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How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
The Power of Making Connection
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The Power of Making Connection
Musings from a routine day in a criminal courtroom
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October 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Power of Making Connection
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Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump’s Nutjobs to Kill Democrats www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...
Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats - emptywheel
Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump’s Nutjobs to Kill Democrats www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...
Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/m...
Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions - emptywheel
Watching the mainstream press, you'd think it was the first time that an investigation ordered up by Donald Trump resulted in a flimsy false statements charge just before the statute of limitations ex...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Mainstream Press Confesses They Missed the Other Politicized Prosecutions www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/m...
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A deeply depraved portrait of hubris.
Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service:
"He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponents."
"He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponents."
September 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A deeply depraved portrait of hubris.
Ten Years Ago I Warned Republicans Had Few Means of Limiting the Damage Trump Would Do www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/30/t...
Ten Years Ago I Warned Republicans Had Few Means of Limiting the Damage Trump Would Do - emptywheel
Ten years ago today, I observed that Republicans had "few means of controlling [Donald Trump] and even fewer to limit any damage he might do if provoked." In those ten years he set out to -- and made ...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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2) Three quarters of Republicans (77%) and white evangelicals (74%) favor installing deterrents such as walls, floating barriers in rivers, and razor wire to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally, even if they endanger or kill some people.
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June 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
2) Three quarters of Republicans (77%) and white evangelicals (74%) favor installing deterrents such as walls, floating barriers in rivers, and razor wire to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally, even if they endanger or kill some people.
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BREAKING @prri.org poll.
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
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My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
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New PRRI Poll: Six in Ten Americans Oppose Exporting Undocumented Immigrants to Foreign Prisons Without Due Process
Under the Trump administration, immigration enforcement has taken an unprecedented turn as immigrants, including asylum seekers and individuals with legal protections, are now being transferred to…
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June 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING @prri.org poll.
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
prri.org/spotlight/ne...
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
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Hey Siri,
Show me cognitive impairment
Show me cognitive impairment
May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hey Siri,
Show me cognitive impairment
Show me cognitive impairment
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It’s been a tumultuous first 100 days, to say the least. What do white evangelicals make of all this?
To no one’s surprise, 3 in 4 white evangelicals (76%) approve of the job Trump is doing as president.
This is exactly what they voted for.
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To no one’s surprise, 3 in 4 white evangelicals (76%) approve of the job Trump is doing as president.
This is exactly what they voted for.
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Democracy at a Crossroads
Trump's First 100 Days
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April 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s been a tumultuous first 100 days, to say the least. What do white evangelicals make of all this?
To no one’s surprise, 3 in 4 white evangelicals (76%) approve of the job Trump is doing as president.
This is exactly what they voted for.
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To no one’s surprise, 3 in 4 white evangelicals (76%) approve of the job Trump is doing as president.
This is exactly what they voted for.
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The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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April 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
Sweet Auburn: The Black Churches
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Sweet Auburn: The Black Churches
Reflections from a journey of pilgrimage
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April 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sweet Auburn: The Black Churches
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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this exactly. there’s precedent! Republicans do this shit all the time and they get rewarded by their voters for it, even when it doesn’t produce results, because they’re fighting. We need fighters on our side.
April 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
this exactly. there’s precedent! Republicans do this shit all the time and they get rewarded by their voters for it, even when it doesn’t produce results, because they’re fighting. We need fighters on our side.
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This, this, this. More work like this. For higher ed, for journalism, for entertainment, every area. Documentation.
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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April 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This, this, this. More work like this. For higher ed, for journalism, for entertainment, every area. Documentation.
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Today, thousands of openly-transgender service members will put on their uniform and do what needs to be done because they honor their oath to our country, while Pete Hegseth denigrates their service and violates his oath by brazenly sharing classified intel in text groups.
Just a reminder.
Just a reminder.
March 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, thousands of openly-transgender service members will put on their uniform and do what needs to be done because they honor their oath to our country, while Pete Hegseth denigrates their service and violates his oath by brazenly sharing classified intel in text groups.
Just a reminder.
Just a reminder.
Seven Reasons Trump’s Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/s...
Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace - emptywheel
It's not just that Mike Waltz accidentally added the wrong person to a Signal chat, the cover story Trump has adopted. Trump's entire national security team was witness to an egregious breach that mig...
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March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Me: Nothing can ever be so utterly terrifying & yet totally hilarious in its sheer clownish bafoonery.
DJT: Hold my M@G@ hat.
He’s really going full Nebuchadnezzar in the most spot on cartoonishly cringe way possible & these “Bible believing evangelicals” gladly bend the knee. Embarrassing.
DJT: Hold my M@G@ hat.
He’s really going full Nebuchadnezzar in the most spot on cartoonishly cringe way possible & these “Bible believing evangelicals” gladly bend the knee. Embarrassing.
February 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Me: Nothing can ever be so utterly terrifying & yet totally hilarious in its sheer clownish bafoonery.
DJT: Hold my M@G@ hat.
He’s really going full Nebuchadnezzar in the most spot on cartoonishly cringe way possible & these “Bible believing evangelicals” gladly bend the knee. Embarrassing.
DJT: Hold my M@G@ hat.
He’s really going full Nebuchadnezzar in the most spot on cartoonishly cringe way possible & these “Bible believing evangelicals” gladly bend the knee. Embarrassing.
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Cable news keeps saying no German far right party hasn’t been this strong “since the Second World War.” Gosh, I wonder if there are any historians who could tell us who ran Germany then?
February 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Cable news keeps saying no German far right party hasn’t been this strong “since the Second World War.” Gosh, I wonder if there are any historians who could tell us who ran Germany then?
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Have to rest my mind and spirit this morning. So I reached for home in the form of the Mississippi Mass Choir. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf7s...
The Mississippi Mass Choir - Lord We Thank You
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February 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Have to rest my mind and spirit this morning. So I reached for home in the form of the Mississippi Mass Choir. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf7s...