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emptywheel

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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security *** She/her *** Legendary potty mouth *** Also at @emptywheel@mastodon.social

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@capitolhunters

"Influencer" Rogan O'Handley aka DC Draino wants more Capitol footage from Jan 6. We want it too - we want to know where he goes after this fist-bump on the E. Plaza, 5 mins before the doors were violently breached. The night before, he'd said he was at a White House meeting...1/

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writing a news article about #NoOnLaSalle and some shady coalition paying for advertisements (!) on behalf of LaSalle, I am reminded of the major power imbalance in this fight. (1/5)

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I really doubt Biden wrote an op-ed on legislating big tech that mentions nonconsensual pornography bc

has demanded that Twitter explain why they took down Hunter's dick pics. But the timing is hilarious. wsj.com/articles/unite

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Trump campaign officials got subpoena asking new questions about Jan. 6 ⁦

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Trump campaign officials got subpoena asking new questions about Jan. 6

As grand jury activity increased, according to lawyers, a subpoena received Dec. 9 sought information on legal fees, voting machines, false election claims and more.

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TL:DR: Russians demoted their "fixer" commander in favor of Gerasimov, who last year agreed to and oversaw a debacle invasion plan that resulted in the partial destruction of their army. What? /END

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Deleting for now to address date discrepancies. THere IS a problem with Mac Isaac's story, on top of all the other problems with Mac Isaac's story.

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I'm too tired to do it right now, but some of these assholes MUST have been making the argument in 2007 that the VP had authority to declassify -- I just can't remember who is that old right now.

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Now the entire GOP is confessing they haven't read the EO in question and don't know what crimes their buddy is under investigation for.

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House Republicans

The Vice President does NOT have the authority to declassify documents ONLY the President does.

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Jill Lepore's review of the J6C report is really really good.

What the January 6th Report Is Missing

The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the Capitol attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.

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For some reason CNN decides to quotes Trump's lawyers at length, without pointing out that 3 arguments they made about TRUMP, which were not true, apply to the known fact set about Biden. For example, Trump says POTUS (and VP) cannot be charged with 1924.

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Biden's legal team found another batch of classified documents in search of second location cnn.com/2023/01/11/pol

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For Gerasimov (who were were being assured was out of favour and about to be sacked... or who was Putin's right hand man...) it is a kind of demotion, or at least the most poisoned of chalices. It's now on him, and I suspect Putin has unrealistic expectations again 5/

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Actually a BFD.

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NEW: Federal appeals court seems likely to rule that part of 2018 federal law aimed at online sex trafficking violates First Amendment. DC Circuit panel sees overbreadth in attempt to ban use of internet/computers to 'promote' prostitution #fosta #sesta politico.com/news/2023/01/1

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The new Democratic majorities in the Michigan Legislature announce their first bills:

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Note: The only time I ever met Dick DeVos (Betsy's spouse) was when I was waiting to get on a puddle jumper from National to Grand Rapids. Thought it might be him but was like, "no, this dude flies his own plan." He was interviewing for an FAA job with Trump (which he got).

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I know this presents security concerns, but I like it anyway.

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A) GOP SC Rep Mace on Fox: I'm going to file a bill that would require Pete Buttigieg to judge to fly commercial until these issues are figured out, both with Southwest Airlines, with the FAA, and until the FAA reauthorization happens later this year.

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This will make some heads explode: Biden Gets Assist On Fox: Karl Rove Busts Out White Board To Explain Trump's Classified Docs Issue Is Worse

Biden Gets Assist On Fox News As Karl Rove Busts Out White Board To Explain Why Trump’s Classified...

Biden got an assist on Fox News when Karl Rove broke out the whiteboard to show how Biden's classified documents issue isn't as bad as Trump's.

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Elise Stefanik, who has served on HPSCI, confesses that she 1) has missed EVERY public detail about the Trump investigation and 2) hasn't read the EO on classification.

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FACT: Unlike President Trump who had the power to declassify documents, then Vice President Biden had NO such power. House Republicans will fight to expose Biden’s corruption!

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emptywheel, June 16, 2022 Why January 6 Committee Transcripts Are Urgent: Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino emptywheel.net/2022/06/16/why DC, January 11, 2023: Delay in obtaining Jeremy Bertino transcript almost blows up the most important Jan6 trial.

Why January 6 Committee Transcripts Are Urgent: Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino - emptywheel

DOJ may be relying on the reliability of Jeremy Bertino for their Proud Boys case. Which means it may have been an unpleasant surprise to see that he had done a deposition with the January 6 Commit...

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Can anyone help me explain what's wrong with this comparison? Trying to figure it out... nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/

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Someone with an ownership interest in multiple properties suspected of harboring classified docs advocates searches of such properties without probable cause, which, buckle up, Chris Wray, we're going to Bedminster!

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Something NBC's "source familiar with the matter" doesn't say about the additional docs found at a Biden house? The date. nbcnews.com/politics/white

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News: The surgical procedure confirmed the lesion on FLOTUS’s face was basal cell carcinoma, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, physician to the president, said in a statement. All cancerous tissue was successfully removed, he said.

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To explain: ONE of the conflicts was disclosed when prosecutors got the J6C transcript of the witness.

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Holy hell. Since August 2021, I've said the success of the case against Biggs--and Biggs himself--is critical to prosecution of others. And here were are on the eve of trial and it's not clear he has a lawyer, in part bc J6C didn't share transcripts.

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Judge Kelly just got into a shouting match with Biggs' other lawyer, Dan Hull, who insisted on being recognized to say something about Pattis — who said their relationship had broken down. Kelly refused to recognize him and had to repeatedly shout him down.

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Roger Roots, who works with John Pierce, now explaining in court that Pierce and co-counsel on many Jan. 6 cases, William Shipley, have had a "falling out" — which seemed fairly obvious from Pierce's absence in those cases. He says Shipley was doing all the work on Pepe's case.

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To this day, it's not clear whether we'd even know about the Trump docs investigation if

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hadn't broken the story. All those people assigned the Mar-a-Lago beat full time didn't tell us.

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Trump didn't tell the public he had blown off a subpoena until THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME, and only then did bc a blogger revealed an FBI search. And that ignores Trump's silence for the previous 4 months. For fucksake, less stupid both-sidesing here, people.

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Two things can be true: 1) The Biden classified documents situation is vastly different from the Trump case. 2) The Biden WH has a lot of questions to answer, including what happened here and why they didn’t tell the public until it leaked.

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Hakeem Jeffries

Extreme MAGA Republicans have established a Select Committee on Insurrection Protection. We will fight it tooth and nail.

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Federal judge rules prosecutors can use video of then-President Donald Trump telling the far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” in the trial against several of the group’s leaders charged with seditious conspiracy

Judge will allow prosecutors to use Trump's 'stand back and stand by' comment in Proud Boys trial |...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors can use video of then-President Donald Trump telling the far-right group the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" in the trial against several of...

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I love people who try to defend #MattyDickPics' false claims by claiming he's intelligent and proficient. It's a false claim. That's ... not proficient.

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I respect your work, Emptywheel. But I also respect Matt Taibbi. I believe this is a bit hyperbolic. Taibbi is a very intelligent and proficient journalist. He is well-respected in my book, even if his takes often ruffle a lot of feathers.

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I wrote about import of unpermitted march in any referral of 1512.

Proving Trump's Corrupt Purpose: The Forgotten Unpermitted March - emptywheel

Last year, Judge Amit Mehta suggested that Trump's call for his supporters to make an unpermitted march contributed to proof of his corrupt purpose.

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This is what I believe too--it explains another thing: Why Trump didn't get a permit for march. Park Service said they needed to secure the route. Trump's solution was 10,000 Guards. That may EVEN by why Cipollone told Hutchinson they'd be charged w/obstruction if it happened.

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This essay from @amandacarpenter puts various pieces together in a compelling way... and raises important questions that the Committee somewhat punted on. I think it helps explain outstanding questions around the use of the Guard. twitter.com/amandacarpente…

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A well-deserved victory lap and the reason why this kind of weedy reporting is necessary to defending democracy.

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Two days before Chesebro's memo, I wrote about how that Jan. 3 resolution could be extraordinarily consequential. politico.com/news/2020/12/3

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Shorter GOP: Let him stay JUST long enough for McCarthy to secure the Speakership, but not long enough for the legitimacy of that Speakership to be called into question with a potentially illegal vote.

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GOP NY state senator Jack Martins on Santos: The longer he remains in office, the longer the residents of the Third Congressional District will suffer. Mr. Santos, haven't you done enough harm? I call on Mr. Santos to immediately resign.

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Reupping, to overload the Twitter filters. Matt Taibbi Confesses He Hasn't Read His Own Twitter Files

Matt Taibbi Confesses He Hasn't Read His Own Twitter Files - emptywheel

Matt "MattyDickPics" Taibbi claimed yesterday that when the FBI shares election-related misinformation, it has not tie to "case-building." In December, MattyDickPics proved that claim is false.

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BREAKING: Republicans have had majority for 8 days and they're already calling for suspicionless searches of people's homes.

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Why are Republicans advocating abuses of the Fourth Amendment?

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Why hasn’t the FBI raided Joe Biden’s home?

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Roots suggests Pezzola was acting in self-defense from DC cops, whose actions, he claims, violated their own code of conduct and amounted to "excessive force"

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Again, It is a FACT that given the way James Comer wrote his letter to ex-Twitter, the hearing includes Hunter Biden's dick pics. How are you suppressing that detail?

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