4 chapters across the catalog
Adam Curry and Mo Facts read donations from "Big Ballers" and "Associate Executive Producers." A donor named Brandon Johnson recounts meeting Curry in Charleston and jokingly pretending to be Mo Facts. The hosts discuss the diverse makeup of their "Fax Fam" listener community.
In 2017, the FBI created the "Black Identity Extremist" (BIE) assessment following police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge. This classification allows for invasive surveillance tactics against activists protesting police violence. The hosts discuss how the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) expanded the government's power to detain and surveil citizens, noting that the label of "conspiracy theorist" is increasingly used to justify placement on government watchlists.
A throwback to episode 31 examines an FBI report on "Black Identity Extremists." The hosts argue that the same tactics used to label and infiltrate Black movements are now being applied to the MAGA movement. They discuss "gang-stalking" and the use of provocateurs to justify government crackdowns on any group that challenges the status quo.
The discussion introduces the term Black Identity Extremist (BIE), which originated in a leaked 2017 FBI document. The bureau classified the movement as a domestic terror threat, claiming the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered retaliatory violence against police officers.
