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If an Informant Narcs on a Riot But No FBI Agent Asks about It, Did It Really Happen?

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emptywheel
In spite of the fact that the FBI got key warnings about Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio that never got shared with FBI's Washington Field Office, in spite of the fact that the FBI had 26 informants on site but only asked three for information, the FBI contested DOJ Inspector General's critique that it should have done more to work its informants in advance of the attack.
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The Lessons of Zero Accountability for a Kash Patel Bureau

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emptywheel
As we talk about what a politicized FBI run by Kash Patel will look like, it helps to review how the House GOP already helped to politicize the FBI's work.
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In Advance of the KashTastrophe, DOJ IG Raises the Stakes on Investigations of Congress

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emptywheel
The recommendations in a DOJ Inspector General Report on leak investigations might give Congress further protection to leak. But it also might give aspiring FBI Director Kash Patel an excuse to prioritize prosecutions of journalists, before his former Congressional colleagues.

When Life Gives You Lemons in the Trump Era, Missouri Edition

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Peterr
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Trump reelected? That's a lot of lemons. But let me show you some Missouri lemonade-making.
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Zero Accountability: The Five-Plus Times DOJ Got Fabricated Evidence against Hunter Biden

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emptywheel
There were five cases in which fabricated evidence about Hunter Biden was ingested by FBI. Most was not used by investigators, which the House GOP then used to politicize the case against him. But at least two did have an affect on his prosecution.
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The Myths of Bluebeard and Orangeskin

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Rayne
Humans have been telling a story in which the same familiar elements have occurred because humans universally find it relatable across history and now — the myth of Bluebeard.

Zeynep Tufekci's Two Blind Spots Cross at DOGE

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emptywheel
The glee surrounding Brian Thompson's death is not unprecedented -- Donald Trump campaigned on a similar mob glee, targeting Paul Pelosi, to get elected. And then he installed a bunch of billionaires to start looting. And politicians like Elizabeth Warren have already suggested some "broad public solutions" to that looting.
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You Can't Pardon America's Way Out of Trump's Assault on Rule of Law

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emptywheel
You can't pardon your way out of Trump's attack on rule of law. It's going to take much harder work than that.
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The White House Crypto Czar: Trump's Election Has Helped Bitcoin Far More than the Dollar

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emptywheel
Trump's support of the dollar arises from his honestly held but incompetently implemented belief in American Greatness. His reckless support for a bubble cryptocurrency arises from his greed. With Trump, his greed tends to win out.
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Kash Patel's Bullets

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emptywheel
What kind of aspiring J Edgar Hoover can't even alphabetize his enemies list properly?
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Devlin Barrett Makes Shit Up about Hunter Biden, Again

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emptywheel
Devlin Barrett attacked Joe Biden's claims about how political pressure affected Hunter Biden's case by inventing a straw man and then linking the reported article that debunked him.
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Judge Mark Scarsi's Umbrage: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

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emptywheel
Judge Mark Scarsi's complaint that Joe Biden rewrote history in his press release announcing Hunter's pardon if he had not done the same in his ruling that Hunter's prosecution was not vindictive.
Graphic of the Haymarket Riot from Harpers Weekly

Evolution And Individuals

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Ed Walker
Evolution isn't destiny, but it is part of us.
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How Jeff Bezos Smothered Pete Hegseth News because Hunter Biden Was Pardoned of Already Declined Charges

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emptywheel
The paper owned by defense contractor Jeff Bezos chose to publish seven mostly worthless posts on Hunter Biden's pardon and not one on allegations that aspiring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth couldn't even manage two medium non-profits without financially ruining them.

How Ireland's Sherlock Beat the Mobster with the Bad Hair

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emptywheel
In Ireland's General Election, Proportional Voting helped to avoid any of the far right successes other democracies are experiencing.
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America Just Failed the Test of Responding to Trump's Politicized Prosecutions

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emptywheel
Whatever else you think about the Hunter Biden case and the way Joe Biden pardoned him, it is crystal clear proof that the thing defenders of democracy swear they'll do in a second Trump term -- rise to the defense of those targeted for political prosecution -- they already failed to do.

Joe Biden Pardons Hunter

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emptywheel
In the face of Trump's threats of retaliation, Joe Biden has changed his mind about pardoning his son.

How Trump Rolled Out this Kash Patel Pick Is Part of Spinning False Claims about Rule of Law

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emptywheel
The means by which Trump is attempting to install one of his chief propagandists as FBI Director is as important as the pick itself.
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