The Lost Muppet

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?

This picture, which was treated as a serious example of threats to election infrastructure, seemingly came from a tweet posted by someone with the username “l33tLumberjack” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-doo...

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As others have noted, this engages in a lot of ad hominem and strawman attacks. It is particularly silly that Dan claims there's some kind of subliminal confession in a phrase I didn't even use in my essay. We'll have other responses in due course at The UnPopulist, but my personal reply is here:

InfoWars is now live.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

the truly enraging thing is that sam alito will never face this question from a member of the public. we have allowed these people to create a wall between themselves and the people they rule over.

The facts of this case are bad. County wrongly claimed family owed $2,000 in taxes, foreclosed on the home, and sold a house it assessed at $190K for just $76K and tried (unsuccessfully) to keep all $76K. Screwed a family out of tens of thousands to collect $2,000 that they didn't actually owe.

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

New: The CLARITY Act hits the Senate floor as WSJ reports Iran is still using Binance—Trump's business partner—to move money. At minimum, senators must bar the president, his family & sr. officials from issuing, promoting, or profiting from the digital assets me, for @publiccitizen.bsky.social

It should be said loud and clear that this isn’t just illegal in all the usual ways. It is “illegal and void” by Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. We’re going to take the money back. And any financial institution that touches it should be on notice that will be treated as conscious money laundering.

I can't leave it alone. Here's the 527-page opinion describing Alabama's congressional map: "[t]ry as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamian's voting strength." That's the map SCOTUS resurrected today with 0 explanation.

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

My New One at Slate: Justice Alito is a Coward (and Possibly a Liar) slate.com/news-and-pol...

The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

ghoulish

Bill Riley was a Vietnam vet who flew helicopters for EMT. Lefty conspiracy theorists believe he ran a child abuse cabal for Epstein. A couple weeks after I met him in GA, he died. The funeral home had to take down his obit to stop harassment of the family. Truly ghoulish. www.ms.now/news/sascha-...

Elizabeth Banks

LOL: Paul Clement to Kavanaugh: there’s no Purcell problem (changing rules too close to an election) with banning states from counting absentee votes received after Election Day for upcoming midterms! (Purcell means never too late to disenfranchise and help Rs; always too late to help democracy)

“‘I’m Glad He’s Dead’: Trump Spits on Robert Mueller’s Grave” The president celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into Trump and his associates over Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

The motions are “unopposed” because Trump now sits on both sides of the case—as the defendant and as the glowering visage who looks out from tall banners on the walls of a subjugated DOJ—and Judge Cannon did not allow any of the third parties who sought to intervene to argue for disclosure.

Republicans once promised a chicken in every pot, but now we've got RFK working towards an 8-ball on every toilet seat.

I’m on a trip with my family so I wasn’t going to do a newsletter but then I saw that visualization of very grim data that I thought deserved some comment. And then I added other stuff, too. www.howtoreadthisch.art/a-visualizat...

Great thread:

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

GALLEGO: Why is the agent who shot Renee Good holding a camera phone & weapon? LYONS: The US attorney was requiring to have video leading up to arrests, so officials have used phones for that GALLEGO: Maybe you shouldn't be trying to be an influencer and wielding a weapon at the same time

I called up one of the White House "special government employees" linked to the Fulton County ballot seizure. I ended up on the phone for nearly two hours. It got weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

Multiple election deniers are cited in this affidavit by name or can be identified: Kurt Olsen, Clay Parikh & Kevin Moncla. All of them have gone on a QAnon-affiliated show dedicated to election fraud claims. Parikh, who's gone on it repeatedly, even told the channel that it’s "how I get my news."

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

“Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,”a former staffer claimed of incidents they recalled going back to 2021. nymag.com/intelligence...