A picture of Kyle Wagner. he is bald, has a ton of tattoos (including a Resistance tattoo and an Iron Front tattoo), sneering into a camera.
Wagner is the heavily tattooed guy whom Bondi's DOJ arrested with an 18-person mob.
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Rather than making a threat, the defendant was calling out J.S. for threatening someone else. Also not addressed by the magistrate is that Mr. Wagner’s online posting of J.S.’s parents’ home address is, upon information and belief, a reposting of a prior doxxing of J.S. by another person. J.S. is, apparently, infamous in the circles of online activists who identify as anti-facist and famous among their right-wing online provocateurs. It appears highly unlikely that J.S. suffered any significant emotional distress from a reposting of a prior doxxing incident. From all indications, this sort of online trolling is what gets the guy up in the morning. As further discussed below, J.S. is no blushing lily.
More than a month after Kyle Wagner was arrested in MN, a public defender for him points out that his alleged victim, Jayden Scott, himself commits the alleged crime with which Wagner was charged, all the time.
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On the missing Epstein files: It's not JUST that DOJ is still withholding a bunch of pages re allegation he raped a teenager. It's that they only released duplicates (those sent to Ghislaine in discovery), raising questions if the originals still exist.
emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...
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Coffee, straight out of my nose.
I have serious questions about whether this stuff was shielded from Mueller.
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
Thank you, @emptywheel.bsky.social for flagging this post to me. I took a close look at another data source, and this plane appears to have made a stop in Dubai. Probably didn't show up on ADSBx bc some of their feeders are down and there is a lot of signal jamming in the region rn.
HOWEVER, 1/
TY. I actually was trying to check (bc of course she would have covered that flight), but forgot her moniker.
I should have checked @gbrockell.bsky.social to address this question.
But this would suggest State got evacuees from ... somewhere to Djibouti to fly out? Or Dylan Johnson is lying?
bsky.app/profile/gbro...
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
A tweet: Dylan Johnson @ASDylanJohnson 👀 Americans boarding one of the many State Department charter flights leaving the Middle East to the U.S. This plane landed safely this morning in Washington. It has a picture of people getting on the Patriots plane.
Q: IS this the same Patriots plane that also moonlights as a deportation wagon?
This amount is double what anon MoC were saying 2 days ago. And Trump is escalating.
@whitehouse.senate.gov did a VERY long speech of Trump and Epstein's ties w/Russia yesterday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylvT...
With Qatar raising the prospect of $150 crude, our @pippastevens.cnbc.com says that would -- theoretically -- put retail gasoline somewhere in the $5.50 range.
@cnbc.com #OOTT
CBP puts the blame on legacy IT systems. To be blunt, while these problems may be completely valid, this is entirely the fault of the government.
That's why I included it.
Hypothesis: The quickest way to alter Trump's behavior might be to start betting lines on the prediction sites for when he falls under 20%.
![And to think that we could go in there and have nobody killed, not lose one aircraft, where we’re going 1,800 miles an hour over a small area with 152 different planes, different planes and helicopters, is pretty amazing to people, you know. You didn’t have a [President] Jimmy Carter crashing helicopters all over the place, that you didn’t have a Biden Afghanistan disaster where they couldn’t do the simplest maneuver. That was a simple maneuver — they should have never left from that airport. They should have used Bagram.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreig56y2prscs2nkfi5pm7ro7qmzhcbqmnjlzye5fupvzd2zncbtyva)
And to think that we could go in there and have nobody killed, not lose one aircraft, where we’re going 1,800 miles an hour over a small area with 152 different planes, different planes and helicopters, is pretty amazing to people, you know. You didn’t have a [President] Jimmy Carter crashing helicopters all over the place, that you didn’t have a Biden Afghanistan disaster where they couldn’t do the simplest maneuver. That was a simple maneuver — they should have never left from that airport. They should have used Bagram.
David E. Sanger What — what did that feel like? You were down at Mar-a-Lago? President Trump It’s like watching a movie, except you’re — it’s a little bit, you know — look, you don’t know if — Katie Rogers Are you worried when this is happening, while you’re watching? Or what is going through your mind? President Trump Yeah, I’m worried that it ends up being Jimmy Carter disaster that destroyed his entire administration.
President Trump I looked at — I looked at some of the attacks. I studied the Carter attack. It was a disaster. I would have never done it that way. David E. Sanger You were talking about the attack. I was asking about the occupations that followed — President Trump You know, they had — they had a — they had a sandstorm. Did you know that? And they decided to go forward. We would go back, and let’s hit it three days later. They wanted to go forward, and they said, keep going. Helicopters don’t work well in the sand. Karoline Leavitt Sir, do you want to show them the renovations?
Today's a good day to note that in his interview w/NYT Trump conveyed a real terror of becoming Jimmy Carter.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see
*BLACKROCK’S $26 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND LIMITS WITHDRAWALS
"This woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump discussed blackmail, and days later he suicided in prison.
And after that, the FBI wanted to focus on Trump because, well, Epstein wasn’t around to be prosecuted anymore.
Then, years later, DOJ attempted to withhold documents recording all that."
The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape
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Nashville Noticias staffer Estefany Rodríguez was detained by ICE in South Nashville on Wednesday morning. There was no warrant for her arrest. Her attorneys have filed an emergency petition in federal court seeking a writ of habeas corpus, or an immediate review of whether or not her detention is legal. Rodríguez, who was in the car with her husband — a U.S. citizen — has been following all the legal steps to citizenship. In her job, Rodríguez has reported several stories that hold ICE accountable, and it’s unclear whether her detention was retaliation. As of Thursday afternoon, she was in Alabama en route to an ICE processing center in Louisiana.
Something I don’t think can be emphasized enough is how fast ICE is shipping the people they detain off to another state. “Move fast and break things” but for people in potentially life or death situations. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...
Reform have misspelt 2 out of the 3 Welsh words on their manifesto for Wales.
Nigel Farage and Wales leader Dan Thomas proudly held up the manifesto at the launch yesterday.
On the front cover it reads "Family, community, country," which has been translated to "Teulu, gymnued, wlad."
1/2
The destruction is mostly in Iran and, now, Lebanon.
Iran's strikes won't have the effect of destroying THINGS, they'll have the effect of dramatically raising the risk calculus for everything that goes on in the Gulf.
Hungary seized two Ukrainian cash transport vehicles with $40M, 35M euros and 9kg of gold, detaining seven Oshchadbank staff. FM Sybiha calls it "state terrorism and racketeering." GPS puts the vehicles in central Budapest near a security agency.
A fair amount of dissent in India that Modi allowed an Iranian ship to be targeted.
Trump's going to have to work hard to bribe some countries not to take action against this war.
Claude was too busy targeting a girls' school using 10 year old data.
