A federal agency put a form of worship on a list of possible indicators of domestic extremism. The traditional Latin Mass. Opposition to abortion. Conservative family values. A "rejection of modernity." That is not a rumor and it is not a talking point. It is the FBI's own January 2023 Richmond memo, and the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group has now put on the record what the Bureau did next: agents opened assessments on two Catholic priests, pulled their travel and their contacts, and closed both investigations having found no connection to criminal activity or violent extremism. Attorney General Todd Blanche: "This Department of Justice will not tolerate a weaponized bureaucracy that chills First Amendment activity." Ask yourself what list you are on.
Also in today's episode: the president announces majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil and calls it the biggest oil deal in world history, per CBS News; a Boston judge blocks the mail-voting order again with the first midterm ballots going out September 4, per Votebeat; American forces strike two Iranian rocket launchers at the Strait of Hormuz while AAA puts gas at $4.07; more than 20 people are unaccounted for at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and the Park Service is asking for help; a sitting congressman tells Meet the Press he regrets confirming Justice Clarence Thomas, who he says rebelled "against his own background and experiences"; Ontario answers "Lake America" with a two-story billboard; 40,000 pounds of Pabst vanish from a California lot; Hillary Clinton's office wants unpaid interns with "a high level of professionalism and discretion"; and a rescue dog in Colombia goes quiet during intercessory prayer.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
