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Whenever Glenn Greenwald attacks a woman in what will inevitably feed his right wing frothers, his attacks are based on false representations.This is no exception. Someone set a timer for

Sometimes, defendants say stupid things to incriminate themselves on prison phones. Landon Copeland, accused of assaulting cops, is busy in his first hearing demonstrating that he can't control his anger

Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson shot his neighbor's dog. Trump's kind of people.https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.228786/gov.uscourts.dcd.228786.152.0.pdf USG: Kenneth Harrelson is wrong to argue that there's a

This is going to be a thread about uncomfortable details on Mike Flynn's case. First, Flynn made multiple contradictory SWORN statements in court and the grand jury."In truth, I never

I know conventional wisdom is that Trump won't leave office without a pardon -- self- or from Pence. But it's REALLY unclear whether even this stacked SCOTUS would approve a

Congratulations to a lot of good reporters at the Intercept, who have been unfairly tainted by Glenn Greenwald simply making shit up with impunity for too long. Reminder that the

Folks: It is possible to believe (as I do) that people very close to Trump will be accused of some very ugly crimes. AND Believe that it violates the spirit

Here's the affidavit for the Whitmer kidnap plot arrest.https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1314232267812810753 The whole plot started out of conversations on June 6 about which governors were "tyrants." It's as if someone

I can't stop staring at this reflection. Here's the still compared to screen cap of video. Clearly different lighting, so it's hard to tell. Different angle.The still was taken with

A contact notes, "the regeneron drug, which is an infusion of a cocktail of two different monoclonal antibodies" would require that he be "in the hospital with an IV and

https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20393605-11th-mueller-foia-release-201001#document/p54/a2002403DOJ hiding the fact that Erik Prince funded Roger Stone's racist voter suppression efforts (which is public record) with a privacy r

The Comey hearing is about to start. Lindsey, Grassley, and Tom Cotton all wearing masks so prolly Trump will make fun of them.https://www.c-span.org/video/?475947-1/fbi-director-james-comey-testifies-russia-investigation&live One thing