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November 2026

  1. One Less Person in the Room
  2. Margaret Donovan’s Gavel
  3. WSJ’s Tears and a 2-Year Plan to Save Democracy
  4. Ding Dong the Wicked Witch Is Departed
  5. On Congress
  6. Stan Woodward Confesses He Hasn’t Reviewed the Broadview 6 Case Closely
  7. A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew Enter the Senate
  8. What Happens Next
  9. What the Senate Looks Like
  10. Stephen Miller Turned Texas Blue (Open Thread)
  11. And the Results are Beginning to Arrive . . .
  12. Minnesota Judge Recommends Criminal Investigation of Richard Berger and Two CBP Agents
  13. Open Thread: Share Your Voting Story!
  14. DOJ Prosecuted SPLC for Fraud to Exact Revenge for Charlie Kirk
  15. Tainted Stan: Judge April Perry Is Not Amused* [*In the Legal Sense]
  16. Douglas DePodesta Accuses US Attorney Andrew Boutros of Lying
  17. The Blame Game and the Lame Duck
  18. NYT’s Meatball Editorial Choices

October 2026

  1. Fridays [with Nicole Sandler] with LOLGOP
  2. Predictably, Stan Woodward Contemptuously Stomped into the Broadview 6 Case
  3. Mike Rogers’ Questionable Loyalties [UPDATE]
  4. Stephen Miller Messed with Texas
  5. The SPLC Breakup Gone Wrong Went REALLY REALLY Wrong
  6. All Kash Patel’s Hacks
  7. Kash Patel Tried to Criminalize Scrutinizing Garbage Tips that Serve Trump’s Lies
  8. How Jeanine Pirro Offered Up Evidence to Indict Kash Patel
  9. FBI Agent Byron Militello Gets Cold Feet on His Hearsay Witness in the Floris Case
  10. Trent McCotter and Aakash Singh’s Star Chamber
  11. Todd Blanche, in His Underwear, in Disgrace
  12. The Charges against Brad Benavides Assume an Investigation into the Laptop that Never Happened
  13. The Crimes Davey Hearn Claims Jeanine Pirro May Have Committed
  14. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  15. The Epistemology of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop”
  16. Stan Woodward Defies Law of Gravity to Attack Minnesota Judges
  17. Jared’s Account
  18. Open Thread: Someone’s Not Living in Fascist Reality with Us
  19. Trump Double Dipping at Aileen Cannon’s Table Again
  20. The Wilesy Will Scharf
  21. Trump Stiffs Nick Shirley: The Big Rewards Go to Putin’s Election Propagandists
  22. Just for Clicks: How a $300,000 Alleged Bribe became a $50M Sinecure
  23. The Why And How Of Impeachment
  24. La France Beats Her Children
  25. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  26. Trump’s Latest Russia Russia Russia Turn Is about Iran Iran Iran
  27. Ten Years Later: Right Wingers Finally Admit Hillary Was Right
  28. Trent McCotter Promises FBI Witnesses Contempt
  29. Reject: Trump’s Latest Attempt to Be the King
  30. The Kash Patel Impeachment Referral Inside the Employment Lawsuit
  31. DOJ Is Still Withholding Evidence DHS Entrapped LaMonica McIver
  32. Knives Out! Habba versus Grenell and Zampolli versus Landau and Guilfoyle versus Everyone and Everyone versus Wiles
  33. Chuck Grassley Provides Proof of the Terrible Fraud Trump Perpetrated on MAGAts
  34. Stephen Miller Desperate to Stave Off Accountability for Losing Texas
  35. Abdulrahman Alfozan Was Allegedly Snooping While the Houthis Invaded
  36. Ned Hedley Invites a Discussion about Harmeet Dhillon’s Egregious Misconduct
  37. GOP Accepts $276M Bribe to Protect African Immigrant CSAM Purveyor
  38. HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats
  39. The James Talarico HIPAA Crime and Stephen Miller’s Apparent Advance Knowledge
  40. Kash Patel Colluded with Russian Spies to Frame Jim Comey, and He Probably Will Again
  41. Evidence Is Evidence: The Questions Scott Bessent Couldn’t Answer
  42. Agent of a Foreign Power
  43. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  44. Why Does Todd Blanche Want the Job?
  45. Native Format: A Way to Test Andrew Boutros’ Claim He Never Read the October 9 Transcript in Real Time
  46. Broader View 6: DOJ Is Taking a Second Mulligan on Grand Jury Transcripts
  47. The Stories We Tell
  48. Sarah Rogers Is the Foreign Censorship Threat She Warned Against
  49. Sarah Rogers Censors Conference on Disinformation
  50. The Roberts Majority Are Bad Judges
  51. John Solomon Confirms Todd Blanche is FAR More Abusive Than Jack Smith
  52. Make. Him. Cut. A. Check.
  53. Judge Perry May Have Flipped a Witness
  54. Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence
  55. Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing
  56. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  57. Trump Is Still Relying on Dossier-Driven Polarization to Hide Russian Shenanigans
  58. The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted
  59. The Protestors Benny Defamed Finally Come After Him
  60. Stephen Miller Is Destroying the Great America Trump Is Trying to Make
  61. Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller
  62. In Ending Case against Davey Hearn, Judge Declares: No Crime Was Committed
  63. In Claiming Misconduct, Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward Fabricated Key Claims
  64. Main DOJ’s Bigfooting in Broadview 6

September 2026

  1. Chuck Grassley and Far Right Propagandists Covering Up How Trump Defrauded MAGAts
  2. In the “Unites States” of “Super Intelligence,” “Issues Are Remediated”
  3. The Nation Learned What Missouri Has Known for Years about Eric Schmitt
  4. After Assaulting David Huerta and Then Lying about It, Ryan Ribner Lied So He Could Spy on SEIU
  5. Sheri Mecklenburg Debunks Andrew Boutros’ Claim to have “Spoken Extensively to the Prosecutors”
  6. Cannonball: Aileen Cannon Wears Two Hats!
  7. DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users
  8. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  9. Andrew Boutros’ Hot-and-Cold Privilege Claims
  10. The Third Time for MO Gerrymandering is . . . the Same as the First Two Times
  11. Antifa Goes to SCOTUS
  12. Be Careful of What You Wish For, Stolen Documents Conspiracy Edition
  13. Sheri Mecklenburg’s Mic Drop
  14. “December problems:” The Iran War Is a Reality that Exists Outside Trump’s Attempt to Con the Election
  15. What the Senate Might Look Like
  16. Missouri GOP Channels their Inner Vizzini in Last Ditch Gerrymandering Scam
  17. A Player To Be Named Later
  18. Carney’s Stuck in the Middle with EU
  19. Open Thread: Do You Remember?
  20. “If It’s What You Say I Love It,” Especially If You Bring Ball of Thread Back
  21. In Advance of a Key Foreign Policy Week, Natalie Harp Blinds the Press
  22. Confirmed: Broadview 6 Transcript Does Not Match the Recording
  23. Putin’s Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr
  24. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  25. The Salazar Swing
  26. The Unrestrained Power Of The Roberts Majority
  27. Harmeet Dhillon Dialed Up Threats against Douglas Micko
  28. Seeing Iran: “Standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face”
  29. Colin McDonald’s Latest Fraud Fraud
  30. Tom Massie’s Impeachment Gambit
  31. Footnote 15 and the Incredible Disappearing AUSA Diane MacArthur
  32. “Back-and-Forth:” How Ellis Boyle Hid that Jim Comey Self-Snitched
  33. The Grand Conspiracy … Adrift on a Skiff
  34. The Iran Disaster Will Likely Be Job One
  35. We Do Not Swear Unconditional Obedience
  36. Time Runs Out on the Grandest Conspirator
  37. Big John Solomon Expose!!!! He’s Covering Up Trump’s Egypt Corruption!
  38. Trump Prioritizes Golf and Horst Wessel Over 9/11
  39. After Further Review, the Missouri Supremes Were Right
  40. The Snowflakes and Petals of Influence NYT Chooses to Ignore
  41. Why Rule of Law May Pivot, Once Again, on Jim Comey
  42. Is Iran Flagging or Waiting to Pounce?
  43. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  44. Flyspeck! DOJ Has Nothing — Except Todd Blanche’s Audition — to Explain Why They Sold Seashells by the Seashore
  45. MO Voters Win Big Against GOP Mid-Term Redistricting
  46. Charlie Pierce Was Right in 2009, and More Right in 2026
  47. Congress Controls Executive Power
  48. Three Strikes: Did Todd Blanche’s DOJ Violate Jim Comey’s Attorney-Client Privilege a Third Time?
  49. Harmeet Dhillon: Violating Customs and Laws to Do the Bidding of the Far Right
  50. Tulsi Gabbard Warned Pete Hegseth; Iran Destroyed the US Base in Bahrain Anyway
  51. Cities Church: A Whole Lot of Phones with No Nexus to an Imagined Crime
  52. Harmeet Dhillon Wants to Criminalize Photos of Prayer

August 2026

  1. Three Days after Learning He Had Lost the Empire, Whiskey Pete Hegseth Campaigned To Be President
  2. “It’s Better to Be on TV than by Phone:” Corruption Is a Process
  3. The Surveillance Crimes in the Cities Church Case Keep Stacking Up
  4. Fridays with Nicole Sandler
  5. Shocked, Shocked! To Find that Corruption Is Going on in a Trump Casino!
  6. Hegseth is Being Confronted by his Worst Nightmare, Too
  7. Datacenters in Spaaaaaaace!
  8. Overboard! Whiskey Pete Hegseth Tries to Fire His Way Out of Being a Loser
  9. A Year After Lying about His Reasons for Assaulting David Huerta, Ryan Ribner Is Still Hunting SEIU
  10. Stephen Miller’s Armed Latino Gang
  11. In LaMonica McIver Dissent, Judge Ambro Describes Costs of Politicized Prosecution and Speech and Debate
  12. A Shoddy Analysis Was Written by Peter Baker
  13. Stephen Miller Sent 9 Special Operations Goons to Tail a Guy Driving ICE Out Signs
  14. The Invented Blockade and the Fake Doxing that HSI Turned into “Terrorism”
  15. Trump is Being Confronted by his Worst Nightmare
  16. Richard Berger: The False Affiant behind Minnesota’s Fabricated Cases

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