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  • Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable

    The right wing wants to blame Kristi Noem's propaganda failures for the cratering legitimacy of Stephen Miller's deportation regime. If they want to scapegoat, let's make sure they include Miller as well.

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  • By Lying about Alex Pretti’s Murder, Kristi Noem Makes Herself a Co-Conspirator In It

    By lying about how her goons came to murder Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem makes it clear she's part of a conspiracy in his killing.

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  • How Do You Want Your Family to Remember You?

    Over the last several weeks, I've been thinking a lot about ugly government. Comparisons with the Gestapo have been increasingly prevalent, but other parallels have dominated my own thoughts.

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  • Minneapolis Chief Judge Attacks Pam Bondi’s False Claims about Don Lemon

    In responding to Pam Bondi's demand that he issue arrest warrants that DOJ could otherwise get via indictment, Minneapolis Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz noted that DOJ was making false claims about Don Lemon and described ICE's defiance of a number of orders as a more pressing emergency.

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Closed for Renovations

January 26, 2026
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Closed for renovations.
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2024 Presidential Election, Immigration

Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable

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January 26, 2026
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emptywheel
The right wing wants to blame Kristi Noem's propaganda failures for the cratering legitimacy of Stephen Miller's deportation regime. If they want to scapegoat, let's make sure they include Miller as well.
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Immigration

By Lying about Alex Pretti's Murder, Kristi Noem Makes Herself a Co-Conspirator In It

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January 25, 2026
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emptywheel
By lying about how her goons came to murder Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem makes it clear she's part of a conspiracy in his killing.
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Civil Rights, Department of Justice, Informants, Torture, Trump Administration

How Do You Want Your Family to Remember You?

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January 24, 2026
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Peterr
Over the last several weeks, I've been thinking a lot about ugly government. Comparisons with the Gestapo have been increasingly prevalent, but other parallels have dominated my own thoughts.
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Immigration

Minneapolis Chief Judge Attacks Pam Bondi's False Claims about Don Lemon

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January 24, 2026
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emptywheel
In responding to Pam Bondi's demand that he issue arrest warrants that DOJ could otherwise get via indictment, Minneapolis Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz noted that DOJ was making false claims about Don Lemon and described ICE's defiance of a number of orders as a more pressing emergency.
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2024 Presidential Election, DOGE, emptywheel, Leak Investigations, Weaponized DOJ

What Is DOJ Really After in Raiding Hannah Natanson?

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January 24, 2026
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emptywheel
The leak investigation of Aurelio Perez-Lugones seems like a pretext to disrupt Hannah Natanson's substantial reporting on the increasing authoritarianism of Donald Trump's regime, particularly as facilitated by DOGE.
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2024 Presidential Election, Immigration, Leak Investigations, Ukraine

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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January 23, 2026
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emptywheel
The week that the world recognized Donald Trump is stark-raving insane.
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Leak Investigations

In Indictment of Aurelio Perez-Lugones, DOJ Proves It Didn't Need to Search Hannah Natanson's Home

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January 23, 2026
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emptywheel
The indictment against accused leaker Aurelio Perez-Lugones proves that DOJ had no need to search the house of WaPo journalist Hannah Natanson.
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Department of Justice, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection

Pam Bondi's Slop

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January 23, 2026
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emptywheel
The AI slop the White House released after a politicized investigation of a protest of an ICE goon's Baptist Church perfectly embodies the bullshit that Trump's DOJ churns out instead of rule of law.
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2024 Presidential Election

Trump's Vulnerability and the Bunker-Ballroom

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January 21, 2026
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emptywheel
Trump tied his own sense of vulnerability to his rush to rebuild the bunker under the ballroom.
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DOGE, Surveillance

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told You So, Social Security Edition

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January 21, 2026
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emptywheel
DOJ just confirmed that DOGE boys at the Social Security Administration were doing more than they told Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander about in March. But the new disclosures say nothing about the far more alarming things that Chuck Borges alleged to have happened in August.
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2024 Presidential Election, Economics

The Truth of Dead Exceptionalism

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January 21, 2026
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emptywheel
The advice Mark Carney offered yesterday was that of a two-time central banker. But he framed that advice in the hegemon-defying frame of Václav Havel's Power of the Powerless.
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Foreign Policy, Venezuelan Coup

Trump Needs a Shrink and a Baby-Sitter, Not a National Security Adviser

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January 20, 2026
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emptywheel
Donald Trump is invading sovereign foreign countries, without even the ability to consider the years-long aftermath, out of a psychological need. 
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Culture, Republicans, Trump 2.0

What My Mom's Dementia Tells Me

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January 19, 2026
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Rayne
My mom's getting the intervention and continuous care she needs. But this post isn't about my mother.
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2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Financial Fraud, Immigration, Terrorism

Time to Unplug the American Century and Restart the Machine

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January 19, 2026
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emptywheel
Trump has abdicated America's role as a hegemon. That creates an opportunity to disavow the rest of America's hegemonic failures this century.
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Foreign Policy, Greenland

Voiding International Agreements Can Have Awkward Consequences

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January 17, 2026
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Peterr
If you want to void one real estate deal, be careful, because other folks may decide to do the same with you on other deals you have made.
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Foreign Policy, Greenland, Trump Administration

When Even the German Far-Right Thinks You've Gone Too Far . . .

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January 17, 2026
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Peterr
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is filled with neo-Nazis with whom Stephen Miller would feel right at home. Until today.
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David Huerta prosecution, Immigration, Weaponized DOJ

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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January 16, 2026
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emptywheel
The invasion of Minnesota has only gotten more bleak--but civil society is stepping up to the challenge.
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Epstein, Immigration, Weaponized DOJ

"Epstein Is Dead:" Pam Bondi Is Neglecting Live Sex Trafficking Prosecutions to Criminalize Democrats

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January 16, 2026
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emptywheel
Between witch hunts targeting Trump's enemies, Stephen Miller's assault on immigration, and Pam Bondi's need to replicate the Jeffrey Epstein review she ordered last March, current sex trafficking prosecutions are being neglected, to say nothing of national security cases.
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David Huerta prosecution, emptywheel, Surveillance, Weaponized DOJ

DOJ Continues to Let DHS Pick and Choose Screen Shots Pertaining to Their Assaults

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January 15, 2026
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emptywheel
Because DHS allows its goons to use personal cell phones during operations and doesn't properly archive the resulting communications, defendants are increasingly struggling to get relevant evidence in discovery.
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