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jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/murder-in-... For Oskar Schinder, a little girl in a red coat, for today's Americans, this notice of our complicity.

On a high point in my long life. If we're going to make America Great Again, we'll need him. Happy 100th. jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/happy-cent...

Swap out "Dirigo" for "Ubi Est Meum?" Copy post link jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/what-susan...

Midterm Summons to Armageddon jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/midterm-su...

Here's a poignant example of "Please play me!!" as a NYT career move. Me, I haven't forgotten Laquan McDonald: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...

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www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/11/m... Latarsha Sanders, same uncontested maternal homicides, equivalent mental health crisis, same judge, same prosecutor, same retrial decision pending goes completely without mention. Down below the radar in the mental health system and the criminal justice system.

John Sunnunu's NH ads damn expensive socialized medicine and praise free market doctor/ patient relations. Like these, I guess: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

Vicious + stupid. Suing desperate patients and seeking bench warrants, and voting for catastrophic Medicaid cut when doctors make more money when Medicaid functions. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

We will also need to reduce the bias toward capital income in the tax code. ...And capital gains on investments shouldn’t escape taxes simply because those investments are passed on to heirs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...? 5 votes for a stay on the shadow docket will be enough to give as a chaotic non-election in 2 months.

Democrats running for House and Senate focus on "the Republicans" when the real weapon against there opponent GOP incumbents in closely divided House and Senate is "If you could have found 3 others with some balls...."

An interesting NH Senate question might be whether we're ready to return the family that gave us Clarence Thomas to a central Washington role.

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Where progressives can make some progress on criminal system reform: Copy post link jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/public-saf...

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u... Todd Blanche just bought himself a job with millions of your tax dollars.

Further proof that "polarizing" is something only Democrats can do. Odd, when you consider that the concept requires two poles. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

The lede is buried in paragraph 14: "Mr. Blanche posted a second statement saying that only Mr. Trump, two of his sons and the Trump Organization would be immune from audit." Blanche moves to appease two senators ahead of a vote to advance his nomination. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

How about: "Mr. President, why do you need IRS immunity?" Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He May Drop Blanche Nomination, for Now www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

"Mr. Blanche, did you ask Mr. Trump why he needs immunity from IRS investigation?" "Not in your role as his lawyer?" "Not in your role as the government's lawyer?"

Jennifer Gonnerman, meticulous and humane, gives us a picture of the banal savagery of federal criminal practice. Who wanted this outcome? Nobody. Who colored between the lines and contributed to it? Everybody. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Watched, by coincidence, the "American Experience" episode on JFK, then, today's news. Pretty strong evidence that you've lived a long, long life. That's what a President is like? Oh, right.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/18/m... Or, maybe, six deaths in, we might think they do know what they are doing: performative homicides, tacitly ratified by failure to investigate, study as sentinel events, hold accountable.

No warned Jay Clayton that the Director of National Intelligence might be called on to tell the President something the President did not want to hear.

A Jay Clayton v. Joe Biden debate would make for a compelling hour of TV.

Watching the news, waiting to see whether Lindsay Graham receives an honorable New Jersey gold course gravesite.

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What we're seeing in Maine is the asymmetrical contest between GOP's "Get what we want" and Dems "Show who we should be." A very stark version of the fundamental issue.

— He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

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Samuel Alito is obviously a deeply horrible little man, but for some reason when I think of him it's the little that strikes me. Removing him would require a tweezer.

Re-upped from last year's birthday. Maybe I should have waited: jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/trimalchio...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Nominates Blanche for Attorney General www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06... Time for some learned commentary on the Crime/Fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege?

Stolen Representation by Michael P. Olson This book uses a tremendous amount of new historical data to illuminate how voting rights shape legislative representation. 📚 https://cup.org/3PNjr1B

Susan Collin’s or Ted Kennedy? You pick.

This SHOULD mean that the corrupt tax impunity deal is out too, but does it? Trump plans to drop the $1.8 billion fund that drew a political backlash. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

The introduction of the Trump $250 bill has been meticulously timed to meet the price of a tank of gas.

May I ask why we see headlines proclaim the possibility of a "final" determination of a "tentative deal"?

196 extra-judicial murders, and the drift toward normalization accelerates: Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The NYT refers to the $40 million as a "small" fortune.

The Annals of Inflation:$40 million "small fortune" F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05... There's plenty of money in Texas to fund a plausible Cornyn 3d party "Traditional Lone Star Conservative" candidacy. It's the only way those guys get back in the game,

To Get the Strait Open, Trump Had to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u... Wait until Paragraph 10 to learn that this is a return to Feb. status quo. (And without reference to 1,000's killed and billions spent.)

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Agree in Principle to Reopen Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Official Says www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05... I seem to have some memory of the Strait being open before we spent billions, killed hundreds of men, women, and children, etc. Might that be worth mentioning?

It should be an explicit announced goal of the Democrats to declare the Trump tax impunity deal null, void, and subject to immediate cancellation. Announce it, submit a resolution, get a vote. Keep doing it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Down there in the criminal trial courts bargaining for immunity for (for example) tax fraud is said to provide evidence of consciousness of guilt.

In Boston police shooting and LaGuardia tragedy, strikingly different approaches to the 'decisive moment' commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/in-b...

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Herein, an attempt to console friends desolated by Janet Mills' withdrawal. jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/dirigo-the...