Trump administration releases trove of files on Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination

The National Archives has published thousands of newly digitized documents relating to the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a directive by President Trump.

The release on Monday follows through on an executive order Trump signed days into his second term, requiring the release and declassification of records connected to King's murder and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy — tragedies that have been the subject of curiosity and conspiracy theories for decades.

It was not immediately clear what new historical insights would be found in the trove of documents. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement Monday that the release included more than 230,000 files relating to King's assassination, including information connected to the man who was convicted of murdering him, James Earl Ray. [MORE

The Nation Archives website states:

“In accordance with United States law, it is the responsibility of the National Archives to serve as the final repository of the records of the United States federal government, and make those records available to the American people.  Many of the records related to the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  were previously transferred to the National Archives from federal agencies but were not available to the public. The National Archives is coordinating with other federal agencies across the Executive Branch to ensure that any remaining records are identified and transferred to the National Archives as soon as possible. [MORE]

All the records can be found [HERE]

‘Starve Away’ – An Overweight, White US Puppetician Mocks Gaza Suffering

Just when you thought Congress could sink no lower, in comes Randy Fine (R-FL), who has multiple times mocked the suffering in Gaza and who yesterday said Palestinian children should “starve away” until the Israeli hostages are released. Polls continue to show that Americans are repulsed by what is happening to Palestinians in Gaza, yet somehow they continue to elect representatives like Randy Fine. [MORE]

Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

Israel's war of extermination in Gaza continues to plunge to new depths of horror. Starving Palestinians have begun to collapse in the streets and die of hunger as a result of the siege. Those who try to get food are gunned down in ever deadlier aid massacres. The Israeli military issues frequent mass expulsion orders and further expands its ground operations, slicing up the enclave and forcibly displacing Palestinians into more concentrated zones. All the while, the relentless aerial assault and ground attacks persist.

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing. [MORE]

Just Six US House Members Vote Against Sending Terrorcrats in Israel Another Half Billion Dollars in Military Aid

From [HERE] Special interests are continually finagling to gain more support from the United States government that oversees a vast trove of money and power. A vote just after midnight Friday morning in the US House of Representatives suggests that the government of Israel is at the top of the heap of special interests when it comes to being able to extract benefits from the US with very widespread support from American legislators.

The vote was on an amendment Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (HR 4016) that was being considered on the House floor. Greene’s amendment would have removed the bill’s providing of 500 million dollars in military aid to the Israel government.

As Greene explained in her House floor speech introducing the amendment, this money would be doled out by the 37 trillion dollars in debt US government to the government of “nuclear armed Israel” that provides universal health care and college education subsides to Israelis while receiving US handouts. Further explained Greene, the half billion dollars in the bill is not a one-off payment. Rather, Greene explained that “the US already provides Israel with 3.8 billion annually in foreign aid” and provided an additional 8.7 billion dollars via just one other bill last year. Further, noted Greene, the US has spent enormous sums recently on taking military actions of its own in support of Israel. She provided as an example the US having spent over 800 million dollars shooting off “15 to 20 percent of our Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles stockpiles” in aid of Israel in the “twelve-day war” against Iran earlier this year.

Gather a random group of 435 Americans — the same number as there are voting members in the House — to vote on this matter, and Greene’s amendment would be sure not to lose in a landslide. But, the US House of Representatives, despite on occasion being referred to as the people’s house, has a membership whose views in regard to the US giving more and more to the Israel government are far askew from public opinion.

Just 1.4 percent of House members voted for Greene’s amendment. Here is the list of the six House members who voted in opposition to providing another half billion dollars in military aid to what is looking like the most successful special interest in America:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
Rep. Summer Lee (D -PA)
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

Baltimore NAACP in chaos as financial questions lead to leadership suspensions and secrecy in Agency Controlled by Elite White Liberals

The Baltimore branch of the NAACP, the second oldest in the nation, is facing internal turmoil as members continue to seek answers regarding financial management and leadership suspensions. A year ago, Doc Cheatham, a member of the branch, was among those who signed a complaint questioning the alleged unapproved spending of thousands of chapter dollars. Cheatham said he requested treasurer reports, which were never provided.

"We're not making any allegations against them. We're just saying we need answers to questions we're not getting answers to," Cheatham said.

Ten months ago, the national organization suspended President Kobi Little and Treasurer Joshua Harris, who also held similar positions in the state organization. While sources claim the national board imposed permanent suspensions on the two last week, a news release from anonymous local NAACP members suggests otherwise. The statement read, "The Baltimore NAACP affirms that no new official actions have been communicated from the national office. Members remain in regular communication with Rev. Kobi Little and Joshua Harris, who have not received any investigative findings to support the allegations made against them The accusations remain baseless and unsubstantiated." [MORE]

Puppetician Bernie Sanders Spent More Than $200K Flying on Private Jets for His ‘Fight the Oligarchy’ Tour

The Gateway Pundit recently noted that ‘woman of the people’ AOC flew first class to the Bernie Sanders ‘Fight the Oligarchy’ event in Las Vegas.

Now it has been revealed that Bernie Sanders has spent more than $200,000 flying to the same events on private jets.

It’s starting to look like these people are hypocrites who don’t believe their own claims about climate change, or the ‘oligarchy’ for that matter. They deny themselves nothing and live the high life while decrying the same.

The Washington Free Beacon reported:

Bernie Sanders Spent $221K on Private Jets Amid ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour

Sen. Bernie Sanders has crisscrossed the country on his nationwide Fighting Oligarchy Tour to rail against billionaires and supposed “oligarchs” like Elon Musk—while traveling like an oligarch himself.

Campaign expenditures released Tuesday and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Sanders’s main campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, spent $221,723 chartering private jets during the first quarter of 2025, with the first payment coming just days before the launch of his tour in February.

“We will not accept a rigged economy where working people struggle while billionaires become richer,” Sanders said during the tour’s latest event in California on Tuesday. “We have got to create an economy that works for working people, not just Mr. Musk and the billionaire class.” But Sanders has had no issue splurging on private jets far beyond the means of working people, even as he has ramped up his attacks on the rich. [MORE]

“Shenanigger” AOC’s District Sees 70% Crime Surge - Furious Residents Say She’s Abandoned Them, While Engaged in Symbolic Political Activity ("Shenaniggerans")

While Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tours the country pushing socialist talking points and railing against law enforcement, her own congressional district is overrun by crime — and her constituents say they have had enough.

Since AOC took office in 2019, major crime in her Queens and Bronx district has skyrocketed by a staggering 70%, more than double the 30% increase citywide, according to NYPD data analyzed by the New York Post. In some precincts, like the 110th in Queens, the increase is even more alarming — 105% since AOC assumed office.

Residents say the surge isn’t just numbers — it’s their everyday reality.

“She’s not doing s–t. She doesn’t live in the neighborhood, she doesn’t care,” Guadelupe Alvarez, a lifelong Elmhurst resident who now lives across from a brothel, told the New York Post. “I could never have a family here,” she added, after witnessing gang violence, car thefts and open-air prostitution steps from her door.

Alvarez confronted Ocasio-Cortez at a town hall, only to be brushed off and referred to a staffer. “She did a very silent exit through the back,” Alvarez told the New York Post.

Others, like Ramses Frias, a Republican City Council candidate, echoed the frustration. “You have a mouth to speak up. People are suffering. They’re scared to go outside,” he told the New York Post. [MORE]

Delivering Nothing of Tangible Value to Black People: Black Puppetician GA Rep. Hank Johnson Posts Video Singing a Song about Epstein

Democratic Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson posted a video Monday singing a song demanding the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Axios obtained a two-page memo and jailhouse footage in a leak, claiming that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, and it also denies the existence of an incriminating “client list.” In a post on X, Johnson posted a video of him singing and demanding the release of more information.

“Congressman Hank Johnson coming to give you some more ear candy or perhaps an earache. But I’m going to do my best off of this Jason Isbell tune, ‘Dreamsicle,'” Johnson said while holding a guitar. He then launched into a bizarre performance. [MORE]

All shits and giggles and what not but how does this help to liberate Black people who are dead last in every measurable socio-economic category? Does puppetician Johnson deliver anything of tangible value to the Black votary or to Black communities?

Voted “most clueless” member of Congress in 2014.

Nations Only Black Governor Wes Moore Vetoes Reparations bill, Continues Doing Little for Blacks, Promoting His Ongoing Smiling Face

In May Gov. Wes Moore vetoed legislation that would have launched a two-year study into whether the state should provide reparations to Marylanders impacted by the state’s history of slavery and inequality.

The veto sparked immediate backlash from the state’s Legislative Black Caucus, which describes itself as the largest such group of legislators in the country and had forcefully fought for the bill in Annapolis this year.

“At a time when the White House and Congress are actively targeting Black communities, dismantling diversity initiatives, and using harmful coded language, Gov. Moore had a chance to show the country and the world that here in Maryland we boldly and courageously recognize our painful history and the urgent need to address it,” the caucus said in a statement. “Instead, the state’s first Black governor chose to block this historic legislation that would have moved the state toward directly repairing the harm of enslavement.”

Moore, who in addition to being Maryland’s first Black governor is also the only Black governor in the country, wrote in his veto letter that he supported the work of the bill’s proponents but he does not believe it’s the right “time for another study.”

“I will always protect and defend the full history of African Americans in our state and country,” Moore wrote. “But in light of the many important studies that have taken place on this issue over nearly three decades, now is the time to focus on the work itself: Narrowing the racial wealth gap, expanding homeownership, uplifting entrepreneurs of color, and closing the foundational disparities that lead to inequality — from food insecurity to education. These are the issues I fought for even before I was sworn into office, and they are the priorities our administration will continue to address, with increased focus and intentionality.”

The reparations commission bill — known as Senate Bill 587 in the legislative session that ended in April — was among 23 vetoes Moore issued late Friday. They include rejections of other bills to study high-profile and potentially financially impactful topics, like one that was set to analyze the possibility of major fossil fuel-emitting companies paying penalties for their emissions, or researching the economic impacts of data center developments in the state.

The reparations legislation had been one of the most high-profile bills of the 90-day session that ended last month. [MORE] and [MORE]

While Pretending to be Political Allies of Blacks, White Liberal Authorities in DC are Cramming Black People Into Jails/Prisons (Over 90% Black). DC has the Highest Incarceration Rate in the World

According to the Prison Policy Initiative Washington, D.C. has an incarceration rate of 816 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities).

The D.C. criminal justice system is especially unique—after the Lorton Prison Complex was closed down in 2001, the District's prison population has been integrated into the federal Bureau of Prisons system. The District of Columbia's Department of Corrections currently operates two facilities that serve functions similar to local jails. While we don't (yet) have a good annual data source for prison growth after 2001, the data that does exist indicates that District of Columbia has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S., and therefore the world. [MORE]

Liberals Fail to Protect or Serve Blacks: Over 1/3 of Chicago’s Fatal Shooting Cases are Closed by Police w/o Resolution While DA's Fill the Jails w/Blacks for Possessing Guns to Protect Themselves

According to a Marshall Project analysis of arrests from 2010 to 2022, White men were underrepresented, as were White women. Chicago’s population is roughly a third White, and nationwide surveys suggest gun ownership is far more common among men than women. But over the years of data we reviewed, Chicago police arrested fewer than 1,000 White men — and more than 1,500 Black women. [MORE]

victed in Illinois for felony gun possession don’t go on to commit a violent crime, and the majority of those sentenced to prison for gun possession don’t have past convictions for violence. Instead, people who already committed violent crimes are more likely to do so again.[MORE]

It’s not unusual for CPD to mark unsolved cases as cleared, even though this designation often confuses surviving families. Under the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, law enforcement agencies can use a broad category called “exceptional means” to clear cases when circumstances outside their control prohibit them from arresting, charging, and prosecuting a suspect. 

CPD logs cases as “exceptionally cleared” for two main reasons: when an offender is dead, and when prosecutors declined to file charges against a suspect. Using records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, The Trace analyzed fatal shootings between 2010 and 2024 and learned that of the 2,700 cases Chicago Police declared closed, almost a quarter of them were cleared because prosecutors declined to file charges — not because an investigation was resolved. Almost 36 percent of closed fatal shootings were cleared by exceptional means. [MORE]

According to a study by the Marshal Project, In Chicago and elsewhere, gun possession arrests are rising as shootings go unsolved.

‘Too many people dying in Alabama prisons:’ Speakers describe loved ones’ ordeals

Advocates, experts, formerly incarcerated individuals and family members of those behind bars described an Alabama prison system that kept inmates in a state of terror and a parole system that robbed inmates of hope.

Speaking to the Legislature's Joint Prison Oversight Committee meeting in the Alabama Statehouse, witnesses Wednesday described rampant drug use by those incarcerated in the state's prisons; trafficking of illicit substances by corrections staff; constant extortion demands by people in prison against one another, and violence perpetrated by both staff and those in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections.

"There has got to be some change," said Tim Mathis, whose son Chase was killed in Elmore Correctional Facility in June 2024. "There are too many people dying. A lot of people here still have loved ones there. Mine is gone. There is nothing I can do for him, as much as I try and as much as I pray and cry over it. I am mad. I am not going to become unmad until something is done about this."

Witnesses also said low parole rates have hurt morale among those in prison. [MORE]

Shackled For Days and Weeks: A Federal Report Finds Widespread Abuse in Prisons Run by the Feds

One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for more than two days. Another was held in restraints so tight that, afterward, part of a limb had to be amputated. A third person was confined in restraints for 12 days, then 30 days, and then again for 29 days.

These abuses are outlined in a new report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, which is highly critical of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ use of restraints on prisoners.

The report concludes that federal prison officials violated their own rules, shackling prisoners to beds and chairs for hours — or even days — sometimes using restraints on both wrists and ankles. Additionally, they violated a separate rule that prohibits the use of restraints as punishment.

In response to the inspector general’s findings, the bureau stated it agreed with the report’s recommendations and would revise its policies and practices moving forward.

The report follows an investigative series in recent years by The Marshall Project and NPR, which exposed abuse in federal prisons, including the overuse of restraints and shackles so tight that prisoners report scarring and permanent injury.

The OIG reviewed six years of bureau records and found thousands of instances of abuse. Those included “thousands of incidents of inmates held in restraints for 16 hours or longer, hundreds of which were held in restraints for more than 24 hours and some for over a week or weeks.” However, the investigators noted that their work was limited by inadequate record-keeping at prisons. [MORE]

Law Cropping Getting Worse: Funding Crisis Leaves Defense Lawyers Working Without Pay

The program that pays court-appointed private attorneys to represent indigent federal criminal defendants has run out of money, starting the clock on a painful three-month delay in paying these attorneys and their related service providers for constitutionally mandated legal work (article available here(link is external)).

The funding crisis has prompted concern throughout the federal Judiciary that many of these private lawyers, known as panel attorneys, could decline new cases. That could leave defendants, even those on death row, without adequate representation. 

There are more than 12,000 private panel attorneys throughout the country who accept CJA assignments annually. About 85 percent of them work for small firms or are solo practitioners who can ill afford long delays in payments for their work.

The funding shortfall also affects specialists employed by the defense to help effectively present their clients’ cases, such as investigators, interpreters, and expert witnesses. Many of those vital roles may go unfilled for three months, with unpredictable consequences for the criminal legal system.

The work can’t simply be turned over to federal defender organizations across the country because those offices are already seriously understaffed.

Federal Defender offices have been under a hiring freeze for 17 of the past 24 months because of tight budgets from Congress. Many defender offices are experiencing increased burnout among employees working excessive overtime. [MORE]

10th Circuit Rules : Filming While Black Arrest Wasn’t Unreasonably Unreasonable

Black man is arrested for filming in entryway to Denver police station and spends three days in jail. Yikes! There's a sign saying no videorecording is allowed in the station, but he didn't try to go past the sign and into the station. (A few days later, a white man films in the same place, and he's not arrested.) Man sues. Officers Sergey Gurevich and Julie Weinheimer: we are entitled to qualified immunity. District court: No immunity. Tenth Circuit(link is external) (unpublished): Plenty of immunity. Even if it was unreasonable to arrest him, it wasn't unreasonably unreasonable. Denial of qualified immunity vacated.

The case is Detreville v. Gurevich, et al.(link is external), No. 24-1427 (10th Cir. July 8, 2025) (unpublished). [MORE]

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Black Boston City Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson Indicted and Arrested by Federal Authorities on Corruption Charges

From [HERE] FBI agents arrested a Democratic Boston official Friday morning on federal corruption charges, citing an alleged “kickback scheme” to steal thousands of taxpayer dollars from her own constituents.

Tania Fernandes Anderson, who is serving in her second term as city councilor for Boston’s Seventh District, was indicted on one count of theft regarding programs receiving federal dollars and five counts of wire fraud, according to the Department of Justice’s indictment unsealed Friday.

Prosecutors allege that Fernandes Anderson, facing financial challenges last year following a state ethics commission’s decision to fine her $5,000 for violating a conflict of interest law, conspired with an unnamed relative on her staff in an alleged bonus kickback scheme to defraud the city of Boston. Fernandes Anderson allegedly paid her relative a $13,000 bonus — more than twice as large as the bonuses given to all of her other staff combined — who then slipped $7,000 in cash of that bonus to Fernandes Anderson during a secret exchange in a city hall bathroom on June 9, 2023, according to the DOJ’s indictment.

“Using public office for personal gain is a crime. Her behavior, as alleged in today’s indictment, is a slap in the face to the hardworking taxpayers in the city of Boston who have every right to expect that the city’s funds are in good and honest hands,” Jodi Cohen, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division, said in a press release following Fernandes Anderson’s arrest. “This case illustrates how the FBI, and our partners are working hard every day to battle public corruption and the corrosive damage it does to people’s faith in government.”

Each count of wire fraud carries a maximum 20 year prison sentence and the count for “theft concerning programs receiving federal funds” provides for a maximum sentence of 10 years, according to the press release. [MORE]

Jackson Mayor, Other Black Mississippi Officials to Stay in Office Amid Corruption Charges

From [HERE] Hinds County District Attorney Jody E. Owens II walked briskly toward a crowd of TV cameras and reporters on the steps of the federal courthouse in Jackson last week to denounce what he called a “horrible example of a flawed FBI investigation” and an “assassination attempt on my character.”

Owens, the top elected law enforcement official for Mississippi’s largest county that encompasses its capital city, pleaded not guilty to multiple federal felony charges stemming from an alleged FBI bribery sting. He vowed to remain in office.

And indicted Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who faces similar charges in the same case, pledged to remain mayor and continue his 2025 reelection campaign.

“We plan on fighting these charges. But right now, I’m going to get back to protecting Hinds County and being your district attorney that you elected us to be,” Owens told reporters last week after his arraignment in federal court in Jackson.

“I am not guilty, so I will not proceed as a guilty man,” Lumumba said.

For at least the last 50 years, it has not been unusual for top-ranking elected officials across the U.S. to keep their offices as they fight the charges, even after major felony indictments for corruption, according to legal experts interviewed by The Marshall Project - Jackson. Indictments are allegations, and the accused are innocent until proven guilty. [MORE]