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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told You So, Social Security Edition

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emptywheel
DOJ just confirmed that DOGE boys at the Social Security Administration were doing more than they told Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander about in March. But the new disclosures say nothing about the far more alarming things that Chuck Borges alleged to have happened in August.
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The Truth of Dead Exceptionalism

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emptywheel
The advice Mark Carney offered yesterday was that of a two-time central banker. But he framed that advice in the hegemon-defying frame of Václav Havel's Power of the Powerless.
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Trump Needs a Shrink and a Baby-Sitter, Not a National Security Adviser

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emptywheel
Donald Trump is invading sovereign foreign countries, without even the ability to consider the years-long aftermath, out of a psychological need. 
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What My Mom's Dementia Tells Me

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Rayne
My mom's getting the intervention and continuous care she needs. But this post isn't about my mother.
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Time to Unplug the American Century and Restart the Machine

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emptywheel
Trump has abdicated America's role as a hegemon. That creates an opportunity to disavow the rest of America's hegemonic failures this century.
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Voiding International Agreements Can Have Awkward Consequences

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Peterr
If you want to void one real estate deal, be careful, because other folks may decide to do the same with you on other deals you have made.
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When Even the German Far-Right Thinks You've Gone Too Far . . .

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Peterr
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is filled with neo-Nazis with whom Stephen Miller would feel right at home. Until today.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
The invasion of Minnesota has only gotten more bleak--but civil society is stepping up to the challenge.
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"Epstein Is Dead:" Pam Bondi Is Neglecting Live Sex Trafficking Prosecutions to Criminalize Democrats

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emptywheel
Between witch hunts targeting Trump's enemies, Stephen Miller's assault on immigration, and Pam Bondi's need to replicate the Jeffrey Epstein review she ordered last March, current sex trafficking prosecutions are being neglected, to say nothing of national security cases.
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DOJ Continues to Let DHS Pick and Choose Screen Shots Pertaining to Their Assaults

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emptywheel
Because DHS allows its goons to use personal cell phones during operations and doesn't properly archive the resulting communications, defendants are increasingly struggling to get relevant evidence in discovery.
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Chekhov's Back Door Gate Appears in the David Huerta Assault Saga

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emptywheel
In the affidavit he wrote to retroactively get an arrest warrant for David Huerta, Ryan Ribner emphasized that he only knew of one gate when he staged a confrontation in front of one. It turns out that claim, like so much else in the David Huerta prosecution, is unreliable.
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Bill Essayli Has an Identity Crisis

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emptywheel
In his attempt to rebut motions to dismiss a conspiracy to dox case, F.A. [Fucking Asshole] Bill Essayli tried to rewrite the statute to criminalize shaming someone for doing a shameful job.
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The Jerome Powell Clusterfuck Is a Clusterfuck of Pam Bondi's Own Making

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emptywheel
The Public Integrity Division at DOJ, which Pam Bondi destroyed last May, was designed to prevent the kind of clusterfuck that Jeanine Pirro created with her investigation of Jerome Powell.
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On Same Day Robert McBride's Firing Is Reported, Stan Woodward "Errs" His Grievances

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emptywheel
In an attempt to blame Dan Richman's lawyers for delaying resolution of Richman's request to get his data back, Stanley Woordward "erred" grievances of his own manufacture.
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Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists

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emptywheel
Donald Trump is taking services away from veterans, and then hiring them to invade blue cities as if they were Fallujah.
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No One Could Have Anticipated, Venezuelan Edition

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Peterr
Trump is ready to send US oil companies' employees into Venezuela after the US seized Nicolás Maduro. Somehow, it appears the colectivos are not ready to welcome them. Who could have anticipated . . .
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
There were a few bits of good news between the unlawful invasions and killings.
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