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When challenged to explain why January 6 defendants are being brought to trial after lots of Portland protest cases have dismissed, DOJ explained that January 6 defendants made their alleged crimes much easier to prosecute.

The pandemic isn’t over, not by a long chalk. The right-wing continues to kill itself clinging to anti-vax disinformation.

There were a bunch of stories about the results of Commerce Inspector General report yesterday: That the IG had found that Wilbur Ross lied twice to Congress, but that after Commerce IG referred his conduct to DOJ, Bill Barr's DOJ refused to prosecute. But the most interesting parts of the stories may be what got left out, like the possibility of a parallel investigation at DOJ IG.

Judge Randolph Moss sentenced Paul Hodgkins to 8 months in prison.

There were at least two other problems with the material on which The Guardian's article was written.

Since the days before Lev Parnas was arrested he and those around him have been trying to hide their actions in an interlocking nest of attorney-client privilege claims. Yesterday, Judge Paul Oetken just denied Parnas' latest attempt to exploit that effort in his defense.

The claim a purported subsource for the Steele dossier makes about the purpose of the Alfa Bank report in the dossier matches the testimony one of the oligarch's behind the suit, Petr Aven, reportedly gave Mueller's investigators.

In the days after January 6, there was a false conception that the insurrectionists might all be found via their social media use. Johnny Pollock, who appears to have been on the lam since at least March, shows that some of the more dangerous insurrectionists were smarter than that.

Did Tucker Carlson provide cover for House minority leader Kevin McCarthy to give Rep. Devin Nunes access to U.S. intelligence? Did this happen on behalf of a foreign entity?