
Quantum Leaps: The So-Called Whistleblower That Got NSA's Top Mathematician Fired
The claims submitted by the "whistleblower" behind Tulsi Gabbard's conspiracy theories about the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment are based off rumor, a misreading, and a big chip on his shoulder. But that didn't prevent them from leading to the firing of two key intelligence officials.

Flying Spaghetti Monster = Trump's Effort to Evade Epstein Files Scandal
US media has been helping Trump by allowing itself to be sucked into the noodly vortex with outrage du jour instead of holding Trump accountable.

Judge Richard Berman: Victims Victims Victims
Calling the grand jury materials a "hearsay snippet" of the vast materials DOJ has on Jeffrey Epstein and scolding DOJ for not giving victims proper warning, Judge Richard Berman denied DOJ's request to unseal the Epstein grand jury materials.

Mike Rogers Doesn't Exculpate Trump on "Collusion" Like Trump Once Thought
On Monday, Jim Jordan celebrated the release of a 302 from former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers the redactions to which suggest Trump asked Rogers to lie about evidence of "collusion" with Russia. And on Tuesday, Tulsi purged the guy, Rick Ledgett, who testified he found Trump's request disturbing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result
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.

Introduction And Index To The Ethics Of Ambiguity By Simone de Beauvoir
How do we find our way forward in the chaos?

Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We talked about the Trump dick-wagging of late that could backfire.

No Bill: As a Substitute for His Low-Energy Parade, Trump's DC Occupation Is Thus Far a Foot-Long Short
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.

Donald Trump, Alone in the Room with His KGB Handler, Getting His Ass Served on a Picnic Platter
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.

Kash Patel Continues to Cover Up His Role in the HPSCI Investigations
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.

What Price Would Trump Demand to Sell Out Ukraine?
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.

Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law
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.

Kash Patel and John Solomon Declare Their Own Sources and Methods Illegal
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.

Don't Be Distracted from Trump's Filth
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."

In Rejecting Bid to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony, Judge Paul Engelmeyer Accuses Todd Blanche of "Diversion"
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.