Mark Follman
@markfollman.bsky.social
Author, dad, journalist at Mother Jones/CIR. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062973533/
2/ “Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children, for instance, have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown for weeks at a time, hampering their pursuit of child predators.”
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
2/ “Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children, for instance, have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown for weeks at a time, hampering their pursuit of child predators.”
2/ “Current and former officials have been sharply critical of Mr. Bongino and Mr. Patel for focusing too much on social media and rushing to publicize developments in open investigations that later turn out to be dead ends, or incremental.”
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
2/ “Current and former officials have been sharply critical of Mr. Bongino and Mr. Patel for focusing too much on social media and rushing to publicize developments in open investigations that later turn out to be dead ends, or incremental.”
3/ Much more in this report from the Wall Street Journal, including Patel's recent trip on a private FBI jet to a GOP donor buddy's hunting resort, "Boondoggle Ranch" — while many FBI agents worked unpaid during the government shutdown www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
3/ Much more in this report from the Wall Street Journal, including Patel's recent trip on a private FBI jet to a GOP donor buddy's hunting resort, "Boondoggle Ranch" — while many FBI agents worked unpaid during the government shutdown www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2/ Patel's behavior has gone far beyond amateur and debasing (telling Joe Rogan the job is 'effin' wild,' wearing trucker caps & hoodies, cosplaying "cops," etc.) His political firings of top agents have wiped out expertise—and he compromised a terrorism investigation with his social-media preening
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
2/ Patel's behavior has gone far beyond amateur and debasing (telling Joe Rogan the job is 'effin' wild,' wearing trucker caps & hoodies, cosplaying "cops," etc.) His political firings of top agents have wiped out expertise—and he compromised a terrorism investigation with his social-media preening
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November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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