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Mike Rogers’ Questionable Loyalties [UPDATE]
[NB: check the byline, thanks. UPDATE at the bottom of this post. /~Rayne] Yeah, yeah, I know –...
Stephen Miller Messed with Texas
There are two profiles of James Blair out (Atlantic, WaPo), setting the political strategist up to...
The SPLC Breakup Gone Wrong Went REALLY REALLY Wrong
In the guise of asking for a preservation order and a subpoena for a former informant turned...
All Kash Patel’s Hacks
I will keep saying it: The reason you rush out half-baked charges against Nikki Floris and Bradley...
Kash Patel Tried to Criminalize Scrutinizing Garbage Tips that Serve Trump’s Lies
I argued on Sunday and again this morning that the charges against Nikki Floris and Bradley...
How Jeanine Pirro Offered Up Evidence to Indict Kash Patel
Back in 2020, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides worked hard to prevent foreign governments from...
FBI Agent Byron Militello Gets Cold Feet on His Indirect Witness in the Floris Case
In advance of (or perhaps in an attempt to preempt) a preliminary hearing scheduled for 11AM...
Trent McCotter and Aakash Singh’s Star Chamber
Trent McCotter and Aakash Singh charged Jim Comey, by information, back on October 5. The...
Todd Blanche, in His Underwear, in Disgrace
It helps to understand why Todd Blanche did what he did on twin appearances on the Sunday shows...
The Charges against Brad Benavides Assume an Investigation into the Laptop that Never Happened
I'm going to go down a rabbit hole on the charges against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides. The...
The Crimes Davey Hearn Claims Jeanine Pirro May Have Committed
As a number of outlets have reported, Davey Hearn's attorney, Michael Bromwich, has requested the...
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
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The Epistemology of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop”
The first thing you should know about the complaint charging Nikki Floris and Brad Benavides with...
Stan Woodward Defies Law of Gravity to Attack Minnesota Judges
Remember how I laid out that Stanley Woodward and Trent McCotter fabricated their complaint...
Jared’s Account
Vanity Fair has published an excerpt (link, archive version, New Republic summary) from a...
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