Mike German
@rethinkintel.bsky.social
Author: "Policing White Supremacy,” "Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide," "Thinking Like a Terrorist." Co-writer of "Imperium." Former FBI Special Agent, turned civil rights advocate. Re-posts are not endorsements.
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump’s war on antifa. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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I'll be on Texas Public Radio soon discussing dark money in elections... www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...
Dark money becomes a formidable force in American elections
What's known as "dark money" in U.S. elections reached a record-shattering $1.9 billion in recent federal election cycles, nearly doubling the previous record. This surge traces back to the Supreme Co...
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The DOJ was willing to charge a labor leader with a crime, hold it over him for months, & then walk away from it once the charge couldn’t survive scrutiny. That is not how a justice system is supposed to work.
US justice department dismisses charges against California union leader
David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los Angeles
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Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch
Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.
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Our Hero of the Week: Terry Albury. In 2017 he leaked the Bureau's classified internal rule books to The Intercept and served 4 years in federal prison for it. Terry was nominated by another hero: @rethinkintel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEK... Full conversation in the thread 👇
Hero of the Week: Terry Albury, FBI Whistleblower Who Leaked the FBI's Secret Rules
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In 2002, FBI undercover agent Mike German ( @rethinkintel.bsky.social ), discovered colleagues had run an illegal wiretap and altered records on a terrorism case and reported it. The FBI retaliated, effectively destroying his career. Full conversation in the thread 👇
"Not only was LA the first testing ground for aggressive federal immigration enforcement, it also has a gruesome history of extreme violence by Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department against both protesters and press," @adamrose.bsky.social says.
Local Law Enforcement in Los Angeles Emerges Epicenter of Crowd-Control Weapon Misuse, New Report Finds
Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026, according to a r…
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel@acatwithnews.bsky.social · 2w agoNew photos and words from me at the Ten Four: Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026. latenfour.com/2026/07/22/l...
Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.
So much police violence is the norm. Around 3 people a day die from police violence. One-third of them are running away. mappingpoliceviolence.us
Mapping Police Violence
Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.
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The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
@mnlib69.bsky.social · 4w agoThis was within my lifetime— and Stephen Miller, John Roberts and the Heritage Foundation ghouls want to bring it back. 🤬🚩
I've been filming Patriot Front since 2017 when Thomas Rousseau marched into Charlottesville when he and his Vanguard America chanted "blood and soil". Here he is in January at the DC March for Life. They're recruiting and more than tripled their numbers since then.
“It is hard to think of another single event in the last decade that has had such far-reaching and sweeping and unintended global consequences as Jim Comey’s press conference.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The Comey effect: 10 years ago, an FBI news conference changed America
“It is hard to think of another single event in the last decade that has had such far-reaching and sweeping and unintended global consequences as Jim Comey’s press conference,” said one historian.
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Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
If America had a healthy political landscape someone as compromised as @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social wouldn’t be leading the campaign arm of Senate Democrats. Corruption is one of the defining issues of our time & Senate Dems aren’t ready for the moment. This is one of the reasons ↘️
Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
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New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
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The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech. www.wired.com/story/the-ma...
The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.
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The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof
Status Coup News@statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨BREAKING: NJ state police slam anti-ICE protesters with their shields and fire flash bang grenade smack dab in the middle of dense crowd of protesters. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️
Ex-FBI agent turned whistleblower Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social joins Hide & Speak this Saturday, May 30 @ 4pm ET to discuss fusion center abuses, the surveillance state & his time undercover in white supremacist groups. DO NOT MISS IT! Link below 👇
Always learning so much from the very best @thelisagraves.bsky.social and this time she has Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social of the @brennancenter.org and further fame as a guest ! 🌟 youtu.be/ZheXyrJCMP8
Supreme Court HIT with BACKLASH at Trump RUNS DESPERATE!!!
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Mike German, aka @rethinkintel.bsky.social, the former FBI agent who went undercover with white supremacists and then exposed how fusion centers actually operate joins Hide & Speak this Saturday, 5/30, 4pm ET. Link in thread!
Whitehouse: "If you look at all the Court's elections decisions, every one has the effect of helping the GOP. If you look at all their regulatory decisions, every one has the effect of helping the fossil fuel industry that funds the GOP. You can predict with perfect certainty what happens."
The idea that race and partisanship would be too entangled to identify voting restrictions as racist would have seemed absurd to the authors of the 15th Amendment, given that it was itself adopted at a time of racist partisan disenfranchisement www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
At least 78 Jan 6 rioters have been arrested on charges unrelated to the riot, twice as high as previously reported At least: 9 cases of child sexual abuse 3 rape 2 convicted of murder 19 weapons charges 9 violent assaults Excl figures compiled for @bylinetimes.bsky.social via court documents
The Jan 6th Rioters Who Were Pardoned by Trump Only to Offend Again
Mike Wendling, author of 'Day of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy' speaks to Adrian Goldberg for the Byline Podcast
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White elites have used many tactics to suppress Black political power—voter suppression, redistricting/gerrymandering, felon disenfranchisement, local preemption, and outright violence. Learn more about these tactics, their history, and their relevance today. 👇
Voter suppression makes the racist and anti-worker Southern model possible: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight
Summary: From the abolition of slavery until now, Southern white elites have used a slew of tactics to suppress Black political power and secure their economic interests—including violence, voter supp...
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It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...
What We Know About the San Diego Mosque Shooters’ Motives
Authorities discovered anti-Islamic writings in the suspects’ car and a note left by one of the shooters that mentions “racial pride.”
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