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December 2024

  1. The Opportunity Costs of Conspiracy Theories about Merrick Garland
  2. Farewell to the Man from Plains
  3. The Two Smear Attacks against Jeff Bezos and His Partner
  4. Human Individuality
  5. The Complications of Elon Musk
  6. Merry Christmas
  7. The BezosPost Struggles with the Boundaries of Press Freedom
  8. Cotton Swabs and Grievance Myths: Do Not Invite Republicans to Express Support for Kash Patel’s Witch Hunts
  9. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  10. “Friendly to Us:” NYT Buries Its Own Role in Trump’s Attacks on Rule of Law
  11. Barry Loudermilk Provides Proof of Kash Patel’s Incompetence Wrapped Up inside His Liz Cheney Referral
  12. Trump Is Not on a “Retribution Tour;” He’s on an Authoritarian Spree
  13. Dear Media: Media Crit Like It’s Football, FFS
  14. Wimpy Patriarchy
  15. David Weiss’ Rush Job on Alexander Smirnov’s Sentencing
  16. The Terrifying Complexity of Tech Oligarchs’ Obeisance to Trump
  17. Kash Patel Also Lied about Trump’s Personalization of US Intelligence
  18. Maturing In US Society
  19. To Pay Off His Election Debts, Trump Seems Prepared to Destroy the United States
  20. Chuck Grassley Says the FBI Must Combat Sexual Misconduct But the Senate Can Whitewash It
  21. If an Informant Narcs on a Riot But No FBI Agent Asks about It, Did It Really Happen?
  22. The Lessons of Zero Accountability for a Kash Patel Bureau
  23. In Advance of the KashTastrophe, DOJ IG Raises the Stakes on Investigations of Congress
  24. When Life Gives You Lemons in the Trump Era, Missouri Edition
  25. Zero Accountability: The Five-Plus Times DOJ Got Fabricated Evidence against Hunter Biden
  26. The Myths of Bluebeard and Orangeskin
  27. Zeynep Tufekci’s Two Blind Spots Cross at DOGE
  28. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  29. You Can’t Pardon America’s Way Out of Trump’s Assault on Rule of Law
  30. The White House Crypto Czar: Trump’s Election Has Helped Bitcoin Far More than the Dollar
  31. Kash Patel’s Bullets
  32. Devlin Barrett Makes Shit Up about Hunter Biden, Again
  33. Judge Mark Scarsi’s Umbrage: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
  34. Evolution And Individuals
  35. How Jeff Bezos Smothered Pete Hegseth News because Hunter Biden Was Pardoned of Already Declined Charges
  36. How Ireland’s Sherlock Beat the Mobster with the Bad Hair
  37. America Just Failed the Test of Responding to Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions
  38. Joe Biden Pardons Hunter
  39. How Trump Rolled Out this Kash Patel Pick Is Part of Spinning False Claims about Rule of Law

November 2024

  1. Ball of Thread: Rudy’s Hunter Biden Witch Hunt
  2. To You Charming Gardeners
  3. The Little Noticed Jay Clayton Pick at SDNY
  4. On Background Checks for Trump Appointees, The Magic Number Is “Four”
  5. The Zombie Case against Trump’s Indicted Co-Conspirators
  6. Boris’ Shakedown
  7. “Without Prejudice:” Jack Smith Moves to Dismiss the DC Case
  8. Just a Quarter of Republican Senators Voted for Rick Scott
  9. Pam Bondi Offers a Platform to Expose the Consequences of Trump’s Past Corruption
  10. Now What?
  11. WaPo Enthusiastically Joins Trump’s Attack on Rule of Law
  12. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  13. “A Farce, or a Tragedy, or Perhaps Both.”
  14. Amid Global Threats that Remain (Publicly) Unspeakable, Trump Makes Himself Vulnerable
  15. Yes, Trump Plans to Flush NATO, But It’s Part of a Larger Whole
  16. With Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s Myth Cannot Fail — It Can Only Be Failed
  17. David Weiss Dons His “Let’s Go Brandon” Frame
  18. Special Counsel Reports Include Declination Decisions
  19. Trump’s Blacklist: His Fascism, Legal Fuck-ups, and Business Failures
  20. Lessons from Red States on How to Push Back
  21. Boris Epshteyn’s One-Two Punch on DOJ
  22. Go Stare at the Ocean
  23. Republicans Get to Chew on Matt Gaetz for Two Months and a Week
  24. The Orbanization of US Politics Began Years Ago
  25. Litmus Tests Likely Explain Who the Fuck is Pete Hegseth
  26. Russia Attempts to Collect Its Winnings
  27. How Garland-Whinger Ankush Khardori’s Willful Impotence Helps Trump Evade Accountability
  28. Two Elections: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check”
  29. The Mixed Emotions of November 9th
  30. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  31. Jack Smith Asks for Three Weeks
  32. The Legal Cases Implicating Donald Trump’s Conduct That Won’t Go Away [Because of His Election]
  33. The Time before Confrontation
  34. When Special Counsels Finish Up, They Must Write Reports
  35. The Upcoming Pardon-Palooza
  36. Trump Sold Grievance and America Liked What He Was Selling
  37. Donald Trump Will Become America’s Dictator on Day One
  38. Tonight’s Jam Session at King David’s House of Song
  39. Things the Legacy Media Found Less Important than Joe Biden’s Apostrophe
  40. Batting Down Election-Day Conspiracy Theories
  41. Ball of Threads: Durham Descends
  42. How America’s First Woman Vice President Stepped Up
  43. What It Would Take to Charge Donald Trump with Inciting Insurrection
  44. NYT’s Sample Versus Early Vote
  45. Male Pollsters Shocked — Shocked!! — When a Woman Pollster Discovers Women Voters
  46. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  47. David Weiss Chose Not to Record the Alexander Smirnov Interview He Attended
  48. Elon Musk’s Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence

October 2024

  1. The Problem Bezos Can’t See
  2. A Tale of Two Pennsylvania Lawsuits
  3. Proud Boy Closure or John Roberts’ Get Out of Jail Free Card?
  4. What Wannabe Cosplayer-in-Chief Doesn’t Grab
  5. On the Legacy of Bill Barr’s Luzerne County Intervention
  6. At Least Four Trump Supporters Arrested for Cheating
  7. Secret Documents! The Ten Month Privilege Fight Whingers Claim Didn’t Happen
  8. Jeff Bezos’ Manifesto of Impotence
  9. Jack Smith’s Delicate Treatment of BadgerPundit Kenneth Chesebro
  10. The Media Started Capitulating to Trump with Russia Russia Russia
  11. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  12. If Putin Is Running Musk, Trump Should Be Terrified
  13. Woodward Book: Joe Biden’s “Dementia” Tracked His Stress about Hunter Biden
  14. The Disappearing Cheshire Cat I Found in the Rabbit Hole Where Lee Chatfield Was Hiding
  15. Ball of Thread: Zombie Mueller
  16. When an Older White Catholic Man Admits, “This Toxicity that Exists Is Really Embarrassing”
  17. So Help Me God: Lawyers, Encryption, and Insurrection
  18. Donald J. Trump, Cosplayer
  19. Kamala Harris against Despair
  20. How to Read the Immunity Appendix
  21. Trump’s GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants
  22. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  23. Jack Smith’s Appendix
  24. Could This Week’s Developments Change the Race?
  25. Hen in the Fox House: Jorge Velázquez and Ramiro González Better Served Democracy than Bret Baier
  26. Jack Smith Takes Up the Aid and Abet Theory Endorsed by Judge Amit Mehta in 2022
  27. 325,000 People Vote in First Day of Early Voting in Georgia
  28. Searching for Jared Wise
  29. We Are All Don Bacon’s Wife: The Threats Trump Elicits for Personal Gain
  30. JD Vance Asserts that He and Trump Cannot Win Legitimately
  31. Machine for Fascism: The Two Stephens
  32. The Individual In Contemporary Society
  33. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  34. Ball of Thread: Barr’s Butchery
  35. NYT “Censors” Elon Musk’s Jokes about Assassinating the Vice President and His “Censorship” of JD Vance Dossier
  36. Trump Demands Emergency Appendix Surgery
  37. More on Jack Smith’s Immunity Filing
  38. Putin Has Convinced Trump He’s Keeping Trump’s Weakness Secret
  39. Bombshell “New[s]:” Jack Smith DID Consult about Timing before Adopting Post-SCOTUS Path
  40. As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin
  41. Disaster Disinformation Is This Year’s John Podesta Emails
  42. Trump Pardoned Unindicted Co-Conspirator Steve Bannon for Defrauding Trump’s Supporters
  43. All Hell Is Going to Break Loose: Maybe Jack Smith Did Precisely What Elie Honig Claims He Didn’t
  44. Tie Game: WaPo’s Polls and Maggie’s Misinformation
  45. From the Willard to Danbury Correctional: Steve Bannon Allegedly Joins the Conspiracy
  46. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  47. Conclusion To Series On Rights
  48. How Jack Smith Wants to Prove Trump’s Crimes
  49. The Immunity Brief: How We Got Here, Where We’re Going
  50. John Roberts’ Sordid Legacy: 14 Pages of Mean Tweets
  51. Jack Smith’s Immunity Argument
  52. The “Truth” about JD Vance
  53. 2024 Presidential Election: The Vice Presidential Debate
  54. Donald Trump Didn’t Do the Homework Assignment
  55. Bill Barr Didn’t Hear When Trump Asked, “Russia Are You Listening?”

September 2024

  1. As Kamala Harris Passes the Two-Thirds Mark, Trump Adopts Apocalyptic Language
  2. The Other Problematic Subject Trump Hid
  3. My Sixth Amendment Sense about Jack Smith’s Proposed Book Report
  4. Iranian Hackers Compromised Roger Stone’s Email Eight Years After Russian Hackers Exfiltrated DNC Emails
  5. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  6. VP Harris’ Haley Play
  7. Bill Barr, “So Far as We Knew”
  8. Eric Adams Indicted
  9. Reid Epstein’s Economic Polling Anxiety
  10. Scott Schools Got the [Trump Subpoena] Memo — Then Left DOJ
  11. Don’t Make the Same Mistake with Iran that Denialists Made with Russia
  12. The Trained [Un]Seal that Performed for Trump’s Lawyers
  13. The Habitual Lies on Which Trump Has Built His Attack on Rule of Law
  14. Trump Didn’t Call the FBI Because He Refused to Meet the Standard to Which He Held Hillary Clinton
  15. Ryan Routh’s Eleven Phones and Two Iran Mentions
  16. Why No One Went to Prison for Rudy Giuliani’s Hunter Biden Corruption
  17. Trump Will Stage an Emergency to Ban Jack Smith’s Book Report
  18. Pandora’s Box Opened: Netanyahu’s Double-Tap Fuck-You
  19. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  20. Permission Structures and Polling Puzzles
  21. Useful Idiot Networks, Now Featuring Elon Musk and Don Jr.
  22. JD Vance Makes Light of Actual Foreign Interference in His State
  23. The Injustice Of Our Rights Regime
  24. The Concerning Paragraph in the Ryan Routh Complaint
  25. How Kamala Harris Dodged the Two Truths Problem
  26. Ball of Thread: The Mueller Investigation
  27. The Laura Loomer Problem Is the Same as the Vladimir Putin Problem
  28. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  29. Using Social Media For Good Or At Least Fun
  30. Useful Idiots: DOJ Moves from Name-and-Shame to Name-and-Disrupt
  31. Kamala Harris Is Not Goading Journalists to Publish Emails Iran Stole from Roger Stone
  32. The Midway Point of Kamala Harris’ Campaign
  33. Trump’s Handlers Attempt to Retcon His Fascist Attack on Haitian Migrants
  34. Kamala Harris, Protagonist
  35. 2024 Presidential Election: Second Presidential Debate (for Trump)
  36. Whatever Happens with the Debate, Kamala Harris’ Campaign Is Not Yet Half Done
  37. Discerning Russian Trolls Appreciate Truth Social’s Treatment of Fake Accounts
  38. In One Week, Trump Suggests He’ll Eliminate Sanctions on Iran and Lies about Iran Hack to Supporters
  39. Doppelgänger Debunking: Monitoring Social Media Does Not Equate to Recruitment
  40. Lauren Chen’s Curious Legal Status
  41. John Lauro’s Mike Pence Gateway Drug
  42. The September 26 Brief We’ll Get in the Trump January 6 Case
  43. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  44. “If You Are a Psycho and You Want to Make Headlines”
  45. Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty
  46. Trump Will Have to Defend His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence Before the Election
  47. The Doppelgänger Dossier
  48. Don Jr’s Online Buddies Allegedly Demand $5 Million from Russian Shell Companies to Say Nice Things about His Daddy
  49. Stop Obsessing about Kamala Harris’ (Polling) Bumps
  50. All Trump’s Recidivists
  51. The Soft Bigotry of No Expectations on Trump
  52. There Are No Backsies on Dobbs

August 2024

  1. Trump Wants to Hide His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence from Voters
  2. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  3. Michael Shear and Reid Epstein Feign Stupidity about Trump’s Decade-Long Pitch for Authoritarianism
  4. ABC Treats Kamala’s 21-Year Old Misstatement about Prosecutions as News but Not Trump’s Daily Lies about His Own Crimes
  5. The Missing Detail about Encryption in the Pavel Durov Investigation
  6. Strict Scrutiny and Rational Basis Scrutiny
  7. As Maggie Haberman Unabashedly Joins the Kayfabe, Tim Walz Sings the Menards Jingle
  8. The Superseding Trump Indictment Is about Obstruction as Much as Immunity
  9. The Pared Down Superseding Indictment for January 6
  10. Kamala’s Campaign Pushes Trump’s Impulse Control Problems
  11. The Proud Boys’ Reliance on Telegram Didn’t Save Them, But It Thwarted Preventing the Attack
  12. Be Careful What Trump’s Lawyers Wish For, Superseding Indictment Edition
  13. The Second Amendment, as Applied
  14. A Manufactured Fight over Incumbency Hides Trump’s Fascism
  15. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  16. Ukraine, Russia, and the Long Shadow of Nuclear Proliferation
  17. To Become Leader of the Free(dom) World
  18. DNC Convention 2024: Day 4 — The Fight for the Future Begins
  19. Five Ways to Find New Voters and New Activists
  20. DNC Convention 2024: Day 3
  21. The Presidency Is a “Black Job”
  22. DNC Convention 2024: Day 2
  23. Three Ways Jim Jordan and James Comer Made Trump Less Safe
  24. DNC Convention 2024: Day 1
  25. Loose Ends on the George Santos Plea Deal
  26. 2024 Remains an Unpredictable Race: Six Predictable Things that Could Still Upend It
  27. Fruit Loops and Taco Talk
  28. With Tim Walz, There Is TOO Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
  29. The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One
  30. In Attempting To Claim WaPo Doesn’t Chase Rat-Fucks, WaPo Lies about Chasing Rat-Fucks
  31. After Serving as a Pawn for Russia, Roger Stone Became a Pwn of Iran
  32. Journalists Struggle to Distinguish Elon Musk’s Chat from Press Conference They Validated
  33. Elon Musk’s Machine for Political Violence
  34. In Which Ian Miles Cheong Understands Trump’s Campaign Better than NYT
  35. The Trump Hack Could Extend Far Beyond a Hack-and-Leak
  36. Trump’s Broken-Down Helicopter Was a Vehicle to Make Up Shit about Kamala Harris
  37. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  38. Trump’s Imaginary Helicopter Friends and Bacon Emergency
  39. Trump Commends the Deep State; Media Buries That Fact
  40. Jack Smith Asks for an Extension
  41. Vance and the Void
  42. Derek Hines’ Romanian Freeh Fall
  43. Walz’ Leadership and JD’s Spin: The Ethics of Service
  44. Republicans Mourn Another Failed Attempt to Create a Democratic Schism
  45. Fleece Jacket: The Assassination Plot against Trump
  46. Harris-Walz: The First Rally
  47. WalzPilled
  48. After CNN and NYT Get Punked by Trump, They Prioritize Free Dick Stories Over Bribery
  49. Two Views Of Protection Of Rights
  50. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  51. Tanya Chutkan Finally Gets the Trump Case Back
  52. Michael Sherwin Failed to Brief Merrick Garland on Trump’s Suspected Egyptian Payment
  53. Biden Administration Negotiates Release of Evan Gershkovich and Others
  54. How to Fact Check Trump’s Lies about His Document Case

July 2024

  1. Trump Aborts Interview after Smart Black Women Ask Tough Questions
  2. America’s Whimpering Democracy Is Trump’s Past, as Well as Future
  3. Trump’s Stranglehold on the GOP Is a Vulnerability
  4. Ball of Thread: Devin Nunes’ Collusion
  5. “My Beautiful Christians:” Trump’s Pandering to Christian Nationalists
  6. DOJ Settles Privacy Act Lawsuit, Prepares for Peter Strzok’s Amended Complaint
  7. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  8. Trump Invites Reporters to Start Demanding His Medical Records
  9. Ronny Jackson Memory Holes His Nephew’s Injury
  10. President Biden’s Address to the Nation
  11. SCOTUS Usurps Congressional Power
  12. DOJ IG Finds Bill Barr’s Personal Intervention in Roger Stone Sentencing “Highly Unusual” But Not Illegal
  13. Speaker Mike Johnson Demands Better Treatment for Israel’s Prime Minister Than Given the President of the United States
  14. Now that Joe Biden Stepped Down for the Good of the Country, Joe Kahn Must Join Him
  15. Fraudulent Failson Judgement: JD Vance “Ain’t From Here”
  16. The Kennedy Injection
  17. Biden’s Timing: Undercutting Bibi
  18. Dems Coalesce around Vice President Kamala Harris
  19. Biden Drops Out of Race, Endorses Vice President Harris
  20. Since Leaving Butler, Trump Has Foregone the Best Medical Care and Is Withholding CT Scan Results
  21. Will Peter Baker Exhibit the Same Tenacity about Medical Records on the Trump Shooting as He Did a Parkinson’s Conspiracy Theory?
  22. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  23. Manufactured Horseshit: Paul Manafort Returns to the Scene of the Crime
  24. Will Alex Jones Accuse Donald Trump of Being a Crisis Actor?
  25. In Bid to Withhold Laptop and Hard Drive Forensic Reports, Derek Hines Misstates Hunter Biden’s View on Authenticity of Data on Laptop
  26. emptywheel Writes Letters: The FBI Extraction of the Hunter Biden Hard Drive Is 62% Bigger than the Laptop
  27. Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden’s Age
  28. Aileen Cannon Makes Clarence Thomas’ Calvinball Newly Significant
  29. America’s Hitler/JD 2024
  30. Aileen Cannon Unwound the Stolen Documents Prosecution Back to November 2022
  31. Aileen Cannon Dismisses Stolen Documents Case Based on Special Counsel Appointment
  32. The Taiwan Snub
  33. Shooting at Trump Event
  34. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  35. What If You Had a Military Summit Defending the Future of Democracy and No One Gave a Damn?
  36. Trump May Attempt to Disavow Project 2025 — but He’s not Disavowing Viktor Orbán
  37. NYTimes Launders Its Own Agency
  38. Viktor Orbán’s Mar-a-Lago Field Trip
  39. WaPo’s Manufactured “Landslide”
  40. The Lie David Sanger Told to Sustain NYT’s Non-Stop Campaign against Joe Biden
  41. Reading the NYT Front Page, So You Don’t Have To
  42. Peter Baker Argues Joe Biden Is Unfit because Peter Baker Is Too Lazy to Read the Homework
  43. Imagine if Dana Bash Knew Trump Had Been President Before?
  44. The Self-Satisfied and Often Wrong Media Frenzy
  45. The Second Round of Macron’s Insane Election
  46. Memory Lane: Did You Forget about the Golf?
  47. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  48. Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump’s Authoritarian Tendencies
  49. Brazil Charges Coup-Plotter Bolsonaro for Saudi Gifts as Trump Org Unveils New Saudi High Rise
  50. On This Fourth of July, We Have to Sing
  51. “This is a rush job, as it needs to get out as soon as possible:” Jim Jordan-Led Investigation Discredits John Ratcliffe
  52. Fourteen Shambolic Years of Conservative Rule
  53. Spirit of Revenge: John Roberts Says Joe Biden Can Demand an Investigation of Ginni Thomas
  54. What Is To Be Done
  55. Chief Justice John Roberts Just Invited President Biden to Pardon Nicholas Roske
  56. Preprison Interviews Give Bannon a Chance to Pitch Fascism, Cover-Up His Fraud
  57. Justice Roberts’ Drone Strike on George Washington’s Legacy
  58. Jack Smith’s Way Forward
  59. SCOTUS’ Republicans Allow Presidents to Use SEAL Team 6 To Execute Their Opponents
  60. Open Thread: Last Batch of SCOTUS Decisions
  61. Don’t Let a Biden Succession Crisis Create a Succession Crisis

June 2024

  1. The “Wow, Pictures!” Tabloid Coverage of Trump’s Stolen Documents Is as Bad as Conspiracy Mongering
  2. NYT 2016: “But Her Emails” NYT 2024: “But His Debate”
  3. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  4. Joe Biden: Three Weeks and Four Months
  5. Supreme Court Makes 18 USC 1512 a Paperwork Crime, But Does Not Address Corrupt Purpose
  6. Aileen Cannon Confesses She’s Unable to Distinguish between Golf Balls and Nuclear Weapons
  7. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Final Day* of Term Edition
  8. The Day After
  9. 2024 Presidential Election: First Presidential Debate
  10. The Madness of Macron
  11. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Thursday Edition [UPDATE-1]
  12. How Courts Came to Control Our Rights
  13. Sammy Alito Makes a Great Case Trump Censored Fox News’ Accurate 2020 Election Reporting
  14. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Wednesday Edition [UPDATE-2]
  15. The Damaging Precedent of the Julian Assange Espionage Guilty Plea
  16. The Nuclear Weapons Document Trump Stashed under Bubble Wrap and a Christmas Pillow
  17. “Nobody ever slept on that side of the bed usually so he would have it all full of boxes”
  18. Julian Assange to Plead to One Count of Espionage Act on Way Back to Australia
  19. “Double Jeopardy Protection … Is [Hunter Biden’s] Right”
  20. Gaza: Unending Cannon Fire and Steel Helmets
  21. Derek Hines Ensures that Two Likely Appeals Will Implicate His False Claims about Hunter Biden’s New Haven Crack Pipe
  22. Ashraf Shaaban Listed as Global Legal Head of National Bank of Egypt
  23. An Egyptian Bank Claimed Details of a Suspected $10 Million Payment to Trump Might be in China
  24. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  25. Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller Demand the Right to Foster Right Wing Violence for the Election
  26. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Friday Edition [UPDATE-1]
  27. Garrett Ziegler Done in by His Chateau Marmont Field Trip
  28. The Schulte CIPA Transcripts: Locking up Vault 8
  29. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions [UPDATE-1]
  30. The Document Found with Roger Stone’s Clemency Did Pertain to Emmanuel Macron
  31. Hunter Biden’s Prosecutors Complained about the Laptop, Once, Too
  32. Our Choice of Fathers
  33. The Threats that Hunter Biden’s Prosecutors Pretended Didn’t Exist Continue Unabated
  34. Fridays with Nicole Sandler (and LOLGOP and Spocko)
  35. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Friday Edition
  36. The Pee Tape: The Media’s Obsession with Jill Biden May Undermine the Jury
  37. Leo Wise’s Performed Ignorance
  38. Alito Versus Law And Science
  39. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions [UPDATE-2]
  40. Denial and Forgetting at the Hunter Biden Trial
  41. What Happened to Hunter Biden’s Plea Agreement
  42. The Scolding that Hunter Biden Should Have Pled Guilty Ignores the Complexity of What Happened
  43. “Case Changing:” The 7-Eleven Messages
  44. Hunter Biden Found Guilty on All Charges
  45. What Jurors Noticed about Hallie Biden’s Testimony
  46. Leo Wise Makes Excuses for the Reams of Evidence from Periods Hunter Didn’t Own a Gun
  47. Hallie Biden Was First Compelled to Testify against Hunter Biden in 2022
  48. The AT&T Associations Underlying the Shoddy Laptop Validation
  49. Roe v. Wade
  50. Definition of an Addict: Why Hunter’s Paraphernalia around Kids Matters
  51. Prosecutors Plan to Use Their Failure to Exploit the Ablow Laptop against Hunter Biden
  52. Demons: The Greek Tragedy of America’s Hunter Biden Addiction
  53. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  54. Reading, Rather than Bringing, Receipts
  55. How to Think about the Hunter Biden “Laptop”
  56. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions
  57. Judge Noreika Risks Narrowing Hunter Biden’s Right to Confront His Accuser Even Further
  58. Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines and the February 2019 Super 8 Crack Pipe
  59. Special Agent Erika Jensen Did Not Look, and Did Not Find, Evidence of Tampering with the Laptop
  60. Bringing Receipts: Print Date: 10/22/20
  61. Gaps and Forms: Hunter Biden’s Defense
  62. Special Agent Erika Jensen: Watch the Summary Witness’ Blind Spots
  63. Judge Noreika Joins Derek Hines in Selective Adherence to the Laws of Physics
  64. Maryellen Noreika Falls for Derek Hines’ False Claims, Again
  65. On Eve of Opening Arguments, WSJ Launders David Weiss’ Russian Disinformation Problem
  66. Washington Post’s Sunday Night Editorial Massacre
  67. Big Media Ignoring the Who What When Why of GOP Apology for Trump’s Crimes
  68. Remaining Evidentiary Disputes in Hunter Biden Case
  69. On Eve of Hunter Biden Gun Trial, Judge Maryellen Noreika Covers Up Possible Gun Crime
  70. Breathing Room: What Are You Growing?
  71. “Swept Up!” The Russian Payments that Led to Trump’s Felony Conviction
  72. Compelling Hallie Biden

May 2024

  1. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  2. Trump NY Hush Money Fraud Trial: A Verdict Is In [UPDATE]
  3. Trump Undone by the Truth of His Pecker
  4. Trump Convicted of Fraud to Cover-up Fucking a Sex Worker
  5. “True:” Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines Claims 80-Plus Equals “A Couple”
  6. How the Steele Dossier Broke MAGAts’ Brains
  7. Chris Kise Asks Aileen Cannon to Sanction Jack Smith because Chris Kise Doctored a Filing
  8. There are Heroes, and Then There are Heroes
  9. Jack Smith Invites Aileen Cannon to Protect the Country Rather than Just Donald Trump
  10. Fridays with Nicole Sandler, with Updates
  11. Derek Hines’ Disappearing [Three Colors of] Ink
  12. Natalie Harp: Gatekeeper to the Reich
  13. David Weiss Maintains He Can Use Hunter Biden’s Diversion Statements at Failed Plea Hearing
  14. Hunter Biden Prosecutor Leo Wise Aspires to Be the James Comer of John Durhams
  15. How David Weiss Plans to Prove the Gun Case against Hunter Biden
  16. Trials of Insurrectionists are Not Simply an American Thing
  17. Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines Confesses He Failed To Do Basic Due Diligence, Again
  18. Aileen Cannon Blames Jack Smith That She Fucked Over Stan Woodward
  19. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  20. Jim Risch Demands that Avril Haines Formally Tell Us He Is Lying
  21. Three Things: Let the Tedious Bashing Commence!
  22. David Weiss’ Exhibit List Looks Like One Matt Gaetz or James Comer Would Assemble
  23. Hunter Biden Moves to Enjoin David Weiss Under an Appropriations Argument Trump Adopted
  24. David Weiss Continues to Misrepresent the Damage Keith Ablow Did to Hunter Biden’s Addiction
  25. The Cultivation of Don Jr: A Framework to Think of the Russian Attack
  26. Another Maggie Haberman NYT Story Covers Up Oleg Deripaska’s Role
  27. Happy (Forced) Mother’s Day!
  28. Barr Time 1: “Conjuring up criminal conspiracies about political opponents”
  29. Fridays with Nicole Sander
  30. Judge Maryellen Noreika Prepares for a Hunter Biden Trial … without Bates Stamps
  31. About Those Two Sealed Dockets Related to the Henry Cuellar Case…
  32. Right Wing Propaganda Fail: Julie Kelly’s Troubles with Ten and Two
  33. How We Got to a Place Where Right Wingers Cheer Stealing Nuclear Documents
  34. Aileen Cannon Bows to Donald Trump
  35. Stan Woodward’s Manufactured Scandal about Box A-15
  36. 400 Rich People Pay $40K to Hear Trump Glorify Cop Assailants
  37. The Cuellar Indictment: DOJ Moves to Make 219 FARA a Thing
  38. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  39. Open Thread: Cuellar, Collared
  40. The DOJ IG Backlog on Bill Barr’s Behavior
  41. Background For A New Book
  42. Aileen Cannon Liberates Details of Trump and Melania’s Mar-a-Lago Bedrooms
  43. The Evolving Media Strategy of Lev Parnas

April 2024

  1. Joseph Ziegler Allegedly Chased Doctored Laptop Evidence
  2. Fox News and the Joint Tortfeasors
  3. Kaitlan Collins Ignores Bill Barr’s Role in the Effort that Framed Joe Biden
  4. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  5. Brett Kavanaugh Thinks that Jack Smith Is as Crazy as Ken Starr Was
  6. King John Would Like a Word with Justice Alito
  7. Sam Alito Says that Donald Trump Is a Maligned Ham Sandwich
  8. The Phone Contacts between the “Total Moron” and the PAC Head
  9. Mark Meadows’ Proffer
  10. Trump’s Attorney-Client Leak Privilege
  11. Trump’s Nuclear Documents Were Mixed with Post-Presidential Press Clippings
  12. Trump’s White House Didn’t Archive Twitter DMs
  13. David Weiss Treats IRS Agents Who Accused Him of Misconduct as “Whistleblowers”
  14. Trial Attention: Don’t Let a Pecker Distract from More Important Stories
  15. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  16. Maryellen Noreika Never Answered Mark Scarsi’s Question
  17. WaPo Gives Bill Barr Platform to Attack Joe Biden without Mentioning Barr’s Role in Framing Biden
  18. The Varieties Of Activist Judges
  19. Elon Musk’s Xitter Stalls a Criminal Investigation, Again
  20. Media Organizations Omit Mention of Trump’s Allegedly Criminal Exploitation of 2020 Debates
  21. Judge Maryellen Noreika’s Unconstitutional Concerns about Unconstitutional Concerns
  22. Alexander Smirnov Goes Missing — from Judge Noreika’s Opinions
  23. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  24. Judge Maryellen Noreika Confuses Hunter Biden’s Memoir for the NYPost
  25. Walt Nauta Claimed Trump Hoarded Hairspray Cans in His Storage Rooms
  26. Leo Wise Has a Sex Worker [and Other False Statement] Problem
  27. Three Things: No News Isn’t Good News
  28. emptywheel Makes CIPA History
  29. Mr. Smith Goes to SCOTUS
  30. How Mark Scarsi Post Hoc Dismantled Abbe Lowell’s Juicy Timeline
  31. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  32. Maryellen Noreika and Mark Scarsi’s Schrödinger’s Cat
  33. Bullshit and Also, Aileen Cannon, Post
  34. The Import of Judge Mark Scarsi’s Truncated Klamath Quote
  35. Jack Smith to Aileen Cannon: Treating Non-Lawyer Tom Fitton’s Theories as Law Will Lead to Mandamus
  36. Judge Mark Scarsi’s Quantum Theory of Murdered Contract Law
  37. Michael Schvartsman Prepares to Plead … with Trump Org’s Sometime Lawyer Alan Futerfas
  38. NYT’s Limited Understanding of Trump’s “Tactics for Avoiding a Crisis Like the One He Now Faces”

March 2024

  1. David Weiss Is Withholding the Proof Leo Wise Claims Doesn’t Exist
  2. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  3. Worse than Segretti: Judge Recommends John Eastman Be Disbarred
  4. Citizenship
  5. NBC Should Have Grilled Ronna McDaniel Until She Self-Deported
  6. Three Things: So Much Stupid
  7. High Court Decision May Pose New Challenges to Julian Assange Prosecution
  8. The US Attorney for Delaware Treats Contract Law as a Hypertechnicality
  9. SDNY Rules: A Tale of Three Fraudsters
  10. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  11. Alexander Smirnov Shared an Already-Debunked Fox News Hoax with His FBI Handler
  12. Judge Mark Scarsi Orders Briefing on Whether David Weiss Is David Weiss
  13. Lev Parnas Alleges Bill Barr Offered Dmitry Firtash Legal Relief if He “Played Ball”
  14. David Weiss Does Not Contest He Reneged on Hunter Biden’s Plea Agreement to Chase Russian Lies
  15. Hunter Biden’s Replies to His Motion to Dismiss
  16. How Josh Dawsey Downplays Paul Manafort’s Ties to Alleged Russian Spies
  17. “Not Your Mother’s Ireland Anymore”
  18. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  19. Judge Scott McAfee Orders Fani Willis to Get Rid of Nathan Wade
  20. Eight Possible Explanations — Many Bad, Some Good — for SDNY’s Delay in Turning Over Cohen Files
  21. A Third Tie between Trump World and Alexander Smirnov
  22. The “Waiting for Mueller” Mistake and the Right Wing Bubble
  23. How Alleged Geezer Joe Biden Caught Rob Hur and Marc Krickbaum Trying to Sandbag Him
  24. What If the Problem Is Not with Special Counsels, But Instead the Presidency?
  25. Tucking In Alexander Smirnov: Abbe Lowell Accuses David Weiss of Doing Russia’s Bidding
  26. David Weiss Is Smoking Roger Stone’s Witness-Tampering Gun
  27. SCOTUS Lines Up Behind Trump’s Defensive Strategy
  28. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  29. “History Is Watching”
  30. emptywheel Takes to MSNBC to Explain the January 6 Investigation
  31. Jack Smith Is Not Amused
  32. Fresh Off an Interview with Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson Repeats the Trick with Keith Ablow
  33. Ten Days after David Slater Told His Honeypot American Officials Were Traveling to Kyiv, Lloyd Austin and Tony Blinken Arrived
  34. Kash Patel’s Deep State: How Trump Trained the GOP to Hate Rule of Law 2
  35. So-So Tuesday Meanderings
  36. A New King Arose Who Did Not Know Moses
  37. SCOTUS Invites Jack Smith to Supersede Trump with Inciting Insurrection
  38. Russia’s Flipping Focus: Alexander Smirnov Is No Exception
  39. What the Information Operation about Joe Biden’s Age Looks Like
  40. The Still Unidentified “Big Guy[s]” in the Alexander Smirnov Saga
  41. Stateless In Palestine
  42. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  43. Hunter Biden Claims All Zhaos Look the Same to Joseph Ziegler
  44. Like His Father, Hunter Biden Got Forgetful about Details Pertaining to Beau’s Illness

February 2024

  1. Trump’s Other Immunity Claim: Stealing Boxes and Boxes of Classified Documents
  2. Three Things: Goodbye, Good, Buy? Good – Bye!
  3. Supreme Court to Hear Trump Immunity Claim on April 22
  4. How Derek Hines Fooled Ken Dilanian into Making False Claims about the Hunter Biden Laptop
  5. Lesley Wolf Vindicated by Alexander Smirnov Indictment
  6. Leo Wise Keeps Digging Through Difficulties Caused by a Dumb Prosecutorial Decision
  7. Premier Palace: The Risk of Non-Russian Involvement in Alexander Smirnov’s anti-Biden Election Operation
  8. Navel-Gazing: The Ethics Problem Caused by Merrick Garland’s Brad Weinsheimer Solution
  9. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  10. Trump’s Defense: He Intended to Steal Boxes and Boxes of Classified Documents
  11. Ken Vogel Covers Up Rudy Giuliani and His Alleged Russian Spies
  12. Stolen Documents Motions to Dismiss
  13. Happy Delaware Laptop Day, for Those Who Celebrate
  14. Denaturalization And Asylum In Interwar Europe
  15. David Weiss Was Planning on Using Alexander Smirnov’s Claims against the Bidens Until He Wasn’t Anymore
  16. Hunter Biden’s Motions to Dismiss: The Technical Complaints
  17. Hunter Biden’s CA Motions to Dismiss
  18. Alexander Smirnov Admits Russian Spies Passed on Lies about Hunter Biden
  19. Smirnov and [a]Blow
  20. Robert Hur Snooped Through Joe Biden’s Diaries after White House Warned It Would Be Unprecedented
  21. In Advance of Robert Hur Hit Job, DOJ Updated Public Identification Policy
  22. How Merrick Garland Mistook a Trump Hitman for a Career Prosecutor
  23. But Her Emails: How Trump Trained the GOP to Hate Rule of Law 1
  24. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  25. 58A-PG-3250958: Curiosities about the Alexander Smirnov Case
  26. Tony Bobulinski Says Trump’s Impeachment Radicalized Him
  27. Putin’s Other War of Attrition
  28. David Weiss Is a Direct Witness to the Crimes on Which He Indicted Alexander Smirnov
  29. The Gaps in David Weiss’ Belated Indictment of Alexander Smirnov
  30. After Kansas City, Who is Next?
  31. Where Derek Hines Claims to Have Gotten the Hunter Biden Dick Pics He Sniffed
  32. Mr. Smith Goes to SCOTUS
  33. Exp[o]rt Reports: When David Weiss Claimed Keith Ablow’s Sawdust Was Hunter Biden’s Cocaine
  34. Joseph Ziegler[‘s Filter Documents] Say Derek Hines Is Lying
  35. The Mass Migrations Caused by WWI
  36. David Weiss Claims to Have Plain Viewed Hunter Biden’s Dick Pics for Years
  37. How Robert Hur Ghosted Joe Biden’s Ghost Writer
  38. Rod Rosenstein’s Baltimore Club of Men Gunning for the Bidens
  39. Call and Response: Putin Demanded Greater Russia and Trump Agreed
  40. Trash Talk: Today’s Blowout Game
  41. Robert Hur Complained about Biden Notes that Trump Almost Certainly Already Declassified
  42. Judge Mark Scarsi Refuses Accommodations That Trump’s Judges Have Granted
  43. Robert Hur’s Box-Checking
  44. Hur Report Open Thread: 388 Pages about a Single 8-Word Utterance
  45. Open Thread: Trump v. Anderson before SCOTUS
  46. Michael Bromwich Warns of Robert Hur Report Ahead of Release
  47. Seth DuCharme’s Information Operation
  48. John Durham Feigns Totally Dumb about Russian “Collusion”
  49. DC Circuit: Go Big and [in a Footnote] Go Blassingame!
  50. DC Circuit Upholds Judge Chutkan’s Immunity Decision
  51. Stop Treating Rule of Law Like a Magical Sparkle Pony and Get Busy
  52. Hunter Biden’s Delayed Email Access on the JPMI Laptop
  53. Abbe Lowell Already Accused David Weiss of a Brady Violation
  54. The December Warrant Shows David Weiss Wasn’t Going to Charge Gun Crimes Until Trump Elicited Threats
  55. Josh Schulte Sentenced to 40 Years
  56. Trump Spent $50 Million Paying Lawyers But Taxpayers Are Providing Loaner Laptops
  57. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  58. Mike Roman, Donald Trump’s Spy and Vote Fraud Fraudster
  59. The Hunter Biden Laptop: Two CARTs before the Horse
  60. Smoking Gun! FBI Didn’t Have “Sufficient Evidence” to Prosecute Firearms Crimes against Hunter Biden

January 2024

  1. Chessboard(s): Hunter Biden’s Replies
  2. Hunter Biden Reply Motions to Dismiss
  3. IRS First Received Hunter Biden’s iCloud Data on Same Day White House Released the Perfect Phone Call
  4. The Post-Indictment Hunter Biden Warrant Included the Laptop
  5. Joe Biden Appointee Ana Reyes Imposes Maximum Sentence to Avenge Donald Trump’s Privacy
  6. Trash Talk: Embracing Your Bi as in Coastal
  7. What Are We Reading?
  8. New WaPo Boss, Will Lewis, Brags about Dick Pic Sniffing that Fails to Correct Past Errors
  9. Parallel Poisons: Derek Hines’ (Mis)Representations about His Post-Indictment Investigation
  10. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  11. Confirmed: David Weiss Only Got a Gun Crime iCloud Warrant 81 Days after Indicting Hunter Biden
  12. Claiming Josh Schulte’s Leaks Cost CIA 100s of Millions, DOJ Asks for Life Sentence
  13. In Peter Navarro Sentencing, No Mention of Competing Claims about Official Acts
  14. A Second Trump Term Would Replace Competent Corrupt People with Incompetent Ones
  15. On the Skewering of Self-Promoters Who are Filled with Misplaced Self-Importance
  16. “What it gets at is just facts:” MAGAts Learn to Love Long-Delayed Interview Reports
  17. Boeing 737 MAX 9: The Comment Heard Around The World
  18. Abbe Lowell’s Eight Chessboards
  19. 2024 Presidential Election: New Hampshire Primary Results
  20. How One New Hampshire Voter and One Politico Journalist Refused to Hold “a Pig … a Womanizer … [an] Arrogant Asshole” Accountable
  21. Peter Navarro and the Office-Seeker Using ProtonMail Challenge
  22. Trash Talk: Hot January in the D
  23. Hunter Biden Lost His Phone(s) in the Same Days He Bought a Gun
  24. Friday Podcast with Nicole Sandler
  25. David Weiss’ Indict First, Seek Warrants Later Ethic
  26. Scott Brady Admitted He “Was in the Room” for One Partisan Errand; Was There for a Second?
  27. Donald Trump Has Chosen to Pay Millions to Trash Rule of Law
  28. The Coke-in-Gun Actually Harms David Weiss’ Case
  29. David Weiss Buries Bill Barr Right Alongside Tony Bobulinski
  30. David Weiss’ Responses to Motions to Dismiss
  31. For Almost a Year, “Jim Jordan” Has Been Saying Hunter Biden Didn’t Need to Testify
  32. The Non-Visible Networks behind the More Visible Networks of Fascism
  33. Breathing Room: They Live On
  34. Coming To Grips With Free Will
  35. Leaders and Best Michigan and Some Other Football Trash
  36. Scott Perry Explains How Trump, Fox, and Russian Propaganda Made Him Hate Rule of Law
  37. Abbe Lowell Invites James Comer to Send a Valid Subpoena, Now That He Has Authority
  38. Friday with Nicole Sandler
  39. The David Weiss and Leo Wise Inconsistencies Left Out of Hunter Biden Arraignment Coverage
  40. The Seth DuCharme Confession in the Charles McGonigal Sentencing Memo
  41. James Comer’s Second Impeachment Hearing More of a Circus than the First
  42. Refusing to Take Yes for an Answer: Remember the Pardons in the Desk Drawer
  43. Judge Karen Henderson’s Floodgate Concerns
  44. John Sauer Says Joe Biden May Assassinate His Client
  45. The Tommy Tuberville Gap in the Trump Indictment
  46. Weekly Nicole Sandler Podcast Appearance
  47. The First Time Trump “Colluded” with Russia Was To Help Bibi Netanyahu
  48. Ball of Thread: Trump’s Narcissism Makes Him Easy to Trigger
  49. Ball of Thread: Introduction
  50. The (Il)Logic of Elise Stefanik’s Hostage Video
  51. Dan Scavino, Alone with Trump, Had Access to the Attempted Murder Weapon
  52. How Trump Manipulated 3 NYT Journalists to Make a Campaign Ad for Fascism
  53. “Stand Back and Stand By:” Jack Smith’s Hidden Cards
  54. SCOTUS Rushes to Grant Trump Protections After It Refused to Rush to Ensure Due Process
  55. This Poll Is as Important as a Trump Trial
  56. Rebuttals to Eric Trump’s Talking Points about His Daddy’s Corruption
  57. In Rudy Giuliani Affidavit, SDNY Hung Up the Perfect Phone Call
  58. Socially Normative Agency And Rights
  59. Welcome to 2024: New Little Habits, New Little Hopes
  60. What Joseph Ziegler Didn’t Find When He Looked for Hunter Biden’s Sex Workers

2023 616

December 2023

  1. When Michael Dreeben Accepted John Sauer’s Invitation to Talk about Speech and Debate
  2. What Jack Smith Didn’t Say in His Double Jeopardy Response
  3. Rudy Giuliani’s Scott Brady Interview Doesn’t Appear in His Warrant Affidavit
  4. Jim Jordan Says Trump’s Years of Blowing Off Subpoenas May Merit Impeachment
  5. Socially Normative Agency
  6. Jonathan Chait’s Rube-Con Lets SCOTUS Off Easy
  7. “Whether Others … Said Untrue Things on the Internet Does Not Exonerate” Trump
  8. In Lev Parnas Investigation, SDNY Decided that Ivana Trump Is Not Political
  9. SDNY Obtained Warrant(s) for Foreign Agent Charges before John Demers Reviewed the Perfect Transcript
  10. Advent Week 4: The End of Stollen Time
  11. The Christmas Story is a Very Political Story
  12. Garrett Ziegler’s Landscaping Problem
  13. Candidate Trump Leaned on Michigan Canvassers to Deny Civil Rights
  14. Clarence Thomas’ Club Votes Against Democracy
  15. Luke Broadwater’s Attempt at Fact-Checking Covers Up Fabrications and IRS Sloppiness
  16. Bankrupt!
  17. Rudy’s Seized Devices Were More Useful for Investigating January 6 than Marie Yovanovitch’s Firing
  18. Perjury Trapped: Rudy Giuliani’s Sync Sink
  19. Preliminary Comments on Rudy and Lev Warrants
  20. Colorado Accelerates Timeline and Scope of SCOTUS Review of Trump’s January 6 Conduct
  21. “Struck By Lightning:” The Deliberate Trump Politicization of the Hunter Biden Investigation
  22. 11th Circuit Adopts DC Logic that Mark Meadows and Trump’s Campaigning Is Not an Official Act
  23. Hearing Footsteps: The Paper Trail of Political Interference David Weiss Is Trying to Bury
  24. Advent Week 3: Ordinary Riches Can Be Stollen
  25. John Paul Mac Isaac’s Serial Inaccuracies and the Ablow Laptop
  26. Say Her Name: The Story of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss’ Vindication
  27. Lol, Rudy Tudy Is Moldy Fruity
  28. Alex Cannon and the Missing Russian Binder
  29. Google Kills the Geofence Capability that Will Show ~30,000 Trump Supporters Swarmed the Capitol on Trump’s Orders
  30. Hunter Biden Twice Alleges that “Laptop” Data was “Stolen” from Him
  31. Garanimals in a SCIF: David Weiss’ Attempt to Sheep Dip Bill Barr’s Hunter Biden Prosecution
  32. Donald Trump Says He Can Only Work Over Christmas If He’s Planning a Coup
  33. SCOTUS Takes Up January 6 Obstruction Challenge — But with Unknown Scope
  34. What Might Happen If Hunter Biden Refuses to Testify (Behind Closed Doors)
  35. This Is Why We Vote: Women Are Not Yet Full Citizens
  36. In Motion to Dismiss, Hunter Biden Accuses House GOP of Separation of Powers Violation
  37. Don Jr Confesses He and Douglass Mackey Were “Put on Lists” Together
  38. It Was Donald Trump, in the Dining Room, with the Twitter Account
  39. Former WikiLeaks Task Force Member Charles McGonigal Didn’t Take Credit for the Josh Schulte Investigation
  40. Hunter Biden’s Motions to Dismiss
  41. Jack Smith (and Michael Dreeben) Go to SCOTUS
  42. The August 13 Venmo Charge David Weiss Claimed Was an August 14 Charge
  43. Hunter Biden Accused Rudy Giuliani of Hacking His Data, Not Defamation
  44. Advent Week 2: Prepare Ye The Way for The Stollen Ahead
  45. The May 2017 Report Tying Oleg Deripaska to Russian Intelligence
  46. Great Apes As Rational Agents
  47. All Points Bulletin to David Weiss! Tony Bobulinski Is a Missing Person!!
  48. Gagged!
  49. How David Weiss May Plan to Prove His Case against Hunter Biden
  50. Nine Tax Chages Filed against Hunter Biden in Los Angeles
  51. John Paul Mac Isaac’s Undisclosed Home Movie
  52. Ratifying Sedition: The Proud Boys 404(b) Evidence
  53. Three Things: Brilliant Opportunities Disguised
  54. DOJ Will Show that Trump’s Campaign Intended to Cause a Riot at TCF Center in Detroit
  55. Principal Senior Assistant Special Counsel Leo Wise Insinuates David Weiss Lied to Congress
  56. NYT Covers Up the Still-Ongoing Trump-Russian Effort to Frame Joe Biden
  57. When John Eastman Acknowledged that Candidate Trump Spoke in His Personal Capacity
  58. Advent Week 1: Got Yer Stollen Election Right Here, Bub
  59. James Comer’s War on Christmas: The Burial Ground of a Dick Pic Impeachment
  60. Judge Tanya Chutkan Had to Tell Trump That, “There is no ‘Presidential Immunity’ Clause”
  61. Sandra Day
  62. DC Circuit Rules that a President’s Speech as Candidate Is Not Official
  63. Hunter Biden Gets a Step Closer to Vindicating Twitter’s Takedown Decision

November 2023

  1. Boris Epshteyn’s Absence and Presence in Trump’s Alleged Crime Spree
  2. Finally: War Criminal Dead at 100
  3. Donald Trump Insists He’s Too Special To Use Same Database 1,200 Other January 6 Defendants Have Used
  4. Abbe Lowell Calls James Comer’s Bluff
  5. Donald Trump Confesses He Can’t Distinguish His Own Influence Ops from that of a Russian Spy
  6. Goal-Directed Agency and Intentional Agency
  7. Hunter Biden: Which Came First, the Chick Selling Sex or the Extortion of Campaign Dirt?
  8. The MAGA Tourist Geofence and the Violent Confederate Flag-Toting Geofence
  9. How Trump Distracted from Results of His Incitement by Recruiting Journalists to Spread More of It
  10. Breathing Room: Thanksgiving Day Emergency Cooking Aid
  11. In an Attempt to Claim Vindictive Prosecution, Trump Confesses Biden Hasn’t Interfered Like He Has
  12. The Former President’s Spaghetti-Wall Assault on the Truth
  13. Breathing Room: What’s on Your Holiday Menu?
  14. Perfect Phone Calls: Redefining Vindictive Prosecution in the Trump Era
  15. DC Circuit Likely To Narrow Judge Chutkan Gag
  16. David Weiss’ FBI FARA Headfake to Create a Hunter Biden Tax Mulligan
  17. In Memoriam: Rosalynn Carter
  18. What Matt Viser Won’t Tell You about Hunter Biden, His Dad, and Burisma
  19. Judge Rules Trump Had the Purpose of Inciting Insurrection on January 6
  20. Colorado
  21. Judge Chutkan Denies Trump’s Bid to Disavow His Mob
  22. Election Interference: Aileen Cannon Denies Republicans Speedy Trial in Stolen Document Case
  23. The Suspected 2019 Exposure of Johnathan Buma’s Source
  24. Trump Continues to Disavow the Mob that Sacrificed Their Lives for Him
  25. In Bid for a Trump Subpoena, Abbe Lowell Cites Trump’s Complaints about Politicization
  26. The Two Impeachment Treason Trip: Ukraine Charges Rudy Giuliani’s Sources
  27. Free Will, Agency, And Evolution
  28. DOJ Accuses Donald Trump of Asking for Special Treatment Even His Seditionists Didn’t Get
  29. In His House Judiciary Committee Testimony, John Durham Confessed that Michael Horowitz Was Right
  30. The Kinds of Laptop Documents the Hunter Biden Investigation Used
  31. Scott Brady Checked In on Investigations into All of Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian Oligarchs
  32. John Lauro’s DC Delay Tactics Backfire in Florida
  33. James Comer Subpoenas Dick Picks While Rome Burns
  34. Donald Trump’s DOJ Shut Down a Burisma Corruption Investigation Opened while Joe Biden Was VP
  35. How Ryan Nichols Responded to Trump’s Mike Pence Tweet
  36. Jim Jordan Sniffs Dick Pics While Rome Burns
  37. DOJ Refuses to Let Trump Disavow His Mob
  38. Trump’s Retribution Promises and Media Complicity
  39. Jack Smith Attempts to Prevent Trump from Delaying DC Trial with Interlocutory Appeals
  40. DOJ’s Responses on Trump’s Motions to Dismiss
  41. Scott Brady’s “D-I-S-C-R-E-E-T” Vetting : A Marginally More Credible Witness than Gal Luft
  42. Stan Woodward Claims He Doesn’t Know Where the Missing Beautiful Mind Boxes Went
  43. James Comer Finally Finds Evidence Supporting Impeachment — of Donald Trump
  44. Trump’s New Appellate Argument about His 100 Million Imaginary Friends
  45. Jim Jordan Dragged Martin Estrada Away from Fighting Fentanyl To Chase Hunter Biden’s Dick Pics
  46. NYT Keeps Downplaying Trump’s Past Retribution Tour
  47. Hours After Aileen Cannon Suggests She’ll Stall Florida Prosecution, Trump Moves to Stall DC One
  48. Chuck Grassley and James Comer Brag that 40 Informants Couldn’t Substantiate a Crime against Biden

October 2023

  1. After Hounding Hunter Biden about Taxes for Months, Mike Johnson Coddles Rich Tax Cheats
  2. After Trump Issued Threats, Abigail Jo Shry “Came after” Judge Tanya Chutkan
  3. The “Piles” of Chris Kise Bullshit Devlin Barrett Claims to Believe
  4. Gary Shapley’s Handlers Revisit Past Leak Investigations into Chuck Grassley’s Staff
  5. Mike Pence Simplifies the Gag Order Dispute
  6. Lurid Realities: Trump Implies That Selling Nuclear Secrets Is Treason
  7. Trump Is Going Through the Motions to Dismiss until He Resumes the Presidency
  8. Rights Without Reason
  9. Hunter Biden[‘s “Laptop”] Goes to SCOTUS: How Judge Doughty Helped China and Iran Attack the US
  10. Like Taylor Taranto, Trump Tries to Excuse Threats by Invoking the First Amendment
  11. “Leave the Rest to” Mike Johnson: Republicans Prepare to Elect Key Jan6 Figure as Speaker
  12. Cautions on ABC’s Huge Mark Meadows Scoop
  13. 25-3=22: Diminishing Representations
  14. Trump’s Motions to Dismiss Things That Aren’t the Charges Against Him
  15. Trump’s First Amendment Defense of Mobilizing His Violent Mob
  16. Donald Trump Raises Conflict Concerns about His Mike Flynn Pardon
  17. As the GOP House Burns, James Comer Keeps Sniffing Dick Pics
  18. Breathing Room: What Are You Streaming Now?
  19. Buried in DOJ’s Absolute Immunity Response, a Comment on Trump’s Suspected Zenith Crimes
  20. Mike Flynn Invites DOJ to Review Judge Emmet Sullivan’s Non-Exoneration
  21. The House GOP is not Pining for the Fjords
  22. Judge Karen Henderson May Not Believe Holding the Presidency Is a Professional Benefit
  23. Fani Willis Serves Up Cheese and Kraken
  24. Stan Woodward Blows Off Any Duty of Loyalty to His Former Client
  25. Release the Kraken: Sidney Powell Pleading Guilty
  26. Stan Woodward Reportedly Concedes a Duty of Loyalty But Doesn’t Want His Name Used at Trial
  27. Stan Woodward Contemplating His Former Client Might “Become Unavailable” for Testimony
  28. Douglass Mackey Sentenced to 7 Months for Conspiring to Violate 18 USC 241
  29. The Holding Pattern on the Non-Trump January 6 Charges
  30. Gary Shapley’s “Red Line” Tantrum Actually Started Two Weeks Earlier
  31. Face-Eating Leopards Shocked to Find Leopards in Their Casino
  32. As Jordan Goes Down, Nancy Pelosi Mocks Republican Men Who Can’t Count
  33. “JIM IS COMING FOR YOU:” Aspiring Speaker Jordan’s Stochastic Lynching as Oversight
  34. Bret Baier’s False Claim, the Escort Service, and Former Fox News Pundit Keith Ablow
  35. Three Things: GOP House Caucus in Chaos
  36. SDNY Adds FARA Charges to Menendez Indictment
  37. Five Years Ago Today, Hunter Biden Bought a Gun
  38. Steve Scalise Calls Out Donald Trump
  39. Twenty-Five: The Trump Family Member and Other Attorney-Client Delusions
  40. George Santos’ Other Shoe
  41. “POTUS is very emotional and in a bad place.” Donald Trump’s Classified Discovery
  42. The Utility of the Tim Thibault Smear for Insurrectionists
  43. Three Things: This Week’s Massive Dickhead Award Goes To…
  44. Most Underrated Trash Talk
  45. Alleged Menendez Co-Conspirator Fred Daibes’ Life Just Got More Difficult
  46. Trump Claims Absolute Immunity
  47. “Nefarious”: Chuck Grassley Panics at Possibility that Gary Shapley’s Allegations Might Be Scrutinized
  48. Elon Musk’s Machine for Fascism: A Tale of Three Elections
  49. Big Kev Belittled
  50. Why Reality TV Star Donald Trump Is More Trusted than Most News Outlets
  51. Three Things: Fraud Trial Begins, Newsom’s Pick, Contingent Aid

September 2023

  1. DOJ’s Theory of Trump’s Mob
  2. Trash Talk: The Trashiest Talk Ever Trashed
  3. The Timeline of the Hunter Biden Investigation Doesn’t Support Attacks on Lesley Wolf
  4. One of Dianne Feinstein’s Greatest Legacies: Documenting CIA’s Torture
  5. Gary Shapley Didn’t Tell Congress about Election Meddling Concerns
  6. “Reasonable Persons:” Trump’s Recusal Stunt Flops
  7. Republicans Plan to Declare Trump’s Entire Business Model a High Crime and Misdemeanor
  8. Donald Trump’s Fantasy Self Worth
  9. The Still Ongoing Investigation into Where that Robert Menendez Cash Came From
  10. “They Were Trying to Boot the Machine:” John Paul Mac Isaac Claims the FBI Really WERE That Incompetent
  11. Hunter Biden Threatens to Make Robert Costello’s Dalliance with Rudy Giuliani Even More Costly
  12. John Lauro’s False Claims about Assaults “at the Behest” of Donald Trump
  13. “Piker:” Donald Trump Rants as if Robert Menendez’s 22 Ounces of Gold Were as Big as Jared’s $2 Billion
  14. The Sordid Second Season of the Robert Menendez Bribery Series
  15. Conclusion To Series on The Reconstruction Era
  16. The Menendez Indictment: “how much is one kilo of gold worth” … “kilo of gold price”
  17. Nora Dannehy Confirms that Bill Barr Attempted to Sway 2020 Election with Dubious Interim Report
  18. What If Journalists Actually Read Gary Shapley Rather Than Parroting His Testimony?
  19. Special Counsel Weiss Demanding that Hunter Biden Show Up for Initial Appearance
  20. “My life’s on the line here:” Gary Shapley’s Direct Supervisor Believed His Claims Were Unsubstantiated
  21. Hunter Biden Sues the IRS
  22. On Recusal, Give Trump the Evidentiary Hearing He Demands!
  23. Trash Talk: Won’t Somebody Think of the Children Edition
  24. Sunset Musings III and Trash Talk
  25. After Threats Elicited by Gary Shapley’s Misleading Testimony, Hunter Biden Prosecutors Reneged on the Plea Deal
  26. By Asking for Tanya Chutkan’s Recusal, Trump Invited a Lesson in His Centrality to January 6
  27. Not Breaking News and Stop Lying to Your Followers It is: David Weiss Indicts Hunter Biden
  28. Gary Shapley’s Notes Show That Gary Shapley Misrepresented David Weiss
  29. Gary Shapley’s Notes Recorded Something He Claimed Not to Know before House Ways and Means
  30. Hunter Biden Sues Garrett Ziegler for Hacking His iPhone
  31. By the Time Kevin McCarthy Rolled Out an Impeachment Inquiry, the FBI Had Already Debunked a Key Premise
  32. As Kevin McCarthy Embraces James Comer’s Wet Dreams of Dick Pics, George Santos Discusses “Paths Forward”
  33. Todd Blanche Confuses Aileen Cannon’s Prior Trump Reversal with Tanya Chutkan’s Individualized Guilt
  34. The Federalism that Mark Meadows Wants the 11th Circuit to Reverse
  35. David Weiss May Have More Bluster than Tactical Leverage
  36. Cleta Mitchell Skates
  37. Beloved By Toni Morrison
  38. Stan Woodward Thinks Aileen Cannon Is an Easy Mark
  39. Prosecutors in Georgia Still Abusing Their Over Broad RICO Law
  40. Proud Boy Henry Tarrio Sentenced to 22 Years for Role in Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy
  41. Oligarchy Has Arrived. Congress Must Take Notice — and Act!
  42. The Finding Out Part: Proud Boys Face Sentencing
  43. Goodbye Margaritaville
  44. Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola sentenced to 10 years in prison, Ethan Nordean gets 18

August 2023

  1. Proud Boy Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years, Zachary Rehl gets 15
  2. The Supreme Court Has Always Been Terrible
  3. The Comings and Goings of Insurrection
  4. Trump Court Hearings For August 28, 2023
  5. FISC Rules that [Redacted] Is Not Subject to FISA 702 for One of Its Services
  6. Aileen Cannon Working Hard to Protect Stan Woodward; Doing Nothing to Protect Walt Nauta or Carlos De Oliveira
  7. Right Wing Operatives Say Hunter Biden Shouldn’t Get Same Treatment as Dmitry Firtash
  8. Trump to Be Arraigned at 7:30 P.M. Thursday Eve [UPDATE-1]
  9. Willie Floyd’s Curiously Inactive Docket
  10. Putin Doesn’t Cook
  11. The Guts of the Alleged Conspiracy: Scott Hall
  12. The Secrets within Donald Trump’s Stolen Secrets Docket
  13. DOJ Invites Aileen Cannon to Avoid Another Reversible Error
  14. Trump Complains that He Filed So Many Voluminous Frivolous Lawsuits
  15. I, Too, Got Hoodwinked by Donald Trump’s Demands to Be Tried Like a Seditionist
  16. Mark Meadows’ Middling Path: There Are Several Paths to Prosecute Donald Trump
  17. What Is The Sound of a Dead Bird Xitting?
  18. “Ebb and Flow:” How David Weiss Volunteered for a Subpoena, or Worse
  19. The Major Questions Metadoctrine and The Slaughterhouse Cases
  20. On Visibility and [dis]Covering Kenneth Chesebro
  21. Beryl Howell Scoffs That We Think We Know Anything about the Trump Investigations
  22. “They Spoke Often:” It Took the Fash-Friendly FBI Over Two Months to Document the Lies Their Informant, Joe Biggs, Told them
  23. The Challenge of Treating the Proud Boy Leaders as Terrorists
  24. Trump’s “Hunter Biden” “Laptop” Consiglieres Want to Be Paid
  25. As Xitter’s Lawyer Stalled DOJ, Elon Musk Met with Jim Jordan (Twice!) and Kevin McCarthy
  26. Trump Changed the Lock in His Residence before Changing the Lock on the Storage Room
  27. Death by Tweet: “User Attribution Is Important”
  28. “Poor Mr. Zebley:” Both Xitter’s Lawyers and Journalists Responding to Boilerplate Need to re-Read Mueller
  29. Charles McGonigal’s Lonely Plea Deal
  30. Trump’s Federated Conspiracies and Racketeering: How Georgia and the Federal Charges May Interact
  31. The Various Kinds of Georgia Crimes in the RICO Indictment
  32. How James Comer’s Counsel, James Mandolfo, Conducts an Investigation
  33. Indictments Ahead: Waiting on Fulton County GA [UPDATE-2]
  34. In Hunter Biden Case, Abbe Lowell Enters His Appearance
  35. Alberto Gonzales Lectures Jack Goldsmith about Perception versus Reality in a Democracy
  36. Trash Talk: Prepping for Tailgate Season
  37. Pardoned Felon Bernie Kerik’s Three Stories
  38. Merrick Garland Makes David Weiss a Special Counsel
  39. The Effort by Accused Mobsters to End Run the DC Circuit on “Corruptly”
  40. “Like fatter Tony Soprano” Attending the Arraignment and “Effect[ing]” Liz Harrington’s Pregnancy
  41. Cruikshank, Gun Control, And Bad Rulings
  42. Citing Trump’s Executive Privilege Stalling, DOJ Asks for January Trial
  43. How 9 Months of Camera Footage became 8 Years
  44. Shorter DJT: Mexico Will Pay for My New SCIF
  45. Beryl Howell Held Elon Musk’s Xitter in Contempt
  46. The Overt Investigative Steps into Trump’s Co-Conspirators TV Lawyers Ignored
  47. Trump’s DC Trial Strategies, Helsinki, and Dumb and Dumber
  48. Trump’s Means of Bullying and His Co-Conspirator Volunteer Lawyers
  49. Judge Cannon Blows Off Concerns about Walt Nauta’s Conflicted Representation
  50. On January 19, 2022, SCOTUS Upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan’s Decision Rejecting Trump’s Executive Privilege Claims
  51. Protection Racket: Donald Trump Thinks He’s More Special Than Steve Bannon
  52. The Colfax Massacre And US v. Cruikshank
  53. Protective Order: Who Is the Victim of Trump’s 18 USC 241 Charge?
  54. Trump’s Family Is Not in His Prosecution
  55. Trump’s People: The Prettyman Pardons
  56. The Elements of Offense in the Trump January 6 Indictment
  57. The “Crazy” Kraken Conspirator
  58. Three of Stan Woodward’s Eight Current and Former Clients Prepare to Testify against Each Other
  59. Trump Lied and Mike Pence Almost Died
  60. “Conspiracy Shit Beamed Down from the Mothership:” The Prehistory of Trump’s Ellipse Lies
  61. The Structure of the Donald Trump Indictment
  62. Donald Trump’s January 6 Indictment
  63. The $40 Million, Er, the Unlimited Slush Fund Man
  64. Discoveries in the Stolen Document Discovery

July 2023

  1. How Trump Clouded Journalists’ Heads about Surveillance Video
  2. Stan Woodward Wants to Give Walt Nauta a Need to Know the Contents of the Stolen Documents
  3. “Rights” and Wrongs: Where the Stolen Documents Investigation Is Headed
  4. Carlos De Oliveira Added a Lock to the Storage Facility Then (Claimed He) Gave Away the Key
  5. David Weiss Is Wrecking the Right Wing Story (and Likely Sandbagging Hunter Biden)
  6. Carlos De Oliveira’s Uncharged Suspected Obstruction Happened on Aileen Cannon’s Watch
  7. Chekhov’s Alan Garten: The Human Gaps in the Surveillance Footage Gap
  8. The Superseding Stolen Documents Indictment: Buying Loyalty
  9. Michigan MAGAt News: Michigan Ballot Tabulator Suspect Claims She Has Been Indicted
  10. Rudy Giuliani Appears to be Claiming Privilege Over Hundreds of Items He Already Agreed Were Not
  11. Damages
  12. Rudy’s Corrupted Devices
  13. Cover-Up: Joseph Ziegler Provided a Different Explanation Why Hunter Biden Wasn’t Charged
  14. Something Happened To Our Planet
  15. Curious Plea Deals Afoot in Lancaster, PA
  16. Ruby Freeman’s Revenge: Rudy’s Blobs and Bernie’s Glitches
  17. “Super:” The Day after IRS Got a Warrant for the Hunter Biden Laptop, DOJ Sent Bill Barr a Laptop
  18. Unlike Michael Sussmann, Patrick Byrne Was Not Prosecuted for Providing Allegedly False Tips to the Government
  19. Chuck Grassley Must Think the FD-1023 Informant Is Worth Killing Off
  20. May 20, 2024: Aileen Cannon’s Still Not Totally Unreasonable Order
  21. The Funny Leak Denials of the So-Called IRS Whistleblowers
  22. The Smell of Flop Sweat and Circus Peanuts
  23. How and Why to Charge Trump First
  24. Royce Lamberth Not as Easy to Fool as Tucker Carlson’s “Cousin-Fucking” “Terrorist” Viewers
  25. Trump’s Attack on Black Votes Was There the Whole Time, We Just Didn’t Call It a Crime
  26. The Three Reported Charges against Trump: 371, 1512, and (maybe) 242
  27. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Charges Michigan’s Fake Trump Electors
  28. Jack Smith Gives Trump Until Thursday to Explain Himself to the January 6 Grand Jury
  29. WaPo Is Suppressing Information that Might Debunk Devlin Barrett’s Latest Spin
  30. “I can get any source on the planet.” The Pre-History of Gal Luft’s Pre-“Whistleblower” Indictment
  31. The Slaughterhouse Cases
  32. Hunter Biden’s Uber Connection and the K Street Collision
  33. Thomas, Alito and Christmas Cookies
  34. Maggie and Mike Back Together Again, This Time on, or with, January 6 Corrupt Purpose
  35. Poof! How Jack Smith Made 800,000 Pages into 4,500
  36. Jay Bratt to Chris Kise: You Already Made that Frivolous Presidential Records Act Argument
  37. Keith Ablow’s Unallocated Space in Hunter Biden’s Memory
  38. Hunter Biden’s Matryoshka Cell Phone: How the IRS and Frothers Got Hunter’s Encrypted iPhone Content
  39. Andrew DeFilippis Had a Role in the Prosecution of Gal Luft’s Co-Conspirator-1
  40. James Comer’s Imaginary Whistleblower Friend, Gal Luft, Was Charged Last November for Lying in that March 2019 Meeting
  41. Nine Months of Surveillance Video: Trump’s Newfound Worries His Discovery Will Leak
  42. When “Lock Her Up!” becomes “Wait Till Later!”
  43. Stanley Woodward Tests Judge Aileen Cannon’s Patience
  44. The Blind Squirrel’s Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr
  45. Gary Shapley and Hunter Biden’s Colleague Named “Z”
  46. The Laptop Everyone Knows as Hunter Biden’s Appears to Have Been Deleted Starting February 15, 2019
  47. Rudy’s Even Worse Week
  48. The Fifteenth Amendment
  49. Walt Nauta and the Single Box
  50. The Technical Oddities of the FBI’s Exploitation of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
  51. Hanging by Meta’s Threads
  52. Serving as Julian Assange’s Unwitting Data Mule to Israel Shamir Is Not Journalism
  53. Trump’s Stolen Documents: Newly Unsealed Numbers
  54. Double Booked: Whistleblower X Described Inappropriate Presidential Interference … Back in 2019
  55. Gary Shapley’s Goosey Gander: When Investigators Want Treatment They Don’t Accord Others
  56. Repairing the Faults in this Nation’s Foundation
  57. Dick Biondi Introduced Me To The Music
  58. On Bill Barr and Sex Workers: Whistleblower X Raised Hunter Biden’s Baby Momma in Response to a Prostitute Question
  59. I Did Nazi Crustpunk Bar Fail, Redux [UPDATE-1]
  60. How Many Podunk Local DAs Ought to Arrogate Themselves Federal Election Police?
  61. Republican House Chairmen Are Resorting to Immunizing Crimes to Gin Up Their Fake Scandals
  62. Frontman

June 2023

  1. SCOTUS Takeover Continues
  2. OATH KEEPER SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY CONVICTIONS WERE THE BATTLE; APPEALS MAY BE WAR
  3. Paul Manafort Remains a Bigger Scandal than Hunter Biden
  4. Seth DuCharme Really, Really Wants to Graymail Charles McGonigal’s Path to Freedom
  5. Susie Wiles Named in A(nother?) Trump-Related Indictment
  6. SCOTUS Takes Over
  7. FBI Saw Itself “Managing What the Elephant Sees and Hears” in Advance of January 6
  8. Moving the Boxes: Trump’s Valet and Alleged Co-Conspirator Buys the Boss a Three-Week Delay in His Trial
  9. The Milley Tape: “Bring Some Cokes in Please!”
  10. Aileen Cannon’s Not-Abnormal Orders
  11. “Nonzero:” On Evidence-Based Investigations and Rudy Giuliani’s Devices
  12. WaPo’s First Amendment Blindness: When Exploiting a Media Figure’s Phone Gets Reported as “Cautious”
  13. Done Cookin’: Putin’s Chef Moves to Belarus [UPDATE-1]
  14. The Approach to Classification in Trump’s Stolen Document Case
  15. Compliments to the Chef: Prigozhin’s Trouble Looks like Civil War [UPDATE-1]
  16. The Fourteenth Amendment
  17. Walt Nauta Testified to the Grand Jury before DOJ Obtained Surveillance Video
  18. In the End, the Leopards Who Launched the Durham Investigation Ate His Face
  19. Peter Strzok Claims He Spoke to John Durham about the Clinton Conspiracy Theory Document
  20. A Guide to the False Claims John Durham Will Tell Congress
  21. Aileen Cannon Issues Another Perfectly Routine Order
  22. Breathing Room: What Are You Growing?
  23. The WaPo Shows There Should Be More Scrutiny of Steve D’Antuono
  24. Juneteenth
  25. Filling the Surveillance Footage Gaps: Place and Payments
  26. John Durham’s Disinformation Problem
  27. How Jonathan Swan Covered [Up] John Durham’s Corruption
  28. Aileen Cannon Did Something Normal
  29. No Crime Alleged in the Mar-a-Lago Indictment Occurred in DC; Other Crimes Did
  30. Down a Mouse Hole with Bill Clinton’s Cat, Socks
  31. On Judge Aileen M. Cannon
  32. Republicans Demanded Independence for John Durham and Got Robert Hur and Jack Smith in the Bargain
  33. Trump and Nauta’s Release Conditions
  34. Expected Response Is Expected, Redux: Trump, Post-Arraignment
  35. Trump’s “Beautiful Mind Paper Boxes:” Jack Smith’s Points of Leverage
  36. Trump Needs Cleared Lawyers, Not Just Any Lawyers
  37. Scooter Libby, Whom Trump Pardoned, Serves as Precedent for the CIPA Challenge His Prosecution Presents
  38. 31 Flavors of Stolen Classified Documents
  39. Mind the Gap: It Was the Musician, in the Storage Closet, with the Five Eyes Secrets
  40. James Boasberg Likens Trump’s Demands on Pence to a Bribe
  41. Jack Smith Knows his Justice Robert Jackson
  42. Hillary’s Revenge: Trump Promised Voters He Would Protect Classified Information
  43. The Mar-a-Lago Indictment Is a Tactical Nuke
  44. The Flavors of Trump’s Obstruction
  45. Defendant-1’s 38 Count Indictment
  46. John Durham’s Blind Man’s Bluff on DNS Visibility
  47. Lock Him Up! Trump Charged with Crimes He Believes Candidates Can Be Charged With
  48. Prosecutors Interviewing Witnesses Who Knew Trump Was Hoarding Documents
  49. This Indictment Will Likely Come Too Early for Trump to Consolidate the Party
  50. The Thirteenth Amendment
  51. Dry Run: The Filing Room Came to Trump
  52. NYT’s Pre-DOJ Meeting Attempted Rebuttal
  53. Now Fully Normalized: Sportswashing the Bonesaw with Golf
  54. The Dog Drained My Pool to Try to Destroy Surveillance Video
  55. The Dishonest and Incompetent FBI Work John Durham Learned to Love
  56. FBI Cyber Division’s Enduring Blue Pill Mystery
  57. ONLY TIME WILL TELL: Seditionist Oath Keepers sentenced amid tears and promises of redemption
  58. Tim Parlatore Quit After Trump Lawyers Couldn’t Find the Iran Document
  59. In March, DOJ Asked Trump for the Iran Document; In April, DOJ Asked for His Saudi Business Records
  60. John Durham Fabricated His Basis to Criminalize Oppo Research

May 2023

  1. Lordy, There Are Tapes [of Trump Acknowledging He Had Stolen Classified Documents]!
  2. Leave No Stone Unturned
  3. All GOP Horserace Analysis Is Useless without Consideration of Possible Indictments
  4. Three Things: Crustpunk Nazi Bar Update, $42K Extortion Edition
  5. OATHS BROKEN, OATH KEEPERS BOWED: Sentences for 2 more in marquee Jan. 6 conspiracy case
  6. ‘NOTHING HAS CHANGED, MR. RHODES, NOTHING HAS CHANGED’: Seditious Oath Keeper Elmer Rhodes sentenced to 18 years
  7. Stewart Rhodes: Yale Law Grad, Seditionist, Terrorist, and Ongoing Threat to Democracy
  8. How CNN Inculpated John Durham While Purportedly Exonerating Trump
  9. Long Live The Queen
  10. RIP Riverboat Queen
  11. Between the Annual Release of FISA Statistics and the Release of the FISA 702 Opinion, FBI Rolled Up Turla
  12. ABC Reports that Sources Familiar Say 2 + 2 = 5
  13. The Potential International Grift Hiding behind the Stolen Documents Investigation
  14. A Modest Proposal to Fix FBI’s FISA 702 Woes
  15. Doo-Doo Process: John Durham Claims to Know Better than Anthony Trenga and Two Juries
  16. Peter Baker Discovers that Russia Sows Partisan Antagonism and Then Helps Them Do So!
  17. Rudy’s Very Bad Week
  18. DOJ Arrests Enrique Tarrio’s Cop Buddy, Shane Lamond
  19. John Durham Committed the “Crime” of “Inferring” of Which He Accused Rodney Joffe
  20. John Durham, High Priest of the Cult of the Coffee Boy
  21. Jack Teixeira’s Polish (or Croatian) Missile
  22. “Ridiculous:” Durham’s Failed Clinton Conspiracy Theory
  23. Eight Things Not Mentioned in the Durham Report
  24. John Durham Repeats Debunked Claims in Report to Garland
  25. Before Rand Paul Went to Moscow, He Was in a White House Meeting Discussing Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and Andrew McCabe
  26. Are The Dubs Done?
  27. The Media’s Past Indifference to Trump’s Past Abuse of Pardons Invites Him To Do It Again
  28. DOJ Attempts to Stave Off May 24 Trump Deposition in Peter Strzok Lawsuit
  29. Three Things: Turf’s Up
  30. Russia’s Snakes Got DePlaned
  31. Some of George Santos’ Alleged Crimes Resemble Trump’s Suspected Crimes
  32. THE RINGLEADER’S LAST(?) CIRCUS: Observations from inside the Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy Trial
  33. Feds Charge the Deciding Vote That Made Kevin McCarthy Speaker
  34. Let’s Give ‘Em Something To Talk About: Cooked, Hooked, Mooked
  35. Democracy Is Our Hope For A Better Future
  36. Derby Day Trash Talk 2023
  37. DOJ Subpoenaed Over Five Months of Mar-a-Lago Surveillance Video
  38. How the Proud Boy Conspiracy Might Network Out in the Wake of the Seditious Conspiracy Verdict
  39. Stand Back and Stand By: Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, and Zach Rehl Guilty of Sedition
  40. The Better Story
  41. The “Diligent” Proud Boys Jury: “Can we also get a stapler, please?”
  42. Joe Tacopina Complains about Woke Jonathan Swift

April 2023

  1. Where the Trump Investigations Stand: The January 6 Conspiracies
  2. Where the Trump Investigations Stand: Stolen Documents
  3. Where the Trump Investigations Stand: Georgia
  4. Where Is The Proud Boys Verdict?
  5. The Tax Aspects Of The Massive Fox Settlement With Dominion
  6. How Did Intended Victim Mike Pence Testify?
  7. “Lock Him Up!” Trump Calls on Congress to Halt the Criminal Investigation into Joe Biden
  8. The Conspiracy Beliefs Leading People to Leak
  9. States Rights
  10. Jack Teixeira’s February 2022 Logs
  11. THE BIG FINISH: The Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial goes to the jury
  12. Prosecutorial Discretion in the Age of Shitlords and “Psychological loldongs Terrorism”
  13. Daylight Come, and He Got to Go Home
  14. James Gordon Meek and Merrick Garland’s “Suspect Exception”
  15. Employer Rupert Murdoch Turned Out to Be a More Important Tucker Carlson “Spy” Than the NSA
  16. Tucker Carlson Nipped from Fox
  17. The Shadow Docket
  18. The Hot Seat: Two Proud Boys testifying at seditious conspiracy trial unravel on the witness stand
  19. Glenn Greenwald Keeps Bitching about a Law Requiring Notice If You’re Funded by Russian Spies
  20. Ben Smith Still Doesn’t Understand He Peddled Likely Russian Disinformation
  21. El Mo Drax’s Supersonic Rocket Ship Blowed Up
  22. How the Government Proved Their Case against John Podesta’s Hacker
  23. Fox Settles With Dominion: There Was Gambling At Cafe Rick’s Casino
  24. Rudy Giuliani Claims He’s Shooting Blank Documents
  25. Dominion v. Fox – Now What?
  26. Christina Bobb’s Rent-an-Attorney-Client Cut-Out Computer
  27. Jack Teixeira: Leak Dumps Don’t Care about (the Story You Tell about) Motive
  28. Problems With The Standard Story Of The Revolutionary War And The Constitution
  29. The Investigation into Jack Teixeira
  30. Finally: The first Proud Boy on trial for seditious conspiracy testifies
  31. “$$$$$$:” Josh Dawsey Comes Full Circle on Trump’s Fundraising Corruption
  32. The Narcissist with a Top Secret Clearance Trying to Impress Teenagers in a Ukraine-Russia Chat Room
  33. It Is A Mad Mad World
  34. All Around the Chancery Court Elmo Chased to Weasel [UPDATE-1]
  35. “I wanted to infect everything:” The Curiously Expert Pathologies of FBI Informant, Microchip
  36. The Long List of Reasons Why Potential Intimidation of Proud Boy Jurors Must Be Taken Seriously
  37. Time is almost up for Proud Boys on trial for seditious conspiracy: Another week gone and another week begins in historic Jan. 6 case
  38. Dear Jeff Gerth: Peter Strzok Is Not a Media Critic
  39. The Thug Shaker Leaks
  40. “Forthwithier:” Peter Navarro Attempts to Pull a Fast One on His Incriminating Use of ProtonMail
  41. When Techbros’ Circle Jerk Becomes a Circular Firing Squad
  42. Columbia Journalism Review–and Now Columbia School of Journalism–Have a Russian Intelligence Problem
  43. Elon Musk “Censors” Matt Taibbi’s Post about Twitter “Censoring” the “Hunter Biden” “Laptop” Story
  44. DC Circuit Upholds 18 USC 1512(c)(2), Sort Of
  45. Matt Taibbi Is Furious that Election Integrity Project Documented How Big Trump’s Big Lie Was
  46. The Testimony Jack Smith Gets This Week Builds on Work from Over a Year Ago
  47. Trump Organization’s Other New York State Case
  48. Did Robert Costello Inadvertently Provide New Evidence against Defendant-1?
  49. Defendant-1 Charged with 34 Counts of Document Falsification to Hide 2016 Crimes
  50. Trump Edition: What Is And What Shall Never Be
  51. Three Things: Colonialist Carrotage
  52. The Espionage Act Evidence WaPo Spins as Obstruction Evidence
  53. Pride before the fall? Testimony from witnesses in seditious conspiracy trial leaves weaknesses in defense wide open

March 2023

  1. Douglass Mackey’s Criminal Twitter Trolling
  2. Trump’s People Have Attempted to Cover Up That He Cheated to Cover Up Cheating in 2016 at Least Six Times
  3. Donald Trump, Accused Criminal
  4. The Yahoos in Brazil Identified in Sergey Cherkasov’s Complaint
  5. Donald Trump’s Dumbass Russia Binder
  6. The Intent Of The Declaration Of Independence
  7. “That’s How … You End Up as a Defendant in a Court Room:” Some Days in the Life of a Named-and-Shamed Former GRU Hacker, Ivan Ermakov
  8. Breathing Room: What Are You Cooking?
  9. When things turned to ‘Ash’: Henry Tarrio’s first witness appears; plus a fight over informants ensues at Proud Boys sedition trial
  10. Kash’s Castles of Scatter and Evan Corcoran’s BCC
  11. Happy Crime-Fraud Exception Day, for Those Who Celebrate
  12. On Joshua Schulte’s Alleged Substantial Amount of CSAM … and Other Contraband
  13. Remember: DOJ May Still Suspect Trump Is Hoarding Classified Documents
  14. With Friends Like These: A rough start to testimony from defense witnesses at Proud Boys sedition trial
  15. Lordy, There Are [Transcribed] Tapes
  16. Barbara Jones Rules Project Veritas Was Not Engaged in Journalism When Brokering Ashley Biden’s Stolen Diary
  17. Introduction And Index To Series On The Second Founding
  18. Marathon Proud Boys sedition trial hits milestone as prosecution prepares to hand off to defense
  19. Just for Perspective: Investigations Take Longer When Presidents Don’t Wiretap Themselves
  20. Pavlov’s Press Corps: Trump Once Again Got Journalists to Willingly Serve as His Incitement Mules
  21. Three Things: Crying All the Way to the Bank
  22. KT McFarland Likened Trump’s Transition Interventions to the Iran October Surprise
  23. Beryl Howell’s Biggest Secret: Whether Bill Barr Killed the Egyptian Bank Investigation
  24. Evan Corcoran: You’re the Next Contestant on Trump’s Crime-Fraud Reality Show
  25. Guo Wengui Arrested
  26. The New Investigation into Bannon and Boris Buried Under Bannon’s Bluster
  27. How Tucker Carlson Duped the People His Producer Called “Dumb … Cousin-Fucking … Terrorists”
  28. Tucker’s Putin Envy
  29. Conclusion To Series On The Dawn Of Everything
  30. Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy comes into focus at Proud Boys trial as classified ‘spill’ roils proceedings
  31. Matt Taibbi Declares John Podesta’s Risotto Recipe Was “True”
  32. The Michael Flynn Complaint For Damages Against The US
  33. Jenna Ellis Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied
  34. Judge Unseals Details on Cooperating Witness in Douglass Mackey Case
  35. The 759 Digital Devices Tucker Carlson Didn’t Review
  36. Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial enters 32nd day
  37. Welcome to Brandi Buchman
  38. Trophy Documents: The Entire Point Was to Make FBI Obedient
  39. Two of Jim Jordan’s So-Called Whistleblowers Are Under Investigation for Improper Treatment of FBI Files
  40. How Would You Arrest a Former President?
  41. DOJ Says Inciting a Riot Is Not Part of the President’s Job Description
  42. Did Steven D’Antuono Make It Easier for Trump to Steal 47 Classified Documents?
  43. Douglass Mackey Allegedly Aimed to Depress Black Turnout in Pennsylvania

February 2023

  1. Release the Kraken: Fox News’ Revolving Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theory Door
  2. Marjorie Taylor Greene Admits Kevin McCarthy Should Have Considered National Security before Harming It
  3. BREAKING from Fox News: Trump Cheated … and He Still Couldn’t Beat Joe Biden
  4. The Search For The Origins Of The State
  5. How Holes in Ivanka’s Testimony Could Help Make an Obstruction Case against Her Father
  6. The Biden Administration Staved Off Russia’s First Round of InfoWar on Ukraine, But How about the Second?
  7. Trump’s “Receptionist of the US” Deletes Her Trip to Russia
  8. “Wink:” Where Jeff Gerth’s “No There, There” in the Russian Investigation Went
  9. Maggie Haberman’s Foray into Campaign Finance Journalism
  10. Trial by Combat: Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman Speeches Included in Ed Badalian Exhibit List
  11. The Evolving Robert Costello – Steve Bannon Timeline
  12. Pence’s Previously Redacted Documents and The Corcoran Scapegoating
  13. Kevin McCarthy Makes Sensitive Security Footage Available to the Insurrectionists’ Propagandist
  14. James Comer’s Twitter Hearing Confirmed Donald Trump’s Censorship Attempt and Matt Taibbi’s “Censorship” about It
  15. Charles McGonigal and the Unclassified Oligarch Info
  16. Where Alina Habba Didn’t Personally Search
  17. Egalitarian Cities In Early Central America
  18. “A Demonic Force:” Dominion Just Gave Jack Smith Useful Evidence
  19. The “Escalating,” “Aggressive,” “Intensifying” Step of Subpoenaing Key Witness Mark Meadows
  20. Alleged DNC Hacker’s Co-Conspirator, Vladislav Klyushin, Convicted of Cheating Elon Musk and Others
  21. Judge Kelly’s Basis for His “Tools” Determinations
  22. How J6C’s Obstinance on Transcripts Enabled Dominic Pezzola’s Attempt to Sow Conspiracy Theories
  23. Active Shooter Event at Michigan State University [FINAL UPDATE—08:50 AM]
  24. Trump’s National Security Adviser Responded to an Attack on the Capitol by Sending Personal Tweets
  25. Alex Saab: The Businessman Inside the DEA Informant Inside the Claimed Venezuelan Diplomat Inside the Alleged Putin “Laundry Man”
  26. Super Bowl LVII
  27. Some People Have Sex Toys; Trump [Claims He] Has Empty Classified Evening Briefing Folders
  28. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Hallucinatory Vision Of America
  29. A Book Author, A Religious Leader, and A Pollster Walk into Trump’s Classified Document Bar
  30. Jeff Gerth Declares No There, Where He Never Checked
  31. “Classified Evening Briefing:” Mishandled and Stolen Documents Update
  32. Roger Stone’s Stop the Steal Effort Included as Proof of Milkshake’s Obstruction
  33. Maggie Haberman Claims Asking a Witness to Repeat What He Said in Print Is “Most Aggressive” Move Yet
  34. DOJ Is Silent that Enrique Tarrio Is a “Friend of Stone”
  35. On emptywheel’s Continued Obsession with Oligarch Real Estate Seizures
  36. The Other Albanian Stuff
  37. Jeff Gerth’s Undisclosed Dissemination of Russian Intelligence Product
  38. The Blind Spots of CJR’s “Russiagate” [sic] Narrative
  39. CJR’s Error at Word 18
  40. The 98 Luftballoons
  41. Wag the Dirigible
  42. The Rise Of Cities In Eurasia
  43. James Comer’s Dick Pics Hearing Just Became an Alleged Stolen Laptop Hearing
  44. DOJ Charges James Gordon Meek with Transporting Child Sexual Assault Material

January 2023

  1. DOJ Has Spent Five Months Trying to Access Scott Perry’s Phone
  2. A Close Rudy Giuliani Associate Alerted FBI’s Assistant Director to Charles McGonigal’s Alleged Albanian Graft
  3. Billy B and Johnny D Drank Whiskey before the Special Counsel Appointment
  4. The Trump-Biden-Pence Documents Story Is Not (Yet) about Overclassification
  5. More on Brandon Straka’s So-Called Cooperation
  6. About Your Pence Special Counsel Complaint: On the Missing Coverage of Section 600.2(b)
  7. “Why Did Mike Pence Wait So Long to Reveal His Stash of Classified Documents?”
  8. No, Charles McGonigal Likely Isn’t Responsible for that Part of the Russian Investigation You Hate
  9. Former FBI SAC Charles McGonigal Indicted for Crimes Spanning from 2017 to 2021
  10. When Your Lawyer is Acting Like H.R. Haldeman, It’s Time to Get a New Lawyer
  11. Johnny McEntee: Enforcer of Trump’s Authority to Invoke the Insurrection Act
  12. “Several Work and Storage Areas:” Why DOJ Likely Doesn’t Trust Biden’s Personal Attorneys
  13. What We Can’t Rule Out with Biden’s Classified Documents
  14. On emptywheel’s Continued Obsession with Delayed Oligarch Associate Arrests
  15. The Primary Thing Eric Herschmann Remembers from January 6 Is that Cassidy Hutchinson Was Wrong about That Note
  16. Special Master in Project Veritas Investigation Reviewed Crime-Fraud Submissions in December
  17. SCOTUS Is Wrecking The Societal Safety Net
  18. Trump Worked with People Who Allegedly Worked with the Proud Boys to Obstruct the Peaceful Transfer of Power
  19. Three Things: California Carrot Cataclysm
  20. How Legal Certainty about 1512(c)(2) Has Wobbled Even as Certainty Trump Violated It Increased
  21. Why Trump’s Lawyer, Evan Corcoran, Says Joe Biden Couldn’t Violate 18 USC 1924
  22. If the Former President Gets Top Billing in a Sedition Trial But You Didn’t Bother to Notice …
  23. JBG And Other Trash Talk
  24. Kash Patel Wants the Insurrection Protection Committee to Investigate Why Robert Hur Tried to Protect Past Ongoing Investigations
  25. Merrick Garland Appoints a Special Counsel in Biden Documents Case
  26. Yes, It Turned Out January 6 Committee Endangered the DOJ Investigation by Withholding the Jeremy Bertino Transcript in June
  27. Follow the Money, Break the Attorney-Client Wall of Obstruction
  28. BREAKING: James Comer Jumps Right on Hunter Biden’s Dick Pics
  29. Matt Taibbi Confesses He Hasn’t Read His Own Twitter Files
  30. Several Missing Details about the Classified Documents at Penn Biden
  31. At Least 25 Lawyers Are Subjects or Witnesses in the Various Trump Investigations
  32. “Besmirched”
  33. Jeremy Liggett: A Little Bitty Fly that Jim Jordan Wants to Propagandize
  34. Donald Trump’s Contemptuous Leaking
  35. Norm Pattis’ Sandy Hook Fuckup May Roil January 6 Investigation
  36. SDNY Calls DOJ’s Definition of the Espionage Act an “Academic Interest”
  37. Shrug: Beau Harrison’s Renewed Memory about Trump’s Lunge
  38. On Speakers
  39. Three Things: Walking in the Rain
  40. Watching The Circus
  41. How the January 6 Committee Investigation Maps onto DOJ’s Known Investigation
  42. Proving Trump’s Corrupt Purpose: The Forgotten Unpermitted March

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