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After arguing against Bill Barr's DOJ's past arguments on materiality in a motion to dismiss Mike Flynn's prosecution, Bill Barr's DOJ now argues against Bill Barr's DOJ's past arguments about the reasons for such flip-flops and the authority of the judge to challenge them.

Mike Flynn's Statement of the Offense has falsely suggested that, the first time Flynn made a request of Russia, Russia said no. In fact, both times Flynn made a request, Sergey Kislyak consulted the top people in Russia, and then delivered what Flynn wanted.

Across the country during protests this week, there's been a clear pattern of behavior law enforcement attacking the exercise of the First Amendment by assaults on the press.

The Mueller Report has always been coy about whether Mueller's team knew of any calls between Mike Flynn and Donald Trump surrounding his calls about sanctions with Sergey Kislyak. But the transcript of Flynn's December 31 call with Kislyak makes it clear that he knew Trump knew the content of the call already.

Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is more than 50 years old, yet it reads like it was written yesterday. In that letter, King identified “the great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom” not as the hoodwearing Klanners or the poltically powerful White Citizens Council folks, but the Moderate. Fortunately, King also identfied the cure to that block, if only we'd embrace it.

There is a surreal situation going down in Minneapolis. The CNN crew covering it was literally arrested on live air. Not all of them understand you, just the reporter, Oscar Jimenez, that was a minority, the white correspondent a few feet away…

A former top FBI official looks at one piece of paperwork in the Trump investigation and declares it was all made up. For some reason, he didn't consult the other piece of paperwork.

Three years after the frothy right first started targeting Samantha Power for reading intelligence while serving as Ambassador to the UN, Ric Grenell admits that when he was in a subordinate position to the one Power had, he also was an avid consumer of intelligence.

Last week, I asked how many COVID-19 deaths Ron DeSantis is hiding. We can now account for about 1300 and it seems likely there may well be more.

In which a multi-generational household fumbles its way to new cooperative living routines in the time of pandemic.