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I found this a good read. Much needed. Perhaps giving Trump a little too much “3D chess” credit but I think it captures how Trump views the world and his power. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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I found this a good read. Much needed. Perhaps giving Trump a little too much “3D chess” credit but I think it captures how Trump views the world and his power. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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Get stuff done?? Damnit Kamala just drop out of 2028 now. The ONLY thing post midterms to “get done” is to stop and investigate Trump for 2 years.
Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…
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Nothing screams “The Aristocrats!” like having one frivolous DOJ prosecution interrupted by a DOJ lawyer informing the court that a grand jury declined to return an indictment in a wholly separate, even more frivolous prosecution.
WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Now we're on a break while the magistrate deals with grand jury returns. Neville Hedley for DOJ civil rights division shows up. Magistrate Faruqui: Do you have a return for us? DOJ: It's a non-concurrence, your honor. [AKA a no-bill 😂😅☠️]
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This DOJ is proving itself to be led by a bunch of political hacks - and thank goodness not all that competent ones (see eg the failed Information against Comey).
BREAKING WaPo: A federal grand jury just REJECTED an attempt by the Trump Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
I initially read this as @annabower.bsky.social Probably because up until recently I was reading nothing but here thread. And now…Chris (I hope someone gets that pun)
Anne Bellows is now up for California, discussing the Purcell principle and how it applies here.
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Anna's thread here ended up being 100 posts long. I cannot believe that we're *still* dealing with bullshit made up conspiracy theories about "Hunter Biden's Laptop" in the year 2026. Here's my 2022 post about how much people get wrong about it. www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/h...
COMING UP: Preliminary hearing before magistrate judge Faruqui in the criminal case of former FBI agents charged with false statements to Congress and obstruction. Things could get very interesting... I'm here in the media room for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along!
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The CA vote purge case just keeps getting weirder. Yesterday the DOJ filed supplemental declarations, including from a Shasta Co official named Clinton Curtis, who turns out to be a wackodoo who claimed he could tell fake ballots by smell. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Replying to @davidkurtz.bsky.social
... a Trump Truth Social post last night made things a whole lot worse. He reiterated that the golf course will be closed starting Nov. 15 "to renovate and rebuild," prompting Judge Reyes to put DOJ No. 3 Stan Woodward on notice and to order him to appear in person at the next hearing to explain.
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So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too
Republican congressional candidate Brent Taylor asks voters to forgive past sexual advances as "youthful indiscretions."
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The Department of Justice invented a new way to lose in court today.
DOJ asks for clarity, and MJ says that he will not rubber stamp second complaint as DOJ has suggested. He won't sign it unless he has time to review and make probable cause finding...So for now we're going to move forward with preliminary hearing on basis of first complaint.
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There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now
It is short and so I assume they are looking into things but it is... interesting... that the NYT piece on the new House Dems report on Trump ties to Epstein simply does not mention the brand new rape allegation and says whatever this is instead www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...
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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM
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The media won’t say it because Dems won’t say it. It wasn’t the media that nicknamed the ACA Obamacare. A judge had even said that called Donald a rapist isn’t defamation! Maybe Dems are worried about some of the issues men in their own party have…..
I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.
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BREAKING: Actor Walter Koenig, known as Ensign Chekov on the original "Star Trek" series, has died at 90.
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Walter Koenig, the “Star Trek” franchise’s original Chekov, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in North Hollywood. He was 90.
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I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.
Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
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Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...
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They allowed zero points off a turnover
This might be the best game the Rams defense has played so far. Not many splash plays, as to be somewhat expected without Myles Garrett and Trent McDuffie, but they're stuffing the run, putting the game on Kirk Cousins and winning all the money downs at the moment.