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DOJ Reportedly Will Pay Ashli Babbitt’s Estate $5 Million; Claims to Have Charged LaMonica McIver
The same day that AP revealed DOJ will pay Ashli Babbitt's estate $5 million to settle a wrongful death suit, Alina Habba announced charges against a member of Congress.

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Breathing Room: The Three Rs — Reduce, Repair, Recycle
Are you seeing the effects of the Trump supply shock? What are you doing to reduce, repair, recycle?

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Yarvin on Democracy, Leftism, and Julius Evola
Plus a dash of Tolstoy

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Journalists’ Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump’s Squirrels, Biden Recording Edition
Most of the people commenting on what two excerpts of Joe Biden's interview with Robert Hur exhibit no understanding they're listening to cherry-picked excerpts.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We talked about Trump's attempts to arrest his opponents.

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DOJ Reportedly Will Pay Ashli Babbitt's Estate $5 Million; Claims to Have Charged LaMonica McIver

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May 19, 2025

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The same day that AP revealed DOJ will pay Ashli Babbitt's estate $5 million to settle a wrongful death suit, Alina Habba announced charges against a member of Congress.

Climate Change, Culture

Breathing Room: The Three Rs — Reduce, Repair, Recycle

105 Comments

May 18, 2025

Rayne

Are you seeing the effects of the Trump supply shock? What are you doing to reduce, repair, recycle?

Left Theory

Yarvin on Democracy, Leftism, and Julius Evola

44 Comments

May 17, 2025

Ed Walker

Plus a dash of Tolstoy

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Journalists' Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump's Squirrels, Biden Recording Edition

26 Comments

May 17, 2025

emptywheel

Most of the people commenting on what two excerpts of Joe Biden's interview with Robert Hur exhibit no understanding they're listening to cherry-picked excerpts.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

24 Comments

May 16, 2025

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We talked about Trump's attempts to arrest his opponents.

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Trump Confesses Migrants Aren't the Criminals He Claimed They Are

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May 16, 2025

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By demanding that the FBI take agents who are currently looking for criminals and instead assign them to look for migrants, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are confessing that migrants aren't the criminals that Trump's entire political career has been built on claiming they are.

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The Comings and Goings from Stephen Miller's Gulag

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May 15, 2025

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Hopefully, the discovery of that a version of the Magna Carta Harvard bought in 1946 thinking it was a copy is actually an original will be an auspicious sign as Stephen Miller threatens to tear up that right.

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Trump's Mob Understands "Skeezy" Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists

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May 14, 2025

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The response to Trump's acceptance of a flying palace from Qatar offers some lessons about how to give reporting on corruption salience for Trump supporters.

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Stephen Miller Invites John Roberts to be the Instrument of His Own Destruction

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May 13, 2025

emptywheel

Stephen Miller's colleagues at his NGO seem to be testing whether Miller could apply the same theory to takeover the courts he has used against independent agencies and, this weekend, even Congressional entities.

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NYT's Storytime on Trump's Houthi Capitulation

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May 13, 2025

emptywheel

NYT has a story describing the Houthi campaign as a clusterfuck. And yet, it clearly only tells part of the story.

Economics

Stocking up on Containers of Vapor

90 Comments

May 12, 2025

Rayne

Right-wing propaganda before and after Trump and Bessent's US-China trade negotiations announcement can't cover up the damage already done to the US economy, the worst of which has yet to arrive in the form of vapor at the ports.

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Jamieson Greer Says Trump's Trade Deficit Emergency Wasn't as Serious an Emergency "as Maybe Thought"

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May 12, 2025

emptywheel

Jamieson Greer, Trump's Trade Representative, has decided in the face of empty ports and stalled shipping that the trade deficit that Trump claimed was an emergency in order to usurp Congress' power really isn't as big an emergency "as maybe thought."

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Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying

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May 10, 2025

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Judges are doing a better job than journalists are at calling out Stephen Miller's lies as lies.

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Fridays with Nicole Sander

30 Comments

May 10, 2025

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We discussed the Pope.

Religion

Cardinal Cody, Cardinal Bernardin, and Pope Leo XIV

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May 9, 2025

Peterr

Pastors are often shaped by the church leaders of their youth. In Chicago, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo, had two very different models to choose between..

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Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures

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May 9, 2025

emptywheel

Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to take their health care away too).

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Nit-picks: The White House's Stealth April 8 Archive of "Parts" of the Houthi Signal Chat

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May 8, 2025

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In the latest filings in the Signal chat lawsuit, the government reveals that the White House Counsel attempted to make a "consolidated" version of the Signal chat destroyed by Trump's cabinet members, but still only managed to preserve "parts" of the chat.