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Plus de 10 ans après sa création, la monnaie locale basque eusko est un succès. Au point qu'elle a créé un institut de formation pour aider d'autres projets à se lancer ou à se développer.
Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), reportage
Dans le centre-ville de Bayonne, des QR codes verts fleurissent sur les comptoirs des bars et des commerces, floqués d'un mot : « Euskopay ». Pour régler ses courses dans la monnaie locale basque, il faut flasher ce code avec l'application dédiée, puis entrer (…)
Construits au XIXe siècle, des cimetières londoniens surnommés les « Magnificent Seven » sont devenus des lieux de promenade où prospèrent oiseaux, insectes rares et plantes par centaines. Un passionné nous a fait visiter celui de Nunhead.
Londres (Royaume-Uni), reportage
Au début du XIXe siècle, alors que Londres se densifiait à la faveur de la Révolution industrielle, les cimetières entourant ses petites églises anglicanes sont arrivés à saturation. Entre 1832 et 1841, sept (…)
[Les nouveaux visages de la criminalité environnementale 1/4] Les fourmis sont au cœur d'un trafic qui peut rapporter gros aux vendeurs qui pullulent sur internet. Un business, en pleine explosion, qui peut causer d'importants dégâts écologiques.
À première vue, la cuisine de Philippe a tout ce qu'il y a de plus classique. Des capsules de café côtoient un grille-pain, des plaques de cuisson ou encore un frigo recouvert de photos de sa famille. Mais ce pâtissier de profession y a également (…)
Dans l'éphéméride des luttes du 10 août, on aimerait bien que le monde entier ne soit pas soumis au joug de la propriété privée et que celui-ci soit enfin libre. Mais ce n'est pas gagné.
1680 : Au Nouveau-Mexique, début de la révolte de la population Pueblo contre l'occupant espagnol.
1937 : Les évêques espagnols signent un document parlant d'une nécessiare "croisade nationale" contre les républicains et révolutionnaires et en soutien au coup d'état de Franco.
1960 : L'Antarctique devient un territoire international et scientifique, personne ne peut prétendre à sa propriété.
1971 : En Irlande du Nord ont lieu de très graves épisodes de violences, au point que plusieurs milliers de personnes doivent abandonner leurs maisons et partir pour l'Irlande.
1977 : - A La-Charité-sur-Loire, cocktails molotov contre EDF et le nucléaire.
1978 : A Montpellier, des explosifs vont voler en éclats la porte de la maison d'arrêt pour la seconde fois, ce que revendiquera de nouveau le « Groupe Autonome Libertaire », pour « attirer l'attention de l'opinion publique sur le sort des membres des groupes autonomes détenus en Espagne, à Barcelone et Madrid » et exiger leur libération.
1984 : Dans le Minnesota, deux activistes sabotent le système de guidage de sous-marins nucléaires.
2011 : A Madrid, deux fourgonnettes de GDF Suez sont détruites par le feu en solidarité aux prisonniers révolutionnaires dans les prisons suisses.
Voir également l'éphéméride anarchiste du 10 août.
Start-uppers, communicants ou médecins, ils ont quitté la ville après la pandémie. Partagés entre idées progressistes et penchants survivalistes, ils achètent les carabines et pistolets que leur vend illégalement « Victor », trentenaire comme eux. Rencontres sous le sceau du secret, quelque part dans la campagne française.
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L'Assemblée Antifasciste Nancy et alentours organise un apéro antifa au local associatif le Geyser.
- Initiatives / Nancy, Initiative culturelleAMD a fait l’acquisition de la start-up Taalas, spécialisée dans les accélérateurs pour l’inférence, pour un montant non divulgué. D’après AMD, l’opération lui permettra de complémenter son rack Helios. Lisa Su, sa dirigeante, avait d’ailleurs évoqué d’autres choses à venir en matière d’architecture désagrégée il y a quelques semaines... Sans doute en référence à cette annonce.
Dans une étude publiée dans la revue Science, des chercheurs de l’Arc Institute de Palo Alto et de l’université Stanford présentent Evo 1 et Evo 2, deux modèles de langage génomique capables d’analyser et de générer des séquences d’ADN. Le principe est comparable à celui de ChatGPT ou Claude, mais appliqué au vivant. Evo a assimilé des milliers de milliards de nucléotides, les briques fondamentales de l’ADN, afin d’apprendre les règles qui gouvernent les génomes.
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In the last edition of Judicial Notice, the most-clicked link was—to my surprise—the photo I used to illustrate the post, featuring the Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz letterhead as of March 2000. And when I posted an image of my former firm’s letterhead on LinkedIn, it went viral (by law-nerd standards), garnering more than 185,000 pageviews.
Given this surprising interest in the WLRK letterhead—which back then listed associates as well as partners, making it something of a curiosity—I updated last week’s Judicial Notice to swap in a more legible and somewhat more recent version (from 2003). If you’re interested, you can click here to view it. (See if you can find my name, as well as those of other Wachtell alumni you might recognize.)
Now, on to the news.
Lawyer of the Week: Jeanine Pirro.
On July 31, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro (D.D.C.) moved to dismiss her office’s indictment of former Olympian canoeist David “Davey” Hearn, whom it had charged with felony destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. According to her motion, the evidence “strongly suggest[s]” that damage to the lining of the Reflecting Pool was caused not by vandalism, but by a “rushed and botched installation” by the contractor.
This didn’t sit well with her boss, Donald Trump, who has repeatedly blamed the many problems with the Reflecting Pool’s renovation on vandals. He publicly criticized Pirro, historically his staunch ally and loyalist, for “choking” and “folding like an umbrella”—and summoned her to a White House meeting, along with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (whose office Pirro had blamed for providing incorrect information about the work done on the Reflecting Pool).
The meeting, which took place last Monday, was an “Oval Office showdown,” according to The New York Times (gift link)—“a high-drama, face-to-face meeting” that was “worthy of two decorated veterans of confrontational reality TV.” Here’s more, from Tyler Pager, Glenn Thrush, and Katie Rogers of The Times:
Ms. Pirro came prepared. She entered the White House from the West Executive driveway in a bright red blazer that matched her fight-back mood, schlepping a white box containing evidence, plus a black box with documents, on wheels.
Waiting for her in the Oval Office, along with the president: Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and David Warrington, the White House counsel. After about an hour of intense back-and-forth, Ms. Pirro emerged with her job intact, for now.
Emphasis on “for now.” According to C. Ryan Barber, Josh Dawsey, and Meridith McGraw of the Wall Street Journal (gift link), “People close to the president said it is too early to say whether Pirro’s job is safe, noting that Trump remains angry that his longtime ally publicly undercut him.”
Critics of the Trump administration faulted Pirro for not realizing at an earlier stage, based on publicly available information, that the vandalism claims were far-fetched—and generally viewed the whole situation as “a complete catastrophe for the U.S. Attorney's Office and the administration,” as Ken White said on Serious Trouble.
On the other hand, from a “better late than never” perspective, Pirro did eventually drop the charges—showing that, in White’s words, “even Jeanine Pirro has limits to the extent to which she’ll get kicked around for doing stupid stuff for Donald Trump.” Or as longtime defense attorney Joe Flood told Salvador Rizzo, who wrote an impressively balanced profile of Pirro for the Washington Post (gift link), Pirro should “get[] some credit for standing up to Trump.”
Speaking of standing up to Trump, might we see more of that from Todd Blanche—confirmed as U.S. Attorney General on Saturday, 50-49? That was part of the justification that Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) gave for casting the deciding vote for Blanche, expressing the hope that being a Senate-confirmed AG would give him “greater leverage to push for things that should be pushed for.”
Other lawyers in the news:
I’ll surely have more to say about this news in next week’s Judicial Notice—it broke just as I was putting the finishing touches on this edition—but at around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday (today), Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that effective September 1, Will Scharf will succeed David Warrington as White House Counsel (and Warrington will return to the private sector).
As some of you might recall, Scharf—a Harvard Law School graduate, former federal law clerk and prosecutor, and former personal lawyer to Trump—currently serves as White House staff secretary, an influential role once held by Brett Kavanaugh. Back in June, Scharf was Lawyer of the Week for persuading Trump not to (1) suspend habeas corpus for unlawful immigrants or (2) invoke the Insurrection Act to deal with domestic protests.
If anyone has additional info on this transition in the White House Counsel’s Office—e.g., whether Scharf had much competition for the job (I’m guessing no), or where Warrington is headed next (I’m guessing a conservative boutique like his former firm, Dhillon Law Group)—please drop me a line.
Last Friday, the Senate used its relatively new en bloc process to confirm a fifth batch of second-Trump nominees, 51-47. This group of over 70, whose names can be viewed on the Senate website, included a number of lawyers, such as a new Department of Justice Inspector General, Donald Berthiaume; four U.S. attorneys, namely, Kenneth Sorenson (D. Haw.), Timothy VerHey (W.D. Mich.), Sean Costello (S.D. Ala.), and Christopher Nassar (N.D. Okla.); and two members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), James Macy and David Prouty, whose arrival will give the NLRB a quorum.
A year ago last month, Louis Capozzi became Missouri Solicitor General—and, at age 30, the youngest state SG in the country. He spoke about his first year in office, including growing his team from five lawyers to 15, with the National Law Review and Law360 (which wrote about the rise of state SG’s offices more broadly, in an article titled “How State SG Offices Became A Judicial Pipeline”)
Speaking of successful young lawyers, congratulations to Bloomberg Law’s latest 40 Under 40 honorees, as well as to Law360’s 160-plus Top Attorneys Under 40.
Judge of the Week: Judge Jennifer Mascott.
Last week, Daniel Barnes and Jacob Wendler wrote a piece for Politico about an unusual situation involving Judge Jennifer “Jenn” Mascott (3d Cir.). Here’s the opening of their piece, titled “‘Is she even allowed to be doing this?’: Inside a federal judge’s side gig running a PR firm”:
A Trump-appointed federal appeals judge spent months running a Washington public affairs firm after being appointed to the bench last year, an arrangement that contributed to an exodus among the firm’s staff and clients and only ended when the firm went out of business at the end of June.
Jennifer Mascott, a former conservative law professor who sits on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, was deeply involved in daily operations at the firm, Adfero, for at least six months after she was confirmed as a judge in October 2025, according to 14 former employees and clients granted anonymity to discuss internal details of the firm’s final months.
Nine of the former employees said Mascott, who inherited her ownership stake in the firm from her late husband in 2023, worked at least once a week out of Adfero’s office in Washington and oversaw the firm’s staffing, business development efforts and client relations in between her full-time judicial duties in Wilmington and Philadelphia.
Readers who alerted me to the Politico piece expressed surprise at this arrangement. In general, to avoid ethical issues, federal judges don’t take on non-judicial employment (setting aside teaching and writing books, which they’re allowed to do). If judges do decide to take positions outside the judiciary, they almost always resign from the bench (as former judge Gregory Van Tatenhove (E.D. Ky.) did last month, before becoming dean of the University of Kentucky’s Rosenberg College of Law).
But interestingly enough, the Code of Conduct for United States Judges provides that a judge “may serve as an officer, director, active partner, manager, advisor, or employee of a business,” as long as the business is “closely held and controlled by members of the judge’s family.” This provision allowed Mascott to run Adfero as managing trustee, as requested by her late husband Jeff Mascott—who tragically passed away in 2023 at 48, from pancreatic cancer. As Judge Mascott told Politico:
Consistent with those fiduciary and legal and ethical duties, I endeavored to keep the company going while that was viable and also routinely consulted with long-time firm HR lawyers and other advisors and legal and ethical experts about how to comply with all requirements and how to evaluate whether the company should be wound down, sold, or otherwise entrusted to other firm leadership.
Not surprisingly, responses to Politico’s report varied based on one’s political leanings. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a prominent Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that he’s thinking about filing a judicial misconduct complaint against Mascott (whose nomination to a Delaware-based seat on the Third Circuit he opposed). Meanwhile, conservatives assailed the Politico piece as “disgusting” (Ilya Shapiro) and a “hit job” (Eric Wessan).
I’m friendly with Judge Mascott; I like her personally (based on admittedly limited interactions), and I have a positive opinion of her as a judge (based on her limited tenure on the bench). That said, I wouldn’t call the Politico article a hit piece; it struck me as a legitimate piece of investigative journalism, reporting on an unusual situation that certainly raises ethical questions (but doesn’t appear to involve any ethical violation, based on the code provision mentioned above).
I don’t know the specifics of the situation that Mascott was thrust into by the shockingly sudden passing of her husband—who was diagnosed in 2022 and died in 2023, leaving behind Jenn Mascott as the sole parent to four young children. As a general matter, though, I’d suggest that judges should probably try to avoid situations where they’re involved in the running of outside businesses, even closely held family concerns. And I wonder whether Judge Mascott—with the benefit of hindsight, which is admittedly 20/20—regrets not immediately selling Adfero (perhaps to its employees with an earn-out), in light of the fact that the business ultimately closed its doors.
In other news about judges and the judiciary:
In an interview with James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal (gift link via Howard Bashman’s How Appealing), Justice Samuel Alito confirmed what we already knew (thanks to things like his clerk hiring): “Obviously I’m here for another term.”
Speaking of SCOTUS, a new Marquette Law School Poll (via Adam Liptak’s The Docket) found that 47% of adults approve of the way the Court is handling its job, while 53% disapprove (pretty much unchanged from May—so the final merits rulings of OT 2025 didn’t move the needle).
Judge Brantley Starr (N.D. Tex.)—yes, he’s related to the late Ken Starr (his uncle)—received a lot of attention for the colorful footnotes in his recent opinion in CFTC v. TMTE, Inc. Some readers enjoyed them—like Peter Beck and Seamus Hughes of Court Watch, who wrote that “the entire opinion… is a ride, complete with a reference to the greatest Christmas movie ever produced (footnote 37).” But I did hear privately from others who found the opinion self-indulgent—especially footnote 51, which apparently references a 4chan Meme (or so Reddit tells me). I also wonder whether Judge Starr’s opinion is what Judge Stephen Dillard had in mind when he tweeted, a few days later, “There may be cases where it’s necessary (or at least reasonable) to include an emoji, meme, or the like in a judicial opinion. But I do think judges should avoid using them in a way that appears to be gratuitous.”
In the past year or so, Fifth Circuit judges have started dissenting from grants of rehearing en banc, issuing opinions that some call “disgrantles” or simply “grantals.” Perhaps this will become a trend in other circuits, now that it has been covered by folks like Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law and Avalon Zoppo of Law.com. I’m not sure how I feel about this; readers, what do you think?
In nominations news, the Senate confirmed eight judges to the D.C. Superior Court and Court of Appeals—the District’s local courts—but no new Article III judges. The senators will return from their August recess on September 14.
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Earlier this year FBI Director Kash Patel claimed without evidence that Democrats went “overseas and hire(d) some bogus intelligence asset to manufacture fraudulent, fake, unverified information” against Trump & co. (LiveMint file photo)Moscow Mule? FBI Director Kash Patel’s scheduled Moscow sojourn only weeks before the U.S. midterm elections has generated lots of questions, but none so provocative as one from prominent Kremlin commentator Vladimir Vasiliev, a senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, who suggested the FSB may offer Patel dirt on Democrats. “It is assumed that Russia has some kind of kompromat on the Democrats, and it could be provided by us, in one form or another, to the American side,” Vasiliev told Moskovsky Komsomolets, known as MK, “a Russian outlet with a long history of publishing information and propaganda from the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service,” according to Kremlin watcher Olga Lautman. Vasiliev added that “Moscow might naturally ask, ‘What will we get in return?’” There’s much more on this worth your time at Lautman’s “Unmasking Russia” newsletter. Patel also took an underreported trip to Beijing late last month to forge FBI ties with Chinese law enforcement.
Russia, Russia: Germany has expelled 400 Russians since 2022, including 80 suspected intelligence agents under diplomatic cover, according to the tabloid Bild. Meanwhile, an explosive drone discovered near Ukrainian planes at a German airport has been linked to Russia, U.S. intelligence officials told the Wall Street Journal. They also say “Putin could try to test NATO’s resolve with a limited assault on an allied country in the next few years. The assessments envision scenarios ranging from a cyberattack to a small-scale land incursion.”
Ears for Trump: The president has made it incredibly easy for adversary intelligence services to eavesdrop on his conversations, writes Calder Walton, a historian at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and author of SPIES: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West. “One can only imagine how many foreign spies are also listening in to his phone conversations,” Walton wrote at the U.K.’s iPaper. “Any foreign intelligence service worth its name will have recruited agents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where security is known to be pathetic. At the end of his first term, Trump had classified documents lying around in one of his bathrooms.”
Follow the Money: “Inside the War on Hezbollah’s Finances” unveils how “Israel and the United States aren’t just targeting the Lebanese militant group’s weapons. They’re going after its money.” (New York Times)
Tehran Security Shuffle: “The appointment of Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council suggests that Iran’s old guard is consolidating power,” reports The New York Times. Rezaei, “who led Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s…is replacing Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, who stepped into the role when the council’s previous secretary, Ali Larijani, was killed in an Israeli strike during the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran earlier this year.”
Iran’s Swimmer Bots: CISA, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is close to proving that it’s Iran that’s been slithering into water control systems across the upper Midwest. “The hackers were ‘targeting water entities of all sizes’ and it recommended “facilities unplug vulnerable controllers from the internet,” it said. (New York Times)
China’s Hitchhiker Spies: “Royal Navy spy drones used by Britain’s elite special forces secretly sent data to China,” blares The Telegraph, a reliable vehicle for U.K. defense leaks. “The cameras on the K3 Scout surveillance drones had components made in China which were secretly transmitting information to a device in the country.”
Netherlands Blacklists Israel: The Dutch internal security agency NCTV now ranks Israel as a threat alongside Iran and Russia. “Placing Israel in the same threat category as Iran and Russia gives Dutch security services institutional cover to treat routine Israeli diaspora outreach as a counterintelligence concern, setting a template other European governments may follow,” said The Jerusalem Post. “The National Coordinator for Terrorism and Security (NCTV) report, released on July 17, lists Israel as one of the countries that aims to ‘control public opinion and political decision making.’”
Ukraine Infowars: Coming this week, The Propaganda Manual of the Ukraine War: Information Warfare by Russia, Ukraine, and Western Nations: Lessons Learned for Future Conflicts, from Thomas Kent, a disinformation expert, from the American Foreign Policy Council. “The book represents two years of research. It describes Russian, Ukrainian, and what have passed for Western information operations in the course of the war,” writes the author. “It attempts to judge what tactics were the most and least successful for each side. The book also assesses an array of ‘resilience’ tactics to protect civilian populations from foreign propaganda efforts.”
Target Havana: The CIA’s buffed-up task force on Cuba is looking for a few good puppets to replace the regime’s communist leaders, a la Delcy Rodrîguez in Venezuela, reports the New York Times. This comes on top of the Trump administration’s financial and economic strangulation of the island.
Former CIA Station Chief Goes Crypto: A former CIA station chief in Caracas, Enrique “Rick” de la Torre “registered on Monday as a lobbyist for a Cayman-based crypto firm previously fined $45 million, including regarding sanctions policy,” reported Jack Poulson on his All Source Intelligence news site. De la Torre was Venezuela station chief “during a period that overlapped with high-profile U.S. intelligence and political operations in the country, including the 2024–2025 capture of former President Nicolás Maduro,” reported Türkiye Today, a center-right news outlet associated with the Recep Erdoğan regime.
FBI Agent Goes Crypto, Badly: An FBI counterintelligence agent has been arrested on charges of “taking about $1 million worth of cryptocurrency from the digital accounts of an overseas suspect in a U.S. criminal investigation, according to court documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. Patrick Yaroch, an FBI supervisory agent in Washington, D.C., “came forward late last week to confess, telling a Justice Department employee that it was ‘eating him up inside,’ and he wanted to ‘get it off his chest.’” (MSN)
Don’t miss this week’s SpyTalk podcast featuring former senior FBI executive Lauren C. Anderson on chaos in the Bureau under MAGA warrior Kash Patel.
RIP Sam Faddis: Charles S. Faddis, an ex-CIA officer who won praise years ago as an insightful critic of the agency but later morphed into an election-conspiracies activist, died late last month in Philadelphia from “Covid-related lung disease and pneumonia,” the New York Times reported Friday. (Back in 2013, one of his former CIA colleagues volunteered to me that Faddis was “the best boss I ever had, by far.”)
Fishy Colombians: Ukraine has expelled Colombians suspected of ties to the nation’s drug cartels and rebel groups who’ve been soaking up Kyiv’s vaunted expertise in lethal low cost drones. (Financial Times)
True Spy Yarn: “The BBC went looking for Hussam Luka, the former head of Syria’s most powerful civilian intelligence agency,” the BBC headlined on Friday. “They started with his phone book.” Eventually, the reporters located him in Russia. “Known as ‘The Spider,’ Luka was one of Assad’s top henchmen, accused of orchestrating atrocities and systematic torture, and sanctioned by the UK, US and European Union.” A riveting read about yet another sadist leader sheltered by Moscow over the decades.
On the Screen: High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam, debuts Sept. 13 onTNT. The multipart docudrama is the story of John Nixon, “the first CIA officer to interrogate Saddam Hussein,” reports Deadline. (See the trailer here.) Back in May, Nixon’s CIA colleague William (Jerry) Watson described the agency’s criminally bad intelligence-gathering on, and fruitless hunt for, Iraqi WMD on the SpyTalk podcast.
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Scharf, who helped president win approval for $400m ballroom, to replace David Warrington on 1 September
Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Will Scharf, the staff secretary who helped secure approval for the $400m White House ballroom project, will become White House counsel and assistant to the president.
Effective 1 September, Scharf will replace David Warrington, who will be leaving the administration to join the private sector. Warrington formerly served as a personal counsel and a lawyer for Trump’s 2024 campaign.
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People demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s arrival on April 01, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Al Drago/Getty ImagesWelcome to today’s Trump Tyranny Tracker…
Trump’s family is benefiting from billions in federal spending, misconduct complaints are soaring as DOJ watchdogs disappear, and Trump’s Iran war is draining critical U.S. weapons as intelligence warns Russia may test NATO.
Trump signs new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship
DHS is held in contempt for withholding communications from more than 800 immigration agents
Millions of children could lose free school meals this fall because of Trump’s SNAP cuts.
What Happened: At least 25 election deniers have taken positions overseeing elections since 2024 in counties with key House, Senate, and statewide races. They join at least 69 already in office, including 41 who have tried to interfere with elections or have ties to election denier groups.
Why It Matters: Election deniers who tried to overturn a free and fair election now have power over how elections are run and certified. Giving them control over voter rolls, procedures, and certification allows them to interfere with results and undermine the midterms.
Source: New York Times
What Happened: SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s presidential library in January while seeking federal approval for a massive AI data center in Ohio. Two months later, Trump officials approved a lease giving a SoftBank subsidiary roughly 3,700 acres of federal land for the project.
Why It Matters: A company seeking a massive deal from the U.S. government gave $50 million to Trump’s presidential library and got the deal two months later. The library gives companies seeking government favors another way to funnel millions to Trump.
Source: MS NOW
What Happened: Trump is trying to stop the BBC from obtaining financial records from hundreds of his companies in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. Trump claimed the BBC damaged his businesses, but after a judge ruled that his finances were subject to discovery, he moved to rewrite the lawsuit and focus instead on damage to his reputation.
Source: Politico
What Happened: Lawmakers are asking the Pentagon inspector general to investigate $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments, and loans awarded to 15 companies tied to Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., most after Trump returned to office. One Trump Jr.-backed company received a $620 million Pentagon loan after reportedly being fast-tracked ahead of others.
Why It Matters: Billions in taxpayer-backed contracts, loans, and investments are flowing to companies tied to Trump’s sons while their father controls the government awarding them. It creates a system where Trump’s family is profiting from federal decisions he has power over.
Source: The Washington Post
What Happened: Trump signed two executive orders imposing new restrictions on birthright citizenship just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled his previous attempt unconstitutional. The orders target children of some foreign government employees, mothers accused of traveling to the U.S. to give birth, and parents the government labels “alien enemies” or members of terrorist groups.
Why It Matters: Trump lost his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship and is trying another way around the Supreme Court. The Constitution guarantees citizenship to people born in America, and Trump cannot decide which children that protection applies to.
Source: New York Times
What Happened: Trump’s DOJ accused Duke Law School of illegally considering race in admissions, claiming personal essays and first-generation college status are being used as proxies for race. DOJ is seeking a settlement and has launched similar actions against other universities.
Source: Associated Press
What Happened: A federal judge held DHS in contempt for failing to hand over messages from the personal phones of more than 800 immigration agents involved in LA raids at the center of a racial profiling lawsuit. Previously released messages showed agents using racist slurs. DHS admitted that at its current pace, producing the remaining records could take up to four years.
Why It Matters: DHS was ordered to preserve evidence in a civil rights case and failed to do it. Agents have already been caught using racist slurs, and now the government is delaying the release of messages that could reveal how much further the racism went.
Source: MS NOW
What Happened: Senate Republicans voted along party lines to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right and refused to testify about his role during the Covid pandemic. Rand Paul says he plans to bypass a full Senate vote and send the matter directly to Trump’s DOJ for possible prosecution.
Why It Matters: Fauci exercised his constitutional right against self-incrimination, and Republicans want him prosecuted for it. They are trying to turn a congressional investigation into another route for sending one of Trump’s longtime targets to jail.
Source: Politico
What Happened: The FCC voted 2–1 to eliminate a decades-old rule limiting how many U.S. households a single television company’s stations can reach. The change could clear the way for major mergers, including Nexstar’s proposed $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna, which would put stations reaching at least 60% of U.S. households under one company.
Why It Matters: Millions of Americans get their news from local television. Allowing a few corporations to control more local stations concentrates enormous power over what information Americans receive.
Source: NBC News
What Happened: West Point agreed to a court order blocking a policy that required civilian professors to get approval before publishing papers, speaking at conferences, or appearing on podcasts. The academy’s longest-serving law professor challenged the policy as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. The academy did leave open the possibility of appealing the ruling.
Source: The Washington Post
What Happened: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held its first hearing on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in the U.S. after complaints of excessive force against immigration protesters, journalists, and bystanders. Witnesses described federal agents shooting protesters with pepper balls, using chemical irritants, while facing no accountability.
Why It Matters: An international human rights body that investigates abuses across the Americas is now examining the U.S. over its treatment of protesters and journalists. What began as an immigration crackdown is being used against people who protest, document, or criticize it.
Source: Mother Jones
What Happened: Trump’s DOJ agreed with Louisiana officials to end 61 years of federal desegregation oversight of Bossier Parish Schools. DOJ spent decades enforcing these orders but now calls them federal intrusion into local schools.
Why It Matters: Federal oversight existed because local officials could not be trusted to dismantle segregation on their own. Now the DOJ is walking away from one of the federal government’s most important tools for enforcing equal protection in public schools.
Source: Associated Press
What Happened: ICE detained 21-year-old Laura Rojas Ortiz and her infant son during a routine check-in and has held them for more than 40 days. Rojas Ortiz is five months pregnant with what her family says is a high-risk pregnancy, and has reportedly received no ultrasound, blood tests, or specialist care.
Source: ABC News
What Happened: A federal lawsuit alleges Trump officials are accelerating deportations of unaccompanied migrant children, including survivors of trafficking and abuse who qualify for legal protections in the U.S. Some children have reportedly been ordered deported even after being approved for protected immigration status.
Why It Matters: These protections exist specifically to keep abused and trafficked children from being sent back into danger. Trump officials are pushing to deport them anyway in their cruel drive to increase deportation numbers.
Source: The Guardian
What Happened: DHS is hiring private investigators to track down deported immigrants in their home countries, photograph their homes, and collect information from them. DHS says it is targeting people who still owe immigration related fines after leaving the U.S.
Source: WIRED
What Happened: Nearly half the staff at the DOJ office responsible for investigating attorney misconduct has left during Trump’s second term, while new investigations have fallen to a 20-year low. At the same time, misconduct complaints have hit a 20-year high, with federal judges accusing DOJ lawyers of false statements, defying court orders, and using the legal system against political opponents.
Why It Matters: Misconduct allegations inside DOJ are soaring at the same time the office responsible for investigating them is being gutted. That leaves DOJ lawyers with fewer consequences for abusing their power.
Source: Reuters
What Happened: Trump officials are moving to eliminate most of Head Start’s 133 pages of federal requirements, including standards for class sizes, math and literacy instruction, medical and dental screenings, and home visits. Head Start currently provides early education, health care, and other support to roughly 700,000 low-income children.
Why It Matters: Head Start was created to provide poor children with more than basic child care, including education, health screenings, nutrition, and family support. Trump officials are stripping away many of the standards that make those services part of the program.
Source: New York Times
What Happened: The Pentagon removed 25 years of unclassified weapons testing reports from public access, including reports exposing performance, maintenance, and safety problems. The Pentagon has also cut its independent testing office from 126 employees to 30 and removed 90 weapons programs from its oversight.
Source: Bloomberg
What Happened: Trump reportedly confronted Pete Hegseth after learning that severe munitions shortages are limiting U.S. military options against Iran. The U.S. has nearly exhausted some critical weapons, including ATACMS missiles, while shortages of Patriot and other air-defense interceptors are leaving barely any available for Ukraine.
Source: The Washington Post and The Atlantic
What Happened: Suspected Iran-backed hackers have targeted water systems in at least 12 states, including more than 30 systems in Minnesota. Hackers gained remote access to pumps, valves, and water pressure controls, forcing some utilities to operate manually. Federal investigators are continuing to investigate and have not officially blamed Iran.
Source: CBS News
What Happened: The State Department plans to close U.S. missions in Canada, Grenada, Japan, Indonesia, and Cameroon as Trump continues shrinking America’s diplomatic presence abroad. More than half of U.S. ambassadorial posts worldwide are vacant.
Why It Matters: Trump is pulling America back from places where China is competing for influence. China already has a diplomatic presence in three of the five countries the U.S. is abandoning, handing Beijing more room to fill the vacuum.
Source: The Guardian
What Happened: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said trade negotiations with the U.S. have turned “nasty” as Trump threatens additional tariffs and publicly attacks Canada’s leadership. Carney said the countries are now “in the middle of a tariff war.”
Source: Associated Press
What Happened: New U.S. intelligence warns that Putin could test NATO with a cyberattack, hybrid operation, or limited military incursion sometime between this fall and 2029. The warning comes as U.S. stocks of Patriot, THAAD, SM-3, Stinger, and other critical weapons are severely depleted.
Source: Wall Street Journal
What Happened: Millions of children could lose access to free school meals after Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy law cut SNAP enrollment and severed the automatic link between food stamps and free school meals. An estimated 1.5 million children have already lost SNAP benefits, while as many as 18.3 million students could lose access to free school meals.
Source: CBS News
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What Happened: ICE and TSA have dramatically expanded immigration enforcement at U.S. airports as Trump pushes for 2,000 arrests a day, including detaining people with pending asylum, visa, and green card applications. Some airline workers are refusing to cooperate without proper legal authority. Southwest employees, for example, blocked an ICE agent from boarding a plane without a judicial warrant.
Source: The Guardian
$3.2 billion — Federal contracts, investments, and loans awarded to 15 companies tied to Trump’s sons.
$620 million — Pentagon loan awarded to one Trump Jr.-backed company after it was reportedly fast-tracked.
$50 million — SoftBank donation to Trump’s presidential library two months before Trump officials approved a lease for 3,700 acres of federal land for its subsidiary.
18.3 million — Students who could lose access to free school meals because of Trump’s SNAP changes.
1.5 million — Children who have already lost SNAP benefits.
700,000 — Low-income children served by Head Start as Trump officials move to eliminate hundreds of program requirements.
800+ — Immigration agents whose phone communications DHS failed to preserve and turn over in a civil rights case.
30 — Staff remaining in the Pentagon’s independent weapons testing office after sweeping cuts.
25 — Election deniers who have taken positions overseeing elections since 2024, joining at least 69 already in office.
20% — Level some critical U.S. munitions have reportedly fallen to compared with Pentagon targets after five months of war with Iran.
12 states — Water systems targeted in cyberattacks suspected of being carried out by Iran.
Election deniers are gaining control over how key races are run and certified — Will they use that power to interfere with midterm results they don’t like?
Trump is trying to restrict birthright citizenship after losing his previous attempt — How far will he go to get around the Supreme Court?
Trump’s Iran war has dangerously depleted critical U.S. weapons — What happens if Putin attacks NATO while American stockpiles are strained?
DHS was held in contempt for withholding agents’ communications in a racial-profiling case — What will those messages show if DHS is finally forced to turn them over?
Trump’s Iran war may now be reaching critical infrastructure inside the U.S. — Will attacks on water systems spread to other critical infrastructure?
Family Profits — Companies tied to Trump’s sons have received billions from the federal government, while a $50 million donor to Trump’s presidential library received a massive federal land deal two months later.
Accountability Gutted — DOJ misconduct complaints are at a 20-year high while its internal watchdog loses staff and opens fewer investigations, while the Pentagon is cutting weapons oversight and removing decades of testing reports from public view.
Election Threat — Election deniers who tried to undermine a free and fair election are now in critical positions with power over voter rolls, procedures, and certification.
Children Targeted — Abused and trafficked migrant children face accelerated deportation, a pregnant mother and her infant remain detained, and millions of American children could lose free school meals.
Military Depleted — Trump’s Iran war is burning through critical American weapons, leaving fewer available for U.S. defense, Ukraine, and a potential conflict elsewhere.
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Ils ont versé plus de 200 milliards aux patrons pour les «aider» à embaucher, baissé les allocations chômage, cassé le code du travail, mais les licenciements continuent
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Israeli PM says IDF will not withdraw until Hamas is disarmed and rebukes US pressure to end wars without his country’s buy-in
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza in a rare public break with Donald Trump.
In a statement on Sunday, Netanyahu said that he was confronting a “wave of rumours about Israeli weakness and Israeli withdrawals on all fronts” and rebuked US pressure to end wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran without Israel’s buy-in.
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Quelques conseils du groupe Antirep (Antirep communication about 14th of June's repression)
Conseils additionnels essentiels ! Additional important tips !
1) Ne pas avoir été contrôléex ne veut pas dire que tu ne va pas être convoquéex car la police peut t'avoir reconnuex sur des images.
2) Débarrasse toi de tous d'objets incriminants. Une perquisition ne peut se faire qu'avec un mandat valable et ne concerne que ce qui t'appartient, pas les objets / chambres / véhicules d'autres personnes avec qui tu habites. Si ça t'arrive demande immédiatement la mise sous scellé de tes appareils électroniques (rappelle toi de la formulation) et prend contact avec unex avocatex
3) Même si un policier te présente des “preuves” ou des photos / vidéos où it dit pouvoir te reconnaître, ne dis rien !! tu verras ça après avec le conseil d'unex avocatexs.
4) Garder le silence c'est : te protéger toi et les autres et faciliter une gestion collective de la répression. Ne fais pas le travail de la police pour eux !
English :
1) Just because you weren't carded doesn't mean you won't be summoned, the police may have recognized you in surveillance footage.
2) Get rid of any incriminating items. A search of your place can only be conducted with a valid warrant and applies only to your personal belongings, not to the items / rooms / vehicles of other people you live with. If this happens to you, immediately request that your electronic devices be sealed (remember the exact wording) and contact a lawyer.
3) Even if the police shows you “evidence” or pictures / videos they claim they recognize you on, don't say anything !! You can deal with that later with the advice of a lawyer.
4) Staying silent when questionned by the police means protecting yourself and others and allowing a collective legal defense. Do not do the police's job for them !
Mise à jour : hier à 14h161) Ne pas avoir été contrôléex ne veut pas dire que tu ne va pas être convoquéex car la police peut t'avoir reconnuex sur des images.
2) Débarrasse toi de tous d'objets incriminants. Une perquisition ne peut se faire qu'avec un mandat valable et ne concerne que ce qui t'appartient, pas les objets / chambres / véhicules d'autres personnes avec qui tu habites. Si ça t'arrive demande immédiatement la mise sous scellé de tes appareils électroniques (rappelle toi de la formulation) et prend contact avec unex avocatex
3) Même si un policier te présente des “preuves” ou des photos / vidéos où it dit pouvoir te reconnaître, ne dis rien !! tu verras ça après avec le conseil d'unex avocatexs.
4) Garder le silence c'est : te protéger toi et les autres et faciliter une gestion collective de la répression. Ne fais pas le travail de la police pour eux !
English :
1) Just because you weren't carded doesn't mean you won't be summoned, the police may have recognized you in surveillance footage.
2) Get rid of any incriminating items. A search of your place can only be conducted with a valid warrant and applies only to your personal belongings, not to the items / rooms / vehicles of other people you live with. If this happens to you, immediately request that your electronic devices be sealed (remember the exact wording) and contact a lawyer.
3) Even if the police shows you “evidence” or pictures / videos they claim they recognize you on, don't say anything !! You can deal with that later with the advice of a lawyer.
4) Staying silent when questionned by the police means protecting yourself and others and allowing a collective legal defense. Do not do the police's job for them !
Mise à jour : hier à 14h04Nous avons appris que certaines des personnes nassées cette nuit-là ont récemment reçu des mandats de comparution décernés par la police en courrier recommandé. Un mandat de comparution est un papier sommant une personne de se présenter à une audition (interrogatoire) afin d'être interrogée, identifiée ou de voir ses données signalétiques enregistrées (empreintes, photos, etc). La police peut convoquer n'importe qui comme prévenu (c.à.d. accusé-e-x d'une infraction), témoin, ou personne appelée à donner des renseignements. Pour l'instant, toutes les personnes ont été convoquées en qualité de prévenu pour émeute et infraction contre l'autorité publique.
Le groupe Antirep est là pour t'offrir du soutien en te donnant infos et conseils, pour te mettre en contact avec des avocat-e-x-s ou avec la Caisse Juridique de Soutien (CJS), et pour sortir les personnes de l'isolement en proposant des stratégies de défense collectives et en partageant ses connaissances. Ainsi :
Le jour de ta convocation, tu devras te rendre au poste de police de la Gravière, où tu seras interrogé-e-x par des agents qui te feront asseoir dans un bureau afin de procéder à ton interrogatoire. Tout d'abord, ils devront t'informer :
(Dans la convocation reçue par la poste, ils t'auront informé-e-x que tu as le droit de faire appel à un-e-x avocat-e-x et/ou un-e-x interprète. Cependant, si tu choisis de le faire, tu devras les en informer maximum deux jours avant la date fixée pour ton audition). Nous ne conseillons pas à ce stade de venir en présence d'un-e-x avocat-e-x.
Tu seras interrogé-e-x par un ou deux agents. La police rédige un procès-verbal de ton interrogatoire ; le policier qui t'interroge le tape lui-même ou le dicte à un autre policier.
Ils essayent habituellement d'obtenir des aveux en échange d'une promesse de mise en liberté, de simplification de la procédure, ou encore de clémence des juges. Il faut savoir que dans 80% des cas, les suspect-e-x-s sont condamné-e-x-s uniquement sur la base de leurs aveux pendant l'interrogatoire de police. Ne fais pas plus confiance aux gentils policiers qu'aux méchants. Réponds toujours et systématiquement « je n'ai rien à déclarer ». Pouvoir garder le silence est ton droit le plus strict et la meilleure carte à jouer. Utilise-le au maximum, même si la police essaye de te mettre la pression ou le doute. Si l'interrogateur dit ou fait quelque chose qui semble outrepasser ses droits, il faut demander à ce que cela soit écrit sur le PV (par ex : "Vous me dites que je suis obligé.e de répondre, je veux que ce soit écrit sur le pv avant de le faire"). Tout ce que tu dis, dès les premières minutes de ton arrestation, pourra être utilisé contre toi tout au long de la procédure. Il est très difficile de revenir en arrière.
Si pour X raison tu décides de parler (ce que nous ne te conseillons vraiment, mais alors vraiment pas), sache que si le contenu du procès-verbal ne correspond pas à tes propos, que ce soit dans le contenu ou dans la formulation, tu peux refuser de le signer. Il est cependant beaucoup plus utile de demander aux policiers de le modifier, ou de le modifier toi-même à la main avant de le signer.
Toujours dans le cadre de ton audition, il est possible que la police décide de faire un prélèvement ADN (frottis de la muqueuse au moyen d'un petit tampon dans la bouche) ou une prise de données signalétiques (empreintes digitales, photos, etc). Tu peux contester la décision de la police, qui doit alors obtenir l'accord du Ministère public (accord qu'elle obtiendra en général sans difficulté). Même si le fait de s'opposer n'empêchera probablement pas la prise de données, il est toutefois nécessaire de formuler une opposition en disant « Je m'oppose, je veux le papier avec l'accord du Ministère public ». En effet, sans ce papier, un avocat ne pourra pas contester par la suite la prise de données et demander leur destruction.
Toutes les personnes contrôlées peuvent s'attendre à recevoir une condamnation par courrier recommandé.
Si des condamnations tombent, celles-ci prendront vraisembablement la forme d'un document imprimé sur papier bleu intitulé "ordonnance pénale". Il est possible de former opposition à une ordonnance pénale en envoyant un courrier recommandé à l'autorité qui a émis la condamnation. Ce courrier d'opposition doit absolument être posté dans les 10 jours qui suivent la réception du courrier recommandé. Si tu ne vas pas chercher le courrier à la poste, il sera considéré avoir été reçu au bout de 7 jours. Il suffit d'indiquer que l'on forme opposition à l'ordonnance et rien d'autre (l'antirep peut t'envoyer des modèles d'opposition par mail). Sans opposition formée dans les 10 jours, la condamnation entre en force et il n'y a presque plus aucun moyen de revenir dessus, même si celle-ci retient des infractions délirantes à votre encontre. Attention, l'éventuelle ordonnance pénale peut tout à fait arriver dans plusieurs mois sans que tu n'aies aucune nouvelle d'ici là.
Si tu habites dans un pays de l'Union européenne, il est également possible que tu reçoives la condamnation directement chez toi. Dans ce cas, les modalités pour former opposition sont légèrement différentes. Renseigne-toi en écrivant un mail au groupe Antirep (antirep-ge@riseup.net).
L'expérience montre que former opposition aux ordonnances pénales est presque toujours bénéfique. En effet les autorités chargent souvent les peines et retiennent des infractions qui n'auraient pas dû l'être, en misant sur l'absence d'opposition de la majorité des personnes, encore plus lors de procédures qui impliquent de nombreuses personnes. Une opposition peut de toute façon être retirée par la suite en écrivant également un simple courrier.
En formant opposition, la procédure reste ouverte. Cela donne la possibilité de consulter le dossier et de se défendre, tant individuellement que collectivement. L'organisation permet aussi de réduire les coûts du procès et des amendes. La répression pénale fonctionne en individualisant et par conséquent en isolant chaque personne et tente d'effacer le contexte social et collectif dans lequel les faits se sont déroulés. L'objectif est de briser la volonté des personnes poursuivies. Contrer cette logique individualisante permet à la fois d'améliorer la situation de chacun-e-x, mais également d'utiliser le système pénal pour se relier à travers nos luttes.
Groupe Anti-Repression Genève
We have been informed that some of the people detained that night have recently received summonses issued by the police via registered mail. A summons is a document ordering a person to appear at a hearing (interrogation) in order to be questioned, identified, or to have their identifying information recorded (fingerprints, photos, etc.). The police may summon anyone without any specific time limit as a suspect (i.e., accused of a crime), a witness, or a person called to provide information. For now, all individuals have been summoned as suspects of riot and offenses against public authority.
The Antirep group is here to offer you support by providing you with information and advice, put you in touch with lawyers or the Legal Support Fund (CJS – caisse juridique de soutien), and to get people out of isolation by sharing knowledge and proposing collective defense strategies. So :
On the day of your hearing, you will have to go to the La Gravière police station, they will make you sit in an office to conduct your interrogation. The police must tell you in a language you understand :
(On the warrant received by mail, authorities will already have informed you that you have the right to call a lawyer and / or an interpreter. If you choose to do so, you will have to inform them at least two days before the date set for your audition). We don't think it's necessary to come with a lawyer at this point of the procedure.
You will be interrogated by one or two agents. The police writes a report of your interrogation (the police officer who is questioning you writes it himself or he dictates it to another police officer). They usually try to obtain confessions in return for a promise of release, simplification of procedure, or leniency of judges. In 80% of the cases, the suspects are convicted solely on the basis of their confessions during the police interrogation. Do not trust the good guys more than the bad guys. Always say « I have nothing to declare ». Your right to remain silent is your most important right and the best card to play. Use it to the maximum even if the police try to put pressure on you or make you doubt. If the police says or does something that seems to exceed his rights, ask for it to be written on the record (eg : "You tell me that I have to answer, I want it to be written on the record before doing it ").
Everything you say, from the first minutes of your arrest, can be used against you throughout the procedure. It is very difficult to go back.
If for whatever reason you decide to speak (which we do really, really NOT advise you to do), know that if the content of the interrogation report does not match what you said, whether is the content or the formulation, you can refuse to sign it. However, it is much more useful to ask the police to modify it, or modify it yourself before signing it.
Still in the context of your hearing, it is not impossible that the police decide to sample your DNA (smear of the mucous membrane by means of a small stamp in the mouth) or to record your personal data (fingerprints, photos etc.). You can object to the decision of the police, which must then obtain the approval of the public prosecutor's office (in general, the police will obtain it without difficulty or delay). Although opposing will probably not ultimately prevent this personal data from being recorded, we do recommend you make your opposition thereto vocal and known to the police, by saying « I object, I want the paper with the agreement of the public prosecutor's office » because, without this paper, a lawyer will not be able to challenge the taking of your personal data during the procedure and request its destruction.
All controlled persons might expect to receive a conviction by registered mail.
If convictions are handed down, they will presumably take the form of a document printed on blue paper entitled « ordonnance pénale » (summary penalty order). It is possible to object to an SPO by sending a registered letter to the authority that issued the sentence (most likely, the Public Prosecutor's Office). This opposition letter must absolutely be mailed within 10 days after the reception of the registered mail. If you do not pick up the mail at the post office, it will be considered as received after 7 days. It suffices to indicate that one is opposed to the order and nothing else for example with the help of this generator of standard letters (it is strongly advised to fill only the necessary fields and NOT to justify the opposition).
Unopposed within 10 days, the conviction comes into force and there is almost no way to return to it even if it detains delusional offenses against you. Be careful, the possible penal notice can arrive in several months without you having any news by then.
If you live in a European Union country, it is also possible to receive the notice directly at your home. In this case, the modalities to form opposition are slightly different. Find out by writing an email to the Anti-Repression Group (antirep-ge@riseup.net).
Experience shows that forming opposition to penal notices is almost always beneficial. Indeed, the authorities often exaggerate penalties and retain offenses that should not have been retained by relying on the lack of opposition of the majority of people, and that even more in procedures that involve many people.
In any case, an opposition can be withdrawn afterwards by writing a simple mail.
When you make an opposition, the procedure remains open. This gives us the opportunity to consult the record and to defend ourselves individually as well as collectively. The organization also reduces trial costs and fines. Penal repression works by individualizing and therefore isolating each person, and attempts to erase the social and collective context in which the facts unfolded. The goal is to break the will of the persecuted people. Countering this individualizing logic allows us not only to improve the situation of each of us, fo but also to use the penal system to connect with one another through our struggles.
Groupe Anti-Repression Genève
Michigan nominee, who spoke to Obama after primary win, vows to fight inequality as president ‘makes billions off you’
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan, embraced Donald Trump’s suggestion that the two represent “VERY DIFFERENT” versions of the US, pledging to fight inequality while the president is “making billions of dollars off of you”.
In a Saturday night post on his Truth Social platform, Trump shared an image of himself and the first lady, Melania Trump, beside a photo of El-Sayed, who is Muslim, and his wife, Sarah Jukaku, wearing a hijab. “Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s [sic],” read the caption.
Continue reading...La nuit du 21 au 22 juillet, un véhicule utilitaire appartenant à la société Equans a été incendié à Grenoble, dans la rue de la Pasionaria
Pour cela, il suffisait d'une simple plaque chimique allume-feu à base de kérosène blanc pour allumer le feu. Elle est placée sur le pneu avant de n'importe quel véhicule à roues, et allumée avec un briquet qui n'a pas peur du vent, puis le pneu commence à prendre feu après quelques minutes. Ce type d'incendie peut être facilement éteint avec un petit extincteur tant que le moteur n'a pas été touché.
La plaque d'allume-feu doit rester dans son emballage plastique pour limiter les odeurs pendant le transport, puis elle est allumée dans son emballage car il brûle bien. Si l'emballage plastique porte des inscriptions, placez-les face vers le haut, ils brûleront mieux que face contre le bas. Ces plaques peuvent s'acheter dans tous les supermarchés, payez en espèces, portez au moins une casquette pour vous protéger des caméras.
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4. Government Department News
5. 2028 Democratic Presidential Candidates
6. AI & Tech Company News
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8. Policy Impact Analysis & Heatmap
President Trump highlighted several administration successes, emphasizing a milestone in jobless claims that have remained below 200,000 for three consecutive weeks. He noted that he plans to host over 120 Team USA Winter Olympians and Paralympians at the White House to celebrate their achievements. Additionally, Trump asserted that the United States currently maintains “massive” amounts of munitions to ensure national defense readiness.
On Truth Social, Trump discussed his recent legislative tax victories during a trip to Las Vegas and celebrated the termination of Haiti Temporary Protected Status. He promoted a new fraud-reporting website designed to highlight his task force’s accomplishments and suggested that Republican campaign coffers remain stronger than those of the Democrats. Regarding the 2020 election, he circulated claims that he said undermine the “most secure” election narrative, specifically citing reports of Arizona voter file hacking that he argued went unpunished by the Department of Justice.
The State Department addressed regional security and diplomacy through several announcements. The agency rejected China’s establishment of a “national nature reserve” at Scarborough Reef, labeling it a “unilateral attempt” to advance maritime claims through coercion. Additionally, the department celebrated Singapore’s 61st National Day, underscoring a commitment to security and AI cooperation. Finally, the department marked the one-year anniversary of the peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, highlighting progress on the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) and the launch of a $201 million investment fund to “cement peace.”
In the 2028 Democratic candidate updates, Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a daily public schedule confirming that he had no public events on his agenda for Saturday, August 8, 2026.
NVIDIA announced that Firebird has launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, utilizing NVIDIA’s accelerated computing infrastructure. The facility intends to support sovereign AI capacity by deploying over 70,000 Rubin and Blackwell GPUs by 2027. NVIDIA plans to invest in this expansion, aiming to scale the infrastructure across Armenia and Kazakhstan to reach a total of 2 gigawatts of capacity.
The Senate held an extensive session, concluding in the early hours of Saturday morning to finalize government funding and key confirmations. The chamber passed H.R. 6500, which extends fiscal year 2027 government funding, and approved the “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act.” Senators also confirmed Todd Blanche as Attorney General in a 50-49 vote and approved the “Common Cents Act” by voice vote to eliminate the penny. Conversely, an amendment to the Help America Vote Act that would have required photo identification for federal voters failed to invoke cloture.
Tightened sanctions on Russia and Iran disrupt global supply chains, thereby elevating risk premiums for firms with significant international infrastructure exposure. Conversely, the global expansion of AI infrastructure sustains robust demand for specialized semiconductors and server hardware, though potential regulatory hurdles concerning technology transfers and sustainability remain a structural concern. Fiscal 2027 funding legislation provides a valuation floor for industrial and defense sectors through guaranteed government contracts, yet this stability is offset by new leadership signaling an era of “intensified” antitrust and fraud enforcement. The market trajectory is thus defined by a tension between state-backed capital inflows and an increasingly interventionist regulatory environment.
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Trump highlighted his recent legislative tax victories during a visit to Las Vegas and noted that jobless claims remain below 200,000 for the third consecutive week, a milestone not seen in 57 years. Furthermore, he lauded an immigration victory regarding the end of Haiti Temporary Protected Status and announced that he will host over 120 Team USA Winter Olympians and Paralympians at the White House. On matters of national defense, Trump asserted that the United States currently possesses “massive” amounts of munitions.
Regarding administrative and political affairs, the White House has launched a fraud website to showcase the achievements of his task force, while Trump observed that Republican coffers are strong for the midterms compared to the Democrats. He also shared an opinion piece detailing the role of Chuck Grassley in the confirmation of Todd Blanche. Expressing appreciation for his standing, Trump thanked supporters for “Great Poll Numbers” and affirmed a sentiment as “Very true.” He also made a brief mention of “Trump Aberdeen!” (no link).
Trump continued to scrutinize the 2020 election, circulating new evidence that he claims undermines the narrative that it was the “most secure” election in history. He further pointed to reports that hundreds of thousands of Arizona voter files were hacked in 2020 without subsequent prosecution by the Department of Justice.
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China’s “Administrative Measures” at Scarborough Reef
The United States rejects China’s enforcement of a “national nature reserve” at Scarborough Reef, which denies Filipino fishermen access to traditional fishing grounds. The State Department characterizes this as a “unilateral attempt” by China to utilize “dubing environmental and legal pretexts” and coercion to advance its maritime claims in the South China Sea. The U.S. reaffirmed its support for the Philippines and commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.
The United States commemorates Singapore’s 61st National Day and the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted the countries’ partnership in security cooperation, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. The U.S. emphasized its commitment to strengthening this enduring relationship through emerging technologies and shared economic interests to ensure regional peace, stability, and prosperity.
One year after President Trump brokered peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the U.S. continues advancing the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP). This infrastructure project, designed to modernize transit and energy networks, is currently seeing engineering progress in both nations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also announced the launch of the $201 million Trans-Caspian Enterprise Fund to drive private investment across the region, positioning TRIPP as a model for how economic cooperation can “cement peace” after long-standing disputes.
Daily Public Schedule: Saturday, August 8, 2026
Governor J.B. Pritzker has no public events scheduled for Saturday, August 8, 2026.
Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia
Firebird has launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, utilizing NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure. The facility aims to provide sovereign AI capacity for local developers and institutions. Firebird plans to deploy over 70,000 Rubin and Blackwell GPUs by 2027, supported by NVIDIA’s DSX platform for increased energy efficiency. The company intends to scale this model across Armenia and Kazakhstan, targeting 2 gigawatts of capacity. NVIDIA plans to invest in Firebird to support this infrastructure expansion in frontier markets.
Covers the 2026-08-07 session — the Congressional Record is published with a one-day delay.
The Senate conducted extensive business, focusing on fiscal appropriations, foreign policy sanctions, and a large slate of executive branch and judicial nominations. The session extended into the early hours of Saturday morning to finalize government funding and confirm the new Attorney General.
H.R. 6500, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act — Extends government funding and authorizations for fiscal year 2027 [Passed 90-6 (Roll No. 228)]
H.R. 5334, Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act — Imposes new sanctions related to the Russian Federation [Passed 86-11 (Roll No. 224)]
Todd Blanche — Confirmed as Attorney General [Confirmed 50-49 (Roll No. 230)]
S. 1525, Common Cents Act — Ends the minting of the penny and rounds cash transactions to the nearest 5 cents [Passed by voice vote]
S. 5271, Help America Vote Act amendment — Requires photo identification for federal voters [Failed to invoke cloture 52-46 (Roll No. 231)]
Executive Nominations — Confirmed dozens of various agency heads and ambassadors en bloc [Passed 51-47 (Roll No. 225)]
The House of Representatives was not in session on this day. No legislative business or committee activity occurred.
None — The House was not in session [No action taken]
No committee meetings were held — No chambers conducted hearings or markups
The Senate will meet in a pro forma session at 10 a.m. on Monday, August 10, 2026. The House will also meet in a pro forma session at 11 a.m. on Monday, August 10, 2026.
Reference: Congressional Record Archive
This analysis is provided for informational purposes only. It does not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Based on today’s policy developments, our analysis identifies the following market impact themes:
The Senate’s move to tighten sanctions on Russia and Iran signals a deepening of geopolitical tensions. This policy shifts costs onto global energy and commodity markets by disrupting established supply chains. Opposition critics express concern that such actions force regional partners to pivot toward alternative economic blocs. The broader market impact reflects elevated risk premiums for firms with international infrastructure exposure.
The launch of the Armenian AI factory highlights the aggressive global buildout of computing power. This trend sustains demand for specialized semiconductor components and high-performance server hardware. While fueling innovation, this rapid expansion faces scrutiny regarding energy consumption and the sustainability of regional compute clusters. The influx of advanced hardware into secondary markets may face future regulatory hurdles regarding sensitive technology transfers.
The passage of fiscal 2027 funding ensures a steady stream of government contracts for key industrial and defense players. The concurrent confirmation of new executive branch leadership suggests a transition toward intensified antitrust and fraud enforcement efforts. Market participants remain cautious as the administrative focus shifts toward high-profile investigations. Observers note that while contract flows provide a floor for valuations, regulatory volatility remains an persistent downside risk.

Each cell shows an estimated impact score on a fixed scale of -10 to +10, reflecting how today’s policy developments may affect each market sector. Positive scores (green, ▲) suggest bullish impact; negative scores (red, ▼) suggest bearish pressure. Rows and columns are sorted by impact strength, and sectors and policy events with no meaningful impact are omitted. The heatmap, the analysis below, and the Impact on Market themes above are produced from a single unified analysis: the heatmap visualizes the magnitudes, while the text explains the causal reasoning behind them.
The Senate passage of new sanctions against Russia and Iran creates immediate downside risk for energy and global commodity sectors. Markets anticipate higher compliance costs and restricted access to international markets for firms with exposure to these regions. Concurrently, the confirmation of a new Attorney General suggests a pivot toward a more aggressive regulatory environment for corporate oversight. This development introduces uncertainty for large financial and technology institutions previously navigating a more lenient enforcement landscape.
The deployment of a massive AI infrastructure hub in Armenia underscores the rapid expansion of global high-performance computing capacity. The commitment to utilize high-end GPU hardware indicates strong underlying demand for semiconductor producers. Furthermore, the passage of the fiscal 2027 appropriations act provides near-term stability for government contractors. Defense and industrial firms benefit from the certainty of federal funding flows. Critics argue that “reckless spending” within this package could sustain inflationary pressures, potentially complicating the outlook for interest-sensitive sectors despite the current positive signal from low jobless claims.
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President Trump hosted a roundtable with the mining industry to announce over $2 billion in new projects and $180 million for mining school investments. This initiative aims to strengthen domestic supply chains and reduce reliance on “hostile foreign countries.” Additionally, the President submitted several nominations to the Senate, including Leslie Becera for the Department of Transportation and Julia Nesheiwat as Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic.
The State Department, in coordination with the Treasury, sanctioned six entities and one individual, including digital asset exchanges, for assisting the Iranian regime in laundering funds. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche led a delegation to Colombia for the inauguration of President Abelardo de la Espriella, promising $1 billion in security aid. Furthermore, the Department of War committed over $2 billion in loans and investments to domestic mining and battery companies to establish a “lethal Arsenal of Freedom.” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. initiated the decertification of a Kentucky organ procurement organization, citing “persistent patient safety failures.”
Governor Gavin Newsom announced “MyFirstEV” rebates of $3,500 for zero-emission vehicle buyers and criticized President Trump for being “hellbent on burning more expensive fossil fuels.” In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Army Secretary announced that Camp Grayling is now a premier U.S. military test range for drone innovation. Governor Wes Moore of Maryland launched an interactive tool to link SNAP recipients with workforce development, characterizing the move as a way to help families “overcome new red tape imposed by the Trump administration.” Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois signed an agreement with Indonesia to expand trade, aiming to mitigate the impacts of “trade instability caused by the President Trump administration’s tariffs.”
OpenAI reported that its upcoming model, Astra, reached the “Critical” threshold for cybersecurity capabilities, noting it can autonomously identify zero-day exploits. The company has implemented heightened security, including sandboxed testing and universal monitoring, to ensure responsible deployment. Meanwhile, Anthropic updated its Fable 5 model to reduce biology-related “false positives” while maintaining strict safeguards to prevent the misuse of “dual-use” research in virology.
The Senate passed several measures by voice vote on August 6, including the USMMA Athletics Act and the DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Project Act, and confirmed a Space Force general. Senate committees examined small business capital access and international scam operations. The House held a three-minute pro forma session and conducted no legislative business. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the SEED Act on August 7, while the House will next meet on August 10.
Federal prioritization of the defense industrial base via direct capital injection provides a bullish tailwind for domestic critical material processors, though this strategy carries inherent risks of capital misallocation should these entities fail to achieve commercial viability without sustained state support. Treasury’s expansion of sanctions into decentralized finance networks creates a bearish outlook for digital asset participants, as the inclusion of these exchanges within national security protocols threatens to fragment global payment markets and stifle fintech innovation. Simultaneously, rigorous federal oversight and the rapid decertification of healthcare providers generate substantial operational uncertainty, with critics warning that such administrative volatility risks creating “unnecessary chaos” within essential medical service delivery networks.
President Trump held a roundtable with the mining industry to announce over $2 billion in new projects intended to “revitalize the industry” and $180 million for mining school investments. This initiative aims to strengthen domestic supply chains, reduce reliance on “hostile foreign countries,” and protect national security. By prioritizing domestic critical materials, the administration seeks to bolster the American mining workforce while ensuring economic resilience for vital industries. President Trump’s leadership is reportedly focused on “restoring America’s mining industry and national and economic security.”
Reference: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-billions-in-new-deals-and-investments-to-power-american-mining/
President Trump has sent several nominations to the Senate for confirmation. These include Leslie Becera for Assistant Secretary of Transportation, Dennis Kirk as Inspector General for the Department of the Interior, and Mary Lazare as Assistant Secretary for Aging. Additionally, Julia Nesheiwat was nominated for the new position of Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic. The list also includes various diplomatic appointments, such as ambassadors to Tonga, Madagascar, Chad, Nicaragua, and others, alongside reappointments for the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the National Mediation Board.
Reference: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-e61c/
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A New Era in U.S.-Colombia Relations
A U.S. delegation led by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche attended the inauguration of Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella. The Trump Administration intends to provide $1 billion in security assistance to deepen the partnership. Key goals include dismantling transnational narcoterrorist networks, strengthening security forces against Foreign Terrorist Organizations, enhancing coca eradication and interdiction efforts, and halting illegal migration through increased border security coordination.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at President Trump’s Roundtable on American Mining
Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted the administration’s efforts to secure critical mineral supply chains, emphasizing industrial strength and national sovereignty. Under the Trump Administration, the State Department has signed 27 critical mineral agreements and launched “FORGE,” an international partnership to leverage public finance for supply chain security. The “Pax Silica” initiative, led by Under Secretary Jacob Helberg, aims to coordinate private sector investment in mining and refining to ensure the U.S. remains independent of foreign control over essential resources.
Targeting Digital Asset Exchanges Fueling the Iranian Regime
The U.S. has sanctioned six entities and one individual, including two digital asset exchanges, for assisting the Iranian regime in laundering funds. This action follows recent Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The administration stated it will continue to deny the regime resources used for nuclear ambitions and terrorism. Additionally, the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $15 million for information to disrupt the financial mechanisms of the IRGC and its branches.
Severing Iran’s Illicit Cash Pipeline
The Treasury Department is dismantling a network of currency exchange houses and shell companies used by Iran to launder hundreds of millions of dollars. These measures are part of the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign to cut off funding for the regime’s regional aggression and support for terrorism. By targeting the facilitators and banks involved in sanction evasion, the administration aims to isolate the regime from the international financial system and hold those who assist its illicit activities accountable.
The United States extended congratulations to President Alassane Ouattara and the people of Côte d’Ivoire on their 66th National Day. The U.S. reaffirmed its strategic relationship with the nation, highlighting ongoing efforts to expand bilateral trade and investment while strengthening regional security to create new opportunities for both countries.
The Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) has issued a $400 million conditional loan commitment to Sunrise Energy Metals Limited to develop a scandium value chain in Australia. This initiative seeks to end foreign dominance in scandium processing and secure supply for U.S. defense and commercial sectors. The OSC gains a right of first offer on the mine’s output, aligning with President Trump’s mandate to “secure a resilient, domestic supply chain for rare earths” and reduce dependence on foreign adversaries.
OSC announced a $1.4 billion conditional loan commitment to Sila Nanotechnologies to expand domestic production of silicon-carbon battery anodes and cell manufacturing. This investment supports President Trump’s goal to “aggressively onshore critical materials” for the defense industrial base. The project aims to reduce reliance on foreign battery components, providing critical energy storage for satellite operations, unmanned aerial systems, and munitions, while establishing a “lethal Arsenal of Freedom for the American warfighter.”
The Department of War has partnered with Strategic Bauxite USA for an $85.5 million equity investment to create a secure, western-hemisphere supply chain for refractory-grade bauxite. Currently, the U.S. relies heavily on Chinese sources for this material, which is essential for high-temperature components like heat shields and turbine engines. By expanding a mine in Guyana and building domestic processing facilities, the Department aims to meet 100% of U.S. military demand and “no longer wait for supply chain dependencies to be exploited.”
The Department of War is investing over $80 million into mining and metallurgy programs at the Colorado School of Mines, South Dakota School of Mines, and Johns Hopkins University. These funds will support technology innovation hubs, workforce development, and the training of geologists and engineers to bolster the national industrial base. The initiative reflects President Trump’s commitment to “solidify America’s role as a global leader in critical minerals production” and ensure the workforce is capable of meeting national security requirements.
OSC has committed $150 million to Niron Magnetics to construct a manufacturing facility in Minnesota for rare earth-free permanent magnets. This project aims to end reliance on foreign-dominated rare earth supply chains by using domestically abundant iron and nitrogen. By scaling production to 1,500 tons annually, the Department intends to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities and equip the military with components that “enhance battlefield lethality,” fulfilling President Trump’s mandate to “leverage advanced commercial technology” for industrial resilience.
Department of War Publishes Fifth Release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files on WAR.GOV/UFO
The Department of War has published its fifth batch of declassified historical files regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). This release is conducted under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The documents are available for public viewing on the Department’s official website, and officials confirmed that additional file releases will continue on a rolling basis.
HHS Decertifies Kentucky Organ Procurement Organization to Protect Patients, Restore Trust
HHS has initiated the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization serving Kentucky and parts of Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, citing persistent patient safety failures. Despite multiple federal reviews and opportunities for correction, the agency determined the organization continued to endanger donors and transplant patients. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stated the move reflects the “Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting the sanctity of life,” emphasizing that organizations failing federal standards will be held accountable.
Treasury Dismantles Iranian Regime’s Global Clandestine Currency Networks
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned multiple networks facilitating Iran’s shadow banking system, which moves funds for the regime’s oil sales and military apparatus. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that “Iran’s shadow banking system is buckling under Economic Fury” and emphasized that facilitators will be targeted. The action, taken under Executive Order 13902, targets entities including Shahr Bank, Titan Exchange, and Alps International for laundering revenue to support Iran’s petroleum sector and illicit financial operations.
Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchanges Funding Iran’s IRGC and Enabling Illicit Finance
Treasury sanctioned digital asset exchanges and a front-company network used by Iran to launder funds for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The action targets Siavash Kayvanpour and platforms including Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether. Secretary Bessent noted that the regime’s reliance on crypto is “further evidence that Economic Fury is working.” The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $15 million for information to disrupt these financial mechanisms, which support the IRGC and various terrorist groups.
Secretary Bessent Issues Statement Welcoming S&P Global Release of Critical Mineral Reference Prices
The Treasury Department welcomed S&P Global’s new reference prices for critical minerals, including Gallium, Germanium, and Tungsten. Secretary Bessent stated that “transparent, market-based pricing is essential to attracting the private capital needed to build secure, resilient, and diversified critical mineral supply chains.” The administration aims to use these benchmarks to counter non-market policies, support investor confidence, and advance the Trump Administration’s efforts to address market distortions while strengthening international trade frameworks for critical minerals.
Treasury Continues to Follow the Money in Minnesota to Eliminate Fraud
FinCEN renewed a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) requiring banks and money transmitters in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties, Minnesota, to report funds transfers of $3,000 or more sent overseas. The measure aims to combat the fraud-driven diversion of state and federal benefits, which has cost Minnesota billions. Secretary Bessent stated, “The Trump Administration will not allow criminals to profit from programs intended to help vulnerable Americans.” The order, effective for 180 days, assists law enforcement in tracing the laundering of stolen taxpayer funds.
Ambassador Greer Welcomes S&P Global Critical Minerals Pricing Benchmarks
Ambassador Jamieson Greer endorsed S&P Global’s new pricing benchmarks for critical minerals, including gallium, germanium, tungsten, antimony, and neodymium/praseodymium. These benchmarks aim to foster market transparency and support long-term investment. Ambassador Greer stated that this initiative complements the Trump Administration’s supply chain resilience efforts and will inform the ongoing negotiation of the Agreement on Trade in Critical Minerals. The proposed agreement seeks to implement border-adjusted price floors and common standards to counter non-market policies and address global price instability.
Governor Newsom announces appointments 8.7.26
Governor Newsom announced several executive branch appointments: Grecia Staton as Chief Deputy Director at the Department of Industrial Relations; Dana Martinez as General Counsel at the Public Employment Relations Board; Salena Chow as Chief Deputy Director at Healthcare Access and Information; Jami Terrell as Deputy Director and Chief Counsel at the Department of Health Care Services; and Monica Montano as Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs at the Department of Managed Health Care. These positions do not require Senate confirmation.
Governor Newsom announces judicial appointments
Governor Newsom nominated eight individuals for the Court of Appeal: Rashida Adams, Denise Hippach, David Sapp, Lauri Damrell, Marsha Amin, Lisa Rodriguez, Juliet Macaulay, and Frederick Chung. Additionally, he appointed nine Superior Court judges across Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Sonoma, and San Francisco counties. The appellate nominations require confirmation by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, and several will face voter confirmation in the November 3, 2026, general election.
The Governor announced instant rebates of up to $3,500 for first-time zero-emission vehicle buyers through the “MyFirstEV” program, funded by a $135.5 million state investment matched by automakers. He also noted California’s battery storage capacity has exceeded 21,000 megawatts. Criticizing the federal approach, the Governor stated, “While President Trump is hellbent on burning more expensive fossil fuels and raising costs for Americans, California is proving there’s a better way,” asserting that state policies enhance energy independence and provide economic security.
Thirty-six new wildlife officers graduated from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Law Enforcement Division academy in Paradise, California. Following field training, these officers will join approximately 450 existing personnel to enforce fish and wildlife laws, conduct marine and cannabis enforcement, and respond to environmental emergencies. The training program, certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, prepares officers for a variety of public safety and natural resource protection duties across the state.
Governor Whitmer announced new Fiscal Year 2027 budget investments for rail grade separation projects to reduce traffic congestion and improve safety. Key projects include a $59 million effort to raise the Canadian National rail line over Allen Road in Wayne County and a $115 million highway elevation project on M-85 in Trenton. The Governor stated, “Fixing the damn roads means less wear on your car, a smoother drive, and safer travel for every Michigander.” The budget also increases state support for local road and transit programs.
Governor Whitmer and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll announced that Camp Grayling is now one of four premier U.S. military test ranges open to private industry for rapid experimentation. The initiative, managed by the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, aims to streamline innovation in drone and counter-drone technologies. Industry partners can request access via a new digital portal. A specialized test event is scheduled for September 2026 to help developers “harden their drone and counter-drone systems” against electronic warfare conditions similar to those in Ukraine.
The Maryland Insurance Administration recovered over $53.5 million for consumers during the first half of 2026 through various department programs. Governor Moore stated, “As H.R. 1 makes it harder for people to attain healthcare on the ACA exchange and is taking away people’s Medicaid altogether, $53.5 million dollars returned means money back in Marylanders’ pockets.” The administration emphasized its commitment to mitigating rising living costs while providing consumer advocacy, licensing, and grievance resolution services through initiatives like the Health Coverage Assistance Team.
The Maryland Department of Human Services launched an interactive tool to link SNAP recipients with a workforce development network of 46 partners. Governor Moore stated the effort helps residents “overcome new red tape imposed by the Trump administration to take away families’ food assistance.” The $30 million initiative provides free training and support services. The administration is utilizing this tool to mitigate the impact of federal H.R. 1 requirements, noting that Maryland’s SNAP participation decline has been less severe than in most other states.
Gov. Pritzker Announces Illinois–Indonesia Agreement to Expand Trade and Economic Cooperation
Governor Pritzker and Indonesian officials signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen ties in business, education, workforce development, and agriculture. The agreement aims to diversify export markets for Illinois soybean producers, specifically to mitigate the impact of trade instability caused by the President Trump administration’s tariffs. With Indonesia as a growing trade partner, the state seeks to reduce reliance on the Chinese market and capitalize on Illinois’ status as a leading national exporter.
Gov. Pritzker Announces One Appointment to Boards and Commissions
Governor Pritzker appointed Nicole Bateman to the Central Illinois Economic Development Authority. Bateman currently leads the Economic Development Corporation of Decatur and Macon County and serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the Illinois Fermentation and Agriculture Biomanufacturing Tech Hub. Her appointment is subject to confirmation by the Illinois Senate.
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action
Governor Pritzker signed various bills into law covering a wide range of state policies. Key legislation includes measures to reform Tax Increment Financing, create the Equitable Access to Education, Employment, and Training for Incarcerated Individuals with Disabilities Act, and establish the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act. Other signed bills address child abuse protections, literacy resources for color-vision-deficient students, and procedures for gun offenders. Additional acts concern higher education rights, infrastructure naming, and new requirements for adult changing stations.
Daily Public Schedule: Friday, August 7, 2026
Governor Pritzker’s schedule includes signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Indonesia at the Chicago Press Room and attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Austin Green Line Station. Additionally, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor Stratton are set to sign SB 3325, which establishes menopause education requirements, and SB 3020, which provides legal protections against online harassment, doxing, and digital tracking.
Governor Walz Thanks Grace Arnold for Her Service as Department of Commerce Commissioner
Governor Tim Walz announced that Grace Arnold is stepping down as Minnesota Department of Commerce Commissioner after seven years of state service. Appointed in 2021, Arnold was credited by the Governor for her leadership in consumer protection, clean energy initiatives, and financial literacy efforts. Deputy Commissioner of Insurance Julia Dreier will serve as the temporary commissioner. Dreier, who has led the Commerce Department’s insurance division since 2021, previously held roles at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and within the Minnesota healthcare policy sector.
Sens. Ossoff and Warnock are demanding that the Defense Health Agency (DHA) provide information regarding plans to close inpatient services and convert the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center into an urgent care facility. The Senators argue the DHA’s failure to respond to a June 2026 inquiry is “unacceptable.” They are urging the agency to rescind its Congressional notification for service changes until the impact on servicemembers, veterans, and their families in Augusta is fully clarified.
The U.S. Senate passed a resolution authored by Sens. Ossoff and Warnock to honor those affected by the August 6, 2025, mass shooting at Ft. Stewart. The resolution recognizes the victims, commends the soldiers who subdued the shooter, and praises the first responders and support personnel involved. Sen. Ossoff highlighted this commemoration while noting his ongoing efforts to improve military housing conditions at Georgia bases, including initiatives to ban non-disclosure agreements for military families regarding housing issues.
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI reports that its upcoming model, Astra, has reached the “Critical” threshold for cybersecurity capabilities. Evaluations indicate the model can autonomously identify and develop zero-day exploits in hardened systems. In response, the company has paused non-compliant internal activities and implemented heightened security measures, including sandboxed testing and universal monitoring of model logic. OpenAI is working with government agencies and safety organizations to ensure responsible deployment, emphasizing that these advanced tools should be used to strengthen defenses against cyber threats.
Improving Fable 5’s Biology Safeguards
Anthropic has updated Fable 5 to reduce “false positives” in biology-related queries, decreasing system “fallbacks” to less capable models by approximately 85%. While this enhancement allows Fable 5 to better assist with general health, educational, and clinical tasks, the model still redirects requests involving “dual-use” areas like virology and molecular design to Opus 5. The company maintains these strict safeguards to prevent the potential misuse of frontier capabilities for developing biological weapons, acknowledging the difficulty in distinguishing between beneficial research and malicious intent.
Covers the 2026-08-06 session — the Congressional Record is published with a one-day delay.
The Senate focused on passing several non-controversial measures and confirmed a Space Force nomination. The chamber also reached a procedural agreement to debate and vote on tax-related legislation and pending nominations on August 7.
S. 3266, USMMA Athletics Act — Supports athletic programs at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy [Passed by voice vote]
S. 434, Space Commerce Advisory Committee Act — Establishes a committee for commercial space activity advice [Passed by voice vote]
S. 2398, Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act — Reauthorizes the Kay Hagan Tick Act [Passed by voice vote]
S. 1838, DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Project Act — Authorizes research and training programs related to Down syndrome [Passed by voice vote]
Space Force Nomination — Confirmed one rank of general in the Space Force [Confirmed by voice vote]
The House held a brief pro forma session on August 6 that lasted only three minutes. No legislative business or committee meetings occurred during this time.
N/A — No legislative actions or votes were conducted [None]
Senate - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — Examined strategies for unlocking capital access for small businesses
Senate - Committee on Foreign Relations — Examined the U.S. response to international scam operations
Senate - Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — Voted to report a wide package of government oversight and postal facility naming bills
The Senate will convene at 10 a.m. on August 7 to continue consideration of nominations and vote on the SEED Act (H.R. 5334). The House will next meet in a pro forma session at 11 a.m. on Monday, August 10.
Reference: Congressional Record Archive
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Based on today’s policy developments, our analysis identifies the following market impact themes:
The administration is prioritizing the defense industrial base by channeling capital directly into critical material extraction and processing. These conditional loans serve as a synthetic supply chain policy intended to insulate domestic technology and battery manufacturers from foreign market volatility. Bearish risks include potential capital misallocation in nascent industries and the danger of building capacity that lacks long-term commercial viability without continuous government backing.
Treasury actions against digital asset networks signal a concerted effort to limit Iran’s ability to bypass traditional financial systems. By linking digital asset exchanges to national security, the government is expanding the scope of its sanctions regime to include decentralized finance participants. Opposition figures argue this heavy-handed approach could lead to fragmented global payment markets and inadvertently stifle legitimate financial technology innovation.
Increased federal intervention in healthcare administration is creating significant operational uncertainty for established service providers. The move to decertify underperforming organizations reflects a policy of strict federal accountability in the medical sector. Critics warn that these rapid administrative shifts may disrupt patient care and create “unnecessary chaos” within critical healthcare logistics networks.

Each cell shows an estimated impact score on a fixed scale of -10 to +10, reflecting how today’s policy developments may affect each market sector. Positive scores (green, ▲) suggest bullish impact; negative scores (red, ▼) suggest bearish pressure. Rows and columns are sorted by impact strength, and sectors and policy events with no meaningful impact are omitted. The heatmap, the analysis below, and the Impact on Market themes above are produced from a single unified analysis: the heatmap visualizes the magnitudes, while the text explains the causal reasoning behind them.
The administration is aggressively utilizing the Department of War to reshape industrial supply chains through targeted financial interventions. By deploying billions in conditional loans to domestic battery and magnet producers, the government aims to force an onshoring of critical inputs for defense and tech sectors. This move seeks to reduce reliance on foreign-dominated markets, directly boosting capital flows into domestic Materials and Energy firms. These efforts are complemented by the endorsement of new mineral pricing benchmarks, intended to facilitate market-based stability and long-term investment. Simultaneously, the Treasury is tightening control over financial plumbing by sanctioning digital asset exchanges tied to Iran. These actions effectively increase the risk premium for international digital financial networks while creating a clear state-directed mandate for domestic manufacturing. Healthcare volatility persists as HHS signals a more punitive regulatory environment for medical service providers. The decertification of regional organ procurement organizations underscores a shift toward strictly enforced performance accountability. While proponents describe these mining investments as “restoring America’s... economic security,” critics in opposition-led states suggest that aggressive federal oversight and the rollback of certain federal benefits create “harmful” obstacles for service delivery and state-level administration. The combination of industrial subsidies and restrictive sanctions signals a broader pivot toward economic nationalism in both energy and finance.
In a motion arguing he and his AUSAs should not be sanctioned, US Attorney for Chicago Andrew Boutros made a substantive false claim. I can’t prove he knowingly lied; that would require the kind of investigation Boutros insists is not warranted. But I can show his false claim happens to be among the core disputes in the Broadview 6 case.
The legal argument in this filing (inapt invocation of Trump v. US notwithstanding) might be sound. But it’ll only work if Judge April Perry buys his explanation for why his AUSAs handed her grand jury transcripts that kept the misconduct Sheri Mecklenburg engaged in hidden behind redactions. The excuse is that William Hogan, a guy with past ethical accusations that Boutros chose not to mention in his filing, was just following orders — April Perry’s orders — to provide the grand jury transcripts pertaining to how they charged a conspiracy.
Boutros explains it this way:
The only potentially applicable order in this case [for which prosecutors could be held in contempt] is this Court’s order regarding the grand jury transcripts. Yet former Defendants made a very “narrow” request for only those portions of the grand jury transcripts “pertaining to how the 18 U.S.C. § 372 conspiracy charge was explained to the Grand Jury” and any “related exchanges.” R. 118 at 1. This Court ordered the Government to provide in camera “the relevant portions of the transcripts as outlined in the motion.” R. 119. The Government undisputedly provided all those portions in the redacted transcripts. Whether the Government should have provided additional portions not requested, former Defendants have never argued the Government failed to comply with this Court’s order. United States v. Streett, 437 F. Supp. 3d 940, 952 (D.N.M. 2020) (defendant’s attempts to convince someone else to get picture of his child abuse victims and cover it up was not contemptuous because it did not violate Court’s order prohibiting him from contacting or attempting to contact victims); see also, e.g., Denver-Greeley Valley Water Users Assoc. v. McNeil, 131 F.2d 67, 70 (10th Cir. 1942) (“literal compliance” is not contempt).
Nor did the Government violate the Court’s order to turn over “any related exchanges” to the § 372 legal explanation. R. 118 at 1. “Related exchanges” do not “clearly” (Joyce, 498 F.2d at 596) include: Experienced AUSA 1’s preamble containing “vouching” (Oct. 9), statements suggesting jurors who could not deliberate without bias should leave (Oct. 16), or references to ex parte communications unrelated to the law (Oct. 23). At a minimum, the order is “ambiguous” as to those discussions, and any failure to turn those portions over was not contemptuous. In re Betts, 927 F.2d at 987.
Boutros argues that Judge Perry has no authority to punish the prosecutors, because she did not issue any order that prosecutors defied. He says the only possible contempt was the order she gave to provide the portions of grand jury transcripts outlined in defendants’ motion to compel them.*
He claims to be sure, however, that prosecutors had “undisputedly” provided all those portions; he cites nothing defendants or Perry have said where they agree.
In any case, his claim is false. Prosecutors did not fully comply with Judge Perry’s order to turn over all the legal instructions on conspiracy.
Most importantly, prosecutors omitted a fairly critical exchange from the October 23 transcript, the session where the grand jury ultimately indicted the Broadview 6, from what they initially shared with Judge Perry; I first noted this omission this post.
As a grand juror tried to track each of the (at that point) six defendants on the two videos prosecutors were showing, they mentioned that some of the defendants seemed to walk away from the Expedition that had driven into their protest. Mecklenberg responded to that observation by claiming that walking away from a spontaneous conspiracy would not affect whether they had joined the conspiracy or not.
GRAND JUROR: — Michael Rabbitt no longer appears in the frame. And neither Kat or either Kat appears to be anywhere near the front of the truck again. I’m just wondering about that. So I don’t — I’m struggling to locate them.
MS. MECKLENBURG: You — they don’t have — they can step away. You can do it that — you can impede for some time, and then you can decide that you’re going to stop. That doesn’t change the fact that you have impeded for some time. And they could be going — and we don’t know where they are here. They could be going and doing something else to the car or something else. We just don’t know.
GRAND JUROR: Okay.
MS. MECKLENBURG: So I — what’s — the probable cause comes from when you do see them on the video, not from when you don’t.
Shortly thereafter, in response to the foreperson also attempting to track each of the defendants, Mecklenburg claimed it was part of the conspiracy that people moved in and out (of the frame? the crowd? I have no idea).
MS. MECKLENBURG: So it’s happening at the same time. But keep in mind, people are moving in and out —
MADAM FOREPERSON: Yeah.
MS. MECKLENBURG: — which is part of the conspiracy.
You can argue whether Mecklenburg’s claim about conspiracy law was correct or not; I think it is (as a grand juror said of the case as a whole) a crock of shit.
But she was undisputedly responding to questions about how conspiracy law applied in this case.
These exchanges should have been included in what got shared with Perry.
Such exchanges are precisely the kind of thing that Boutros pointed to as proof of the robust back and forth in the October 9 and 23 grand jury discussions.
The grand jurors asked the AUSAs about, among other things, whether conspiracy required forethought (id. at 22), if actions alone could show a conspiratorial agreement (id. at 23), “how far does” the scope of the conspiracy “go” (id.), and whether it was against the law to touch a law enforcement car (id. at 24-25, 30-31).
[snip]
The grand jurors also asked questions about the law, including: the necessity of them weighing in on a misdemeanor (id. at 51-52, 25-31), and if “basically . . . anybody who walked in front of that car could be charged with a conspiracy even if they weren’t actually touching the car and somehow impeding it.” Id. at 55; see also id. at 9, 16, 52-54 (other questions). [links added]
All of these, which include multiple questions about whether it was illegal to touch a cop’s car (and — in one case — challenging whether defendant Cat Sharp had done so), were included, unredacted, among the materials that Hogan deemed responsive Judge Perry’s order.
Questions about whether touching the car were included unredacted.
Questions about whether people who stepped away could be charged were not.
Given the standard for inclusion Boutros is describing in his filing — and given what was actually included in the transcripts originally shared with Perry — the exchanges about leaving a conspiracy should have been included. They were not.
It could be a mistake! Indeed, but for all the other damning evidence, that should be the default assumption here.
But there’s a lot of reason to believe it was intentional.
Remember what happened here: People were protesting on a public street, and the ICE goon drove his black Expedition into them. There were definitely people who responded by surrounding and pounding on the car; there was damage (including the word “pig” scratched into the car) that prosecutors not only never tied to the defendants, but never isolated as having been done by anyone in the crowd.
Prosecutors argued that the act of impeding a car that drove into protestors was a spontaneous conspiracy to obstruct the ICE goon’s work, or at least his attempt to get to work. Spontaneous conspiracies are already pushing the edge of conspiracy law (though the argument worked in the Spokane protestors’ case on the same conspiracy charge), but in this case, the “conspiracy” involved a “victim” who initiated contact with lawful protestors in public space, protestors he called “trash in the street” in a text he sent.
What constituted entering into and remaining in this spontaneous conspiracy would always have been a heated contest. In his filing, Boutros uses merely touching the ICE goon’s car — the car that drove into protestors — as the baseline for entering into the conspiracy.
There was a crowd protesting at the facility, some of whom ended up in front of and touching and/or banging on his car. Id. at 78-80. The parties disagreed about the legal significance and constitutional implications of their actions, but former Defendants have never contested that each of them at least touched the Agent’s car, and the Court has confirmed as much. R. 142 at 7-9
[snip]
Former Defendants have never disputed their presence on the scene—which was captured on publicly available video—and even agreed they touched Agent A’s car (also captured on video).
And he seems to assert, without pointing to proof, that defendants did not contest whether they did touch the car that drove into them (as noted above, in the grand jury, there was heated debate about whether Cat Sharp ever did touch the car).
In other words, Boutros tries to dodge the problematic structure of this imagined conspiracy by criminalizing touching a car that drove into you.
And that’s precisely why defendants took a series of steps that led up to the sharing of transcripts with Judge Perry; it’s precisely the kind of question defendants were raising in the filing Perry invoked when issuing her order.
Boutros’ discussion of the background to defendants’ request for transcripts notes that the request came in the wake of a prior request for specifics about how DOJ was applying the conspiracy. He quotes the defendants saying their request was “narrow,” and implies that Hogan complied by saying the misconduct Perry identified when she first revealed these transcripts would not have been included in her order. But he never bothers to show that Hogan provided everything she asked for.
On January 23, 2026, former Defendants moved for clarification about which of the three means in § 372 they were alleged to have violated. R. 61. Around that time, Experienced AUSA 1 left the Office for a temporary detail in another branch of Government. R. 83, 86. On February 2, 2026, Experienced AUSA 2—who has been with the Office for roughly 40 years—entered his appearance. R. 73. A third prosecutor, AUSA 3, filed his appearance on February 13, 2026. R. 85. The Government filed a motion saying it would only proceed on the “force and intimidation” prong of § 372 and thereby narrowed Count 1 (the felony charge). R. 96. Around that time, the Government moved to dismiss two of the former Defendants with prejudice. R. 91.
The remaining former Defendants sought discovery relating to vindictive or selective prosecution. R. 94. This Court denied the motion. R. 117. [long discussion that doesn’t address the evidence of vindictiveness since released]
The next day, on April 8, 2026, former Defendants made a “narrow” request to see “Grand Jury transcripts pertaining to how the 18 U.S.C. § 372 conspiracy charge was explained to the Grand Jury” and “any related exchanges.” R. 118 at 1. Former Defendants wanted to ensure the grand jury had been instructed on all the relevant § 372 means now that the Government was proceeding on only one. Id. at 1-2, 4. Alternatively, they asked this Court to conduct an in camera review “and order disclosure of those portions of the transcripts the Court determines are necessary to allow Defendants an opportunity to develop this issue further.” Id. at 1, 12.
But Boutros leaves key context out of the request. I provided that background myself in this post. The important bits are:
That’s the genesis of the order that, Andrew Boutros insists, Hogan “undisputedly” responded to in full. The claim that most of the defendants responded to an Expedition driving into their protest by walking away was at the core of their request for explanation about the conspiracy charge; it was likely at the core of the reason the government dropped their case against Sharp and Walsh. And it would be at the core of any claim that defendants entered into a spontaneous conspiracy to obstruct the guy who just drove his giant SUV into their protest.
What did they do when the Expedition drove into them?
They walked away.
And yet, when grand jurors, based on their observation that some of the defendants did just that, asked Sheri Mecklenburg on the day they indicted the Broadview 6, what about people who walked away, Mecklenburg said that was all part of the conspiracy.
Again, it doesn’t matter whether Mecklenburg’s instruction to jurors was right or not: that you could be charged for conspiring to obstruct an ICE goon after he drove his SUV into your protest if your response was to walk away. If the instruction was pertinent to grand jurors’ decision to indict people who did walk away, then DOJ had to turn it over to Judge Perry.
They did not.
They didn’t do so, even though a significant part of defendants’ argument that led Judge Perry to make DOJ explain their theory of conspiracy in the first place substantially focused on how you could enter into a spontaneous conspiracy if you walked away from it.
There’s one more piece of arguable legal instruction that Hogan withheld, revealed by the funkiness in the treatment of FBI Agent Evan Hylton’s transcript (I wrote abt the far bigger funkiness with the ICE witness’ testimony here).
As I laid out here, the court reporters treated testimony from the ICE witness as a separate transcript for both his October 16 (the sketchy one) and his October 23 testimony. That has a number of effects, two of which are important to the question of whether Hogan complied with Judge Perry’s order or whether DOJ deliberately tried to hide stuff from her.
These tables of contents were made after the fact and should not be considered reliable, but they do provide an extra road map for what happened with the transcript.
In the case of Hylton, however, the court reporter treated it as all one transcript. And he inaccurately described that the entire thing, pages 3 through 76, consisted of direct examination — of Hylton, is the implication — by Sheri Mecklenburg.

When Hogan redacted the October 16 and 23 transcripts, he could just ignore the separate transcripts pertaining to the ICE testimony (ignoring, of course, the 7-minute anomaly in the October 16 one). But for the October 9 transcript, he had to isolate Hylton’s testimony himself.
To make things worse, Mecklenburg prepared to discuss the law — “I would like to present the law to you” — right before she invited questions, making that work harder. Most of what ensued involved questions for Hylton. But then the foreperson premised a question, “I don’t know if this is a legal question or a question for the agent. I’m pretty sure it’s legal.” Mecklenburg immediately stopped the question and dismissed Hylton.
So there was this hybrid period. Hylton was still there but grand jurors were asking whatever they wanted to know. During it, both the agent and Mecklenburg addressed some questions about the investigation: why they weren’t presenting any of the more obviously obstructive protestors, whether there were fingerprints, what a trucker who would have witnessed the event said. The investigation is ongoing, one or another of them responded.
When Hogan redacted the transcript, he redacted everything up to the moment that Mecklenburg formally dismissed Hylton, on page 62, which would have looked perfectly reasonable to Judge Perry, since the table of contents identified everything up through page 73 as testimony. When DOJ publicly released the transcripts however, they withheld only from the moment from when Hylton was sworn — recorded on page 10, to the moment Mecklenburg described she wanted to discuss the law on page 53 for further redaction. That was released on June 9, and then the pages of Hylton’s testimony that had been redacted in the purportedly unredacted testimony, pages 10 through 53, were released on June 18. (Note, this only pertains to the public releases. I think defendants got everything on May 21.)
And the release of that hybrid section revealed an exchange that was not obviously evidentiary, and Mecklenburg answered that herself: by bullying the grand juror who asked it.
GRAND JURY: Couldn’t he have stopped?
MS. MECKLENBURG: Couldn’t he have stopped?
GRAND JURY: If he is afraid of running over people, isn’t the right thing to do to stop?
MS. MECKLENBURG: Well, didn’t you hear the testimony that he said he was afraid to stop because he was afraid they were going to break the windows and pull him out and he would be injured?
So he said — the testimony was that he said he was concerned about stopping for his own safety and he was concerned about the safety in the front. So he had to balance it. And this is not testimony now, but I would argue he did a pretty good job of balancing it because nobody got hurt.
GRAND JURY: I know.
MS. MECKLENBURG: So you want to talk about the right thing. What if he had stopped?
GRAND JURY: But it’s the flip of the thing is can’t you say he was trying to run over the people?
MS. MECKLENBURG: Did you really think when you saw that video
GRAND JURY: No. It’s a bad question —
This is a less clear-cut case than the two exchanges that included the word “conspiracy” as part of the answer. But it’s still important.
The question is important background to a question Boutros himself pointed to (I’ve marked it in red in his discussion above), does the ICE goon have the right to drive into protestors, which was shared with Perry, as well as Boutros’ insistence that anyone who was touched by the car is fair game for indictment. It’s important background to DOJ’s insistence that grand jurors who thought this whole thing was a crock of shit were biased, as opposed to offended by the notion that the ICE goon who decided to drive into a protest was a victim.
And the answer to that question was integrated into Matthew Skiba’s legal instruction and presentation for both the subsequent weeks (October 16; October 23).

Skiba certainly treated it as legal instruction.
Yet it, and the bullying Mecklenburg did, was withheld from Perry, treated as Hylton’s testimony.
Now’s a good time to talk about the bodyworn cameras — the ones that defendants claim showed most of them walking away from the scene of the imagined conspiracy.
There was a big to-do early in this prosecution about such things. In January, after learning that Mecklenburg cherry-picked what video from Broadview police department was relevant, defendants asked for a preservation order. The government did not object, but did claim that Mecklenburg, Skiba, and the FBI agent pulled all bodyworn video that showed the defendants. Perry signed the preservation order on January 30. But — as disclosed during pretrial motions in limine practice in May — in fact, bodyworn camera video that would be important to determine whether defendants did walk away was destroyed.
Counsel for the government repeatedly assured defense counsel that Broadview was informed of this request, and, in a letter dated December 18, 2025, further advised that the AUSAs personally went to Broadview, reviewed all the videos, and “tagged the video showing the incident and any video that morning showing any of the defendants” so that it would be saved to be included in a future discovery production. Despite assurances that the video was being preserved, defense counsel was later notified that certain Broadview police department body camera footage had been “lost/deleted.” Defense counsel were advised that this lost or deleted footage included videos that were previously tagged by the AUSAs as being relevant and material. Specifically, the AUSA assigned to the case at the time wrote to defense counsel as part of a discovery production on February 12, 2026:
Also, you will see an FBI 302 explaining that the Broadview Police Department was unable to transmit some of the videos that we tagged during our visit to the Broadview Police Department in December 2025, that the Broadview Police no longer can access those videos, and their efforts to recover those videos thus far have been unsuccessful. It is our understanding, memorialized in a 302, that Broadview Police had a new system for body-worn camera footage and they appeared to have difficulty with it at the time. However, based on our review, the videos were all repetitive of the same scenes from different officers’ body cameras, standing near each other. In reviewing the videos we were able to obtain and produce to you, it appears that these videos show the same scenes we saw on the videos that Broadview was unable to access.
[snip]
As the Court will see at trial, there will be material disagreements about exactly what happened in the moments before and during the time Agent A decided to turn his SUV into the crosswalk and into the protestors. What the government describes as “repetitive” likely shows different angles that are most likely material to Defendants’ version of events, especially because Defendants were located at different positions in the crosswalk when the SUV turned into them.
That makes Mecklenburg’s squirminess, in two instances in the transcripts, about the Broadview cops suspect. When a grand juror asked her, on October 9, whether they’d be hearing testimony from the cops who let the ICE goon through their checkpoint, Mecklenburg almost immediately turned it into a discussion about politics and jurisdiction as a way of explaining why she wasn’t calling the cops.
Perhaps most damning, the following week, Mecklenburg responded to a grand juror asking whether there was any law enforcement video by claiming that there were no cops there and so no video.
GRAND JUROR: Who took the videos? What’s the source of these videos?
MS. MECKLENBURG: This video is from Ms. Abagazala’s social media.
MR. SKIBA: Yeah. So some were like a Twitter, an Instagram. Some were, I believe, YouTube. This was all civilians taking photos.
MS. MECKLENBURG: Yeah. No law enforcement was out there, so they didn’t take any video.
As with Boutros, I have no idea whether this was an intentional lie. And it is not legal instruction, so this material wouldn’t have been turned over operating on Hogan’s claim that he was just trying to follow Perry’s order. But I find it suspect that, in October, Mecklenburg affirmatively claimed that video that would prove exculpatory did not exist, and then in February, she said it had been destroyed. It makes the choice to withhold related instruction more suspicious.
Finally, Boutros made another misstatement (albeit not as central to his argument).
Partly to explain how Judge Perry had notice there were more than just a few lines of the grand jury missing, Boutros provides a very contorted inventory of the pages that were redacted and omitted. (This passage is one of the reasons I went down this rabbit hole, so thanks, Andrew!) In it, he claims the page numbers clearly show what was omitted.
On April 23, the Government submitted to the Court for in camera review those portions of the transcripts “detailing the presentment of the law on the 18 U.S.C. § 372 conspiracy charge and any related exchanges.” R. 128; R. 129 (Exs. A, B, and C). The transcripts the Government tendered to the Court also contained black redactions clearly marking what was not produced and page numbers showing that the first transcript omitted all pages between 4 and 61; the second transcript omitted pages 3, 9-10, and 30-36; and the third transcript omitted pages 4, 29-40, and a few pages at the end. R. 129 (Exs. A, B, and C). These omitted pages totaled more than 80.8 As he later stated in court, Experienced AUSA 2 took responsibility for the redactions. R. 187 at 30.
8 In addition to the 80 omitted pages, the transcripts contained additional pages that were not provided to the Court because they included witness testimony and portions other than the §372 law and related colloquies. See R. 219 (Oct. 9, 2025, transcript consisted of 76 total pages); R. 220 (Oct. 16, 2025, transcript consisted of 53 total pages); R. 221 (Oct. 23, 2025, transcript consisted of 98 total pages). All three transcripts consisted of a combined 227 pages. [my emphasis]
Having spent most of yesterday trying to track what actually happened with the transcripts, the notion this was feasible without the full transcripts is bullshit, particularly given that there’s no discernible reason why some stuff was omitted and other stuff just redacted.
And in several places — contrary to Boutros’ claim — a page number was redacted, which had the effect of making it harder to understand how many pages — 15, in this case — had been removed.

This includes the passage with the question about walking away from a conspiracy.
Boutros is wrong. It is bluster for the US Attorney to suggest that Hogan undisputedly complied with Judge Perry’s order. There are two instances where information that prosecutors otherwise treated as instruction was omitted from what got shared with Perry, and one of those goes to the heart of the case.
To some degree it doesn’t matter whether Boutros knowingly lied when he made the claim (though a knowing lie would be further contempt). Once the question is under dispute, then Judge Perry has reason to inquire further. Especially given the stack of evidence showing that prosecutors knew the import of that passage, and otherwise withheld related information.
So while I can’t prove Boutros wittingly lied when he claimed Hogan had complied, it should be undisputed there’s reason for Judge Perry to dig further into this.
*Throughout this post, I use the word “defendants” to refer to those now exonerated. I do so because my discussion addresses prosecutors’ treatment of them from the time they were targets, then defendants, and now exonerees; I found using the term “exonerees” when discussing the grand jury discussions confusing.
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Ce 9 août, l'éphéméride des luttes contemple toutes les horreurs des guerres impérialistes et de la colonisation et enrage. Aujourd'hui, les choses sont assez claires.
1927 : - A Chicago, une grève générale a lieu en soutien aux anarchiste italiens Sacco et Vanzetti, condamnés à mort. Plus de 16.000 personnes y participent, et la police utilisera de nombreux lacrymogènes contre les manifestant-e-s, faisant également beaucoup d'arrestations. Deux bombes à retardement sont découvertes dans le bureau des Postes et dans une station de métro.
1945 : Au Japon, l'armée américaine fait sauter une deuxième bombe nucléaire, cette fois dans la ville de Nagasaki, tuant 73.000 personnes, 3 jours après la bombe d'Hiroshima.
1965 : Singapour est expulsée de Malaisie, devenant ainsi le seul Etat à devenir indépendant sans l'avoir voulu.
1966 : A New York, des centaines de personnes occupent les locaux de Dow Chemicals pour protester contre l'usage du napalm au Vietnam.
1971 : En Irlande du Nord, l'armée britannique déclenche l'opération Demetrius, qui conduit à l'arrestation et à l'incarcération sans procès de 342 personnes soupçonnées d'appartenir à l'IRA. Cette opération a déclenché de nombreux épisodes de protestation partout sur le territoire, et les affrontements font 17 morts, la plupart abattus par l'armée britannique.
1972 : Toujours en Irlande du Nord, de lourdes émeutes ont lieu après un an d'incarcération des personnes arrêtées lors de Demetrius.
1980 : En Irlande du Nord, de nouvelles émeutes éclatent, faisant trois morts.
1983 : Nouvelles émeutes à Belfast, lors desquelles l'armée britannique ouvre de nouveau le feu sur la foule, faisant un mort.
1995 : Au Brésil, plus de 600 familles du mouvement des sans-terre combattent la police toute la nuit pour tenter de sauvegarder leur camp.
1997 : En Irlande du Nord, la CIRA (Continuity IRA) pose un faux van piégé sur un pont de Derry.
2001 : A Venise, une bombe de forte puissance détruit l'entrée principale du tribunal de la ville, ce qui sera revendiqué par la cellule Carlo Pulcini des Noyaux Territoriaux Antiimpérialistes.
2009 : - Près de la ville de Kozani en Grèce, libération de 10.000 visons.
2014 : A Ferguson aux États-Unis, le jeune Mickael Brown est abattu par la police. Ce meurtre policier donnera lieu à d'immenses manifestations parfois émeutières contre les violences policières et racistes.
2015 : A Ferguson, lors de la manifestation d'hommage à Mickael Brown, des affrontements ont lieu et des voitures de police reçoivent plusieurs impacts de balle.
Voir aussi l'éphéméride anarchiste du 9 août.

Il y a encore trois ans, une IA qui citait ses sources tenait de l'exception. Aujourd'hui, c'est presque devenu la norme. Entre les deux, l'avènement d'une technique née dans un labo de recherche : le RAG.
Rage-baiting efforts of Trump accounts silenced after posts such as a video linking her Red album to Republicans
Some of Taylor Swift’s songs have been removed from videos posted on social media by Donald Trump’s campaign and the White House, silencing efforts to mock the pop star.
A video posted on 3 August featuring the US president and the first lady, Melania Trump, watching fireworks was posted this month on TikTok with Swift’s song August.
Continue reading...À Castelnau-le-Lez, un agent de la police municipale agresse violemment une femme qui se serait opposée à une verbalisation pour « dissimulation de visage » visant une femme de confession musulmane, malade.
Une interpellation violente et foutraque dans les gestes pratiqués
Le 21 juillet 2026, aux environs de 14 h 50, Élise F. se trouvait à l'arrêt de tramway Notre-Dame-de-Sablassou, à Castelnau-le-Lez, dans l'Hérault. Elle était assise à côté d'une femme portant un voile ainsi qu'un masque chirurgical. Un agent de la police municipale s'est approché de cette dernière et lui a « indiqué qu'elle se trouvait en infraction dès lors que son visage n'était pas visible ». La femme lui a répondu qu'elle sortait d'une « consultation médicale », qu'elle était malade et que c'était pour cette raison qu'elle portait un masque.
L'agent lui a alors annoncé son intention de lui dresser une contravention d'un montant de 135 euros. Choquée, elle lui propose alors de lui montrer son ordonnance médicale, mais le policier ne juge pas nécessaire de la vérifier.
Élise F., qui assistait calmement à la scène, a trouvé incompréhensible la démarche des policiers municipaux. Elle a exprimé à plusieurs reprises que leur intervention lui semblait disproportionnée.
Sur la page officielle du ministère de la santé de la République française, Santé.fr, le gouvernement est très clair sur ce sujet : « le port d'un masque lorsqu'on présente des symptômes d'une infection respiratoire est un geste simple qui permet de protéger les autres. Les virus et les bactéries responsables de nombreuses maladies respiratoires se transmettent principalement par les particules émises lorsque nous toussons, éternuons ou...
Sommaire Montréal (Canada) : Les responsables de la crise ont des noms et des adresses Wiedemannsdorf (Allemagne) : cramer la continuité historique Dijon (Côte-d'Or) : le constructeur de prisons Pennequin sous le feu Leverkusen (Allemagne) : double sabotage ferroviaire Grenoble (Isère) : le constructeur de prisons Eiffage sous le feu Ottawa (Canada) : « Mangez les riches » 10 ans en voyage – Une accolade depuis la clandestinité Saint-Étienne (Loire) : « Contre toutes les armées et tous les États, partout, tout le temps ! » Sur les civilisés [Brochure] Post-scriptum à La flamme d'or [Archives] 2008 : A l'assaut de Ceuta et Melilla Crémone (Italie) : sabotage solidaire d'un poste électrique
Montréal (Canada) : Les responsables de la crise ont des noms et des adresses
À la classe propriétaire, Why we break windows ? Pourquoi est-ce qu'on a brisé vos fenêtres (et peinturé vos bureaux) ? Comme chaque 1er juillet, plusieurs ménages locataires vont se retrouver à la rue. D'autres dans des logements inadéquats, insalubres et/ou trop chers. Dans les prochains jours, on va entendre parler de la crise du logement. Des prix qui montent. Du manque de logements disponibles. Pis comme à chaque année, la majorité des gens vont passer à un autre appel. On connait la chanson. Mais une chose dont on ne parle jamais, ou que du bout des lèvres, c'est des responsables de la crise. Le logement n'est pas en crise comme par magie. Les ménages qui se retrouvent à la rue ne sont pas les victimes du marché invisible. La gentrification et la financiarisation du logement ne sont pas des phénomènes naturels. Il y a des gens derrière cette crise, des gens derrière ce marché, des gens derrière ces phénomènes. Et ces gens ont des noms et des adresses.
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Wiedemannsdorf (Allemagne) : cramer la continuité historique
Voilà pourquoi la demeure familiale du président nazi du Chili, Antonio José Kast a cramé aujourd'hui (traduit de l'allemand de Kontrapolis, 24 juin 2026 Au Chili, a eu lieu la révolte de 2019 [voir ici] qui a été éteinte par la pandémie de covid. et pacifiée par le référendum sur la Constitution.
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Dijon (Côte-d'Or) : le constructeur de prisons Pennequin sous le feu
Dijon contre les CRA : un tractoptelle en moins pour les collabo
de Pennequin … Par une belle soirée de mai, nous nous sommes faufilé.es dans les locaux flamboyants (mais pas encore totalement flambés …) de la société Pennequin, fierté du BTP local, qui a choisi de se lancer dans la construction d'une nouvelle prison pour sans papiers (un CRA), à Longvic, à côté de Dijon.
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27694
Leverkusen (Allemagne) : double sabotage ferroviaire
[Le 11 juillet 2026, est sorti un communiqué du Commando Angry Birds, revendiquant le sabotage qui venait de mettre en tilt la ligne Cologne-Düsseldorf, un axe ferroviaire très fréquenté de la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, région la plus peuplée d'Allemagne. Concrètement, un premier dispositif incendiaire à retardement a été déposé la nuit de jeudi à vendredi 10 juillet, dans un regard situé sur le pont qui enjambe la rivière Wupper (un affluent du Rhin), au nord de la ville de Leverkusen, et un second dispositif a été placé le long des voies, quelques centaines de mètres plus loin, à Langenfeld. De nombreux câbles de signalisation à fibre optique ont été détruits, entraînant une interruption partielle du trafic et de nombreux retards. Rappelons que ce groupe est actif dans le coin depuis 2023, en publiant à la fois des communiqués numérotés de sabotage (qu'on peut retrouver ici) et des manuels techniques pour en étendre la pratique. On trouvera ci-dessous une traduction de leur communiqué n°8, qui a revendiqué ce sabotage, paru sur de.indymedia.]
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27666
Grenoble (Isère) : le constructeur de prisons Eiffage sous le feu
Pelleteuse d'Eiffage, brûle ! Dans la nuit du 27 au 28 juin, nous avons incendié une pelleteuse près des chantiers de l'A480 [autoroute urbaine de la métropole grenobloise], appartenant à APPR / Eiffage. Sans vouloir viser particulièrement ce chantier, cette attaque est avant tout une participation à l'offensive contre cette entreprise qui construit des prisons et des CRA partout en France. Nous voulons leur dire que tous leurs projets sont une cible et sont accessibles.
Ottawa (Canada) : « Mangez les riches »
Ottawa : Des camions vandalisés au centre de distribution
de Metro.
Salut Metro, tu te demandes toujours qui sont ces gens qui se sont introduits dans la cour de ton centre de distribution à Sandy Hill ? Celleux qui ont percé sans peine les pneus de tes camions — vingt-cinq pour être exact — et saboté le système de freinage de six autres ? Qui ont entièrement recouvert ces mêmes camions de peinture ? Vous obligeant à les laver à la hâte le lendemain matin pour ne pas avoir à traverser la ville avec des slogans comme « Mangez les riches » et « Fuck Metro » affichés sur vos camions. Oh, mais attendez, vous ne pouviez pas, les pneus étaient à plat ! Comme on pouvait le lire sur l'un de vos camions : pas de pneus, pas de profits, n'est-ce pas ?
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27757
10 ans en voyage – Une accolade depuis la clandestinité
Mes très cher-e-s
Depuis nulle part, je vous serre fort contre mon cœur et j'aimerais vous faire savoir que dans l'ensemble je vais bien ! Malheureusement, les derniers jours ont été un peu rudes, ce jubilé ne cessait de me catapulter vers le passé et ce jour où j'ai dû toustes vous laisser derrière moi. Cette vibrante visualisation de cette époque a eu pour conséquence de faire remonter des sentiments archivés. 10 ans se sont écoulés … Et bien que le temps soit une illusion, je retombe toujours dans le fait d'y croire. Pourtant, alors que je vous écris ces lignes, le passé tombe en écailles de la vieille façade et une bourrasque balaye l'avenir. Je suis avec vous, ici ou ailleurs. Et rien ne peut interrompre ce lien.
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27741
Saint-Étienne (Loire) : « Contre toutes les armées et tous les États, partout, tout le temps ! »
Contre la propagande militariste d'extrême gauche
Le NPA et BDS projettaient un film militariste pro-ukraine, on était pas hyper content.es.
Jeudi 2 juillet, le NPA et BDS sainté projetaient au cinéma Le Méliès le film « Guerre en Ukraine Les combattants anti-autoritaires ». Des copaines avaient vu le film, et on a décidé d'aller y apporter notre grain de sel. Le film projeté par le NPA et BDS, en plus de se dire « anti-autoritaire », explique que pour résister à l'attaque de l'État russe, il faudrait s'engager dans l'armée régulière ukrainienne, ce que font d'ailleurs des anarchistes, assumant par là de se battre aux côtés de néo-nazis. On a voulu apporter une critique antimilitariste.
Sur les civilisés
Le seul manuscrit de Joseph Déjacque qui nous soit parvenu est une lettre écrite le 20 février 1861, à la veille d'embarquer pour cette Europe, dont il était absent depuis sept ans. Dans cette dernière, adressée à un proscrit français réfugié en Suisse, Déjacque exprime tout son mépris pour un pays où il avait espéré trouver une plus grande liberté, mais où régnait au contraire « le crétinisme politique et religieux ». Les mots de Déjacque sur la société nord-américaine de l'époque sont très durs, et il vaut la peine de les rappeler ici :
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27763 [Brochure] Post-scriptum à La flamme d'or
Si la réception de la brochure [sortie en février 2026, voir le PDF ici] a été assez largement positive – du moins dans les quelques retours reçus – elle a aussi suscité de vives attaques, principalement concernant la partie sur les « leurres identitaires ». Cela a même valu quelques mots doux lors d'une causerie dans des rencontres anarchistes, certaines personnes qualifiant le texte de « raciste » et « transphobe ». Au passage, à titre perso, quand je considère que quelqu'un porte une position raciste et/ou transphobe, surtout dans ce genre d'espace, j'essaie de faire en sorte de le virer, et si je n'y parviens pas, je me casse. Mais il semble que porter jusqu'au bout les conséquences de sa pensée exprimée ne soit pas un principe de base pour tout le monde.
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27796
[Archives] 2008 : A l'assaut de Ceuta et Melilla
[Jeudi 30 et vendredi 31 juillet 2026, près de 50 000 migrants ont pris d'assaut avec succès la frontière qui sépare le Maroc de l'enclave espagnole de Ceuta, causant la mort d'au moins 72 d'entre eux, avant que la plupart ne reparte dans l'autre sens. L'article ci-dessous, qui revient en détail sur les premiers assauts contre cette frontière et la question de l'auto-organisation, a été publié en décembre 2008 dans le premier numéro de la revue anarchiste internationale « A corps perdu ».]
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27808
Crémone (Italie) : sabotage solidaire d'un poste électrique
Le 1er juillet dernier, nous avons saboté un poste électrique. L'heureux hasard a voulu qu'une partie du centre de Crémone se retrouve plongé dans le noir. Plus de lumière dans les rues. Sans crier gare, un black out s'est diffusé et a duré quelques heures.
L'énergie est liée à la guerre, la guerre à la répression, et répression signifie prison.
Par ce geste, nous avons voulu agir pour exprimer notre solidarité avec les anarchistes arrêtés le 16 juin. Salut à tous les rebelles du monde, aussi bien ceux qui sont en taule que ceux qui luttent à l'extérieur. En ces temps d'horreurs, nous ne pouvons oublier Ramy et Fakir*.
https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/27802Aucune réserve, aucune limite. Le Conseil Constitutionnel a validé le 6 août l'intégralité des mesures militaristes du gouvernement.
L’article Vers un état d’exception pour préparer la guerre est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque.
Scorpion, Léa et Sana font partie de l'association bisontine PDA (Partage, Droits & Autonomie). Dans un entretien réalisé pendant la Poudrière en 2022, iels reviennent sur les difficultés d'organisation des travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe et sur les conséquences des dernières lois.
Crédit illustration : @Ed LabCet entretien a eu lieu en juin 2022, au micro de la radio pirate de la Poudrière, un festival féministe et auto-géré qui s'est déroulé à l'Espace autogéré des Tanneries. Il a ensuite été retranscrit pour être publié dans Dijoncter Papier #6.
L'article est également consultable en format pdf mis en page : « Arrêtez de parler à notre place et écoutez-nous ! » - Version pdf
Pour commencer, est-ce que vous pouvez présenter rapidement PDA ?
Léa : PDA a été créé il y a plus de onze ans, parce qu'on avait la volonté de s'organiser. Au départ on n'était pas en non-mixité donc je peux pas dire « entre TDS » mais plutôt « autour des TDS ». On était d'abord un collectif puis on s'est monté·es en association. Évidemment on a fait plein de choses différentes. Maintenant on est en non-mixité entre TDS.
Siana : Pendant longtemps on avait pas de lieu pour s'organiser, et là on a un local depuis deux ans, avec une friperie gratuite à disposition des collègues. On peut y boire un café et se ressourcer entre collègues, parler de tout et rien, de nos problèmes, trasher un peu les clients, ça fait du bien.
Scorpion : Surtout on a le mérite d'exister en région Grand-Est, parce qu'il n'y a aucune autre asso ou collectif.
Pourquoi vous avez fait le choix de passer d'un collectif à un statut d'asso ?
Léa : À ce moment-là on avait un peu l'illusion qu'on pourrait avoir des subventions. Enfin, on a pas essayé très fort mais il y avait une motivation là-dessus. On s'est fait un peu échauder par nos premières démarches et le fait qu'on s'est heurté·es à pas mal d'abolitionnisme [1] de la part des pouvoirs publics, dès le début. Du coup, ça nous a découragé, on a plus jamais fait de demandes de subventions auprès des services publics. On a parfois demandé à des fondations, on n'a jamais rien eu de ce côté-là non plus. Mais on sait jamais, le fait d'être une asso ça permet d'aller chercher l'argent là d'où il devrait venir normalement.
Scorpion : D'un autre côté, on n'a pas vraiment de comptes à rendre et ça nous laisse une certaine liberté, une liberté d'action dans l'asso en tout cas.
Siana : Aujourd'hui, on est plus ou moins d'accord sur le fait qu'on a plus vraiment envie d'attendre grand chose des pouvoirs publics et qu'on préfère s'auto-gérer et vivre avec les dons, réussir à avoir un financement à travers d'autres collectifs, d'autres assos.
Est-ce que vous pouvez parler du changement de mixité au sein de PDA ?
Siana : On a des moments en non mixité entre TDS qui permettent de s'entraider. On est pas une association totalement en non-mixité. Par exemple, une fois par mois on organise un café discussion avec les personnes qui veulent venir, qui veulent continuer une déconstruction, ce genre de choses. On a des évènements ouverts à tout le monde.
Scorpion : En fait, c'est juste qu'on a des moments entre collègues, c'est nécessaire pour que des TDS continuent à venir et se sentent en sécurité. On risquait trop à laisser participer tout le monde sans forcément connaître les intentions des gens. C'est bien plus risqué en tout cas.
Léa : Pour la convivialité, je trouve que ça crée un truc complètement différent de pouvoir être entouré·e de gens qui vivent la même chose ou des choses communes en tout cas sur certains aspects.
On s'est heurté·es à pas mal d'abolitionnisme des pouvoirs publics dès le début.
J'aimerais bien, si vous voulez, que vous parliez plus de vous. Votre histoire par rapport à cette asso ? Comment vous l'avez découvert ? Est-ce que vous militez là-bas depuis sa création ? Qu'est-ce que ça a changé de la découvrir ?
Siana : J'ai découvert l'asso un peu par hasard. Il faut savoir qu'avec l'asso, on fait ce qu'on appelle des maraudes. Donc on contacte des collègues pour dire qu'on existe, que s'iels ont besoin, on est là, que s'iels ont besoin de capotes, de produits d'hygiène, d'un soutien, d'informations juridiques ou quoi que ce soit, on est là. On rencontre des collègues par ce biais-là. Moi je suis pas arrivée comme ça mais un petit peu quand même en fait, j'étais sur les réseaux sociaux par le biais d'un autre journal qui publie aussi sur les réseaux. C'était le moment des premières portes ouvertes de PDA et c'est arrivé sur mon fil d'actualité. J'ai vu plein de commentaires putophobes. J'avais commencé la prostitution quelques mois auparavant. J'avais pas du tout les codes, j'étais pas du tout militante à ce moment-là. Je voyais des commentaires horribles et je voulais juste mettre un commentaire positif en mode "oh c'est trop bien, bon courage". La personne qui avait contacté le journal pour faire cet article est venue dans mes messages privées, on a discuté. De fil en aiguille, elle a compris que j'étais TDS et j'ai mis beaucoup de temps à venir à l'asso. Sachant qu'à la base je n'étais pas du tout dans les milieux militants ou dans les milieux associatifs. J'ai mis du temps à venir et puis finalement j'ai été beaucoup embarquée dans les évènements, petit à petit, c'est venu naturellement en fait.
Léa : Moi j'ai été là à la création de l'asso et du coup je peux parler du fait que je travaillais déjà depuis une dizaine d'années. J'ai commencé à bosser complètement solo et ça m'a fait un bien fou quand j'ai commencé à comprendre qu'il y avait des gens qui partageait mon point de vue sur le TDS. Même pas forcément de la part de collègues parce qu'au départ je n'en connaissais pas. J'ai lu King-Kong Theory [2], ça m'a donné une pêche d'enfer et je suis partie en stop faire une manif TDS à Paris, j'ai compris que ça existait les manifs TDS. Après, j'ai pu échanger avec des collègues, découvrir des nouvelles façons de bosser. Puis, à un moment donné, il y a eu cette volonté de faire cet asso à Besançon avec une collègue et des allié·es.
Scorpion : Moi, du coup j'ai découvert PDA il y a à peu près deux ans. Maintenant je suis militant à l'asso, mais ça fait à peu près huit ans que j'exerce la prostitution. J'en ai parlé petit à petit à des personnes de confiance mais en étant isolé, en continuant à bosser dans mon coin. Cette personne de confiance est une de mes meilleures amies, je lui ai parlé de ça et à son tour elle est devenue TDS suite à mon parcours, et elle a rejoint cette asso. Après c'est moi qui l'ai suivie. Du coup, c'est un peu grâce à elle que j'ai découvert PDA parce que je me suis dit "finalement pourquoi pas commencer à s'ouvrir au monde du TDS et sortir de ma grotte". J'ai pris mes marques petit à petit. Je pense qu'on a toustes rejoint l'asso comme ça, en se demandant ce qu'on pouvait faire. Voilà, petit à petit, on trouve ses repères et on se met un peu au militantisme. Ça fait carrément du bien de fréquenter des gens comme nous et ça je le soupçonnais pas une seule seconde !
Léa : Dans les façons de rencontrer des collègues en dehors de PDA, il y a les maraudes et je voulais préciser qu'elles sont soit virtuelles soit réelles. On a aussi rencontré pas mal de collègues en allant dans la rue, là où les collègues travaillent. Donc ça crée des liens qui sont aussi intéressants.
Siana : Pour trouver des collègues, depuis deux ans on a aussi bien développé les réseaux, je pense qu'avant ça existait pas trop. Et c'est en développant la communication que les gens sont venus près de nous. La communication nous a permis de rencontrer des collègues, ce qui est cool.
Ça fait carrément du bien de fréquenter des gens comme nous et ça, je le soupçonnais pas une seule seconde !
Sur quoi portaient les dernières luttes que vous avez mené ?
Siana : Au niveau de PDA on s'engage sur plein de choses. La priorité c'est quand même d'apporter du soutien localement aux collègues. On essaye aussi de lutter et de militer pour nos droits parce qu'on en manque cruellement, et pour plus de reconnaissance. C'est compliqué dans le sens où les TDS commencent seulement à être accepté·es dans les milieux militants et dans les milieux féministes. Il faut savoir que la toute première fois où on nous a officiellement invité·es, c'était en 2021 par le Collectif 25 novembre de Dijon. On a été invité·es à rejoindre la marche des fiertés en septembre. C'est vraiment la toute première fois où on a pu être invité·es. D'habitude pour manifester dans des milieux féministes, comme pour le mois de novembre [3] ou pour le 8 mars, on y allait mais on n'était pas invité·es. On se sentait pas à notre place. Pourtant, on avait besoin de prendre cette place, on avait besoin de revendiquer des choses, on se sentait exclu·es. On est une association située à Besançon, et pourtant, on n'a pas vraiment d'allié·es sur place. Ça commence un peu à bouger mais c'est compliqué. On a des mouvements qui sont principalement abolitionnistes (le Mouvement du Nid, Osez le féminisme), c'est elleux qui sont souvent appelé·es pour organiser des manifestations. On a essayé de faire des échanges avec ces organismes mais ça n'a pas abouti à grand chose. Donc voilà, autant dire que c'est compliqué et qu'on est quand même extrêmement heureux et heureuses d'avoir des allié·es de qualité (rire), des gens qui puissent enfin nous inviter à des évènements comme La Poudrière.
Scorpion : Oui, on peut parler aussi de deux autres types d'actions quotidiennes, qui sont un peu la routine de l'asso. Pour les maraudes web, on contacte les travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe qui ont des annonces en ligne. On organise aussi, chaque second samedi du mois, comme une sorte de mini portes ouvertes, pour sensibiliser, faire un petit peu de pédagogie. Donc même si vous êtes de Dijon, venez nous voir à Besançon les seconds samedis du mois ! On essaie de créer un peu de lien avec les structures allié·es qui sont assez rares dans le coin. Et qu'est-ce qu'on fait d'autres ? Ben beaucoup de manifestations !
Léa : Après, il y a des choses qui sont de l'ordre du quotidien, de l'entraide et des trucs pratiques sur place. Du genre, « j'ai un tuyau sur comment avoir tel ou tel truc », échanger des compétences parce que tout le monde n'a pas les mêmes ou la même position dans la société. Donc forcément c'est super utile de s'entraider. Il y a aussi des trucs de sécurité quand on parle d'entraides, des trucs d'autodéfense. Il y a aussi le fait de participer un peu à du plaidoyer par rapport à ce qu'il se passe au niveau national et international. On a été aux rencontres de Paris la semaine dernière où on a pu rencontrer des collègues de partout et participer à la construction de revendications communes, etc.
Siana : Il y a aussi les journées de lutte contre les violences faites aux TDS le 17 décembre. Malheureusement, nous, on est quand même une toute petite ville, on ne peut pas organiser ça chez nous donc s'il y a des gens un peu partout dans la France qui nous entendent, n'hésitez pas à aller rejoindre les TDS dans la rue parce qu'on a besoin d'allié·es sur le terrain aussi. À Dijon, c'est trop cool parce que demain [le 24 juin 2023], c'est la marche des fiertés, on va manifester avec nos petits parapluies rouges. Il ne faut pas hésiter à venir aussi nous aider sur le terrain quand il y a des journées spécialement pour les luttes TDS. Je pense aussi au 13 avril, le jour de la loi sur l'indemnisation du client donc des lois qui nous précarisent énormément.
C'est quoi qui rend compliqué l'organisation de manifestations à Besançon ?
Siana : Besançon c'est une petite ville. Faire une manifestation de TDS, de la même façon qu'une manifestation de pride, c'est un outing [4] même si on va mettre des masques. Le fait que des allié·es viennent nous aider, ça nous donne de la force et on se sent plus anonyme. Et oui, on n'est pas assez nombreu·ses pour faire une marche pour nous. En fait, même Besançon et Dijon, ça ne suffirait pas. Il y a des trucs organisés à Lyon, Strasbourg quelques fois. Je sais qu'à Lyon il y en a souvent. Peut-être que dans les années à venir ça va évoluer. En même temps, on est TDS mais ça veut pas forcément dire qu'on est militant·es. On ne veut pas forcer toustes les collègues, on milite chacun·e à son échelle et aller dans la rue pour manifester c'est puissant.
Scorpion : Ça donne beaucoup d'énergie mais ça peut être un danger. Ça peut comporter des risques, qui plus est dans une toute petite ville. Je trouve ça assez fort de pouvoir faire partie de manifestations dans sa propre ville. Mais bon, chez nous on n'est pas très bien accueilli·es.
Léa : On a participé à des manifestations sur Besançon mais c'était sur d'autres sujets où on se sent un petit peu moins visibles que si on était sur une manifestation vraiment centrée sur le TDS, comme des manifestations féministes ou des manif type 1er mai.
Comment vous expliquer que vous soyez la seule association de TDS dans les régions BFC et Grand Est ? Sachant que c'est une grande région où il y a quand même des villes comme Strasbourg, Nancy, Dijon, etc.
Scorpion : Léa, peut-être que tu peux parler des difficultés du début de l'asso, qu'est-ce qui a été compliqué ?
Léa : Oui mais ça n'explique pas les choses parce que c'était un contexte complètement différent. La visibilité du TDS et le respect du TDS a vachement changé et, aujourd'hui, je ne sais pas ce qui empêche les gens de monter de petites structures, peut-être qu'on n'est pas au courant. Je n'ai pas de réponse...
Siana : Après, ça doit demander une énergie incroyable de commencer, un courage aussi parce que moi, créer l'asso, je ne sais pas si j'aurais été capable de le faire. Je pense qu'il faut déjà avoir un bon réseau parce qu'il faut avoir des compétences. Et puis il y a aussi un certain classisme...
Scorpion : Faut se sentir en confiance avec le petit noyau avec lequel tout a commencé dans ta tête. Vous étiez un petit groupe quand même, vous étiez quatre.
Léa : Deux TDS et deux non TDS. Mais toustes dans les luttes LGBTQIA+.
Scorpion : Donc une énergie commune, c'est peut-être ça aussi qu'il faut pour débuter la construction d'une asso.
Siana : J'imagine que c'est quand même compliqué aussi parce qu'en France, les politiques, les institutions, etc. ne veulent pas entendre parler du TDS. Ce qui nous sauve, enfin ce qui permet à PDA de ne pas être empêchée par les associations abolitionnistes de Besançon c'est qu'on met beaucoup l'accent sur la santé sexuelle. On peut pas monter une asso communautaire sans passer par là sinon on n'est pas autorisé·es. À partir du moment où on s'organise entre collègues, même dans le but de se soutenir, ça passe sous la loi du proxénétisme. D'ailleurs les associations abolitionnistes nous accusent de proxénétisme. Donc c'est pour ça qu'il faut mettre l'accent beaucoup sur la santé sexuelle.
Scorpion : Oui, ou redéfinir le proxénétisme.
Siana : Aidez-nous à lutter pour ça.
Tout est utilise contre nous, pour nous dissuader d'exercer.
Je me demandais justement si vous pouviez dire deux mots sur la loi contre le proxénétisme ?
Siana : En fait, on a ce cliché en France, que le proxénète c'est seulement le gros mec cis mac qui va tabasser ses putes pour les obliger à travailler, alors que la loi du proxénétisme est beaucoup plus complexe. En fait, toute personne qui apporte un soutien aux TDS prosti', qui profite un petit peu ou pas du tout de son argent, qui l'aide dans ses démarches de travail, qui l'accompagne au boulot, qui lui prête son appartement, c'est du proxénétisme. Quand les hôtels repèrent les collègues, iels peuvent plus louer de chambres d'hôtel et sont expulsé·es des chambres. Quand on est TDS, on peut se faire expulser du jour au lendemain de son appart parce que les propriétaires qui le remarquent sont officiellement hors-la-loi. C'est des proxénètes parce que même s'iels n'en sont pas conscient·es, on leur donne notre argent du TDS pour payer le loyer, iels sont donc proxénètes hôteliers selon la loi. Et là, ce qui est le plus embêtant, à mon sens, c'est tout ce qui a un rapport avec le proxénétisme de soutien. On n'a pas le droit d'apporter son soutien, d'accompagner la prostitution d'autrui. Un exemple tout con, j'ai pas le droit d'envoyer un message à des collègues pour dire « allez pas voir ce gars-là, il est dangereux », parce que c'est de proxénétisme selon la loi.
Léa : Ça isole énormément, on peut pas être coloc en tant que TDS prosti' : ni coloc d'une autre TDS ni d'une personne lambda. Tout échange économique dans notre vie est à proscrire parce que si on paye quelque chose à quelqu'un·e, c'est qu'iel profite de notre argent et s'iel nous paye c'est du proxénétisme. On ne peut pas avoir de partenaire affectif, c'est n'importe quoi.
Scorpion : Tout est utilisé contre nous, pour nous dissuader d'exercer. Le panel de situation de proxénétisme est hyper large. Peut-être des personnes lambdas et mal informées imaginent le proxénétisme par le prisme de l'exploitation, de la contrainte, du forcing, de l'ultra-violence que peuvent subir les TDS. Mais cette loi dessert tout le monde, même s'il y a des personnes dans ces situations-là, elle dessert vraiment la totalité des personnes qui exercent ce métier.
Léa : Sachant que si ces lois sur le proxénétisme n'étaient plus dans les lois françaises, on se baserait sur le droit du travail qui interdit déjà l'esclavage et la traite humaine en France. Tout ça est réprimé de façon beaucoup plus saine, c'est beaucoup mieux défini que les lois qui nous concernent nous dans notre travail. On trouve que ce serait même beaucoup plus efficace contre les vraies situations de proxénétisme et de violence.
Ce serait quoi pour vous la manière la plus saine d'exercer votre métier ? Est-ce que vous avez des revendications ?
Léa : Nos revendications c'est de ne pas définir une façon d'exercer le métier au détriment des autres. Ce qu'on voudrait c'est avoir le plus de choix possibles à disposition. On peut se sentir plus sécure d'une façon ou d'une autre, trouver ça plus facile d'être indépendante, d'être dans un contexte salariale ou coopératif, l'important c'est qu'on ait le maximum d'option vu que ce métier n'est pas facile. Ce qui ressemble le plus à un truc idéal, c'est déjà de dépénaliser le travail du sexe.
Scorpion : Et que la pensée globale arrête de laisser croire que la violence est intrinsèque au métier. Et pouvoir traiter la violence là où il y en a. Pour ça il faut un cadre, il suffit pas d'interdire. La prostitution existe, comment on l'encadre ? Ça fait suffisamment de temps que ça existe pour pas dire : « On va supprimer la prostitution cette année ! » Ça ne peut pas marcher comme ça. Il faut un cadre qui soit le même pour tou·tes les travailleu·ses. Nous sommes des travailleu·ses, nous voulons avoir les mêmes « droits » que les autres travailleu·ses. « Droit » avec de gros guillemets parce qu'ils sont bafoués dans beaucoup de boulots. Mais en tout cas, s'en approcher un petit peu.
Siana : Et ce qu'on réclame aussi, c'est de laisser la parole aux concerné·es avant tout. Il y a eu des manifestations de collègues déjà bien avant que cette loi passe pour dire « c'est pas bien, ça va nous tuer » et ces personnes n'ont pas été écoutées. Ça serait bien que les politiques acceptent que c'était du caca, et qu'il serait temps de se remettre en question, d'écouter les personnes concernées. Et que les abolos acceptent que les lois qu'elles ont voulu faire passer nous ont plus tué·es qu'autres choses, qu'elles nous ont obligé·es à travailler avec des méthodes beaucoup plus complexes, à nous isoler plus dans la rue, à accepter le non-port du préservatif. La négociation de la capote c'est un sujet qui revient tout le temps avec les clients, ça ne devrait pas être une question, on devrait pouvoir être protégé·es systématiquement. Tout ça c'est le résultat de ces lois, elles étaient sensées nous sauver et elles nous tuent, il faut l'accepter à un moment et arrêter de parler à notre place. Écoutez-nous parce qu'on en peut plus.
Scorpion : Les décideurs n'écoutent pas.
Léa : Ils couchent avec nous et ils votent contre nous.
On va conclure cette discussion. Est-ce que vous avez des messages à faire passer ?
Scorpion : N'hésitez pas à vous informer sur le sujet du TDS directement. Si vous vous posez une question il y a plusieurs sites qui sont de sources fiables. Le site vers lequel j'oriente le plus souvent c'est celui du STRASS, syndicat du travail sexuel, vous trouverez toutes les réponses à vos questions.
Léa : Et si vous êtes TDS ou si vous connaissez quelqu'un·e qui est TDS, vous pouvez entrer en contact avec nous, on sera très content·es de faire votre connaissance.
Scorpion : Aussi, on a une bibliothèque solidaire à l'association, pour y accéder c'est le second samedi de chaque mois, de 16h à 20h. On a plein de livres qui tournent autour du TDS, c'est la bibliothèque « Au bonheur des garces ». Venez faire un tour à Besançon !
Ed Lab
Travail du sexe (TDS) : terme-parapluie qui désigne les métiers ou pratiques mettant en scène une prestation sexuelle qui, dans la majorité des cas, est un service rendu en échange d'une compensation monétaire. Le TDS regroupe donc : les personnes exerçant la prostitution (en rue, appart', hôtel, camionnette,...), les acteurs/actrices porno, les dominas, les cameuses/cameurs, les strip-teaseuses/strip-teaseurs...
La prostitution en particulier est régie par un ensemble de lois extrêmement répressives (même si le fait de l'exercer en soi n'est pas interdit en France).
Or, d'après la déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme : « toute personne a droit au travail, au libre choix de son travail ».
Évidemment, nous avons conscience que la notion du « choix » est complexe : il s'agit plutôt d'un spectre, avec de nombreux facteurs, qui offrent aux personnes une marge de manœuvre plus ou moins large pour subvenir à leurs besoins et à ceux de leurs proches.
Pénalisation des clients : loi du 13 Avril 2016. Met fin au délit de racolage et rend illégal l'achat de services sexuels. Les clients se raréfient, ce qui rend plus dures nos conditions de travail. Une baisse du nombre de clients signifie plus de temps passé au travail, dans des endroits plus isolés, et pousse les TDS à reconsidérer des pratiques autrefois non acceptées (le port du préservatif, un client potentiellement désagréable voire dangereux, une pratique non-souhaitée,...).
Le parcours de sortie de la prostitution (PSP) : Volet « social » de la loi de 2016, le PSP prévoit l'allocation ridicule de 343 euros par mois, en échange de laquelle la personne bénéficiaire doit promettre qu'elle cessera de se prostituer. Le PSP prévoit également une autorisation (seulement provisoire) de séjour, pour les personnes sans papières, ce qui les maintient dans la précarité, sans la certitude d'être régularisées à l'issue du PSP (d'une durée de 24 mois maximum).
Le PSP, dans sa forme actuelle, a été fait sur mesure avec et pour les assos abolitionnistes, les seules à avoir été consultées pour sa création. Il établit par exemple qu'une asso, pour obtenir l'agrément préfectoral d'accompagnement, doit délibérer en Assemblée Générale en faveur d'une politique dont la finalité est la sortie de la prostitution. Cela exclut évidemment les organisations communautaires composées de TDS, ou les associations en général qui souhaitent accompagner/soutenir TOUTES les personnes prosti', y compris celles qui ne formulent pas le souhait d'arrêter ce travail. Pour beaucoup d'entre nous, et pour une variété de raisons, la prostitution constitue la meilleure option pour payer le loyer/les courses/les factures, pour permettre aux enfants de partir en vacances, pour compléter des revenus insuffisants, etc...
Délit de proxénétisme : Les réalités de terrain sont complexes et variées, et l'article 225-5 du code pénal extrêmement maladroit. Il interdit « d'assister, d'aider ou de protéger la prostitution d'autrui ». Cet article hypocrite empêche surtout l'entraide et l'auto-organisation.
Quelques exemples de situations qui rentrent/peuvent rentrer dans le délit de proxénétisme :
Il est évident que cet arsenal de loi, résultat des politiques abolitionnistes/prohibitionnistes, nous protège peu et participe à notre précarisation, à notre isolement et à notre marginalisation, et nous exposent toujours plus aux violences.
Nous voulons pouvoir bénéficier du droit commun qui définit et sanctionne déjà les situations de violences, ainsi que les situations de traite / d'esclavage, d'une manière beaucoup plus pertinente (CF Article 224-1 B du code Pénal, sur le travail forcé/service forcé).
[1] L'abolitionnisme désigne les positions de certaines féministes ou de certaines institution vis-à-vis du travail du sexe. Tout en prétextant défendre les droits des femmes, les positions abolitionnistes promeuvent souvent des lois qui pénalisent les clients et les soutiens des (TDS).
[2] King King Theory est un essai de Virginie Despentes sorti en 2006. Le chapitre « coucher avec
l'ennemi » raconte l'expérience du travail du sexe de l'autrice et défend la prostitution.
[3] Différents évènements féministes ont lieu chaque année au mois de novembre, autour de la journée de lutte contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles et de la journée du souvenir trans.
[4] L'outing c'est le fait qu'une partie de notre identité soit dévoilée contre notre volonté.
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