We're in La Plus Stupide Ligne de Temps

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Quinn Norton
Every Manny for Himself (Apologies for the delay, Macron ran out my work day, went into my Saturday, but damn it, this is still France) After a mean girl spat, in which the leader of the ever-more-trending-hard-right Le Republicans, Retailleau,…
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Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

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emptywheel
Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to prosecute Jim Comey, and how those efforts failed until the moment he unlawfully installed his own defense attorney as US Attorney at EDVA. 
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Trump's authoritarianism is drowning out coverage of the shutdown.
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The Nativists Are Getting Restless: How the Rhythm of the Comey Prosecution May Backfire

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emptywheel
The two prosecutors DOJ found to prosecute the case against Jim Comey have no understanding of the case, much less the wider ethically fraught context. At least on Wednesday, that made it easier for Pat Fitzgerald to appears as the one prosecuting a case.
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Next Up, Tish James

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emptywheel
Tish James was indicted on two counts by Trump's personal lawyer.
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More Madness of Macron: An Endless Crisis

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Quinn Norton
Another Season, Another French Prime Minister Blowing in the Wind. Back when we last visited the Dysfunctional 5th Republic of France, The young and fairly talented Gabriel Attal was the Prime Minister of the country as it went into Macron's…
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Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 9% [Updated]

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emptywheel
Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges against just two defendants have survived.
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How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

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emptywheel
By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.
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"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP

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emptywheel
DHS is increasingly using overt propaganda to justify its invasions of Democratic states. It's horrible in real time--and possibly designed to feed Trump false claims about the states--but it could backfire in spectacular way.
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The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting

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emptywheel
The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would be involved in a brutal assault in the neighborhood, possibly the same day.
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Governor Pritzker Argues Trump Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus

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emptywheel
Illinois' lawsuit against a Guard deployment argues that the deployment arises from long-standing animus, not recent events.
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The Crime Wave Is Coming from Inside the [White] House

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller is trying to redefine crime in an effort to criminalize the Democratic party. He's doing it even amid an unprecedented crime wave centered on the White House and as he orders up murders of Venezuelans on boats.
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$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay

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emptywheel
After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000 of "free" healthcare for the damage done by Kristi Noem's goons.
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Jeanine Pirro's Recent Flood of Failures

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emptywheel
Jeanine Pirro has failed in at least a fifth and close to a quarter of the cases she has charged in the last eight weeks.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Trump officials stepped on their dicks repeatedly today.
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Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown

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emptywheel
Thus far, right winger efforts to politicize the shutdown have mostly resulted in them stepping on their own dicks.
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White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fishermen

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emptywheel
Weeks after Stephen Miller ordered attacks on a series of Venezuelan fishing boats, the White House continues to struggle to explain why it wasn't murder.
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Lindsey Halligan Even Failed Failing

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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan relied on Jack Eckenrode -- the same former FBI guy involved in John Durham cases that relied on inadmissible evidence to get indictments -- to prep for the grand jury last week.
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Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and lunatics out there" to target the people he has dehumanized.
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