Look, I have to warn you, this is the scariest thing you're going to hear today, and if you're not scared well, then you're not paying attention.

Pam Bondi is creating a list of extremists and terrorists, and you might end up on it.

Seriously, I'm Charlie Sykes with a special emergency to the contrary, because you really have to know what's going on here.

Look, let's step back a bit. If you want to understand how a new domestic security

apparatus is born, you usually have to look for a moment of crisis, a trigger event, a ritesag fire,

or a 9-11. For MAGA, that moment was the September assassination of Charlie Kirk, and that

shocking murder was immediately framed by the Trump administration

as nothing less than a 9-11 type event. Now, that's the kind of language that demands a huge

national security response, and that's what we are getting. And this is alarming as hell.

Attention needs to be paid to all of the details. That's what I want to kind of lay out for you

what's going on here. You may or may not have heard of this eight-page memo issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

It's not just policy. It's the detailed tactical guide for implementing Trump's bigger strategy on organized political violence known as S, what is it, N.S. PM7? You don't need to know that.

But you do need to understand how this new policy works at what it actually does. And specifically,

what it tells the FBI to do local law enforcement, the kinds of things they are ordered to do.

And the genuinely shocking ideological criteria used to define this domestic threat,

and how it creates a shadow terror designation regime. This is something that Congress explicitly

chose not to authorize, and so it is a remarkable study of raw authoritarianism, and it could

reshape dissent in the United States of America for years to come.

Now, Bondi's memo says it targets domestic terrorism, but its focus is almost exclusively on ideology.

I mean, the memo's language essentially builds a composite culture war enemy.

It shifts the entire focus from what illegal things you might be planning to what

political ideas you might have. And Bonnie's memo is incredibly specific. The memo tells law

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