In a breathtaking reversal of reality, Trump uses a taxpayer funded website to whitewash the history of Jan. 6, blaming Capitol Police, Democrats and Pence -- everyone but himself and the mob that stormed the Capitol. @lukebroadwater.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

Understatement

Indeed.

And expand …

Maybe the most surprising French recipe I’ve studied and recreated for my Substack…a sweet frangipane and spinach tourte or tart, inspired by centuries of sweet spinach desserts and André Viard’s 1844 edition of Le Cuisinier Royal. jamieschler.substack.com/p/tourte-aux...

Presently …

Up in the Highlands for a few weeks enjoying views like this. Keep me posted on what’s happening in the world, please.

And Jesus said: “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God". Matthew 19:24

At @lawfare.bsky.social, our searchable table of legal challenges to Trump's executive orders is filling up quickly. Please DM me if we're missing litigation on EOs within our bailiwick. A little crowdsourcing can go a long way. Link here: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

VERY

Updated with two new lawsuits filed in the last 20 minutes. One more expected momentarily.

Obama Bin Laden

As the Trump administration and Elon Musk work to dismantle USAID, the government’s lead agency for delivering humanitarian aid for generations, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work, promoting unfounded claims and conspiratorial thinking. nyti.ms/4htWHN0

Guts

put it in the chyron hall of fame

REPORTER: Is there anything you've told Elon Musk he cannot touch? TRUMP: Well, we haven't discussed that much

BREAKING NEWS: Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 essential personnel as USAID staff in the U.S. and overseas rush to rapidly close missions and leave jobs by midnight Friday.

BREAKING: we have secured an order that BLOCKS the government from releasing the names of the 6000 FBI agents being illegally targeted by Trump & Bondi for their lawful work on the January 6 cases! A big win by @sddaction.bsky.social & our incredible partners for rule of law & the FBI

Officials involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions say the Trump administration isn't protecting them from threats. "We don't think they'll care — unless and until one of us gets killed," an official told NPR.

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

I'm in the @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning asking: Who exactly is running the federal government? If we can’t answer that simple question, government officials and civil society must recognize warning signs of state capture and take back what's ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

If you are reading this and you received any of the [email protected] emails and you are not a current employee of the Executive Branch please email or Signal me a copy of the emails.

Excellent explainer on Musk’s violation of the Privacy Act while serving as a “Special Government Employee”

Court summons has been issued to the US Department of Justice in the lawsuit filed against the agency by a group of FBI agents The agents, who remain anonymous, are seeking court intervention to prevent the disclosure of list of approx. 5,000 agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases

If the Justice Dept purges FBI agents who handled Jan 6 case searches….. they’d be gutting some Joint Terror Task Forces too. ====>

I wrote about our rising need for comfort food to calm our grief and restore our energy for the long battle ahead. On @contrariannews.org contrarian.substack.com/p/the-increa...

I just love getting invitations to come attend CLEs taught by BigLaw lawyers about <checks notes> my cases.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

Cold

The Trump 2.0 doctrine: Say and do anything to induce anxiety and fear against Trump’s (perceived) enemies, both at home and abroad.

OPM acting director Charles Ezell sent the memorandum to federal department and agency heads, instructing them to inform all employees of DEI offices by 5 p.m. Wednesday that they were being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately.

The most remarkable foreign policy-focused element of Trump’s address today was the announcement that cartels will be designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations. This suggests large scale military ops in the W Hemisphere may be forthcoming, which would be a fundamental change of US foreign policy.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!

Breaking News: More Americans are surviving cancer, but it is striking young and middle-aged women more often, the American Cancer Society said.

Scary thought!

The two groups' current leadership admitted 16 instances of illegal activity in a consent decree and will pay a $300,000 fine, the largest in state history, according to the commission.

In “60 Minutes” interview, FBI Director Chris Wray emphasizes the many dozens of Jan 6 defendants who’ve pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers

I read yesterday somewhere that the CEO shooter has been charged with terrorism (which I’m fine with) — but none of the Jan 6th rioters were charged with terrorism. How can this be?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada is facing calls from both allies and opponents to step down after nearly a decade in power. Here’s why, and what could happen next. nyti.ms/3DrtzqK

News Analysis: For years, President-elect Trump has made it known that people he believes to be his enemies should be prosecuted. This week, his allies in Congress laid out a template for how to go after one of them in particular: Liz Cheney.

A fabulous Christmas cookie, dense, chewy, nutty, and fragrant with cinnamon, from Alsace in France…. a recipe I first had published in Bake From Scratch magazine and now I offer the recipe to you! Please share! jamieschler.substack.com/p/zimtsterne

Syria’s Paper Trail of Atrocity Must Be Preserved foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/17/s...

Wake up to what is coming folks We must not normalize the danger of Trump We explain his threatened persecutions—& how to stop them—in our American Autocracy Threat Tracker 👉 statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u...

See below for my statement in response to Chairman Loudermilk's "Interim Report":

After months of traveling to more than 30 states and eating in hundreds of restaurants, these are the bites from 2024 that will linger in our minds well into the new year. nyti.ms/3OZslph

Breaking News: A judge denied one of several attempts by President-elect Trump to clear his record of 34 felonies before returning to the White House. nyti.ms/3ZUyMQB

Is spreading false drone spotting footage the only thing Twitter is good for anymore?

U.S. wildlife officials proposed on Tuesday that monarch butterflies receive protection as a threatened species.

So basically, every Russian I sent to die in Syria died for nothing. I remain a master strategist.

Tulsi’s bigger nightmare is Assad remaining alive in Russia with Putin having opportunities to broadcast footage of Assad describing his meeting with Tulsi. And it appears that may be in the cards.