"Tariffs will put your jobs at risk:" The Make-Believe Justification for Trump's Trade War

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emptywheel
Trump justified a tariff war with false claims about fentanyl deaths.
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Coping

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Ed Walker
You can't help anyone else if you don't take care of yourself.
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Some of the Ways Trump's Immigrant Invader Damaged America in Just Two Weeks

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emptywheel
Elon Musk and his flunkies have caused spectacular failure after failure. And even as they serially faceplant, Elon says we need to get rid of the unelected bureaucrats who are stealing democracy.
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How Senate Judiciary Committee Dems Fucked Up the Kash Patel Nomination Hearing

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emptywheel
Trump's DOJ is involved in a cover-up as we speak, a cover-up designed to hide how the aspiring FBI Director was complicit in Trump's efforts to retain classified documents in his insecure basement. But Democrats have not done what they need to do to impose a cost for that cover-up.
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Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Turn Meta [Back] into a Pogrom Machine

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emptywheel
Mark Zuckerberg's $25 million agreement to lose to Trump in a lawsuit over Facebook's efforts to halt Trump's ongoing insurrection in 2021 is more than a bribe. It's also a soft commitment that the next time Trump uses Meta to incite violence, Meta won't stop the
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Neoliberal Individuals

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Ed Walker
Professional Democrats have no idea where political power comes from.
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A Summary of Kash Patel's Disqualifications to Lead FBI

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emptywheel
Kash Patel will do and say anything to protect Trump and his flunkies -- up to and including risking the safety of members of Congress. Such a person would not serve as Director of FBI. He would serve as a means to turn government against Trump's adversaries. 
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Judge AliKhan Didn't Halt Trump's Funding Freeze Alone, Democracy Forward Did Too

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emptywheel
Coverage of the halt Judge Loren AliKhan ordered on Trump's cuts to federal funding focus on her actions. But the lawsuit itself arises from the kind of civil society networks that are crucial to battling fascist attacks on democracy and tolerance.
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Confirming Kash Patel Will Get Senators "Drug through the Streets"

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emptywheel
Kash Patel has suggested that a guy who threatened to drag Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley in the streets and then assaulted the cops guarding them should not have been detained pretrial.
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After Yesterday's DOJ Purge, Pam Bondi Cannot Fulfill Promises Made at Her Confirmation Hearing

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emptywheel
When Dick Durbin asked Pam Bondi what she would do if matters pertaining to Qater or GEO -- both lobbying clients of hers -- came before DOJ, she twice said she would consult with the career ethics officials at DOJ. But DOJ just removed that guy, making the promise impossible to keep.
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Every DOJ Beat Journalist Fails to Mention a Dozen Judges Approved of 1512 Charge for January 6

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emptywheel
DOJ just launched an investigation into prosecutors who applied a law to January 6, 18 USC 1512(c)(2), in a way approved by over a dozen judges, at least four of them Trump appointees. 
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Stephen Miller Confesses that Trump Lied about Immigrants

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller is already frantically spinning new lies as it becomes clear Trump lied about how many migrants he could deport.
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Kash Patel Thinks Assault Defendants Should Be Able to Grab for Guns When Probation Officers Arrive

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emptywheel
Among the people aspiring FBI Director Kash Patel has claimed, in promoting the Jan6 Choir, proves that Jan6ers were subjected to a two-tier system of justice is Barton Shively, a guy who wasn't detained for assaulting two cops until he allegedly grabbed a gun when his probation officers showed up.
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Trump's Slop and Ouch First Week

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emptywheel
Underneath Trump's Shock and Awe that is doing grave damage to the Constitution and Trump's marginalized targets, there's a Slop and Ouch that targets everyone this side of his billionaire friends.
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On Haggis and Donald Trump

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Peterr
On this feast day of Robert Burns, less than a week into the second Trump administration, things are not well. Even so, we have to DING!
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"Embarrassingly Wrong:" The Ongoing Misinformation Campaign about the Hunter Biden Hard Drive

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emptywheel
The public record shows that the FBI did few of the things it would need to do to rule out Russian involvement in packaging up Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Mike Johnson Let a Terrorist Roam the Capitol Yesterday

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emptywheel
Mike Johnson let seditionist and terrorist Stewart Rhodes -- whose judgment was commuted but not pardoned -- wander around the scene of the crime yesterday, all while complaining that Bishop Budde's call for "mercy" was divisive.
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Herod Goes to the National Cathedral and is Disappointed

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Peterr
Trump's reaction to the National Cathedral prayer service yesterday says a lot more about him than it does about Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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