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The Bolton Indictment
The indictment against John Bolton charges him with sending, and then retaining, eight documents containing classified information.

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Revenge of the “Lib Tard:” Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal
After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.

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Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan’s Filter Follies
Lindsey Halligan's loaner prosecutors decided they'd ask for a filter protocol to access already seized material the day after Judge Nachmanoff ordered they provide all discovery to Jim Comey that same day. That may work out poorly for them.

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How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller’s Shoddy Propaganda … So Far
How the efforts of everyday Chicagoans managed to defeat Stephen Miller's propaganda ... so far.

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France’s Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In
Yesterday, French Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu gave the speech of his life. Tomorrow, he'll find out if it worked.
Update: It worked.
Sebastian Lecornu survived the No Confidence vote. Next come the hard part: governing France.
Something shifted in French politics, while Macron was off arm wrestling with Trump…

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The Bolton Indictment

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October 16, 2025

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The indictment against John Bolton charges him with sending, and then retaining, eight documents containing classified information.

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Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal

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October 16, 2025

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After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.

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Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan's Filter Follies

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October 16, 2025

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Lindsey Halligan's loaner prosecutors decided they'd ask for a filter protocol to access already seized material the day after Judge Nachmanoff ordered they provide all discovery to Jim Comey that same day. That may work out poorly for them.

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How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller's Shoddy Propaganda ... So Far

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October 16, 2025

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How the efforts of everyday Chicagoans managed to defeat Stephen Miller's propaganda ... so far.

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France's Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In

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October 15, 2025

Quinn Norton

Yesterday, French Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu gave the speech of his life. Tomorrow, he'll find out if it worked. Update: It worked. Sebastian Lecornu survived the No Confidence vote. Next come the hard part: governing France. Something…

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The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor

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October 15, 2025

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It's bad enough that the State Department using free speech about Charlie Kirk to exclude purported visa holders. It's still worse that two of six claimed accounts don't do what State accuses. But the dragnet they must have used to get this far is pure fascism.

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Mayor Ras Baraka Reaffirms Malicious Prosecution Claim

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October 14, 2025

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is not backing down from his claim he was falsely arrested by Ricky Patel.

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"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

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October 12, 2025

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Lindsey the Insurance lawyer and her two loaner AUSAs didn't do so well on their first filing.

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We're in La Plus Stupide Ligne de Temps

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October 11, 2025

Quinn Norton

Every Manny for Himself (Apologies for the delay, Macron ran out my work day, went into my Saturday, but damn it, this is still France) After a mean girl spat, in which the leader of the ever-more-trending-hard-right Le Republicans, Retailleau,…

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Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

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October 11, 2025

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Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to prosecute Jim Comey, and how those efforts failed until the moment he unlawfully installed his own defense attorney as US Attorney at EDVA.

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More Responses to Existentialist Ambiguity

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October 10, 2025

Ed Walker

Even if there is no external meaning to the universe, we still have to go to work tomorrow.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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October 10, 2025

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Trump's authoritarianism is drowning out coverage of the shutdown.

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The Nativists Are Getting Restless: How the Rhythm of the Comey Prosecution May Backfire

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October 10, 2025

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The two prosecutors DOJ found to prosecute the case against Jim Comey have no understanding of the case, much less the wider ethically fraught context. At least on Wednesday, that made it easier for Pat Fitzgerald to appears as the one prosecuting a case.

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Next Up, Tish James

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October 9, 2025

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Tish James was indicted on two counts by Trump's personal lawyer.

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More Madness of Macron: An Endless Crisis

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October 9, 2025

Quinn Norton

Another Season, Another French Prime Minister Blowing in the Wind. Back when we last visited the Dysfunctional 5th Republic of France, The young and fairly talented Gabriel Attal was the Prime Minister of the country as it went into Macron's…

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Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 9% [Updated]

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October 8, 2025

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Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges against just two defendants have survived.

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How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

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October 8, 2025

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By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

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"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP

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October 7, 2025

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DHS is increasingly using overt propaganda to justify its invasions of Democratic states. It's horrible in real time--and possibly designed to feed Trump false claims about the states--but it could backfire in spectacular way.

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The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting

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October 7, 2025

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The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would be involved in a brutal assault in the neighborhood, possibly the same day.

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Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus

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October 6, 2025

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Illinois' lawsuit against a Guard deployment argues that the deployment arises from long-standing animus, not recent events.

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The Bolton Indictment

Revenge of the “Lib Tard:” Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal

Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan’s Filter Follies

How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller’s Shoddy Propaganda … So Far

France’s Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In

The Bolton Indictment

Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal

Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan's Filter Follies

How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller's Shoddy Propaganda ... So Far

France's Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In

The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor

Mayor Ras Baraka Reaffirms Malicious Prosecution Claim

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

We're in La Plus Stupide Ligne de Temps

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

More Responses to Existentialist Ambiguity

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

The Nativists Are Getting Restless: How the Rhythm of the Comey Prosecution May Backfire

Next Up, Tish James

More Madness of Macron: An Endless Crisis

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 9% [Updated]

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting

Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus

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