WaPo reports that Trump is stealing money again, this time money appropriated for (among others) Eastern Europe and sending it to Latin America. But I think stealing $$ from Iraq is just as important. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!
“The entire Klan Act lawsuit describes how Stephen sent masked men into Minnesota on the pretext of hunting down Somalis — whom he and Katie had dehumanized for years — to deprive everyone there of their civil rights.”
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h agoTodd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/t...
Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/t...
Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller - emptywheel
When announcing the arrest of a guy who sent Katie Miller 40 mean messages, Todd Blanche claimed he would give everyone such protection. But a Klan Act lawsuit filed by Renee Good's family proves that...
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Notorious alleged closet case claims he voted to get rid of his own spouse.
The Hill reviewed the texts from which Eric Schmitt invented his conspiracy. They never mentioned the Hawks OR the Hawkeyes. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names
Text messages obtained by The Hill show former special counsel Jack Smith’s staff didn’t reference any basketball team names, adding to the confusion around why Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) errantly a…
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The Good Klan lawsuit (as distinct from wrongful death) names Palantir and Clearview as co-conspirators. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Note: I guess this is what Andrew Bailey didn't want a part of. (He probably hated the slander of Republican MN Judge Patrick Schiltz as well.)
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 15h agoNEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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October 1, 2026 split screen. On the left, what happened to Becca Good after Trump and others slandered Renee (from the family's lawsuit against Stephen). On the right, some calls Katie Miller's parents got. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/m...
![Proia also allegedly sent the following text messages to phones numbers associated with the victim’s parents:
a. “Good morning [first name of victim’s mother]. Does it disturb you that such evil as [Federal Official] is married to the creature that slithered from your Cunt?”
b. [Photo of Victim 1]
c. “My god, how can you be proud of this filth?”
d. “Hey [first name of victim’s father], how goes it? Hope your daughter marrying a Jewish Nazi/white supremacist is working out for you and [first name of victim’s mother]. Did you raise her to be trash or did that just happen naturally?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreid7uzkrhss54jdr5on5zaeqmvabbnsizerwwfdvraexweaj37pcty)
Nice to see key Senate Dems introducing a bill to punish Trump for violating the prohibition on using government funds for propaganda. The bill would cut OMB's budget by $20M for each violation found by GAO. Soon to ride on an approps bill near you? www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Here's what the press release for the arrest of what appears to be the accused stalker of Katie Miller says about terrorizing people. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/m...
Hey legal and finance Bluesky: I just got a court notice of a class action trial verdict against Elon Musk for manipulating the stock price of Twitter in 2022. If you sold shares (or bought puts or sold calls) from May-Oct 2022, you can get some of Elon Musk's money. Here are the docs.
Here is the stalking that DOJ just arrested someone for sending to what appears to be Katie Miller's parents. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/m...
Perry: "It's often said that the cover-up is worse than the crime."
One problem w/this arg I haven't seen made is that there were at least two prosecutorial decisions. 1) Go for a felony conspiracy charge on 10/9. 2) Go again for that felony conspiracy charge on 10/16, which is when GJers got kicked out. At the same time, Boutros was DROPPING other felony cases.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h agoWhalen indicates there were communications outside the U.S. attorney's office after a charging decision was made. Perry tries to pin down WHEN THAT WAS. Whalen tells her the feds tried to clarify that in a brief. And Perry's eyes go wide.
Ut oh. Whalen forgot Judge Perry was a longtime AUSA. WRONG ANSWER!!!
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h agoPerry: "What's the Department of Justice's standard for opening a criminal investigation against a person?" Whalen: "Probable cause." Perry: "No, that's for bringing charges."
Follow @jonseidel.bsky.social for live coverage of Broadview 6 hearing that just started.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h agoWe're less than an hour away from today's "Broadview Six" hearing. You can follow me here for live updates, but the @chicago.suntimes.com will also have up-to-date coverage here: chicago.suntimes.com/live/broadvi...
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
New graphics from AdImpact vividly illustrate something we've emphasized repeatedly: The GOP's massive spending advantage is *not* translating into a comparable *advertising* advantage. In #TXSen, e.g., the GOP has spent 66% of all ad money but aired just 54% of all ads adimpact.com/blogs/republ...
In Ending Case against Davey Hearn, Judge Declares: No Crime Was Committed emptywheel.net/2026/10/01/j...
In Ending Case against Davey Hearn, Judge Declares: No Crime Was Committed - emptywheel
In dismissing the case against Davey Hearn with prejudice, Judge Todd Edelman pointed to the risk posed by Donald Trump's ongoing threats as the harm that requires dismissal with prejudice.
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This is massive. Buried in this interview (which is a great read btw), @abdulelsayed.bsky.social calls for investigations into Elon Musk and DOGE 🙌 www.scientificamerican.com/article/demo...
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · yesterdayI went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Do yourself a favor and read this for your local elections before you fill our your ballot. It's really useful now and will be really useful after the election.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 22h agoNEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
What Trent McCotter & Stan Woodward cite (in quotation marks) as Judge Schiltz' "comments" are in most cases @schwartzesque.bsky.social descriptions. In case of Schiltz' purported statement about ongoing Cities Chuch case, the ONLY thing that has to have come from Schiltz was in a letter he sent.
![Quote from complaint
The Trump Administration has also “gone over his head” (and “gone around him”) “to an appeals court” after Judge Schiltz had advised Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney that Judge Schiltz would not review a magistrate judge’s decision to deny a search warrant application until “after the bench met in person the following week.”
Passage of story those "quotes" are based on
On Jan. 23, Judge Schiltz was at home cooking lunch when he received an email informing him the Trump administration had gone over his head to an appeals court.
[snip]
Minnesota’s U.S. attorney, Daniel Rosen, then took the unusual step of requesting that another judge review Judge Micko’s decision. Judge Schiltz had told Mr. Rosen that he would decide on that after the bench met in person the following week.
That timeline wasn’t fast enough for the Justice Department. The Jan. 23 email informed Judge Schiltz that the administration had gone around him.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreiaieii4sqi2bxtogrfov6bacbfr3lfoj5kxgsb6ney4lfrca5psfq)
In Claiming Misconduct, Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward Fabricated Key Claims emptywheel.net/2026/10/01/i...
In Claiming Misconduct, Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward Fabricated Key Claims - emptywheel
Among the many wildly unethical things Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward do to frame Judge Patrick Schiltz with a misconduct complaint is quote something he said in a document filed in court as if it n...
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So this is release diesel over 6 months. Trump says the war will end in November.
Reuters@reuters.com · yesterdayEXCLUSIVE: US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say reut.rs/3U3eCng
Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”
This is stupid, but if Trump tried to rename AI to gin up AI company registrations in Solvenia to profit off the migration (which is one hypothesis out there), it's not as stupid as it looks.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterdayWe live in such an incredibly stupid era
