Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) on Justice Dept demand that Wayne County, MI (Detroit) hand over its 2024 ballots

“Michigan’s elections are safe and secure, and any attempt to suggest otherwise is an attempt to take away Michiganders’ constitutional right to vote"

Aside:
Maria Bartiromo is a Trump-appointed trustee at the Kennedy Center, who voted to change its name to Trump-Kennedy Center in the face of laws dictating it be a "living memorial" to JFK & forbidding other "memorials" or "plaques" "in the nature of memorials" on it

2 ¶¶ of a warrant affidavit describing Joe DiGenova going on Laura Ingraham's show spewing conspiracy theories about Marie Yovanovitch, Joe and Hunter Biden, and the Mueller investigation, and Victoria Toensing pushing Lev Parnas about getting a retainer from Yuriy Lutsenko. The names are redacted but I've put them in in pink.

Here's the key reason why putting Joe DiGenova in charge of the Russian investigation is so suspect. On the same day Mueller finished Joe was spewing FALSE conspiracy theories abt Ru and the Bidens, hoping to get paid by Lutsenko for doing so.

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Manipulating the market again.

Amanda Ungaro Says Melania Trump Knows She Saw ‘Compromising Interactions’

Amanda Ungaro was deported to Brazil in 2025 and has since become very vocal about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

This is incredible.

Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

Judge again halts construction of Trump's White House ballroom, but allows work on underground bunker to proceed The judge said he "cannot possibly agree" with the administration's position that an exception in an earlier ruling allowing for safety measures meant the whole project could proceed.

NEW: Federal judge accuses Trump administration of using fancy footwork to try to sidestep his prior White House ballroom ruling.

DOJ hosts anti-abortion advocates after it fired staff for work with abortion-rights orgs The CEO of Americans United for Life said he was "just applauding the administration and DOJ" after it released a report critical of prosecutors during the Biden administration.

"The hypocrisy is staggering," says Justice Connection:

So, no dancing.

Chuck Schumer is not fit to lead Senate Democrats. He is one of the heartless seven who joined the Republicans here.

Federal prosecutors in New York have accused SantaCon founder Stefan Pildes of being a conman who “stole Christmas from tens of thousands of victims” and deprived local charities of more than $1M. He could face up to 20 yrs if convicted of wire fraud. content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

A federal judge slapped a $250 fine on a DOJ attorney for repeatedly missing deadlines in habeas cases.

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5/ The President has the power to pardon convicted criminals, Rao notes. "But except for this limited grant, the Executive has no authority to vacate or set aside court judgments."

"No authority." Not under Rule 48(a), or anything. Pardon or bust. (And of course these guys were already pardoned.)

1/ @annabower.bsky.social and others have rightly pointed out the corrupt, Orwellian nature of the administration's efforts to retroactively undo the convictions of Proud Boys for seditious conspiracy.

I want to point out how the government openly lied in a brief they know to be unopposed.

James A. Thomas Lecture: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the lecture “Equity and Exigency: A First-Principles Solution for the Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket,” on April 13, 2026.

Justice Jackson further outlined her issues with the Supreme Court's shadow docket in a speech at Yale earlier this week which for some reason was not broadcast live. A video has now been posted:
law.yale.edu/yls-today/ya...

Here's Trump on Jan 13, 2021, after he'd been impeached, but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict and bar him from office for life. "There's never a justification for violence ... Those who engaged in attacks last week will be brought to justice."

This. Is. A. Lie.

Trump’s DOJ is shamelessly rewriting history. Dismissing these charges as an insult to the rule of law and the Capitol Police officers who enforced it.
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How do you say WTF in Mandarin?

They’ll make a great Depends commercial, or maybe they’re converting the White House into a nursing home.

Three right-wing ideologues signed contracts that may require they register as foreign agents for a Hungarian government-funded organization – and that the organization is possibly altering language in contracts to avoid this – according to a review of their contracts with the organization. Christopher Rufo speaks on Jan. 25, 2023, in Sarasota, Florida. (Photo by Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via Alamy) Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, right-wing writer Michael O’Shea and Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl signed contracts with the Hungarian government-funded nonprofit Batthyány Lajos Foundation (BLA), which maintains the Danube Institute (DI), a Hungarian think tank. The contracts are from 2022 and 2023. These contracts require either a speech, media appearance, reports or – in the case of O’Shea – a minimum of two articles in U.S. or European media. They cover issues of migration, LBGTQ+ rights, critical race theory (CRT) and Hungary’s relations with regional allies. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used all these issues to win influence with the international conservative and far-right movements.

I'm fairly gobsmacked by the number of people who profess surprise that Orbán was funding CPAC. Did you know of his ties to Heritage and Project 2025?

One of the most telling, tho, was he funded Rufo and the racist Trump tried to install at State, Jeremy Carl.

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Roger Sollenberger: Péter Magyar, the new Hungarian prime minister, says CPAC was paid by the Hungarian government and will not be any longer

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

I cannot. Substack has chose to platform Nazi’s, rapists, and sex traffickers.

Can you choose another platform, please? Substack is platforming rapists, and sex traffickers.

Reason n+1 to get off Substack

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

A Trump tweet from which I've hidden everything but claims that someone is weak on crime.

Donald Trump is a serial criminal who sicced ICE on Catholic and other faith leaders who were tending to migrants.

NYT, WaPo, WSJ didn't bother to mention that in their stories on Trump's projection attacks on Pope Bob.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️