Spring Logan

I still like anime. I'm just really into plants and cheese right now.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

BREAKING: Trump is trying to hide one or more pardons.

Did he pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Is he trying to hide that he pardoned his buddy the sex trafficker?

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

LAWSUIT: Eight officers raided his home before dawn.

His offense? He filmed an officer speeding, criticized him when he got to a drive-thru, and embarrassed the department.

In a free country, criticizing police shouldn’t end in handcuffs.

In 2022, Joshua Gibbons filmed a Kingsport, Tennessee police SUV speeding without lights or sirens, violating state law.

He caught up with the officer at a drive-thru and had salty words about his disregard for the law.

That exchange lasted all of one minute. The consequences for Joshua lasted four years.

After someone complained about a different video — an officer flipping Gibbons off — police scoured Gibbons’ YouTube channel for ammunition.

Before dawn the next morning, while Gibbons was still in bed, eight armed officers raided his mother’s home to arrest him — for speeding using a cellphone while driving, and disorderly conduct.

A judge dismissed the speeding and cellphone charges but convicted him of disorderly conduct, saying he was “offended by the way” Gibbons was “talking to that officer.” Gibbons appealed. At a second trial, a jury again found him guilty.

In June, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously reversed that conviction and dismissed the charge.

The court found “no evidence” that Gibbons’ criticism prevented anyone from doing anything lawful.

The court recognized — as many courts had held — that even “profane and insulting” words alone aren’t a crime, especially when directed at police officers, who are trained to exercise restraint.

With FIRE’s help, Gibbons is suing to vindicate his First Amendment rights.

The First Amendment protects your right to film and criticize police. Kingsport PD needs to hear that message loud and clear.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Here's an idea: since the press is boycotting covering Trump, they should head to all the House Republicans home states and give them all that coverage instead. Make them answer for all the inflation, diesel prices, unending war, corruption they've backed...

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Dennoriss Richardson, a Black man was found hanging in Alabama. Authorities claim he died by suicide but his family suspects police lynched him as retaliation for filing a civil rights lawsuit against officers 💔

[Michael Sorrell @michaelsorrell]

We are living in a time where our elected officials feel as if they are not accountable to the people they serve. This must stop.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

YOU ARE FUCKING NAIVE IF YOU BELIVE THE PERSON WHO IS BUILDING A MILITARY INSTALLATION AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH SNIPERS AND A BUNKER IS GOING TO LEAVE VOLUNTARILY 🙄

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

ICE showed up at a family’s home in West Phoenix, posing as electricians, cut the family’s power, and then violently detained a man outside his own home.

Think about that for a moment: ICE agents used a disguise to get a family to open their door. Abolish ICE. Arizona families deserve better.

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

Sarah Kendzior called it over a decade ago … Trump is breaking up America and selling us off for parts to the transnational crime syndicate he belong to — Saudis, other Gulf monarchies, RW Zionists, tech broligarchs, Russians, and autocratic mobsters.
We've lost our sovereignty.

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

ICE is officially operating black sites, where detainees will be tortured until they're just....not around anymore.

And they plan to be at polling stations a few weeks from now.

The US is currently on track to become one of the most repressive regimes of the 21st century.

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

A PSA: do NOT download the White House app. It is doing something very weird with the sandbox permissions you give it. Which I’m not sure yet, but is likely against every service term and developer agreement on earth. I downloaded it so you don’t have to onto an air gapped old iPad. It is phoning home, asking for way too much personal data, and attempting to bypass location services permissions. Aside from the propaganda, it’s a security nightmare.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @washingtonsun,

No. This is a bullshit headline. Here's the truth:

"Trump's Department of Transportation accidentally cut a fiber line during Air Traffic Control system renovations"

WHY ISN'T THAT YOUR HEADLINE????????????????

It was not a "EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION"

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Last week I said it looked like we could be stealing about $11 billion from Venezuela. The question I had after learning that was, if it isn't going back to Venezuela, where is it going? So I followed the money.

Treasury's own data shows about $11 billion more than normal flowing into the State Department's account since February. Venezuela's records show $300 million coming back.

Venezuela has to ask Washington's permission to spend its own oil money. A State Department official told Congress, "It's their money, but ... they have to get our permission." An emergency order blocks every American court from touching it, so the creditors Venezuela owes, most of them American, get nothing.

So who does get paid? The Pentagon took a 35 percent stake in an oil company owned by Alejandro Betancourt, who got rich on Maduro-era contracts. The Miami money laundering investigation into him was closed while that deal came together, though the Justice Department denies ordering it closed. A Venezuelan-born banker facing 20 years got a pardon after $3.5 million went to the president's super PAC in his daughter's name. And in 2012, Betancourt was in Jeffrey Epstein's inbox, copied on a Venezuelan oil pitch.

Last week I asked if we were stealing from Venezuela. After following the money further, I think the better question is who "we" is, because it isn't you and me. It's a small circle of people close to this White House who are getting paid out of another country's oil money, while the Treasury Secretary tells Congress he can't give out a number I found in 15 minutes.

The full article is up on Substack , with every document linked (link is in my bio).

Enjoy!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Corruption in plain sight.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

WHY??? Why aren’t millions of people taking to the streets in the US right now because of Trump?

My god, I genuinely don’t understand how everyone just carries on as though everything is normal. From over here in the UK, it is genuinely baffling to watch. When did people become this numb? What is it going to take for Americans to finally say enough is enough and stand up?

P.S: You've just gone state media.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

TRUMP RAIDED WILDFIRE MONEY TO PAY OFF THE FEDERAL WORKERS HE BULLIED INTO QUITTING

Read that twice

Congress set aside money through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act specifically to clear hazardous fuels before they burn

The Forest Service took that money and used it to fund Trump's Deferred Resignation Program instead — his buyout scheme to gut the federal workforce

Not a rumor. Congressional testimony

The result: 23% fewer acres of hazardous fuels treated last year compared to 2024

Then the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness caught fire

Over 60,000 acres burned since early July

Retired forestry officials went on record saying stalled "shovel-ready" projects would have stopped or slowed this exact fire

So Trump got what he wanted — federal employees pushed out the door, government "smaller"

And rural communities got what they got — thinner crews, fewer fuel breaks, more acres of ash

This isn't a budget line item. This is a direct line from a personnel purge to a wilderness on fire

Congress appropriated the money for one purpose. Trump's administration weaponized it for another

Every acre that burned is the receipt

They are not going to stop cutting corners on your safety to fund their ideology

And they are betting you're too exhausted to notice which fire started where the money used to be

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

San Frans Opera demanded a 5-year wage freeze for its musicians while the General Director's salary jumped from $424k to $729k.

30 minutes before opening night, the orchestra packed up and walked out to join the picket line for the first strike in the opera’s 100 year history.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Here’s a simple, non-exhaustive guide to some of the different types of ALPRs
#Flock #Axon #AILPR

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

“Trump TV” is being launched at 7pm EST after all the major TV news networks pulled out of the White House.

This is state sponsored media.

You will only see, hear and read what they want you to know.

It won’t be the truth.

It won’t be journalism.

It’ll be 24/7 propaganda.

[TheGreatRecall @GreatRecall26]

"No plate, no problem" — until they deploy Flock Condor, which pans, zooms, and tracks humans. Not plates. Humans. 20 billion scans a month. The CEO uses 3 cars, 3 routes, and 3 different plates to avoid being tracked himself. The Reconstitution makes location tracking without consent High Treason. Mandatory life imprisonment. Not a fine. Not a policy. Constitutional law. https://t.co/x09ovOsAdr

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

No one launches a state-run propaganda TV network overnight. This shit was planned all along.