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The Brew: Our Elites Wanted You in Prison. They Still Do

By John Zmirak Published on July 31, 2025

Why is Tulsi Gabbard the most important woman in America? Why is her probe into Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s weaponization of the federal government the biggest story the Mainstream Media won’t report? Because the sheer extent of the abuses our Deep State was willing to commit is beyond what most of us imagined even in our most paranoid fantasies — and the same people and institutions that countenanced them are ready to try again the next chance they get.

The investigation continues into the year-long attempted coup by the outgoing Obama administration and the appointees it left behind to nullify the 2016 election. Here’s the latest smoking gun, as Fox News reports:

FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau, sources familiar with the incident told Fox News Digital.

Sources told Fox News Digital that the “burn bag” system is used to destroy documents designated as classified or higher.

Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents.

Sources told Fox News Digital that one of the documents FBI officials found in a burn bag was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.

The declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman.

Have you got that? The probe into President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia’s government was so honest, transparent, and professional that the Deep State officials running it tried to bury all the evidence. Because that’s what honest cops like James Comey do when they’re just trying to get to the truth with no political agenda: They squirrel away the data and try to burn it.

Feds Sought to Prosecute PTA Moms Who Opposed Groomer Porn in Schools

Catholic Vote calls our attention to one of the darkest schemes of the Biden regime, a direct federal attack on parents’ free speech rights:

Newly released emails show that senior officials in the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) sought legal justification to investigate parents who protested school policies, after a controversial letter likened their actions to “domestic terrorism.”

The parents had spoken out against COVID-19 mandates, critical race theory, and “transgender” policies during local school board meetings.

The documents, obtained by America First Legal (AFL) and released July 18, show DOJ officials discussing how to respond to a September 2021 letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA).

In its letter, the NSBA urged the Biden administration to deploy federal law enforcement in response to what it described as threats from parents against school officials.

“The classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” the NSBA wrote.

As DOJ officials weighed how to respond, then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers wrote in an Oct. 1, 2021, email to his colleague: “We’re aware.”

“[T]he challenge here is finding a federal hook,” Chambers added. “But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion.”

Three days later, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing the FBI and US attorneys to coordinate efforts to address threats against school officials.

Local school boards got their national organization to try to imprison parents for criticizing them. And the U.S. Department of Justice took action, looking for a “hook” it could use to prosecute them.

Does this sound familiar? Perhaps it reminds you of the fake kidnapping plot hatched against people who criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — who illegally imprisoned the residents of her state in their homes, then worked with the FBI to recruit people for a manufactured plot to abduct her. Or think of the January 6 protestors who were urged into the Capitol by federal provocateurs, then locked in solitary confinement for months awaiting trial on inflated charges.

This cascade of lawless, tyrannical acts was never just about Trump. The elites are after us, and he’s just in their way.

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Satirist Threatened with Prison Sues His Persecutors

Remember Douglass Mackey? He made a humorous meme suggesting that Hillary Clinton voters could cast their 2016 ballots by text — and the feds prosecuted him for it. Revolver News recounts his harrowing story:

The meme was obviously a joke and clearly protected speech. But that didn’t matter. What mattered was the message it sent: mock the regime, and we’ll destroy your life.

So, that’s exactly what the Biden regime did.

Many also believe the Mackey case was a test run. Because if they could twist a meme into a federal crime and throw a young guy in prison, could they also go after a former president?

Turns out, yes. They could. And they did.

The Biden DOJ dragged Douglass through years of hell, treating him like some kind of domestic terror threat. Death by satire? Seriously though, what happened to Doug was unforgivable. He missed the birth of his child, a premature baby with special medical needs, because of this disgraceful, politically driven circus. His life, his reputation, and his family were thrown into chaos, all because he shared a joke the regime didn’t like.

Mackey’s ludicrous conviction was vacated by a higher court recently, and now he’s fighting back — suing the Justice Department for its blatantly unconstitutional harassment campaign, which almost landed him in federal prison.

British Police Didn’t Just Cover Up for Pakistani Rape Gangs. They Joined in the Abuse

Muslim immigration is the gift that keeps on giving. Great Britain just imposed draconian censorship on social media, explicitly banning any criticism of accepting “refugees” into the country — this after hundreds of Britons were already imprisoned for daring to question the UK’s colonization by intolerant foreigners prone to sexual abuse and dependent on welfare. Now even darker details are emerging about the epidemic of Muslim rape gangs preying on British women. The BBC reports:

Five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time.

One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.

“In a world where you were being abused so much, being raped once [by a police officer] was a lot easier than multiple rapes [by the gang] and I think he knew that,” she tells the BBC.

We have seen written accounts from these women, plus testimony from 25 other victims of grooming gangs, with some of those women saying corrupt police officers worked alongside the gangs or failed to act on child sexual exploitation.

At least 1,400 children were abused by men in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 — the landmark report from Prof Alexis Jay found in 2014.

“From the evidence we read and heard, the majority of victims identified their perpetrators as being of Pakistani heritage,” Prof Jay told us….

Garry Harper spent two years working on the IOPC’s Operation Linden — an investigation into how SYP responded to allegations of child sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.

The eight-year investigation was “an abject failure from beginning to end”, says Mr Harper, adding that SYP “managed to evade almost any accountability”.

The watchdog upheld 43 complaints against individual officers, with eight facing misconduct and six facing gross misconduct charges. But no officers lost their jobs or faced criminal charges.

No wonder the British government wants to silence citizens.

Trump Administration Targets Hospitals That Transition Children

Some welcome news, courtesy of The Daily Wire:

The Justice Department subpoenaed Boston Children’s Hospital for alleged healthcare fraud related to sex-change surgeries for minors, National Review reported Monday.

The department announced earlier this month that it was investigating hospitals “involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children” for “healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.”

“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the memo.

In January, Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for sex-change surgeries for minors. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule change this month to implement the order. In May, CMS sent a letter to hospitals requesting “financial data for all pediatric sex trait modifications” that are “paid, in whole or in part, by the federal government.”

Some hospitals have paused programs or even closed their clinics offering gender transition interventions to minors following Trump’s executive orders.

Intercessors for America is urging prayers of gratitude for this initiative: “God, we thank You for holding hospitals that would harm children for profit accountable. We pray for an end to these damaging treatments in America!”

Amen.

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John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.