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Ten years ago, in the summer of 2015, a police officer in Cincinnati stopped a man named Samuel DuBose. It was night on a narrow road among winding back streets of a hilly neighborhood. Words were exchanged, and DuBose tried to drive away. Officer Ray Tensing claimed his arms were caught in the window and he was in danger of being dragged, so he shot DuBose point-blank in the head, killing him. I...

I’m out today at Public Notice with a look at the obvious lie about the bandages on Trump’s hands — a coverup of some unidentified health problem — and how it’s part of a pattern of Trump’s endless lies starting to catch up to him in the face of reality, economic and otherwise. Today’s post will be brief but I have something longer coming later this week that deals with the downward flow of corrup...

On Friday night, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth took to X to address one of the growing scandals surrounding him — what increasingly looks like murder, war crimes, or both. “The Department of War will never back down,” Hegseth wrote. “America First. Peace Through Strength. Common Sense. For the warriors, always.” In addition to the gaping holes in Hegseth’s story about the killing of two survivor...

We begin today with news of sweeping pardons issued on Monday to 77 people who tried to overturn the 2020 election. Less important than the actual individuals who were pardoned — bizarrely, for many of them were not under threat of federal indictment, the only classification of crime that falls under the jurisdiction of a presidential pardon — is the message that these pardons send going forward:...

I’m getting through a bottleneck of reporting and have many findings to share regarding Republican efforts to interfere in elections. You can support my work by throwing a few dollars my way with a paid subscription to American Doom. As always, thanks for your support. - jg When was the last time you remember voting in an election for your public utilities board? Who were the candidates and how mu...

Lots of info in today’s special Saturday edition of American Doom about how election deniers in Georgia continue to screw with elections here. It’s going to be a mess next year thanks to their success in convincing state lawmakers that they’re serious people (they are not). Anyway, lots of messes these days. You won’t find this information elsewhere — in Georgia or anywhere for that matter. So if...

As I said the other day, the Jimmy Kimmel debacle is more evidence that harsh crackdowns on freedom of speech and the free press are coming very quickly. It would mean a lot to me to see some of American Doom’s 13,000 subscribers throw a few bucks our way for a paid subscription. Or, you can contribute to our Doom Coffee Fund to support our work. Evidence of the Trump administration’s complete dis...

Forget all the usual, anecdotal ways into an explanation of what is happening at this moment, because we appear to be in that stage of the fall where it all starts happening at once. Following the firing — let’s call it what it is — of Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trump went even further in comments on Air Force One on Thursday afternoon, saying that any broadcast company that allows criticism of the pres...

At a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Kash Patel said his agency will investigate organizations that “utilize clickbait to make money for their ideology.” Allow me to translate: the FBI will now go after media outlets, think tanks, NGOs and activist organizations who lean left or are antagonistic toward the Trump administration, Republicans and conservatives. This is...

Good morning. Long week. I’m out today with a look at the turmoil within the FBI over at Public Notice. A few items on that below and then some stuff on the killing of Charlie Kirk. The last two weeks have felt a little more troubling than normal, which is obviously very bad because our acceptance of the normal level of troubling-ness is already bad. Anyway, if you want to support my work, please...

Less of a news thing today and more of something that you’ll want to sit down with a cup of coffee for. The University of Georgia Press has completed design on the cover for my forthcoming book, and I’m very excited to share it with you today. Below is an excerpt from the book. If you support my journalism and writing, please consider a paid subscription to American Doom or a contribution . Foundi...

Big story last week in Rolling Stone that exposed the genesis of what we now know is the largest single immigration raid in the history of the Department of Homeland Security. Long story short: a Republican congressional candidate and her union-worker helper called ICE on the Hyundai Metaplant outside of Savannah, GA. If you appreciate my reporting on this story — which you won’t find anywhere els...

It’s 2:06 a.m. and I’m wrapping up a story at Rolling Stone that details how a Republican candidate for congress in Georgia was partly behind yesterday’s ICE raid at a Hyundai plant here. Like, as basically an informant. Pretty wild stuff! I wish I had more time and energy to lay out more about that story below but I’m pretty tired, so the following will have to suffice. You can read more here. FY...

Today’s post contains a checklist for progressive Americans to use in fighting back against the authoritarian actions coming from the Trump administration. These tasks are the result of my two decades reporting on American violence, decline and extremism. If you support this work and insight, please consider a paid subscription or contribution to help fund my reporting. After a few days last week...

Just a quick thing today about a comment from Trump that most people missed. Then I’m back in the research chamber finding out how the Trump administration, the Justice Department and others are working to interfere with next year’s election. But I wanted to flag Trump’s comment, made during a back-and-forth with reporters and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Zelenskyy w...

Will we have elections next year? I hope so but honestly, I don’t know! What I do know is that there are thousands of election officials and untold amounts of court cases that stand between right now and an honest-to-goodness, free and fair election next year. It takes a lot of work to stay on top of all that and expose bad actors, like I’ve been doing for years . If you want to support those effo...

In these times — that strange and insufficient phrase that we’ve all become accustomed to — balance is important, I’m told. I try to achieve balance and I think we all do. But sometimes things get out of whack. I’ve been mulling over a couple of things this week that I just can’t get past. First, how does one balance their life in the midst of such obvious turmoil? Second, how can we possibly get...

I continue to monitor events in DC from my home in Savannah but am ready to go should anything major go down. Trips like these cost money, though, so if you want to support my reporting, please consider a paid subscription or dropping a few bucks in the Doom Coffee Fund . Through next week I’m offering half off all Doom subscriptions, so you can support my independent, adversarial journalism for a...

If you appreciate my journalism please consider a paid subscription to American Doom. I’m currently offering a 50 percent discount on Doom subscriptions, which means you can support my work and help fund trips to places like Washington DC to cover conflict there for as little as $3 a month. Whatever happens in Washington DC this weekend — and something will happen, because that’s the point in the...

Hey, thanks for opening this email or clicking on the link. It’s good to have you here. Things are crazy. I know I keep saying that but it’s the truth so just get used to it, I guess. Anyway, if you appreciate this adversarial journalism as we continue to slide into a strange and troubling future of hyper-connected authoritarianism, consider throwing a few bucks my way . Basically, if you like wha...

Hey, thanks for opening this email or clicking on the link. It’s good to have you here. Things are crazy. I know I keep saying that but it’s the truth so just get used to it, I guess. Anyway, if you appreciate this adversarial journalism as we continue to slide into a strange and troubling future of hyper-connected authoritarianism, consider throwing a few bucks my way . Basically, if you like wha...

I’m not going to get into the weeds of the White House’s latest “biggest scandal” that is clearly a distraction from Epstein. You can watch the video above to hear all about that. Suffice to say it’s all for show — throw “Obama” and “treason” into a sentence and it’s like chum in the water for our fellow Americans who just want to see a Black man on the gallows. At press time I don’t have the ener...

Hey there, I’ve been doing my best to keep up with the news while also wrapping up my book. I’ll be back to doing some more investigative work once I’m through this bottleneck. Meantime, you can support my work holding the American right accountable through independent, adversarial journalism with a paid subscription ( discount here ) or a contribution to American Doom. Your support keeps this new...

I’ll have more on this over the weekend but for now I wanted to share a rundown of the completely nonsensical claims about the Epstein files that are being made by the White House, as well as Donald Trump’s 40-year history with Epstein himself. Check the video above for all that. And if you want to support my work, you can subscribe or support American Doom here . I’ll be honest: things have been...

Want to support efforts to push back against authoritarian threats to democracy? I humbly submit that supporting independent journalist like myself is a great addition to the fight. You can do so by choosing a paid subscription to American Doom or contributing a few dollars to our coffee fund. Through July I’m running a 20 percent discount on subscriptions — so you can support my work for as littl...