Adam Hyman

"An FBI agent was the one who pulled out the drive. He knew that by replacing both hard drives the system would be wiped and that he had advised personnel at MCC of this." It wasn't a mistake.

Good point.

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand? Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

The fact that they invited the guy who carried out the genocide—and hasn’t stopped—tells you everything you need to know about the Gaza “board of peace.”

Spraying hexachloroethane at civilians is indefensible. Inhalation can cause delayed lung injury, including chemical pneumonitis and pulmonary edema, especially when heated or aerosolized. Exposing U.S. citizens to a compound known to cause serious respiratory harm—without consent—raises clear public-health, civil rights, and liability concerns.

We told you the Venezuela invasion was just corruption. It took one whole week to get the proof. Trump took Venezuela's oil at gunpoint, and gave it to one of his biggest campaign donors. 1/ But when you learn the details, it's even worse. A short🧵on this corruption story.

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you. In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID. The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: “Why am I being pulled over?” They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him. Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway. An agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.” The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.” Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it. At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID. This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified. ICE’s own training materials explicitly state: “Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.” In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime. And here’s the key legal issue: Unless agents have: • a valid arrest warrant, or • probable cause that a specific crime has been committed they cannot: • use force • break windows • issue violent threats • detain or arrest someone Probable cause means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions. Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting: “First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.” The driver responds: “Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?” The agent replies: “I don’t know. Hands up.” Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands. At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat. Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?” The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking. The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men: “How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?” He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle. This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse. No probable cause. No warrant. No lawful basis for force. And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents. This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence. So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?” The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?

They didnt even wrap the car to preserve evidence. They didnt even cover the window. They just drove the car in which they assasinated an American citizen in down a highway with the window open. They had no intentions of doing a thorough investigation.

Sheriff Chris Swanson, the elected Sheriff of Genesee County, Michigan, is a career law-enforcement officer, not a pundit. He became nationally known in 2020 for prioritizing de-escalation during protests. What he says about the Minneapolis shooting directly exposes how bad MAGA-era policing policies fail. Swanson calls the shooting tragic but predictable. Masked federal agents in unmarked vehicles confronted a 37-year-old woman, gave unclear commands, and then fired three shots as her car was backing up and turning away. The agent who fired was not hit, not run over, and not in the vehicle’s path. Two shots were fired as the car was already driving away. That is not lawful deadly force. That is bad policy producing bad outcomes. Swanson is blunt about the force continuum. You do not shoot people who are fleeing. You do not shoot when you are not in danger. “Tough on crime” slogans do not override use-of-force standards, no matter how loudly MAGA politicians repeat them. What follows is worse. After the woman was shot and crashed, Swanson saw no attempt at life-saving aid. No urgency. No trauma response. He contrasts this with his own deputies, who once returned fire on a suspect who had already killed two people, then immediately tried to save his life anyway. That is professional policing. What happened in Minneapolis was not. He also points to missing body cams and officers leaving the scene instead of securing it for investigation. These are not accidents. They are the results of policies that reward aggression and optics over training and accountability. Swanson makes one thing clear. Calling this out is not anti-police. Blind loyalty is what damages law enforcement. Accountability is what protects it.

Remember when we said that Project 2025 clearly laid out how Trump was going to turn ICE from a border-focused immigration enforcement agency into a national secret police force answerable only to Trump as his own personal Gestapo, operating everywhere with impunity? Yeah. That.

No amount of screenings, trainings, or credentials will change the objective function of ICE, which is to enforce the racial boundaries of a white supremacist empire. We did the whole "bias awareness for agents of state violence" thing in 2020 and look where we are.

This is one of the saddest charts you’ll ever see. And it happened because of American policy. In 1963, JFK signed the Community Mental Health Act three weeks before his assassination. The law promised to build 1,500 community mental health centers so patients could leave state hospitals and receive treatment while living at home. That promise was never kept. Only half the centers were ever built, and none were fully funded. What happened next is what the chart shows. States closed the hospitals anyway. The mental hospital population dropped from 558,922 in 1955 to under 100,000 by the early 1980s. A 90% reduction in beds. But here’s what makes the crossing of those lines so devastating. There was no plan for where those patients would go. Medicaid rules actually prohibited reimbursement for mental health treatment in facilities with more than 16 beds, which gave states financial incentive to close hospitals whether alternatives existed or not. The patients didn’t disappear. They became homeless. They self-medicated with substances. And increasingly, they entered the criminal justice system for behaviors that would have been treated as medical issues a generation earlier. Studies found one-third to one-half of homeless people by the late 1980s had severe psychiatric disorders. A provision of Medicaid largely prohibited reimbursement to states for mental illness treatment in facilities that had more than sixteen beds. In California, the number of mentally ill people entering the criminal justice system doubled the first year after the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act was enacted. The math today. There was one psychiatric bed for every 3,000 Americans, compared to one for every 300 Americans in 1955. The three largest mental health providers in America are now jails. Cook County in Chicago, LA County, and Rikers Island in New York. In 1990, 1 in 15 prisoners at Cook County Jail had some form of mental illness. In 2015, the estimated prevalence was 1 in 3. That’s what the chart is really showing. The mentally ill went from hospitals built to treat them to prisons built to punish them. The patients who would have been in the falling blue line are now in the rising dark one.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Sad. And why we have so many homeless + imprisoned.

wow i can’t believe a republican president did what the last 3 republican presidents did and launched us into a recession and a useless war for oil.

This actually isn't the worst I've seen. I read last year about an app used to assign shifts to nurses and other healthcare professionals, which draws their credit score data from Experian, and then uses that to calculate how much to offer per shift. Essentially, the lower the credit score, the more desperate to make money the nurse is deemed, and the lower the pay they are offered. I mean it is one thing to do this gamified capitalism bullshit to delivery drivers and Ubers, but it is another thing entirely to turn payment for lifesaving healthcare professionals into the Hunger Games. And once I understood that capitalism has no safety rails and no adults in the room, and the animating philosophy of the rich white men behind it has not changed one single bit since they used to farm free labour and call human beings "property", I abandoned the idea of negotiating with it or reforming it. It really is just a stupid system invented by white men who would happily turn off the sun if doing so would boost their Q3 EBITDA 15%.

The best take on today's attack on Venezuela is likely the most cynical: that it is staged and transactional. Trump wouldn't attack Russia's ally without permission - but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. @davetroy as usual called it. 2/

Chris Cuomo asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez how we pay for Medicare for All, tuition free college, and the green new deal. It gives people sticker shock. Her answer: “People talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for All, but they do not talk about the sticker shock of our existing system. In a Koch brothers funded study, it shows that Medicare for All is actually much cheaper than the current system. Let's not forget that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act because they ruled that each of these monthly payments that everyday Americans make is a tax. We pay it every single month. (Or we pay at tax season if we don't buy plans off of the exchange.) Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is. Why aren't we incorporating the cost of funeral expenses of those who die because they can't afford access to healthcare? That is part of the cost of our system. Or the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability or are not able to participate in our economy because they don't have access to the healthcare that they need? At the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipe dream. Every other developed nation in the world has this. Why can't America? And that is the question we need to ask. We write blank checks for war. We just wrote a $2 trillion check for the GOP tax cut. And nobody asks how are we going to pay for it. So my question is why are our pockets only empty when it comes to education and healthcare for our kids? Why are our pockets only empty when we talk about 100% renewable energy that is going to save this planet and allow our children to thrive? We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do. But when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires or unlimited war, we seem to be able to invent that money very easily. To me it belies a lack of moral priorities that people have right now, especially the Republican Party.”

Words they don’t use: illegal, war, coup, international law, violation, sovereignty. This is how you normalize imperialism.

So, in 2026, the United States can hold a foreign president responsible for breaking US law but not an American president. Interesting.

Years ago, I stumbled into an ER on New Year’s Day with a high heart rate, severe dizziness and chest pain. Dr: “How much did you drink last night?” Me: “I don’t drink” Dr: “Tell the truth or we can’t help you” Me: “I don’t drink, please help me”. Dr: “Don’t lie”