
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.

Where We Go from Here
This page summarizes progress on using Trump's conspiracism and grievance against him.

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.

DHS Assaulting Protesters Because Goons Believe They Are "Vicious, Horrible People"
On the collapsing criminal case against SEIU CA President David Huerta.

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.

No One Could Have Anticipated, Venezuelan Edition
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 . . .

Fridays with Nicole Sandler
There were a few bits of good news between the unlawful invasions and killings.

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

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

The Bankrupt Premise of Trump's Venezuela Colony
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.

Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers
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.

Stephen Miller Has Similar Plans for Colombia and Columbia
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.

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

How the Deep State Taught Stephen Miller to Love Socialism
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!

Stephen Miller and Plans for Post-Decapitation
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.

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

Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America
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.

Fridays with Nicole Sandler
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.

Where We Go from Here
Here are ten things we can do in 2026 to hold Trump accountable.

How SCOTUS Got Us Here
SCOTUS is strictly a political actor. Congress must change that.

