They included #jurists appointed by both #Republican & #Democratic presidents. Most requested anonymity, citing the potential for further inflaming #security fears or raising questions about their impartiality. Additional information was gleaned from #legal records & interviews with half a dozen ofcls involved in #court security.
#Boasberg & #McConnell are among at least 11 federal #judges whose #families have faced threats of #violence or #harassment after they ruled against the new #Trump admin, a Reuters investigation found.
The broadsides are part of an #intimidation campaign directed at federal judges who have stood in the way of Trump’s moves to dramatically expand #PresidentialAuthority & slash the federal govt.
Neither #LauraLoomer nor #Musk mentioned the #Judge’s daughter had left her job before #Trump’s inauguration.
Loomer continued her attacks with 9 more posts in the ensuing days – & >600 calls & emails flooded #JohnMcConnell’s RI courthouse, including #DeathThreats & menacing messages taunting his #family, acc/to a court clerk & another person familiar w/the communications.
US District #Judge #JohnMcConnell’s family endured similar #threats after he ruled that #Trump overstepped his authority in freezing #grants for #education & other services. #FarRight provocateur #LauraLoomer [& apparent Trump advisor] tweeted a photo of the judge’s daughter, who had worked at the US Education Dept as a policy advisor, & accused McConnell of protecting her paycheck. #ElonMusk amplified the post to his 219 million followers.
When US District #Judge James #Boasberg ruled in April that #Trump admin officials could face #criminal #contempt charges for #deporting migrants in defiance of a #CourtOrder, the blowback was immediate.
Trump’s supporters unleashed a wave of #threats & menacing posts. And they didn’t just target the judge. Some attacked Boasberg’s brother. Others blasted his daughter. Some demanded the #family’s arrest – or #execution.
These #judges ruled against #Trump. Then their #families came under attack.
As federal judges rule against the Trump administration in dozens of politically charged cases, the families of at least 11 of the jurists have been targeted with #threats & #harassment.
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#law #judiciary #felon47 #StochasticTerrorism #Extremism #DomesticTerrorism #MAGA
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/these-judges-ruled-against-trump-then-their-families-came-under-attack-2025-05-02/
#VorwahlenAttentate #RechtsPusch #StochasticTerrorism ???
Es wäre in der Tat eine Studie wert. Was geht ab in den einschlägigen Sozialen Medien eines gewissen Milieus...
“A mass shooting is like a bomb blast throughout a community”
Indeed, acts of #StochasticTerrorism.
https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/114393707646264322
I'm sure he meant it as a compliment 
#stochasticterrorism #joshshapiro
The #StochasticTerrorism campaign is kicking off in plain sight on state TV
The #WhiteSupremacist gunman who murdered 23 people at an #ElPaso Walmart in 2019 believed he was acting on #Trump’s orders, his defense lawyers say. "“He thought he had to stop the *invasion* because that’s what his president was telling him."
#law #StochasticTerrorism #incitement #WhiteSupremacy #ConspiracyTheories #TrumpLies #immigration
https://elpasomatters.org/2025/03/30/patrick-crusius-donald-trump-aug-3-2019-walmart-mass-shooting/
There's a great article up by @cwarzel in The Atlantic about The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account. It's a scary but thoughtful analysis of a grim societal trend, focusing specifically on how intensification is implemented via the ex-bird site, lately a cesspool of distilled toxicity from which many still regularly feed.
ESPECIALLY the part in Warzel's article about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) made me shudder. The article is worth reading for that part alone.
(His post at BlueSky, which I've linked below, has what I think may be a gift link.)
https://bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.social/post/3llhtsiyzhs2d
Mango Mussolini's long game of stochastic terrorism really has paid dividends.
Former Democratic presidents? Absent.
Retired Democratic senators (and most of the sitting ones...) ? Absent.
Similar for congresscritters? Absent.
Seriously, not a peep from Biden, Obama, the Clintons... or from (comparatively) principled Republicans, for that matter.
The #silence is #deafening. We can hear it from Canada.
#Trump doubling (tripling? quadrupling?…) down on #illiberal #authoritarian #StochasticTerrorism toward the #judiciary even going after conservative #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts (see pic).
The assassination of a Federal judge is not too far out ahead of us
#ElonMusk (or his mouthpieces) will plead #PlausibleDeniability, of course, so once again no consequences will accrue to either #Musk or #Trump
This behavior will continue until some sort of physical, real-world consequence is applied to both of these traitors
Doubling down on the #illiberal #StochasticTerrorism, #ElonMusk continues to broadcast #judicial impeachments all because they have ruled against him & #Trump.
BTWs it takes 67 senators to remove a judge w/ #impeachment, not 60, idiot.
#Trump has pulled the #SecretService details of Hunter & Ashley Biden "effective immediately."
During his first 6 weeks in power, #Trump & his appointees have torn down many of the barriers that have long existed between the White House & the #DOJ to prevent political #interference in the impartial application of #justice & ensure the #independence of federal #law enforcement agencies.
But Trump, who was 2X indicted by the DOJ, has long viewed the agency as the center of “deep state” resistance to him.
“Unfortunately in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks & radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust & good will built up over generations,” #Trump told an audience made up of supporters & law enforcement ofcls. “They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence & law enforcement agencies to try & thwart the will of the American people.”
