I meant to write a post today but instead I made beef cheeks for dinner. So in advance of Trump's speech let me lay out how they're reverse engineering VZ. First, all the lies Stephen Miller has told. www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/01/s... Stephen Miller's Snowballing D...

From WaPo's interview w/Vanity Fair's photographer (in addition to his comments about Stephen Miller). www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo&cid=bafkreie772pm3dec2joki5q6y2aeknsa6v5rfy4vjjrkcygsoa5dwhpb7q

Reup & updated: Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's Attempted Baby-Splitting Leads to Exploding Diaper 4A issues on DOJ's attempt to reuse Dan Richman's data are actually really complex, made more so bc neither software nor original case agent know what they did in 2000. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/17/c... Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's Attem...

NYT continues that stubborn tradition of discussing Trump's promise of tariff revenues w/o disclosing that Trump may have to pay half the revenue raised back to importers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo&cid=bafkreibrzjtwszhgmqlvkteedxm3mfbzgn5pf2arq6sq3sckoydrxvdsru https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo&cid=bafkreig2c227jefwjzvv4g32q2bnejss3k3ociis5wgtj4bbfpcjgbvyau

Paul Krugman takes the early lead for headline of the day. An A+++++ Economy, My A++ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-a-econo... An A+++++ Economy, My A++

2nd order Trumpster Missing the Point. 1) Release a flood of Tweets hailing loyalty to Wiles. 2) Give "scoop" to a woman who works w/former Trump spox congratulating selves for "circling the motherfucking wagons." Contrary to your rabid paranoia, we care abt facts conveyed not splitting off Wiles. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo&cid=bafkreiagyszbmpdbjnzylkxl3g2n7wps2zf36l3od5l7j3sdgu6dioazcm

Oof. @governor.ca.gov@bsky.brid.gy's press office has a website dedicated to Trump and all his criminals. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo&cid=bafkreicaxvrorxmxitvwa7efc2l6e3iov5ofswgvcenge3hfixmdygeyui

The Epistemology of the Epstein Scandal www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/16/t... The Epistemology of the Epstei...

The Chief of Staff seemingly doesn't have the power to figure out how a high profile prisoner got moved to comfier digs. [Remember, we are not obliged to believe that Susie Wiles was telling the truth about a lot of this.] https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo&cid=bafkreiel2fqvz7c4wg7pyxmia3jqndzz4cpkq56obppf2srtjkzmitc35q

Incidentally (bc this matters), one of the people convicted of seditious conspiracy WAS pardoned: Enrique Tarrio (he claimed prosecutors asked him to flip on Trump). https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo&cid=bafkreib6tf4jgwxos652dhjtmnal7t3jliija2y3cc5s4arhzgwkjucebe