One Explanation for Elon Musk's Claimed DOGE Departure that Gossip-Mongers Missed

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emptywheel
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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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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emptywheel
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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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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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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emptywheel
We talked about the Supreme Court and Tesla takedown.
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Digital Fascism is Still Just Fascism

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

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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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Journalists' Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump's Squirrels, Biden Recording Edition

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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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emptywheel
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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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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emptywheel
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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Trump's Mob Understands "Skeezy" Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists

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emptywheel
The response to Trump's acceptance of a flying palace from Qatar offers some lessons about how to give reporting on corruption salience for Trump supporters.
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Stephen Miller Invites John Roberts to be the Instrument of His Own Destruction

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller's colleagues at his NGO seem to be testing whether Miller could apply the same theory to takeover the courts he has used against independent agencies and, this weekend, even Congressional entities.
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NYT's Storytime on Trump's Houthi Capitulation

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emptywheel
NYT has a story describing the Houthi campaign as a clusterfuck. And yet, it clearly only tells part of the story.
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Stocking up on Containers of Vapor

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Rayne
Right-wing propaganda before and after Trump and Bessent's US-China trade negotiations announcement can't cover up the damage already done to the US economy, the worst of which has yet to arrive in the form of vapor at the ports.
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Jamieson Greer Says Trump's Trade Deficit Emergency Wasn't as Serious an Emergency "as Maybe Thought"

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emptywheel
Jamieson Greer, Trump's Trade Representative, has decided in the face of empty ports and stalled shipping that the trade deficit that Trump claimed was an emergency in order to usurp Congress' power really isn't as big an emergency "as maybe thought."
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