6/ 🚨 Per CURRENT and former US officials, there are strong reasons to believe some people on board the Sept 2 boat were people being trafficked. (That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

I appeared on Substack Live with @klasfeldreports.com to discuss the eleven (11) instances of prosecutorial misconduct that Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick held supported his decision to order the release of the full grand jury record to James Comey in United States v. Comey.

Fucking racist cretins

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Trump obviously covering up a potentially serious health issue is one of the few stories that actually does not bother me The obvious lies are funny but oddly not enraging like their lies usually are

“Barely legal” per Megyn R. Kelly

FBI Director Kash Patel DOES NOT want you to track his luxury jet. But you can. Read more: interc.pt/47H9Dg9 ✍️ @sambiddle.com 📹 @jordanuhl.com

mafia president corrupting the DOJ “…the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA…If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block 100s of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate.”

From the man who spends every waking hour complaining...

Incredible work from the president, collecting another $1 trillion from tariffs in less than 10 hours

Assholes

Here's the promised longer explainer: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

BWAHAHAHAHA

As always, it's appalling at the same time it's so cheap, tawdry, and embarrassing. What a pathetic, shabby little gangster.

The Trump admin is in court regularly seeking injunctions as well as stays and other temporary relief. Two leading scholars, Will Baude and Sam Bray, argue in a forthcoming piece that courts should probably rebuff some of these motions under the famous equitable doctrine of "unclean hands." /1

Tricia McLaughlin lies shamelessly: "Why President Trump called the National Guard into Portland is because our officers were facing mass assault and mass attacks."

Healthcare but only for my friends

Nick Fuentes: "It was December 18...That's Joseph Stalin's birthday. I'm a fan." Tucker Carlson: "You're a fan of Stalin?" Nick Fuentes: "Always an admirer." Tucker Carlson: "Well that's uh...Okay. We'll circle back to that." Spoiler: Tucker never circles back.

I swear watching Ohtani play baseball is like looking at a masterpiece of art. A once in a lifetime ball player.

It’s hard to keep track of the litigation whirlwind in the National Guard cases. I’m planning to write up the state of play for “One First” tomorrow morning. If you’re not already a subscriber, I hope you’ll consider signing up—so you’ll get it as soon as it drops: www.stevevladeck.com/subscribe

Q: Has Speaker Johnson reached out to you since the January 6er made a threat on your life? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: No

We would do well to remember @JDVance’s “I would be nervous to go fishing there hurr hurr hurr” speech As I have been saying, these people are murderers. Mass murderers. But the skin of the people they are murdering is brown so I guess Americans are fine with it.

@thekoolaidmom.bsky.social Any chance you can put me in touch with the woman who was arrested or know her name (or know anyone else who has video)? I do pro bono First Amendment work and this looks egregious. Feel free to DM or email me: [email protected]

At least you can sue local cops

The untrammeled pardon power was one of the Founders' greatest mistakes.

Among George Santos’ many scams was a “pet charity” where he swindled people out of money who needed it for medical care for their pets. This is who Trump just pardoned www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/n...

Now he's just going ahead and admitting what we all knew: he pardons criminals because they are Republicans. This is what happens when you put the criminals in charge of law enforcement. I have the deepest contempt for anyone who continues to support Trump at this point.

What a thug trash administration.

Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.

“The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. . . . If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.” Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Guess they don’t need Elon Musk around to totally fuck everything up. They’re capable of doing that on their own thank you very much

"America First" turns out to be a priority list for which countries to ruin.

Hit and run is a crime

It’s OK. Justice Kavanaugh says she should be able to sue for damages. (Not really lol, he forgot he already ruled against that position in the past)

One good thing about Tom Homan taking a big bag of cash is you tend not to see his stupid face and hear his stupid voice as much these days. Evidently they figured out that every time people see him they think about the big bag of cash he took

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

The murders continue.

Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.

Two weeks

Comey's testimony in 2020 On the left: In hearing, Senator Cruz erroneously claimed McCabe had said Comey "directly authorized" leak to press. Comey denied that. On the right: Cruz was wrong. McCabe did not say Comey authorized the leak (source: Inspector General Report, on which Cruz relies)

If this indictment really is about the McCabe matter, the government's case appears to hinge on the idea that McCabe telling Comey about the disclosure *after the article published* somehow amounts to Comey "authorizing" it himself.

Tom Homan's envelope is light this week, T.

I have a piece up today at Quillette, that analyzes the cancel culture frenzy that the right has engaged in since the murder of Charlie Kirk, and the way Trump has used government power to stamp out opposition. Here are some excerpts to whet your appetite. quillette.com/2025/09/20/t...

Just call it "murder" That's what it is

I heard an entire podcast with one of them decrying it today, yes.