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The Trump Justice Department left a MAGA ex-cop to face his prison sentence after he leaked intel to a Proud Boys leader, per a court filing.

According to a court brief published by Politico's Kyle Cheney, the DOJ agreed with the conviction of Shane Lamond, a former D.C. cop who leaked internal information about an investigation into Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. Lamond told Tarrio about the Metropolitan Police Department's probe as it was unfolding, the brief detailed.

"Lamond told Tarrio about the investigation's status, MPD's internal deliberations, the FBI's involvement, that an arrest warrant was likely forthcoming, and that the warrant had been signed," the brief reads. "Lamond used Telegram to communicate with Tarrio, knowing that Telegram's encryption would make it harder for the communications to be intercepted."...

The Justice Department on Tuesday opted to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys leaders involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol, according to reports.

Members of the far-right group Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola were all convicted of crimes related to leading hundreds of their allies to the Capitol building, Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney wrote on X. Their lengthy sentences were previously commuted, but not pardoned by President Donald Trump.

"In a simultaneous filing, DOJ is moving to drop similar convictions against the Oath Keepers leaders who were similarly charged/convicted," Cheney added. ...

A former Proud Boys leader said he has received death threats after reports that he joined ICE, according to a Newsweek report Thursday.

Enrique Tarrio, who previously led the far-right, male-only militia group, told the outlet he was considering legal action after media outlets reported on an alleged database leak and published his name. He said he was not employed by ICE, although he said he would "love" to be a federal agent and could "do with the $50,000," referring to the bonus ICE agents are promised when they sign on.

"I've been getting a lot of f------ death threats because of this stupid troll, and it's not just a troll: The media—I'm using that term loosely—the media outlet NowThis actually went ahead and published like this, this campaign that says that I'm some sort of f------ ace agent without even asking me, without even contacting me for a comment," Tarrio said. ...

Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) unleashed on the GOP for pandering to tech "broligarchs" and using immigration as a smokescreen to distract from President Trump's actions since he took the oath of office Monday.

In his statement during Wednesday's hearing on immigration enforcement, Raskin slammed the House GOP for enabling Trump's stunts by promoting "tiny little messaging bills" that accomplished nothing.

Raskin began, "All these fine speeches and all these fancy parties with billionaires and congressmen in tuxedos, all these executive orders for big oil and the tech 'broligarchs,' and these pardons for Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and violent extremists who chanted, 'Hang Mike Pence!' and smashed and wounded our police officers in this building with steel poles, baseball bats and confederate flags. All this sound and fury on day one and week one, but nothing to bring down grocery prices or nothing to bring down the cost of rent as they promised, nothing to improve our health care system or build on our success in the last Congress in reducing prescription drug prices, nothing to get health insurance coverage for millions of people who don't have it, nothing to bring down the cost of housing or build new housing, nothing to combat the nightmare of climate change other than the full-scale retreat of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, nothing to address the real problems faced by the American people."...

CHICAGO — Protests are already underway as the Democratic National Convention begins today, with most of the energy coming from grievances over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel’s sustained assault on Gaza.

Left-wing protesters promoting an array of causes marched up Chicago’s Michigan Avenue on Sunday and massed outside hotels where delegates are staying. Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted a convention delegate welcome party at Navy Pier.

Much bigger demonstrations are likely today. ...

Two weeks into the surge of pro-Palestine protests that swept college campuses across the United States, a new, heroic archetype captured the imagination of right-wing media influencers: throngs of casually attired “frat bros” who jeered and laughed at activists, and in one case, a solitary Black woman.

Fraternities — whose reputations have taken repeated hits for sexual assault, hazing deaths, drug dealing and alcohol abuse — are being lionized by prominent conservatives who celebrate them as a cultural counter-force to liberals whose anti-Israel protests and encampments have roiled dozens of American college campuses this spring.

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