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  • Fridays with Nicole Sandler

    We spoke about how the Epstein scandal and RFK Jr's corruption might recruit defectors.

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  • What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Four)

    LLMs are Lead
    Part 4- Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder
    (Go to Part Three)
    This installment deals with self harm quite a lot. If you're not in a good place right now, please skip this. If you or someone you know is suicidal, the suicide hotline in America is the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline,  and international…

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  • Scott Bessent Fact Checks Donald Trump’s Lies about Tariffs

    In a declaration to SCOTUS, Scott Bessent confesses that what Trump has claimed were trade "deals" are really just "frameworks" that are not yet binding, and the investments and purchases cited in them are a fraction of the $15 trillion dollars in investment he has claimed they include.

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  • Pete Hegseth Committed A(nother) Crime But We Can’t Throw Him in Prison

    While Charles Breyer's opinion finding that DOD, on Pete Hegseth's personal orders, violated the Posse Comitatus Act in its invasion of Los Angeles, the opinion will have more lasting import for the ways it shows that the existing approach to Executive Power makes it impossible to enforce such laws.

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  • A Tale of Two Governors: Confronting versus Dick-Wagging

    Far too many late adherents to Gavin Newsom's trolling believe it works solely because he confronts Trump. How he's confronting Trump matters. Newsom is eschewing mere recital of facts and instead presenting them in a way that baits others to contend with them.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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September 5, 2025
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We spoke about how the Epstein scandal and RFK Jr's corruption might recruit defectors.
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a fake tornado over fake sunflowers
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What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Four)

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September 4, 2025
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Quinn Norton
LLMs are Lead Part 4- Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder (Go to Part Three) This installment deals with self harm quite a lot. If you're not in a good place right now, please skip this. If you or someone you know is suicidal, the suicide…
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Scott Bessent Fact Checks Donald Trump's Lies about Tariffs

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September 4, 2025
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In a declaration to SCOTUS, Scott Bessent confesses that what Trump has claimed were trade "deals" are really just "frameworks" that are not yet binding, and the investments and purchases cited in them are a fraction of the $15 trillion dollars in investment he has claimed they include.
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Pete Hegseth Committed A(nother) Crime But We Can't Throw Him in Prison

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September 3, 2025
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emptywheel
While Charles Breyer's opinion finding that DOD, on Pete Hegseth's personal orders, violated the Posse Comitatus Act in its invasion of Los Angeles, the opinion will have more lasting import for the ways it shows that the existing approach to Executive Power makes it impossible to enforce such laws.
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A Tale of Two Governors: Confronting versus Dick-Wagging

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September 2, 2025
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emptywheel
Far too many late adherents to Gavin Newsom's trolling believe it works solely because he confronts Trump. How he's confronting Trump matters. Newsom is eschewing mere recital of facts and instead presenting them in a way that baits others to contend with them.
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Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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September 2, 2025
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emptywheel
Kristi Noem has responded to a fourth request from Kilmar Abrego for an order gagging her unsubstantiated claims about him by creating a false censorship attack on CBS.
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In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits

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September 1, 2025
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A month ago, Scott Bessent was counting on delay at SCOTUS to get them to agree to uphold Trump's illegal tariffs. Now, Trump is declaring that "TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE," perhaps because Congress might soon realize the tariffs are killing the economy.
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Trump's Attempt to Repackage His Capitulation in Ukraine

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September 1, 2025
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emptywheel
As it becomes increasingly clear that Steve Witkoff will never negotiate peace in Ukraine, Trump's White House is preparing to blame Europe for Witkoff's incompetence.
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COVID-19, Domestic Policy, Health Policy, Trump 2.0

RFK Jr. DNR'd the US Healthcare System

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August 31, 2025
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Rayne
I'm recovering from a bout of COVID. Sick as I was, the bug bothered me much less than RFK Jr.s' attack on the CDC.
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Immigration, poetry and satire, Trump 2.0, Trump Administration

It's Time to Call Out the National Gourd

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August 31, 2025
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Peterr
Trump's stunt with the National Guard in DC has been opposed by lawsuits, but this isn't enough. It's time to call out the National Gourd.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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August 29, 2025
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We talked a lot about the invasion of DC.
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Infrastructure, Science, Trump 2.0, Trump Administration

Happy Flying This Weekend - Who Needs All Those Meteorologists?

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August 29, 2025
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Peterr
The GAO reports that the US regional air traffic control centers are dangerously short of meteorologists. What could possibly go wrong?
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Health Policy, Trump 2.0, Trump Administration

CDC Shooting 2.0 - It's Coming from Inside the House

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August 28, 2025
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Peterr
Forget the 2004 horror film set in AG John Ashcroft's ICU room. RFK Jr. is no Dick Cheney and Donald Trump is no George W Bush. In today's horror story at the CDC, as the movie lingo puts it, the shooting is coming from inside the house.
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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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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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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