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Les esprits animaux, ou l’influence de la psychologie selon Keynes
Pour l'économiste John Maynard Keynes, en raison de l’incertitude fondamentale, les comportements impulsifs et la subjectivité sont à la base des choix d’investissement et de la spéculation. -
Ephéméride des luttes : 25 août
Le 25 août, l'éphéméride des luttes commence à entrevoir la fin de l'été et souhaite fortement empêcher le début de la guerre. Aujourd'hui, c'est la lutte pour le pain et pour la liberté qui nous guide.
1830 : En Belgique, début d'une période révolutionnaire après les 'Trois Glorieuses' françaises. Des armureries sont pillées, des chefs de la police attaqués, ainsi que les bâtiments du procureur du roi et celui du ministre de la Justice, qui est incendié.
1877 : A Naples, publication du premier numéro du journal 'L'Anarchia'. Il sera par la suite transféré à Florence suite aux persécutions policières.
1917 : A Turin, une révolte éclate contre la guerre et les privations. La répression brutale fait une cinquantaine de morts.
1918 : "Du 25 août au 1er septembre 1918, se tient à Moscou la première conférence panrusse des anarcho-syndicalistes. Les délégués sont réunis dans le but de définir un programme commun de luttes et d'organisation pour lutter contre les ennemis de la révolution et de la classe ouvrière actuellement sous la triple menace des gouvernements étrangers, de la réaction intérieure (armées blanches) et de la dictature bolchevique.
Ils se prononcent pour la suppression du capitalisme d'Etat et de tout pouvoir, et son remplacement par un système basé sur les principes du communisme libertaire. Ils entendent de fait réaliser une union des soviets libres sur la base du fédéralisme. Les soviets actuels devant impérativement se débarrasser des "commissaires du peuple" et du centralisme qui étouffent toute liberté.'"
Repris de l'éphéméride anarchiste.1922 : A Manresa, près de Barcelone, des milices patronales tentent d'assassiner l'anarcho-syndicaliste Angel Pestaña, sans succès, mais ils le blessent tout de même par balle, protégés par la police.
1969 : Au Vietnam, les troupes américaines refusent d'avancer, suite à cinq journées lors desquelles elles ont subi de lourdes pertes.
1972 : A Parme, Mario Lupo, militant du groupe extraparlementaire d'extrême-gauche Lotta Continua, est poignardé à mort par des néofascistes.
1973 : Plus de 50.000 personnes marchent sur le plateau du Larzac contre la construction d'un nouveau camp militaire.
2006 : A Athènes, deux bombes incendiaires sont jetées dans un Mac Donald's pendant la nuit, après qu'une vitre en soit brisée.
N'hésitez pas à aller jeter également un coup d'oeil à l'éphéméride anarchiste du 25 août !
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Trump administration plans to revoke visas of 200,000 asylum seekers
Move if materialized would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in US history
Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the US, marking its latest step in a sweeping immigration crackdown.
A state department spokesperson said it was coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “to identify and revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently”.
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U.S. unveils new sanctions after Trump threatened "economic D-Day"
President Trump said Monday that Iran was "collapsing" before the U.S. unveiled new sanctions that Treasury chief Scott Bessent vowed would amount to "the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary." -
Trump Admin Prepares To Revoke More Visas Than Ever Before
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke up to 200,000 visas issued to foreigners who later sought asylum in the United States, part of an effort to crack down on what officials say is abuse of the immigration system, The Associated Press reported Monday. -
Colombia’s new president Abelardo de la Espriella announces immigration crackdown
Far-right leader echoes ally Donald Trump and says operations to ‘track down illegal immigrants’ should begin this week, amid earthquake aftermath
Colombia’s far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has announced a crackdown on immigrants, ordering authorities to detain and deport people who are in the country irregularly or have committed crimes.
In office for just over two weeks, the millionaire former lawyer made the announcement on Sunday as the country continued to grapple with the aftermath of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake on 10 August that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 30,000 homes.
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New in SpyWeek: Only the Intelligence News Worth Your Attention
Legal proceedings in the 40-year-old bombing have new wrinkle.Pam Am 103, Still: The trial of a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland has been delayed because of “the discovery of new evidence that defense attorneys want to examine,” reported the A.P. Monday. “Jury selection was scheduled to begin Wednesday for the federal trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in Washington, D.C. His trial will be the first in the U.S. for the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing.” U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich’s order “didn’t specify the nature of the newly discovered evidence…Al-Marimi’s lawyers say prosecutors disclosed the new evidence to them on Saturday.”
Unsolved Mystery: The identity for the gunman (or gunmen) responsible for the Apr. 16, 2013 attack on PG&E’s Metcalf electrical substation,15 miles southeast of San Jose, remains a mystery—and foreshadows what could too easily happen should the U.S. face a well trained spec ops adversary, writes Christopher Cox in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Chilling: “[I]n the past decade, dozens of facilities — in Arkansas and Oregon, Florida and Washington — have been targeted, often using the same tactic as the one seen in 2013: puncturing the cooling system and letting the oil drain out,” Cox reports. Security at most stations remains lame. If saboteurs knocked out “nine total substations among” the three main U.S. power grids, they could “black out the entire United States.”
Gangs of New Russia: The Kremlin is “recruiting local gang members” to sabotage defence manufacturers across Europe “to test NATO’s resolve,” reports The Telegraph. “This week, Latvia detained three of its own nationals on suspicion of an arson attack against a drone manufacturer in neighbouring Estonia,” it said. “The attacks appear carefully calculated to fall just short of triggering Article 5, NATO’s mutual defence clause, intelligence officials believe.” Attacks have been reported in Poland. Russia has also been deploying so-called “hybrid warfare” to destabilize pro-E.U. Moldova.
GRU’s Arctic Offensive: The Kremlin “continues to send GRU officers to Norway under diplomatic cover,” reports The Barents Observer, which ripped away a number of the military intelligence agency operatives’ names and faces.
Kyiv’s Comely Assassin: Margarita—Margarita Reutt’s the name. According to the Guardian, Russian authorities have charged the otherwise “ordinary” 32-year-old woman with the Aug. 13 bombing assassination of a senior Russian submarine commander in Crimea. They say Reutt, a resident of Sochi, the Russian resort city about 300 miles across the Black Sea from Crimean Sevastopol, “confessed to the attack and said that a handler linked to Ukrainian intelligence had promised her a large payment in cryptocurrency and documents that would allow her to leave Russia afterwards…The FSB also said “Reutt showed no remorse.”
The reportedly proud anti-Russia assassin Reutt frequently posed to aid her businesses. (Vkontakte photo).Iran Escalation: “Arab intelligence” has detected a “strategic shift inside the country’s hard-line leadership to get their forces ready to widen the war and raise the costs for the U.S., reports the Wall Street Journal). Kuwait and Gulf states are bracing for hits. The Trump administration, meanwhile, levied new sanctions on Iran as well as on 10 alleged “Hezbollah couriers” who have moved “hundreds of millions of dollars between Lebanon, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Iran.” (New York Times)
ISIS Wannabe: An American female convert to jihadism has been charged with involvement in a “ISIS-inspired terror plot” against the New York State Capitol in Albany, the feds announced. Jessica Bowie “converted to Islam about five years ago, adopted the name ‘Aisha Saif,’ maintained numerous social media accounts promoting extremist views and spent weeks conducting reconnaissance around the Capitol,” the feds said, according to Newsweek. They deployed an FBI informant to draw her out online—which might’ve been all too easy, it turns out: She has “a history of mental illness,” reported the Albany Times-Union.
Get Smart: DHS’s Homeland Security Investigations gets a forehead-slapping takedown in independent reporter Ken Klippenstein’s “The Most Dangerous Feds You’ve Never Heard Of.” Exhibit One: “An undercover agent spying on a church gym when her concealed surveillance wire fell out — which she only realized later.” That was in Minneapolis, where HSI spied on “several left-leaning political organizations—labor unions, a climate change group, socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help and money to what they described as the ‘violent opportunists and agitators’ on the street,” said documents obtained by The New York Times.
ICE-Iran Deal: Internal ICE emails “indicate immigration agents complied with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals” in the U.S., but not only that, “accidentally sent the wrong person to Iran.” ICE “agents appear to have worked directly with government officials in Iran to deport over 100 Iranian nationals … just months or weeks before” the start of the war in late February, reported The Intercept. One unnamed ICE official wrote in late August 2025, a month before the first deportation flight, “Per request from the Iran Embassy I added a few cases,” according to the A.P. “Just over a week later, someone with the same job title moved to make another, unspecified change to the deportation list after they said they met with the ‘Director at the Iranian Embassy.’”
Swalwell: FBI agents seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell‘s cell phone and laptop after he landed in San Francisco with his wife last Saturday, Aug. 15, after a flight from Washington, the Daily Mail scooped, as part of an ongoing investigation into his reported sexual misconduct. They also searched the D.C. home of the former outspoken Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee. Two days later newly declassified records were released about his escapades with the Chinese spy known as “Fang Fang,” the Mail said. Swalwell denies any improper behavior with women. But Marcy Wheeler, the influential blogger known as “Emptywheel,” made a case last week that the White House declassified the FBI’s Swalwell file back in March to derail his bid to be governor of California. Of note: The files reveal that the FBI “started testing whether Fang would make a worthwhile informant about the Chinese intelligence ties her family had in March 2013.” Wheeler wrote. There’s much more.
Selective Secrets: “Even as the White House claims to be focused on transparency, it has ignored a congressional requirement to disclose a report on foreign meddling in the 2024 election,” reported The New York Times.
CIA Exit Lines: “The spy agency is swamped by what it calls an ‘unprecedented number’ of retirements as the Trump administration aims to shrink its workforce,” reports Warren P. Strobel at The Washington Post, quoting a “recent note to alumni.”
“A historic wave of departures at the CIA and deep cutbacks at the Office of Personnel Management are swamping the spy agency’s retirement system, leaving former spies with months-long waits to get their first pension check, according to former intelligence officials and internal agency messages.”
FBI Stymied: A U.S. judge last Monday blocked plans to move the FBI’s headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, “finding that President Donald Trump’s administration illegally tossed out a previously approved plan to build a new facility nearby in Maryland.” The judge said Trump’s insistence was “not in accordance with the law.” (A.P.)
CIA’s Bite of the Apple: “Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triumphant return to Apple—and the iPhone might not have its foundational operating code,” according to Sharon Weinberger’s fascinating tale in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Citizen Held as Spy in China: A Burma-born U.S. scholar, Min Zin, who was working in Myanmar and leading a think tank focused on democratization there, has been detained in China on suspicion of espionage. “A student activist in 1988 during Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement,” Min “traveled to Yunnan province in China, which borders Myanmar, for an academic conference” in June at the invitation of the Chinese government. The Trump administration calls him innocent of the charges and “wrongfully detained.” (Notus)
Min Zin, from his Facebook page. AIPAC in the News: “Allies” of Michigan Republican Senate candidate (and former House Intelligence Committee chairman) Mike Rogers “have asked AIPAC not to advertise on his behalf, triggering a rupture with the powerful but polarizing pro-Israel group,” Axios reported Saturday. Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast, meanwhile, is “backed by the Israeli government, according to Connor Echols at the libertarian Responsible Statecraft think tank.
Real to Reel: High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam premieres Sept.13 on TNT, two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It’s based on ex-CIA officer John Nixon’s book Debriefing the President, about his time as the first agency officer to interrogate Saddam Hussein after his 2003 capture. Nixon spent 13 years at the CIA as a senior leadership analyst, “briefing the most senior levels in the US government, did multiple tours in Iraq, and later taught at the Agency’s in-house training school, the Sherman Kent School,” says the announcement. Here’s the trailer.
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Le socialisme sauvage : chapitre II : Marx et la Commune de Paris
Nous reproduisons ici en brochures les différents chapitres du livre « le socialisme sauvage », de Charles Reeve. Il retrace l'histoire de diverses luttes depuis la Révolution Française, via un axe anarchiste, communiste antiautoritaire, ultragauchiste, autonome, etc..
Son but est de relire l'histoire révolutionnaire non depuis l'angle traditionnel et confus de « la révolution contre les bourgeois/les aristocrates » - qui fait comme si la révolution était un bloc - mais depuis un axe fondamental souvent oublié : celui des divers courants libertaires contre les tendances autoritaires du socialisme.
On regrettera certains défauts importants, qu'il est bon d'avoir en tête en parcourant le bouquin. Notamment le fait que les luttes abordées sont très majoritairement des luttes blanches. Ou que l'angle pris fait souvent la part belle aux figures et organisations militantes officielles - là où il serait intéressant de se concentrer un peu plus sur l'action et l'organisation directes du prolétariat.
Ces points étant dits, ce livre apporte de nombreuses informations historiques importantes, souvent effacées de l'histoire des luttes. Il permet ainsi, de façon méthodique et détaillée, de remettre plusieurs points sur les i concernant la question de l'autoritarisme. C'est une chose qui nous semble plus qu'utile à l'heure où la sociale-démocratie reprend du galon, sous ses divers avatars réformistes et léninistes, menaçant de récupérer les luttes à venir.
Bonne lecture !
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Permanences bibliothèque-ludothèque féministe - AGENDA
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🍪RDV à @oucourstu pour les permanences de la bibliothèque-ludothèque de @helicesasso .
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📚Venez nous rencontrer, chiner, lire, papoter, jouer, chiller et découvrir le tiers-lieu. Vous trouverez aussi notre catalogue en ligne.
💸Les emprunts sont à prix libre pour faire vivre la bibliothèque, environ 1 mois🥳La bibliothèque-ludothèque de Hélices est installée désormais dans le tiers-lieu Où cours-tu ? Sur les horaires du café vous pouvez consulter les ouvrages et faire des retours dans la boîte dédié à cet effet. Les emprunts ce sont sur les permanences ou lors d'événements de Hélices.
catalogue en ligne : https://new.mabib.fr/helices/vendredi 4 septembre 17-21h
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Rencontre autour du livre 'La souffrance éthique'
Quand ?
Le 3 septembre à 19hOù ?
Librairie Le Delta 1, rue Cassette 75006 ParisLancement du livre 'La souffrance éthique' de Gabriel Perez et Christophe Dejours.
Suicides en entreprise, burn-out, harcèlement sexuel et moral, dégradation des conditions de travail et de la santé mentale des employés, surcharge, crise de la vocation... Tous ces symptômes témoignent d'un profond malaise et font du 21e siècle une ère de souffrance psychique sans précédent dans le monde du travail.
De quoi cette souffrance est-elle le nom ? C'est tout l'enjeu de cet essai, co-écrit par Christophe Dejours, psychiatre et psychanalyste, fondateur de la psychodynamique du travail, et Gabriel Perez, enseignant en philosophie, psychologue et syndicaliste.
Ensemble, ils analysent les mutations de l'organisation du travail et leurs conséquences sur la vie psychique des travailleurs : introduction de nouveaux dispositifs de gestion et de domination dans les secteurs privé comme public, plateformisation des services, développement d'une « domination logiciel », mesures des performances quantitatives, concurrence généralisée. Une bascule s'est opérée : si le travail a longtemps constitué un vecteur privilégié pour bâtir un « monde commun » entre les individus, il est à présent l'épicentre à partir duquel le « monde commun » est en train de se déliter. Car voilà que les organisations du travail contraignent désormais les travailleurs à accomplir des actions que leur sens moral réprouve. A ce conflit entre les prescriptions du travail et le sens moral des travailleurs, Christophe Dejours donne le nom de souffrance éthique.
Souffrance singulière de l'individu, elle témoigne par sa nature même de l'effondrement des collectifs de travail et des capacités de résistance des travailleurs. La clinique du travail devient alors la grille d'intelligibilité pour saisir la portée politique du néolibéralisme. Pourquoi les travailleurs peinent-ils autant à résister à la banalité du mal et de l'injustice sociale ? Comment redonner au travail un horizon au service de l'avenir et des rapports entre les générations ? C'est précisément la tâche que s'assigne cet essai qui assume d'entendre la souffrance éthique comme un symptôme politique.
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Arpentage autour d'un livre de Ludivine Bantigny
Quand ?
Le 25 septembre à 19hOù ?
Librairie Le Delta 1, rue Cassette 75006 ParisArpentage autour d'un livre de Ludivine Bantigny, historienne.
En partenariat avec l'association Ressources alternatives.Entrée libre
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Rencontre Technopolice Paris Banlieue
Quand ?
Le 2 septembre à 19hOù ?
Le Bar commun 135, rue des Poissonniers 75018 ParisLes technologies de surveillance se multiplient dans nos villes et nos rues. Les caméras se dotent d'algorithmes, et des capteurs en tout genre s'ajoutent au mobilier urbain.
Ces dispositifs sont achetés par les communes auprès d'entreprises privées, le plus souvent sans en informer les habitant·es. Un groupe de lutte contre l'expansion de cette surveillance s'organise en Île-de-France : Technopolice Paris-Banlieue.
Documentation, veille, actions, partages d'information... Les réunions du groupe Technopolice se veulent un moment d'échange et d'organisation pour dénoncer l'accaparement sécuritaire de l'espace public et réfléchir à comment s'organiser contre la surveillance dans Paris et sa banlieue.
Si vous souhaitez participer au travail de collecte d'information, visibilisation et mobilisation, venez discuter avec le groupe Technopolice Paris-Banlieue à l'occasion du rendez vous mensuel, qui a lieu tous les premiers mercredis du mois.
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US supreme court rules Trump can proceed with crackdown on mail-in voting
Justices’ ruling comes after lower courts had blocked president’s election order ahead of November midterms
The US supreme court sided with Donald Trump on Monday in his effort to crack down on mail-in voting, though it remains unclear if his administration can take action ahead of the midterm elections in November.
Justices on the court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to lift an injunction from June that a judge in Massachusetts placed on an executive order issued by the president. But a second injunction remains in place and the ruling leaves room for legal challenges.
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Mikie Sherrill claims it's 'easier to get an AR-15' than an abortion at bill signing ceremony in New Jersey
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed a shield law bill on Thursday aimed at protecting access to individuals seeking "reproductive and gender affirming healthcare" in her state. While speaking about the legislation at a Planned Parenthood in Montclair, New Jersey, Sherrill lamented her perceived difficulties about abortion access in the United States, commenting that it's easier to get an AR-15 gun than an abortion in the country. "I came here to this Planned Parenthood right after Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court overturned Roe and turned back the clock on our rights," Sherrill said while speaking at the bill signing ceremony... -
Trump Threatens Think Tank With Libel Lawsuit For Telling The Truth About National Guard Deployments
Whenever Trump doesn’t like the facts, he calls it “fake news” or does what he’s doing here: tries to shoot the messenger by threatening them with a lawsuit.
The administration has been sending National Guard troops to various US cities ever since it became clear its mass deportation efforts weren’t nearly as popular with US residents (or the troops themselves!) as they were with the bigoted ghouls who infested the White House.
Trump claimed the National Guard deployments were necessary because the cities they were sent to (Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, etc.) were so gutted by violent crime that the only solution was one that pushes up against the edges of martial law.
Most of the early deployments targeted states or cities where Trump had failed to secure a majority of the popular vote. Later deployments to Tennessee and Louisiana were actually welcomed by state reps who were more closely aligned with MAGA ideals than the rights and liberties of their states’ residents.
But no matter where the National Guard went, the promised reduction in violent crime failed to materialize. It’s an assumption anyone could make, given that it was more a show of force meant to force more cities and states to bend the knee, rather than a well-designed plan to address alleged crime epidemics.
The Center for American Progress released a report early last month, one that showed National Guard deployments weren’t doing much in terms of crime. Instead, the administration was spending more than a billion dollars ($1.7 billion at last count) in an attempt to take credit for the status quo: a long, sharp decline in violent crime rates that long proceeded either of Trump’s two presidential terms.
In an effort to falsely claim his policies have reduced crime, the president is exploiting the fact that violent crime and murder were already declining in the cities his administration targeted with these extreme interventions. On average, the 11 cities where the National Guard was deployed or threatened to be deployed saw a 14 percent decrease in their 12-month rolling violent crime rate and a 22 percent decrease in their 12-month rolling murder rate from June 2024 to June 2025, before the National Guard was first deployed to Los Angeles.
These recent violent crime trends, predating even Trump’s second inauguration, suggest that, more than likely, violent crime would have continued trending downward in these cities by the end of 2025, regardless of any additional interventions. However, the Trump administration has ignored this fact when reporting year-over-year crime statistics to claim these extreme tactics have made Americans safer.
Trump is the real lagging indicator here. The report was released July 10. It took until a few days ago for Trump to threaten the left-leaning think tank with a bogus libel lawsuit. This threat was delivered by someone in Trump’s personal employ, rather than any of the dozens (or hundreds) of lawyers employed by the federal government, for obvious reasons.
On Monday, one of Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers, Alejandro Brito, wrote a letter to the center warning that he would file the suit if the group did not fully retract the report, which was published on its website on July 13. The letter, viewed by The New York Times, was addressed to the group’s president and chief executive, Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic official who served as a senior adviser to President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and to several of its board members.
Mr. Brito claimed that the report about the National Guard was full of malicious and false statements. He gave Ms. Tanden and members of her board until 5 p.m. on Friday to retract it and apologize to Mr. Trump.
Libel lawsuits are personal causes of action. The federal government cannot file a defamation lawsuit on its own behalf. Hence, the need to portray this criticism of the administration’s policies and claims are being portrayed as defaming Trump personally for the sole purpose of silencing critics of this iteration of the federal government.
The New York Times report doesn’t contain anything specific Trump’s lawyer claimed was defamatory in the threat letter he issued on behalf of his boss. It’s safe to assume Brito provided no specifics, but relied on intentional vagueness in hopes of making the legal threat stick. And because it’s an obviously bogus legal threat, the letter concludes with a phrase almost always deployed by people who know they have no legitimate case to make:
The letter ended: “PLEASE GOVERN YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY.”
No problem, said the Center for American Progress lawyers. We are governed accordingly:
“This is utterly absurd,” the lawyer, Kevin H. Metz, wrote to Mr. Brito. “Truth is not and cannot be defamation.”
Mr. Metz went on to say that the center welcomed the opportunity to make its case in court and receive more information on the National Guard deployments through the process of discovery.
We’ll see if Trump tries to press this case or whether he’ll wander off to yell at the next thing that momentarily makes him angry. But even if he moves off of this particular provocation, he’s still got a year to let this simmer on the back burner.
It’s performative but it still serves a purpose: to deter others who might publish facts Trump doesn’t like but may not have the money, time, or legal acumen to fight back when the president decides he wants to sue in his personal capacity. And while we all know this is meaningless and unjustified, the fact is that Trump has pretty much unlimited amounts of time and money and, apparently, enough lawyers on hand willing to jeopardize their careers and reputations for a guy who ultimately may stiff them when it’s time to collect their legal fees.
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Trump announces new 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and steel
Move is latest deterioration in trade relations between neighbors with historically strong economic ties
Donald Trump announced a new 50% tariff on automobiles and crucial raw materials from Canada, the latest deterioration in trade relations between the two neighbors with historically strong economic ties.
The US president said that the increased tariffs would start on 1 January 2027 on all cars, trucks, automobile parts and steel. He also derided the nation’s tariffs on American farmers, writing on social media that Canada has been “ripping off” the US “for years”.
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« Ça m’inquiète pour plusieurs raisons » : il laisse Claude démonter le logiciel interne de ses appareils et affiche un bilan effroyable
Avec l’aide d’un agent IA, un chercheur en sécurité a réussi à prendre le contrôle de cinq périphériques du quotidien, de la webcam à la lampe connectée.
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Les alliés de l’Ukraine peinent à répondre à l’escalade engagée par la Russie
Le jour de la fête nationale, Kyiv a accueilli un sommet de la «coalition des volontaires». Malgré des annonces provoquant la colère de Moscou, les soutiens ne répondent pas aux besoins urgents contre les missiles balistiques russes. -
Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language
Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute
Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days after receiving widespread praise from political leaders for rejecting a US trade proposal that many perceived as weakening the country’s Francophone culture.
The prime minister’s remarks came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, showed little interest in retreating from the spat, posting on social media that Canada had been “ripping off the United States of America for years” and threatening a swath of new, economically devastating tariffs on cars and trucks.
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US immigration officers reassigned to screen South African refugees and find ‘unlawful’ voters
Exclusive: internal correspondence reveals USCIS anti-fraud officers shifted on to two ‘high-priority’ initiatives
All US immigration officers working for a key anti-fraud unit have been reassigned by Donald Trump’s administration to focus on screening South African refugees and alleged “unlawful” voters.
Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) immigration officers have been shifted full-time on to two “high-priority” initiatives, according to internal correspondence seen by the Guardian, leaving US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) unable to provide officers to train asylum officers in “the near future”.
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«Fonds vert»: l’indécence du gouvernement
Le gouvernement annonce que le fonds vert, destiné à aider les collectivités dans la transition écologique, va augmenter après cet été caniculaire. De l’art de la diversion alors que les besoins sont sans commune mesure avec cette enveloppe sans cesse rabotée. -
Under-reported Stories About Gun Regulations, Trump’s War on Drugs, and Canada’s MAID Program Demand a Closer Look
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Iran broadcasts sickening video claiming Barron Trump is 'fully monitored,' places $10M bounty on his head
Iranian state media broadcast a chilling three-minute video fantasizing about killing Barron Trump in a disturbing escalation against President Trump and his family — as Tehran braces for an onslaught of additional crushing economic penalties. The clip titled "Where to kill Barron Trump" claimed to show the movements of President Trump's 20-year-old son, claiming he is "fully monitored" and showing depictions of the dorms at New York University's Constance Milstein & Family Global Academic Center, according to a translation of the video by Euronews... -
Iranian state TV broadcasts video targeting Barron Trump with $10m bounty
Iranian state television has broadcast a video purporting to track the movements of Barron Trump, Donald Trump's 20-year-old son, and claiming a $10 million (€8.5m) bounty has been placed on him. The footage, released by IRGC-affiliated media and broadcast on Channel 3 of Iranian state television, is titled "Where and how should we kill Barron Trump?" It claims to show the location of his university, his escort vehicles and the positioning of his Secret Service detail, alleging his movements have been "fully monitored". The claim about the bounty could not be independently verified at the time of publication... -
Barron Trump targeted with $10M bounty while Trump declares Iran 'collapsing': report
President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to once again declare that Iran was "completely collapsing" following reports that Iranian state television broadcast a video targeting the president's youngest son with a $10 million bounty. "IRAN IS COMPLETELY COLLAPSING!!!" Trump wrote, unprompted, on his social media platform Truth Social. According to The Jerusalem Post, the Iranian state-affiliated TV Channel 3 released a video recently highlighting personal details of Barron Trump, including his security detail, his online video game accounts and his classmates... -
J’ai testé le Google Pixel 11 Pro et j’ai l’impression d’avoir gardé mon Pixel 10 Pro
Un an après une gamme Pixel 10 très réussie, Google lance en août 2026 sa nouvelle génération de smartphones haut de gamme avec un nombre de nouveautés très limité. Outre une puce un peu plus puissante (Tensor G6), un témoin lumineux au dos (HiLight) et quelques améliorations en photo, le Pixel 11 Pro donne l'impression d'être une réédition du smartphone de l'année dernière… pour 100 euros de plus.
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Lingolsheim (Bas-Rhin) : Des formes irrégulières de lignes
reçu par mail / samedi 22 août 2026
Revendication d’action contre EQIOM
Nous nous sommes rencontré.es, à nouveau, et nous avons tracé,
Tracé des lignes,
De toutes les formes de nos possibles,Des lignes d’échappées qui fleurent bon la joie,
Aux silhouettes en promenade,
Et qui explorent différemment nos paysages,
Nous avons appris des précédentes, des séculaires et des mortes,
Ainsi que de celles prescrites par nos dissemblables,
Pour en tracer encore des nouvelles,Des lignes sensibles aux ruines qui nous entourent,
Qui se dissimulent dans les ombrages des avenues,
Longeant les réseaux de la métropole pour esquiver au mieux la capture de nos voyages,Des lignes qui se transforment à mesure qu’elles infiltrent le spectacle de pixels,
Devenant bifurcation dans les artères où prolifère l’obsession scopique,
Et esquive devant les foyers qui partagent la même pulsion,Jusqu’à atteindre un soir, non loin de Strasbourg, l’inévitable grille de la zone-cible,
Opposant ses stries droites à nos lignes versatiles,
Et face à laquelle seule une forme imprévisible peut produire une deuxième fente,Notre ligne-foudre,
Engendrée par la combinaison de nos vérités intimes,
Et alliant nos puissances en une brûlante attaque,*
* *Détruisons ce qui nous détruit
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Amazon rend enfin les meilleurs écouteurs de Sony plus compétitifs
[Deal du jour] À peine six mois après leur lancement, les meilleurs écouteurs sans fil de Sony perdent déjà 60 €. Amazon propose les WF-1000XM6 à 239,99 € contre 299,99 €.
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Aurillac : Manif anti-flics au festival de théâtre de rue
La Montagne/ samedi 22 août 2026
La perspective d’un rendez-vous pour une manifestation « contre les violences policières » bruissait, comme une rumeur, depuis le début du Festival de théâtre de rue d’Aurillac, ce mercredi 19 août. Le lieu fixé était la place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, à 16 h 15.
Ce samedi 22 août, une manifestation est effectivement partie de la place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, pour rejoindre la préfecture, via le passage de la Barbantelle, le Square, et le Gravier. Une fois arrivée au pied de la préfecture, plusieurs centaines de manifestants, scandant des slogans anti-fascistes et anti-police, ont dégradé un échafaudage et mis le feu à une palette au coin de France.
Là, les forces de l’ordre ont dispersé une première fois la foule, avec au moins une grenade lacrymogène. La situation s’est ensuite fixée, les CRS étant positionnés sur le Pont-Rouge, tournés vers la place Gerbert, les manifestants étant au niveau de la place.
Après une longue observation, un contact a eu lieu entre les manifestants et les forces de l’ordre, mais plusieurs lacrymogènes ont permis de disperser la foule. À 18 heures, la situation s’était calmée. Des médiateurs d’Aurillac écoute et de Freeform étaient sur place et discutaient avec une cinquantaine de manifestants, à quelques mètres des CRS.
Si la situation peut rappeler les émeutes du premier soir du festival, l’an passé [voir ici ; NdAtt.], la tension est très loin, ce samedi 22 août à 18 heures, d’être arrivée au même point. Tout autour, les spectacles continuent et il était possible de croiser des festivaliers inconscients de la situation à quelques centaines de mètres de la préfecture.Selon
Franceinfo, « Un manifestant et un policier ont été légèrement blessés samedi 22 août […] Des dégradations « limitées », poubelle brûlée, tags, vitre cassée… ont eu lieu en centre-ville. Le festival international de théâtre de rue d’Aurillac n’a pas été perturbé et a pu se clôturer normalement. » -
Douarnenez (Finistère) : « Refugees welcome. Tourists go home ! »
Ouest-France/ vendredi 21 août 2026
Des tags contre la venue des touristes ont été découverts sur un mur de Douarnenez (Finistère), à proximité de l’hôtel de ville. L’un d’eux portait la mention Refugees welcome. Tourists go home ! (Bienvenue aux réfugiés. Les touristes, rentrez chez vous, en français).Un second tag invitait à des actions contre les prisons, les CRA (Centres de rétention administrative, un lieu fermé ou l’État place des personnes étrangères en situation irrégulière dans l’attente de leur expulsion). [article payant ; NdAtt.]
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Le patronat dit adieu à son rêve de voir Jordan Bardella au pouvoir
Alors que débutent mercredi les journées d’été du Medef, les milieux d’affaires réfléchissent à la manière de composer avec le Rassemblement national et de relancer «l’union des droites». La candidature de Marine Le Pen à la présidentielle, après l’arrêt de la cour d’appel, a mis à bas tous leurs plans. -
Le RN revient sur scène après un été de silences et de malaise
Marine Le Pen fera sa rentrée devant les patrons du Medef jeudi 27 août à l’occasion d’un premier débat avec les autres candidats. Première étape avant le congrès, en octobre. Avec une grande inconnue pour les mois qui viennent: le degré d’implication de Jordan Bardella dans la campagne présidentielle. -
FDDAY 2026 : la fin de l’ère des licornes, la profitabilité est désormais la métrique qui compte
Pendant une décennie, la réussite d’une startup française s’est largement racontée à travers ses levées de fonds. Chaque tour fournissait un montant, une valorisation, un classement implicite et, pour les plus habiles, une photographie suffisamment large pour y faire entrer les fondateurs, les investisseurs et quelques bouteilles de champagne. La correction du marché a remis …
L’article FDDAY 2026 : la fin de l’ère des licornes, la profitabilité est désormais la métrique qui compte est apparu en premier sur FW.MEDIA.
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Yannick Jadot rallie Raphaël Glucksmann… et le contredit déjà sur le nucléaire
En l’espace de quelques minutes seulement, Yannick Jadot a annoncé lundi rejoindre la campagne de Raphaël Glucksmann tout en indiquant s’opposer au projet du candidat de Place publique sur le nucléaire, l’un de ses combats historiques. Une contradiction qui raconte la valse-hésitation à gauche autour des questions écologiques. -
Bally Bagayoko, maire LFI de Saint-Denis, visé par une enquête pour détournement de fonds publics
L’enquête a été ouverte le 19 août après des articles de presse qui accusaient l’élu d’avoir «longtemps cumulé mandat local et poste de cadre à la RATP». L’association AC!! Anti-Corruption avait déposé deux plaintes. L’une concerne d’autres «élus parisiens […] de tout bord politique» pour l’existence présumée «d’un système organisé et structuré d’emplois fictifs». -
Il donne un nom de domaine à Claude en lui disant de « faire ce qu’il veut » : voici le résultat
Au début du mois d’août 2026, un développeur a confié un nom de domaine à Claude avec une consigne volontairement vague : construire ce qu’il voulait. Deux semaines plus tard, l’IA d’Anthropic administre un étrange réseau social conçu pour les agents IA, avec sa propre constitution, sa monnaie et plusieurs centaines de « citoyens ».
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Interdits, oubliés, cachés, maudits : les aventuriers des "lost medias"
Films perdus, émissions censurées, enregistrements légendaires et dessins animés maudits : la recherche des "lost medias" mobilise des milliers d'aventuriers dans de véritables chasses au trésor. Pacôme Thiellement et Bolchegeek plongent dans les origines… -
Les sociétés minières creusent leurs trous. Cet hiver, on se déterre, on les y enterre !
Nous écrivons cet appel à une période où la civilisation industrielle révèle l'importance de ses fondations : les sous-sols.
Armée par la science et la technologie, la méga-machine extractive repousse les frontières cognitives et territoriales. Tout est désormais transformé en matières premières. De la France à la Chine, des États-Unis à la Russie, d'Imerys à Rio Tinto en passant par BHP Biliton ou Anglo American, états et entreprises passent le monde au peigne fin, brossant jusqu'aux fonds marins et l'Antarctique, à la recherche de minerais aux noms insolites (lithium, cobalt, tungstène, beryllium, etc). Des milliardaires, comme Elon Musk pour le plus connu, investissent dans l'aérospatial afin de prospecter des gisements cosmiques. Ici-bas, sur Terre, la démesure du pillage capitaliste et patriarcal approfondit ses ravages. Les mines entraînent guerres, vols, viols, maladies, pollutions et travail de forçat dans les espaces colonisés comme au Congo, en Indonésie ou en Amérique du Sud. À cet impérialisme s'ajoute l'exploitation intra-muros, alors que la vieille Europe recommence à accueillir la voracité minière à bras ouverts. Que ce soit à Jadar en Serbie ou au Portugal avec le site de Covas do Barosso, en passant par le très médiatisé projet Emili au cœur de la France métropolitaine, et… l'Ukraine, les mêmes logiques de sacrifice des territoires et des populations sont à l'œuvre. Ces dernières continuant de subir la dépossession, la répression et la mise au silence. Les pouvoirs d'états à travers l'USGS, le BRGM et autres centres de recherche et les financeurs (Union Européenne, BPI, actionnaires comme Glencore) provoquent ainsi de nouvelles guerres, de nouvelles dévastations, afin de siphonner les matières fossiles et minérales des sous-sols.
La mondialisation de l'extractivisme est en cours mais ses horreurs ne se font pas sans oppositions. Des luttes acharnées se mènent en Laponie, au Canada, en Kanaky, au Sahara, en France, en Grèce, en Allemagne, pour conserver l'eau, la terre. Pour survivre. Des projets sont contestés, retardés, certains sont abandonnés. Face à l'ampleur de la dévastation, n'oublions pas notre force collective.Nous croyons ce système faillible, que sa subversion est possible.
Nous voulons le saper à sa base. Grâce à l'imagination, l'inspiration, l'audace !Partout où ce message circulera, que ces deux mois (Février-Mars 2027) soient semés d'actions autonomes et diverses contre les entreprises minières et ceux qui collaborent avec elles.
Bien appliquées, de petites forces peuvent devenir de grandes menaces.
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Ateliers Linogravure
Article initial par ici : [1]
Attention : tous les ateliers ont été décalés de 13h à 17h !
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Le socialisme sauvage : essai sur l'auto-organisation et la démocratie directe dans les luttes de 1789 à nos jours
Nous reproduisons ici en brochures les différents chapitres du livre « le socialisme sauvage », de Charles Reeve. Il retrace l'histoire de diverses luttes depuis la Révolution Française, via un axe anarchiste, communiste antiautoritaire, ultragauchiste, autonome, etc..
Son but est de relire l'histoire révolutionnaire non depuis l'angle traditionnel et confus de « la révolution contre les bourgeois/les aristocrates » - qui fait comme si la révolution était un bloc - mais depuis un axe fondamental souvent oublié : celui des divers courants libertaires contre les tendances autoritaires du socialisme.
On regrettera certains défauts importants, qu'il est bon d'avoir en tête en parcourant le bouquin. Notamment le fait que les luttes abordées sont très majoritairement des luttes blanches. Ou que l'angle pris fait souvent la part belle aux figures et organisations militantes officielles - là où il serait intéressant de se concentrer un peu plus sur l'action et l'organisation directes du prolétariat.
Ces points étant dits, ce livre apporte de nombreuses informations historiques importantes, souvent effacées de l'histoire des luttes. Il permet ainsi, de façon méthodique et détaillée, de remettre plusieurs points sur les i concernant la question de l'autoritarisme. C'est une chose qui nous semble plus qu'utile à l'heure où la sociale-démocratie reprend du galon, sous ses divers avatars réformistes et léninistes, menaçant de récupérer les luttes à venir.
Bonne lecture !
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Mohammed ben Salmane en France: «Lui dérouler le tapis rouge, c’est donner une prime à l’impunité»
Alors qu’Emmanuel Macron reçoit pendant deux jours le prince héritier saoudien, Reporters sans frontières se dit choqué par cet accueil dans un entretien à «Mediapart». L’association demande au président d’agir pour que le dossier judiciaire sur l’assassinat du journaliste Jamal Khashoggi aille à son terme. -
Après l’autorisation de son extradition vers l’Allemagne, le militant antifasciste «Gino» se pourvoit en cassation
Le ressortissant albanais est accusé d’avoir commis des violences en marge d’un défilé néonazi à Budapest, en 2023. Après avoir refusé son extradition vers la Hongrie en avril, la justice française a autorisé le 19 août son extradition vers l’Allemagne. -
Cryptoactifs en Europe : une régulation nette mais incomplète
Depuis le 1er juillet 2026, le règlement européen MiCA encadre officiellement le marché des cryptoactifs. Résultat : sur 5 000 acteurs actifs en Europe, seuls 300 ont obtenu leur agrément. Un tri sévère qui rebat les cartes du secteur. -
Des milliers de juments saignées pour doper la reproduction des élevages
« Au 121e jour, il faut avorter la jument pour la remettre en gestation un mois après »
Cet article Des milliers de juments saignées pour doper la reproduction des élevages est apparu en premier sur La Relève et La Peste.
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Seulement 16 % des mesures de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat sont vraiment appliquées
Seules 24 des 149 propositions de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat sont véritablement appliquées, selon le WWF France. Le 22 août, la loi Climat et résilience, qui se voulait la traduction législative des propositions formulées par ces assemblées, fêtait son cinquième anniversaire. Le WWF a fait les comptes de l'application de ces mesures, qui s'est soldée par un « détricotage », selon l'ONG.
Lire la suite - En bref / Convention citoyenne pour le climat
En comptant les trois mesures écartées d'emblée par Emmanuel Macron (les 110 km/h sur (…) -
Seulement 16 % des mesures de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat sont vraiment appliquées
Seules 24 des 149 propositions de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat sont véritablement appliquées, selon le WWF France. Le 22 août, la loi Climat et résilience, qui se voulait la traduction législative des propositions formulées par ces assemblées, fêtait son cinquième anniversaire. Le WWF a fait les comptes de l'application de ces mesures, qui s'est soldée par un « détricotage », selon l'ONG.
Lire la suite - En bref / Convention citoyenne pour le climat
En comptant les trois mesures écartées d'emblée par Emmanuel Macron (les 110 km/h sur (…) -
Fuites de GTA VI : CyberLeek diffuse des vidéos inédites du jeu et déclenche une riposte judiciaire de Take-Two
Depuis le 18 août 2026, plusieurs vidéos présentées comme des extraits de Grand Theft Auto VI - connu sous le nom de GTA VI - circulent en ligne, à quelques jours seulement de la présentation officielle du jeu.
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Amazon affiche enfin l’historique des prix : nous avons vérifié sa fiabilité
Amazon commence à afficher directement l’historique des prix de certains produits. Une nouveauté prometteuse pour distinguer les vraies promotions des rabais trompeurs, mais peut-elle remplacer Keepa ? Nous avons comparé les deux outils.
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Sommer Honeycutt Says DOJ Was Wrong about Why They Opened the MN-15 Investigation
As a reminder, my most recent obsession with the MN-15 case started when defendants filed a motion for discovery back on August 13. In a post laying out how the predication of the case depended on assault cases that had been entirely fabricated, I laid out what defendants asked for, along with some context. Those requests were:- “The Court should require the government to produce all reports related to surveillance of Minnesota unions, non-profit organizations, protesters and activists.” This would disclose whether the mentions of spying on unions like SEIU and CWA went further than what defendants have obtained in discovery.
- “The Court should require the government to produce the withheld Project Whipple Shield ROIs.” The government has withheld five Reports of Investigation from the Project Whipple Shield investigation (the sub-investigation of a larger investigation), claiming that those relate to an ongoing investigation.
- “The Court should require the government to produce reports generated pursuant to CUC Operation Keyhole.” The sub-investigation of Project Whipple Shield is part of a larger MN investigation, Operation Puppet Master, which is part of a broader investigation, Operation Keyhole. Sant is demanding the overarching documents.
- “The Court should require the government to produce all of the Clearview AI reports it generated of protesters and activists during Operation Metro Surge.” Sant showed that HSI developed a Clearview dossier on him (with some inaccuracies); he’s demanding all of them.
- “The Court should require the government to produce internal communications related to Operation Puppet Master and Project Whipple Shield.” Sant argues this investigation was predicated on criminalization of First Amendment protected activities; he wants records that may show that.
- “The Court should require the government to produce downloads of all UCA ‘undercover phones’ and ‘undercover laptops.’” DOJ has not turned over the phones and laptops from informants. Sant wants them.
- “The Court should require the government to produce DOJ and DHS communications related to the charging decisions, defendant self-surrender, and doxxing in the AFO cases.” Sant — who is represented by Kevin Riach, who also represented one of the people Pam Bondi doxxed, Paul Johnson — wants records on that doxxing that DOJ withheld by dismissing cases (including Johnson’s). [my emphasis]
Last week, one of the Special AUSAs (many of them JAG officers) that keep cycling through Minnesota’s US Attorney’s Office, Sommer Honeycutt, filed a response.
Before I explain how bad it is, let me note that that same day, a real AUSA, Tory Sailer, filed a notice of appearance, then moved to continue a hearing on the motion that Honeycutt already said she could attend.
The defendants were not amused, partly because defendants and their supporters had already scheduled to be present, partly because MN’s USAO has been diddling with this purportedly important prosecution.
8. The Government has chosen to file a sweeping indictment against fifteen individuals, alleging at least 260 overt acts over a period of six months and involving thousands of hours of investigative time. The Government should be able to assign adequate prosecutorial resources to reflect the alleged size, scope and severity of the charged offense.
You get the feeling that someone reviewed Honeycutt’s response and realized, oh shit, we need to start putting some lawyers with experience on this.
Of the 37-page motion, at least 12 pages addressed a selective prosecution claim that defendants have not yet made. Other broad swaths of the response address a First Amendment challenge that defendants have, likewise, not yet made.
More remarkable still, Honeycutt only addresses four of the discovery requests — basically the sub-requests to the bolded request above. And she does a piss poor job of that.
The Defendants’ broad stroked request for “1) All communications between DOJ prosecutors in this District and DOJ in Washington regarding the decisions to begin this investigation or to pursue this prosecution”, is objected to by the Government for the above reasons. Further the government objects to the Defendants’ requests for “2) All communications between anyone within DOJ and other members of the executive branch related to this investigation and prosecution; 3) All communications between and among federal law enforcement agencies regarding any decisions that suggest they were motivated by political purposes or targeted their investigative activities at protected First Amendment speech or activity.” Lastly, the government objects to the Defendants’ request for “4) All agent rough notes or work product that disclose any improper motivation to commence this investigation or to target investigative activities based on protected First Amendment speech or activity.” Therefore, the Government respectfully asks this Court to deny the Defendant’s discovery requests.
And while some of the original requests were unlikely to be granted, Honeycutt has basically forfeited DOJ’s attempt to address not just those requests, but also more substantive ones, like missing Reports of Investigation, Clearview Reports, and the main informant’s missing phone and laptop.
Likewise, Honeycutt doesn’t address the request I’ve been harping on: the arrest records for 16 people Pam Bondi doxed back on January 28, the same day the investigation was purportedly approved.
The Court should require the government to produce DOJ and DHS communications related to the charging decisions, defendant self-surrender, and doxxing in the AFO cases.
And that’s interesting, because whereas the opening memos (Operation Puppet Master; Operation Whipple Shield) on this investigation both attributed this investigation to events — including purported “assaults against federal officers” but also “impeding federal officers” and “damage to property” that happened since November 2025 (November 28, in the case of the Operation Puppet Master memo), Honeycutt’s description of how and when the investigation started is all over the map, starting with the way she boasts that undercover agents started infiltrating the group before getting approval for the investigation.
The Defense claims that “on January 28, 2026, just four days after agents murdered Alex Pretti, HSI official[sic] opened its mass spying campaign, which it called ‘Operation Puppet Master.” ECF No. 212 at 3. The Defense argues that after the death of Alex Pretti, Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh “directed federal prosecutors to aggressively charge protesters in Minnesota.” Id. at 17. He continued that “on January 28, 2026, DHS and the U.S. Attorney’s Office put Singh’s direction into action. In one day, DHS both initiated “Operation Puppet Master.” Id. The defense claims Associate Deputy Attorney General Singh’s statements were made in “late January.” Id. HSI undercover agents attended meetings on January 11, 2026, and gained access to DAMN Signal chats by January 14, 2026. The indictment includes 83 overt acts prior to January 28, 2026. See generally ECF No 1.
However, HSI’s investigation into “individuals engaged in acts of violence, destruction of federal property, intimidation of federal officers and employees, and attempts to impede federal operations” began in December 2025. See Ex 1. Furthermore, HSI’s investigation into Twin Cities Direct Action (“TCDA”) began well before January 28, 2026. Undercover agents had already infiltrated TCDA by January 11, 2026. ECF No. 1 at ¶ 9, Overt Act (OA) 1-3. At the January 11, 2026, meeting, an unindicted coconspirator created a Signal group chat called “TCDA,” in order to plan for a direct action at the Whipple Building on January 23, 2026. Id. at ¶ 9, OA 3. Undercover agents were invited and gained access to Signal chat messages involving TCDA members by at least January 14, 2026. Id. at ¶ 9, OA 6. DAMN (then called TCDA) members organized and planned for a blockade at the Whipple building in the “TCDA” Signal group chat. Id. at ¶ 9, OA 6-7, 11, 16, 21. Defendant Isaac Sant posted a white flyer in the “TCDA” Signal group chat advertising the blockade at the Whipple building. Id. at ¶ 9, OA 16. The flyer was shared on the Black Cat Worker’s Collective Facebook page. Id. [emphasis original]
You’re not helping, Sommer, but you appear not to understand that.
This section doesn’t address the apparent cherry-picking for the reporting (December surveillance; January surveillance attributed to Project Whipple; much longer report on January surveillance attributed to Operation Puppet Master; badly cherry picked screen capped Signal texts from January from the main informant). And Honeycutt’s timeline is inconsistent with the timeline disclosed in these surveillance reports, because the surveillance started earlier than Honeycutt disclosed.
Worse still, her description of why the investigation started doesn’t match the November timeline of the opening memos — certainly not the November 28 timeline. The only dates that took place before the opening of the investigation (whether January 28 or February 11) described in this section are either in summer 2025 or a November 18 protest that — according to the source she cites — supports a claim of violent federal crackdown but does not back her own claim that protestors threw rocks (though the local Fox account describes “at least one” protestor throwing something). Plus, two events that describe how DOJ hunkered down after ICE shot a mother dead on her way home from dropping her child off at school.
As early as July 31, 2025, Federal Protective Services (FPS) began to get complaints of Whipple employees being aggressively followed. See Ex. 3. FPS Officers received reports from 200-300 people—including directors of the VA, maintenance staff, contractors, lawyers and judges—about harassment, being followed, and other aggressive, intimidating, and interfering behavior. See Ex. 3. For example, officers received complaints about debris being thrown or placed in the road that could puncture vehicle tires outside of the employee/ICE gate. Screws and 2-piece caltrops have been routinely found on a regular basis. See Ex. 3. FPS also received complaints from civilian employees who reported finding tracking devices or air tags on their personal vehicles. See Ex. 31
On June 3, 2025, protesters—incorrectly believing there was an ongoing immigration raid—surrounded a joint law enforcement operation on Lake Street, where federal investigators were executing search warrants in a meth and trafficking case.2 Similarly, on November 18, 2025, federal agents executing a search warrant were surrounded by protesters who began to throw rocks damaging vehicles.3 Agents had to leave the search early for their own safety.
Jersey barriers around Whipple went up on January 12, 2026. See Ex 3A.
1 One civilian contractor noted being followed three times from Whipple in March 26, 2026, April 10, 2026, and April 7, 2026. See Ex. 3A. A Whipple maintenance employee reported being followed on April 29, 2026, and being cut off by the car that resulted in a minor collision. See Ex. 3A On May 6, 2026, one high ranking Veterans Affairs employee noted in their report of being followed to FPS that the encounters he has experienced with the followers “demonstrate clear harassment and intimidation acts meant toward me.” See Ex. 4. He also said saw an uptick in protesting activity outside of the Whipple in approximately June of 2025 and stated he noticed the first violent protestor in September of 2025 and saw an additional increase in December of 2025. The week of January 6th, 2026, the VA were allowed to telework for their safety because of the agitator activities outside of the Whipple building. See Ex 4. On March 12, 2026, an immigration judge reported being on high alert and taking different routes home and is afraid of physical harm after being followed. See Ex. 5. A deportation officer reported being followed four times starting in March of 2026, to include twice being followed to his home or around his home, at one point his minor son was followed while driving the deportation officer’s personal car. See Ex. 6.. This same deportation officer was followed the Whipple building to the federal courthouse in Minneapolis twice. See Ex. 6. One instance Defendant Morgan was following the deportation Officer, waited for him to leave the courthouse and then stepped in front of hindering him from leaving. Morgan was clearly recording him and then knocked his sideview mirror causing it to fold. The incident was captured on the US Marshals surveillance. One administrative assistant for a non-ICE tenant, was followed February 20, 2026, April 8, 2026, April 10, 2026, April 14, 2026, April 15, 2026, April 17, 2026. See Ex. 3A. She relayed she had been followed so many time that she install her own dash camera and home cameras at her own expense. See Ex. 7. She described dangerous and aggressive driving habits while following her, switching lanes and cutting people off. She said they didn’t seem to be trying to hide the fact that they were following her.
2 https://alphanews.org/chaos-erupts-on-lake-street-in-minneapolis-as-feds-attempt-warrant-ondrugs-money-laundering/
3 https://mndaily.com/city/protesters-clash-with-federal-agents-during-immigration-raid-on-st-paulbusiness/11/19/2025/eicmndaily-com/ [my emphasis]
One of her sources — the one for the June 3 protest — includes a very early Nick Shirley cameo, in case you needed proof, beyond Jayden Scott and Jake Lang’s early involvement that this case arose out of far right fever swamps.
And the things that date to January (at least what is accessible in unsealed exhibits — Honeycutt did not include her own exhibits unsealed) — are not about protestors but about the government’s response to having shot a mother dead in her car.
In effect, Honeycutt is saying that the opening memos that took weeks to approve were wrong.
And in a filing that attempts to rebut a First Amendment claim, she relies on complaints of federal employees who are not ICE goons complaining about things that are, in part, protected by the First Amendment, many of which post-date the start of the investigation.
While Honeycutt makes a case that the indictment spanning five months includes two instances of obstruction, her claim that the activities following cars go beyond the First Amendment is weak, and she makes no claim that the events charged as assault really were.
This is — as is so common from Todd Blanche’s DOJ — slovenly work.
But it’s what you get, I guess, when you assign loaner JAGs to run a high-profile prosecution.
Update: Josh Kovensky reads the metadata, which reveals this shitshow filing was actually from the January 6 criminal installed at DOJ.
A Minnesota federal prosecutor hired under Trump II named Sommer Honeycutt was listed as having signed the filing. Metadata on the document lists Brian W. Lynch, a federal prosecutor who marched on the Capitol on January 6, as its author.
Lynch, a longtime gang prosecutor, co-directs Joint Task Force Vanguard, the DOJ’s effort to use organized crime and counterterrorism investigative methods to target the Trump administration’s political opponents.
The document lists Lynch as working in the Office of Deputy Attorney General; the DOJ earlier told TPM that Vanguard reports directly to the Deputy Attorney General, a role until recently held by Blanche.
On top of fucking over Honeycutt, this will make it far easier for defendants on reply to demand communications between MN and Main DOJ.
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