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October 2026

  1. Fridays [with Nicole Sandler] with LOLGOP
  2. Predictably, Stan Woodward Contemptuously Stomped into the Broadview 6 Case
  3. Mike Rogers’ Questionable Loyalties [UPDATE]
  4. Stephen Miller Messed with Texas
  5. The SPLC Breakup Gone Wrong Went REALLY REALLY Wrong
  6. All Kash Patel’s Hacks
  7. Kash Patel Tried to Criminalize Scrutinizing Garbage Tips that Serve Trump’s Lies
  8. How Jeanine Pirro Offered Up Evidence to Indict Kash Patel
  9. FBI Agent Byron Militello Gets Cold Feet on His Hearsay Witness in the Floris Case
  10. Trent McCotter and Aakash Singh’s Star Chamber
  11. Todd Blanche, in His Underwear, in Disgrace
  12. The Charges against Brad Benavides Assume an Investigation into the Laptop that Never Happened
  13. The Crimes Davey Hearn Claims Jeanine Pirro May Have Committed
  14. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  15. The Epistemology of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop”
  16. Stan Woodward Defies Law of Gravity to Attack Minnesota Judges
  17. Jared’s Account
  18. Open Thread: Someone’s Not Living in Fascist Reality with Us
  19. Trump Double Dipping at Aileen Cannon’s Table Again
  20. The Wilesy Will Scharf
  21. Trump Stiffs Nick Shirley: The Big Rewards Go to Putin’s Election Propagandists
  22. Just for Clicks: How a $300,000 Alleged Bribe became a $50M Sinecure
  23. The Why And How Of Impeachment
  24. La France Beats Her Children
  25. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  26. Trump’s Latest Russia Russia Russia Turn Is about Iran Iran Iran
  27. Ten Years Later: Right Wingers Finally Admit Hillary Was Right
  28. Trent McCotter Promises FBI Witnesses Contempt
  29. Reject: Trump’s Latest Attempt to Be the King
  30. The Kash Patel Impeachment Referral Inside the Employment Lawsuit
  31. DOJ Is Still Withholding Evidence DHS Entrapped LaMonica McIver
  32. Knives Out! Habba versus Grenell and Zampolli versus Landau and Guilfoyle versus Everyone and Everyone versus Wiles
  33. Chuck Grassley Provides Proof of the Terrible Fraud Trump Perpetrated on MAGAts
  34. Stephen Miller Desperate to Stave Off Accountability for Losing Texas
  35. Abdulrahman Alfozan Was Allegedly Snooping While the Houthis Invaded
  36. Ned Hedley Invites a Discussion about Harmeet Dhillon’s Egregious Misconduct
  37. GOP Accepts $276M Bribe to Protect African Immigrant CSAM Purveyor
  38. HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats
  39. The James Talarico HIPAA Crime and Stephen Miller’s Apparent Advance Knowledge
  40. Kash Patel Colluded with Russian Spies to Frame Jim Comey, and He Probably Will Again
  41. Evidence Is Evidence: The Questions Scott Bessent Couldn’t Answer
  42. Agent of a Foreign Power
  43. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  44. Why Does Todd Blanche Want the Job?
  45. Native Format: A Way to Test Andrew Boutros’ Claim He Never Read the October 9 Transcript in Real Time
  46. Broader View 6: DOJ Is Taking a Second Mulligan on Grand Jury Transcripts
  47. The Stories We Tell
  48. Sarah Rogers Is the Foreign Censorship Threat She Warned Against
  49. Sarah Rogers Censors Conference on Disinformation
  50. The Roberts Majority Are Bad Judges
  51. John Solomon Confirms Todd Blanche is FAR More Abusive Than Jack Smith
  52. Make. Him. Cut. A. Check.
  53. Judge Perry May Have Flipped a Witness
  54. Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence
  55. Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing
  56. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  57. Trump Is Still Relying on Dossier-Driven Polarization to Hide Russian Shenanigans
  58. The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted
  59. The Protestors Benny Defamed Finally Come After Him
  60. Stephen Miller Is Destroying the Great America Trump Is Trying to Make
  61. Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller
  62. In Ending Case against Davey Hearn, Judge Declares: No Crime Was Committed
  63. In Claiming Misconduct, Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward Fabricated Key Claims
  64. Main DOJ’s Bigfooting in Broadview 6

September 2026

  1. Chuck Grassley and Far Right Propagandists Covering Up How Trump Defrauded MAGAts
  2. In the “Unites States” of “Super Intelligence,” “Issues Are Remediated”
  3. The Nation Learned What Missouri Has Known for Years about Eric Schmitt
  4. After Assaulting David Huerta and Then Lying about It, Ryan Ribner Lied So He Could Spy on SEIU
  5. Sheri Mecklenburg Debunks Andrew Boutros’ Claim to have “Spoken Extensively to the Prosecutors”
  6. Cannonball: Aileen Cannon Wears Two Hats!
  7. DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users
  8. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  9. Andrew Boutros’ Hot-and-Cold Privilege Claims
  10. The Third Time for MO Gerrymandering is . . . the Same as the First Two Times
  11. Antifa Goes to SCOTUS
  12. Be Careful of What You Wish For, Stolen Documents Conspiracy Edition
  13. Sheri Mecklenburg’s Mic Drop
  14. “December problems:” The Iran War Is a Reality that Exists Outside Trump’s Attempt to Con the Election
  15. What the Senate Might Look Like
  16. Missouri GOP Channels their Inner Vizzini in Last Ditch Gerrymandering Scam
  17. A Player To Be Named Later
  18. Carney’s Stuck in the Middle with EU
  19. Open Thread: Do You Remember?
  20. “If It’s What You Say I Love It,” Especially If You Bring Ball of Thread Back
  21. In Advance of a Key Foreign Policy Week, Natalie Harp Blinds the Press
  22. Confirmed: Broadview 6 Transcript Does Not Match the Recording
  23. Putin’s Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr
  24. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  25. The Salazar Swing
  26. The Unrestrained Power Of The Roberts Majority
  27. Harmeet Dhillon Dialed Up Threats against Douglas Micko
  28. Seeing Iran: “Standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face”
  29. Colin McDonald’s Latest Fraud Fraud
  30. Tom Massie’s Impeachment Gambit
  31. Footnote 15 and the Incredible Disappearing AUSA Diane MacArthur
  32. “Back-and-Forth:” How Ellis Boyle Hid that Jim Comey Self-Snitched
  33. The Grand Conspiracy … Adrift on a Skiff
  34. The Iran Disaster Will Likely Be Job One
  35. We Do Not Swear Unconditional Obedience
  36. Time Runs Out on the Grandest Conspirator
  37. Big John Solomon Expose!!!! He’s Covering Up Trump’s Egypt Corruption!
  38. Trump Prioritizes Golf and Horst Wessel Over 9/11
  39. After Further Review, the Missouri Supremes Were Right
  40. The Snowflakes and Petals of Influence NYT Chooses to Ignore
  41. Why Rule of Law May Pivot, Once Again, on Jim Comey
  42. Is Iran Flagging or Waiting to Pounce?
  43. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  44. Flyspeck! DOJ Has Nothing — Except Todd Blanche’s Audition — to Explain Why They Sold Seashells by the Seashore
  45. MO Voters Win Big Against GOP Mid-Term Redistricting
  46. Charlie Pierce Was Right in 2009, and More Right in 2026
  47. Congress Controls Executive Power
  48. Three Strikes: Did Todd Blanche’s DOJ Violate Jim Comey’s Attorney-Client Privilege a Third Time?
  49. Harmeet Dhillon: Violating Customs and Laws to Do the Bidding of the Far Right
  50. Tulsi Gabbard Warned Pete Hegseth; Iran Destroyed the US Base in Bahrain Anyway
  51. Cities Church: A Whole Lot of Phones with No Nexus to an Imagined Crime
  52. Harmeet Dhillon Wants to Criminalize Photos of Prayer

August 2026

  1. Three Days after Learning He Had Lost the Empire, Whiskey Pete Hegseth Campaigned To Be President
  2. “It’s Better to Be on TV than by Phone:” Corruption Is a Process
  3. The Surveillance Crimes in the Cities Church Case Keep Stacking Up
  4. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  5. Shocked, Shocked! To Find that Corruption Is Going on in a Trump Casino!
  6. Hegseth is Being Confronted by his Worst Nightmare, Too
  7. Datacenters in Spaaaaaaace!
  8. Overboard! Whiskey Pete Hegseth Tries to Fire His Way Out of Being a Loser
  9. A Year After Lying about His Reasons for Assaulting David Huerta, Ryan Ribner Is Still Hunting SEIU
  10. Stephen Miller’s Armed Latino Gang
  11. In LaMonica McIver Dissent, Judge Ambro Describes Costs of Politicized Prosecution and Speech and Debate
  12. A Shoddy Analysis Was Written by Peter Baker
  13. Stephen Miller Sent 9 Special Operations Goons to Tail a Guy Driving ICE Out Signs
  14. The Invented Blockade and the Fake Doxing that HSI Turned into “Terrorism”
  15. Trump is Being Confronted by his Worst Nightmare
  16. Richard Berger: The False Affiant behind Minnesota’s Fabricated Cases
  17. Sommer Honeycutt Says DOJ Was Wrong about Why They Opened the MN-15 Investigation
  18. The Kavanaugh Stop from Hell that Destroys Minnesota’s Other Criminal Cases
  19. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  20. Natalie Harp Was the Document Author of Trump’s Blow-Off of the January 6 Committee
  21. Trump Is Breaking the Law to Cover Up How Russia Helped Him Win in 2024
  22. Before Fabricating Assaults to Justify the MN-15 Investigation, DHS Focused on a Protest of Trump’s 2017 Inauguration
  23. Prepare for Catastrophe!
  24. Davey Hearn’s Extra Bites at the Apple
  25. DOJ Attempts Another Head-Fake in Davey Hearn Case
  26. Donald Trump’s White House Declassified the Eric Swalwell File to Affect His Election
  27. Open Thread: Ask Broadcast TV Viewers, “Natalie Who?”
  28. Natalie Harp Is the Unsupervised Gatekeeper to the Man with the Nuclear Buttons
  29. Ellis Boyle Thinks Fictional Stochastic Terrorism Is More Dangerous Than Actual Stochastic Terrorism
  30. Open Thread: Trump’s Continuing Decline
  31. DOJ Used Pam Bondi’s Trophy Arrests as an Excuse to Spy on Minnesota’s Anti-ICE Community
  32. John Solomon’s Propaganda Technique: Keeping the “Who” “What” “When” Secret to Fool the Rubes
  33. Among the First Things Attorney Matthew Skiba Did Was Target Democrats
  34. Andrew Ferguson and Joe Simonson Squeal about Their $277 Fraud Charges
  35. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  36. Sheri Mecklenburg’s Tech Troubles: “It’s on the E drive. It’s on the stick.”
  37. Trump’s Government Responded to Murdering Alex Pretti by Spying on the Entire Anti-ICE Community in Minnesota
  38. The Sources from the Catering Cart
  39. Is Todd Blanche Criminalizing Bad Break-Ups to Help Neo-Nazis?
  40. Ahead of Kash Patel’s Field Trip to Russia, He Promises Not to Investigate Russian Attempts to Frame Democrats
  41. Harmeet Dhillon’s Flunkies Move to Strike an Argument about the First Amendment
  42. How to Drain Trump’s Corruption Pool
  43. From Flying Bribery Palace to Failed Leak Investigation to Catering Truck
  44. Todd Blanche Is Hiding How SPLC Warned FBI about a Murder-for-Hire Scenario
  45. The Jimmy Carter Talk Has Started
  46. Undisputed! Andrew Boutros Makes a False Claim
  47. The Broadview ICE Agent’s 7-Minute Gap
  48. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  49. Donald Trump Told Us He Was Warned about the Missile Shortage Before He Started the Iran War
  50. The Roberts Majority Restructured Government
  51. Harmeet Dhillon’s Goons Spied on Megyn Kelly to Get to Don Lemon
  52. Receipts! DOGE Fails an Audit
  53. Judge Edelman Will Give Davey Hearn the Last Word
  54. Assault and [a Dead] Battery: Andrew Boutros’ Technical Bullshit
  55. DOJ Invokes Trump v. US to Protect Todd Blanche’s Fixer, Aakash Singh
  56. What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It?
  57. Trump and Pirro BOTH Screwed Up by Rushing to Beat July 4
  58. The Davey Hearn Motion to Dismiss ALSO Debunks Trump’s Vandalism Claim
  59. Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized?
  60. Free At Last, Free At Last, Thank God Almighty Trump’s Taxes are Free At Last
  61. Confusion about the Chessboard Trump Has Overturned in His Tantrum
  62. Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief’s Tax Crimes
  63. Doug Burgum Accuses Jeanine Pirro of Lying
  64. In His Tax Fraud Appeal, Donald Trump Says His Failsons Are Just Like Hunter Biden
  65. The Flapping Holes in Jeanine Pirro’s Davey Hearn Juicebox Jam
  66. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  67. SCOTUS Majority Says Racism Is All Gone

July 2026

  1. Jeanine Pirro’s Epic Study in Passive Voice
  2. Trump Decides He’d Rather Have Tax Crimes and Rewards for Terrorists Than a Todd Blanche Confirmation
  3. Todd Blanche Colluded with an Italian Mafioso … and Also Rudy Guiliani … to Indict Jim Comey
  4. Bill Essayli Confesses He Could Never Prove the Case against David Huerta
  5. Beanie Bullshit: Two Months After Discovery Deadline, Robert Keenan Confesses He Is Just Starting to Exploit Certain Phones
  6. Jeanine Pirro’s “With an Expert” Quip Is Already Falling Apart
  7. No Kings: Jim Comey’s History Lesson
  8. Crunchy Vegetables! DOJ Finally Gives Up on Charges against David Huerta
  9. Did DOJ Subpoena NYT for What They Published … Or What They Didn’t?
  10. Sean Buckley Buys Time for His Bosses
  11. The (Russian) Foreign Vote Fraudster Trump Didn’t Mention
  12. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  13. Magistrate Judge Orders DOJ to Turn Over Grand Jury Transcripts Pertaining to Georgia Fort
  14. Todd Blanche Is Destroying SDNY Now, Too
  15. More Concerns about the Investigative Misconduct by Harmeet Dhillon’s Team
  16. “Kiss My Ass:” Trump Looses Nukes to Placate Crown Prince Bonesaw
  17. “I rest my case:” John Solomon, Intelligence Expert
  18. Harmeet Dhillon’s Team Is Using Customs Summonses to Spy on Journalists
  19. Impeachment Is The Best Court Reform
  20. “Say Less:” Everyone Knew Trump’s Flying Bribery Palace Was Unsafe
  21. SDNY Asks for Two Weeks to Unfuck the Leak Investigation It Fucked Up in Rush to Please Trump
  22. The Electoral Roll Tampering Trump Left Out: His Own
  23. The Weekend of the (Geopolitical) World Cup is Here
  24. Election Interference is Fine For Me But Not For Thee
  25. To Beeb Adverse or Not to Beeb, That Is the Question
  26. Todd Blanche Confirmation Open Thread
  27. African Immigrant Accused of Bribing Wisconsin Voters, Harmeet Dhillon Does Nothing
  28. Judge Kathleen Williams Hoists the Unitarians on Their Fraudulent Petards
  29. Trump Fired Pam Bondi the Day After DOJ Agreed to Share Epstein Files with New Mexico
  30. Jeanine Pirro Fights to Force-Feed Someone She Wants to Execute
  31. Breathing Room: How Are You Pursuing Happiness?
  32. Lindsey Graham Dies Suddenly
  33. Trump Confirms: Accepting a Flying Bribery Palace Made Him Less Safe
  34. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  35. Harmeet Dhillon Doxes the 100 People She Hired to Undermine Democracy
  36. A Virtuous Life
  37. Harmeet Dhillon’s Team Appears To Have Already Started Framing People
  38. Republicans Have a Thee Too Problem
  39. Trump Loves Cheating More Than He Hates Birthright Citizenship
  40. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  41. Happy Fourth of July
  42. This is How You Give a Speech on American Independence
  43. Schrödinger’s Lemon: Harmeet Dhillon’s Team Treats “Organized Protest Activity” as a Crime
  44. Democrats Describe the Wire Fraud behind the Single Ferris Wheel and the Empty Fields of Glyphosate
  45. Open Thread: How Do We Hold a Trillionaire Accountable?
  46. John Brennan’s Deletions
  47. Confirmed: Broadview 6 Prosecutor Matthew Skiba Was Riding the Trump Train in His Grand Jury Presentation

June 2026

  1. What Would a Graphic Novel Explaining the Stakes of SCOTUS Fix Look Like
  2. SPLC Prosecutor Kevin Davidson Admits He Went Looking for a Crime Based on a Flimsy Political Advocacy Letter
  3. MAGA Morality
  4. Trump Has Made the National Mall a Tribute to His Squalid Corruption
  5. Katie Phang Just Made Jeffrey Epstein Central to Todd Blanche’s Bid for Confirmation
  6. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  7. More Evidence that Harmeet Dhillon’s Team Fabricated Their Entire Case against Georgia Fort
  8. The Stories Todd Blanche Fabricates about Antifa
  9. Guy with Crusader Tats Suffers Humiliating Defeat at Hands of Islamic Republic
  10. Daniel Rosen Hid the Far-Right Agitators at the Core of His Anti-ICE Indictment
  11. Hate Map: Will Abbe Lowell Cross-Examine Stephen Miller at the SPLC Trial?
  12. Andrew Boutros’ Secret Walkaway Conspiracy
  13. MacIntyre’s Definition Of Virtue
  14. The Reflecting Pool Arrests Are an Attempt to Cover Up Trump’s Corruption
  15. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  16. How Much Will Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff Profit Off the $300B Iranian Redevelopment Fund?
  17. To Understand Trump’s Negotiations with Iran, Talk to Ivana Trump and Marla Maples
  18. Matthew Skiba’s Secret Reliance on the Trump Train
  19. After Achieving an Unconditional Surrender, Donald Trump Promised, There’d Be a New Leader
  20. Minnesota US Attorney Daniel Rosen Indicted 15 People over a Few Dents
  21. Implausible Deniability
  22. Elon Musk Is the Election Cheat Harmeet Dhillon and Bill Essayli Claim to Be Hunting
  23. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  24. Floundering: Two Lines of Testimony about Georgia Fort
  25. Andrew Boutros’ Fraud Fraud Emergency
  26. NYT’s Titty Distraction
  27. How DOJ Threw a Crock of Shit because Kat Abughazaleh Complained about Being Run Over
  28. The World Knows Trump’s Team is Not Qualified to Use FISA, Too
  29. Trump’s Team Is Not Qualified to Use FISA
  30. NYT Details Todd Blanche’s Personal Involvement in 8647ing Jim Comey
  31. DOJ Remains Panicked about So-Called “Duplicative” Jeffrey Epstein Files
  32. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  33. In Superseding SPLC Indictment, DOJ Confesses They Made a Big Mistake
  34. Todd Blanche Excused Bribery … and Then Trump Gave Him a Promotion
  35. Emily Covington Breaks the Rules to Brag that DOJ Doesn’t Have the Goods against SPLC
  36. We Can’t Reason Our Way to Morality
  37. Democrats Should Give Trump a Choice: Bill Pulte at DNI or Section 702 Reauthorization
  38. Already Suspected of Fraud, Trump Attempts to Extend His Con on the Terrorist Slush Fund
  39. Trump’s Spinmeisters Pretend Mike Johnson Is a Judge
  40. The Bigly-er Colossus
  41. There Are 22 Weeks of Potential Crisis and Catastrophe before Election Day

May 2026

  1. The Rush to Disavow the Terrorist Slush Fund
  2. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  3. Stan Woodward’s Many Terrorist-Defending Hats
  4. Meanwhile, in the Land of Hockey, Tim Horton’s, and Hospitality . . .
  5. Chicago US Attorney’s Office Claims AUSAs Are Not Responsible for What They Witness in a Grand Jury
  6. Why Stay on the World’s 15th Most Popular Social Media Platform?
  7. HSI Agent Timothy Gerber Is a Dumbass, Withdrawn Search Warrants Edition
  8. Don’t Look Up: The Coming Manufacturing Apocalypse
  9. Ken Paxton Was Going to Win Anyway
  10. More Grand Jury Shenanigans in Illinois
  11. Trump Encourages Political Violence
  12. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  13. “Unhinged from Reality:” Donald J. Trump Caged the Q-Shaman
  14. Trump’s Bend Might Break Offense
  15. How the Broadview 6 (-2) Case Collapsed
  16. The Returns of 1776: “Just Pay Your Taxes So I Can Enjoy Your Money”
  17. Former AUSA Accused of Being Marginally as Criminal as Trump Is
  18. Trump’s Personal Attorney Todd Blanche Attempts to Pardon His Boss
  19. Open Thread: Three Weeks of Bruising, Bears, Squirrels, and Paranoid Ranting
  20. Todd Blanche Lied to Chris Van Hollen about Not Reading the Washington Post
  21. The Alleged Polish Criminal Trump Harbors While Deporting Grannies
  22. Darin Smith’s Misconduct Endangered a Murder Prosecution; 46 Republicans Confirmed Him Anyway
  23. Ellis Boyle’s Threat Prosecution Hobby
  24. Todd Blanche Attempts to Absolve Himself of Complicity in Bribes to Child Sex Abuse Victims
  25. After Virtue By Alaisdair MacIntyre
  26. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  27. Trump’s Idea of Charity: Terrorists, Cop Assailants, and Child Sex Predators
  28. Gatekeeper to Narcissistic Meltdown
  29. The FBI Director Proved He Will Lie about Criminal Defendants
  30. Will the Very Able Caine Expose the Devil Inside Trump’s Garden of Paradise?
  31. Humiliation
  32. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  33. Seb Gorka Orders Europe to Harbo[u]r His Kind of Terrorists
  34. Cole Allen Catalogs Jeanine Pirro’s Verbal Diarrhea
  35. Kash Patel Changes His Mind about Sarah Fitzpatrick’s Sources
  36. The Loaner AUSAs Todd Blanche Disavows
  37. Trump’s Base Motives
  38. Kash Patel Using FBI Resources in Pursuit of $250 Million Personal Payoff
  39. The Complicity of Trump Conspiracy-Washer Michael Scherer
  40. Reality TV in Lieu of Justice: Jeanine Pirro Will Endanger the Cole Allen Prosecution
  41. Fridays with Nicole Sandler

April 2026

  1. Jim Comey’s Equal Protection Claim
  2. What if Greedo Didn’t Shoot First?
  3. Todd Blanche Confessed to Using This Shoddy Prosecution to Spy on Jim Comey
  4. Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Didn’t Use to Believe Vituperative Speech Was a Threat
  5. Defining Morality
  6. SPLC Wants Todd Blanche to Stop Lying
  7. Pam Bondi Refused to Appoint Joe DiGenova
  8. Jeanine Pirro Did the Same Thing Norah O’Donnell Did
  9. Dinner and a Show: What Isn’t Being Discussed after WHCA ‘Nerd Prom’
  10. Trump Is Not Ignorant of Iran Risks; He Is Attempting a Con to Cope with His Failure
  11. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  12. Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC To Demonstrate Their Importance (and His Negligence)
  13. Spirit Airlines is the Canary in Trump’s Fossil Fuel Mine
  14. Who’s Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works
  15. Todd Blanche’s Weird Double Standard Protects Sex Traffickers and Racists
  16. The Third Trajectory and Hopes for Rebuilding
  17. In Lawsuit Not Mentioning the Olympics, Kash Patel Swears He’s Not a Drunk
  18. The Person Playacting as President May Be Getting Addicted to Snuff Films
  19. Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash’s Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation
  20. Minnesota Still Cleaning Up after Pam Bondi’s Trophy Stunt
  21. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  22. Democrats Need to Solve the Tactical Problems with Impeachment before Relying on It
  23. Todd Blanche and Jeanine Pirro Clear Proud Boy and Oath Keeper Terrorists to Rearm
  24. Introduction And Index To Series On Morality
  25. Whatever Means to Call for Trump’s Removal, It Is a Tool to Expand Accountability for Iran
  26. Trump Said Something Inappropriate to Xi Jinping, Too
  27. Viktor Orbán Concedes to Péter Magyar
  28. Having Failed to Win a “Marathon” [sic] without Training, Trump Announces Blockade of Iran’s Blockade
  29. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  30. Poor Tactics Make Any Strategy Impossible, Vatican Edition
  31. The Fraud behind Trump’s Fraud Task Force
  32. Melania’s Immigration Witness, Paolo Zampolli, Asked to Get His Baby Mama Deported
  33. The Maggie and Swan JD Vance Fan-Fic
  34. Hegseth, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, and Mark Twain
  35. In January, Trump Promised Iranian Protestors “HELP IS ON ITS WAY”
  36. Putin’s Puppet Project in Peril
  37. Trump Keeps Digging with the Same Toy Bulldozers
  38. The Other Hostage Crisis
  39. Blind Spots in the Iran War
  40. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  41. Trump Fires Bondi for Failing to Cover Up Allegations He Raped a Teenager
  42. Trump’s Cliff Notes
  43. It’s Not that Trump Is Threatening NATO; He Is Making NATO Toxic

March 2026

  1. The Anti-American Right
  2. Days after Daily Mail Implicates Stephen Miller in Alex Pretti Murder, Daily Mail Responds with Boobies
  3. How Much Will Crown Prince Bonesaw Tolerate?
  4. How Speaker Mike Johnson Responded to a Potential Invasion of His District
  5. Harmeet Dhillon’s Minion Confirms She Lied about the Eighth Circuit
  6. The Point of No Kings Is NO KINGS [UPDATE-1]
  7. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  8. How Vladimir Putin Intends to Recruit Trump to Russia’s Side in WWIII
  9. Jamie Raskin-Induced Flopsweat at DOJ
  10. Crazy, Stupid, False, Impotent, and Blind: The Cognitive Biases of the Iran Coverage
  11. The Two Subpoenas for Kash Patel’s Communication Records
  12. America’s Bookend Wars for Oil
  13. The Clown Prince’s Client Wants Trump to Risk American Lives in an Iran War Escalation
  14. Thoughts on Robert Mueller’s Passing
  15. More Thread
  16. Deneen Is Wrong
  17. Open Thread
  18. The New Regime
  19. Accountability
  20. What My Mom’s Dementia Continues to Tell Me
  21. Mixing The Mixed Constitution
  22. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  23. What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Epilogue)
  24. Trump Rewards Russia for Helping Iran Target US Service Members
  25. Great Tactics Mean Nothing if You Have No Strategy
  26. Blips and Gyrations: The Market Thinking of Trump’s Incompetent Advisors
  27. The Con Trump Used to Attempt to Hide How He’s Rewarding Russia for Helping Iran Target Americans
  28. Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran
  29. How to Capture the Mad King’s Attention
  30. Jacob Winckler Got Charged for His Cat Toy because Charlie Kirk Died
  31. Pam Bondi Dropped Cases against Four Alleged Drug Dealers So She Could Hunt Don Lemon
  32. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  33. The Alleged Trump Victim’s Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape
  34. DHS: Noem out, Mullin in?
  35. Trump’s Gut and Promises of “FREE FLOW”
  36. The Wisdom Of The Subservient Class
  37. “Squirter:” The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict
  38. “That’s the way it is:” Trump Team Admissions, So Far
  39. Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared

February 2026

  1. Untrustworthy
  2. Trump’s Illegal War
  3. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  4. The Bullshit about John Roberts’ Tolerance for Bullshit
  5. How Todd Blanche Gave Ghislaine Maxwell Blackmail over Donald Trump
  6. Morality is a Long Game
  7. Katie Britt’s Sad Confusion about and Complicity in Misallocation of HSI
  8. Open Thread: Après SOTU, Sweep Up on Aisle 47
  9. JB Pritzker’s Invoice: Payback’s a Bitch
  10. Harmeet Dhillon Confesses She Blew Off Her Don Lemon Homework
  11. Trump’s Tantrum Tariffs
  12. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  13. As Expected, SCOTUS Rules against Trump on Tariffs
  14. What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Five)
  15. Todd Lyons Bragged of Investigations into Just 37 Use of Force Incidents Out of Hundreds
  16. John Roberts Wrote the Permission Slip for the Fulton County Fiasco
  17. Liberalism Has Failed
  18. Psst! L’il Marco Rubio? Don’t Lecture Europe When You’re One Face of a Chaotic Suicide Pact!
  19. Pam Bondi’s Rap Sheet
  20. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  21. Minnesota Demolishes Stephen Miller’s Theory of Force
  22. Moral Injury in Trump’s America
  23. Pam Bondi’s Gutter: Five Ways the Attorney General Confirmed She Is Engaged in an Epstein Cover Up
  24. “El Jefe” Supported CBP’s Information War and Violent Attack on Marimar Martinez
  25. Don Lemon Hires Minnesota’s Top Public Integrity Prosecutor to Defend Against Harmeet Dhillon’s Lies
  26. Bill Kristol’s Scoundrel Punditry and the Fight to Unmask Stephen Miller’s Goons
  27. Confirmed: Todd Blanche Locked Ghislaine Maxwell into a False Story, Then Rewarded Her
  28. If MAGAt Political Culture Collapsed in the Woods and No Traditional Media Were There To See It…
  29. Blood Spatters and Newbie JAG Officers
  30. Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe
  31. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  32. DOJ Over-Seized Hannah Natanson’s Garmin Device and Other Reporting Materials
  33. The Minnesota Lawyer Backlog Arises from ICE Kidnappings
  34. The Emirates Didn’t Bribe Trump–They Purchased Him
  35. Morality Is The Issue
  36. Welcome to the New Digs, Take Two
  37. Elon Musk Under Investigation for Trafficking Child Sexual Abuse Material
  38. Trump Destroyed Leigh Wambsganss’ Brand Even More Quickly Than He Did the Kennedy Center’s
  39. Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti
  40. Regime Change By Patrick Deneen

January 2026

  1. “Demonic,” “Godless,” “Un-American:” Harmeet Dhillon’s Own Misconduct Will Be an Issue in Don Lemon Case
  2. Pam Bondi Responded to Alex Pretti’s Murder by Criminalizing Spitting
  3. Pam Bondi Destroying the Village to Save Stephen Miller’s Murderers
  4. The Disappearances in Minnesota
  5. Lindsey Graham Defends Wormtongue
  6. Stephen Miller Confesses He’s Incompetent
  7. Open for Business
  8. Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable
  9. By Lying about Alex Pretti’s Murder, Kristi Noem Makes Herself a Co-Conspirator In It
  10. How Do You Want Your Family to Remember You?
  11. Minneapolis Chief Judge Attacks Pam Bondi’s False Claims about Don Lemon
  12. What Is DOJ Really After in Raiding Hannah Natanson?
  13. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  14. In Indictment of Aurelio Perez-Lugones, DOJ Proves It Didn’t Need to Search Hannah Natanson’s Home
  15. Pam Bondi’s Slop
  16. Trump’s Vulnerability and the Bunker-Ballroom
  17. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told You So, Social Security Edition
  18. The Truth of Dead Exceptionalism
  19. Trump Needs a Shrink and a Baby-Sitter, Not a National Security Adviser
  20. What My Mom’s Dementia Tells Me
  21. Time to Unplug the American Century and Restart the Machine
  22. Voiding International Agreements Can Have Awkward Consequences
  23. When Even the German Far-Right Thinks You’ve Gone Too Far . . .
  24. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  25. “Epstein Is Dead:” Pam Bondi Is Neglecting Live Sex Trafficking Prosecutions to Criminalize Democrats
  26. DOJ Continues to Let DHS Pick and Choose Screen Shots Pertaining to Their Assaults
  27. Chekhov’s Back Door Gate Appears in the David Huerta Assault Saga
  28. Bill Essayli Has an Identity Crisis
  29. This Is Not A Constitutional Moment
  30. The Jerome Powell Clusterfuck Is a Clusterfuck of Pam Bondi’s Own Making
  31. Where We Go from Here
  32. On Same Day Robert McBride’s Firing Is Reported, Stan Woodward “Errs” His Grievances
  33. DHS Assaulting Protesters Because Goons Believe They Are “Vicious, Horrible People”
  34. Stephen Miller’s Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists
  35. No One Could Have Anticipated, Venezuelan Edition
  36. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  37. Todd Blanche Takes Stephen Miller’s Ham Sandwich to the Fifth Circuit
  38. Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump’s Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership
  39. The Bankrupt Premise of Trump’s Venezuela Colony
  40. Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers
  41. Stephen Miller Has Similar Plans for Colombia and Columbia
  42. January 6 Was a Violent Insurrection; It Was Also a Fraud Against the GOP Faithful
  43. How the Deep State Taught Stephen Miller to Love Socialism
  44. Stephen Miller and Plans for Post-Decapitation
  45. DOJ’s Politically Illegitimate Basis for Political Illegitimacy in Nicolás Maduro Indictment
  46. Trump’s Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America
  47. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  48. Where We Go from Here
  49. How SCOTUS Got Us Here
  50. Jeanine Pirro Has a Black Powder Problem
  51. Jim Jordan Buries His Own Cowardice in a Cowardly Document Dump

2025 620

December 2025

  1. The Inaugural Donald J. Trump Awards
  2. Adam Entous’ Coy Kirill Dmitriev Flirtations
  3. Peeling Off MTG
  4. Brian Cole’s Lawyers Admonish Jeanine Pirro for Yapping Her Mouth
  5. Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020
  6. “Border security is the primary element of national security.”
  7. We Don’t Know How Stephen Miller Fails
  8. Much of Todd Blanche’s Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence
  9. Merry Christmas
  10. (Not) Home for Christmas
  11. The Storytelling We Need to Rebuild Belief in Government
  12. Three Descriptions Of Our Current Turmoil
  13. The Most Complex Friday Night News Dump, Ever?
  14. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  15. Four Ways to Fight Fascism: Checking In
  16. The National Security Letter Seamus Hughes Found When Looking for a Dan Richman Docket
  17. Rent-Seeking: Trump Sells Patriotic Fraud to Boost His Tariff Lies
  18. Susie’s Assessment: Failure after Failure
  19. Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s Attempted Baby-Splitting Leads to Exploding Diaper
  20. Donald Trump Is Getting a Pass for His Catastrophic Trade War
  21. The Epistemology of the Epstein Scandal
  22. The Government Attempts to Gag Dan Richman from Speaking about His Own Data
  23. Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s Baby-Splitting with Dan Richman’s Devices
  24. Four Years and 345 Days
  25. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  26. Cowardice Like Michael Glasheen’s Is How January 6 Happened
  27. Lindsey Halligan Can’t Tell the Difference between a Man, a Woman, and a Ham Sandwich
  28. Donald Trump Will Piss Away the Western Order Investing in Jared Kushner’s Imagined Business Savvy
  29. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Demands Someone at DOJ Put Ethical Skin in the Game
  30. Other Nations are Updating their Threat Assessments, Too
  31. Michael Anton and the Secret National Security Strategy
  32. DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was “Bad” before They Charged Her
  33. The False Claims Todd Blanche, Robert McBride, and Some Lady Impersonating a US Attorney Tell to Justify a Crime
  34. White Man’s Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test
  35. The National Security Strategy’s Structure and Presumptions
  36. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Asks DOJ for Signs of Life
  37. Trump’s Terrorists
  38. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  39. Applying Existentialist Ethics
  40. What’s Not Being Said about the Alleged Pipe Bomber
  41. SignalGate: “This Chat’s Kinda Dead”
  42. The Hacking Hole Where John Bolton Should Be
  43. Asif Merchant Says EDNY Screwed Up Its Intercepts
  44. Pete Hegseth and the Radical Queer Wing of Al-Qaeda
  45. The Kafka Story Inside Trump’s Godfather Trilogy
  46. Four Shots at an Unarmed Boat in Uncontested Waters
  47. Dan Richman Wants His Data Back
  48. On Eve of Illegal Venezuelan Invasion, Pete Hegseth Utterly Destroys His Ability to Lead It
  49. “The Truth Is for Chumps:” Prepare for the Hunger Games
  50. Alina Habba: A Parking Garage Lawyer with $1 Million in Sanction Penalties
  51. David Sacks and the Entire American Tech Stack Win!

November 2025

  1. Murder
  2. Fridays with Nicole Sandler, Thanksgiving Wednesday Edition!
  3. In Dismissing Georgia RICO Case, Peter Skandalakis Fabricates Jack Smith Conclusion
  4. Did the Comey Dismissal Render Kash Patel’s Grand Conspiracy “Just Someone Else’s Fantasy”?
  5. The Dim Philby Leaks
  6. MAGAts Outraged Comey Indictment Dismissed on Same “Technicality” Trump’s Was!
  7. Buh Bye Lindsey!
  8. Open Thread: Prepping for Thanksgiving Ahead
  9. “Groceries,” and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump
  10. Blind Man’s Bluff in the Jim Comey Docket
  11. Seventh Circuit Panel Allows Trump To Assault Chicago Residents
  12. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  13. The Graymail Cometh
  14. “Shitshow:” Greg Bovino’s Zero Success Rate
  15. What We Know about the Day of Jim Comey’s Indictment
  16. Lindsey Halligan Was Never Alone with the Grand Jury; EDVA’s Grand Jury Coordinator Was
  17. Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer Confesses There Is No Indictment
  18. Kash Patel’s Taint
  19. The United States Can’t Afford the Opportunity Cost of Stephen Miller’s Bigotry
  20. Trump Trips over Own Feet Hastening Parallel Retreats
  21. The Rolling Corruption behind the Letitia James Prosecution
  22. Loaner AUSA Gabriel Diaz: Why Do You Think There Are Two Indictments Signed by Lindsey Halligan?
  23. Bill Barr Helped Lindsey Halligan Fuck Up the Comey Prosecution
  24. The 11 Fuck-Ups Pam Bondi’s DOJ Made in Indicting Jim Comey
  25. Stephen Miller Prioritized This Guy’s Shame Over Children Being Raped
  26. Might Pam Bondi’s Latest Prosecutorial Abuse Give Us Ponies and Puppies?
  27. Pam Bondi Replaces Her Embarrassing Reading Comprehension Failure with a 4A Violation
  28. Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer’s Story Gets Stupider
  29. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  30. Trailer Park Slum Lord: The Generational Corruption of Bill Pulte
  31. Lindsey’s Loaner AUSAs Can’t Decide What the Clinton Investigation Is
  32. Lindsey Halligan’s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap
  33. House Dems’ Problem Children Who Ended the Shutdown
  34. Judge Jamel Semper Mostly Denies LaMonica McIver’s Bid to Dismiss Prosecution
  35. Trump Already Confessed He Knew about “the Girls”
  36. Corruption Is All Fun and Games Until It Threatens to Tank the Economy
  37. Three Ways You Can Tell Trump Is Lying about Tariff Rebates
  38. “Witch Hunt!” Jim Comey Channels Media Matters
  39. Gabriel Diaz’ 14 Exhibits
  40. Kash Patel’s Plot Against Jim Comey Thickens!
  41. Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
  42. Yet More of a Lapsed Catholic’s Bible Study
  43. Letitia James Highlights Eagle Ed Martin Just Before He Goes on a Conspiratorial Rant
  44. Trumpist Moral Choice
  45. Spill! The EDVA Case against Jim Comey Could Well Harm the Even More Corrupt SDFL Case
  46. As Spacemen Stalk Jim Comey, Loaner AUSA Tyler Lemons Doxed Him
  47. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  48. Tyler Lemons Caught Jack Eckenrode Committing a Capstone Crime
  49. May This Week Be a Pivot
  50. Open Thread: Generational Change Continues, Nancy Pelosi to Retire
  51. Tyler Lemons Narcs out Pam Bondi: She Couldn’t Have Ratified Lindsey Halligan’s Actions
  52. Pam Bondi’s DOJ Gets Admonished a Second Time for Indict[ing] First, Investigat[ing] Second
  53. We’re on the Unfuck Stage of Trump’s Abuse of Power
  54. The IG Firing that May Matter: FHFA
  55. Open Thread: The Morning After Election Day 2025
  56. Cat Got the Indictment Singer’s [sic] Tongue?
  57. Tyler Lemons’ Vindictive and Selective Bill of Particulars
  58. Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten
  59. The Halloween Special Attorney’s Loaner AUSAs’ Loaner AUSA Forgot to Describe Jim Comey’s Imaginary Crime
  60. Tyler Lemons Confesses Kash Patel’s FBI Was Reading Previously Seized Material without a Renewed Warrant
  61. Jim Comey and the Crown Jewels of the Fevered Conspiracy against Rights Conspiracy

October 2025

  1. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  2. Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer’s Disappearing Agreement to a Litigation Hold
  3. Judge Nachmanoff Punts on Privilege
  4. Follow the Money: Chuck Grassley Doxes the Entire Far Right
  5. Jeanine Pirro Covers Up Donald Trump’s Doxing Conspiracy
  6. “The Indictment Signer:” Lindsey Halligan’s Time in the Grand Jury
  7. Donald Trump’s [Miles] Starr Chamber
  8. Bill Essayli Moves to Dismiss Key “Assault” Case before DOJ Has to Explain What It Knew
  9. Love in the Time of Hegemonic Suicide
  10. A Lapsed Catholic’s Sunday Bible Study
  11. Donald Trump and His Speaker-Puppet
  12. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  13. Examples Of Not-Free People
  14. A Tale of Three Footnotes for “Purported Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan”
  15. Trump’s GOP Death Panel in Progress
  16. Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer Gets into Signal Trouble
  17. Kash’s “lockbox in a vault…in a cyber place where no one can see or search these files”
  18. John Yoo’s Old Trash and the South Shore Apartment Invasion
  19. Donald Trump Owns Christopher Moynihan’s Alleged Death Threat against Hakeem Jeffries
  20. Taint
  21. Lindsey Halligan’s Grand Jury Violation, with Love to Aileen Cannon
  22. 60 Pages of Animus: Jim Comey’s Motions to Dismiss His Prosecution
  23. Lindsey Halligan Lectures Someone ELSE about Conflicts
  24. Shit-Posting All the Way to SCOTUS
  25. Stephen Miller’s Trains Don’t Run on Time
  26. No Kings Thread
  27. Eagle Ed Martin and George Santos Just Proved Tish James’ Vindictive Prosecution Claim
  28. Jim Comey Prepares to Prevail at SCOTUS
  29. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  30. The Bolton Indictment
  31. Revenge of the “Lib Tard:” Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal
  32. Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan’s Filter Follies
  33. How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller’s Shoddy Propaganda … So Far
  34. France’s Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In
  35. The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk’s Honor
  36. Mayor Ras Baraka Reaffirms Malicious Prosecution Claim
  37. “Sensitivities and Exposure:” Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan’s First Filing
  38. We’re in La Plus Stupide Ligne de Temps
  39. Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey
  40. More Responses to Existentialist Ambiguity
  41. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  42. The Nativists Are Getting Restless: How the Rhythm of the Comey Prosecution May Backfire
  43. Next Up, Tish James
  44. More Madness of Macron: An Endless Crisis
  45. Greg Bovino’s September 27 “Shitshow:” Batting 9% [Updated]
  46. How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller
  47. “Do something, bitch!”* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia’s Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP
  48. The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting
  49. Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus
  50. The Crime Wave Is Coming from Inside the [White] House
  51. $400,000: The “Free” Medical Care Kristi Noem’s Goons Made Taxpayers Pay
  52. Jeanine Pirro’s Recent Flood of Failures
  53. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  54. Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown
  55. White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fishermen
  56. Lindsey Halligan Even Failed Failing
  57. Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump’s Nutjobs to Kill Democrats
  58. The Shutdown Will Make Trump’s Theory of Government–ICE but No Healthcare–Visible

September 2025

  1. May Solidarity and Speech Defeat Pardons and Tanks
  2. “She Wants to Grab Him:” The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka
  3. Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle?
  4. Will Jim Comey’s Prosecution Prove Kash Patel Lied to Senate Judiciary Committee?
  5. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  6. Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment?
  7. Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions
  8. Russ Vought Threatens to Do What He Already Did
  9. Why DOJ Might Be Pushing for Lindsey Halligan to Get No Billed
  10. What Trump’s UNGA Speech Tells the World
  11. Scott Bessent Links Bailout of Argentina to Trump’s Election Interference, Even as Argentina Poaches US Soybean Markets
  12. Sinclair Makes Itself Visible
  13. Donald Trump Wants a $5 Billion Premium for Confessing His Weaponization Claims Are Bullshit
  14. Time to Win the Shutdown
  15. Coping With Existentialist Ambiguity
  16. Trump Can’t Even Weaponize DOJ Competently
  17. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  18. The “Boo Boos” and Bovino Bullshit DHS Uses to Criminalize Scrutiny
  19. Speech
  20. Chuck Grassley Complains that DOJ Investigated Why TPUSA Sent 80 Busses to a Riot
  21. Todd Blanche’s Sex Predator PR Service
  22. Todd Blanche Exposes Trump’s Pardon Auto-Pen Scandal
  23. Tyler Robinson: Guns, Gaming, and Gay
  24. Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor Denies Victims of Far Right Shooting Equal Protection
  25. Lawsuit Alleges that Laura Loomer Illegally Got Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prosecutor Fired
  26. The White House Bid to Turn the Charlie Kirk Murder into Their Anti-Trans Jihad
  27. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  28. Investigate POTUS’ Health Cover-Up
  29. Gamer Culture and Guns
  30. Kash Patel Yapped His Mouth with a REAL Feeb
  31. “Guns Save Lives,” He Wrote
  32. “He was accompanied by a beautiful date”
  33. The Education of Ezra Klein
  34. Keeping the Courts Open in March Sustained Habeas Corpus
  35. Mike Johnson Snitch-Tags Donald Trump
  36. Existentialism and Ethics
  37. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  38. What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Four)
  39. Scott Bessent Fact Checks Donald Trump’s Lies about Tariffs
  40. Pete Hegseth Committed A(nother) Crime But We Can’t Throw Him in Prison
  41. A Tale of Two Governors: Confronting versus Dick-Wagging
  42. Kristi Noem’s Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
  43. In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits
  44. Trump’s Attempt to Repackage His Capitulation in Ukraine

August 2025

  1. RFK Jr. DNR’d the US Healthcare System
  2. It’s Time to Call Out the National Gourd
  3. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  4. Happy Flying This Weekend – Who Needs All Those Meteorologists?
  5. CDC Shooting 2.0 – It’s Coming from Inside the House
  6. Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe Predicate ANOTHER Investigation on Emails Stolen from Foreign Spies
  7. Blackmail and Brownstones: Todd Blanche Locked Ghislaine Maxwell into Her Obvious Lies
  8. Devlin Barrett and Mike Schmidt Mistake the Fox in the Henhouse for a Guard Puppy
  9. Amid Hunt for Crime in DC, Whistleblower Implicates Ed “Big Balls” Coristine and John Roberts
  10. Two Maryland Men and a Michigan Woman: A Topology Trump’s Witch Hunts
  11. The Economic Myths Supporting The Existence Of Billionaires
  12. John Bolton and the MIHOP Gambit
  13. Quantum Leaps: The So-Called Whistleblower That Got NSA’s Top Mathematician Fired
  14. Flying Spaghetti Monster = Trump’s Effort to Evade Epstein Files Scandal
  15. Judge Richard Berman: Victims Victims Victims
  16. Mike Rogers Doesn’t Exculpate Trump on “Collusion” Like Trump Once Thought
  17. When Right Wing Governors Put the Safety of “Big Balls” Over Their Own Constituents
  18. In Appointing a Babysitter, Todd Blanche Concedes Dan Bongino Can’t Match Andrew McCabe’s Competence
  19. Reporting on the High Stakes 31-Country Fight Over Flattering the World’s Most Volatile Narcissist
  20. Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia
  21. LaMonica McIver Prepares to Hoist Todd Blanche with His Own Petard
  22. Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result
  23. Introduction And Index To The Ethics Of Ambiguity By Simone de Beauvoir
  24. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  25. No Bill: As a Substitute for His Low-Energy Parade, Trump’s DC Occupation Is Thus Far a Foot-Long Short
  26. Donald Trump, Alone in the Room with His KGB Handler, Getting His Ass Served on a Picnic Platter
  27. Kash Patel Continues to Cover Up His Role in the HPSCI Investigations
  28. What Price Would Trump Demand to Sell Out Ukraine?
  29. Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law
  30. Kash Patel and John Solomon Declare Their Own Sources and Methods Illegal
  31. Don’t Be Distracted from Trump’s Filth
  32. In Rejecting Bid to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony, Judge Paul Engelmeyer Accuses Todd Blanche of “Diversion”
  33. “Strap Up, Cowboy:” Will Donald Trump Oust Cory Mills?
  34. John Durham’s Show Trials: A Preview of Coming Attractions
  35. How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies … and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More
  36. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  37. Hold My Beer No More
  38. The SVR Fabrication Necessitates Reconceiving the 2016 Russian Influence Operation
  39. The Russia Russia Russia Grievance Was Built Into Russian Attack from the Start
  40. Tick-Tock: Redirecting Attention from Epstein Coverup Conspiracy
  41. John Durham’s Guccifer Gaps
  42. How Chuck Grassley’s Politicized Redactions Gave Putin Leverage over Trump
  43. Planning for a Cover-Up in a House with Small Children and Other Stories of How Todd Blanche Is Helping a Sex Trafficker
  44. Old Man Transparency Chuck Grassley Confesses He Covered Up the ICA Annex for Five Years
  45. Russia’s Useful Idiom, John Ratcliffe: Lost in Two Translations
  46. The Growth of the Nazi Bar lndustry [UPDATE-2]
  47. By “Vilifying” SVR Victim Julianne Smith, Kash Patel Establishes Precedent to Share the Epstein Files
  48. Donald Trump’s Parallel Ghislaine Maxwell and Vladimir Putin Problems
  49. John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel — and Durham Himself — Committed the Crime John Durham Was Hunting
  50. MattyDickPics Taibbi Doesn’t Like When Charlie Savage Takes Away His Russian Spy Toys
  51. Days After the FBI Announced an Investigation, Russian Spies Deliberately “Put More Oil into the Fire”
  52. FBI Thwarted an Investigation into How Russians Injected Disinformation in the Steele Dossier
  53. In a Desperate Bid to Survive His Latest Fuck-Up, FBI Director Kash Patel Desperately Clings to Propaganda
  54. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  55. How John Durham and Chuck Grassley Covered Up Getting Ass-Handed by Russia

July 2025

  1. BREAKING: Right Wingers Believe Jim Comey Threw the 2016 Election to Trump and Jim Jordan Must Go to Jail
  2. The Real Squeeze Inside Trump’s Brazil Tariffs
  3. Constitutional Cope in the Time of Texas Hold’em
  4. Trump’s Emergency Emergency
  5. Trump Might Pardon the Sex Trafficker Who “Stole” His Spa Girls and Other Details of the Cover-Up
  6. Ten Years Ago I Warned Republicans Had Few Means of Limiting the Damage Trump Would Do
  7. With Emil Bove’s Confirmation, Trump Hones His Criminal Protection Racket
  8. A Dossier Steal: HPSCI Expertly Discloses Their Own Shoddy Cover-Up
  9. Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago?
  10. Trump to Rupert: If You Show Me Yours, I Won’t Show You Mine
  11. The EU Trade Deal: Playing for Time
  12. Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder Donald Trump’s Russia Russia Russia Claims
  13. If Dems Successfully Message on News Outlets Lefty Pundits No Longer Read, Did It Ever Happen?
  14. A Better Future
  15. Trump Keeps Demanding that You Stop Talking about His Jeffrey Epstein Problem
  16. Todd Blanche’s Unsealing Request in Florida Was Designed to Fail
  17. Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe Reveal Putin “Was Counting on” a Trump Win
  18. Open Thread: The Impossible Possible
  19. Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton
  20. DOJ Denied Jeffrey Epstein Blackmail … But Not Ghislaine Maxwell Blackmail
  21. Judge Richard Berman Had to Remind Todd Blanche to Think of Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims
  22. Republicans Will Reward Emil Bove for Sending Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp
  23. Trump’s Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client
  24. Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump “Space” to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem
  25. The Virgin Birth of the Epstein Book Story
  26. Why Is Todd Blanche Risking the Conviction of a Sex Trafficker Rather Than Use Fruits of Already-Completed Review?
  27. “May Every Day Be Another Wonderful Secret,” Donald Trump Once Wished
  28. The Secrets about Russia’s Influence Operation that Tulsi Gabbard Is Still Keeping from Us
  29. Was Bartering Venezuelans Always the Plan?
  30. Tulsi Gabbard Accuses Kash Patel of Covering Up for the Obama Deep State
  31. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  32. Pam Bondi Reportedly Created 1,000 Witnesses to the Jeffrey Epstein File
  33. NYT Falls for Trump’s Limited Hangout
  34. Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp
  35. Pam Bondi Fired the Avenger of Sex Trafficking Victims on Donald Trump’s Personal Authority
  36. Anatomy of a Self-Imagined Journalist Who Fancies That Trump Tells the Truth in His Tweets
  37. The Press Keeps Coddling Trump’s Tariff Lawlessness
  38. Old Man Chuck Grassley Got Snookered by Emil Bove’s Contemptuous Dodge
  39. John Roberts Subjects America’s School Children to the Whims of a Wrestling Promoter
  40. The Allies Of the Billionaires
  41. Breathing Room: What’s in Your Shopping Cart?
  42. Jeffrey Epstein Is about Trump’s Failing Ability to Command Attention
  43. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  44. Trump’s Deep State Can’t Even Deep State Competently
  45. Children Died to Own the Libs
  46. “Fuck You:” Todd Blanche Continues to Flopsweat over Emil Bove’s Contempt
  47. Trump’s Coffee for Coup Accountability Emergency
  48. Expecting Legislators to Lead the Resistance Is a Category Error
  49. “Are You Still Talking about Jeffrey Epstein?”
  50. Pam Bondi Admits She Must Fire Kash Patel and Dan Bongino
  51. How Trump Plans to Dodge Accountability Again
  52. Seeing Language as a Tool of Authoritarianism
  53. Three Things: Hope Within Us
  54. No Kings Day Reflections from an American-Irish in the Home of Her Ancestors
  55. The Anti-Democracy Project Of John Roberts
  56. POS BFB in da’ House: Be Water, My Friend
  57. The Sound of Teeth on Bone: Leopard Eating Leopards [UPDATE]

June 2025

  1. Making America Gross Again: Big Fugly Bill Hits the Senate Floor [UPDATE]
  2. “Egregious Behavior:” Alina Habba Confesses She Must Prosecute Donald Trump
  3. Fridays with Nicole Sandler, Going, Going, Gone Fishing Edition
  4. Open Thread: End of 2024-2025 Term, The Last Decisions
  5. How the Newslettification of News Reifies Trump’s Power Rather than Exposing His Lies
  6. The Republican Hundred Year War On Democracy
  7. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, End of Term Ahead
  8. Judge Stringer Bell: Emil Bove Confirms Erez Reuveni’s Allegation that He Tried to Avoid Paper Trails
  9. DOJ’s Past Lies Continue to Backfire
  10. What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Three)
  11. John Thune’s Flopsweat about Funding Stephen Miller’s Gulag
  12. Does Stephen Miller Know Pam Bondi Is Harboring Criminal Aliens?
  13. When Hegemons Backslide
  14. Without a Doubt, Worse than Nixon
  15. What WSJ Said about Stephen Miller at 9PM on a Friday
  16. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  17. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Friday Edition
  18. National Park Visitors Are Not Impressed With Trump’s Revisionism
  19. Gavin Newsom’s Troll Wars as a Check against “Usurpation or Wanton Tyranny”
  20. The Golden Teapot Dome: Mark Kelly Warns “This Is a Very Hard Physics Problem”
  21. Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions
  22. Remember when Brad Lander Caught Kristi Noem Stealing $80 Million?
  23. Why Kristi Noem’s Kidnapping of Brad Lander Failed … Thus Far
  24. Kristi Noem’s Goons Engage in what Emil Bove Calls Election Interference
  25. Trump’s Blank Page
  26. Trump Chose to Hunt Law-Abiding Migrants Rather than Right Wing Terrorists Like Vance Boelter.
  27. WSJ Memory Holes Trump’s Near-Assassination of His Vice President
  28. Sunday Night WTF: Tankers with a Tantrum
  29. “The Answer Is Zero:” When Fragile White Supremacists Discover … They Aren’t
  30. No Kings Rally After Action Report
  31. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  32. LaMonica McIver and Schrödinger’s Baraka
  33. Three Data Points from the Padilla Assault
  34. Ahead of No Kings Day, the King’s Nobles are Getting Nervous
  35. Snake Guys: Trump’s Invasion of California Risks a Literal Firestorm in California [Updated]
  36. Pam Bondi’s Four Political Prosecutions
  37. Banging on a Gate: Pam Bondi Found a Cyber Investigator Who Doesn’t Check Phone Logs!
  38. How Can Pete Hegseth Invade California without a Babysitter?
  39. No, Trump Voters Did Not Vote for This
  40. Stone Cold Liar: Trump Incited Riot after Threatening to Cancel Funding for CA
  41. The Big Ugly: Stephen Miller Uses His War on Home Depot to Invade California
  42. War And Peace And Trump
  43. The Kilmar Abrego Garcia Indictment
  44. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  45. Lefty Pundits Continue to Drown Out Democratic Actions with their Complaints about Democratic Inaction
  46. ProPublica Explains How DOGE’s AI Cut Support for Veterans Care
  47. The Tax Elon Solution and Other Actual Reporting Not Included in the Frenzy
  48. Trump Muskmageddon Open Thread
  49. Perhaps Stephen Miller (Also) Believes in the Efficacy of a Deportation Gulag as a Tool to Usher in Fascism
  50. Donald Trump Declares He Should Have Faced Trial
  51. Could Elon’s Disgusting Abomination Create Opportunities for Other Migrants?
  52. The Art of War, Ukraine Edition
  53. Trump’s Trade War with China Risks Sending Production To China
  54. Kristi Noem Combats Claimed Antisemitism by Trying to Deport 61 Israeli Students, and Other Tales of Harvard Derangement
  55. Alina Habba Back in Trouble for (Allegedly) Lying While Lawyering
  56. Hard Lines on Legal Capitulation
  57. But Who Gets Sammy Alito in the Divorce?

May 2025

  1. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  2. Karoline Leavitt Says American Businesses Should Have No Recourse When Trump Mood Swings Destroy Their Businesses
  3. Yarvin On Trump And His Henchmen
  4. One Explanation for Elon Musk’s Claimed DOGE Departure that Gossip-Mongers Missed
  5. As Trump Seeks New Ways to Defund Harvard, Elon Musk Continues to Blow Shit Up
  6. The Law, Conspiracism, and Gravity
  7. This Day Wasn’t for Fortunate Sons
  8. Flying Bribery Palaces and the End of the Western Order
  9. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  10. Digital Fascism is Still Just Fascism
  11. Yarvin Explains Why He’s Writing
  12. DOJ Reportedly Will Pay Ashli Babbitt’s Estate $5 Million; Claims to Have Charged LaMonica McIver
  13. Breathing Room: The Three Rs — Reduce, Repair, Recycle
  14. Yarvin on Democracy, Leftism, and Julius Evola
  15. Journalists’ Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump’s Squirrels, Biden Recording Edition
  16. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  17. Trump Confesses Migrants Aren’t the Criminals He Claimed They Are
  18. The Comings and Goings from Stephen Miller’s Gulag
  19. Trump’s Mob Understands “Skeezy” Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists
  20. Stephen Miller Invites John Roberts to be the Instrument of His Own Destruction
  21. NYT’s Storytime on Trump’s Houthi Capitulation
  22. Stocking up on Containers of Vapor
  23. Jamieson Greer Says Trump’s Trade Deficit Emergency Wasn’t as Serious an Emergency “as Maybe Thought”
  24. Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying
  25. Fridays with Nicole Sander
  26. Cardinal Cody, Cardinal Bernardin, and Pope Leo XIV
  27. Stephen Miller’s War on Cancer Cures
  28. Nit-picks: The White House’s Stealth April 8 Archive of “Parts” of the Houthi Signal Chat
  29. The Diminishable Returns of MAGAt Mobs
  30. The IC (with an Assist from Journalism) Liberates the IC’s Debunking of Trump’s Alien Enemies Act
  31. Introduction To Yarvin’s Formalism
  32. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  33. Today’s Difficult Budget Negotiations Will Be Far More Difficult as Shelves Go Bare
  34. Despite Pete Hegseth, Signal is Good
  35. Stephen Miller’s Snowballing Deportation Deceptions

April 2025

  1. How Trump Knuckles Journalists to Parrot His Doctrine
  2. Three Coequal Timelines of Government
  3. 100 Days, a Trillion Dollars: DOGE’s Costs Keep Adding Up
  4. Mr. Art of the Deal Struggles to Spin Three Failed Negotiations
  5. And then the Russian Apologists Left, Complaining about TDS
  6. Some Thoughts on the Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan
  7. Pam Bondi Reverses Media Protections to Cover Up Her Complicity in Unlawful Renditions
  8. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  9. The ActBlue Targeting Is a Perfect Opportunity to Flip Trump’s EOs on His Head
  10. Whiskey Pete’s Dirty Desktop
  11. 16 House Dems Ask Law Firms that Capitulated to Trump If They’ve Thought about Their Bribery Exposure
  12. Todd Blanche Fails Effort to Force SDNY AUSAs to Frame Themselves
  13. The Beginnings of Curtis Yarvin
  14. Tulsi Gabbard’s NIE Lies Make Dick Cheney Look Honest by Comparison
  15. Self-Reportation: Pete Hegseth’s Witch Hunt Ensnared Himself
  16. Trump Has No Policy Process, Just Wormtongue and Palace Intrigue
  17. Harvie Wilkinson Tries To Salvage Trump v. US
  18. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  19. Treating Opposition to Trump as a Partisan Issue Guarantees Defeat
  20. Trump’s Individual Claims about Immigrant Targets Are False–But So Is the Larger Premise
  21. Harvie Wilkinson on Due Process
  22. The Special Relationship is Now Pretty Ordinary
  23. Whiskey Pete Hegseth Finally Finds Some White Men to Purge
  24. Scott Bessent’s Imaginary Friends
  25. On Same Day WSJ Confirms Boris Ephsteyn Negotiating Trump’s Law Firm Settlements, Amicus Raises Bribery Concerns
  26. Why Did Donald Trump Free Someone He Purports To Be a Dangerous Terrorist?
  27. What Trump Wants From the Nayib Bukele Presser
  28. Things Go Boom When You Attempt to Retcon the Economy
  29. This Is Your Social Safety Net on DOGE
  30. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  31. Amid DOGE’s Failure to Find Fraud Committed by Entities Other than DOGE, DOGE Automates Deportation
  32. Trump’s Targeting of Susman Godfrey Targets a Law Firm that Stood with Perkins Coie
  33. When We Take The Streets
  34. Trump’s Latest Weaponization Is about Historic Loyalty Oaths as Much as Current Ones
  35. Somebody’s Off Their (Shower)Head [UPDATE]
  36. The Sound of Teeth on Bone: You Are Here
  37. Supreme Court Starts Cleaning Up Kristi Noem’s Sloppy Messes
  38. Introduction To Series On Curtis Yarvin
  39. Seizing Opportunity from Chaos
  40. Millions of Americans ‘Disappeared’ — Thanks to U.S. Media
  41. “Hands Off” Open Thread
  42. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  43. MAGAts Confess They Cannot Compete with Penguins on a Level Playing Glacier
  44. Stupid or Evil? It’s Definitely Not Liberation
  45. Judge Dale Ho Upends Emil Bove’s Weaponization
  46. Elon Musk Steps in It in Wisconsin
  47. The Four Kinds of Fuck-Ups Kristi Noem Committed on March 15

March 2025

  1. Trump’s Threats to the Constitution Are Happening in Real Time, Not (Just) in a Third Term
  2. Techbro Theories Of Everything
  3. Honesty, Humility, Integrity: Pete Hegseth Fails to Meet Standards He Claims Trans Service Members Lack
  4. Reaching Velocity to Escape Anti-Vax Stupidity
  5. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  6. Stephen Miller’s Presumed Babysitting of JD Vance’s European Animosity … and DOD’s Potential War Crimes
  7. Clean on OpSec: Pete Hegseth Spilled Specific Details of an Attack in Advance
  8. Patronage Is a Lucrative Way to Attack Rule of Law
  9. Kristi Noem Invokes State Secrets to Cover-Up Her Inability to ID Women as Women
  10. Seven Reasons Trump’s Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace
  11. Talking about Chuck Schumer Will No More Save Democracy than Chuck Schumer Will
  12. The Classified Information John Ratcliffe, Pete Hegseth, and Mike Waltz Sent to Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg
  13. Todd Blanche Kicks Off His Tenure Chasing Leaks Implicating His Own Conduct
  14. “The Very Importance of Facts Is Dismissed, or Ignored:” Todd Blanche Whines about Women Judges, Again
  15. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  16. Judge Hollander Tells DOGE to Stop Hitting Flies with Sledgehammers at Social Security
  17. Amy Gleason’s Four — I Mean Five — Executive Orders
  18. The List of Rules Marko Elez Didn’t Sign
  19. Sell Your Tesla Dump Your Stock
  20. The Significance of Amy Gleason’s Fabulous Disappearing Act
  21. DOJ Confesses They Hid Alleged DOGE Administrator Amy Gleason Under the Bed at HHS
  22. Judge Rules Appointments Clause Challenge against DOGE Likely to Succeed
  23. Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away
  24. CATO’s Missing DOGE Model: DOGE Is a Pro-Russian Intelligence Operation
  25. Trump’s Legal Blackballing Effort Selectively Protects Jones Day
  26. “Dead Man Walking:” Magic Numbers Nine and Four
  27. Three Countries Formerly Known as Allies Reconsidering F-35 Purchases
  28. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  29. Pete Hegseth’s DOD Says It Is Too Fragile to Make 16 New Badges
  30. Troy Edgar Implies We Should Deport Elon Musk
  31. Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026
  32. It’s Not the Shameless Executive Power Grab in Plain Sight, It’s the Attempt to Retcon It Afterwards
  33. Tom Cotton Does Nothing as OPM Hack Equivalent Happens in Plain Sight
  34. Stephen Miller Makes a Case to Defund or Deport Elon Musk
  35. Breathing Room: Giving and Giving Up
  36. Emil Bove Calls Resignation in Face of Unethical Order “Misconduct”
  37. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  38. Attention Deficit and Defiance Division of Labor: There’s Stuff Happening Where You’re Not Looking
  39. DOGE: Department of Gawdawful Errors
  40. NOAA: The Biggest Little Agency in America
  41. Trump’s Article I Management
  42. Sammy Alito Says Trump Doesn’t Have to Pay Lockheed’s Bills
  43. Conclusion To Series On Individuality
  44. Judge Dale Ho Had Emil Bove Authenticate His Letter to Danielle Sassoon
  45. The Erasure of January 6th Continues, US Mint Edition
  46. Pete Marocco Keeps Trying to Prevent Bill Cassidy from Learning the Truth about USAID
  47. Russia Russia Russia
  48. A Cautionary Tale Of The Limited Reach Of Legal Ethics
  49. Five Ways Trump Is Sabotaging the United States

February 2025

  1. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  2. Four Years and Five Weeks
  3. Russ Vought Got His Trauma — But Not the Villains He Imagined
  4. Elon Musk’s AI-bola and Marco Rubio’s Very Busy Month
  5. Two Weeks of Work: Hampton Dellinger
  6. How a (Thus Far Unsuccessful) Lawsuit Caused Elon Musk’s OPM Email to Faceplant
  7. No Kings! Around the Partisan Bend on DOGE [sic] and Ukraine
  8. IDENTIFIED: The Biggest Waste of US Tax Dollars So Far
  9. Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI
  10. Fridays with Nicole Sander
  11. Dale Ho Brings in the Conservative Cavalry
  12. What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Two)
  13. Judge Dale Ho’s Messy Dockets
  14. The DOGE Fraud Is Coming from Inside the House
  15. Chad Mizelle’s Appearance of Impropriety
  16. Trump Fired the People Who Could Dispute His False Claims about Ukraine Aid
  17. DOGE Is Xitter Files for Government
  18. Emil Bove Throwing Gold Bars Off the Titanic
  19. The Law Is Bigger Than The Bullies
  20. JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference: A Speech by Gaslight
  21. Ball of Thread, Ball of Kash
  22. Dale Ho Asks for Signed Consent from Eric Adams; Alex Spiro and Bill Burck Don’t Provide It
  23. Why Elon Musk Can’t Run DOGE [sic] Anymore
  24. John Barrasso Declares Programs Protecting Christian Minorities and Combatting Migration “Wrong”
  25. DOGE2025 Is Getting the Catastrophic De-Ba’athification They Demanded
  26. Emil Bove’s Missing Documents
  27. Aggressive Defense Of The Rule Of Law
  28. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  29. As the Thursday Night Massacre Turns into Friday Morning
  30. Did Pam Bondi Bury the Election Day Bomb Threats?
  31. What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part one)
  32. Emil Bove’s Prisoner Exchange
  33. Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
  34. Thomas Krause Says Trump Had to Close USAID because of Trump’s Poor COVID Management
  35. Marko Elez “Resigned” the Day His Write Access to Payment Systems Was Discovered
  36. “The Fraudsters Complain the Loudest and the Fastest:” Legacy Media Ignores Import of Gaza Condom Fact Check
  37. Donald Trump’s Incorrect Shell Game of Appropriated Spending
  38. Rule of Law: Don’t Obey in Advance, But Also Don’t Give Up in Advance
  39. Trump Stewing because of Lies Stephen Miller Fed Him During the Campaign
  40. It’s Still Not Clear Whether Elon’s DOGE Boys Are Reviewing, Taking, or Altering Government Networks
  41. Trump Appointee Carl Nichols Enjoins Trump from Stranding USAID Workers
  42. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  43. Two Days In, Pam Bondi’s DOJ Is Already an Ethical Swamp
  44. How to [Attempt to] Get Republicans to Object
  45. Amy Berman Jackson: “Michael Fanone’s heroism will never be moot”
  46. Republicans Continue to Cover Up Why Kash Patel Pled the Fifth
  47. Telling the Story of January 6 to the Judges Who Know It Best: The Two FBI Lawsuits
  48. Stephen Miller Claimed Elon Musk Was the One Elected in November
  49. Who Needs Intelligence Sharing?
  50. Trump Preparing to Fire FBI Agents Who Treated a Violent Attack on Congress as a Crime
  51. “Tariffs will put your jobs at risk:” The Make-Believe Justification for Trump’s Trade War
  52. Coping
  53. Fridays with Nicole Sandler

January 2025

  1. Some of the Ways Trump’s Immigrant Invader Damaged America in Just Two Weeks
  2. How Senate Judiciary Committee Dems Fucked Up the Kash Patel Nomination Hearing
  3. Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Turn Meta [Back] into a Pogrom Machine
  4. Neoliberal Individuals
  5. A Summary of Kash Patel’s Disqualifications to Lead FBI
  6. Judge AliKhan Didn’t Halt Trump’s Funding Freeze Alone, Democracy Forward Did Too
  7. Confirming Kash Patel Will Get Senators “Drug through the Streets”
  8. After Yesterday’s DOJ Purge, Pam Bondi Cannot Fulfill Promises Made at Her Confirmation Hearing
  9. Every DOJ Beat Journalist Fails to Mention a Dozen Judges Approved of 1512 Charge for January 6
  10. Stephen Miller Confesses that Trump Lied about Immigrants
  11. Kash Patel Thinks Assault Defendants Should Be Able to Grab for Guns When Probation Officers Arrive
  12. Trump’s Slop and Ouch First Week
  13. On Haggis and Donald Trump
  14. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  15. “Embarrassingly Wrong:” The Ongoing Misinformation Campaign about the Hunter Biden Hard Drive
  16. Mike Johnson Let a Terrorist Roam the Capitol Yesterday
  17. Herod Goes to the National Cathedral and is Disappointed
  18. The Stephen Miller EOs
  19. Trump Puts Drug Trafficker Who Allegedly Contracted Killings Back on the Street
  20. The Whole World is Watching, Trump Edition
  21. Aileen Cannon Locks Up the Jack Smith Report For at Least 30 More Days
  22. Trump Puts Violent Criminals Back on the Streets
  23. Pardons
  24. Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trump’s Hoarding of Classified Documents!
  25. Expressions Of Individuality In Democracy
  26. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  27. On the Misguided Tactical Conversations about Volume Two of the Jack Smith Report
  28. The Inadequate Declination Discussions in Both Special Counsel Reports
  29. If You Can’t Stand the Hypotheticals, Get Out of the Cabinet
  30. What Jack Smith Didn’t Say about the January 6 Investigation
  31. How Right Wingers Rushed to DEI Hire Pete Hegseth
  32. The January 6 Report Is Substantially the Immunity Brief Reporters Ignored in October
  33. The Jack Smith Report
  34. Aileen Cannon Interfering with Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin’s Constitutional Duty
  35. The FISA 702 Canard at the Core of Trump Debates
  36. Individuality Is A Big Deal
  37. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  38. Calvinball
  39. Will Aileen Cannon Succeed at Suppressing Hunter Biden Dick Pic Sniffing?
  40. Why and How to Hold John Roberts Accountable
  41. “False in Numerous Respects:” House Democrats Package Up Liz Cheney’s Evidence of “Despicable Malice”
  42. Barry Loudermilk Wasted $250K Making Security Footage available on Rumble
  43. Lefty Pundits Absolve Their Own Failures on Holding Trump Accountable for His Coup
  44. Yes, Trump Is Trying to Prevent the Release of Jack Smith’s Report
  45. On January 6
  46. Open Thread: Reading Is Fundamental As Is Journalism
  47. Gravity and Trump’s Conspiracy Cabinet
  48. On the Ambivalence of Speaker Mike’s Gavel
  49. Judge Merchan’s Half Baby
  50. Leo Wise Buries Bill Barr with Six Year Sentencing Recommendation
  51. Alexander Smirnov’s Vetting
  52. Artificial Frameworks about Elon: On Adrian Dittmann and Tommy Robinson
  53. Live this New Year with Considered Agency

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