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  • Fridays with Nicole Sandler

    Trump has made Letitia James a rock star by prosecuting her.

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  • Cowardice Like Michael Glasheen’s Is How January 6 Happened

    Michael Glasheen -- the guy in charge of national security at the FBI -- falsely claimed that Antifa was the biggest terrorist threat facing the US, he was probably just trying to keep his job. But the kind of cowardice he displayed yesterday is how January 6 was allowed to happen.

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  • Lindsey Halligan Can’t Tell the Difference between a Man, a Woman, and a Ham Sandwich

    Getting no-billed by the Letitia James grand jury again wasn't even the most embarrassing thing that happened to Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer masquerading as a US Attorney today. She also failed to distinguish between a man (Robert McBride), a woman (herself), and the ham sandwiches the grand jury keeps eating for lunch.

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  • Donald Trump Will Piss Away the Western Order Investing in Jared Kushner’s Imagined Business Savvy

    Throw enough goodies at my son-in-law and I will betray Europe, Donald Trump seems to be saying. And that's all it took.

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  • Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Demands Someone at DOJ Put Ethical Skin in the Game

    Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is insisting that Todd Blanche or whoever promised her that DOJ does not continue to snuffle around Dan Richman's stuff say so on the docket, with their appearance noticed.

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2024 Presidential Election, 2026 Mid-Term Election, Weaponized DOJ

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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December 12, 2025
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emptywheel
Trump has made Letitia James a rock star by prosecuting her.
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2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

Cowardice Like Michael Glasheen's Is How January 6 Happened

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December 12, 2025
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emptywheel
Michael Glasheen -- the guy in charge of national security at the FBI -- falsely claimed that Antifa was the biggest terrorist threat facing the US, he was probably just trying to keep his job. But the kind of cowardice he displayed yesterday is how January 6 was allowed to happen.
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Ed Martin and Lindsey Halligan posing together in his office. They both look really weird, with him being bottom-heavy and forward leaning,and her propped up on ugly shoes.
2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Jim Comey prosecution, Weaponized DOJ

Lindsey Halligan Can't Tell the Difference between a Man, a Woman, and a Ham Sandwich

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December 11, 2025
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emptywheel
Getting no-billed by the Letitia James grand jury again wasn't even the most embarrassing thing that happened to Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer masquerading as a US Attorney today. She also failed to distinguish between a man (Robert McBride), a woman (herself), and the ham sandwiches the grand jury keeps eating for lunch.
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe, Russo-Ukrainian War

Donald Trump Will Piss Away the Western Order Investing in Jared Kushner's Imagined Business Savvy

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December 11, 2025
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emptywheel
Throw enough goodies at my son-in-law and I will betray Europe, Donald Trump seems to be saying. And that's all it took.
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Jim Comey prosecution, Weaponized DOJ

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Demands Someone at DOJ Put Ethical Skin in the Game

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December 10, 2025
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emptywheel
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is insisting that Todd Blanche or whoever promised her that DOJ does not continue to snuffle around Dan Richman's stuff say so on the docket, with their appearance noticed.
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Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Trump 2.0, Trump Administration

Other Nations are Updating their Threat Assessments, Too

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December 10, 2025
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Peterr
Denmark updated their annual threat assessment, and there's a new name on their list of threats and challenges. I'll give you 3 chances to guess who it is. Hint: one Danish academic analyst uses the analogy of a "painful divorce," saying this country is no longer "an eternal, reliable ally."
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Foreign Influence, Foreign Policy, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine

Michael Anton and the Secret National Security Strategy

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December 10, 2025
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emptywheel
The report that there's a longer unpublished version of the National Security Strategy that is even worse than the one that got published should focus attention on why Michael Anton left before either got finished.
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2024 Presidential Election, Immigration

DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her

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December 9, 2025
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emptywheel
DOJ withheld Signal texts showing that before DHS started claiming that LaMonica McIver had assaulted two DHS guys, they had circulated video observing that their own actions look "bad."
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Jim Comey prosecution, Weaponized DOJ

The False Claims Todd Blanche, Robert McBride, and Some Lady Impersonating a US Attorney Tell to Justify a Crime

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December 9, 2025
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emptywheel
Todd Blanche says that Dan Richman has to just lie back and enjoy the FBI's ongoing unlawful searches of his data while they try to prosecute his friend Jim Comey.
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2024 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, Disaster Relief, DOGE, Economics, emptywheel, Foreign Policy

White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test

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December 9, 2025
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emptywheel
The self-imagined competent boys who wrote Trump's National Security Strategy effectively wrote a list of standards they're affirmatively failing to meet.
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2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Intelligence, Russo-Ukrainian War, Trump Administration, War

The National Security Strategy's Structure and Presumptions

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December 8, 2025
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emptywheel
Trump's National Security Strategy envisions sustaining American power by removing brown people and women from positions of power, sustaining a failed trade war, and dictating what Europe should be.
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Jim Comey prosecution, Mueller Probe, Weaponized DOJ

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Asks DOJ for Signs of Life

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December 7, 2025
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emptywheel
Judge Kollar-Kotelly ordered DOJ to stop violating Dan Richman's Fourth Amendment rights. But her order is as interesting for all the squirminess it reveals as the order itself.
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2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Terrorism, Weaponized DOJ

Trump's Terrorists

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December 6, 2025
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emptywheel
Dan Bongino just learned a remarkable lesson: when you follow the facts rather than chase conspiracy theories, you end up discovering that Trump's terrorists are the ones who threaten the American way of life.
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2026 Mid-Term Election, January 6 Insurrection, Jim Comey prosecution, Letitia James Investigation, Ukraine, Weaponized DOJ

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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December 5, 2025
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emptywheel
Letitia James had two wins in a day this week, after having her first indictment dismissed last week.
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emptywheel, Left Theory

Applying Existentialist Ethics

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December 4, 2025
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Ed Walker
The future is open only if we make it so.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

What's Not Being Said about the Alleged Pipe Bomber

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December 4, 2025
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emptywheel
The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. There's not a single data point between the time Trump announced the January 6 rally on December 19 and Cole's presence on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2021.
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2024 Presidential Election, War

SignalGate: "This Chat's Kinda Dead"

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December 4, 2025
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emptywheel
JD Vance's response to the silence that followed Jeffrey Goldberg's withdrawl from the Houthi Signal chat back in March was to ask where all the cool kids had gone.
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2024 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel

The Hacking Hole Where John Bolton Should Be

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December 4, 2025
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emptywheel
The progression of Iranian efforts to hack and assassinate various Trump One officials looks different when you put all the timelines together.
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2024 Presidential Election

Asif Merchant Says EDNY Screwed Up Its Intercepts

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December 3, 2025
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emptywheel
Contrary to what the FBI originally suggested in his arrest affidavit, the FBI was tracking Asif Merchant -- the Pakistani man accused of trying to hire a hit squad to target Donald Trump -- from the moment he arrived in the US in April 2024.
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Bush Administration, Obama Administration, PATRIOT

Pete Hegseth and the Radical Queer Wing of Al-Qaeda

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December 3, 2025
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Quinn Norton
Where Murder Dances With Law A while back, maybe a decade and change ago during the Obama administration, I was drinking with some nerdy friends in a San Francisco hackerspace. We got to talking about National Security law, hacktivism, and…
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