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  • When Right Wing Governors Put the Safety of “Big Balls” Over Their Own Constituents

    The National Guard from Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi are being sent to DC to avenge Ed "Big Balls" Corisitine rather than fighting the bigger crime problem closer to their own homes.

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  • In Appointing a Babysitter, Todd Blanche Concedes Dan Bongino Can’t Match Andrew McCabe’s Competence

    It's funny that Todd Blanche decided that Dan Bongino needs a babysitter at FBI. But the guy who'll serve as "co-Deputy," Andrew Bailey, has already proven his desire to infringe on Democrats' constitutional rights.

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  • Reporting on the High Stakes 31-Country Fight Over Flattering the World’s Most Volatile Narcissist

    Here's what NYT doesn't seem to understand, for its flood of flattering portrayals of Trump as the hero of all things. Other people, when they rush to play to the man's narcissism, do so with specific goals and a clear sense of how his narcissism makes him easy to manipulate.

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  • Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia

    The hold Putin has over Trump is existential for Trump. And unless we can expose that, the US will increasingly become a mere satellite of Russia.

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  • LaMonica McIver Prepares to Hoist Todd Blanche with His Own Petard

    With a set of filings moving to dismiss the charges against her, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver reveals that Todd Blanche personally was involved in the decision to politicize her attempt to do oversight at Delaney Hall in Newark.

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When Right Wing Governors Put the Safety of "Big Balls" Over Their Own Constituents

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August 19, 2025
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The National Guard from Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi are being sent to DC to avenge Ed "Big Balls" Corisitine rather than fighting the bigger crime problem closer to their own homes.
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In Appointing a Babysitter, Todd Blanche Concedes Dan Bongino Can't Match Andrew McCabe's Competence

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August 19, 2025
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It's funny that Todd Blanche decided that Dan Bongino needs a babysitter at FBI. But the guy who'll serve as "co-Deputy," Andrew Bailey, has already proven his desire to infringe on Democrats' constitutional rights.
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Reporting on the High Stakes 31-Country Fight Over Flattering the World's Most Volatile Narcissist

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August 19, 2025
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Here's what NYT doesn't seem to understand, for its flood of flattering portrayals of Trump as the hero of all things. Other people, when they rush to play to the man's narcissism, do so with specific goals and a clear sense of how his narcissism makes him easy to manipulate.
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Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia

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August 18, 2025
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The hold Putin has over Trump is existential for Trump. And unless we can expose that, the US will increasingly become a mere satellite of Russia.
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LaMonica McIver Prepares to Hoist Todd Blanche with His Own Petard

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August 16, 2025
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With a set of filings moving to dismiss the charges against her, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver reveals that Todd Blanche personally was involved in the decision to politicize her attempt to do oversight at Delaney Hall in Newark.
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Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result

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August 16, 2025
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Trump doesn't want to talk about what demands Putin made of him in yesterday's meeting. He does want to cling to the lies about Russia getting him elected that he can only sustain if Russia is willing.
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Introduction And Index To The Ethics Of Ambiguity By Simone de Beauvoir

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August 15, 2025
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How do we find our way forward in the chaos?
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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August 15, 2025
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We talked about the Trump dick-wagging of late that could backfire.
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No Bill: As a Substitute for His Low-Energy Parade, Trump's DC Occupation Is Thus Far a Foot-Long Short

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August 15, 2025
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Kim Jong Un might get away with the low-energy kind of invasion that Trump is staging in DC, completely with flying submarines. But Trump risks creating a shared community laughing at the absurdity of it all.
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Donald Trump, Alone in the Room with His KGB Handler, Getting His Ass Served on a Picnic Platter

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August 15, 2025
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In 2018 in Helsinki, when Vladimir Putin utterly humiliated Trump publicly, Trump still had competent Russian advisors to advise him. Today, after years of chasing a manufactured grievance against the Deep State, Trump walks into a solo meeting with his KGB handler having rid himself of any competent advisor.
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Kash Patel Continues to Cover Up His Role in the HPSCI Investigations

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August 14, 2025
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The latest document dumps Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel have released to distract from Trump's capitulation to Russia do the opposite of what they claim -- including exonerating Adam Schiff in the claimed leaks right wingers are squealing about. They do, however, show that Kash Patel's declassification of key documents ended the investigations in question.
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What Price Would Trump Demand to Sell Out Ukraine?

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August 13, 2025
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And all we're waiting to see on Trump's Friday meeting with Putin is what kind of deceit Trump adopts to pretend that his coming betrayal of not just Ukraine -- but the US itself -- is instead the peace deal Russia floated nine years ago.
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Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law

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August 13, 2025
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Scott Bessent confessed to Larry Kudlow how the Trump Administration is trying to sustain their illegal tariffs: by collecting enough revenue from them (and lying about how much they're really collecting) that SCOTUS won't dare uphold the law.
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Kash Patel and John Solomon Declare Their Own Sources and Methods Illegal

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August 12, 2025
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Kash Patel and John Solomon are engaged in a great deal of projection when they suggest that Adam Schiff -- and only Adam Schiff -- leaked material from HPSCI's Russian investigation.
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Don't Be Distracted from Trump's Filth

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August 12, 2025
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Donald Trump just moved the woman who "stole" his spa girls and turned one into a sex slave into comfier prison digs to prevent her from revealing the dirt she has on him, and yet he has the gall to suggest DC's brown residents are "filth."
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In Rejecting Bid to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony, Judge Paul Engelmeyer Accuses Todd Blanche of "Diversion"

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August 11, 2025
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In rejecting Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche's bid to unseal the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcript, he called out the degree to which this request was an attempt at diversion.
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"Strap Up, Cowboy:" Will Donald Trump Oust Cory Mills?

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August 11, 2025
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Today, Trump will claim to care about people who commit assaults in DC, like the hundreds of his supporters he pardoned after they assaulted cops. But Trump means teenagers from DC, not people like Cory Mills, who has been implicated this year in misconduct involving two girlfriends.
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John Durham's Show Trials: A Preview of Coming Attractions

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August 10, 2025
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One of the ways John Durham tried to salvage his case against Hillary Clinton after obtaining evidence he was chasing Russian spy fabrications was by championing the cause of Russians claiming to be aggrieved.
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How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More

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August 9, 2025
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There are a lot of pieces of evidence that Durham not only chased a Russian conspiracy theory to frame Hillary Clinton, but did so knowingly. Most telling is the way Durham obscured the timeline showing that the draft report he claimed to be chasing was created at least a day after a Russian discussion about creating a Deep State conspiracy theory.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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August 8, 2025
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We spoke a lot about the classified Durham annex.
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