1. Never showed the indictment.
2. Underlings refusing to fry for their boss.

State bar's gonna have a field day.

That cracking sound you hear is Halligan's law license burning.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/due-to-...

To Err is Human, to Porcine Divine
By David Brooks and Ross Douthat

Dominant Donald Sends One Piggy to Market, Makes one Cry Wah Wah Wah All the Way Home

By Maureen Dowd

By Tom Nichols

"Mr. President, who's bubba?"

Given the way he treats the press, fair game.

Fuck grandma is a terrible message given the average age of a fox viewer.

I love watching these with the sound off. He usually looks smarmy. Here he looks like he knows his ship is sinking.
Good.

Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

A government that murders people on boats will murder its detainees and -eventually- its citizens. Nazis steal. Then they lie. Then they kill.

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

This. It’s pathology not politics

shit officially getting real. This is what an adversarial system looks like.

No presumption of regularity.

A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.

Pathology. More than anything else, he can't be seen as weak. Imagine the narcissistic injury of him losing a house vote by a lot, not to mention the lame duck part.

(Now he "gave" them permission, and he'll use the "investigation" to delay release.).

You read stuff about how so many attorneys want to do "meaningful" work at large firms, and yet when push really does come to shove...
The people I know who would have jumped at this are all outside of biglaw.

New client recruiting strategy just dropped.

Thie could be complete bullshit. But if it's true, it certainly explains Helsinki.
"Donald, this you?"

"Here's exactly what you're going to do for me, Donald. Don't worry, I want to help you."

To be clear: Trump is only calling for the GOP to release the Epstein files because he was told he’s about to lose 150+ republicans on this vote.

Lindsay Halligan has put her license in the frame.

I still can’t believe this motherfucker tore down the East Wing.

Trump is so proud of his performance, I bet he could be goaded into taking the test on live TV. That would absolutely silence all his critics.

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.

Where are my Originalists at?

Can the next please dear God can the next interviewer ask MTG about oh I don’t know January 6th etc before we keep pretending she found politics Jesus

If we determine that Donald Trump's involvement in sex trafficking was part of an official act as a future president, then the Constitution demands that he face no consequences.

by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)

sadly this is probably true

Reminder: there are no trade deals. Nothing binding was actually signed. 90% of news coverage you saw about “trade deals” was wildly misleading. It’s pretty weird. And it will get weirder as “deals” turn out to be not deals, actually.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

In a time when the Democratic Party urgently needs Winston Churchills, it has far too many Neville Chamberlains.