Benjamin Root

Strange American custom “touch the paedo”

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

The footage shows that at one point an MPD officer asks Jackson and the DOGE lawyer if the USIP building is owned by the General Services Administration (which typically deals with the federal government’s real estate). “It’s a private building, and that’s why we need MPD,” Jackson says.

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

After the DOGE group showed up but before MPD arrived, the USIP building had been placed in lockdown mode, meaning all interior doors were locked and elevators were no longer operable. So once in the building, MPD needed to manually break down interior doors to give Trump's team full access.

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

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:

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ICE once again failed to release congressionally-mandated detention statistics on its typical biweekly schedule.

The last update was on February 12, 2026. Four weeks ago.
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1-panel SMBC comic update. The panel is fully colored black, implying the events are occurring in a dark room. Two sets of talkbubbles can be seen, the first says "curses! There must be Kryptonite nearby!" followed by a quieter voice saying "Clark, please" and the first voice shouting "Luthor! Show yourself!" The caption below the comic reads "Late in life, Superman was unable to accept his erectile dysfunction,"

Batman would've just reached for his utility belt.

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Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump

NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted.

I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.

DOJ lawyers hunt for pretext to raid Cuba — amid fears of 'dramatic' breach of protocol Trump administration prosecutors in Miami are hunting for a pretext to charge government officials in Cuba with U.S. crimes, reported MS NOW's Carol Leonnig and Jake Traylor — a development that comes shortly after Trump suggested that there could soon be leadership changes in the Communist nation.T...

DOJ lawyers hunt for pretext to raid Cuba — amid fears of 'dramatic' breach of protocol

Trump gets mad when asked Russia and Iran working together to kill US troops because he wants to talk about college sports instead

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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Damn, looks like it actually broke up and picked up the lake ice in this longer video.

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/

Mass. joins 23 states suing over Trump's new global tariffs after Supreme Court loss Democratic attorneys general leading the suit argue that Trump is overstepping his power with planned 15% tariffs on much of the world.

Some two dozen states, including Massachusetts, challenged President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday, filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court. https://bit.ly/4sneef0

Judge: “Sad truth” Babson College freshman missed flight, case dismissed - The Boston Globe The judge found that by offering the flight, the Trump administration had complied with his order to return Any Lopez Belloza to the US after mistakenly deporting her to Honduras in November.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Babson College freshman who had been mistakenly deported last fall, ruling that he lost jurisdiction over the case when she declined to board a flight back to the US last week.

Observational evidence for the use of a semi-slip lower boundary condition in idealized tornado models.

A painting of a bird beside the text "i always wondered what would happen if we put a total fuckin' moron in charge"

The honest respected competent senator, five days ago -
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I mean, you're not wrong, however...

Pregnant women in ERs took less Tylenol after Trump autism warning A study in The Lancet finds that pregnant women in emergency rooms used less Tylenol after President Trump said it could raise their babies' risk of autism. Scientists say there is no proven link.

A study in The Lancet finds that pregnant women in emergency rooms used less Tylenol after President Trump said it could raise their babies' risk of autism. Scientists say there is no proven link. n.pr/4s0ng1Q

boost's documentation is horrendous. Spent 7 hours today trying to figure out how a get_builtin<float>() call could ever end up as an undefined symbol, only to realize that it was an unsupported get_builtin<std::string>() call that was messing things up.

Everyone hates the Big 12 Tournament basketball court, again The same awful court design returns, but this time with a glass digital floor capable of creating anything.

"They talked all week on how it can display any court imaginable… and somehow landed on this design."

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Trump’s Shifting Iran Strategies Risk a Chaotic Global Endgame New satellite imagery and data reveal the joint US-Israeli campaign objectives remain unclear.

“In June’s 12-day conflict, nuclear installations were the primary focus.” “And, while there’s been a broader range of targets this time, comparatively less firepower has so far been directed at Iran’s atomic infrastructure, including the key site at Isfahan.”

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A man with the government has been at the last two hearings relating to the contempt claim. Both times, he sat in the section of the courtroom open only to parties and counsel. Although not at counsel’s table, Littman and Jean Lin, the other Justice Department lawyer present at both hearings, has repeatedly consulted with him during both hearings. After today’s hearing — and after not being able to figure out for myself who he was after the last hearing — I asked him who he was. I had my press pass visibly displayed and identified myself as a reporter. He said he didn’t want to do that. I suggested that he must be a government official or employee, sitting where he was, and, if so, I asked incredulously if he really was not going to tell a reporter at a hearing who he was. He said no. Then, the people leaving — myself included — got to the elevator. Littman, Lin, mystery man, and two other people sitting with mystery man on the government side of the courtroom during the hearing on Wednesday were getting into the elevator. Some of them were already in the elevator. When I stepped in, mystery man said he would wait for the next elevator. Everyone else then got out of the elevator. Left in the elevator alone, I looked at these five adults — all of whom I believe have to be government employees, hence, paid by the public and allegedly working for the public — and was some combination of bemused and appalled. “You are all ridiculous,” I simply said. The door closed.

And, the story of the mystery man.

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NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Glenn Beck is summoning up an AI George Washington to ask him about Iran

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

And when debates take place, the number of players often shrinks to a tiny group. In the Iran case, Mr. Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, C.I.A. director John Ratcliffe, the four-star head of Central Command, Brad Cooper, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine. (Mr. Trump loves the chairman’s nickname, Raizin’ Caine, just as he loved ‘Mad Dog’ for his first defense secretary, Jim Mattis, who hated the moniker.)

On Iran, press is having an acute problem dealing with Trump's loose relationship with rational thought and David Sanger always has a normalcy bias. With that caveat, note that ¶ describing whose counsel Trump listened to does NOT include Whiskey Pete.

Or Tulsi.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...