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Today’s Difficult Budget Negotiations Will Be Far More Difficult as Shelves Go Bare
Published: May 2, 2025 11:13
Even if nothing changed, Republican negotiations over cutting spending and retroactively sanctioning the disasters Elon Musk caused would be difficult enough. But something is about to change. The pain of Trump's self-imposed tariff catastrophe will start…
Despite Pete Hegseth, Signal is Good
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/01/despite-pete-hegseth-signal-is-good/
Published: May 1, 2025 20:09
Why you should use Signal (But maybe ditch Whatsapp?) Pete Hegseth is Bad at His Job The Secretary of Defense and Fox Host Pete Hegseth keeps using Signal to talk about war plans with people he’s not supposed to be talking with at his day job. He also gets…
Stephen Miller’s Snowballing Deportation Deceptions
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/01/stephen-millers-snowballing-deportation-deceptions/
Published: May 1, 2025 13:34
Stephen Miller has been building the lies about migrants that are falling apart under legal scrutiny for years. That's why Trump has to force journalists to affirm his false claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The post Stephen Miller’s Snowballing…
How Trump Knuckles Journalists to Parrot His Doctrine
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/30/how-trump-knuckles-journalists-to-parrot-his-doctrine/
Published: April 30, 2025 18:46
When Trump demanded that Terry Moran parrot his false claims that proof of Kilmar Albrego Garcia's evil can be read in his knuckle tattoos, he wasn't displaying dementia. He was bullying a journalist to accept his false claims like he has for years. The…
Three Coequal Timelines of Government
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/30/three-coequal-timelines-of-government/
Published: April 30, 2025 12:16
The timeline for the Republican Congress to pass a budget codifying Trump's policies is slipping, now as late as July. That means it is increasingly likely that as Trump seeks near-unanimous Republican support for his agenda in the coming months, the…
100 Days, a Trillion Dollars: DOGE’s Costs Keep Adding Up
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/29/100-days-a-trillion-dollars-doges-costs-keep-adding-up/
Published: April 29, 2025 15:25
Elon Musk came in promising (at various times) to save a trillion dollars. Instead, a hundred days in, and we're already a trillion in the hole. The post 100 Days, a Trillion Dollars: DOGE’s Costs Keep Adding Up appeared first on emptywheel.
Mr. Art of the Deal Struggles to Spin Three Failed Negotiations
Published: April 29, 2025 10:01
As Trump experiences one after another humiliating failed negotiation, he will have a psychological and political need to find some other way to look strong. The post Mr. Art of the Deal Struggles to Spin Three Failed Negotiations appeared first on…
And then the Russian Apologists Left, Complaining about TDS
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/28/and-then-the-russian-apologists-left-complaining-about-tds/
Published: April 28, 2025 11:22
The most newsworthy detail of a Ben Smith story about Marc Andreessen's Signal chat habit is that two important Russian apologists -- David Sacks and Tucker Carlson -- left the chat amid disputes about Trump's destruction of the global economy. The post…
Some Thoughts on the Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/27/some-thoughts-on-the-arrest-of-judge-hannah-dugan/
Published: April 27, 2025 13:04
Before Kash Patel's FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan based on charges that she corruptly obstructed the immigration arrest of a defendant before her, FBI never bothered to look for proof that she had that corrupt intent. The post Some Thoughts on the…
Pam Bondi Reverses Media Protections to Cover Up Her Complicity in Unlawful Renditions
Published: April 26, 2025 13:04
By reversing Merrick Garland's media policy so she can pursue leaks proving that Trump's Alien Enemies Act is based on false claims, Pam Bondi is covering up her own role in unlawful renditions. The post Pam Bondi Reverses Media Protections to Cover Up Her…
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/25/fridays-with-nicole-sandler-54/
Published: April 25, 2025 23:59
We talked about Pete Hegseth and Trump's losses in court. The post Fridays with Nicole Sandler appeared first on emptywheel.
The ActBlue Targeting Is a Perfect Opportunity to Flip Trump’s EOs on His Head
Published: April 25, 2025 13:45
On her first day on the job, Bondi said she wasn't going to investigate foreign influence in elections anymore, a move that was undoubtedly done to shelter Trump's own misconduct. But, in the guise of targeting ActBlue, now Trump has ordered her to do just…
Whiskey Pete’s Dirty Desktop
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/25/whiskey-petes-dirty-desktop/
Published: April 25, 2025 12:03
Between new disclosures about Pete Hegseth's Signal use, we know he accessed Signal from both a cell phone that DOD searched as well as a desktop in his office connected to the public Internet. What we don't know is how he accessed Signal from both. The…
16 House Dems Ask Law Firms that Capitulated to Trump If They’ve Thought about Their Bribery Exposure
Published: April 24, 2025 16:15
16 Democratic House members asked the law firms that capitulated to Trump if they've thought about their bribery exposure. The post 16 House Dems Ask Law Firms that Capitulated to Trump If They’ve Thought about Their Bribery Exposure appeared first on…
Todd Blanche Fails Effort to Force SDNY AUSAs to Frame Themselves
Published: April 23, 2025 12:05
DOJ has been trying to frame the Eric Adams prosecutors for over two months. Yesterday, the last three resigned rather than be party to that effort. The post Todd Blanche Fails Effort to Force SDNY AUSAs to Frame Themselves appeared first on emptywheel.
The Beginnings of Curtis Yarvin
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/22/the-beginnings-of-curtis-yarvin/
Published: April 22, 2025 17:48
Yarvin despises democracy. He prefers one-man rule. The post The Beginnings of Curtis Yarvin appeared first on emptywheel.
Tulsi Gabbard’s NIE Lies Make Dick Cheney Look Honest by Comparison
Published: April 22, 2025 12:13
Tulsi Gabbard built her entire career around opposing the wars that Dick Cheney ginned up two decades ago. Now, in Cheneyesque fashion, she's grotesquely inventing a war that doesn't exist so she can help Trump destroy the Constitution. The post Tulsi…