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  • The Jerome Powell Clusterfuck Is a Clusterfuck of Pam Bondi’s Own Making

    The Public Integrity Division at DOJ, which Pam Bondi destroyed last May, was designed to prevent the kind of clusterfuck that Jeanine Pirro created with her investigation of Jerome Powell.

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  • Where We Go from Here

    This page summarizes progress on using Trump's conspiracism and grievance against him.

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  • On Same Day Robert McBride’s Firing Is Reported, Stan Woodward “Errs” His Grievances

    In an attempt to blame Dan Richman's lawyers for delaying resolution of Richman's request to get his data back, Stanley Woordward "erred" grievances of his own manufacture.

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  • DHS Assaulting Protesters Because Goons Believe They Are “Vicious, Horrible People”

    On the collapsing criminal case against SEIU CA President David Huerta.

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  • Stephen Miller’s Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists

    Donald Trump is taking services away from veterans, and then hiring them to invade blue cities as if they were Fallujah.

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emptywheel, Financial Fraud, Weaponized DOJ

The Jerome Powell Clusterfuck Is a Clusterfuck of Pam Bondi's Own Making

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January 13, 2026
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emptywheel
The Public Integrity Division at DOJ, which Pam Bondi destroyed last May, was designed to prevent the kind of clusterfuck that Jeanine Pirro created with her investigation of Jerome Powell.
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2024 Presidential Election, Economics, Financial Fraud, Weaponized DOJ

Where We Go from Here

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January 13, 2026
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emptywheel
This page summarizes progress on using Trump's conspiracism and grievance against him.
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2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection, Jim Comey prosecution, Leak Investigations, Weaponized DOJ

On Same Day Robert McBride's Firing Is Reported, Stan Woodward "Errs" His Grievances

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January 13, 2026
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emptywheel
In an attempt to blame Dan Richman's lawyers for delaying resolution of Richman's request to get his data back, Stanley Woordward "erred" grievances of his own manufacture.
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Democrats, Department of Justice, emptywheel, Immigration, Weaponized DOJ

DHS Assaulting Protesters Because Goons Believe They Are "Vicious, Horrible People"

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January 12, 2026
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emptywheel
On the collapsing criminal case against SEIU CA President David Huerta.
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DOGE, Immigration, Weaponized DOJ

Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists

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January 11, 2026
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emptywheel
Donald Trump is taking services away from veterans, and then hiring them to invade blue cities as if they were Fallujah.
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State Department, Venezuelan Coup

No One Could Have Anticipated, Venezuelan Edition

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January 10, 2026
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Peterr
Trump is ready to send US oil companies' employees into Venezuela after the US seized Nicolás Maduro. Somehow, it appears the colectivos are not ready to welcome them. Who could have anticipated . . .
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Immigration, Venezuelan Coup

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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January 9, 2026
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emptywheel
There were a few bits of good news between the unlawful invasions and killings.
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Immigration, Venezuelan Coup

Todd Blanche Takes Stephen Miller's Ham Sandwich to the Fifth Circuit

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January 9, 2026
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emptywheel
Remember how I predicted that DOJ would use the very thin allegation that Tren de Aragua head Hector Rusthenenford Guerrero Flores to renew their Alien Enemies Act ploy? It took just two days for them to do that.
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2024 Presidential Election, Press and Media

Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership

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January 9, 2026
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emptywheel
The NYT committed literal sanewashing in the latest of its series of stories bragging that four journalists got to watch Trump ramble for two hours: It described Trump's pathological need to possess things as instead a vision of leadership.
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Drug War, Energy Policy, Venezuelan Coup

The Bankrupt Premise of Trump's Venezuela Colony

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January 8, 2026
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emptywheel
Trump's efforts to make up Colonialism 2.0 on the fly have all the trappings of the kind of con jobs that have left him bankrupt over and over in his career.
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Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers

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January 7, 2026
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emptywheel
Given how consistently Greg Bovino is at the scene of unjustified violence against ICE observers, including today's shooting, and given Bovino's refusal to answer whether Stephen Miller has given him instructions about violence against protestors, it's time to ask whether Miller has ordered this violence.
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Drug War, emptywheel, Guns, Venezuelan Coup

Stephen Miller Has Similar Plans for Colombia and Columbia

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January 7, 2026
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emptywheel
It's only day four in Trump's takeover attempt of Venezuela. We have yet to see how any of multiple interested parties will respond. And most of them have guns.
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2020 Presidential Election, Financial Fraud, January 6 Insurrection

January 6 Was a Violent Insurrection; It Was Also a Fraud Against the GOP Faithful

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January 6, 2026
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emptywheel
Republicans spent much of Jack Smith's deposition asking him about subpoenas targeted toll records. They asked no question about subpoenas targeting Trump's fraudulent grift.
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2024 Presidential Election, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine, Venezuelan Coup

How the Deep State Taught Stephen Miller to Love Socialism

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January 6, 2026
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emptywheel
There's mounting evidence that John Ratcliffe has sustained Trump's trust sufficiently to successfully rebut Russian disinformation. So much so, the CIA even taught Stephen Miller to love socialism!
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2024 Presidential Election, Drug War, Immigration, Venezuelan Coup

Stephen Miller and Plans for Post-Decapitation

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January 5, 2026
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emptywheel
In the end, Stephen Miller is perfectly happy to get in bed with proud socialists, it turns out, so long as he can appropriate their authoritarian tools to his own ends. 
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Drug War, emptywheel, Terrorism, Venezuelan Coup

DOJ's Politically Illegitimate Basis for Political Illegitimacy in Nicolás Maduro Indictment

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January 4, 2026
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emptywheel
While the guts of the superseding indictment against Nicolás Maduro and his wife and son remains as sound as the one obtained in 2020, Trump's DOJ has added several things -- like Mexican cartels, a tenuous inclusion of Tren de Aragua, and a deliberately illegitimate assault any Maduro claim to immunity -- that raise real concerns about how Stephen Miller will use this indictment.
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Drug War, Terrorism, Venezuelan Coup

Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America

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January 3, 2026
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emptywheel
Given his pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, Trump's kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro cannot be regarded as a legitimate fight against drug trafficking. Rather, it's about getting a piece of the action.
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2024 Presidential Election, Domestic Policy, Economics, Epstein, January 6 Insurrection, Pipe bomb case

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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January 2, 2026
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emptywheel
The Epstein files provide the groundwork for the year ahead, but we need to focus the same energy on the oligarchs who are currently destroying the US.
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2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Epstein, Immigration, Weaponized DOJ

Where We Go from Here

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January 2, 2026
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emptywheel
Here are ten things we can do in 2026 to hold Trump accountable.
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How SCOTUS Got Us Here

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January 1, 2026
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Ed Walker
SCOTUS is strictly a political actor. Congress must change that.
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