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    The future is open only if we make it so.

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  • What’s Not Being Said about the Alleged Pipe Bomber

    The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. There's not a single data point between the time Trump announced the January 6 rally on December 19 and Cole's presence on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2021.

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  • SignalGate: “This Chat’s Kinda Dead”

    JD Vance's response to the silence that followed Jeffrey Goldberg's withdrawl from the Houthi Signal chat back in March was to ask where all the cool kids had gone.

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  • The Hacking Hole Where John Bolton Should Be

    The progression of Iranian efforts to hack and assassinate various Trump One officials looks different when you put all the timelines together.

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  • Asif Merchant Says EDNY Screwed Up Its Intercepts

    Contrary to what the FBI originally suggested in his arrest affidavit, the FBI was tracking Asif Merchant -- the Pakistani man accused of trying to hire a hit squad to target Donald Trump -- from the moment he arrived in the US in April 2024.

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emptywheel, Left Theory

Applying Existentialist Ethics

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December 4, 2025
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Ed Walker
The future is open only if we make it so.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

What's Not Being Said about the Alleged Pipe Bomber

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December 4, 2025
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emptywheel
The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. There's not a single data point between the time Trump announced the January 6 rally on December 19 and Cole's presence on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2021.
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2024 Presidential Election, War

SignalGate: "This Chat's Kinda Dead"

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December 4, 2025
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emptywheel
JD Vance's response to the silence that followed Jeffrey Goldberg's withdrawl from the Houthi Signal chat back in March was to ask where all the cool kids had gone.
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2024 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel

The Hacking Hole Where John Bolton Should Be

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December 4, 2025
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emptywheel
The progression of Iranian efforts to hack and assassinate various Trump One officials looks different when you put all the timelines together.
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2024 Presidential Election

Asif Merchant Says EDNY Screwed Up Its Intercepts

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December 3, 2025
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emptywheel
Contrary to what the FBI originally suggested in his arrest affidavit, the FBI was tracking Asif Merchant -- the Pakistani man accused of trying to hire a hit squad to target Donald Trump -- from the moment he arrived in the US in April 2024.
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Bush Administration, Obama Administration, PATRIOT

Pete Hegseth and the Radical Queer Wing of Al-Qaeda

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December 3, 2025
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Quinn Norton
Where Murder Dances With Law A while back, maybe a decade and change ago during the Obama administration, I was drinking with some nerdy friends in a San Francisco hackerspace. We got to talking about National Security law, hacktivism, and…
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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Jim Comey prosecution, Weaponized DOJ

The Kafka Story Inside Trump's Godfather Trilogy

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December 3, 2025
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emptywheel
Eleven days after Maurene Comey sued DOJ for wrongful termination, OLC decided that the Merit Systems Protection Board -- and not Article III Courts -- should decide whether Trump has the authority to override civil service protections.
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Drones, Drug War, emptywheel, War

Four Shots at an Unarmed Boat in Uncontested Waters

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December 3, 2025
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emptywheel
It took the most powerful military in the history of the world four strikes to destroy an unarmed boat in uncontested waters.
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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Jim Comey prosecution, Weaponized DOJ

Dan Richman Wants His Data Back

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December 2, 2025
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emptywheel
On top of the known legal problems with a DOJ attempt to reindict Jim Comey, Dan Richman has added a potentially fatal one: He has moved to get his data back, citing all the Fourth Amendment violations they made in using it for the Comey prosecution in the first place.
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2028 Presidential election, War, Weaponized DOJ

On Eve of Illegal Venezuelan Invasion, Pete Hegseth Utterly Destroys His Ability to Lead It

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December 2, 2025
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emptywheel
Pete Hegseth has squandered what shreds of credibility he had in recent weeks.
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Department of Justice

"The Truth Is for Chumps:" Prepare for the Hunger Games

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December 1, 2025
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emptywheel
In the next few weeks we should expect Kash Patel to exhibit a Hunger Games-like frenzy as he attempts to keep his job.
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2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Weaponized DOJ

Alina Habba: A Parking Garage Lawyer with $1 Million in Sanction Penalties

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December 1, 2025
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emptywheel
Sometimes a Parking Garage Lawyer is just a Parking Garage Lawyer. Sometimes a Parking Garage Lawyer is a Parking Garage Lawyer with $1 million in penalties for frivolous lawyering.
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Economics, Financial Fraud

David Sacks and the Entire American Tech Stack Win!

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December 1, 2025
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emptywheel
David Sacks and all his tech bro friends are in a tizzy at Elon Musk's bubble of trolls because the NYT said they're just serving each other.
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January 6 Insurrection, War

Murder

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November 29, 2025
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emptywheel
We don't know why Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly targeted two members of West Virginia's National Guard, just like we don't know the real reason Pete Hegseth keeps targeting boats for murder in the Caribbean. We do know that Hegseth more obviously failed the vetting to prevent such tragedies.
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Foreign Policy, January 6 Insurrection, Jim Comey prosecution

Fridays with Nicole Sandler, Thanksgiving Wednesday Edition!

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November 26, 2025
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emptywheel
Lots of RICO trials this week -- the dismissal of the Fani Willis indictment against Donald Trump and the dismissal of Trump's RICO lawsuit against Jim Comey and others.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

In Dismissing Georgia RICO Case, Peter Skandalakis Fabricates Jack Smith Conclusion

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November 26, 2025
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emptywheel
In his rationale dismissing the Georgia January 6 case, Peter Skandalakis misrepresents what Jack Smith said about the evidence against Donald Trump.
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2016 Presidential Election, Jim Comey prosecution, Weaponized DOJ

Did the Comey Dismissal Render Kash Patel's Grand Conspiracy "Just Someone Else's Fantasy"?

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November 26, 2025
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emptywheel
You can't figure out what might happen in the wake of the Jim Comey dismissal without factoring in the SDFL Grand Conspiracy conspiracy theory and how it was damaged by Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's antics.
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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

The Dim Philby Leaks

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November 26, 2025
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emptywheel
The release of transcripts showing that the Ukraine "piece" plan that Trump claimed to be his own was in fact simply the Russian plan could have the same effect the discovery of Mike Flynn's back channel in 2016 did.
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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Jim Comey prosecution, Letitia James Investigation, Weaponized DOJ

MAGAts Outraged Comey Indictment Dismissed on Same "Technicality" Trump's Was!

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November 25, 2025
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emptywheel
Right wing Trump supporters are outraged that Jim Comey's indictment was dismissed based on the very same "technicality" that Trump's stolen documents indictment was.
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Jim Comey prosecution, Letitia James Investigation, Weaponized DOJ

Buh Bye Lindsey!

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November 24, 2025
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emptywheel
Judge Cameron Currie has ruled that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed, dismissed both the Jim Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice, and put the EDVA judges in charge of picking the US Attorney who will serve in EDVA until such time as Trump can get someone confirmed.
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