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· Dec 7
Bit peeved at persistent anti Garland disinformation so here’s a thread
With Hat Tips to @emptywheel.bsky.social and
@muellershewrote.bsky.social 🧵
With Hat Tips to @emptywheel.bsky.social and
@muellershewrote.bsky.social 🧵
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Rubio was photographed pacing around the Oval today and then Trump tweaked out on camera for 20 minutes tonight. I wonder what speech Trump planned to give when he announced it yesterday and if plans changed.
December 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Rubio was photographed pacing around the Oval today and then Trump tweaked out on camera for 20 minutes tonight. I wonder what speech Trump planned to give when he announced it yesterday and if plans changed.
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Yes, @gregsargent.bsky.social is exactly right here, and that is a far bigger story than just Kilmar himself.
It is about who we, as the United States writ large, are. It cannot be that which Trump and Miller are.
It is about who we, as the United States writ large, are. It cannot be that which Trump and Miller are.
There's ample evidence that Trump/Miller saw Abrego Garcia as a test for the broader MAGA project. Miller hopes to carve out power for Trump to remove people with zero legal constraints. JD Vance's dishonesty has been reprehensible. It all now looks even worse. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yes, @gregsargent.bsky.social is exactly right here, and that is a far bigger story than just Kilmar himself.
It is about who we, as the United States writ large, are. It cannot be that which Trump and Miller are.
It is about who we, as the United States writ large, are. It cannot be that which Trump and Miller are.
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Warned that this was going to happen. And if Trump’s DOJ doesn’t fight it, I’m not sure there’s much that can be done to stop it.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/magas-300-...
radleybalko.substack.com/p/magas-300-...
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Warned that this was going to happen. And if Trump’s DOJ doesn’t fight it, I’m not sure there’s much that can be done to stop it.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/magas-300-...
radleybalko.substack.com/p/magas-300-...
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Back in 2019 I wrote about how Rex Tillerson discovered in a HPSCI hearing that Jared had been withholding his private plans from then Secretary of State.
We haven't skipped a beat since.
www.emptywheel.net/2019/06/28/a...
We haven't skipped a beat since.
www.emptywheel.net/2019/06/28/a...
Amid Description of Kushner's Shadow Foreign Policy, Tillerson Counters a Jared Claim to Mueller about Kirill Dmitriev's Plan - emptywheel
Rex Tillerson told the HFRC some pretty alarming things about how Jared pursued his own diplomatic plans without informing him. That makes Tillerson's claim -- that Kushner did not (as Kushner told Mu...
www.emptywheel.net
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Back in 2019 I wrote about how Rex Tillerson discovered in a HPSCI hearing that Jared had been withholding his private plans from then Secretary of State.
We haven't skipped a beat since.
www.emptywheel.net/2019/06/28/a...
We haven't skipped a beat since.
www.emptywheel.net/2019/06/28/a...
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NEW: Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law.
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
www.lawdork.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW: Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law.
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
youtube.com/watch?v=nWuM...
updates from Pokrovsk
to NE, battlefield is gruesome stalemate,
To prevent Ukrainians from taking back more ground, Russian command throw thousands of soldiers in waves so the battlefield is a death zone, with Russians walking over their own corpses to advance at all.
updates from Pokrovsk
to NE, battlefield is gruesome stalemate,
To prevent Ukrainians from taking back more ground, Russian command throw thousands of soldiers in waves so the battlefield is a death zone, with Russians walking over their own corpses to advance at all.
Russian waves collapse as bodies pile in anti-tank ditches under constant strikes
YouTube video by RFU News — Reporting from Ukraine
youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=nWuM...
updates from Pokrovsk
to NE, battlefield is gruesome stalemate,
To prevent Ukrainians from taking back more ground, Russian command throw thousands of soldiers in waves so the battlefield is a death zone, with Russians walking over their own corpses to advance at all.
updates from Pokrovsk
to NE, battlefield is gruesome stalemate,
To prevent Ukrainians from taking back more ground, Russian command throw thousands of soldiers in waves so the battlefield is a death zone, with Russians walking over their own corpses to advance at all.
youtube.com/watch?v=gOAj...
Russia has suffered massive casualties, Russia kept going due to ability to refill their ranks: that has just changed. Many Russian regions are struggling to meet their recruitment quotas, because Russia running out of money the signing bonuses being forced lower. 1/2
Russia has suffered massive casualties, Russia kept going due to ability to refill their ranks: that has just changed. Many Russian regions are struggling to meet their recruitment quotas, because Russia running out of money the signing bonuses being forced lower. 1/2
Russia Just Reached a Critical Tipping Point
YouTube video by Paul Warburg
youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=gOAj...
Russia has suffered massive casualties, Russia kept going due to ability to refill their ranks: that has just changed. Many Russian regions are struggling to meet their recruitment quotas, because Russia running out of money the signing bonuses being forced lower. 1/2
Russia has suffered massive casualties, Russia kept going due to ability to refill their ranks: that has just changed. Many Russian regions are struggling to meet their recruitment quotas, because Russia running out of money the signing bonuses being forced lower. 1/2
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Trump has confirmed Europeans’ worst fears. Are their leaders ready to stand up to him now?
Trump has confirmed Europeans’ worst fears. Are their leaders ready to stand up to him now?
The White House has formalised its contempt for ‘decaying’ Europe with an ominous plan to undermine the EU and boost the far right
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Trump has confirmed Europeans’ worst fears. Are their leaders ready to stand up to him now?
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Here's key part of Charles Breyer's order that USG has to stop poaching CA's National Guard.
Add it to the logjam of NG cases...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Add it to the logjam of NG cases...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Defendants nevertheless attempt to circumvent the scope of Section 12406 by
characterizing the Orders as extensions of federalization, which they argue are outside the
statute’s reach. Opp’n at 4 (“Congress decided against subjecting the continuation of a
mission to further regulation by Section 12406.”). Indeed, at the motion hearing,
Defendants confirmed their position that, after an initial federalization, all extensions of
federalization orders are utterly unreviewable, forever.
That is shocking. Adopting Defendants’ interpretation of Section 12406 would
permit a president to create a perpetual police force comprised of state troops, so long as
they were first federalized lawfully. Such a scenario would validate the Founders’
“widespread fear [of] a national standing Army,” which they believed “posed an
intolerable threat to individual liberty and to the sovereignty of the separate States.”
Perpich v. Dep’t of Def., 496 U.S. 334, 340 (1990). Defendants’ argument for a president
to hold unchecked power to control state troops would wholly upend the federalism that is
at the heart of our system of government. See Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer,
343 U.S. 579, 638 (1952) (Jackson, J., concurring) (“Presidential claim to a power at once
so conclusive and preclusive must be scrutinized with caution, for what is at stake is the
equilibrium established by our constitutional system.”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibqd35scjenaxce7adom4lsuagsb26gntwxutpyev4mhgzefym72a@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Here's key part of Charles Breyer's order that USG has to stop poaching CA's National Guard.
Add it to the logjam of NG cases...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Add it to the logjam of NG cases...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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With national implications:
"Defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops."
DOJ's claim that re-federalization is "completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts ... is contrary to law."
"Defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops."
DOJ's claim that re-federalization is "completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts ... is contrary to law."
BREAKING
Trump’s troops must get out of Los Angeles, a federal judge rules.
(Ruling paused until Monday.)
Look out for more coverage soon at All Rise News.
Trump’s troops must get out of Los Angeles, a federal judge rules.
(Ruling paused until Monday.)
Look out for more coverage soon at All Rise News.
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
With national implications:
"Defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops."
DOJ's claim that re-federalization is "completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts ... is contrary to law."
"Defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops."
DOJ's claim that re-federalization is "completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts ... is contrary to law."
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I litigated a case against Monsanto concerning genetically modified seeds in the early aughts, and when I tell you how much this doesn't surprise me---
One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...
Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…
retractionwatch.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I litigated a case against Monsanto concerning genetically modified seeds in the early aughts, and when I tell you how much this doesn't surprise me---
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”
newrepublic.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=TOrj...
deep dive into the variety of ways the president's current authoritarian overreach is meeting blowback.
including a WaPost report about the deliberate execution of two shipwreck survivors in September after the U.S. military destroyed their boat at sea. 1/2
deep dive into the variety of ways the president's current authoritarian overreach is meeting blowback.
including a WaPost report about the deliberate execution of two shipwreck survivors in September after the U.S. military destroyed their boat at sea. 1/2
Poking Holes in Fascism
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=TOrj...
deep dive into the variety of ways the president's current authoritarian overreach is meeting blowback.
including a WaPost report about the deliberate execution of two shipwreck survivors in September after the U.S. military destroyed their boat at sea. 1/2
deep dive into the variety of ways the president's current authoritarian overreach is meeting blowback.
including a WaPost report about the deliberate execution of two shipwreck survivors in September after the U.S. military destroyed their boat at sea. 1/2
I love the smell of
Reform self immolating
on a Winter’s afternoon
— it smells of chestnuts and chicory
Seasons Greetings to One and All
🎄🌰🌰🌰🌰🥬
Reform self immolating
on a Winter’s afternoon
— it smells of chestnuts and chicory
Seasons Greetings to One and All
🎄🌰🌰🌰🌰🥬
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I love the smell of
Reform self immolating
on a Winter’s afternoon
— it smells of chestnuts and chicory
Seasons Greetings to One and All
🎄🌰🌰🌰🌰🥬
Reform self immolating
on a Winter’s afternoon
— it smells of chestnuts and chicory
Seasons Greetings to One and All
🎄🌰🌰🌰🌰🥬
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CNN with a useful timeline of all the bullshit Trump and his minions have said abt the September 2 strike.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
Here’s what the Trump administration has said about the ‘double-tap’ strike on an alleged drug boat | CNN Politics
As the US military’s September strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has come under increased scrutiny by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and military legal experts, the Trump administr...
edition.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
CNN with a useful timeline of all the bullshit Trump and his minions have said abt the September 2 strike.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
youtube.com/watch?v=fRar...
Chief Con. WMidlands Police defended decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a football match against Aston Villa:informed decision based on intelligence provided by Dutch police re conduct of Maccabi fans at and around match in Amsterdam iNov 2024.
Chief Con. WMidlands Police defended decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a football match against Aston Villa:informed decision based on intelligence provided by Dutch police re conduct of Maccabi fans at and around match in Amsterdam iNov 2024.
Police chief schools pro-Israel politicians on football hooligans
YouTube video by Declassified UK
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=fRar...
Chief Con. WMidlands Police defended decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a football match against Aston Villa:informed decision based on intelligence provided by Dutch police re conduct of Maccabi fans at and around match in Amsterdam iNov 2024.
Chief Con. WMidlands Police defended decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a football match against Aston Villa:informed decision based on intelligence provided by Dutch police re conduct of Maccabi fans at and around match in Amsterdam iNov 2024.
Good spot‼️
But are you sure it’s not just misquoting pETE’s statement of his Title
“ PETE HEGShETHsh
ShSECRETARY of WAOAR”
But are you sure it’s not just misquoting pETE’s statement of his Title
“ PETE HEGShETHsh
ShSECRETARY of WAOAR”
Hegseth’s name card says “SSECRETARY OF WAR.” (sic)
Either more of that egregious White House incompetence or just openly flaunting the whole SS thing now. Or both maybe.
Either more of that egregious White House incompetence or just openly flaunting the whole SS thing now. Or both maybe.
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Good spot‼️
But are you sure it’s not just misquoting pETE’s statement of his Title
“ PETE HEGShETHsh
ShSECRETARY of WAOAR”
But are you sure it’s not just misquoting pETE’s statement of his Title
“ PETE HEGShETHsh
ShSECRETARY of WAOAR”
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Hegseth: "We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean"
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hegseth: "We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean"
youtube.com/shorts/VY_-B...
During roundtable event at White House Thurs 23 Oct on immigration and crime crackdown, SecWar Pete Hegseth said DeptWar is going to treat foreign terrorist organizations like ‘al-Qaida.’ Citing Caribbean & Pacific actions as examplars, revelling in deaths
Aged well🙄
During roundtable event at White House Thurs 23 Oct on immigration and crime crackdown, SecWar Pete Hegseth said DeptWar is going to treat foreign terrorist organizations like ‘al-Qaida.’ Citing Caribbean & Pacific actions as examplars, revelling in deaths
Aged well🙄
‘We will hunt you down, and we will kill you’: Hegseth on foreign terrorist orgs
YouTube video by The National Desk
youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
youtube.com/shorts/VY_-B...
During roundtable event at White House Thurs 23 Oct on immigration and crime crackdown, SecWar Pete Hegseth said DeptWar is going to treat foreign terrorist organizations like ‘al-Qaida.’ Citing Caribbean & Pacific actions as examplars, revelling in deaths
Aged well🙄
During roundtable event at White House Thurs 23 Oct on immigration and crime crackdown, SecWar Pete Hegseth said DeptWar is going to treat foreign terrorist organizations like ‘al-Qaida.’ Citing Caribbean & Pacific actions as examplars, revelling in deaths
Aged well🙄
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National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show
National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show
Mental health of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who is charged with murder, had reportedly been unravelling for years
The suspect in the shooting of two West Virginia national guard soldiers in Washington DC on the eve of Thanksgiving had been struggling with his mental health, sometimes spending “weeks on end” in isolation, as he struggled to assimilate in the years since arriving in the United States, it has emerged.
According to emails obtained by the Associated Press, Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s mental health had been unravelling for years, leaving him unable to hold a job and flipping between long, dark stretches of isolation and taking sudden weeks-long cross-country drives. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show
youtube.com/watch?v=H3p7...
Lucy Connolly self martyrdom continues apace.
Now using her daughter’s complex educational plight as yet another basis for politicising her own “celebrity”
She’s a fascist rabble rouser rightly jailed.
She told lies to the Appeal Court and was disbelieved.
Lucy Connolly self martyrdom continues apace.
Now using her daughter’s complex educational plight as yet another basis for politicising her own “celebrity”
She’s a fascist rabble rouser rightly jailed.
She told lies to the Appeal Court and was disbelieved.
Lucy Connolly's Daughter REJECTED From Local School?
YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre
youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=H3p7...
Lucy Connolly self martyrdom continues apace.
Now using her daughter’s complex educational plight as yet another basis for politicising her own “celebrity”
She’s a fascist rabble rouser rightly jailed.
She told lies to the Appeal Court and was disbelieved.
Lucy Connolly self martyrdom continues apace.
Now using her daughter’s complex educational plight as yet another basis for politicising her own “celebrity”
She’s a fascist rabble rouser rightly jailed.
She told lies to the Appeal Court and was disbelieved.
youtube.com/shorts/xXNA1...
Trump secretly commuted 7 year sentence of author of Ponzi Scheme involving $1billion+, 1700 victims including retirees who lost their life savings.
For unexplained explained reasons
David Gentile GBP Capital sentence starting 14Nov was commuted 12 days later
WTAF‼️‼️‼️
Trump secretly commuted 7 year sentence of author of Ponzi Scheme involving $1billion+, 1700 victims including retirees who lost their life savings.
For unexplained explained reasons
David Gentile GBP Capital sentence starting 14Nov was commuted 12 days later
WTAF‼️‼️‼️
Trump frees billion-dollar Ponzi schemer
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
youtube.com/shorts/xXNA1...
Trump secretly commuted 7 year sentence of author of Ponzi Scheme involving $1billion+, 1700 victims including retirees who lost their life savings.
For unexplained explained reasons
David Gentile GBP Capital sentence starting 14Nov was commuted 12 days later
WTAF‼️‼️‼️
Trump secretly commuted 7 year sentence of author of Ponzi Scheme involving $1billion+, 1700 victims including retirees who lost their life savings.
For unexplained explained reasons
David Gentile GBP Capital sentence starting 14Nov was commuted 12 days later
WTAF‼️‼️‼️