They’re Not “Interfering With Law Enforcement.” They’re Responding to Constitutional Violations.
In “Why are Americans interfering with law enforcement?”, Joe Palaggi argues that protests, filming federal agents, and civilian engagement with police activity amount to harmful interference that substitutes activism for formal reform. The Hill published this opinion on February 12, 2026. But this framing misses the root cause of the unrest. Americans aren’t inconvenienced spectators. […]
ICE Agent’s iPhone Takes Center Stage in Renee Good Shooting — Because When the World Is Burning, Someone’s Gotta Get Good Lighting
In Minneapolis this week, federal immigration agent Jonathan Ross somehow managed to turn what should have been a serious law-enforcement encounter into the nation’s weirdest attempt at TikTokCop. As protests roiled after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, the centerpiece of the controversy wasn’t just the use of force — it was the fact […]
Stand Your Ground, Directly in Front of the Car
Once upon a time, in 2013, an independent review of Customs and Border Protection took a hard look at how agents used deadly force and accidentally reinvented the concept of irony. The review found a pattern in which agents placed themselves directly in front of moving vehicles and then treated the vehicle’s movement as justification […]
Once, Treason Laws Served Kings Against Their Rivals. Now the GOP Wants to Borrow the Crown
Treason™: Now Available as a Executive Order, Courtesy of Donald Trump One of the Founders’ quietest flexes was how paranoid they were about the word treason. Not paranoid like “red-strings on a corkboard,” but paranoid like “we just fought a king who used this word to kill his critics.” So when they wrote the Constitution, […]
For My Friends, a Pardon; For My Enemies, the Justice Department
Donald Trump has treated the justice system less like a neutral institution and more like a customer rewards program: commit crimes for him, get upgraded to First Class; oppose him, enjoy a surprise visit from federal prosecutors. On the “friends” side of the ledger, Trump famously pardoned Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Steve […]
“They really said what now?” A deeper look at Pete Hegseth’s Signalgate TOTAL EXONERATION
Pentagon says “Nothing to see here” , even though “here” involved war-plans on a group chat. So, the Pentagon has now declared a “TOTAL exoneration” of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Signalgate debacle. According to their internal review, the info he shared was technically declassified, so no crime was committed. (ABC News) But — […]