Former FBI Director James B. Comey Jr. has been indicted on two counts in relation to his posting a picture on Instagram on May 15, 2025. The picture "depicted seashells arranged in a pattern making out '86 47,' which a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States."
Count 1 - 18 USC 871(a) - Threats Against the President
Count 2 - 18 USC 875(c) - Transmitting a Threat in Interstate Commerce
The previous indictment against Comey, which was over alleged false statements to a Senate Cmte, lasted just 60 days between the filing of the indictment and the dismissal.
David M. Morens served as a senior advisor in NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006-2022.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Morens, two conspirators, and others, conspired to have an NIH grant for bat coronavirus research reinstated after it had been cancelled by the NIH due to information pointing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology being the source of the COVID-19 outbreak.
To this end, Morens and others concealed information and misled officials, the scientific community, the media, and the public as to the true origins of the virus.
Count 1 - 18 USC 371 - Conspiracy Against the United States
Counts 2 & 3 - 18 USC 1519 - Destruction, Alteration, or Faslification of Records in a Federal Investigation
Counts 4 & 5 - 18 USC 2071 - Concealment, Removal, or Mutilation of Records
Morens is facing up to 46 years in prison if convicted.
Beginning in 2020 and continuing for years after, Morens and others used their personal GMail accounts to comunicate about the cancelled grant, getting another one, and controlling the narrative re: the origins of COVID-19.
They used the Gmail ccounts so as to avoid FOIA request.
Morens enlisted "members of a prominent professional medical organization" to "speak out on behalf of" the "bat coronavirus grant."
On April 25, 2026, at around 8:40pm, Cole Tomas Allen rushed a USSS security checkpoint in the D.C. Hilton, blowing past the magnetometer and firing a blast from his 12-gauge shotgun into the chest of a USSS officer.
Down the hall and one floor below was the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. In attendance were hundreds of media and many members of the Trump Administration, including cabinet members, the VP, and President Trump.
But Allen, thankfully, never made it to that room.
Just seconds after discharging his shotgun and only a dozen or so steps past the agent he had shot, Allen fell to the ground, was tackled by USSS agents, disarmed, and arrested.
Today, Allen was charged by complaint with the following:
18 U.S.C. § 1751(c) - Attempt to Assassinate the President of the United States
18 U.S.C. § 924(b) - Transportation of a Firearm & Ammunition in Interstate Commerce with Intent to Commit a Felony
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(iii) - Discharge of a Firearm during a Crime of Violence
Allen also had 1911 .38 caliber pistol on him.
Agents fired several shots at him, but he was not shot. The complaint doesn't describe how Allen fell, but...ya know, Naruto-style running only works in cartoons.
I think Allen may have simply tripped.
Allen made his reservations at the hotel on April 6 and traveled by train from LA to Chicago to D.C. beginning on April 21.
He arrived on April 24 and checked into the Hilton.
🧵United States v. Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.
6 Counts of Wire Fraud
4 Counts of False Statements to Fed-Insured Bank
1 Count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
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The SPLC is a 502(c)(3) based in Montgomery, AL.
The org characterizes itself as "a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people."
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The SPLC is funded in part on public and corporate donations.
Yeah so… it turns out that firing @GenFlynn was the right move.
A lot of mental gymnastics and a peppering of fantasy is needed in order to to see it any other way.
Many of us, including myself, have done these mental gymnastics and had fantastic understandings of and theories about Flynn in the years since. It’s been necessary to have them in order to explain away his bizarre appearances on various shows, his concerning associations with low integrity individuals, his foreign contacts, his nonsensical postings, and his absence from Trump’s orbit or admin.
Trump told Comey, according to the memos, that he had to do it. That Flynn mislead VP Pence and he couldn’t have that. Makes sense.
McCabe also mislead VP Pence regarding the Flynn-Kislyak calls, but that’s another story.