You can listen live to the hearing held only by Democrats to commemorate the 5th anniversary of January 6th. It speaks volumes about the state of our democracy that no Republican Members of Congress are participating here, in what should be a bipartisan event. www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

Essential reading from @tessbridgeman.bsky.social

Next up, will Miller talk about taking the Sudetenland? Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

JD Vance's stated justification, drugs and: "Stolen oil"

In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report). That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed. My assessment just published: www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...

Sen Mike Lee with the first account I’ve seen of the Admin’s legal theory for the strikes. On the domestic law side — something like: Art II law enforcement power to capture Maduro (by invading his own country) combined with Art II power to protect those personnel executing the warrant.

House Judiciary Committee releases on New Years Eve (in an obvious attempt to bury this info) the Jack Smith deposition transcript. I recommend doing a word search for "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." And explanation of disenfranchisement of urban areas. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Bari Weiss, really? Really.

After Epstein's 2019 death "prosecutors produced a seven-page memo on co-conspirators they might consider charging and followed that with an 86-page update in December ... a 13-page memo of corporate prosecutions they might pursue and a 26-page memo regarding another target prosecutors considered."

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates. Truly preposterous.

Kafkaesque open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

EPSTEIN: If Todd Blanche's is correct when he said on Meet the Press that Trump has wanted the Epstein files released from even before the election, then why weren't they, and why is Blanche simultaneously saying DOJ could not meet the Congressional deadline because they now need more time?

This is key; the biggest thing that didn't happen yesterday is neither Trump nor DOJ stated that everything with Trump's name on it or with his image has been disclosed. If you have nothing to hide, wouldn't that be what you would do? Instead, looks like DOJ is continuing the cover-up, as Ryan notes

contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuela-... perhaps the most revealing account yet about the boat strike- which senator is lying, what Bradley is selling and more

DAG Blanche says DOJ takes white-collar investigations seriously, but its website has just a single new FCPA (foreign bribery) case all this year. Now, he says if DOJ improperly targets a company, he will hold against them if it spoke the truth about DOJ's deficient performance. That's justice?

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

All true re the contempt proceedings for Judge Boasberg. Noem also doesn’t say whether she was ordered to do continue the transfers by anyone at the White House.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

The former New York City mayor, a longtime backer of historically Black colleges and universities, has a new initiative to support young Black students.

MS NOW Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.

By law, the Department of Justice CAN go to another grand jury and try again. But even if they succeed (a big IF in this case), the DOJ will have handed Letitia James even more evidence for her vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss the charges. And that motion was already quite strong.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

NBC News: DOJ fails to get a new indictment of Letitia James. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

BREAKING: MSNOW reports Grand Jury refuses to charge Letita James. DOJ can, by law, keep trying before a different grand jury, but this will be further proof of vindictive prosecution.

i strangely find myself admiring Rand Paul on this

Exclusive: Congressional watchdog will investigate Trump official’s conduct reut.rs/4iMN5yA

The J6 Bombing case: let’s assume the DOJ got the right person and will prove that beyond a reasonable doubt at trial, but until then he is presumed innocent. But let’s assume all that. Are we supposed to just forget that: (cont. 1/3)

How soon will it be before he gets a pardon, given Trump pardoned myriad other violent J6 defendants? “Suspect Arrested in Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Investigation, Officials Say” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

"Dishonorable and Inhumane." These are the precise words the DOD Law of War Manual uses to describe attacking those who are shipwrecked. This week's episode of the Main Justice pod covers the latest on the killing of two stranded survivors of the first boat attack. open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.

President Trump has officially pardoned former Honduran President who US officials said was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world. n.pr/4rzhG6q

North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.

Murder on the High Seas Part IV is here👇 Joined by @rachelgoldbrenner.bsky.social, @becingber.bsky.social @bcfinucane.bsky.social to break down, 3 months in: -Why the entire campaign is illegal -The "double tap" Sept 2 strike -Allies' reactions -Congress' role www.justsecurity.org/126056/the-j...

So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

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Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

Smart. Now if someone standing in for Halligan (who is found to have been improperly appointed) tries to re-indict Comey they have to explain why the statute of limitations has not run.

FWIW, a court reporter's account, submitted *by the govt* on 11/19 in the Comey case--before it switched positions on 11/20—shows that the full grand jury could not possibly have approved the operational 2-count indictment. The jury was "released" when deliberations ended.

Ghislaine Maxwell: as she is doing time already, Congress shd immunize her which would force her to have to testify (she is currently objecting based on the 5th A). She can be prosecuted if she lies or refuses to testify. And it would make it that much more outlandish for Trump to later pardon her.

How Much is Wrong With the Comey Case? Andrew Weissmann Details the Laundry List open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

A Thursday in U.S. courts 1) "This Court has grave concerns about the government’s apparent willingness to disregard this Court’s orders, even after previous admonition." - Judge Stephanie. Gallagher, Trump appointee, Nov. 20, 2025

More remarkable findings by a federal judge about the lack of credibility of members of the current administration.....

Here's the info from behind the CNN paywall: 3/