Posts

To Ted Yoho, all we need to say is that your time for promoting hate in the US Congress is coming to an end at the end of this year. Your views will eventually lose out, and peace and justice will eventually come to our country. There are simply more people who are working for peace and justice than there are promoting hate. Even within our current Congress, which has many Republicans who endorse the bulk of the racist Republican agenda, you were outvoted by over 100-1 on the issue of lynching being a hate crime. The Senate and House versions of this legislation will soon be synchronized, and even if your racist President chooses to veto, there are enough votes to override this last-ditch effort to spread hate.

Julian Assange won a delayed, second hearing in his extradition case in December. That delay may provide the US government time to integrate charges related to Vault 7 that would be fairly damaging to Assange's case.

The new FISA bill has some good aspects to it. But measures that might be designed to help someone in the position of Carter Page probably wouldn't have helped Carter Page in 2016.

Russian efforts to interfere in the election are real. But they're nowhere near as important as Bloomberg's efforts to buy the election or Trump's own flood of disinformation.

Details regarding the forensic evidence in the Joshua Schulte case raise real questions about whether the Classified Information Procedures Act can work the same in hacking cases as it does for other criminal cases.

Contrary to what the frothy right is saying, Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Roger Stone quite leniently, given the Sentencing Guidelines. Contrary to what anonymous DOJ flunkies are saying, Amy Berman Jackson's sentence in no way vindicates Barr.

Bill Barr is not as good at cover ups as he used to be.

Among the really damning information that DOJ is withhold in the BuzzFeed CNN FOIA are Mike Flynn's 302s where he describes a discussion about reaching out to WikiLeaks in October 2016.

I was folding laundry with my partner one day when I looked up at him and said, "Do you think they'd be happy if I did kill myself?" He looked at me, and took a long breath, and said, "No." "You're right," I said, "I know it. Nothing makes them happy."

If Trump gets re-elected — gods help us all — a big part of the blame will sit firmly on the media for its entrenched misogyny, racism, and its failure to adapt a coverage model for contemporary politics.