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New in PN: Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election

"Trump’s conspiracy theories, threats, & endless lawsuits aren’t simply about proving non-existent fraud in 2020. They’re part of an *actual* sprawling plan to sow doubt in future elections — specifically, ones Republicans lose"
Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election
In Georgia, the Big Lie has become the new Lost Cause.
www.publicnotice.co
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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“Cole also told agents that he supported President Donald Trump and held anarchist views”

www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/b...
Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole confessed, said he supports Trump and has anarchist views: MS NOW
Cole spoke to the authorities for "more than four hours" after his arrest, the government told a judge during the suspect's initial court appearance.
www.cnbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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On left:

President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:

"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."

On right:

(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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1. A comms guy threatening reporters by siccing the White House on them.
2. The wife of a WH official threatening a pundit's citizenship.
3. A drunk ICE agent saying he'll check an arresting officer's status.

These are all the same thing.
These are all the same thing.
1. When ProPublica emailed questions for a profile of the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, they received a response from the communications director of the state Republican Party. He...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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breaking news from late 2022, jack smith's team relied upon the jan. 6 committee.

stay tuned for the next scoop about how the J6 committee publicly posted their interviews in 2022 to make them readily accessible to interested parties, including federal prosecutors!
October 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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U.S. immigration leadership is reportedly being revamped in the image of a Border Patrol chief who will be in federal court TOMORROW for allegedly violating a court order by personally throwing two tear gas canisters into a crowd without provocation.

More on him here youtu.be/7PER0Pcc800?...
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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There are at least 170 incidents where ICE held US citizens against their will.
This includes 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Jack Smith didn't "tap" anyone's phone. He got phone records of potential insurrection suspects via lawful grand jury subpoenas. Just so happens some of those suspected of participating in January 6th were republican members of congress. If you don't want you phone records subpoenaed...
a man in a suit and tie is talking on a telephone and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a telephone and making a funny face .
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October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.
October 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
September 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news?

Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news?

Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?
September 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
August 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I'd been mulling over an essay about reality and AI and politics even while at The Post. Now I've written it. www.pbump.net/o/blurred-wo...
Blurred world
I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...
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August 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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From @ngertner.bsky.social & me in @nytimes.com: "Ms. Bondi wrote that Judge Boasberg’s comments 'have undermined the integrity of the judiciary . . . .' No. The way to look at this is the inverse: Her Justice Department is attempting to undermine the integrity of the judiciary and the rule of law."
Opinion | This Attack on a Federal Judge Is Preposterous
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM