Last week the MO Supreme Court said the GOP gerrymandering project was illegal. Today Brett Kavanaugh refused to issue a stay, confirming the judgment.. Big cheers tonight all across Missouri!

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The lessons about why NYT won't report on a good policy news apply even to us old-school bloggers.

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Jim Comey's selective and vindictive prosecution claim is part of an effort to find new legal tools to combat Trump's weaponization of DOJ.

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Amid conflicting narratives of Iranian confidence, Trump seems intent on creating the illusion there's a secret stash of weapons that defy the sustained focus on depleted missile capacity.

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Hear about the time I got stuck in a flash flood in the Grand Canyon!

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Jim Comey's reply memo in his selective and vindictive prosecution claim makes it clear that nothing happened to explain why EDNC revisited the seashells prosecution in a rush last April, except Todd Blanche's audition to become Attorney General.

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The Missouri GOP legislature has worked for a year to redraw US House district boundaries, and tonight the MO Supremes said "Not so fast."

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In 2009, Charlie Pierce identified the Three Great Premises that map the mindset that drives a crank-dominated society. Eighteen years later, he's even more right -- and more important -- than before..

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The Constitution requires the President to take care that the laws are faithfully enforced. The Roberts Majority ignores that simple instruction.

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There are signs that Todd Blanche accidentally on purpose breached Jim Comey's privileged communications for a third time.

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The Cities Church defendants are making a remarkable argument: That because Homeland Security Investigations used customs subpoenas to map out the network of ICE protestors in January, Judge Laura Provinzino should throw the whole investigation out.

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Tulsi Gabbard specifically warned Trump that Iran would strike at American troops and its allies if he started a war. And yet, Whiskey Pete Hegseth failed to secure Bahrain to prevent its destruction.

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There's something missing from the phone warrants that a slew of Cities Church protestors are trying to suppress: Any sign of a cell tower dump believed to have misidentified a woman by location data.

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Harmeet Dhillion, who is in charge of protecting civil rights, wants to imprison Shane Bollman because he took photographs of parishioners praying at the Cities Church protest.

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In response to being warned that the military is dangerously overstretched, Whiskey Pete Hegseth has offered little but trolling and culture wars.

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Corruption is a process, the tool by which Trump has debased virtually every single Republican and coerced them to cede their institutional prerogatives,.

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Georgia Fort's latest filing in the Cities Church case provides evidence that HSI goons and lawyers working for Harmeet Dhillon knowingly violated both the Privacy Protection Act and the Stored Communications Act by using customs summonses to spy on Fort and others.

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Pete Hegseth is trying to punish a teenager for going crazy in an 8 month deployment.

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Donald Trump just announced he is sucking Americans deeper and deeper into the corrupt Venezuelan swamp.

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As the USS Abraham Lincoln sails home, Pete Hegseth is seeing his worst nightmare growing daily: angry military folks who talk to the media, because he has lost their trust.

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…Will never work. I’m not saying that with Musk money, one can’t blight the sky with computer hardware, I’m sure he can. I’m not even saying that humanity can’t decide to put a bunch of GPUs in racks and fire them at the sky, we can, if is what we’re determined to do. I’m saying […]

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The Secretary of Defense who brings his wife everywhere because his own mental health is so shoddy he can't cope without her presence is disciplining a 19-year old who jumped overboard after more than eight months at sea.

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Last year, Ryan Ribner lied to explain why he assaulted SEIU CA President David Huerta on June 6. But Ribner hasn't been fired for his lies (or the assault). Instead, he was still hunting SEIU in April.

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Along with Christian Castro, there are at least four more Latinos from South Texas suspected of committing crimes when they invaded the state in January. It's almost as if Stephen Miller recruited a criminal gang to invade blue states!

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In arguing that retaliatory prosecutions of members of Congress must be dealt with differently, Third Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro nods to the financial coercion DOJ can use by prosecuting Trump's critics.

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It is not true that people are newly "defying" Donald Trump. It is true that by pissing away American hegemony, Trump has changed how so-called defiance will work both within and outside the country.

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On February 26, Special Operations goons spent 13 hours tailing a guy transporting ICE Out signs in his truck.

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Among the things HSI undercover officers surveilled when hunting down the left were three photos claiming Alex Pretti had been murdered, and a labor meeting described as "a lot of voting on stuff that's not going to happen."

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is Donald Trump's worst nightmare: a banker with political power. Even worse: he's learning that Canadians have Carney's back.

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A single Homeland Security Investigations Agent, Richard Berger, wrote the affidavit behind two dozen of the cases that have collapsed in Minnesota.

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