Eric Lisann
@ericlisann.bsky.social
Lawyer, former federal and state prosecutor, independent legal analyst and contributor France24, adjunct HEC Paris. Father, loud spectator of college tennis matches. Same handle on the former Twitter.
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Eric Lisann
@ericlisann.bsky.social
· Aug 11
'Attack on Democrat-run cities: Trump takes DC crackdown to new level, flexing new-found authority'
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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Here's my lowdown on the latest power machinations extending federal control, lawfully or otherwise, on what has become a plant local DC government. With France24 English Sharon Gaffney.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Any observer, resident, or tourist walking around DC will tell you the deployments, aside from their judicially determined illegality, are nowhere where they would be useful and everywhere for performative optics.
Sarah Beckstrom’s longtime boyfriend told CNN that she felt her deployment to the nation’s capital was “pointless.”
Slain National Guard Victim Was Frustrated by D.C. Deployment
Sarah Beckstrom’s longtime boyfriend told CNN that she felt her deployment to the nation’s capital was “pointless.”
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November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Any observer, resident, or tourist walking around DC will tell you the deployments, aside from their judicially determined illegality, are nowhere where they would be useful and everywhere for performative optics.
Except it is an illegal war, lacking authorization from Congress or any imminent threat of direct injury to the United States.
WH knows this, rather than holding for trial survivors allegedly caught running drugs into US, they are simply let free to "fight" again. No chance to challenge legality.
WH knows this, rather than holding for trial survivors allegedly caught running drugs into US, they are simply let free to "fight" again. No chance to challenge legality.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Except it is an illegal war, lacking authorization from Congress or any imminent threat of direct injury to the United States.
WH knows this, rather than holding for trial survivors allegedly caught running drugs into US, they are simply let free to "fight" again. No chance to challenge legality.
WH knows this, rather than holding for trial survivors allegedly caught running drugs into US, they are simply let free to "fight" again. No chance to challenge legality.
The same malign foreign interests and their domestic Trumpworld servants that convinced low-information voters Hunter Biden was a significant national security threat have pulled off one of the most destructive acts of real global scale cronyism in modern history.
Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The same malign foreign interests and their domestic Trumpworld servants that convinced low-information voters Hunter Biden was a significant national security threat have pulled off one of the most destructive acts of real global scale cronyism in modern history.
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Under Trump sanctions against Russia are performative theater to disguise his communications/instructions received, from not only his daudience of receptive dupes but also from any remaining experts still with the government. From this process the "peace plan" emerged.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Under Trump sanctions against Russia are performative theater to disguise his communications/instructions received, from not only his daudience of receptive dupes but also from any remaining experts still with the government. From this process the "peace plan" emerged.
Public health experts make the case that scandal mongers try to hide. Nuzzi and enablers at Vanity Fair and the NYT are not mere gossip-mongers, they are enemies of public health and servants of RFK Jr bearing responsibility for the immeasurable harm he is inflicting.
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Public health experts make the case that scandal mongers try to hide. Nuzzi and enablers at Vanity Fair and the NYT are not mere gossip-mongers, they are enemies of public health and servants of RFK Jr bearing responsibility for the immeasurable harm he is inflicting.
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Rare defeat for Trump on the Supreme Court's opaque Emergency Docket, with a majority ruling against Trump's claim that the Director of the Library of Congress must step aside while Trump's claimed ability to fire him is litigated.
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Supreme Court bars Trump from firing Library of Congress official for now | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked barred President Donald Trump from replacing a top official at the Library of Congress for now, deferring a decision on his emergency appeal until it resolves a ...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Rare defeat for Trump on the Supreme Court's opaque Emergency Docket, with a majority ruling against Trump's claim that the Director of the Library of Congress must step aside while Trump's claimed ability to fire him is litigated.
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Trumpian allocation of prosecutorial resources means abandon all or most public corruption cases but interview and call 25 witnesses in a week-long federal jury trial against a sitting state judge because she allegedly let an illegal immigrant walk out the back door.
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Federal judge says trial for Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant will go on next month
A federal judge says the trial for a Milwaukee judge accused of illegally helping an immigrant avoid federal agents will proceed as planned despite talk of a plea deal.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trumpian allocation of prosecutorial resources means abandon all or most public corruption cases but interview and call 25 witnesses in a week-long federal jury trial against a sitting state judge because she allegedly let an illegal immigrant walk out the back door.
search.app/Z7WEP
search.app/Z7WEP
😅 🤡Putin at once trolling both low-information Trump backers and everyone else that must co-exist with them with a not-so-sly wink to oligarchs and captured media and politicians.
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
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November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
😅 🤡Putin at once trolling both low-information Trump backers and everyone else that must co-exist with them with a not-so-sly wink to oligarchs and captured media and politicians.
Is it more outrageous for a warmongering circus-directing Trump to unilaterally invade/attack:
a. Denmark
b. Venezuela
c. Canada
d. Mexico
e. Nigeria
or
f. Russia which is the only one that would never happen under Trump and that has not been directly threatened?
a. Denmark
b. Venezuela
c. Canada
d. Mexico
e. Nigeria
or
f. Russia which is the only one that would never happen under Trump and that has not been directly threatened?
Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row
US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row
US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Is it more outrageous for a warmongering circus-directing Trump to unilaterally invade/attack:
a. Denmark
b. Venezuela
c. Canada
d. Mexico
e. Nigeria
or
f. Russia which is the only one that would never happen under Trump and that has not been directly threatened?
a. Denmark
b. Venezuela
c. Canada
d. Mexico
e. Nigeria
or
f. Russia which is the only one that would never happen under Trump and that has not been directly threatened?
Pritzker is going to have to prosecute ICE for breaking the law.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Illinois is launching a new initiative to document abuses by federal agents — calling out ICE and CBP for targeting people of color and dodging accountability. “We’re going to have to keep a record. These people need to be held accountable.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Pritzker is going to have to prosecute ICE for breaking the law.
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This investigation of serious election fraud became a travesty right through to the bitter end as almost everyone involved got something fundamentally wrong, starting with Merrick Garland and his enablers who refused to investigate it in time.
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This investigation of serious election fraud became a travesty right through to the bitter end as almost everyone involved got something fundamentally wrong, starting with Merrick Garland and his enablers who refused to investigate it in time.
In which Republican politicians - here Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota - are called out as inveterate Trump stooges and beclown themselves on the global stage.
@maxboot.bsky.social goes to an international security forum and concludes that the post-American world/era has arrived. Oof. 🎁 link wapo.st/3XjwvfH
Opinion | America has become a rogue nation. U.S. allies are looking elsewhere.
Europeans and Canadians are talking about making their own security arrangements.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In which Republican politicians - here Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota - are called out as inveterate Trump stooges and beclown themselves on the global stage.
Those hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars going to/looted by Kristi Noem affiliated entities are not for conservation.
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Those hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars going to/looted by Kristi Noem affiliated entities are not for conservation.
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This investigation of serious election fraud became a travesty right through to the bitter end as almost everyone involved got something fundamentally wrong, starting with Merrick Garland and his enablers who refused to investigate it in time.
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This investigation of serious election fraud became a travesty right through to the bitter end as almost everyone involved got something fundamentally wrong, starting with Merrick Garland and his enablers who refused to investigate it in time.
This makes it a double whammy for Trump as another appellate panel previously slapped him down in his original attempt to sue CNN for calling his electoral claims the "Big Lie" - though one wonders whether CNN now wouldn't simply offer him up the money without the bother of him suing them for it.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
The judges ruled that the president’s arguments “were indeed frivolous.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
The judges ruled that the president’s arguments “were indeed frivolous.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
The judges ruled that the president’s arguments “were indeed frivolous.”
www.politico.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This makes it a double whammy for Trump as another appellate panel previously slapped him down in his original attempt to sue CNN for calling his electoral claims the "Big Lie" - though one wonders whether CNN now wouldn't simply offer him up the money without the bother of him suing them for it.
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"The truth is that, both before and afterwards, the government was largely asleep at the switch,” [victim attorney David] Mr. Boies said. Oddly left unstated in this NYT piece, and not the only time it is unstated, is that that government was headed by Donald Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, and His Estate Is Reaping Millions
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"The truth is that, both before and afterwards, the government was largely asleep at the switch,” [victim attorney David] Mr. Boies said. Oddly left unstated in this NYT piece, and not the only time it is unstated, is that that government was headed by Donald Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
Why did this happen? This is what the US needs to reconcile with and fix, fast.
Bolsonaro and Trump both attempted coups.
Bolsonaro got 27 years and Trump got a presidency.
Bolsonaro got 27 years and Trump got a presidency.
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Why did this happen? This is what the US needs to reconcile with and fix, fast.
Bondi accepts that Halligan is not going be US Attorney any more. She has been appointed a "special" prosecutor that allows her to pursue particular cases, ineptly or not and with others to do the actual work, but she will no longer run the office in the Eastern District of VA.
youtu.be/MsiEkX-5ca4
youtu.be/MsiEkX-5ca4
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Bondi accepts that Halligan is not going be US Attorney any more. She has been appointed a "special" prosecutor that allows her to pursue particular cases, ineptly or not and with others to do the actual work, but she will no longer run the office in the Eastern District of VA.
youtu.be/MsiEkX-5ca4
youtu.be/MsiEkX-5ca4
Trump's plan for Ukraine is a capitulation to Putin that allows Putin time and space to rearm for his next invasion.
"I see restrictions placed on only the defending nation; the granting of territory to an invader; the lifting of sanctions; the absence of enforceable guarantees. This creates the conditions for the next war—the world will have taught the aggressor force prevails."
www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...
www.thebulwark.com/p/letter-fro...
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
www.thebulwark.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump's plan for Ukraine is a capitulation to Putin that allows Putin time and space to rearm for his next invasion.
These is no legitimate predication for the FBI to engage in this behavior that is apparently designed to limit political speech of Trump opponents.
No one should voluntarily attend an interview with the FBI for this nonsense.
Fuck off and get an indictment should be the only response.
Fuck off and get an indictment should be the only response.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
These is no legitimate predication for the FBI to engage in this behavior that is apparently designed to limit political speech of Trump opponents.
Remember that Trump and Bondi and Patel are doing this to assure the criminal justice system is not weaponized, the way they claim it was under Biden and the fearful Merrick Garland regime.
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Remember that Trump and Bondi and Patel are doing this to assure the criminal justice system is not weaponized, the way they claim it was under Biden and the fearful Merrick Garland regime.
Surely Trump is now having discussions about a Special Forces or other military operation to salvage his Bolsonaro debacle.
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Surely Trump is now having discussions about a Special Forces or other military operation to salvage his Bolsonaro debacle.
Whither now for illegally appointed Lindsay Halligan? Unless the 4th Circuit or more likely the Supreme Court issues a stay, it will be up to the trial judges in the Eastern District of Virginia to pick who holds that post and that wont be her. But Bondi could still designate her to re-indict James.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Whither now for illegally appointed Lindsay Halligan? Unless the 4th Circuit or more likely the Supreme Court issues a stay, it will be up to the trial judges in the Eastern District of Virginia to pick who holds that post and that wont be her. But Bondi could still designate her to re-indict James.