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Techniques Of Power
Power relations lie in the ability of one person to affect the actions of others.
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Supporting Those Who Make Good Trouble
There are lots of folks who work to fight injustice, making the kind of "Good Trouble" that John Lewis embraced, who need our support. Here are a few, and you can add your own in the comments.
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Judge Jesse Furman Gives DOJ 3 Pages to Reply to emptywheel's Bid to Liberate Sealed Transcripts on the Espionage Act
Judge Jesse Furman must have found something novel or interesting in my National Security Counselors-supported intervention to liberate CIPA transcripts in the Josh Schulte case, because he just gave the government three pages to reply.
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Greg Abbott, King Herod, and December 28th
With Greg Abbott's latest bus caravan for asylum seekers, you have to wonder if Abbott knows about a certain refugee family in the Bible.
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The Money Trail Stuck in an Appendix of the January 6 Report
The financial trail behind January 6 seems like an easier way to document that Trump's campaign knew he was lying about voter fraud.
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"Dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter:” Elvis Chan, Hacks, the Klan, and the Twitter Files
After complaining that Twitter declined to be part of a revenge porn attack targeting Hunter Biden, Matt Taibbi is now complaining that DOJ enforced a law protecting the right to vote.
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Michigan's Fake Electors' Transcripts Limn Black Holes into January 6
In which we take another look at Michigan's fake electors who signed a false certification of election claiming Trump won in November 2020.
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December 27: The January 6 Committee's Blind Spots
The January 6 Committee Report is out.
As many people have pointed out, the report focuses on Donald Trump, telling the story about how he riled up a mob with The Big Lie and then did nothing as they launched a terrorist attack on the Capitol…
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Where Is The J6 Committee Beef?
Where are all the transcripts the J6 Committee should have sent to DOJ long ago, and be released to the public now?
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Zelenskyy wasn't the First Ukrainian President to Address a Joint Meeting of Congress
President Zelenskyy wasn't the first Ukrainian president to address a joint meeting of Congress, but he sounded a lot like President Yushchenko did in 2005. Slava Ukraini, indeed.
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The J6C Transcripts: Patrick Byrne's Conduit, Garrett Ziegler
The things that Peter Navarro aide Garrett Ziegler would not testify about to the January 6 Committee map out many of the most important events.
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The Fourth Account: The Grand Jury Investigation into Jeffrey Clark and Others
Two recently unsealed grand jury opinions provide a glimpse into how the government is managing the tricky privilege problems created when most suspected co-conspirators in a plot are lawyers.
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The Thinness of the January 6 Committee's Obstruction Referral
On the key issue of its obstruction referral, the January 6 Committee missed the opportunity to show how, by any standard under consideration, Trump corruptly tried to prevent Congress to certify the electoral victory of Trump's opponent. He did so by committing other crimes. He did so by mobilizing a violent mob. He did so using fraudulent documents. And most importantly, he did so for personal benefit.
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House January 6 Committee: Introductory Material to the Final Report
This is a working post and thread dedicated to the introductory material of the final report prepared by the House January 6 Committee.
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Leaving Las Birdas
In response to Marcy's ask, here's a checklist for journalists to prepare ahead of their likely banning -- assuming they're doing their job and afflicting the comfortable while comforting the afflicted at Twitter.
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Held Hostage by the Barmy Bird
Elmo might have the right to suspend journalists, but the U.S. should not be held hostage by a pasty excessively-monied git with an unmanaged ego.
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After the Deluge: What's Next on Mastodon for Journalism? [UPDATE-2]
Continue to stay with what looks like a dying bird, or forge ahead with the rapidly-growing hairy tusked herd? Media needs to snap out of its torpor and choose. One of these isn't much of a choice.
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Elmo and the Urge to Purge [UPDATE-3]
Elmo has had a bug up his ass for at least a couple days; he's decided to act out and purge accounts of those reporting on him. So much for free speech absolutism.
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The Day after I Blew Off Josh Schulte He Started Deleting "Suspicious Emails"
In the first week that Josh Schulte had a Samsung phone he used to leak classified information from jail, someone was trying to get me on the phone with him.
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Witnessing the Proud Boys
The Proud Boys have raised at least five witnesses who they would like to call in their defense but who would invoke the Fifth.