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  • Kristi Noem’s Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

    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

    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

    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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  • RFK Jr. DNR’d the US Healthcare System

    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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  • It’s Time to Call Out the National Gourd

    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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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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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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel

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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Quantum Leaps: The So-Called Whistleblower That Got NSA's Top Mathematician Fired

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August 21, 2025
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emptywheel
The claims submitted by the "whistleblower" behind Tulsi Gabbard's conspiracy theories about the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment are based off rumor, a misreading, and a big chip on his shoulder. But that didn't prevent them from leading to the firing of two key intelligence officials.
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Media, Trump 2.0

Flying Spaghetti Monster = Trump's Effort to Evade Epstein Files Scandal

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August 20, 2025
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Rayne
US media has been helping Trump by allowing itself to be sucked into the noodly vortex with outrage du jour instead of holding Trump accountable.
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Judge Richard Berman: Victims Victims Victims

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August 20, 2025
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emptywheel
Calling the grand jury materials a "hearsay snippet" of the vast materials DOJ has on Jeffrey Epstein and scolding DOJ for not giving victims proper warning, Judge Richard Berman denied DOJ's request to unseal the Epstein grand jury materials.
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Mike Rogers Doesn't Exculpate Trump on "Collusion" Like Trump Once Thought

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August 20, 2025
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emptywheel
On Monday, Jim Jordan celebrated the release of a 302 from former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers the redactions to which suggest Trump asked Rogers to lie about evidence of "collusion" with Russia. And on Tuesday, Tulsi purged the guy, Rick Ledgett, who testified he found Trump's request disturbing.
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When Right Wing Governors Put the Safety of "Big Balls" Over Their Own Constituents

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August 19, 2025
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emptywheel
The National Guard from Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi are being sent to DC to avenge Ed "Big Balls" Corisitine rather than fighting the bigger crime problem closer to their own homes.
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