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:
06.03.2026 22:04
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My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.
Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
06.03.2026 20:53
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This is what I can’t wrap my head around. People keep saying “Oh it’ll work itself out” but… how? Give the ships wings? Destroy every drone in a hostile territory the size of the eastern US? Kill every living human within 100 miles of the strait?
06.03.2026 21:06
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Finally.
Although there is still much that's been suppressed still from the Epstein files.
06.03.2026 01:45
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Interesting that we’re finally back into the “embarrassing Trump into firing employees” stage of the proceedings lol.
05.03.2026 21:41
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Wait, *another* one?
06.03.2026 02:07
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assumming it's built, the ballroom
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Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.
04.03.2026 22:52
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Absolutely ridiculous that Republicans (minus Paul, plus Fetterman) all lined up to defend Trump's ability to do an end-run around Congress and just start a war unilaterally. Cowards.
04.03.2026 22:34
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They showed up. They put in the work. They WON. 🔥
Massive congrats to our 2026 endorsees who crushed their primaries and are officially on to the general election.
Next stop: November.
04.03.2026 22:37
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These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.
01.03.2026 17:01
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6m is basically eternity.
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In light of recent OpenAI news, sadly this thread aged very well…
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Seems pretty obvious that the only reason the sticking point would be guardrails is because they want to break the terms on demand.
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ChatGPT Plus subscription notification on a dark background stating 'Your plan will be canceled on Mar 12, 2026
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In Machines of Loving Grace, I discussed the possibility that authoritarian governments might use powerful Al to surveil or repress their citizens in ways that would be extremely difficult to reform or overthrow. Current autocracies are limited in how repressive they can be by the need to have humans carry out their orders, and humans often have limits in how inhumane
they are willing to be. But AI-enabled autocracies would not have such limits.
Dario wrote Adolescence of Technology _during_ his negotiations with the DoW
The essay was a way to explain his thinking to the public and give them time to digest it *before* the DoW clouded the airwaves with disinformation
Why mass surveillance is not merely undemocratic:
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the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night
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2 min ago
Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism
Tal Shalev
By Tal Shalev
The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshippers read the specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor.
The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land.
The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfil the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy.
This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in
28.02.2026 08:09
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Every single outlet that uncritically recites Israel's self-designation of "preemptive strikes" should be permanently shut down for good. Straight up. Definitionally no such thing as a "preemptive" attack when the country being attacked had no plan nor indication of planning to attack first.
28.02.2026 07:00
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"preemptive strikes" WAR OF AGGRESSION
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i come bearing deleted roon tweets
28.02.2026 05:26
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almost every senior person you would want to hire in this industry is rich enough that they don't have to work for you, because they don't have to work for anyone. this leads to weird incentives in that they aren't fighting over static pools of labor but an elastic one where ethics are important.
28.02.2026 06:22
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this is like when fox news does those graphics of "DEMOCRATS' FAR-LEFT AGENDA" and it's all good things
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They literally poisoning folks for cash and I’m sure a bunch of people think “oh they’re just gonna poison the minorities over there” and baby you have been bamboozled
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Ah the good old days (I think this whole discussion was pretty spot-on)
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The Epstein Files contain an accusation that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl, which the FBI deemed credible enough to thoroughly vet and include in their investigation materials on Epstein’s larger pedophilia cabal.
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Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!
27.02.2026 18:09
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I am so sick of this rhetoric. Politics is inherently divisive!
27.02.2026 14:05
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