trump’s j6 pardon program continues to deliver
Trump’s pardon machine: turning "stop the steal" foot soldiers into repeat offenders, one "patriot" at a time.
Donald Trump’s buy-one-insurrection-get-a-free-pardon loyalty program is really paying dividends. Christopher Moynihan, a January 6 rioter Trump pardoned after his felony conviction for helping storm the Capitol, has now pleaded guilty to a harassment charge for threatening to murder House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. According to prosecutors, Moynihan texted that he "cannot allow this terrorist to live" and promised to kill Jeffries "for the future", which is certainly one way to spell "patriotism" in MAGA World.
The Dutchess County DA had to remind everyone that threatening to assassinate elected officials is not "political speech" but a crime that strikes at the heart of democracy — a clarification that somehow became necessary after four years of Trump and friends treating violent rhetoric as a campaign plank. Moynihan was originally sentenced to 21 months for obstructing the certification of Joe Biden’s win, but Trump wiped that away when he pardoned nearly everyone criminally charged in the Capitol attack at the start of his second term, as a little thank-you gift to the mob that tried to keep him in power.
The result: a pardoned insurrectionist, freshly emboldened by presidential absolution, moves on to threatening to kill the top House Democrat. The Republican Party keeps calling January 6 defendants "hostages" and "heroes" while one of their newly redeemed freedom fighters allegedly graduates from attacking the Capitol to fantasizing about assassinating members of Congress. Truly, the law-and-order movement of our time.
#lawlessness#killing-democracy#fascism
president felon keeps speedrunning the appeals process
Trump gazes into the middle distance, perhaps wondering if the Supreme Court will eventually rule that hush money is an official executive function.
The president of the United States, who is also the proud owner of 34 felony convictions for cooking his business books to hide a $130,000 payoff to Stormy Daniels, is back in court trying to pretend this was all part of his official presidential duties. Because when you think "Article II powers," you obviously think "covering up hush money to a porn star."
Trump’s new lawyer, Jeffrey Wall, showed up in federal court to argue that the real injustice here isn’t that a sitting president is a convicted felon, it’s that his previous lawyers didn’t sprint to federal court fast enough to claim magical immunity. Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who has already rejected this stunt twice, politely informed him that you don’t get three bites at the apple just because your client lives in the White House and screams on Truth Social. Or, as Hellerstein put it, they’re "beating a dead horse"—which is generous, because the horse died somewhere around motion number two.
The Second Circuit forced Hellerstein to rehear the case to consider whether any evidence at trial touched on "official acts" that the Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Gift Basket might cover. Trump’s team is essentially arguing that if a single scrap of trial evidence brushes up against his presidential schedule, the whole hush-money scheme transforms into an Official Act of State. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office responded with the radical idea that you don’t get to lose in state court, then yell "federal review!" like it’s a cheat code.
For now, the conviction stands, the sentence is an "unconditional discharge"—no jail, just the permanent label of "first criminal president"—and the country gets to watch a sitting commander in chief try, again and again, to lawyer his way out of the one thing the jury was crystal clear on: he did it. America: where the justice system still works, provided you have enough money to file endless motions trying to prove it doesn’t.
#lawlessness#killing-democracy
trump’s ice murders a mom, then fox news murders her character
Nothing says ‘land of the free’ like a memorial poster that has to clarify you were murdered by your own government.
Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mom of three, was shot and killed by ICE on 7 January. Within hours, bodycam footage torched the official fairy tale that agents fired in "self-defense"—so the Trump administration did what it does best: lie harder and smear the dead. Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem claimed Good had "weaponized" her car (she hadn’t), while Trump helpfully explained that "at a very minimum, that woman was very, very disrespectful to law enforcement"—which is now apparently a capital offense.
On cue, the right-wing media outrage machine clocked in for its shift. Jesse Watters mocked Good as a queer "self-proclaimed poet" with pronouns in her bio, Laura Loomer announced that Good "deserved it" and wished her widow had been shot too, and JD Vance decided the real problem was that she was a "deranged leftist" whose own murder was "a tragedy of her own making". Because nothing says law and order like celebrating a state killing and then bullying the corpse.
When the public reacted with horror, the Justice Department—rather than investigate why ICE gunned down a woman in front of her home—opened a criminal investigation into her grieving widow, Becca Good, over vague ties to unnamed "activist groups." That was so grotesque that six federal prosecutors resigned in protest. In other words, the Trump administration has moved from "the police can kill you and face no consequences" to "the police can kill you, we’ll defame you on TV, and then we’ll try to criminalize your spouse for being sad about it." But sure, tell us again how this is the party of family values and freedom.
#lawlessness#killing-democracy
trump’s gangbanger of the week turns out to be… not that
Gregory Bovino, brave warrior in the Trump immigration crackdown, pictured somewhere between ‘I lied under oath’ and ‘the jury didn’t buy it’.
The Trump administration just face-planted again in court, after a Chicago jury took less than four hours to decide that a carpenter with a few bucks in his bank account was not, in fact, running a $10,000 Snapchat murder-for-hire operation against Border Patrol hardliner Gregory Bovino. Juan Espinoza Martinez was painted by DHS as a "depraved" gang "thug" and "ranking member" of the Latin Kings, only for the judge to bar any gang testimony because the government had, minor detail, no evidence. But sure, trust them on the secret cartels hiding under your bed.
Prosecutors tried to turn a "10k if u take him down" Snap shared with a brother and a government informant into a federal assassination plot, while the defense pointed out small problems like: no plan, no money, no follow-up, a witness informant who could barely walk, and a defendant who thought he was passing along neighborhood gossip after a few beers. The jury believed reality over Trump-world fan fiction.
This isn’t a one-off: it’s the latest collapse from Operation Midway Blitz, Trump’s big Chicago immigration crackdown, where about half of ~30 criminal cases have already been dropped or dismissed. A federal judge has already found Bovino lied under oath about alleged gang threats, and in Los Angeles he was the only witness to an alleged assault on an agent that a jury also didn’t buy. In other words, the administration is trying to build a narrative of heroic border warriors under siege from bloodthirsty immigrant gangs, and the courts keep replying, "Have you tried not lying?"
#lawlessness#killing-democracy#anti-immigration
trump doj discovers bold new legal doctrine: laws are just vibes
Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie politely explaining to Trump’s DOJ that ‘mandatory’ does not, in fact, mean ‘whenever you feel like it, plus redactions.’
Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act with one very simple instruction for Donald Trump’s Department of Justice: give us the files. By 19 December 2025, no less. Instead, the Trump DOJ dumped a token 125,575 pages out of more than 2 million potentially responsive documents, then patted itself on the back while blowing past the deadline like it was a stop sign in Mar-a-Lago traffic.
Lawmakers Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie – a Democrat and a Republican, because apparently basic legality now requires a bipartisan intervention – are begging a federal judge to appoint a special master and independent monitor, since the DOJ has decided the Act is more of a mood board than a statute. The department is doing everything the law explicitly forbids: missing deadlines, hiding behind common-law privileges the Act doesn’t allow, and slathering on redactions that look suspiciously like an effort to protect “politically exposed persons”, which the law also explicitly bans. But sure, tell us again how this is the most transparent administration in history.
Just to round it out, Trump’s DOJ also ignored another requirement: a detailed report, due 15 days after the deadline, explaining what was released, what was withheld, and why. That report simply does not exist, leading the law’s co-sponsors to write, in diplomatic translation: these guys cannot be trusted with the keys to a filing cabinet, let alone the justice system. Survivors’ advocates say the delay isn’t just bureaucratic foot-dragging – it’s retraumatizing and yet another institutional failure to hold anyone with power accountable for Epstein’s years of abuse. In other words, the system is working exactly as designed.
#lawlessness#forever-grifting
woman continues to larp as u.s. attorney after judge says 'absolutely not'
Lindsey Halligan, seen here shortly before a federal judge informed her that "U.S. attorney" is a job, not a vibe.
Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s favorite cosplay prosecutor, has been ordered by a federal judge to explain why she’s still calling herself the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after another federal judge already ruled her appointment unconstitutional. In other words, a court said, "you never had this job," and Halligan’s response was, "that’s cute, anyway…"—and the Trump DOJ is still helpfully labeling her "U.S. attorney" in official filings, because why stop the pretend game now.
Judge David Novak, apparently tired of living in a live-action separation-of-powers stress test, issued his own three-page order demanding Halligan justify why her name and title shouldn’t be yanked off an indictment in a carjacking and bank robbery case. He also wants her to explain how identifying herself as U.S. attorney isn’t a "false or misleading statement" and gently hinted at possible disciplinary action—because nothing says "totally normal functioning justice system" like having to ask the government’s top local prosecutor whether she’s committing fraud on the court.
This all stems from Judge Cameron McGowan Currie’s November ruling that Halligan’s appointment violated the Constitution, nuking her politically convenient prosecutions of James Comey and New York AG Letitia James as "unlawful exercises of executive power." The decision is on appeal, but—minor detail—it hasn’t been stayed, meaning it’s still binding law. Other judges have resorted to putting an asterisk next to Halligan’s name on court documents, like a walking steroids-era home run record, with a note reminding everyone she "did not lawfully possess" the power she’s been flinging around. But sure, tell us more about how this administration is restoring "law and order."
#lawlessness#corruption#killing-democracy
trump doj heroically protects epstein’s powerful friends from the law
Pam Bondi explains that complying with federal law is very hard when so many powerful people might be inconvenienced by accountability.
The Trump Department of Justice has bravely managed to release less than 1% of the Epstein files it was legally required to disclose by December 19, because nothing says "rule of law" like openly blowing past a federal statute and then sending Pam Bondi to write a five-page "oops, we’re trying" note to the judge. Out of more than two million potentially responsive documents, the DOJ has coughed up 12,285 – heavily redacted, missing "all the key documents," and offering exactly zero new information on the 10 alleged Epstein co-conspirators. But don’t worry, Bondi, Todd Blanche, and Jay Clayton swear this is all about "protecting victims," which is a fascinating way to spell "protecting politically exposed creeps and government officials."
Chuck Schumer is on X yelling "What are they trying to hide?" while the department quietly ignores a legal requirement to give Congress an unredacted list of every "government official and politically exposed person" named in the files. It’s been 17 days since Trump’s DOJ first broke the law by missing the deadline, and 14 days since they bothered to release anything at all – but sure, it’s just that redactions are hard and they need "a few more weeks." Meanwhile, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are floating an inherent contempt lawsuit against Bondi, because when a bipartisan pair is talking about dusting off Congress’s most nuclear accountability tool, things are definitely going "all-hands-on-deck" in the best possible way.
The first trickle of documents confirms Epstein’s industrial-scale child abuse operation with Ghislaine Maxwell and features more allegations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly known as Prince Andrew) shopping for "friendly and discreet and fun" girls – but still no major new revelations about who in U.S. power circles knew what and when. In other words, the only people being aggressively protected by Trump’s DOJ are the exact people federal law was designed to expose. But sure, this is all about victim privacy, and not at all about keeping the names of powerful friends, donors, and officials buried under a mountain of redactions and missed deadlines.
#lawlessness#corruption#forever-grifting
trump’s doj receives a million epstein files, promises to maybe look at them eventually
Pictured: the DOJ bravely preparing to spend several weeks deciding which Epstein files to read and which ones to accidentally-on-purpose misplace.
The Department of Justice says it’s going to need “weeks” to review one million new Epstein-related documents, because nothing says equal justice under law like handing a mountain of potential blackmail material on the global elite to the same political operation currently obsessed with punishing enemies and protecting friends.
According to DOJ, they’re carefully assessing these documents to determine what’s real, what’s fake, and what’s politically inconvenient enough to quietly disappear into the world’s deepest filing cabinet. They’ve already rushed out to declare one Epstein letter referencing Trump as “fake,” which is fascinating, because this is the fastest anyone at DOJ has moved since… ever. Imagine if they reviewed corporate crime or domestic terrorism with this level of urgency.
In other words: the government that can’t process asylum claims, can’t count votes without screaming fraud, and can’t comply with subpoenas without crying witch hunt is now in charge of sifting through a million Epstein files that may implicate rich, powerful people—including some very good friends of Donald J. Trump. But sure, we’re absolutely going to get transparency and accountability this time. Totally.
So now we wait while Trump’s DOJ, with all the subtlety of a paper shredder in overdrive, decides which victims get justice, which predators get protection, and which documents get “lost” in the great American tradition of elite-only law enforcement. Merry Christmas from your two-tier justice system.
#lawlessness#forever-grifting
trump’s doj discovers epstein files are harder to release when your own name is in them
Pam Bondi, bravely protecting America from the grave national security threat of people finding out what’s actually in the Epstein files.
Donald Trump spent years promising to "totally" expose the Jeffrey Epstein network — right up until it turned out his own Justice Department was sitting on a mountain of files with his name popping up inside. Congress, apparently tired of watching Pam Bondi do performative Fox News segments about a "client list" sitting on her desk while the public got nothing, passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act with a big bipartisan bow on top. The law gives Trump’s DOJ a clear deadline: cough up the documents by 19 December, unless you can justify narrow exceptions for ongoing investigations, national security, or victim privacy. In other words, basic rule-of-law stuff — which is why the Trump administration immediately stopped talking about it.
Since Trump signed the bill, Bondi has ghosted Congress on briefings while the administration continues to insist there’s no "client list" and no more disclosures are "appropriate or warranted" — a bold position for a DOJ whose boss’s name reportedly appears multiple times in the very files they’re hiding. Meanwhile, the "first phase" of releases turned out to be mostly already-leaked material repackaged as transparency, because nothing says accountability like dumping old flight logs and calling it a day. Lawmakers are now threatening to block nominees over the stonewalling, but the Justice Department still hasn’t meaningfully complied with the law it was just ordered to follow.
So we’re down to a 48-hour countdown where Trump’s DOJ has to choose between obeying a bipartisan statute or continuing the cover-up of a sex-trafficking scandal that spans billionaires, royals, and a former reality TV host who once sent Epstein a nude sketch and a note about how they "have certain things in common." If they comply, we get hundreds of thousands of pages that might finally show how Epstein skated for decades. If they don’t, we get yet another demonstration that under Trump, the Department of Justice is less a law enforcement agency and more a personal damage-control firm for the guy whose name keeps turning up in all the wrong archives — but sure, tell us again how this is the transparency presidency.
#lawlessness#forever-grifting#killing-democracy
trump signs shutdown law, immediately pretends it doesn’t count
Trump administration officials staring at a copy of the shutdown law like it’s written in ancient Sumerian, then deciding to fire people anyway.
Donald Trump signed a law to end his 43-day government shutdown, then apparently decided the words in it were just decorations. The continuing resolution explicitly barred agencies from implementing layoffs through 30 January, so naturally the administration tried to plow ahead with hundreds of firings at State and Education anyway—because nothing says "good faith governance" like immediately violating the law you just signed.
US district judge Susan Illston, burdened with both a law degree and basic reading comprehension, said absolutely not. She’s blocking about 400 planned layoffs at State and Education and ordering four agencies—State, Defense, GSA, and SBA—to reinstate roughly 300 people already pushed out during the shutdown. She also noted the administration’s trademark management style as "chaotic" with workers being laid off and reinstated repeatedly this year, like their livelihoods are just props in a low-budget reality show.
Unions rightly pointed out that no one should be shocked that Trump broke his word, but it’s still impressive to contradict a law he literally just signed. The White House, having no good explanation for why "no layoffs" actually means "except our layoffs," declined to comment. In other words, Congress passed a law, Trump signed it, and the courts had to step in to remind the president that laws still apply to him—a concept this administration treats as a hostile foreign ideology.
#lawlessness#killing-democracy
epstein transparency: pam bondi's vanishing act
Pam Bondi: Now you see her, now you don't. Transparency? What's that?
In a shocking turn of events that absolutely no one saw coming, the Trump administration seems to have misplaced its moral compass and any notion of transparency. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ben Ray Luján, apparently still under the impression that laws matter, are blocking Senate nominations until Attorney General Pam Bondi decides to stop playing hide-and-seek with Epstein's files. Yes, because nothing screams 'justice for victims' like an administration that can't even manage a simple briefing. But sure, let's pretend this isn't a colossal middle finger to 'equal justice under the law'.
As Bondi and the DOJ ghost Congress, the White House's silence is deafening. Merkley and Luján are demanding full disclosure, but in Trump's America, it seems some secrets are meant to be buried right alongside any political accountability. Until then, the Senate's civilian nominations will sit in limbo, proving once again that lawlessness is the only constant in this administration. But hey, at least they're consistent!
#lawlessness#corruption
military personnel fear trump's boat strikes will sink them legally
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens to Trump at Marine Corps Base Quantico, contemplating if he can swim out of this legal quagmire.
Ah, the Trump administration—where relentless chaos meets dubious legality. U.S. service members are scrambling for legal advice as they fear ending up the fall guys for the administration's latest escapade: sinking supposed drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. In other words, because nothing says 'protect and serve' like potentially unlawful pirate-style warfare and leaving your own soldiers to clean up the legal mess. As Trump flexes his Article II powers (read: imagines he's a sea captain in an action movie), service members are left pondering if they'll be the ones walking the plank—into a courtroom.
#lawlessness#national-security
who knew sea justice could be so complicated?
Pete Hegseth, ensuring chaos is delegated efficiently.
In a move that surely embodies the spirit of humanitarianism, the Trump administration proudly stands by its decision to target and eliminate the crews of small boats allegedly smuggling drugs—because nothing says 'War on Drugs' like unleashing the full force of the U.S. military on a dinghy. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, ever the model of accountability, claims he only ordered the initial strike and conveniently moved on to solving world peace before the survivors were subsequently obliterated. In other words, 'I only started the fire, I didn't fan the flames.' Meanwhile, the Justice Department's legal memo defends the strikes as part of a non-international armed conflict. It's a bold strategy—declaring war without calling it war—but sure, let's ignore that pesky thing called Congress. Rep. Adam Smith wasn't buying it, pointing out the hypocrisy of Hegseth's 'not-my-problem' press conference. Because when the best defense is passing the buck, who needs accountability?
#lawlessness#unconstitutional
pardoning drug lords now counts as foreign policy
Juan Orlando Hernandez enjoying his first-class extradition, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
In yet another bold move to redefine justice, President Donald Trump has announced a mind-blowing pardon for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges. Because nothing says 'upholding the law' like letting a convicted drug lord off the hook. According to Trump's logic, Hernandez was 'treated very harshly and unfairly,' which must mean those 45 years in prison were just a misunderstanding of his misunderstood passion for importing cocaine.
Trump's social media rant also came with a side of election meddling, as he threw his support behind Nasry 'Tito' Asfura for Honduras' presidency. Apparently, Trump's idea of democracy is telling another country who should win their election—because that's definitely how it works. Meanwhile, Asfura, who has his own history of alleged embezzlement, is promising to fix infrastructure while possibly lining his pockets. But sure, let's keep pretending this isn't a comedy of errors on the international stage.
#lawlessness#corruption
trump's georgia get-out-of-jail-free card
President Trump on Air Force One, plotting his next 'completely legal' escapade. Image: Pete Marovich/Getty Images
In a stunning development for those who still believe in the tooth fairy, the Georgia election interference case against Trump and his merry band of democracy-underminers has been dismissed. Judge Scott McAfee, perhaps inspired by the total lack of impropriety, decided that the attempted coup was really just too cosmopolitan for Georgia—how very unfair to the Peach State. The prosecution? Handed off like a hot potato by Pete Skandalakis after the original DA, Fani Willis, was ousted for having the audacity of a personal life. In other words, a classic case of 'nothing to see here, folks, move along.' As for Trump, he’s overjoyed, proclaiming the dismissal as a victory for 'LAW and JUSTICE,' which is totally what we’re all thinking.
#lawlessness#corruption
trump's magical pardon tour: the january 6 edition
Nothing says 'justice for all' quite like a presidential pardon for your co-conspirators.
The Trump administration, ever the beacon of democracy's finest principles, has decided to issue pardons to 77 of its closest friends and allies, including the likes of Rudy 'The Borat Star' Giuliani and Mark 'Don't Look at the Texts' Meadows. These pardons are all tied to their valiant efforts to rewrite the 2020 election results under the guise of exposing nonexistent voter fraud.
Because nothing says 'uphold the rule of law' quite like the judicial wizardry of expunging charges for schemers who concocted alternate elector slates in secret meetings. In other words, it seems that aiding an insurrection is now just water under the bridge.
Yet, shockingly, in the five years since Trump's election loss, not a shred of evidence has surfaced to validate claims of widespread voter fraud. But sure, let's indulge the fantasy and call these pardons an answer to 'prayers.'
#lawlessness#corruption
trump's 'you're fired' moment: 4,200 federal workers axed
Russell Vought channels his inner Donald Trump, announcing layoffs with a smile. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.
In a move that screams 'let's fix government inefficiency by firing thousands of workers', the Trump administration has begun layoffs affecting around 4,200 federal employees. Director of the OMB, Russell Vought, gleefully announced the RIFs had begun, as if channeling his inner reality TV host. The best part? Trump blames the Democrats for this mass firing spree, because in his world, government shutdowns and their ensuing chaos are always someone else's fault. Meanwhile, OMB senior advisor, Stephen Billy, assures us that this is just the beginning, hinting at more RIFs to come. Who needs stability in government when you can have a 'fluid and rapidly evolving' workforce crisis, right?
#lawlessness#killing-democracy
florida's everglades detention: all gators, no leadership
Nothing screams 'Everglades paradise' quite like a migrant detention center in the middle of nowhere.
In the latest episode of 'Who's Running the Asylum,' Judge Kathleen Williams has bravely asked the most important question regarding Florida's new migrant detention center, charmingly dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz'—who's in charge here? With Trump officials and Florida lawyers playing the blame game, and ICE supposedly in the driver's seat but possibly without a map, the courtroom drama reached new heights of incompetence.
Meanwhile, environmental groups and the Miccosukee tribe have banded together to point out the minor detail that this Floridian fiasco was built faster than a Florida sinkhole swallows a lawn, without any pesky public input or environmental impact assessments. But hey, who needs NEPA compliance when you can just plop a detention center in the Everglades and call it a day?
#lawlessness#anti-immigration
CIA's 'Smart' Move: A Self-Inflicted Security Meltdown
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is shown at the entrance of the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia, U.S., September 24, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
More bureaucratic absurdity, the CIA has axed a horde of its newest, brightest so-called ‘intelligence officers’—right as the nation’s security teeters on the edge of chaos! This mass firing, sanctioned by the ever-bold leadership of Trump’s latest stooge, John Ratcliffe, is a spectacle of incompetence that even the best spy thrillers couldn’t dream up. Apparently, firing underperforming rookies was deemed vital while **silencing** intelligence committees about these purges was just ketchup on the fries! As national security faces an irreparable threat, thanks to a slipshod approach and a total disregard for the consequences, one can only dream of a day when our government can manage its own house without dragging us down the drain. Cheers to the *so-called* efficiency of a billionaire's wet dream while the real risks loom in the shadows!
#lawlessness#national-security
Elon Musk: The New De Facto Leader of Your Government
nazi piece of shit
In a jaw-dropping circus of incompetence and hypocrisy, President Trump holds a Cabinet meeting to remind his own appointees they're actually in charge, not the billionaire who's been whimsically firing federal workers like they're emojis. While he trumpets the need for a ‘scalpel’ approach, thousands of government employees have already felt the hack of the ‘hatchet’ in a flurry of arbitrary layoffs, sending shockwaves throughout Washington. As courts shake their heads at this chaotic calamity, we wonder if we're living in a dark comedy—because having Musk with free reign in a critical government position is anything but funny. Welcome to the clown show!
#lawlessness#unconstitutional#corruption
