on its own closure after asking Governor Huckabee Sanders to leave their establishment, again over her politics. (X) Here's more:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas and former White House press secretary,
What’s So Great About Diversity?
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Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or just better outcomes is pervasive in today’s democracies that have committed themselves to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions of feminism. Sure,
BREAKING: Chuck Norris Dies at 86
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Chuck Norris, the legendary martial artist and action star who embodied American toughness for generations, died Thursday morning at age 86. His family announced the news on Friday in a statement posted to his Instagram account.
"It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning. While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace," the statement reads. "To the world, he was a martial artist, actor, and a symbol of strength. To us, he was a devoted husband, a loving father and
The nerve of a judge to deport an illegal immigrant who held the lofty status of a staff member for the New York City Council has left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in high dudgeon.
Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, a data analyst for the council, will be deported to Venezuela. The Department of Homeland Security said Rubio overstayed his 2017 tourist visa, has an arrest for assault, and does not possess work authorization, CBS News noted.
Mamdani argued his version of reality should take precedence over the law. “Today, an administrative immigration judge ordered the deportation of Rafael Rubio, a City Council employee. This is an affront to justice,”
Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump
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In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.
Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar — yet has still survived.
This week, part of the noisy right-wing online podcast-sphere again turned on the president. Leading the virtual charge, again, was Trump’s one-time cheerleader, Tucker Carlson.
There was a time when Carlson was fully Team Trump.
Carlson often appeared at Trump rallies as part of the warmup act. But in the past year, he has tried to lead the MAGA base away from Trump and down a very dark path.
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In March, 2025 the author began work at the U.S. Department of Justice and within days discovered that he was being investigated by employees in the same office suite. A disgusting look at the zombie lawfare still ongoing from the "Biden" administration. The Southern District of New York, which only recently surrendered a "final" tranche of Epstein files, is pursuing two of them.