The Justice Department quietly removed from its website a study showing far-right
extremists were responsible for the bulk of ideologically motivated deaths — a move that
comes as the GOP seeks to back claims from President Trump that the “radical left” poses a
greater danger than the right wing.
The 2024 study, in which several criminal justice researchers reviewed National Institute of
Justice data, found far more instances of deaths credited to right-wing groups.
The study was still available on the Justice Department website last week, but a researcher
on extremism posted on social media that it had been removed in the days after the killing of
right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
“The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and
domestic violent extremism,” the study says.
“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides
than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520
lives,” the study states.
“In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that
took 78 lives.”

The Justice Department quietly removed from its website a study showing far-right
extremists were responsible for the bulk of ideologically motivated deaths — a move that
comes as the GOP seeks to back claims from President Trump that the “radical left” poses a
greater danger than the right wing.
The 2024 study, in which several criminal justice researchers reviewed National Institute of
Justice data, found far more instances of deaths credited to right-wing groups.
The study was still available on the Justice Department website last week, but a researcher
on extremism posted on social media that it had been removed in the days after the killing of
right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
“The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and
domestic violent extremism,” the study says.
“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides
than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520
lives,” the study states.
“In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that
took 78 lives.”En gros, quand il dit qu'il voit les violents extrêmes gauche augmenter, il suit la parole de Trump, pas les études.

Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68
 
Scott Adams, who became a hero to millions of cubicle-dwelling office workers as the creator of the satirical comic strip “Dilbert,” only to rebrand himself as a digital provocateur — at home in the Trump era’s right-wing mediasphere — with inflammatory comments about race, politics and identity, died Jan. 13. He was 68.
 
(...)
 
Mr. Adams announced in May 2025 that he had metastatic prostate cancer, with only months to live. In a YouTube live stream, he said he had tried to avoid discussing his diagnosis (“once you go public, you’re just the dying cancer guy”) but decided to speak up after President Joe Biden revealed he had the same illness.
“I’d like to extend my respect and compassion for the ex-president and his family because they’re going through an especially tough time,” he said. “It’s a terrible disease.”
 
Mr. Adams was working as an engineer for the Pacific Bell telephone company when he began doodling on his cubicle whiteboard in the 1980s, dreaming of a new, more creatively fulfilling career as a cartoonist. Before long, he was amusing colleagues with his drawings of a mouthless, potato-shaped office worker: an anonymous-looking man with a bulbous nose, furrowed pate and upturned red-and-white striped tie.
His doodles evolved into “Dilbert,” a syndicated comic strip that debuted in 1989 and eventually appeared in more than 2,000 newspapers around the world, rivaling “Peanuts” and “Garfield” in popularity.
 
(...)
 
“Certainly I’m an example of the Dilbert Principle,” he told the New York Times in 2007, a few months into his stint as a restaurant boss. “I can’t cook. I can’t remember customers’ orders. I can’t do most of the jobs I pay people to do.” (Employees told the newspaper that Mr. Adams was loyal and kind, yet totally clueless. “I’ve been in this business 23 years, and I’ve seen a lot of things,” the head chef said. “He truly has no idea what he’s doing.”)
 
On the side, Mr. Adams blogged about fitness, politics and the art of seduction — drawing, he said, on his training as a certified hypnotist, which he learned before becoming a cartoonist. He also wrote about his struggles with focal dystonia, a neurological disorder, which caused spasms in his pinkie finger that made it difficult to draw. Mr. Adams said he developed tricks to get around the issue, holding his pen or pencil to the paper for just a few seconds at a time, and underwent experimental surgery to treat a related condition, spasmodic dysphonia, that hindered his ability to speak.
 
Politically, he cast himself as an independent, saying he didn’t vote and was not a member of any party. But he also veered into far-right political terrain on his blog, including in a 2006 post in which he questioned “how the Holocaust death total of 6 million was determined.” A few years later, writing about “men’s rights,” he compared society’s treatment of women to its treatment of children and people with mental disabilities.
 
“You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a woman tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance,” he wrote.
 
Mr. Adams made headlines with his prediction that Donald Trump, whom he considered a master of persuasion, would win the 2016 presidential election. He was later invited to the White House after publishing the 2017 nonfiction book “Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter.” (The book’s cover art featured an orange-hued drawing of Dogbert, Dilbert’s megalomaniacal pet dog, with a Trumplike swoosh of hair.)
 
“He was a fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so,” Trump said Tuesday in a Truth Social post, referring to Mr. Adams as “the Great Influencer.” “My condolences go out to his family, and all of his many friends and listeners.”
 
Amid a national reckoning on race in the 2020s, Mr. Adams sparked a backlash for his criticisms of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and for social media posts in which he joked that he was “going to self-identify as a Black woman” after President Joe Biden vowed to nominate an African American woman to the Supreme Court. In 2022, he introduced the strip’s first Black character, an engineer named Dave who announces to colleagues that he identifies “as White,” ruining management’s plan to “add some diversity to the engineering team.”
 
The following year, “Dilbert” was dropped by hundreds of newspapers, including The Washington Post, after Mr. Adams delivered a rant that was widely decried as hateful and racist. Appearing on his YouTube live-stream show, “Real Coffee With Scott Adams,” he discussed a controversial Rasmussen poll asking people if they agreed with the statement “It’s okay to be White,” a slogan associated with the white supremacist movement. About a quarter of Black respondents said “no.”
 
Mr. Adams was appalled by the results. He declared that African Americans were “a hate group,” adding: “I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people.”
 
Within a week his syndicate and publisher, Andrews McMeel Universal, cut ties with the cartoonist. Mr. Adams defended his comments, saying he had meant the remarks as hyperbole, and found support from conservative political activists as well as billionaire Tesla executive Elon Musk.
 
In a follow-up show on YouTube, he disavowed racism against “individuals” while also telling viewers that “you should absolutely be racist whenever it’s to your advantage.” Weeks later, he relaunched “Dilbert” on the subscription website Locals, vowing that the comic would be “spicier” — less “P.C.” — “than the original.”
 
“Only the dying leftist Fake News industry canceled me (for out-of-context news of course),” he tweeted in March 2023. “Social media and banking unaffected. Personal life improved. Never been more popular in my life.”
 
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Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too
November 3, 20257:01 PM ET
Like many, many Americans, Scott Adams had health insurance problems.
 
But Adams — made famous first by his long-running Dilbert cartoon, and later for a racist rant on YouTube — counts some powerful people in his social media circle: President Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
 
So Adams posted his complaint on X, saying Kaiser of Northern California, his health insurer and care provider, had "dropped the ball" in scheduling a procedure needed to treat his metastatic prostate cancer. Adams wrote he was going to ask Trump to help save his life, and he added: "I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday."
 
Donald Trump Jr. responded to the post on X first, saying: "Going to make sure that my dad sees this."
 
Just after 11 am on Sunday morning, Kennedy responded, saying, "Scott. How do I reach you? The President wants to help."
 
Later that day, President Trump posted a screen shot of Adams' original post and responded "On it!" on his favored social media platform, Truth Social.
 
And on Monday, Adams posted that he had an appointment to receive the infusion he needed of the cancer drug, Pluvicto, on Tuesday.
 
"For context, I waited months for the drug, like everyone else," Adams wrote. "But I think my files got misplaced or something and that glitch just got corrected. Not sure."

Laura Jedeed (laurajedeed.bsky.social)
A few months ago, ICE hired me
 
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
 
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
 
My latest for Slate
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

Tu peux le citer ça ou c'est un énième homme de paille?
Parce que pour le coup oui ça démontre des trucs, mais pas ceux qui t'arrangent

The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Breaking News: Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the wife of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent. The Justice Department sought to examine her supposed ties to activist groups.
https://nyti.ms/4bxc5Il

Greg Sargent (gregsargent.bsky.social)
New Quinnipiac poll:
 
53% of voters say ICE shooting of Renee Good is not justified, including 59% of independents (!)
 
57% of voters disapprove of how ICE is enforcing immigration laws, including 64% of independents (!!)
 
Trump/Vance propaganda is failing

G Elliott Morris (gelliottmorris.com)
New Gallup figures in these charts. Well, so much for that emerging Republican majority people were writing about in November 2024. Was evidently a mass overreaction to Trump's win and failure to acknowledge softness of support, and thermostatic politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

G Elliott Morris (gelliottmorris.com)
This graph shows political independents are functionally as liberal as they are conservative, in terms of self-placement, a big uptick since 2024.  
But I thought messaging on immigration in 2025 was going to marginalize more voters and push them away from Dems!!