Julian Sanchez

@normative

He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.

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    14 hours ago

    This is how you normalize Presidential corruption: Slowly put it more and more in the open until everyone just shrugs that *of course* the President wants to use law enforcement for partisan ends.

    Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......
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  2. 11 hours ago

    I mean, FFS, this is basically how we got a special counsel, right? Trump trying to corruptly influence a criminal investigation, then getting rid of the official who wouldn’t play ball? That he at least felt compelled to lie about unconvicingly. Now it’s just overt.

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    13 hours ago

    GOP Sen. Ben Sasse suggests Trump’s tweets about Sessions hurting GOP congressmen akin to a “banana republic”

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  4. 13 hours ago

    In any remotely healthy political system, a president openly saying this would be a major scandal provoking unanimous bipartisan condemnation. In 2018 it’ll be maybe a two day “Democrats criticize...” story.

    Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......
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    13 hours ago

    My latest podcast features "transhumanist evolutionary psychologist" Diana Fleischman (), analyzing polyamory, incels, Pornhub searches & more, through an evolutionary psychology lens: (Transcript available, as always)

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    14 hours ago

    So what you’re saying is that the FBI was engaged in a legitimate counterintelligence investigation into Russian influence long _before_ you were a candidate—such that the claim that the whole episode was a conspiracy to target (and weaken) your campaign is bollocks? Got it...

    According to the Failing New York Times, the FBI started a major effort to flip Putin loyalists in 2014-2016. “It wasn’t about Trump, he wasn’t even close to a candidate yet.” Rigged Witch Hunt!
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    Sep 2

    Me trying to argue FISAs on Sunday during Labor Day weekend

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    Sep 2

    “I’m insufferable, attention-seeking, self dramatizing, and heavily armed, and yet for some inexplicable reason nobody wants to meet with me.” Lady, your problem is that you’re philosophically incel.

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    . says I'm not following university policy for the open carry rally I was planning, yet staff members refused to schedule meetings w/ me to discuss the policies because of my views. I caught it on video and thought the world should know they're biased against gun owners
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    Sep 2

    When you're out for dinner and everyone gets their food before you.

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    Sep 2

    Excellent must-read by .

    "How the FISA Court Really Works," the latest from David Kris:
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    Sep 2

    Ouch.

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    Sep 1

    If anyone is still peddling the no-hearing argument on the Carter Page FISAs, here is the FISA Court’s own description, sent to Congress in 2013, of how things really work: . 1/5

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    Sep 2

    All this focus on ‘decency’ is a good occasion to remember that the moral hubris of Bush-era democracy promotion killed vastly more people, thus far, than the nihilistic degeneracy of current admin. Inputs are not outputs. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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    Sep 2

    All the politicians who were most complicit should be forced to speak.

    Who will speak at Trump’s funeral? I am trying to think of anyone of any gravitas who is likely to do it, and I got nothing.
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    Sep 1

    People who know nothing about law enforcement should not opine on it so glibly. Judges make decisions on warrants — FISA, domestic surveillance, search warrants — on the papers, without a hearing, all the time. That is the norm, not the exception.

    The more we learn, the worse this whole episode looks.
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    Sep 1

    Folks, there generally are no hearings on warrants, and you don’t want there to be because the four corners of the warrant application must state the probable cause. If they don’t, the judge should reject the application, not hold a hearing.

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    Sep 1

    Everyone should read this essay right goddamn now.

    Paywall-free: Checks on the U.S. presidency came undone long before Donald Trump.
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    Sep 1

    In nearly 20 yrs as a prosecutor, and hundreds of warrants, I never had a hearing to get a warrant. I had judges tell me ‘no,’ or tell me I needed to beef up this or that allegation with more solid evidence. But never a hearing.

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    Sep 1

    This is not how the FISA court works. The duty judge doesnt normally hold a hearing to consider an application.

    Report: There were no FISA hearings held over Spy documents.”It is astonishing that the FISA courts couldn’t hold hearings on Spy Warrants targeting Donald Trump. It isn’t about Carter Page, it’s about the Trump Campaign. You’ve got corruption at the DOJ & FBI. The leadership....
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    Aug 31

    No hearing at all, just like you would expect in an application that didn’t raise any unusual legal issues.

    When FBI wanted to wiretap Carter Page, and used dossier as evidence, did FISA judge ask tough, probing questions on surveillance application? No. No hearing at all. From :
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