Reposted by Brad HeathJon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8hGood morning. Federal prosecutors in Chicago filed partially redacted documents overnight in the "Broadview Six" case. The redactions appear to include the signature block (including the name) of one of the attorneys representing the United States government: 17551149
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6hMr. Trump’s demands for revenge have divided the Justice Department, diverted resources from other investigations and continued the erosion of the principle that politics must be kept strictly separate from federal law enforcement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...nytimes.comHow Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into TurmoilThe president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence... 13714
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Kurt Olsen, a Justice Department lawyer who has been a leading Trump administration proponent of false claims the 2020 election was stolen, had his DOJ security clearance terminated last month after failing a polygraph test. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...reuters.comFailed polygraph played role in the loss of Trump ally Kurt Olsen’s security clearance, sources sayKurt Olsen, a Justice Department lawyer who has been a leading Trump administration proponent of false claims the 2020 election was stolen, had his DOJ security clearance terminated last month after ... 64618
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A new Reuters poll makes pretty clear that Republicans aren't willing to follow President Trump on some of his vanity projects. 80% of Republicans don't like his taxpayer-funded political ads. Only a quarter approved of Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center. www.reuters.com/world/americ... 108624
Reposted by Brad HeathDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12529981788
Reposted by Brad HeathChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: Director of White House Press Operations states in a declaration that access was restored and press passes available before 10 a.m. after a brief process of locating physical passes and restoring access this morning. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 17383104
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Six of the seven active federal judges in Minnesota spoke to The New York Times about the fallout from the Trump administration's surge there. One judge had to go into hiding. Another said it "created a grave threat to the rule of law.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge WarnsIn a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.” 217277
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers on Tuesday he changed the bureau's hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with animals. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...reuters.comFBI's Patel defends change in 'bestiality' hiring practice as lawmakers seek answersFBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers on Tuesday he changed the bureau's hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who ... 12409
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Defense Department Inspector General has this disclaimer about what it calls itself. 23311
Reposted by Brad HeathAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Border Patrol, not ICE, just FYI. 1211
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The judge ultimately found that ICE officers violated the men's Fourth Amendment rights when they questioned them in the parking lot of another store. (The opinion doesn't say whether the supervisor ever got to the bathroom.) 2587
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Interesting window into immigration enforcement: An ICE supervisor in upstate New York stopped at Walmart to use the bathroom and instead ended up surveilling a group of Spanish-speakers he saw in the toy aisle. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1520698
Reposted by Brad HeathJohn Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026By a 60%-23% margin, Americans say the US government should be able to require a news outlet to take down a story if it poses a threat to national security. And by a 51%-33% margin, they say it should be able to do that if the story contains false info. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2... 9157
Reposted by Brad HeathEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Everyone's focused on bestiality but don't forget that the same report says per new FBI rules "a person who stole from an employer is not automatically disqualified as long as the incident occurred more than three years ago" www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-can... 651045298
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Two months before Americans vote in midterm elections that, local and state officials across the country are rehearsing for a crisis that once seemed unthinkable: What if the U.S. president tries to use the power of the federal government to tilt the vote his way? www.reuters.com/investigatio...reuters.comElection officials prepare for chaos as Trump seeks to tilt the midterms to RepublicansU.S. state and local officials are taking extraordinary steps to protect voting systems, staff and public confidence amid growing signs that the president is trying to use federal power and fraud clai... 116043
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Serving a summons on all of the sunlight in the world sounds sort of like an excuse to go to Hawaii? 4310
Reposted by Brad HeathGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 11/09/202610th Cir., making no friends today, says a pro se plaintiff should get a chance to revive his suit against . . . well, I'll just show you. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f... 1711617
Reposted by Brad HeathThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/09/2026A National Guard member who had been assigned to patrol Washington is being held in the D.C. jail on a felony charge after allegedly unholstering his loaded firearm and pointing it at another Guard member during an argument in a van.washingtonpost.comNational Guard member accused of pulling a gun during argument in D.C.A National Guard member is accused of pointing his weapon at another Guard member inside a van while sitting outside a Popeye's on H Street Northeast. He's being held in jail. 43612
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter. www.reuters.com/world/europe...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this springA swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research and two people familiar with the matter. 23624
Reposted by Brad HeathLawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Short version: SCOTUS already ruled on this 116127
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026From street names to supply chains to vacation bookings, Canadians are severing everyday ties in ways that could outlast the current trade dispute. Ottawa is moving to rename "Trump Avenue." www.reuters.com/business/str...reuters.comFrom street names to supply chains, Canadians pull away from US as rift growsFor more than 20 years, Diane Hosker has lived on Trump Avenue in Ottawa’s leafy west end, a neighborhood with New York City -themed street names including Central Park, Bloomingdale Street and Gotham... 55420
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The DOJ Inspector General found that a federal prosecutor "engaged in prostitution." 108435
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Justice Department is pursuing unlawful-entry charges against a person who was caught in a subway station "holding his phone recording and following National Guard members around the station." 911354
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comPentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian rolesConservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights. 65323
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The unusual feature of dismissing Bannon's case is that he's already been convicted and served his prison sentence. 110
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX’s new tab AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company and at least six other firms earlier this year. www.reuters.com/world/russia...reuters.com 14421
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com#211 in United States v. BANNON (D.D.C., 1:21-cr-00670) – CourtListener.comORDER denying 207 Motion to Dismiss Indictment as to STEPHEN K. BANNON (1). Signed by Judge Carl J. Nichols on 08/26/2026. (lccjn3) (Entered: 08/26/2026) 0263
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Until Monday, one of Bannon's attorneys of record had been Trent McCotter, who asked to leave the case in July. He's been a senior Justice Department official since January, and is now the acting deputy attorney general. 2639
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A federal judge in Washington has denied the Justice Department's request to drop the case against Steve Bannon, who had been found guilty of contempt of Congress. The judge said the government has not explained why it wants to drop the case after Bannon had been found guilty. 11642158
Reposted by Brad HeathChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026UPDATE: Judge in the League of Women Voters of Mass. case lifted the injunction there blocking the mail voting part of the EO — for now — but makes clear there could (and, imho, likely will) be a new injunction once the plaintiffs file their amended complaint addressing the final USPS rule. 4343113
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The United States has filed a lawsuit against approximately 85 dogs. 167118
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The central point of the Justice Department's latest filing in the ongoing litigation over the Kennedy Center is that only the Trump administration has the expertise to save the place, but they'll only do it if it ends up with Trump's name on it somewhere. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 199936
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Homeland Security spent 250,000 fewer hours working on fentanyl cases last year because agents were told to focus on immigration matters instead, the DHS Inspector General says. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul... 28245
Reposted by Brad HeathJose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The nation's acting deputy attorney general, Trent McCotter, was technically still Steve Bannon's listed lawyer until this morning. (Bannon asked to swap him out in July, three months after McCotter joined the DOJ.) 23616
Reposted by Brad HeathSteven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump continue building his ballroom, for now. 258647
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026True. Though you'll also see National Guard units doing some of the same things around the Super Bowl. 110
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026To be fair, D.C. routinely uses its National Guard for large public events. It puts soldiers at road closures around the July 4 fireworks, for example, because that invariably leads to a lot of barricades they'd otherwise have to man with police officers. 110
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Not conclusive by any means, but fodder for more research. 1141
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The change in crime in D.C. wasn't all that different in the neighborhoods where we found the Guard iand the ones where we didn't. Murder was down about 35% January - July in both sets of neighborhoods. Theft was down about 15%. Total violent crime was up slightly more in places with soldiers. 13011
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We know from court records where soldiers in D.C. have done any kind of law-enforcement or been crime victims, a loose proxy for where they've been most active. Those are the green areas. The other areas are where 82% of murders happened over the past five years. About 70% of car thefts. Etc. 1348
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026One of the questions I got a lot yesterday was about deterrence. Wouldn't people obviously not commit crimes on the street in the presence of armed soldiers? After all, murder is down significantly in D.C. this year, and so are most property crimes. That's very complicated to answer. 2272
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026More than 150 wallets on Polymarket International may have traded on inside U.S. military information, attracting copycat bets and raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable by foreign adversaries. www.reuters.com/business/fin... 1019499
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Been a minute since I had a story in @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...usatoday.comTrump put thousands of soldiers on DC streets. They seldom stop crimeReuters found soldiers Trump ordered to Washington took part in about 1.3% of criminal cases in DC Superior Court. 05615
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Here's the whole thing. I hope you'll read it. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...reuters.comTrump put thousands of soldiers on Washington’s streets. They seldom stop crimeThe administration told Congress it plans to keep sending soldiers to Washington until the end of Trump’s presidency in 2029 at a cost of $1.4 billion. 19126
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We haven't found evidence of MPD re-deploying like that. And the other day, I was in Union Station and there were four soldiers patrolling. There's already a dedicated train-station police force and it's not like they can re-deploy to other parts of the city when the Guard shows up. 140
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026They detained him. (But at least many of the soldiers on the street in D.C. now are deputized as U.S. Marshals.) 130
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Has it worked? That's very hard to tell. D.C. has recorded another big drop in murders this year. But so have other cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia where soldiers have not been deployed. And the total number of violent crimes in D.C. is up slightly compared to the same period last year. 28220
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Justice Department's brief arguing its case against former FBI director James Comey over his allegedly-threatening photo of an arrangement of seashells does not read like your typical DOJ court filing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1715822
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026What have the National Guard soldiers in D.C. been doing? They chased down a man who took two slices of pizza after trying to pay only $2 for them. They arrested a man who stole Slim Jims worth $7 from a pharmacy. In July, six soldiers held a woman who drank a bottle of root beer without paying. 613549
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Since Trump deployed soldiers to Washington, Reuters found that they have been mentioned in 1.3% of the city's criminal cases (despite costing more than the police). They have broken up some fights. But most of the 105 cases in which they helped arrest someone, it's been for quite minor crimes. 17115