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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.

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.

Stephen Miller, who never tires of confessing that his understanding of immigrants in the United States is entirely fictional nonsense, has nevertheless prioritized his fight against the fictional immigration menace over more basic threats to the United States. The results might make a good comedy if they weren't so deadly serious.

I have no doubt that Todd Blanche's actions will one day amount primarily to a cover-up — such as when he is eventually cornered about his actions to silence Ghislaine Maxwell. But thus far, the chaos of the Epstein file release reflects incompetence more than cover-up.

I didn’t expect to hear my dad swear about RFK Jr.’s gross mismanagement of HHS. Instead he said something worse.

Three current frameworks for discussing our national situation

Nicole and I discussed my assessment of our fight versus fascism at length -- and also talked about Rob Reiner.

When Seamus Hughes tried to figure out why Dan Richman's DC dockets have not been unsealed, he instead found an abortively unsealed docket from the same period pertaining to an EDVA National Security Letter.

While Trump's aides are "circling the motherfucking wagons" and complaining that Vanity Fair revealed Karoline Leavitt's ugly gender-affirming care, they're not dispute Susie Wiles' assessment that she and Trump have largely failed.

Coverage of the economic damage caused by Trump's trade war minimizes the degree to which that's just the affect of Trump using unlawful power when he doesn't understand what he's doing.