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This Machine Kills Fascists / Author of NYT Bestseller “Hold The Line - The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America's Soul” michaelfanone.substack.com
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A Badge Is Not a License to Intimidate Voters (opens the original)
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Bodycam Shows Senator Getting a Choice You’d Never Get (opens the original)
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A Maryland state senator crashes his SUV into a parked car, ends up parked on the sidewalk against a tree. Police get a heads-up that he might be intoxicated. Someone on scene takes his keys away.And then... nothing. No sobriety test. No field assessment. Nothing.I spent years as a police officer. I’ve pulled over plenty of people who weren’t state sena… Read more
I Worked With the FBI. Kash Patel Is Destroying It. (opens the original)
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I spent years working alongside federal agents as a deputized plainclothes narcotics officer. I know what that badge is supposed to mean — the standard, the vetting, the culture that’s supposed to make the Bureau something you can actually trust.Kash Patel has been tearing that down.And now he’s out there defending it — defending lowered hiring standards at the FBI like that’s not a problem. Like cutting corners on who gets to carry that badge is just some minor policy tweak.It’s not. The standa
Trump Sent Him To “Fight Crime.” Then He Got ARRESTED🚨 (opens the original)
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A Georgia National Guard member — deployed to Trump’s DC crime task force — is now facing two felony charges after allegedly pulling a loaded service weapon during an argument. Not a threat. Not a standoff. An argument about Army grooming regs. Inside a van full of armed soldiers.I went through the witness accounts, the suspect’s story — which keeps changing, by the way — and the basic firearm-safety principles that apparently just... didn’t exist in that vehicle.Here’s the thing: when you put a
Trump’s DOJ Charged 102 Protesters. Then It All FELL APART🚨 (opens the original)
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The DOJ went after 102 protesters in LA, Chicago, Portland, and DC — felony assault charges, the whole show. Big numbers, bigger headlines.Then the Associated Press actually looked at what happened to those cases.Dismissed. Reduced. Rejected at trial. Over and over.I broke down what the AP found — and why this isn’t just about politics. When you overcharge cases that don’t hold up, you’re not being “tough on crime.” You’re burning credibility that prosecutors need for the cases that do matter —
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