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  • Fridays with Nicole Sandler

    There were a few bits of good news between the unlawful invasions and killings.

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  • Todd Blanche Takes Stephen Miller’s Ham Sandwich to the Fifth Circuit

    Remember how I predicted that DOJ would use the very thin allegation that Tren de Aragua head Hector Rusthenenford Guerrero Flores to renew their Alien Enemies Act ploy? It took just two days for them to do that.

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  • Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump’s Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership

    The NYT committed literal sanewashing in the latest of its series of stories bragging that four journalists got to watch Trump ramble for two hours: It described Trump's pathological need to possess things as instead a vision of leadership.

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  • The Bankrupt Premise of Trump’s Venezuela Colony

    Trump's efforts to make up Colonialism 2.0 on the fly have all the trappings of the kind of con jobs that have left him bankrupt over and over in his career.

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  • Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers

    Given how consistently Greg Bovino is at the scene of unjustified violence against ICE observers, including today's shooting, and given Bovino's refusal to answer whether Stephen Miller has given him instructions about violence against protestors, it's time to ask whether Miller has ordered this violence.

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Immigration, Venezuelan Coup

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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January 9, 2026
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emptywheel
There were a few bits of good news between the unlawful invasions and killings.
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Immigration, Venezuelan Coup

Todd Blanche Takes Stephen Miller's Ham Sandwich to the Fifth Circuit

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January 9, 2026
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emptywheel
Remember how I predicted that DOJ would use the very thin allegation that Tren de Aragua head Hector Rusthenenford Guerrero Flores to renew their Alien Enemies Act ploy? It took just two days for them to do that.
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2024 Presidential Election, Press and Media

Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership

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January 9, 2026
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emptywheel
The NYT committed literal sanewashing in the latest of its series of stories bragging that four journalists got to watch Trump ramble for two hours: It described Trump's pathological need to possess things as instead a vision of leadership.
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Drug War, Energy Policy, Venezuelan Coup

The Bankrupt Premise of Trump's Venezuela Colony

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January 8, 2026
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emptywheel
Trump's efforts to make up Colonialism 2.0 on the fly have all the trappings of the kind of con jobs that have left him bankrupt over and over in his career.
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Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers

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January 7, 2026
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emptywheel
Given how consistently Greg Bovino is at the scene of unjustified violence against ICE observers, including today's shooting, and given Bovino's refusal to answer whether Stephen Miller has given him instructions about violence against protestors, it's time to ask whether Miller has ordered this violence.
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Drug War, emptywheel, Guns, Venezuelan Coup

Stephen Miller Has Similar Plans for Colombia and Columbia

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January 7, 2026
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emptywheel
It's only day four in Trump's takeover attempt of Venezuela. We have yet to see how any of multiple interested parties will respond. And most of them have guns.
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2020 Presidential Election, Financial Fraud, January 6 Insurrection

January 6 Was a Violent Insurrection; It Was Also a Fraud Against the GOP Faithful

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January 6, 2026
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emptywheel
Republicans spent much of Jack Smith's deposition asking him about subpoenas targeted toll records. They asked no question about subpoenas targeting Trump's fraudulent grift.
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2024 Presidential Election, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine, Venezuelan Coup

How the Deep State Taught Stephen Miller to Love Socialism

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January 6, 2026
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emptywheel
There's mounting evidence that John Ratcliffe has sustained Trump's trust sufficiently to successfully rebut Russian disinformation. So much so, the CIA even taught Stephen Miller to love socialism!
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2024 Presidential Election, Drug War, Immigration, Venezuelan Coup

Stephen Miller and Plans for Post-Decapitation

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January 5, 2026
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emptywheel
In the end, Stephen Miller is perfectly happy to get in bed with proud socialists, it turns out, so long as he can appropriate their authoritarian tools to his own ends. 
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Drug War, emptywheel, Terrorism, Venezuelan Coup

DOJ's Politically Illegitimate Basis for Political Illegitimacy in Nicolás Maduro Indictment

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January 4, 2026
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emptywheel
While the guts of the superseding indictment against Nicolás Maduro and his wife and son remains as sound as the one obtained in 2020, Trump's DOJ has added several things -- like Mexican cartels, a tenuous inclusion of Tren de Aragua, and a deliberately illegitimate assault any Maduro claim to immunity -- that raise real concerns about how Stephen Miller will use this indictment.
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Drug War, Terrorism, Venezuelan Coup

Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America

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January 3, 2026
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emptywheel
Given his pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, Trump's kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro cannot be regarded as a legitimate fight against drug trafficking. Rather, it's about getting a piece of the action.
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2024 Presidential Election, Domestic Policy, Economics, Epstein, January 6 Insurrection, Pipe bomb case

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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January 2, 2026
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emptywheel
The Epstein files provide the groundwork for the year ahead, but we need to focus the same energy on the oligarchs who are currently destroying the US.
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2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Epstein, Immigration, Weaponized DOJ

Where We Go from Here

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January 2, 2026
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emptywheel
Here are ten things we can do in 2026 to hold Trump accountable.
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How SCOTUS Got Us Here

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January 1, 2026
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Ed Walker
SCOTUS is strictly a political actor. Congress must change that.
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emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Pipe bomb case

Jeanine Pirro Has a Black Powder Problem

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January 1, 2026
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emptywheel
Jeanine Pirro rushed out to party last night without first complying with an order to file her excuse for forgetting to indict the pipe bomber before the Federal grand jury went home for the holidays.
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2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

Jim Jordan Buries His Own Cowardice in a Cowardly Document Dump

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January 1, 2026
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emptywheel
Perhaps the funniest disclosure from the Jack Smith deposition that Jim Jordan tried to bury under New Years Eve festivities is that when Jordan called Trump as Trump's mob was attacking the Capitol, he was scared.
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Climate Change, DOGE, Education, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Policy, Racism, Science, Tariffs, Trump 2.0, Trump Administration

The Inaugural Donald J. Trump Awards

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December 31, 2025
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Peterr
It's been quite a year for Donald Trump, a narcissist the likes of which the world has never seen, except he's missing a few awards.
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2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

Adam Entous' Coy Kirill Dmitriev Flirtations

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December 31, 2025
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emptywheel
In a 15,000-word story about how the negotiations with Kirill Dmitriev that Steve Witkoff secretly started during the transition, Adam Entous never mentions that Kirill Dmitriev played a similar role in 2016.
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2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Economics, emptywheel, Epstein, Financial Fraud, Tariffs

Peeling Off MTG

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December 30, 2025
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emptywheel
There's a good deal of retconning Majorie Taylor Greene's split from Donald Trump inside a faith narrative. But it nevertheless maps what it took for one of the most ardent Trump supporters to break with her onetime liege.
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2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection

Brian Cole's Lawyers Admonish Jeanine Pirro for Yapping Her Mouth

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December 30, 2025
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emptywheel
In their bid to get Brian Cole pretrial release, his attorneys nod to the special conditions of January 6 without explaining the full significance of it.
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