George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran is suing the federal government after he was detained by ICE for three days and three nights without explanation. Retes was arrested during a raid in July at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, California, where he worked as a security guard. Retes was driving to work when he encountered a checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. While he was jailed without charge, Retes missed his daughter’s third birthday.

“They never let me call my family. They never told me what I was charged for. They just kind of threw me in there and didn’t care,” Retes tells Democracy Now!

“These are basic violations of George’s federal constitutional rights and his rights under California law,” says his attorney, Marie Miller, who is suing the government over what happened to Retes in the hopes of setting a precedent to stop the same thing from happening to others.

Jeanine Pirro HUMILIATED After Failing To Indict Sandwich Thrower

Outrageous how Jeanine Pirro argues that the Sandwich Thrower committed a felony while saying nothing about her boss giving pardons to rioters who beat and killed cops on J6. Her hypocrisy and ignorance is stunning

Grand jury laughs off felony for ‘Sandwich Guy’ after ‘unhinged’ Trump admin response

Grand Jury Sides With Sandwich Slinger, Humiliating Bondi, Pirro, + DOJ

DC Grand Juries Tell Trump’s DOJ ‘NO, We Will Not Indict Protestors On Felony Charges

It is a rare occurrence when a grand jury refuses to indict a case that a prosecutor urges them to indict. Yet Donald Trump’s US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, had grand juries tell her N0, they would NOT indict two protestors for assaulting police officers. In fact, those grand juries told here no FOUR TIMES!

One of the protestors threw a sandwich at an officer and another reportedly stepped between and scuffled with officers who were trying to detain someone due to the person’s immigration status.

The grand jury sits as the conscious of the community and evaluates the evidence presented by the prosecutors to determine if there is enough evidence to indict someone on a felony charge. But the grand jury also is a check on prosecutorial overreach, abuse, and misconduct.

‘An attack on democracy itself’: Trump wants museums to shut up about slavery

Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an “an all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on “deeply democratic knowledge” and “therefore an attack on democracy itself.”

Trump THREATENS MUSEUMS That Have Exhibits Addressing “HOW BAD SLAVERY WAS

‘IT’S WOKE!’: Trump BANS Museums From Saying Slavery Is Bad

Young Turks calls out Trump Ghislaine Maxwell Transcripts Whitewash with Trump personal attorney and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

New Fallout From DOJ Interview With Ghislaine Maxwell

After the Injustice Department released transcripts and audio of its closed-door interview last month with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, the family of one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, is arguing that the interview has given Maxwell a “platform to rewrite history.”

Ghislaine Maxwell interview a DISASTER for Trump

Really American Host Kenny Hesse breaks down MAGA Raging at trump after the BOMBSHELL redacted Transcripts of Ghislaine Maxwell’s Interview with Trump’s former personal attorney Todd Blanche dropped and set the internet ablaze!

Trump is getting attacked from all sides as nobody believes what Maxwell says in the interview and it is reigniting the Epstein firestorm and cover-up conspiracies that MAGA supporters have been hurling at trump all along.

This video exposes Trump past which according to the above video is in opposition to Maxwell’s Whitewash Interview

Teresa Helm, who is a survivor of sexual assault by Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s speaks to NDTV, discusses about the entire Epstein controversy. While studying at a massage school in LA, Teresa was offered a job interview that would first lead her to Epstein’s close associate Gril-lane Maxwell and then the man himself. Teresa reveals how she was groomed by Epstein’s network, shares her reaction to efforts demanding the release of Epstein files.

‘None of this is legitimate’: Victims’ advocate reacts to DOJ’s explosive Ghislaine Maxwell intv

the Injustice Department has released transcripts and audio of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former associate of Jeffrey Epstein. MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton reports, and is joined by renowned civil rights attorney Nancy Erika Smith and New York Times Magazine legal writer Emily Bazelon.

‘Not a credible witness’: Congresswoman rips ‘corrupt’ DOJ’s interview with Ghislaine Maxwell

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump submitting to Ghislaine Maxwell’s total domination as he is forced to do whatever she wants based on all the horrible secrets she knows about him.

Epstein accuser’s family blasts Ghislaine Maxwell testimony release

Family members of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a prominent Jeffrey Epstein accuser, said they were “outraged” by the Justice Department’s decision to release transcripts from Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony last month to a federal prosecutor, arguing it provided Maxwell a “platform to rewrite history.

Ghislaine Maxwell rushes to clear ‘gentleman’ Trump and Epstein

‘It’s about exonerating President Trump’: Behind the DOJ’s motive for interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell

Did the convicted child sex trafficker and abuser Ghislaine Maxwell earn her “Trump pardon” with her scripted lies about Trump and Epstein—lies in which she re-victimized the victims and denied any child sex abuse while giving Trump a pass? Will Trump try to defy yet another federal judge and ship Abrego Garcia off to Uganda early next week in violation of Judge Xinis’ orders—and what will she do to stop him? Why won’t Alina Habba just take the hint and go away as the NJ U.S. Attorney? Why is Trump appealing a ruling on his $463 million civil fraud judgment if he actually “won” the appeal as he claims? And has Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in effect, become a whistleblower about the depravity of the MAGA majority in her recent dissents? Ben Meiselas and Popok break down all of this and more on the top-rated Legal AF podcast.

‘Absurd universe’: Maxwell slammed for offering ‘a complete whitewash’ in new interview

CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell clearly worked hard to earn her transfer to a cushy, minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.”Honestly, this is what I was expecting,” Honig told CNN anchor Micheal Smerconi…

Radical Right Wing Network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about Trump’s 2020 election loss

Newsmax WRECKED By $67M Dominion Settlement

Newsmax has agreed to a $67 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. The settlement is from the defamation lawsuit that company filed against Newsmax following claims they made about the integrity and results of the 2020 presidential election. This is a settlement that is years overdue, and there are still many more left to deal with.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries MUST step down. They project a distinct “Merrick Garland” WIMP vibe.

Hakeem Jeffries Lack Of Fight Is Despicable

Trump’s Medical Health… Visibly Decrepit Trump is physically falling apart, rotting and people say he STINKS!

Trump is falling apart right in front of our eyes. His cognitive decline has already been on full display, and we got a glimpse of his physical decline this past weekend when he tripped going up the stairs of Air Force One. When the exact same thing happened to President Biden, Trump mocked him relentlessly (and still does to this day,) so it is only fair that Trump faces the same level of scrutiny that Biden did.

Press RUSHED OUT after Trump “pooped pants”

Trump shows visible physical and verbal deterioration during public appearances while continuing to threaten democratic institutions

Trump Stinks! NEW DETAILS Emerge As Bad Odor Claims Intensify

Trump In Panic Mode After People Confirm That He Smells Bad

In what might be one of the weirdest stories of the year, Donald Trump and his reelection campaign are now in damage control mode after former Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger said that Donald Trump smells bad. After Kinzinger’s claims, more people came forward to say that, YES, Trump has a distinct smell, and stories from years ago also seem to corroborate the claims

Can Trump Get Any GROSSER? Smells WORSE! More Orange!

White House CAUGHT Covering Up Trump’s MEDICAL CONDITION

Trump’s health GOES VIRAL, swollen ankles & bruises

Doctors Alarmed by Trump’s Mental Decline

Trump is TERRIFIED as Health Issues SURFACE IN PUBLIC

Trump’s “Cankles” Makes MAGA Panic Over Trump’s Health Concerns

Shocking News About Trump’s Health He Doesn’t Want You To See!

Even Alex Jones Fears Trump’s Health is on the Verge of Major “Collapse”

Trump SOILING HIMSELF Saga Gets Worse…NEW DETAILS

Fascist Wannabe Dictator Trump announces the military occupation of Washington DC after 19 yr/old DOGE hacker ‘Big Balls” gets beat up by 15 yr/olds. This appears to be his latest distraction after refusing to release the Epstein Files

19 yr/old Big Balls DOGE Hacker Attacked by 15 year old Boy & Girl

Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Former (DOGE) Department of Government Efficiency staffer “Big Balls” Edward Coristine, in an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C.

According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but quickly returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website — was with a female friend around 3 a.m. Sunday in Washington’s Logan Circle when a circle of roughly 10 teens approached their car and made comments about taking it. He reportedly pushed the woman into the car for her safety before confronting the mob, which then attacked him until police drove up, called to the scene by Coristine’s companion, who’d phoned 911.

Trump Begins MILITARY INVASION OF WASHINGTON, DC!

Trump Deploys National Guard to Washington DC

Trump has already abused the power of the American military and continues to do so with the latest announcement of putting DC police under federal control. Steve Schmidt reacts to Trump’s press conference and explains the real reasons behind Trump’s controversial decision.

‘Not about crime’: Maddow CRACKS OPEN Trump’s real motives in deploying the National Guard to D.C.

“Watch what they do, not what they say.” Rachel Maddow shows that Donald Trump is not actually bothered by crime, not just because he is a convicted criminal, but because of many examples of him helping criminals. And what else Trump’s actions show is a fondness for using the U.S. military to threaten and intimidate the American people.

Attorney reveals the REAL REASON for Trump’s DC takeover

Congress INSTANTLY RESPONDS To Trump’s DC Takeover

Trump in PANIC MODE as MILITARY SWARMS DC

Anti-Trump Protest LIVE: Trump Warns Homeless To Leave Washington DC

The Biggest Criminal in D.C. Right Now Is Trump

The president’s takeover of the capital’s police force is a distraction from his own rampant wrongdoing.

Per the above article ; THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL IN D.C. IS TRUMP

“Trump’ takeover of the capital’s police force is a distraction from his own rampant wrongdoing. On Monday morning, Trump said something was “out of control” and that “we’re gonna put it in control very quickly.… I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.” Trump wasn’t wrong that crime, bedlam, and squalor have lately engulfed the nation’s capital. It was only the “bloodshed” part that struck a false note.

As The Washington Post documented in advance of Trump’s declaration of what looks a lot like martial law within the District of Columbia, violent crime spiked in 2023 but fell sharply in 2024, and since the start of 2025 it’s stood lower than during nearly all Trump’s first term as president (when Trump paid D.C. crime little heed). This is part of a national trend; according to the Post, homicides are down 30 percent nationwide, as are burglaries and robberies. Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police and his deployment of the National Guard therefore have no justification in observable reality. Even Trump’s own FBI director, Kash Patel, in a hilariously off-message statement at the press conference announcing the deployment, said that “the murder rate is on track to the be lowest in U.S. history.”

Regrettably, after the Post got finished showing “what the data shows,” someone (I’d bet an editor) added this sentence: “Not captured in statistics, though, is the grief, pain and shattered sense of safety that follow each crime.” Oh, please. In the context of an imminent and deeply troubling federal takeover of the city’s police force, I put that statement somewhere between rationalization and abject surrender. Similarly craven was the Post’s subsequent framing of the matter as a dispute between a president who thinks violent crime is going up and a D.C. mayor who thinks it’s going down. Mayor Muriel Bowser doesn’t think it’s going down. It’s going down.

Glenn Kessler, who until recently was the Post’s fact-check columnist (he took the buyout), reported last week that the Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, last year asked him: “What should the Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?” Reporting the facts and then telling readers that facts don’t matter—or that any disagreement over them is just a matter of opinion—would seem an excellent start. The introduction of federal troops into Washington based on false information calls on Washington’s preeminent news source to demonstrate bravery. Early signs are not encouraging.

The real “crime,” “bedlam,” and “squalor” engulfing the capital emanate not from D.C.’s not especially mean streets but from the White House itself. Don’t let’s forget that the president was convicted a mere 15 months ago on 34 felony counts of fraud related to the 2016 election; in January, the judge in that case sentenced Trump to something called an “unconditional discharge” that allowed Trump’s crimes to go unpunished. That sort of résumé would make most of us reluctant to inveigh publicly against lawbreaking impunity. Not Trump.

The ironies ricochet in every direction. The only reason we don’t see Trump referred to regularly in print as a convicted felon is that the word felon offends civil libertarians; the nation’s most powerful scourge against wokeism turns out, preposterously, to be its greatest beneficiary. Trump is nobody’s idea of a Jean Valjean, not even his own: Trump recently stated he didn’t know whether to identify with Valjean or with his villainous nemesis, Inspector Javert. His 34 felony counts don’t make him a person who made a mistake once, or even 34 times, and deserves a second chance. He’s someone who made a mistake once, or 34 times, then got a second chance, and is using it to commit more crimes. That he’s able to do so demonstrates a lenience on the part of the Supreme Court and an impeachment-shy Republican Congress that puts the District of Columbia Superior Court to shame. Where’s Inspector Javert when you really need him?

The gaudiest of Trump’s latest D.C. crimes involve personal enrichment, in apparent violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clauses. Qatar gave Trump a $400 million aircraft that’s being retrofitted (at a cost of another $400 million) into a replacement for Air Force One; when Trump leaves office, the aircraft will transfer to Trump’s presidential library. Qatar also agreed to allow Trump to build a golf resort there. If these twin agreements don’t violate the foreign emoluments clause (which reads, “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State”), then it’s hard to imagine what does.

Nobody expects Trump will be called to account anytime soon because the Supreme Court last year gave the president ludicrously broad and ahistorical immunity from prosecution in connection with his official actions. It’s much the same with Trump’s various crypto scams, which two months ago prompted Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky to tell The Guardian, “I have never seen such open corruption in any modern government anywhere.”

A leaked DHS memo reveales Trump’s plan to embed military forces into U.S. cities, bypassing the Posse Comitatus Act. From federalized National Guard troops to active-duty Marines, discover how America edges toward authoritarianism under the guise of “homeland defense.”

Leaked Memo Reveals Trump’s Horrifying Plan to Use the Military to Occupy Cities

15 year olds attack Big Balls DOGE Hacker

Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but quickly returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website — was with a female friend around 3 a.m. Sunday in Washington’s Logan Circle when a circle of roughly 10 teens approached their car and made comments about taking it. He reportedly pushed the woman into the car for her safety before confronting the mob, which then attacked him until police drove up, called to the scene by Coristine’s companion, who’d phoned 911.

Ex-DOGE staffer allegedly injured in attempted carjacking – leading Trump to float federal takeover of D.C.

Former DOGE staffer Edward Coristine was allegedly assaulted over the weekend, CBS News has confirmed.

Per the article above; Former Department of Government Efficiency staffer Edward Coristine was allegedly assaulted in an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, according to police records obtained by CBS News — an incident that led President Trump to threaten to put the nation’s capital under federal control.

Nineteen-year-old Coristine — who is known for his online moniker “Big Balls” — was allegedly surrounded and assaulted by a group of approximately 10 teenagers near his car early Sunday morning, according to a report from the Metropolitan Police Department. Two 15-year-olds were arrested and charged with unarmed carjacking.

Coristine and his significant other later told police that they “saw the suspects approach and make a comment about taking the vehicle,” and “for her safety, he pushed his significant other … into the vehicle and turned to deal with the suspects,” the police report said. Police officers who were patrolling the area spotted the incident and stepped out of their cruiser, leading most of the teens to flee on foot, but two of the assailants were stopped, identified by Coristine and arrested.

The two arrestees were identified by police only as a 15-year-old male and a 15-year-old female from Hyattsville, Maryland. Police said in a statement that “multiple suspects remain outstanding.”

DOGE Big Balls Ransomware Attack – What You Need To Know

A new ransomware attack called DOGE Big Balls uses political conspiracy theories to wrongfoot law enforcement.

DOGE Big Balls Ransomware Attack — What You Need To Know

Per the above article: If you think the threat from ransomware attackers is all but over, then you are very wrong indeed. While the amount paid in ransoms is declining the attacks themselves are not only surging but evolving fast. With new ransomware groups employing tools to brute force VPN and firewall passwords, old groups wanting to make friends with the FBI, and some even, I kid you not, moving the ransomware threat to snail mail, the danger is far from over.

An April 14 report from threat intelligence platform Cyble, has detailed how one ransomware group is leveraging provocative political commentary, conspiracy theory, and even the name and address of a high-profile individual within the Department Of Government Efficiency to manipulate, misattribute and draw attention while sowing the seeds of confusion. That ransomware threat is called DOGE Big Balls.

Although the ransomware payload itself is a highly-customized version of an existing malware threat known as Fog, the threat actors behind the latest attacks have renamed their threat to DOGE Big Balls Ransomware, likely to attract media attention and stand out from the crowd. Mea culpa, it’s working. It’s relatively basic in attack methodology, leveraging a ZIP file with a deceptive shortcut that ultimately executes a multi-stage Windows Powershell infection chain. A known vulnerability, CVE-2015-2291, is exploited to get the necessary kernel-level access to enable privilege escalation. Where things get more unusual, however, is that the ransomware scripts include political commentary and conspiracy theory in the code.