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John Pierce attempted to acquire his 18th January 6 defendant today, while (according to his colleague) being non-responsive on a ventilator with what is presumed to be COVID-19.

RIP Charlie Watts, and thanks for everything going back to the infamous Ed Sullivan show.

DOJ appears to be assembling a case that those who appeared at some Stop the Steal rallies the night before the insurrection knew in advance of a plan to surround the Capitol.

A Reuters report that has people in a tizzy claims that DOJ is not charging January 6 defendants with seditious conspiracy. It doesn't mention that DOJ is treating a number of defendants as terrorists.

The TV lawyers arguing for or against prosecuting Donald Trump seem to have no idea how DOJ would charge Trump if they were considering it. This post lays out what would be consistent with the prosecutions DOJ has already charged.

The intelligence community did not fail to warn how fragile the Afghan government was. But it may have failed to understand how far up it had already sold out to the Taliban.

What if we had spent the last twenty years dealing with climate change rather than occupying Afghanistan?

When he testified before the January 6 committee about his assault, allegedly at the hands of two men charged in an omnibus assault indictment, Daniel Hodges called them terrorism. The indictment may well prove that their acts of violence against him and against our democracy were just that.

DOJ says that one thing that distinguishes January 6 from riots in Portland is how much more evidence there is. In fact, there were blind spots in the panopticon of the January 6 insurrection. But even defendants alleged to have committed assaults in one of those blind spots were still trackable by a slew of other evidence.