Barton Gellman

Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago The Trump administration has claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show that their rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a protest, a car crash and a police radio call.

A Trump administration request to the Supreme Court to deploy troops in Chicago contains factual errors, mischaracterizing the responsiveness of local police and the actions of protesters, our Visual Investigations team found. nyti.ms/43T7qfn

Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.

We're now at the RE-PARDONS stage of this presidency www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

It's a revealing moment...

J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.

The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

“The shock value is wearing off and, in fact, the targeted communities are fighting back faster and with a more tried-and-true playbook: Organize quickly, step up and document the abuses, protest loudly, and fight in the courtrooms.”

We’ve talked about how we in the media normalize (even incentivize) aberrant behavior by public figures who make it their brand.

But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Can confirm that Fox News totally ignored the press conference where Epstein survivors and lawmakers called for the release of the Epstein files.

Last week, they ignored key revelations from the Epstein emails. These omissions depict a false reality to their viewers.

Really ties all the threads together, this one

JUST IN: A federal appeals court panel (with 2/3 Trump appointees) calls his lawsuit against CNN — over use of the term Big Lie — "meritless" and affirms the decision by a lower court to throw it out. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“They’re trying to somehow tie President Trump to the scandal”

Here’s an example of journalistic dedication. My husband, @danfagin.bsky.social, wrote the butterfly story. To fact-check the rice grains analogy, he asked a rice scientist (yes, there are such a thing) to weigh a dozen grains so Dan could get the average weight of a single grain.

This opinion demands to be read in full.

Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings:

* The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment.
* Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.

The Court recognizes that the relief sought by the defense is rarely granted. However, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding. Therefore, in this case, “the Court has before it a rare example of a criminal defendant who can actually make a ‘particularized and factually based’ showing that grounds exist to support the proposition that irregularities may have occurred in the grand jury proceedings and may justify the dismissal of one or more counts of the indictment.” See Naegele, 474 F. Supp. 2d at 10 (citations omitted). Accordingly, the defense request for all grand jury materials is granted.

A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.

Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...

Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)

Just downloaded it

What I Learned About Dick Cheney The former vice president was certain he knew better than the citizens he served what was good for them.

Reupping my look at Cheney’s legacy for those who sensibly spent time with friends and family over the weekend. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Say more. Just because Cheney lived there?

First kids at a Halloween parade getting tear gassed and now this. Abhorrent and unacceptable.

Rebuttal from a very smart lawyer (and friend) to one of my arguments in @theatlantic.com piece on Cheney.

That’s another whole piece and a good idea.

That’s in my piece. You could read it?

What I Learned About Dick Cheney The former vice president was certain he knew better than the citizens he served what was good for them.

Nearly two decades after my book on Cheney, I took a shot at assessing his legacy. It’s more complicated than you might think. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Trump’s Revenge Campaign Has a Weakness Prosecuting his enemies is turning out to be more difficult than he’d hoped—at least for now.

so far, grand and petit juries are the institutions with the best track record in standing up to authoritarianism

Troops in American Cities Experts discuss the legality of domestic military deployments.

President Trump’s troop deployments in Los Angeles, DC, Chicago, and other cities pose real threats to civil liberties and the rule of law.  

Experts will discuss the legality of Trump's domestic military deployments. Join us for a virtual event on Mon., Nov. 10, at 3pm EST. RSVP: bit.ly/4hJjSnB

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers A U.S. Senate investigation has uncovered numerous credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers across the country.

A U.S. Senate investigation led by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) "has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide — with detainees denied insulin, left without medical attention for days and forced to compete for clean water."

It's like an ICE competition for most heartless arrest. And it's so unnecessary to do it this way that it must somehow be deliberate. This is not who we are as a country.

Hey, thanks, David.

Dick Cheney, powerful vice president during war on terrorism, dies at 84 After 9/11, he used his role as President George W. Bush’s chief strategist to approve the use of torture and steer U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Former vice president Dick Cheney, who recast an understudy’s job into an engine of White House power, becoming chief architect of a post-9/11 war on terrorism that involved bypassing restrictions against torture and domestic espionage, died Nov. 3. He was 84." @bartongellman.bsky.social