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Coverage of January 6 and other legal investigations. An American-Irish in Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!

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Published: October 13, 2024 00:47

Donald Trump is not just attacking Kamala Harris and Roy Cooper because they're Democrats. They also play key roles in election process. If Cooper were incapacitated before January 1, for example, Mark Robinson would take over.

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Published: October 12, 2024 21:20

The thing about Trump's FEMA lies is he's leading his own rubes to believe FEMA is withholding money so they don't take money they're entitled to so he can make them really angry they're not getting money. He's duping them into hurting themselves and then…

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Published: October 12, 2024 20:51

Note, in NPR's interview with Joe Kahn, he claims credit for the focus on Project 2025 as his GOOD reporting. There are two problems with that. First, EVERY SINGLE ONE of those stories ignored at least some of how Trump had done that in the past. …

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Published: October 12, 2024 13:17

I won't lie to you. For the last day, I've been hoping that @pbump.com would write this story so I didn't have to. And he did! One more problem Bump doesn't mention: Vance claims a 2023 poll would have led him not to certify in 2021. 😜 [contains…

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Published: October 12, 2024 13:07

Lots of people are wildly aroused that Woodward quoted Biden complaining abt Garland. Know how stupid these people are? Biden had ultimate authority over keeping David Weiss. Hell, he still is, and could make a good case to fire him (bc he's leading…

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Published: October 12, 2024 12:06

I have a saying, "We are all Don Bacon's wife," reminding that everyone in Trump's world is just a few threatening comments away from sleeping w/a gun under her pillow, as happened after Bacon opposed Jim Jordan. We are also all Haitians in Springfield.…

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Published: October 12, 2024 10:44

We're some years from the point where shaming people about their enabling of Trump will do any good (not least bc the press has lost interest in/ability to shame outside of dumb gotchas, which is part of the point. Short term we need to make people…

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Published: October 12, 2024 10:25

As you reflect on what a cesspool of deliberate disinformation Xitter has become, read this report on how Stephen Miller, et al, deliberately delegitimized those fighting online mis/disinformation. www.americansunlight.org/ilc-report…

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Published: October 12, 2024 07:33

I keep going back to this WaPo article from August, which unpacked how much right wingers were relying on ads demonizing immigrants and how deceitful those ads were. These kinds of ads laid the background for Trump going full fascist yesterday. …

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Published: October 11, 2024 23:56

Don't sleep on this. Or rather, see if you can get to sleep when you consider this is where Trump is going. Understand, somewhere in the near future there's a conspiracy between him, third parties, and the Proud Boys convicted of sedition. He may know…

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Published: October 11, 2024 16:32

Reup: Controlling how much of Trump capitulating to Putin that Putin shows is part of how Russia manipulates Trump. That's part of the point of Putin asking him to keep the COVID equipment secret then confirming it now. …

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Published: October 11, 2024 12:16

It's like NYT is coming up with a new way to fluff fascism every day. One day it's spinning eugenics. The next it's burying blood libel. The third it's treating Tweets about assassination and civil war as if they're mere insults. [contains quote post or…

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Published: October 11, 2024 11:01

This is ¶22 of NYT's front page story on Musk's help for Trump. Trump has spent YEARS falsely claiming that the Hunter Biden hard drive that right wingers call a laptop was improperly throttled. And you've got two sources saying Trump intervened and you…

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Published: October 10, 2024 20:40

Rather than submitting specific objections to redactions Jack Smith made, Trump whined abt the election again & asked Chutkan to delay any public posting so they can take legal action. She just gave him a week (but otherwise approved Smith's appendix). …

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Published: October 9, 2024 23:16

I don't know. I have several theories, which I won't get into. But one should NEVER, EVER rule out that he's planning historical Nazi rallies because he's planning historic Nazi coups. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 9, 2024 22:37

"Six years later — after Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who each voted to overturn Roe v. Wade — my sister sat hemorrhaging for hours in the emergency waiting room in the conservative small town of Waxahachie." [contains quote post or other…

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Published: October 9, 2024 17:19

Trial Counsel has dropped off Hunter Biden's lawsuit against IRS, leaving just Tax Division lawyers, which I guess says it's not going to trial? (Judge Contreras recently ruled against Hunter's Privacy Act claim but FOR his inclusion of the IRS Agent…

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Published: October 9, 2024 15:04

It would be an immense service to voters if someone could put together all Trump's greatest hits on hurricanes and other disaster failures: Paper towels Inaction after Maria The Sharpie Nuking hurricanes China's hurricane gun Refusal to help CA wildfires…

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Published: October 9, 2024 14:17

It turns out that what Jack Goldsmih is REALLY complaining about is that a handful of editors oversold how much is new in the Jack Smith immunity briefing and he fell for their claims. That's why you check the facts before you write an op-ed. …

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Published: October 9, 2024 09:53

Reupping: The news that Trump keeps chatting with Putin should raise new questions abt why Putin's errand boy, Viktor Orbán, kept making house calls earlier this year, something ignored bc everyone was doing their 100th Joe Biden Old story. …

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Published: October 8, 2024 23:07

4 days before Biden dropped out, I raised 3 MAJOR stories that few journos were covering. 2 are implicated by Woodward's story that Trump remains cozy with RU: 1) Where the fuck are missing classified docs? 2) What kind of deal does Trump have w/Putin &…

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Published: October 8, 2024 13:29

Even assuming NSA recorded these calls (or reflections of them), there is no chance in hell they're going to release them. Trump burned capabilities when he released the ones involving Mike Flynn. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 8, 2024 11:57

Jack Smith described that a person being treated as Trump's co-conspirator tried to gin up a riot at a poll counting place in a swing state. While that was not new (those of us following closely learned that in December), even most journos did not know…

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Published: October 8, 2024 11:04

I keep saying that the one major strategic decision Harris has made that COULD be a mistake is the focus on GOP voters (for example, at the expense of focusing on Arab/Muslim voters). According to NYT, Harris has gained support of 4% more of GOPers in…

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Published: October 8, 2024 10:43

If you have tips about sexual assault by a guy Trump appointed to get rid of abortion protection, he will just write your name down and ignore the tip. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/kavanaugh-trump-white-house-fbi-report/…

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Published: October 8, 2024 10:40

I've been tracking how Trump's advantage on the economy has fizzled, but this adds an important nuance. College educated voters who're more likely to vote support Harris on the issue by 4. Non-college voters, who're less likely to vote, support Trump by…

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Published: October 7, 2024 21:11

Trump's people told NYT (Maggie was bylined) that they thought Helene gave then oppty to claim Harris was incompetent. What they meant was Helene gave them a chance to make shit up, and they were going to take it. Folks are missing the import of this. …

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Published: October 7, 2024 18:35

I think one reason he has to claim genetics -- besides that he needs his Nazi base to turn out -- is he needs to explain why the spawn of Ivana and Melania and his new BFF the African immigrant, Elon Musk, are better than other immigrants. [contains quote…

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Published: October 7, 2024 14:35

It is a testament to the double standard used with Trump that more people are talking about WHETHER VP Harris' 60 Minutes appearance counts as an interview than talking about Trump dodging the tradition altogether bc he refuses to be fact-checked. Harris…

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Published: October 7, 2024 12:53

Before Joe Biden dropped I noted that VP Harris was (behind Whitmer) the best voice on Choice in the US. Maybe I undersold her, but I stand by the judgment of what a difference it would make. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 7, 2024 12:25

Today, Devlin Barrett starts at NYT. He has a history (Hunter Biden, Igor Danchenko, Clinton Foundation) of posting October Surprise stories from right wing lawmakers that end up being overblown once we see the evidence, years later.

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Published: October 7, 2024 12:22

Today's a good day to remind you that Clarence Thomas' undisclosed free travel is not (IRS exposure aside) a crime whereas Eric Adams' may be for two reasons: 1) Thomas was funded by Harlan Crow, not a foreign country 2) SCOTUS has no enforceable ethics…

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Published: October 6, 2024 18:41

Lots of people mocking the latest Politico whining about VP Harris' media choices. But note they don't even MENTION that Trump backed out of the 60 Minutes interview, a tradition for POTUS candidates, bc he can't handle fact-checking? …

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Published: October 6, 2024 14:37

Elie Honig, who has been consistently wrong abt Jan6 investigation, complains Jack Smith didn't adhere to DOJ guidelines on pre-election statements. In this post, I argue he may have, by withholding key details we may see after the election. …

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Published: October 6, 2024 14:26

All Hell Is Going to Break Loose: Maybe Jack Smith Did Precisely What Elie Honig Claims He Didn't https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/06/all-hell-is-going-to-break-loose-maybe-jack-smith-did-precisely-what-elie-honig-claims-he-didnt/

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Published: October 6, 2024 10:45

Here's the texts to Musk in April 2022 that people suspect were Stephen Miller (bc of the reference to "the boss" and redactions elsewhere). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23112929-elon-musk-text-exhibits-twitter-v-musk

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Published: October 6, 2024 08:52

Again, the stupid bigots are using housing shortages to gin up hatred against migrants in Ireland, the UK, and the US. Elon Musk is doing it deliberately. [And in related news, Steve Bannon's top aide, Andrea Preate, registered as a foreign agent for…