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    Jeanine Pirro has failed in at least a fifth and close to a quarter of the cases she has charged in the last eight weeks.

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    Trump officials stepped on their dicks repeatedly today.

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  • Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown

    Thus far, right winger efforts to politicize the shutdown have mostly resulted in them stepping on their own dicks.

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  • White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fishermen

    Weeks after Stephen Miller ordered attacks on a series of Venezuelan fishing boats, the White House continues to struggle to explain why it wasn't murder.

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    Lindsey Halligan relied on Jack Eckenrode -- the same former FBI guy involved in John Durham cases that relied on inadmissible evidence to get indictments -- to prep for the grand jury last week.

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Jeanine Pirro's Recent Flood of Failures

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October 4, 2025
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Jeanine Pirro has failed in at least a fifth and close to a quarter of the cases she has charged in the last eight weeks.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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October 3, 2025
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Trump officials stepped on their dicks repeatedly today.
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Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown

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October 3, 2025
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Thus far, right winger efforts to politicize the shutdown have mostly resulted in them stepping on their own dicks.
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White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fishermen

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October 3, 2025
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Weeks after Stephen Miller ordered attacks on a series of Venezuelan fishing boats, the White House continues to struggle to explain why it wasn't murder.
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Lindsey Halligan Even Failed Failing

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October 2, 2025
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Lindsey Halligan relied on Jack Eckenrode -- the same former FBI guy involved in John Durham cases that relied on inadmissible evidence to get indictments -- to prep for the grand jury last week.
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Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats

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October 2, 2025
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Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and lunatics out there" to target the people he has dehumanized.
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The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government--ICE but No Healthcare--Visible

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October 1, 2025
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No one knows how this shutdown will go. It truly is unlike any shutdown that has gone before. But it will serve to make the reality of Trump's abuse of power visible in a way that has not fully happened yet. 
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May Solidarity and Speech Defeat Pardons and Tanks

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September 30, 2025
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In a sharp rebuke to Trump's assault on free speech, Judge William Young reflects that Alone, [we] have nothing but [our] sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution.
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"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka

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September 29, 2025
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Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.
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Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle?

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September 29, 2025
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I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seeds good, compelling journalism that bypasses media channels that oligarchs have already coopted.
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Will Jim Comey's Prosecution Prove Kash Patel Lied to Senate Judiciary Committee?

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September 28, 2025
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Kash Patel may struggle to come up with some explanation for why he revisited details from a long-closed leak investigation focused on Dan Richman other than what he disclaimed under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee: that he looked backward to find some excuse to investigate Jim Comey.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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September 26, 2025
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We talked about shutdown and the Jim Comey indictment.
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Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment?

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September 26, 2025
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According to the public record, Jim Comey didn't lie in an exchange with Ted Cruz on September 30, 2020. Ted Cruz did.
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Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions

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September 26, 2025
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Watching the mainstream press, you'd think it was the first time that an investigation ordered up by Donald Trump resulted in a flimsy false statements charge just before the statute of limitations expired.
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Russ Vought Threatens to Do What He Already Did

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September 25, 2025
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Thus far, Republicans seem intent on using the shutdown to demonstrate in more visible fashion the need for it. 
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Why DOJ Might Be Pushing for Lindsey Halligan to Get No Billed

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September 25, 2025
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One possible explanation for the flood of leaks about EDVA's disastrous case against Jim Comey is that everyone would be better off if Lindsey Halligan gets no-billed.
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What Trump's UNGA Speech Tells the World

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September 24, 2025
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In one speech, Donald Trump gave the world a lot to think about, and none of it was good. Especially if you are Secretary of State/National Security Advisor/Archivist of the United States Marco Rubio
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Scott Bessent Links Bailout of Argentina to Trump's Election Interference, Even as Argentina Poaches US Soybean Markets

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September 24, 2025
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In a tweet laying out all the welfare he plans to give so-called libertarian Javier Milei, Scott Bessent confirmed the tie between the bailout and Trump's election interference.
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Sinclair Makes Itself Visible

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September 24, 2025
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Yesterday's return of Jimmy Kimmel to ABC is not a time to declare victory. Now is the time to use the notoriety that the censoring screeds have acquired to push back on their efforts to extort control over free speech. 
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Donald Trump Wants a $5 Billion Premium for Confessing His Weaponization Claims Are Bullshit

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September 23, 2025
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Trump's now dismissed lawsuit against NYTimes did not dispute a bunch of damning claims laid out in the Peter Baker story he cites, including that Trump weaponized government against his adversaries.
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