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  • Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe Predicate ANOTHER Investigation on Emails Stolen from Foreign Spies

    In a piece trying to normalize Kash Patel's promised investigation of John Bolton, the NYT fails to mention that the investigation was reopened based on the same fact pattern that Patel and John Ratcliffe used to frame Hillary Clinton, emails obtained from foreign spies.

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  • Blackmail and Brownstones: Todd Blanche Locked Ghislaine Maxwell into Her Obvious Lies

    Shortly after Ghislaine Maxwell claimed that Jeffrey Epstein's brownstone wasn't wired to take video, a mysteriously sourced NYT story proved that is false.

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  • Devlin Barrett and Mike Schmidt Mistake the Fox in the Henhouse for a Guard Puppy

    If Kash Patel really believed he found evidence that someone tried to bury evidence, Jack Eckenrode should be among the top suspects. Instead, Kash has made Eckenrode the lead investigator.

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  • Amid Hunt for Crime in DC, Whistleblower Implicates Ed “Big Balls” Coristine and John Roberts

    John Roberts and his Republican colleagues have granted a kid with ties to criminal hackers, Ed "Big Balls" Coristine, live access to every American's Social Security data.

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  • Two Maryland Men and a Michigan Woman: A Topology Trump’s Witch Hunts

    Trump's attempt to criminalize his enemies is not new: after all, Trump's DOJ used fabricated evidence against both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. But there are a bunch of new ways he is attempting to do so.

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Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe Predicate ANOTHER Investigation on Emails Stolen from Foreign Spies

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August 28, 2025
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In a piece trying to normalize Kash Patel's promised investigation of John Bolton, the NYT fails to mention that the investigation was reopened based on the same fact pattern that Patel and John Ratcliffe used to frame Hillary Clinton, emails obtained from foreign spies.
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Blackmail and Brownstones: Todd Blanche Locked Ghislaine Maxwell into Her Obvious Lies

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August 28, 2025
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Shortly after Ghislaine Maxwell claimed that Jeffrey Epstein's brownstone wasn't wired to take video, a mysteriously sourced NYT story proved that is false.
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Devlin Barrett and Mike Schmidt Mistake the Fox in the Henhouse for a Guard Puppy

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August 27, 2025
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If Kash Patel really believed he found evidence that someone tried to bury evidence, Jack Eckenrode should be among the top suspects. Instead, Kash has made Eckenrode the lead investigator.
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Amid Hunt for Crime in DC, Whistleblower Implicates Ed "Big Balls" Coristine and John Roberts

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August 26, 2025
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John Roberts and his Republican colleagues have granted a kid with ties to criminal hackers, Ed "Big Balls" Coristine, live access to every American's Social Security data.
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Two Maryland Men and a Michigan Woman: A Topology Trump's Witch Hunts

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August 26, 2025
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Trump's attempt to criminalize his enemies is not new: after all, Trump's DOJ used fabricated evidence against both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. But there are a bunch of new ways he is attempting to do so.
Read more →
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Left Theory

The Economic Myths Supporting The Existence Of Billionaires

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August 23, 2025
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Ed Walker
Don't assume you know anything just because you took Econ 101.
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Foreign Policy, Trump 2.0

John Bolton and the MIHOP Gambit

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August 23, 2025
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Rayne
Let me throw a minority report opinion at you: John Bolton may have made the FBI investigation—including the raid on his home—happen on purpose.
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Quantum Leaps: The So-Called Whistleblower That Got NSA's Top Mathematician Fired

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August 21, 2025
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The claims submitted by the "whistleblower" behind Tulsi Gabbard's conspiracy theories about the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment are based off rumor, a misreading, and a big chip on his shoulder. But that didn't prevent them from leading to the firing of two key intelligence officials.
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Media, Trump 2.0

Flying Spaghetti Monster = Trump's Effort to Evade Epstein Files Scandal

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August 20, 2025
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Rayne
US media has been helping Trump by allowing itself to be sucked into the noodly vortex with outrage du jour instead of holding Trump accountable.
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Judge Richard Berman: Victims Victims Victims

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August 20, 2025
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Calling the grand jury materials a "hearsay snippet" of the vast materials DOJ has on Jeffrey Epstein and scolding DOJ for not giving victims proper warning, Judge Richard Berman denied DOJ's request to unseal the Epstein grand jury materials.
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Mike Rogers Doesn't Exculpate Trump on "Collusion" Like Trump Once Thought

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August 20, 2025
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emptywheel
On Monday, Jim Jordan celebrated the release of a 302 from former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers the redactions to which suggest Trump asked Rogers to lie about evidence of "collusion" with Russia. And on Tuesday, Tulsi purged the guy, Rick Ledgett, who testified he found Trump's request disturbing.
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When Right Wing Governors Put the Safety of "Big Balls" Over Their Own Constituents

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August 19, 2025
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The National Guard from Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi are being sent to DC to avenge Ed "Big Balls" Corisitine rather than fighting the bigger crime problem closer to their own homes.
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In Appointing a Babysitter, Todd Blanche Concedes Dan Bongino Can't Match Andrew McCabe's Competence

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August 19, 2025
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It's funny that Todd Blanche decided that Dan Bongino needs a babysitter at FBI. But the guy who'll serve as "co-Deputy," Andrew Bailey, has already proven his desire to infringe on Democrats' constitutional rights.
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Reporting on the High Stakes 31-Country Fight Over Flattering the World's Most Volatile Narcissist

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August 19, 2025
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Here's what NYT doesn't seem to understand, for its flood of flattering portrayals of Trump as the hero of all things. Other people, when they rush to play to the man's narcissism, do so with specific goals and a clear sense of how his narcissism makes him easy to manipulate.
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Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia

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August 18, 2025
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The hold Putin has over Trump is existential for Trump. And unless we can expose that, the US will increasingly become a mere satellite of Russia.
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LaMonica McIver Prepares to Hoist Todd Blanche with His Own Petard

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August 16, 2025
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With a set of filings moving to dismiss the charges against her, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver reveals that Todd Blanche personally was involved in the decision to politicize her attempt to do oversight at Delaney Hall in Newark.
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Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result

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August 16, 2025
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Trump doesn't want to talk about what demands Putin made of him in yesterday's meeting. He does want to cling to the lies about Russia getting him elected that he can only sustain if Russia is willing.
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Introduction And Index To The Ethics Of Ambiguity By Simone de Beauvoir

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August 15, 2025
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Ed Walker
How do we find our way forward in the chaos?
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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August 15, 2025
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We talked about the Trump dick-wagging of late that could backfire.
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No Bill: As a Substitute for His Low-Energy Parade, Trump's DC Occupation Is Thus Far a Foot-Long Short

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August 15, 2025
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Kim Jong Un might get away with the low-energy kind of invasion that Trump is staging in DC, completely with flying submarines. But Trump risks creating a shared community laughing at the absurdity of it all.
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