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  • Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder Donald Trump’s Russia Russia Russia Claims

    Right wingers on the House Intelligence Committee used a 2018 indictment from Robert Mueller as part of their "proof" that authors of the Intelligence Community Assessment report finalized in January 2017 ignored evidence that Putin wanted Hillary to win. The entire HPSCI Report attempts to create a time machine to make Trump's Russia Russia Russia problem go away.

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  • If a Dems Successfully Message on News Outlets Lefty Pundits No Longer Read, Did It Ever Happen?

    A day after RTing an Axios ragebait post seeming to suggest that Hakeem Jeffries was opposed to messaging on Jeffrey Epstein but instead laying out the many ways Jeffries is encouraging it, David Atkins falsely claimed that Dem "leadership isnt backing [] up" laudable Democratic efforts to message on Jeffrey Epstein.

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  • A Better Future

    But the billionaires and their allies will burn money and the planet to control our future.

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  • Trump Keeps Demanding that You Stop Talking about His Jeffrey Epstein Problem

    It seems likely that Trump's defense attorney will pull of some kind of non-Trump Epstein distraction. What's not yet clear is how much backlash that will elicit. Or whether Trump will reclaim his ability to grab attention.

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  • Todd Blanche’s Unsealing Request in Florida Was Designed to Fail

    Judge Robin Rosenberg made sure to get DOJ to put in writing that it knew it could not ask her to unseal grand jury transcripts.

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Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder Donald Trump's Russia Russia Russia Claims

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July 27, 2025
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Right wingers on the House Intelligence Committee used a 2018 indictment from Robert Mueller as part of their "proof" that authors of the Intelligence Community Assessment report finalized in January 2017 ignored evidence that Putin wanted Hillary to win. The entire HPSCI Report attempts to create a time machine to make Trump's Russia Russia Russia problem go away.
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If a Dems Successfully Message on News Outlets Lefty Pundits No Longer Read, Did It Ever Happen?

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July 27, 2025
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A day after RTing an Axios ragebait post seeming to suggest that Hakeem Jeffries was opposed to messaging on Jeffrey Epstein but instead laying out the many ways Jeffries is encouraging it, David Atkins falsely claimed that Dem "leadership isnt backing [] up" laudable Democratic efforts to message on Jeffrey Epstein.
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A Better Future

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July 26, 2025
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But the billionaires and their allies will burn money and the planet to control our future.
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Trump Keeps Demanding that You Stop Talking about His Jeffrey Epstein Problem

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July 26, 2025
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It seems likely that Trump's defense attorney will pull of some kind of non-Trump Epstein distraction. What's not yet clear is how much backlash that will elicit. Or whether Trump will reclaim his ability to grab attention.
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Todd Blanche's Unsealing Request in Florida Was Designed to Fail

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July 25, 2025
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Judge Robin Rosenberg made sure to get DOJ to put in writing that it knew it could not ask her to unseal grand jury transcripts.
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Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe Reveal Putin "Was Counting on" a Trump Win

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July 25, 2025
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Thanks to Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe, we now know that according to a reliable but ambiguous intelligence fragment, CIA got intelligence that said Putin approved the DNC hack-and-leak campaign "because he was counting on" Trump's victory.
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Open Thread: The Impossible Possible

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July 24, 2025
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Rayne
Let's fight fascism together, and build a better future in the process.
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Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton

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July 24, 2025
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emptywheel
In the guise of complaining about politicized spies exercising undue due diligence yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard just parroted Russian reports written by Russian spies -- reports that either rely on intercepts of an American citizen or just make shit up -- as if they reflected the American intelligence community's beliefs.
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DOJ Denied Jeffrey Epstein Blackmail ... But Not Ghislaine Maxwell Blackmail

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July 23, 2025
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Back when DOJ tried to make the Jeffrey Epstein scandal go away, they claimed there was no credible evidence that Epstein had blackmailed anyone. They didn't address whether Ghislaine Maxwell had.
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Judge Richard Berman Had to Remind Todd Blanche to Think of Jeffrey Epstein's Victims

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July 23, 2025
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In his order telling Todd Blanche to actually meet Second Circuit guidelines for grand jury unsealing requests, Judge Richard Berman reminded Todd Blanche that DOJ is supposed to be concerned about Jeffrey Epstein's victims.
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Republicans Will Reward Emil Bove for Sending Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp

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July 23, 2025
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emptywheel
The Republican Party is preparing to reward Emil Bove with a lifetime seat on an appellate court because he sent hundreds of men to a concentration camp, many based on little more than their tattoos.
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Trump's Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client

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July 22, 2025
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Todd Blanche has now made clear how he intends to help Donald Trump out of his pedophile problem. Having fired the prosecutor competent to discuss cooperation with Ghislaine Maxwell, Blanche has announced he will conduct such a discussion himself.
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Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump "Space" to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem

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July 22, 2025
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emptywheel
Because Trump is running scared, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein has -- however temporarily -- deprived Trump of his majority in the House.
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The Virgin Birth of the Epstein Book Story

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July 21, 2025
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The WSJ story about Trump's letter to Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's lawsuit in response don't hint at where the story came from. Neither reveals whether early reporting on this story spooked Trump back on July 8, or whether whatever spooked him created the opportunity for this story.
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Why Is Todd Blanche Risking the Conviction of a Sex Trafficker Rather Than Use Fruits of Already-Completed Review?

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July 20, 2025
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Is Todd Blanche acting as Trump's Deputy Attorney General, when pushing to unseal grand jury records copies of which exist outside a protective order elsewhere at DOJ, or as his defense attorney?
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"May Every Day Be Another Wonderful Secret," Donald Trump Once Wished

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July 20, 2025
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emptywheel
To assemble an album of letters from Trump's "pals" for his 50th birthday, Ghislaine Maxwell would have sent letters about letters. And those may well remain in her custody.
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The Secrets about Russia's Influence Operation that Tulsi Gabbard Is Still Keeping from Us

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July 19, 2025
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At least as part of her information operation, Tulsi Gabbard released a newly declassified version of the 2017 Intelligence Assessment on the 2016 Russian attack.
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Was Bartering Venezuelans Always the Plan?

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July 19, 2025
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The 252 men that El Salvador just returned to Venezuela were used as barter in a three-country trade. Was that always the plan?
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Tulsi Gabbard Accuses Kash Patel of Covering Up for the Obama Deep State

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July 18, 2025
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emptywheel
Tulsi Gabbard has spun a wild tale of politicized intelligence that got Trump's rubes good and frothy but crumbles under the least scrutiny. But let's pretend they're true. If so, Pam Bondi must fire and criminally prosecute Kash Patel.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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July 18, 2025
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We talked about Jeffrey Epstein and Emil Bove, and a bit about Emil Bove's role in the Jeffrey Epstein interference.
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