Mike German

First copy of my new book, "Policing White Supremacy," out in the wild. Available on Jan. 6, 2025, from The New Press. thenewpress.com/books/polici...

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

Jesus Christ. Trump's Pentagon is putting the pain ray on the southern border. This was a weapon yanked from Iraq ... for being too inhumane. www.laserwars.net/p/military-h...

Hegseth influence operation targets upcoming elections

If you’re wondering who exactly Trump and Republicans are looking out for…it’s probably not you. (@itep.org) https://itep.org/impact-of-trump-policies-on-taxes-and-consumer-costs-2026/

My October Patreon is an interview w/ Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social. He left the FBI in 2004 b/c their handling White Supremacists & has always had a bang-on analysis. We chat Trump's anti-antifa campaign, the state of the agency & more. No paywall! www.patreon.com/spencersunsh...

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

ShinyHunters, a cyber-extortion outfit that routinely hacks companies to steal their data and threatens to publish it on the dark web if not paid, says that it hacked into the FBI’s jobs portal and used that access to steal a major tranche of sensitive files.

our episode with @astra.bsky.social on her new book End Times Fascism is now unlocked! www.leftanchor.com/e/end-times-...

tomorrow! Kristian Williams talks about his new book "Policing the Progressive City," about the history of the police in Portland, Oregon. On zoom at 12 noon PST / 3pm EST. Part of the Conversations on Race and Policing series at California State University, San Bernardino www.csusb.edu/event/596138

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

There are over 4,000 mentions of SPLC informants in the FBI investigative records, and FBI has not yet searched Delta, its records on informants. In other words, FBI relied on them, a lot, and is trying to withhold that information from SPLC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since 9/11 the Supreme Court has heard only three cases concerning free speech and national security, and in each of those cases it weakened the First Amendment. New from me in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.

Here is my first long piece in a long time - "Neoliberalism and the New Fascism." This has been a labour of... not quite love, but necessity for me. It's been a very long time in gestation, pulling together a lot of my thinking over the last 20 years. timgoodacre.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...

Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?

So much truth here! 😢

The 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."

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

www.commondreams.org/news/corpora... Researchers found prior authorization—which allows insurers to overrule physicians and deny coverage—acts as a “corporate care veto” that drains tens of billions of dollars each year that could go toward patients.

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

this is very, very bad

Bump.

Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump’s war on antifa. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'll be on Texas Public Radio soon discussing dark money in elections... www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...

The DOJ was willing to charge a labor leader with a crime, hold it over him for months, & then walk away from it once the charge couldn’t survive scrutiny. That is not how a justice system is supposed to work.

Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...

Our Hero of the Week: Terry Albury. In 2017 he leaked the Bureau's classified internal rule books to The Intercept and served 4 years in federal prison for it. Terry was nominated by another hero: @rethinkintel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEK... Full conversation in the thread 👇

In 2002, FBI undercover agent Mike German ( @rethinkintel.bsky.social ), discovered colleagues had run an illegal wiretap and altered records on a terrorism case and reported it. The FBI retaliated, effectively destroying his career. Full conversation in the thread 👇

"Not only was LA the first testing ground for aggressive federal immigration enforcement, it also has a gruesome history of extreme violence by Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department against both protesters and press," @adamrose.bsky.social says.

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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I've been filming Patriot Front since 2017 when Thomas Rousseau marched into Charlottesville when he and his Vanguard America chanted "blood and soil". Here he is in January at the DC March for Life. They're recruiting and more than tripled their numbers since then.

“It is hard to think of another single event in the last decade that has had such far-reaching and sweeping and unintended global consequences as Jim Comey’s press conference.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

If America had a healthy political landscape someone as compromised as @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social wouldn’t be leading the campaign arm of Senate Democrats. Corruption is one of the defining issues of our time & Senate Dems aren’t ready for the moment. This is one of the reasons ↘️

New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech. www.wired.com/story/the-ma...