SD enterprise: The MAGAification of Federal Law Enforcement Is Complete

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

Kash Patel Has Been Confirmed as FBI Director and the MAGAfication of Federal Law Enforcement Is Complete

The MAGAfication of federal law enforcement became complete on Thursday when Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were the only two Republican senators with the cojones to vote against confirming rancid social-media flotsam Kash Patel as director of the FBI. His nomination passed, 51-49, outside of Pete Hegseth, the closest the Senate came to not buying one of these lemons.

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Even for This Administration, Cuts to Alzheimer's Research Seemed Inconceivable

We are so very close. Maybe not to a cure but to the ability to arrest the progress of the disease so that it becomes a chronic condition that can be managed with medication while research toward a cure can go forward. Unless, of course, a bunch of postadolescents in cargo shorts come in and scramble all the work being done because breaking things is fun, dude.

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A Texas ICE Officer Seems to Have a Completely Predictable Side Gig: Running a White-Supremacist Twitter

Being our semi-regular, weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where a guy comes down the street, crazy as a loon. We begin in where-the-fck else, Texas, where a local ICE attorney seems to have had a completely predictable side hustle.

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Investigate Chuck Schumer for Threats Against DOGE Workers? We're Off the Diving Board Now

The acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia is a guy named Ed Martin, a pure Trumper down to his viscera. Martin first made news as the organizer of the "Stop the Steal" rally that ended up in an insurrection on January 6, 2021. He went on to defend the insurrectionists in court. Now, rewarded for those efforts by the president whose rhetoric inspired the violence, Martin has the power to act out his Xwitter fantasies on real people in the real world. Attorney Ed is now saying that Schumer may be guilty of using a metaphor publicly that resulted almost five years later in a death threat against an anonymous staffer who may well have been desperately trolling for a prom date when Schumer said what he said.

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The Administration's Pointless Assault on USAID Is Decimating the Independent Global Press

Periodically, we check in with the good people at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. These visits usually have something to do with how international plutocrats are looting the world, and how they're hiding their money, and how they turn the world's tax laws into bloody rags hanging from the withered limbs of representative democracy. However, this week the ICIJ weighed in on how the administration's cruel and pointless assault of USAID is decimating the independent press in a lot of the countries that need it the most.

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Friday, February 21, 2025

The MAGAification of Federal Law Enforcement Is Complete

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