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It's the last weekend of the golf season here. Let the crying begin. This is an open thread.

EDNY lost all its counts against Tom Barrack.

By now you should be used to hearing this, but I’m leaving this marriage, Elmo. This is an open thread.

The Intercept gets so much wrong I wrote thousands of words to supplement Mike Masnick's debunking. More importantly, it got so much wrong at precisely the moment fascists seized on it in their efforts to prevent efforts to protect the vote.

Enrique Tarrio, who as a former informant knows the value of secret cooperation, just disclosed the June plea deal of a high level Proud Boy.

Reason is a powerful tool, but we can't let it destroy moral values.

The revised guidelines for using legal process for journalists rolled out by Merrick Garland yesterday affirmatively protect reporting on classified information in the definition of newsgathering. They close a number of surveillance loopholes used in recent years. But in other ways, the guidelines define journalism by what it's not, excluding a number of crimes of interest in recent years.

A NYT piece on how the Biden Administration falsely believed Saudi Arabia had made a deal to increase oil production seems to suggest that belief was wishful thinking. But it also seems to require pretty major intelligence gaps.

On Thursday, DOJ revealed that Stewart Rhodes informed other participants on the Friends of Stone list where the Oath Keepers were as they prepared to storm the Capitol.

The subpoena to the former President is premised on the former President planning a coup on the Signal messaging app.