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John Yoo’s Old Trash and the South Shore Apartment Invasion
Imagine if Stephen Miller started applying atrocious John Yoo opinions from 2001 to his fabricated war with Tren de Aragua? It would look pretty similar to what we saw in the raid of a South Shore building in Chicago.

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Donald Trump Owns Christopher Moynihan’s Alleged Death Threat against Hakeem Jeffries
One of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned was arrested Sunday for making terroristic threats against Hakeem Jeffries.

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Taint
Judge Michael Nachmanoff's order denying the loaner prosecutors in the Jim Comey case a quick filter review discloses that the main FBI investigators may have already sneaked a peak into Comey's privileged communications.

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Lindsey Halligan’s Grand Jury Violation, with Love to Aileen Cannon
According to the legal opinion Aileen Cannon adopted to give Trump Defense Attorney Lindsey Halligan her first big legal win, Lindsey Halligan cannot legally appear before a grand jury.

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60 Pages of Animus: Jim Comey’s Motions to Dismiss His Prosecution
Jim Comey's motions to dismiss his indictment reveal almost nothing about the discovery he has received so far.

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John Yoo's Old Trash and the South Shore Apartment Invasion

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October 21, 2025

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Imagine if Stephen Miller started applying atrocious John Yoo opinions from 2001 to his fabricated war with Tren de Aragua? It would look pretty similar to what we saw in the raid of a South Shore building in Chicago.

Donald Trump Owns Christopher Moynihan's Alleged Death Threat against Hakeem Jeffries

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October 21, 2025

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One of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned was arrested Sunday for making terroristic threats against Hakeem Jeffries.

Weaponized DOJ

Taint

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October 20, 2025

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Judge Michael Nachmanoff's order denying the loaner prosecutors in the Jim Comey case a quick filter review discloses that the main FBI investigators may have already sneaked a peak into Comey's privileged communications.

Weaponized DOJ

Lindsey Halligan's Grand Jury Violation, with Love to Aileen Cannon

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October 20, 2025

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According to the legal opinion Aileen Cannon adopted to give Trump Defense Attorney Lindsey Halligan her first big legal win, Lindsey Halligan cannot legally appear before a grand jury.

Weaponized DOJ

60 Pages of Animus: Jim Comey's Motions to Dismiss His Prosecution

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October 20, 2025

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Jim Comey's motions to dismiss his indictment reveal almost nothing about the discovery he has received so far.

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Lindsey Halligan Lectures Someone ELSE about Conflicts

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October 20, 2025

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The loaner prosecutors doing Lindsey Halligan's dirty work are insinuating that Patrick Fitzgerald -- and not Halligan herself -- has a conflict on this case.

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Shit-Posting All the Way to SCOTUS

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October 20, 2025

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If the Supreme Court allows Trump to invade Democratic states based on transparent fabrications, we're in real trouble. But Trump spent the weekend proving how unreliable he is.

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Stephen Miller's Trains Don't Run on Time

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October 19, 2025

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Stephen Miller is incredibly powerful and so fascistic that Trump even hesitates to describe his ambition. But he is also downright slovenly. Increasingly,

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No Kings Thread

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October 18, 2025

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About 400 people and at least six frogs turned out to the American Embassy in Ireland to call for No Kings today.

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Eagle Ed Martin and George Santos Just Proved Tish James' Vindictive Prosecution Claim

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October 18, 2025

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At the very same time Eagle Ed was stalking Tish James up and down the Eastern Seaboard, desperately trying to find some crime to charge her with. he was also busy finding a way to free George Santos, a much bigger, confessed fraudster from prison.

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Jim Comey Prepares to Prevail at SCOTUS

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October 17, 2025

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Jim Comey has added the kind of lawyers to his defense team that signals he expects to have to break new appellate ground on politicized prosecutions.

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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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October 17, 2025

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There were a bunch of newsworthy detentions this week -- and not all that news was bad!

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The Bolton Indictment

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October 16, 2025

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The indictment against John Bolton charges him with sending, and then retaining, eight documents containing classified information.

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Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal

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October 16, 2025

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After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.

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Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan's Filter Follies

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October 16, 2025

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Lindsey Halligan's loaner prosecutors decided they'd ask for a filter protocol to access already seized material the day after Judge Nachmanoff ordered they provide all discovery to Jim Comey that same day. That may work out poorly for them.

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How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller's Shoddy Propaganda ... So Far

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October 16, 2025

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How the efforts of everyday Chicagoans managed to defeat Stephen Miller's propaganda ... so far.

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France's Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In

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October 15, 2025

Quinn Norton

Yesterday, French Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu gave the speech of his life. Tomorrow, he'll find out if it worked. Update: It worked. Sebastian Lecornu survived the No Confidence vote. Next come the hard part: governing France. Something…

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The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor

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October 15, 2025

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It's bad enough that the State Department using free speech about Charlie Kirk to exclude purported visa holders. It's still worse that two of six claimed accounts don't do what State accuses. But the dragnet they must have used to get this far is pure fascism.