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THE GOVERNMENT RAIDED A SITTING CONGRESSWOMAN’S HOME, THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE ENERGY COMPANY WAS HIT BY A RETALIATORY STRIKE, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GAVE A STATE 48 HOURS TO REVIEW A LIST OF VOTERS IT WANTS REMOVED — AND A MAN WHO WAS WOUNDED BY AN AGENT IS BEING HELD IN SOLITARY WITH THE ROUND STILL INSIDE HIS BODY

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The Department of Homeland Security raided the Washington, D.C., home of Representative Ilhan Omar. Democracy Now devoted a full segment to the raid on Wednesday. Minnesota State Senator Zaynab Mohamed called it “bogus” and said it was politically motivated.

Omar is one of the most prominent critics of the administration’s immigration and foreign policy. She is a member of the legislative branch of government. The executive branch sent agents to her home. A sitting congresswoman was raided by the department she is supposed to oversee.

The same government that blocked a senator from entering a military base, filed misconduct complaints against judges who questioned its immigration actions, and punished a prosecutor who objected to overcharged cases… has now sent agents to the home of a member of the legislature.

Senators blocked from bases. Judges complained against. Prosecutors punished. Networks banned. And now a congresswoman raided. The pattern is the same: every person and institution that checks the machine gets a visit.

The machine does not ask permission from the legislature. It raids it.

SENATORS BLOCKED. JUDGES COMPLAINED AGAINST. PROSECUTORS PUNISHED. NETWORKS BANNED. AND NOW A CONGRESSWOMAN RAIDED.

BREAKING

The Houthis Struck the Headquarters of Saudi Aramco — the World’s Most Valuable Energy Company

The Houthis struck the headquarters of Saudi Aramco in the eastern Saudi city of Dhahran. The strike reportedly caused a fire at the compound. Democracy Now reported the escalation in its Wednesday headlines. It came hours after Saudi Arabia struck oil and fuel infrastructure in Houthi-controlled territory.

Saudi Aramco is the most valuable energy company in the world. Its headquarters is the nerve center of the global oil market. And the Houthis hit it in retaliation for Saudi strikes on their fuel supply. The conflict the president said would end after the election is now reaching the boardrooms of the global energy system.

Eighteen ships hit in the strait this month. Missiles at an airport terminal in the Saudi capital. And now the headquarters of the world’s most valuable oil company. The targets are getting bigger. The election is 20 days away.

The machine said it would be short. The missiles are now reaching the headquarters of the company that moves the most oil on the planet.

EXPOSED

The Department of Justice Gave California 48 Hours to Review a List of Voters It Wants Removed from the Rolls

Reuters reported that the Department of Justice gave California election officials 48 hours to review a list of people it says are noncitizens who should be removed from voter rolls. Democracy Now included the story in its Wednesday headlines.

Forty-eight hours. That is the time the federal government gave the largest state in the country to review a list that could remove voters from the rolls three weeks before the midterm elections. The Supreme Court already approved the federal voter database that makes this list possible. The government is now using it.

The machine built the database. The court approved it. Now the government is sending the list to states with a deadline attached. The system is live. The removals are beginning. And the election is 20 days away.

The machine does not stop at building the tool. It uses it. And it gives you 48 hours to respond.

“This is bogus. This is politically motivated. And this is about silencing one of the most vocal critics of this administration.”

— Minnesota State Senator Zaynab Mohamed, on the raid of Representative Omar’s home

DEVELOPING

The Man Who Was Wounded by a Federal Agent in New York Is Being Held in Solitary Confinement — with the Round Still Inside His Body

The man who was wounded by a federal agent in New York while sitting in a car with his five-year-old son is being held in solitary confinement. The round is still lodged in his neck. Democracy Now reported his conditions in its Wednesday headlines.

He has not been convicted of a crime. He has not been tried. He was sitting in a car with a child when an agent fired. And now the government is holding him alone in a cell with a piece of metal inside his body.

A DoorDash driver in Austin waited 11 days for surgery. A man in Houston had both legs broken by a government vehicle. And now a father in New York sits in a solitary cell with the round still in his neck. The pattern is the same: agents act, people are hurt, and the system holds them instead of healing them.

The machine wounded him. The machine is holding him. And the machine has not removed what it put inside him.

 Connecting the Dots 

▸ The Bigger Picture

Four stories from one Wednesday. The government raided the home of a sitting congresswoman who is one of its most vocal critics. The Houthis struck the headquarters of the most valuable energy company on the planet in retaliation for Saudi strikes on their fuel supply. The Department of Justice gave the largest state in the country 48 hours to review a list of voters it wants removed from the rolls, 20 days before the election. And the man who was wounded by a federal agent in New York is being held in solitary confinement with the round still inside his body.

The press covers each on its own page. A “law enforcement operation.” An “energy escalation.” A “voter integrity story.” A “detention conditions report.” But the thread is the same in every one.

The machine raids, retaliates, removes, and holds. It sends agents to the home of the legislator who questions it. It watches the conflict reach the boardroom of the world’s largest oil company. It gives a state two days to decide which voters stay on the rolls. And it holds a man in a cell with a piece of metal inside him that the machine put there. Every institution that checks the machine gets the same answer: a visit, a strike, a deadline, or a cell. The congresswoman was raided. The oil company was hit. The state was given 48 hours. And the man was put in solitary. Twenty days before the election, the machine is not slowing down. It is clearing the path.

When the machine raids the legislator who questions it and gives the state 48 hours and holds the man it wounded alone in a cell… the machine is not enforcing the law. It is enforcing its own authority. That’s the Seventh Floor.

They rely on the shadows.
It’s time to turn on the lights.