Piatto Delgatto

As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role

.@charliesavage.bsky.social explains forum in Trump's grand conspiracy probe. Key grand jury sits in Judge Cannon's Fort Pierce. Ex-Trump atty Blanche oversees US Atty thru aide who clerked for Cannon when she dism'd Trump's case.(gift) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind What really happened when he logged out of Washington.

"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This is the pattern: ICE/CBP initiate violence toward observers and protestors, then they claim they were assaulted in order to use the threat of prison to silence dissent.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Graphic showing that since 2019 republican support for school vaccine requirements has dropped from 79% in 2019 to 52% now. For democrats the figures are 86% and 86%.

Anti-vaccine sentiment is now a load-bearing plank in the Republican platform.

Democrats haven’t budged on the need for school vaccine requirements since 2019. Republicans have consumed so much disinformation that their support has declined by 27% since then.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

AIA members believe James McCrery, Trump’s White House ballroom architect, may have violated the AIA’s Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/aia-...

🤞I have been holding this screenshot since '16 hoping one day this sociopath reveals himself. And what do yo know - Lizza would have been 42. A bunch of empty careerists. www.gq.com/story/inside...

Always think about the Musgrave tweet chain here.

My biggest fear is that everything will turn out just fine.

So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.

Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.

Trump Shows His Power, and Greene Reveals His Weakness

Greene's departure represents another political notch in Trump’s belt, the retreat of another would-be Republican rebel. But the defiant nature of her video announcement hinted at the fissures now dividing the president’s movement. Lisa Lerer @reidepstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

A young man with long hair and a tie-dyed shirt.

Yes, I used to be hot, lol

A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Iranian regime has destroyed Tehran, all because they’re too corrupt and incompetent to manage the water supply, and now 10M ppl are about to be forcibly displaced.

The Conspiracists' War Inside the shadow briefings that linked Venezuela, stolen-election claims, and real-world killings at sea.

This is good. Inside the shadow briefings that linked Venezuela, stolen-election claims, and real-world killings at sea.

MR. LEMONS: Thank you, Your Honor. Hour Honor, the government's position and understanding of the way things proceeded is that there was only one indictment presented and that the -- I guess what Your Honor is referring to is the new indictment was, in fact, not a new indictment. The grand jury, through the entire course of events, had said, and was maintained and consistent, that they only no true billed Count One and they true billed Counts Two and Three, and that the edits to the indictment were only to reflect the voting of the grand jury and were not an actual new indictment in any way whatsoever. THE COURT: All right. So now let me ask you the question again. Let me be clear that the second indictment, the operative indictment in this case that Mr. Comey faces, is a document that was never shown to the entire grand jury or presented in the grand jury room; is that correct? MR. LEMONS: Standing here in front of you, Your Honor, yes, that is my understanding. Now, I don't -- I was not there, but that is my understanding, yes, Your Honor.

Schrödinger's indictment

Well, this is chilling AF.

The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Costa Rica will accept Abrego, per @washingtonpost.com .
If true, DOJ, DHS, and Dept of State caused lies to be disseminated to Judge Xinis all day Thursday, where an ICE official testified about info sent him by Dept of State, claiming Costa Rica wouldn't take Abrego.
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Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...

Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...

Blind Man's Bluff in the Jim Comey Docket - emptywheel Jim Comey's latest motion to dismiss his prosecution is a bid to air certain complaints before Judges Nachmanoff and Currie decide on other of his challenges to his indictment.

Blind Man's Bluff in the Jim Comey Docket

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/22/b...

They line up perfectly.

Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.

The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Russian signal jammed Irish aircraft communications channel Russia has been engaged in the jamming of civilian aircraft communications and GPS signals since the start of its invasion of Ukraine

Russian signal jammed Irish aircraft communications channel

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Trump’s Truth social post

Trump, Mamdani, and FDR.

Trump, Mamdani, and FDR.

Mamdani and FDR.

Let’s be clear.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.

too many people in Washington. I believe in term limits and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility. My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America First, and I have fought against Democrat's damaging policies like the Green New Deal, wide open deadly unsafe border policies, and the trans agenda on children and against women. With that has brought years of nonstop never ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me, that most people could never withstand even for a day. It has been unfair and wrong, not only to me and especially my family, but to my district as well. I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me. It's all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a "battered wife" hoping it all goes away and gets better. If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can't even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well. There is no "plan to save the world" or insane 4D chess game being played. When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real p…

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is resigning from Congress in January

Donald and the sexist, offensive, blatantly illegal, brazenly unpresidential week The week that was — and the work of Bloomberg News's Catherine Lucey, ABC News's Mary Bruce, Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, and many more.

NEW: Donald and the sexist, offensive, blatantly illegal, brazenly unpresidential week.

The week that was — and the work of Bloomberg News's Catherine Lucey, ABC News's Mary Bruce, Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, and many more.

This afternoon, at Law Dork:

YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: Trump and Mamdani hold meeting at the White House

The Mamdani-Trump Oval Office press conference is starting now

Working on a ridiculous paper, 120 pages. Not sure it is all that coherent, though it has many good bits.

This is some Maoist bullshit, lol

Not the main point, but this is a ridiculous graph.