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The Law, Conspiracism, and Gravity
For now, the people Trump installed at DOJ and DHS to weaponize the justice system are struggling to maintain their conspiracy theories in the face of judges who check their work.

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This Day Wasn’t for Fortunate Sons
Reject this administration's erasure — this day belongs to ALL of us as Americans.

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Flying Bribery Palaces and the End of the Western Order
Trump has had tremendous success pushing his authoritarianism domestically. But we're just beginning to see how he plans to dismantle the Western Order internationally.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We talked about the Supreme Court and Tesla takedown.

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Digital Fascism is Still Just Fascism
The Death of the Internet and Karim Khan's Inbox

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan is not having a good year, and neither is the ICC in general. It was never an easy job, going after people who commit Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The ICC tries to prosecute crimes in opposition…

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The Law, Conspiracism, and Gravity

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May 27, 2025

emptywheel

For now, the people Trump installed at DOJ and DHS to weaponize the justice system are struggling to maintain their conspiracy theories in the face of judges who check their work.

Culture

This Day Wasn't for Fortunate Sons

39 Comments

May 26, 2025

Rayne

Reject this administration's erasure — this day belongs to ALL of us as Americans.

emptywheel

Flying Bribery Palaces and the End of the Western Order

90 Comments

May 24, 2025

emptywheel

Trump has had tremendous success pushing his authoritarianism domestically. But we're just beginning to see how he plans to dismantle the Western Order internationally.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

17 Comments

May 23, 2025

emptywheel

We talked about the Supreme Court and Tesla takedown.

Civil Rights, Cybersecurity, Internet infrastructure, We Are All Fucked

Digital Fascism is Still Just Fascism

28 Comments

May 22, 2025

Quinn Norton

The Death of the Internet and Karim Khan's Inbox The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan is not having a good year, and neither is the ICC in general. It was never an easy job, going after people who commit Genocide…

Left Theory

Yarvin Explains Why He's Writing

20 Comments

May 22, 2025

Ed Walker

At the root, it's because he makes the great refusal.

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DOJ Reportedly Will Pay Ashli Babbitt's Estate $5 Million; Claims to Have Charged LaMonica McIver

89 Comments

May 19, 2025

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The same day that AP revealed DOJ will pay Ashli Babbitt's estate $5 million to settle a wrongful death suit, Alina Habba announced charges against a member of Congress.

Climate Change, Culture

Breathing Room: The Three Rs — Reduce, Repair, Recycle

125 Comments

May 18, 2025

Rayne

Are you seeing the effects of the Trump supply shock? What are you doing to reduce, repair, recycle?

Left Theory

Yarvin on Democracy, Leftism, and Julius Evola

45 Comments

May 17, 2025

Ed Walker

Plus a dash of Tolstoy

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Journalists' Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump's Squirrels, Biden Recording Edition

27 Comments

May 17, 2025

emptywheel

Most of the people commenting on what two excerpts of Joe Biden's interview with Robert Hur exhibit no understanding they're listening to cherry-picked excerpts.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

24 Comments

May 16, 2025

emptywheel

We talked about Trump's attempts to arrest his opponents.

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Trump Confesses Migrants Aren't the Criminals He Claimed They Are

36 Comments

May 16, 2025

emptywheel

By demanding that the FBI take agents who are currently looking for criminals and instead assign them to look for migrants, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are confessing that migrants aren't the criminals that Trump's entire political career has been built on claiming they are.

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The Comings and Goings from Stephen Miller's Gulag

58 Comments

May 15, 2025

emptywheel

Hopefully, the discovery of that a version of the Magna Carta Harvard bought in 1946 thinking it was a copy is actually an original will be an auspicious sign as Stephen Miller threatens to tear up that right.

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Trump's Mob Understands "Skeezy" Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists

46 Comments

May 14, 2025

emptywheel

The response to Trump's acceptance of a flying palace from Qatar offers some lessons about how to give reporting on corruption salience for Trump supporters.

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Stephen Miller Invites John Roberts to be the Instrument of His Own Destruction

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May 13, 2025

emptywheel

Stephen Miller's colleagues at his NGO seem to be testing whether Miller could apply the same theory to takeover the courts he has used against independent agencies and, this weekend, even Congressional entities.

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NYT's Storytime on Trump's Houthi Capitulation

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May 13, 2025

emptywheel

NYT has a story describing the Houthi campaign as a clusterfuck. And yet, it clearly only tells part of the story.

Economics

Stocking up on Containers of Vapor

90 Comments

May 12, 2025

Rayne

Right-wing propaganda before and after Trump and Bessent's US-China trade negotiations announcement can't cover up the damage already done to the US economy, the worst of which has yet to arrive in the form of vapor at the ports.

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Jamieson Greer Says Trump's Trade Deficit Emergency Wasn't as Serious an Emergency "as Maybe Thought"

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May 12, 2025

emptywheel

Jamieson Greer, Trump's Trade Representative, has decided in the face of empty ports and stalled shipping that the trade deficit that Trump claimed was an emergency in order to usurp Congress' power really isn't as big an emergency "as maybe thought."