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Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.

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2026-05-08 22:58:45 UTC

Ras Baraka has filed his amended complaint against Alina Habba for false arrest.
It makes clear how much of this was an attempt to humiliate a Black mayor.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.571808/gov.uscourts.njd.571808.22.0.pdf )
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2026-04-07 13:08:30 UTC

It would not hurt if you called your GOP MoCs to tell them they are legally complicit with the war crimes Trump is committing.
Might not prevent armageddon, but couldn't hurt.
(202) 224-3121

2026-04-05 14:32:24 UTC

Peter Magyar's attempt to inoculate against Orbán's apparent false flag.
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2026-04-03 15:25:14 UTC

From less than a month ago, given reports that one of the Black Hawks trying to find the fallen F-15 pilots also got hit.
Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran
[emptywheel.net/2026/03/09/t...](https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/09/trump-dreads-failing-like-jimmy-carter-did-on-iran/ )
[Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimm...](https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/09/trump-dreads-failing-like-jimmy-carter-did-on-iran/ )

2026-03-30 22:08:48 UTC

Reupping this once more, with link to Archive copy.
[archive.is/dpQXo#select...](https://archive.is/dpQXo#selection-2059.0-2074.0 )
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3mi7mhnxavs2o
#note1lc5…xddh

2026-03-29 16:55:50 UTC

Attacks on Stephen Miller getting far more specific in this Daily Mail (why are the best right-on-right hitjobs always laundered thru the UK?).
1) He ordered confrontation w/protestors b4 CBP murdered Alex Pretti.
2) He countermanded Trump order not to focus on farmworkers.
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2026-03-29 12:08:49 UTC

Among the details of this report on the insane plan to use Kurds to spark an uprising in Iran is that -- go figure -- the Kurds didn't trust the guy who sold them out once already.
The whole thing, tho, is a chronicle of the magical thinking behind Iran war.
[www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...](https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/media-leaks-misjudgments-and-lack-of-trust-doomed-plan-for-kurdish-invasion-to-help-bring-down-irans-regime-report/ )
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2026-03-24 14:22:22 UTC

Pretending Jared was qualified to invest $2B for MbS has bought him American service members to put at risk.
Jared’s conflict here could lead direct to American deaths, even before you consider he is painfully stupid.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nb6uhiglzowsdcbgwv2itwa7/post/3mhsre3foq22y

2026-03-09 16:33:11 UTC

You wouldn't know it from the graphic, but JB Pritzker's picture is on the story not bc HE, a billionaire, is spending his money for personal advantage, but bc Ken Griffin unsuccessfully spent a lot of money to defeat Pritzker.
[www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires-federal-election-campaign-contributions.html )
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2026-03-09 12:52:12 UTC

Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran
[emptywheel.net/trump-dreads...](https://emptywheel.net/trump-dreads-failing-like-jimmy-carter-did-on-iran/ )
[Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimm...](https://emptywheel.net/trump-dreads-failing-like-jimmy-carter-did-on-iran/ )

2026-03-06 22:59:57 UTC

Now pro se plaintiffs are catching Pam Bondi's AUSAs fabricating quotes and citations.
[news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/federal-prosecutor-used-fabricated-quotes-false-cites-in-filing )
[Federal Prosecutor Used Fabric...](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/federal-prosecutor-used-fabricated-quotes-false-cites-in-filing )

2026-03-06 22:32:45 UTC

More than a month after Kyle Wagner was arrested in MN, a public defender for him points out that his alleged victim, Jayden Scott, himself commits the alleged crime with which Wagner was charged, all the time.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.391988/gov.uscourts.mied.391988.17.0.pdf )
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2026-03-02 11:06:23 UTC

There's a subtext to this sociopathic statement that some are missing, I think.
It suggests Trump IMAGINED the #2 and #3 choice would immediately side with Trump, like Delcy Rodriguez did.
There's no reason to believe anyone in Trump's vicinity is going him good analytical advice.
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2026-02-23 15:45:48 UTC

Reup: By demanding that Trump pay Illinois households back (which won't happen), JD Pritzker makes Trump's theft politically toxic.
Trump destroyed soybean farmers, bankrupted countless small businesses, and cost average homes $1K+ a year, and it was all illegal.
[emptywheel.net/jb-pritzkers...](https://emptywheel.net/jb-pritzkers-invoice-paybacks-a-bitch/ )
[JB Pritzker's Invoice: Payback...](https://emptywheel.net/jb-pritzkers-invoice-paybacks-a-bitch/ )

2026-02-21 00:47:16 UTC

The coverage on Trump's potential Iran invasion has been woefully inadequate.
And that's before you consider that none of them say, "Iran already agreed to a nuke deal, Trump ripped it up, causing the problem he's currently facing."
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vlb3vmnxz6rqo652iwco7rgy/post/3mfdf2ifkmk2b

2026-02-20 20:39:25 UTC

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.
But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.
[newrepublic.com/post/206857/...](https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk )
[Turns Out There Was Voter Frau...](https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk )

2026-02-19 15:06:08 UTC

NBC has pics of the plane ICE Barbie needs to run her gulag.
[www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/no-expense-spared-luxury-jet-dhs-wants-buy-deportations-rcna259425 )
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2026-02-13 22:46:45 UTC

Holy shit.
Abbe Lowell's argument that DOJ is not entitled to presumption of regularity in Don Lemon case consists of:
1) A page on irregularity in this case.
2) A page on irregularity in MN.
3) Other adverse rulings in MN.
4) One page plus TWO PAGE footnote on similar rulings nationally.
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2026-02-11 15:16:40 UTC

Jamie Raskin uses his introductory statement to introduce a bunch of the survivors, sitting right behind Pam Bondi.
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2026-02-11 14:55:04 UTC

Reup: Don Lemon Hires Minnesota's Top Public Integrity Prosecutor to Defend Against Harmeet Dhillon's Lies
[emptywheel.net/don-lemon-hi...](https://emptywheel.net/don-lemon-hires-minnesotas-top-public-integrity-prosecutor/ )
[Don Lemon Hires Minnesota's To...](https://emptywheel.net/don-lemon-hires-minnesotas-top-public-integrity-prosecutor/ )

2026-02-07 13:50:15 UTC

Reup: Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe
[emptywheel.net/marco-rubio-...](https://emptywheel.net/marco-rubio-will-let-2-5-million-children-die-so-sarah-rogers-can-fund-far-right-extremists-in-europe/ )
[Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Milli...](https://emptywheel.net/marco-rubio-will-let-2-5-million-children-die-so-sarah-rogers-can-fund-far-right-extremists-in-europe/ )

2026-02-05 19:27:06 UTC

Here's the complaint against Kyle Wagner.
They've charged him for literally, nothing more than doxing. And then lied about it.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.391788/gov.uscourts.mied.391788.1.0.pdf )
[#1 in United States v. Wagner ...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.391788/gov.uscourts.mied.391788.1.0.pdf )

2026-02-05 13:49:47 UTC

This NYT piece never mentions the most important detail of the hearing.
THESE PEOPLE ARE UNLAWFULLY being held--and many are unlawfully being snatched in the first place.
The reason there's such a caseload is bc ICE is kidnapping people illegally.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:urdk2e6xtrlaa2g6mnzc3ks7/post/3me4hehnv6k23

2026-02-05 13:35:44 UTC

The Minnesota Lawyer Backlog Arises from ICE Kidnappings
[emptywheel.net/the-minnesot...](https://emptywheel.net/the-minnesota-lawyer-backlog-arises-from-ice-kidnappings/ )
[The Minnesota Lawyer Backlog A...](https://emptywheel.net/the-minnesota-lawyer-backlog-arises-from-ice-kidnappings/ )

2026-02-02 11:53:01 UTC

Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti
[emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/s...](https://emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/stephen-miller-paid-latino-thugs-to-murder-alex-pretti/ )
[Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thu...](https://emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/stephen-miller-paid-latino-thugs-to-murder-alex-pretti/ )

2026-01-31 14:26:55 UTC

Time to start mocking Trump for having not won any victories, compared to Napoleon.
I mean, holy hell, a one-day invasion of Venezuela, only to keep the same corrupt regime? You want a victory arch for THAT?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6wwty6iar2ya7heph6d25cw3/post/3mdpuqhwras2j

2026-01-30 11:39:44 UTC

One thing we have two weeks to do: Debunk Stephen Miller's lies that the invasions have ever been primarily about deporting the worst of the worst.
Another thing: Show that w/GOP consent, Trump has SHIFTED govt spending from nice things like VA care (&cancer cures) to pay goons who shoot VA nurses.

2026-01-27 21:08:14 UTC

Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti.
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
[www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...](https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting )
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2026-01-26 10:25:01 UTC

I knew MN DOC had debunking Greg Bovino's false claims abt the target of the snatch CBP was doing when they murdered Alex Pretti. I didn't realize they created an entire website to debunking DHS lies.
[mn.gov/doc/about/ne...](https://mn.gov/doc/about/news/combatting-dhs-misinformation/ )
[Combatting DHS Misinformation ...](https://mn.gov/doc/about/news/combatting-dhs-misinformation/ )

2026-01-21 15:27:16 UTC

Important fact-checking of the claims DHS has made about immigrants it has snatched: the bad ones actually got turned over.
[www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/17/ice-takes-credit-for-some-criminals-that-were-already-in-minnesota-prisons )
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2026-01-17 20:19:38 UTC

Sorry. Has someone said this?
1) Trump can’t impose tariff unilaterally
2) Trump has no $$ to buy Greenland
3) Trump has no authority to leave NATO

2026-01-16 14:43:13 UTC

I'm seeing more people use the phrase "American carnage" for Stephen Miller's invasions and I think that's a really great hijacking of his term.
He keeps trying to claim the chaos in MN is designed to prevent MSP from turning into Mogadishu but ... it's beginning to look like Mogadishu.

2026-01-16 14:09:48 UTC

Trump's advisors are finally worrying about all the Butt Crack and Beer Belly spectacle that Stephen Miller's invasions create.
And they've got private polling showing what @npub1rh7…f978 keeps pointing out: Trump is losing on immigration and ICE.
[www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...](https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/trump-polling-immigration-approval-rating-ice-noem )
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2026-01-14 16:12:31 UTC

Harmeet editing her transphobia on the fly at the CSAM Nazi bar.
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2026-01-11 12:49:58 UTC

I wrote abt sane washing of Trump's confession he wants to take Greenland bc of his psychological neediness. But the sane washing had its desired effect.
We should all be screaming that this--Trump confessed h wants to take an action that will destroy NATO entirely bc of his psychological needs.
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2026-01-09 02:39:03 UTC

Remember that time Greg Bovino oversaw a paramilitary attack on an apartment complex inhabited by civilians in the name of chasing Tren de Aragua and they never produced ANY evidence to back that claim?
[www.propublica.org/article/chic...](https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges )
[“I Lost Everything”: Venezuela...](https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges )

2026-01-07 22:11:59 UTC

Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder on Peaceful ICE Observers
[www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/07/t...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/07/time-to-ask-if-stephen-miller-has-authorized-assault-and-murder-on-peaceful-ice-observers/ )
[Time to Ask if Stephen Miller ...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/07/time-to-ask-if-stephen-miller-has-authorized-assault-and-murder-on-peaceful-ice-observers/ )

2026-01-07 20:47:32 UTC

Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon.
[www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...](https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immigration-ice-shootings-guns-tracker/ )
[How Many People Have Been Shot...](https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immigration-ice-shootings-guns-tracker/ )

2026-01-04 22:23:08 UTC

Thought it would be a good time to check in on this case: Marco Rubio buddy David Rivera, who was indicted 3 years ago for attempting to broker a deal for Maduro.
[www.politico.com/news/2022/12...](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/06/marco-rubio-david-rivera-venezuela-meeting-00072652 )
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2026-01-03 18:34:41 UTC

Why are people assuming US troops and not Eric Prince employees will enforce US order in Venezuela?

2025-12-29 04:53:39 UTC

Meanwhile, DOJ wants to push the first public hearing for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole past the date (January 5) when 5-year statutes of limitation would expire.
[legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...](https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26444321-251229-cole-motion-for-clarification )
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2025-12-18 00:08:48 UTC

One of the biggest mistakes Dems made in transition is in not having Jack Smith testify openly about Jan6 before Durbin lost his gavel.

2025-12-08 19:35:21 UTC

Style guide:
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.

2025-12-08 19:13:56 UTC

Alina Habba was first ruled to be playacting as US Attorney on August 21 (though she had already been playacting at that point since July 1).
So taxpayers have paid for Alina to pretend she's US Attorney for 109 days.

2025-12-07 17:37:36 UTC

Turns out Elon is the one censoring the EU, not the other way around.
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2025-12-06 12:18:44 UTC

I wonder if Brett Kavanaugh will rethink his cavalier attitude towards these things once he sees a white blonde woman can be targeted repeatedly as well?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:svawqo4jxobyyuqmixplvcux/post/3m7cwy54e3c25

2025-12-03 21:18:33 UTC

In case anyone is wondering how Whiskey Pete Hegseth's plan worked out to stack the press room with right wing trolls and propagandists in advance of a damning IC Report, I present Laura Loomer.
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2025-12-03 15:05:48 UTC

Dan Bongino just posted a list of shitty things (like shifting FBI away fr public and corruption to hunting migrants, releasing details of criminal investigations and lying about what they show, and eliminating diversity) that he's proud of.
One of them is putting AI in charge of NatSec.
Alarming!
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2025-12-01 02:24:58 UTC

Trump: I'm going to pardon massive drug kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández, bc I don't think former leaders should be held accountable for their crimes.
Also Trump: But I'm going to make thinly sourced claims that Maduro is a drug kingpin so I can rationalize an illegal war based on that claim.

2025-11-30 16:32:32 UTC

So I guess no one is actually going to hold her accountable for sending innocent people to a concentration camp?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3m6udghrf4z2z

2025-11-30 15:33:53 UTC

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

2025-11-25 16:42:14 UTC

Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
[legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...](https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26300796-251030-bovino-deposition/#document/p174/a2773439 )
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2025-11-24 18:56:20 UTC

I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
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2025-11-24 18:43:22 UTC

Understand that the Halligan thing is 100% Pam Bondi's fuck-up. She could have appointed Halligan Special Attorney and this thing would still be alive.
So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot.
It's that Bondi is too.

2025-11-15 00:20:32 UTC

Shit.
Pam Bondi has radicalized Reid Hoffman.
👀
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2025-11-14 19:47:33 UTC

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
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2025-11-14 00:48:21 UTC

Bill Pulte doing more corruptioning, this time of the "crash the whole housing market" variety.
[apnews.com/article/fann...](https://apnews.com/article/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-firing-pulte-data-a4f8c53df74fef83ec7fd07e3d524746 )
[Top Fannie Mae officials ouste...](https://apnews.com/article/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-firing-pulte-data-a4f8c53df74fef83ec7fd07e3d524746 )

2025-11-13 18:57:43 UTC

Holy shit: Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer has FAR MORE than an 18-minute gap.
That grand jury came back late--after 6 or something.
[abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys...](https://abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys-comey-james-set-challenge-appointment-trump-installed/story?id=127466322 )
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2025-11-11 21:16:35 UTC

SCOTUS6: POTUS can fire anyone.
IGs: Even IGs?
SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs.
IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair?
[www.wsj.com/finance/regu...](https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/fannie-mae-watchdogs-probed-how-pulte-obtained-mortgage-records-of-key-democrats-07c5cc39 )
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2025-11-11 13:03:58 UTC

"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wk7sybhegd37i7ljsltxbef6/post/3m5e6xfnp6c2v
#note1k8n…tph7

2025-11-10 21:40:09 UTC

Here's how Jim Comey mocks Pam Bondi's attempt to retroactively make Lindsey Halligan a magical pony on Halloween.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135.175.0.pdf )
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2025-11-08 16:08:30 UTC

Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were going to buy 10 jets without engines from Spririt Airlines that Spirit didn't own.
[www.wsj.com/politics/pol...](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/department-homeland-security-deportation-disfunction-976a0e9b )
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2025-11-07 00:35:30 UTC

There should be a German word for white men who cannot conceive of possibility they'll be held accountable for their own actions.

2025-11-06 21:31:45 UTC

Govt doesn't want Comey to look at grand jury transcripts.
Way to look guilty, guys.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135.164.0.pdf )
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2025-11-06 17:43:15 UTC

It's high time we come up with a nickname for Kash Patel's FBI plane now that we know he's using it for Booty Calls.
Suggestions?

2025-11-03 21:22:36 UTC

After Mamadani wins tomorrow it'd be cool if some of his people made a successor political vehicle to Teen Vogue, for which there's clearly a market.

2025-11-01 06:14:44 UTC

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh, who now has Joe Arpaio convinced you've rewritten the Constitution to support his tastes.
[This isn't the full tweet. It just goes on and on and on.]
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2025-10-30 19:59:52 UTC

A bid by Jim Comey to get the grand jury transcripts explains the "spill" of privileged information. The same day Miles Starr testified before the grand jury, he told FBI General Counsel he had access privileged information.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135.106.0.pdf )
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2025-10-25 14:57:16 UTC

Congratulations to Tim Mellon, the far right billionaire who just volunteered to become the literal poster child for ads about billionaires whose tax cuts are a primary reason why the govt is shut down.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html )
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2025-10-23 14:55:28 UTC

Know what might make Trump's bid to cash in on being a criminal more interesting?
If Joe BIden sued bc he was investigated.
😜

2025-10-21 16:06:13 UTC

If one of your Senators is one of the four (Thune, Scott, Lankford, and Johnson) who has come out v Ingrassia for his Nazi views, you might call and ask when they're going to call out Stephen Miller, who is also a white nationalist, but who also serves as a gatekeeper to what Trump thinks is true.

2025-10-20 12:39:12 UTC

The people guarding the US nuclear stockpile are being furloughed today.
Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.
[edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/politics/national-nuclear-security-administration-furloughs-shutdown )
[Federal agency overseeing US n...](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/politics/national-nuclear-security-administration-furloughs-shutdown )

2025-10-19 23:53:21 UTC

On Friday, Trump asked SCOTUS to let him invade Chicago, relying on declarations already deemed unreliable, to disprove Chicago's claim it was abt animus.
On Saturday, he posted AI slop showing him dropping shit on America.
On Sunday, he bombed SoCal.

2025-10-19 16:33:21 UTC

The most powerful military in the history of the world failed to kill all four of the men we falsely claimed were Venezuelans shipping fentanyl to the United States in hopes of starting a war with Venezuela.
Should we just start a war with Colombia instead?
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2025-10-19 13:25:39 UTC

Marco Rubio sold out people cooperating AGAINST the gang that Trump claims to be trying to defeat in order to gain access to Nayib Bukele's concentration camp.
Yeah, we know they suck. But this is just stunning.
[www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/19/rubio-el-salvador-prison-bukele-ms13-informants/ )
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2025-10-18 11:17:25 UTC

The frogs have spawned!
Dublin represent! #NoKings
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2025-10-17 13:00:02 UTC

One way you beat fascism is to get 3.5% of the population out protesting.
Here are some details on what is bringing people out in Trumpland.
And for those coming out in Trumpland on Saturday? Stay safe!!
[wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...](https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resistance-reaches-into-trump-counties/ )
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2025-10-13 17:48:36 UTC

NYT wrote a 2,400 word story abt Todd Blanche without mentioning that he personally ordered the arrest of Newark Mayor [@rasjbaraka.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/rasjbaraka.bsky.social ), and as such is deeply implicated in [@replamonica.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/replamonica.bsky.social ) case.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/todd-blanche-justice-department-trump.html )
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2025-10-10 13:29:21 UTC

Huh. Gonna be an awkward day for Secretary of State-National Security Advisor-Acting Archivist Marco Rubio.
[www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...](https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/files/6B35DA8B-8FC9-4B05-BCC8-DB71EC9AD7DE )
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2025-10-09 19:46:38 UTC

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.
[www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...](https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/10/caribbean-drug-boat-strikes/684481 )
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2025-10-09 13:13:51 UTC

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574.63.0.pdf )
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2025-10-08 11:17:00 UTC

I feel like we should have a betting pool not on WHEN the Comey case blows up in spectacular fashion, but the specific means by which it does so.
[abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...](https://abcnews.go.com/US/central-witness-undermines-case-james-comey-prosecutors-concluded/story?id=126311648 )
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2025-10-08 08:57:46 UTC

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.
[www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...](https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/texas-waco-chef-deported-sergio-garcia-ice-undocumented/ )
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2025-10-07 17:11:22 UTC

I'm on the record saying that Russ Vought will do things during the shutdown that will make his illegal rescissions visible in the way they otherwise weren't. And boy howdy, threatening to ignore the law on backpay is a great example. [corrected]
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2025-10-07 10:52:31 UTC

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.
[blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...](https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ )
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2025-10-06 14:07:28 UTC

Trump's Truth Social posts might doom his invasion of Chicago just like they did in Portland.
From a just-filed lawsuit.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574.1.0.pdf )
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2025-10-04 16:12:42 UTC

Kash is having a meltdown on Xitter, I guess bc he promised SOMEONE a perp walk and got told that's going to on exacerbate his own problems.
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2025-10-02 21:05:21 UTC

I've been waiting for a good voice to pick up the Argentina/Soybean scandal.
Dan Osborn now has.
[www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/d...](https://www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/dan-osborn-calls-out-u-s-governments-argentina-bailout-that-hurts-nebraska-soybean-farmers/ )
[Dan Osborn calls out U.S. gove...](https://www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/dan-osborn-calls-out-u-s-governments-argentina-bailout-that-hurts-nebraska-soybean-farmers/ )

2025-09-30 18:03:41 UTC

Read this whole thread on the problems with Hegseth's speech today.
But I think the silence of the crowd BADLY undercut the effort.
How much do you want to show on TV that no one responded?
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2025-09-30 17:56:54 UTC

After Patrick Byrne has blown off another hearing, the judge (finally) invites Hunter Biden to file for default judgment in defamation lawsuit.
[storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.904869/gov.uscourts.cacd.904869.341.0.pdf )
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2025-09-29 12:34:45 UTC

Suing Donald Trump pro se for $40 trillion dollars is the way all Jan6ers should be spending their pardons, as the QShaman is.
[www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-qanon-shaman-files-40-trillion-lawsuit-against-trump-22763479 )
[QAnon Shaman says he’s rightfu...](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-qanon-shaman-files-40-trillion-lawsuit-against-trump-22763479 )

2025-09-28 23:29:07 UTC

Dear John Roberts:
Please force Donald Trump to give us our Guard back.
He was watching too much Fox News, again.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2uxmeohvbdxd53ljmx5jjq7d/post/3lzwaljztks2r
#note1cal…fdpt

2025-09-27 15:27:58 UTC

Also, if you DO post Portland at Peace, please indicate where we have permission to share them on Xitter.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lztbvrvib22o
#note13jq…xhpx

2025-09-27 15:22:13 UTC

If you're in Portland, go take some video of how nothing is going on there.
Document that Trump is invading for no reason.

2025-09-27 08:38:34 UTC

1) The problem with running DOJ if you've recently defended Trump is he heard you claim there was no evidence of his crimes when in fact there were entire pallets full of it.
2) Who, in THIS White House, has the insight to realize the Comey prosecution could backfire?
[www.wsj.com/politics/pol...](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-overcame-internal-dissent-to-get-his-case-against-comey-320e8ee1 )
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2025-09-26 19:48:39 UTC

I know Lindsey Halligan is new at this prosecutor business, but there's far more evidence Ka$h Patel committed a crime in investigating Comey than that Comey did.
Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer got the wrong FBI Director!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lzra7bxxn22w
#note1c7y…8zjh

2025-09-26 19:46:25 UTC

Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment?
[www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/w...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/will-ted-cruz-go-to-prison-for-the-lies-he-told-as-part-of-the-jim-comey-indictment/ )
[Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/will-ted-cruz-go-to-prison-for-the-lies-he-told-as-part-of-the-jim-comey-indictment/ )

2025-09-26 14:30:42 UTC

In the LaMonica McIver case (you know--that political prosecution of a Black women the press has largely forgotten), DOJ has been stalling on giving her:
Video from the detention center
At least one bodyworn camera
The names of officers involved
[www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/m...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/mainstream-press-confesses-they-missed-the-other-politicized-prosecutions/ )
[Mainstream Press Confesses The...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/mainstream-press-confesses-they-missed-the-other-politicized-prosecutions/#comment-1112909 )

2025-09-24 19:39:40 UTC

Since the adolescents in the White House are making what they imagine to be jokes about Biden's autopen, reupping how Todd Blanche revealed TRUMP'S pardons aren't backed by paperwork.
[www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/17/t...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/17/todd-blanche-and-benjamin-bleiberg-expose-trumps-pardon-auto-pen-scandal/ )
[Todd Blanche Exposes Trump's P...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/17/todd-blanche-and-benjamin-bleiberg-expose-trumps-pardon-auto-pen-scandal/ )

2025-09-24 12:48:43 UTC

Sinclair Makes Itself Visible
[www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/s...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/sinclair-makes-itself-visible/ )
[Sinclair Makes Itself Visible ...](https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/sinclair-makes-itself-visible/ )