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  • “Do something, bitch!”* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia’s Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP

    DHS is increasingly using overt propaganda to justify its invasions of Democratic states. It's horrible in real time--and possibly designed to feed Trump false claims about the states--but it could backfire in spectacular way.

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  • The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting

    The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would be involved in a brutal assault in the neighborhood, possibly the same day.

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  • Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus

    Illinois' lawsuit against a Guard deployment argues that the deployment arises from long-standing animus, not recent events.

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  • The Crime Wave Is Coming from Inside the [White] House

    Stephen Miller is trying to redefine crime in an effort to criminalize the Democratic party. He's doing it even amid an unprecedented crime wave centered on the White House and as he orders up murders of Venezuelans on boats.

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  • $400,000: The “Free” Medical Care Kristi Noem’s Goons Made Taxpayers Pay

    After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000 of "free" healthcare for the damage done by Kristi Noem's goons.

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"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP

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October 7, 2025
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DHS is increasingly using overt propaganda to justify its invasions of Democratic states. It's horrible in real time--and possibly designed to feed Trump false claims about the states--but it could backfire in spectacular way.
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The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting

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October 7, 2025
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The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would be involved in a brutal assault in the neighborhood, possibly the same day.
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Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus

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October 6, 2025
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Illinois' lawsuit against a Guard deployment argues that the deployment arises from long-standing animus, not recent events.
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The Crime Wave Is Coming from Inside the [White] House

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October 6, 2025
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Stephen Miller is trying to redefine crime in an effort to criminalize the Democratic party. He's doing it even amid an unprecedented crime wave centered on the White House and as he orders up murders of Venezuelans on boats.
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$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay

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October 5, 2025
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After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000 of "free" healthcare for the damage done by Kristi Noem's goons.
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Jeanine Pirro's Recent Flood of Failures

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October 4, 2025
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Jeanine Pirro has failed in at least a fifth and close to a quarter of the cases she has charged in the last eight weeks.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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October 3, 2025
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Trump officials stepped on their dicks repeatedly today.
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Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown

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October 3, 2025
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Thus far, right winger efforts to politicize the shutdown have mostly resulted in them stepping on their own dicks.
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White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fishermen

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October 3, 2025
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Weeks after Stephen Miller ordered attacks on a series of Venezuelan fishing boats, the White House continues to struggle to explain why it wasn't murder.
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Lindsey Halligan Even Failed Failing

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October 2, 2025
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Lindsey Halligan relied on Jack Eckenrode -- the same former FBI guy involved in John Durham cases that relied on inadmissible evidence to get indictments -- to prep for the grand jury last week.
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Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats

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October 2, 2025
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Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and lunatics out there" to target the people he has dehumanized.
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The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government--ICE but No Healthcare--Visible

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October 1, 2025
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No one knows how this shutdown will go. It truly is unlike any shutdown that has gone before. But it will serve to make the reality of Trump's abuse of power visible in a way that has not fully happened yet. 
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May Solidarity and Speech Defeat Pardons and Tanks

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September 30, 2025
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In a sharp rebuke to Trump's assault on free speech, Judge William Young reflects that Alone, [we] have nothing but [our] sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution.
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"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka

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September 29, 2025
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Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.
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Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle?

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September 29, 2025
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I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seeds good, compelling journalism that bypasses media channels that oligarchs have already coopted.
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Will Jim Comey's Prosecution Prove Kash Patel Lied to Senate Judiciary Committee?

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September 28, 2025
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Kash Patel may struggle to come up with some explanation for why he revisited details from a long-closed leak investigation focused on Dan Richman other than what he disclaimed under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee: that he looked backward to find some excuse to investigate Jim Comey.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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September 26, 2025
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We talked about shutdown and the Jim Comey indictment.
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Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment?

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September 26, 2025
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According to the public record, Jim Comey didn't lie in an exchange with Ted Cruz on September 30, 2020. Ted Cruz did.
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Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions

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September 26, 2025
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Watching the mainstream press, you'd think it was the first time that an investigation ordered up by Donald Trump resulted in a flimsy false statements charge just before the statute of limitations expired.
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Russ Vought Threatens to Do What He Already Did

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September 25, 2025
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Thus far, Republicans seem intent on using the shutdown to demonstrate in more visible fashion the need for it. 
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