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  • The United States Can’t Afford the Opportunity Cost of Stephen Miller’s Bigotry

    Americans can't have nice things -- the nice things they used to have -- because Republicans in Congress gave much of money spent on government employees who give you nice things and instead gave it to Stephen Miller to spend on snatching your neighbor.

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  • Trump Trips over Own Feet Hastening Parallel Retreats

    Trump is beating not just an Epstein retreat. He's doing the same thing on tariffs.

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  • The Rolling Corruption behind the Letitia James Prosecution

    Thus far the attempt to prosecute Letitia James has generated more evidence of Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's crime and corruption than of Attorney General James'.

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  • Loaner AUSA Gabriel Diaz: Why Do You Think There Are Two Indictments Signed by Lindsey Halligan?

    Lindsey Halligan is so desperate to claim there's no a second indictment that she's close to admitting there is not a first Jim Comey indictment either.

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  • Bill Barr Helped Lindsey Halligan Fuck Up the Comey Prosecution

    A lot of the slovenly handling and misconduct in the Jim Comey investigation started under Bill Barr.

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2026 Mid-Term Election, Immigration

The United States Can't Afford the Opportunity Cost of Stephen Miller's Bigotry

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November 18, 2025
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emptywheel
Americans can't have nice things -- the nice things they used to have -- because Republicans in Congress gave much of money spent on government employees who give you nice things and instead gave it to Stephen Miller to spend on snatching your neighbor.
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Economics, emptywheel, Epstein

Trump Trips over Own Feet Hastening Parallel Retreats

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November 18, 2025
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emptywheel
Trump is beating not just an Epstein retreat. He's doing the same thing on tariffs.
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An awkward picture of Eagle Ed Martin and Lindsey Halligan posing in his office.
Weaponized DOJ

The Rolling Corruption behind the Letitia James Prosecution

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November 18, 2025
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emptywheel
Thus far the attempt to prosecute Letitia James has generated more evidence of Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's crime and corruption than of Attorney General James'.
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2016 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

Loaner AUSA Gabriel Diaz: Why Do You Think There Are Two Indictments Signed by Lindsey Halligan?

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November 17, 2025
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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan is so desperate to claim there's no a second indictment that she's close to admitting there is not a first Jim Comey indictment either.
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2016 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations, Weaponized DOJ

Bill Barr Helped Lindsey Halligan Fuck Up the Comey Prosecution

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November 17, 2025
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emptywheel
A lot of the slovenly handling and misconduct in the Jim Comey investigation started under Bill Barr.
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2016 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

The 11 Fuck-Ups Pam Bondi's DOJ Made in Indicting Jim Comey

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November 17, 2025
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emptywheel
In an opinion granting access to grand jury materials, William Fitzpatrick lists 11 ways Pam Bondi's DOJ fucked up their efforts to indict Jim Comey.
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emptywheel, Immigration, Weaponized DOJ

Stephen Miller Prioritized This Guy's Shame Over Children Being Raped

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November 17, 2025
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emptywheel
In Stephen Miller's world, it's more important to prevent Border Patrol officers from being shamed for snatching workers at a Home Deport than it is to hunt down those who rape children.
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2016 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

Might Pam Bondi's Latest Prosecutorial Abuse Give Us Ponies and Puppies?

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November 16, 2025
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emptywheel
Pam Bondi's obeisance to Trump's demand she conduct a frivolous investigation into Democrats to make his own Epstein scandal go away may be a gift to Jim Comey.
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Surveillance, Weaponized DOJ

Pam Bondi Replaces Her Embarrassing Reading Comprehension Failure with a 4A Violation

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November 15, 2025
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emptywheel
On November 10, Jim Comey noted that when Pam Bondi read the transcript from the grand jury that indicted him, she may well have been exposed to unlawfully seized material. And then Bondi, who claims to be supervising Lindsey Halligan closely, did it again.
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2016 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's Story Gets Stupider

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November 14, 2025
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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan now claims that she got at least two indictments out of one grand jury presentment. And Pam Bondi thinks that's cool.
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Economics, Weaponized DOJ

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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November 14, 2025
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emptywheel
The Jeffrey Epstein releases are so damaging to Trump because it prevents him from controlling attention.
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Economics, emptywheel, Financial Fraud, Weaponized DOJ

Trailer Park Slum Lord: The Generational Corruption of Bill Pulte

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November 14, 2025
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emptywheel
Bill Pulte continues to be far better at framing Donald Trump's enemies -- and he's not very good at that -- than he is at sustaining the US housing industry.
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2016 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

Lindsey's Loaner AUSAs Can't Decide What the Clinton Investigation Is

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November 13, 2025
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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan's young Loaner AUSAs continue to struggle to distinguish Trump's wild deliriums about 2016 from actual reality, and it's leading them to make false claims about Jim Comey's alleged false statements.
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2016 Election, Weaponized DOJ

Lindsey Halligan's Seven Times 18-Minute Gap

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November 13, 2025
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emptywheel
After two weeks of struggle to come up with a grand jury transcript that two different judges could review, it turns out that for two hours, there isn't one.
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2026 Mid-Term Election, Congress, Democrats, Health Policy

House Dems’ Problem Children Who Ended the Shutdown

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November 13, 2025
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Rayne
Six Democrats crossed over and joined the House GOP to end the government shutdown, forfeiting their only leverage to negotiate recovery of healthcare subsididies. Five of them are running for re-election — primary them.
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Weaponized DOJ

Judge Jamel Semper Mostly Denies LaMonica McIver's Bid to Dismiss Prosecution

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November 13, 2025
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emptywheel
In a ruling rejecting most of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver's challenges to her prosecution, Judge Jamel Semper gave the government a great deal of deference, even after catching them making false claims about McIver.
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2012 Presidential Election, 2016 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

Trump Already Confessed He Knew about "the Girls"

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November 12, 2025
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emptywheel
In July, Trump confessed he knew that Jeffrey Epstein had "stolen" girls from Mar-a-Lago -- but he suggested he dealt with Epstein directly on that. A new email release makes clear he spoke to Ghislaine Maxwell about it.
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Economics, SCOTUS, Weaponized DOJ

Corruption Is All Fun and Games Until It Threatens to Tank the Economy

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November 12, 2025
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emptywheel
With a sustained focus on whether Bill Pulte fired the ethics staff at FHFA because they were investigating his corruption, Pulte may be getting fast-tracked in Trump world, from a useful corrupt flunky to a dangerous liability.
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Economics, SCOTUS

Three Ways You Can Tell Trump Is Lying about Tariff Rebates

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November 12, 2025
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emptywheel
Trump's promises he'll pay tariff rebates isn't real. Rather, it's part of a two-sided effort to pressure SCOTUS not to make him pay back taxes he unlawfully collected.
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2016 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

"Witch Hunt!" Jim Comey Channels Media Matters

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November 11, 2025
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emptywheel
In Jim Comey's latest filings, he provided Lindsey Halligan's Loaner AUSAs a lesson about the import of checking what was on Fox and Friends 8 years ago to know where Donald Trump's brain was.
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