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  • Hard Lines on Legal Capitulation

    How the value proposition in hiring a law firm that will stand up to a bully may help save civil society.

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  • But Who Gets Sammy Alito in the Divorce?

    In the long term, Trump's screed about Leonard Leo is probably an announcement that he seeks judges who are more reliable political hacks than the right wing judges Leo helped to install in his first term. But in the short term, I'm wondering who gets Sammy Alito in the divorce.

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  • Fridays with Nicole Sandler

    While we taped on Thursday, we hit most of the issues with the ruling against Trump's tariffs.

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  • Karoline Leavitt Says American Businesses Should Have No Recourse When Trump Mood Swings Destroy Their Businesses

    Karoline Leavitt says that America's small business owners should have absolutely no recourse if Trump's violent mood swings and his unlawful usurpation of Congressional authority to levy tariffs destroys their businesses.

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  • Yarvin On Trump And His Henchmen

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Hard Lines on Legal Capitulation

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June 2, 2025
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How the value proposition in hiring a law firm that will stand up to a bully may help save civil society.
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But Who Gets Sammy Alito in the Divorce?

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June 1, 2025
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In the long term, Trump's screed about Leonard Leo is probably an announcement that he seeks judges who are more reliable political hacks than the right wing judges Leo helped to install in his first term. But in the short term, I'm wondering who gets Sammy Alito in the divorce.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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May 30, 2025
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While we taped on Thursday, we hit most of the issues with the ruling against Trump's tariffs.
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Karoline Leavitt Says American Businesses Should Have No Recourse When Trump Mood Swings Destroy Their Businesses

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May 29, 2025
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Karoline Leavitt says that America's small business owners should have absolutely no recourse if Trump's violent mood swings and his unlawful usurpation of Congressional authority to levy tariffs destroys their businesses.
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Yarvin On Trump And His Henchmen

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May 29, 2025
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Ed Walker
I"m done with Yarvin.
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One Explanation for Elon Musk's Claimed DOGE Departure that Gossip-Mongers Missed

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May 29, 2025
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There's a better explanation for Elon Musk's claimed departure from DOGE than the Trump-Musk drama some outlets are portraying. This looks like another attempt to retcon what DOGE did in an effort to defeat a lawsuit.
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As Trump Seeks New Ways to Defund Harvard, Elon Musk Continues to Blow Shit Up

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May 28, 2025
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emptywheel
Every complaint Trump makes about Harvard applies better to Elon Musk.
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The Law, Conspiracism, and Gravity

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May 27, 2025
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For now, the people Trump installed at DOJ and DHS to weaponize the justice system are struggling to maintain their conspiracy theories in the face of judges who check their work.
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This Day Wasn't for Fortunate Sons

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May 26, 2025
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Rayne
Reject this administration's erasure — this day belongs to ALL of us as Americans.
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Flying Bribery Palaces and the End of the Western Order

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May 24, 2025
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emptywheel
Trump has had tremendous success pushing his authoritarianism domestically. But we're just beginning to see how he plans to dismantle the Western Order internationally.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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May 23, 2025
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We talked about the Supreme Court and Tesla takedown.
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Digital Fascism is Still Just Fascism

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May 22, 2025
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Quinn Norton
The Death of the Internet and Karim Khan's Inbox The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan is not having a good year, and neither is the ICC in general. It was never an easy job, going after people who commit Genocide…
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Yarvin Explains Why He's Writing

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May 22, 2025
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Ed Walker
At the root, it's because he makes the great refusal.
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DOJ Reportedly Will Pay Ashli Babbitt's Estate $5 Million; Claims to Have Charged LaMonica McIver

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May 19, 2025
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The same day that AP revealed DOJ will pay Ashli Babbitt's estate $5 million to settle a wrongful death suit, Alina Habba announced charges against a member of Congress.
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Climate Change, Culture

Breathing Room: The Three Rs — Reduce, Repair, Recycle

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May 18, 2025
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Rayne
Are you seeing the effects of the Trump supply shock? What are you doing to reduce, repair, recycle?
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Yarvin on Democracy, Leftism, and Julius Evola

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May 17, 2025
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Plus a dash of Tolstoy
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Journalists' Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump's Squirrels, Biden Recording Edition

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May 17, 2025
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emptywheel
Most of the people commenting on what two excerpts of Joe Biden's interview with Robert Hur exhibit no understanding they're listening to cherry-picked excerpts.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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May 16, 2025
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We talked about Trump's attempts to arrest his opponents.
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Trump Confesses Migrants Aren't the Criminals He Claimed They Are

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May 16, 2025
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emptywheel
By demanding that the FBI take agents who are currently looking for criminals and instead assign them to look for migrants, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are confessing that migrants aren't the criminals that Trump's entire political career has been built on claiming they are.
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The Comings and Goings from Stephen Miller's Gulag

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May 15, 2025
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Hopefully, the discovery of that a version of the Magna Carta Harvard bought in 1946 thinking it was a copy is actually an original will be an auspicious sign as Stephen Miller threatens to tear up that right.
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