Coming soon
Another indictment.
Boxes
Between the toilet And the shower Fall the Boxes.
How to convict
If I were to read one item today about last night’s indictment, it’d be this one, by Norman Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Joyce Vance: “How to Convict Trump.”
Mike Pence beareth false witness
Mike Pence just said that he and his wife Karen have “the three most beautiful granddaughters ever born in the history of the world.” Grandparents everywhere know that’s not true.
Another country
In the latest installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson asks a pointed question: The Supreme Court, Congress, and the Tennessee statehouse. What would you say if you saw today’s news coming from another country?
The indictment
Featuring “Woman 1,” “Woman 2,” and the “Doorman.”
More trouble, brewing
From The Washington Post: “Justice Dept. said to have more evidence of possible Trump obstruction at Mar-a-Lago.”
TRUMP INDICTED
I turn off NPR, put on Lassie, fold some laundry, and look what happens.
Recently updated
Still more lies from George Santos.
Updating
More and more George Santos lies.
The January 6 report
The Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is available from the committee’s website.
Referrals
Here come the criminal referrals, as announced by Representative Jamie Raskin (D, Maryland-8).
Katie Hobbs wins
For Kari Lake, it’s all a blur.
Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
From The Washington Post: “Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China, according to people familiar with the matter.”
One big revelation
The dfp is having a very bad day.
Shame on you, Maggie Haberman
Never mind democracy: she was saving the story for the book.
Yes!
Go Letitia James!
The U.S. and the Holocaust
I wonder if anyone ever imagined that this documentary series would begin airing four days after a governor lured refugees onto buses with promises of employment and housing, and one day after a crowd raised their right arms to the defeated former president in an index-finger salute. We dismiss such cruelty and madness at our peril.
“Reverse Freedom Rides”
Did you know about this? “Sixty years before migrants were sent to Martha’s Vineyard, there were the ‘Reverse Freedom Rides’” (NPR).
Defeated former president in D.C.
The defeated former president flew into Washington, D.C., wearing a brown jacket, white polo shirt, and what appear to be golf shoes. Oh — and pants.
Reality-distortion fields
The difference between Steve Jobs’s reality-distortion field and Elizabeth Holmes’s: Jobs made people believe they could do hard things; Holmes made people believe she was doing hard things.
Yesterday’s HCR
Heather Cox Richardson’s September 6 installament of Letters from an American is especially helpful if you weren’t following the news yesterday.
Joe Biden tonight
“History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. For a long time we told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it’s not. We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us. That’s why tonight I’m asking our nation to come together: unite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy regardless of your ideology.”
Attachment F
Attachment F follows Attachment E, a certification from a lawyer for the defeated former president swearing or affirming that “a diligent search” of boxes of materials removed from the White House took place and that “any and all responsive documents” accompany the certification. And then, as Steve Jobs liked to say, one more thing — just a sample of what the FBI found.
Hatless in Bedminster
The photograph that accompanies Andrew Weissman’s New York Times commentary on the redacted affidavit says it all: the defeated former president, hatless, bronzerless, uncoiffed, at his New Jersey golf-club-cum-cemetery.
The redacted affidavit
I’m happy to share it via a gift link to The Washington Post : the redacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit. And five takeaways.
“All the documents”
“The subpoena, issued to the National Archives in May, made a sweeping demand for “all materials, in whatever form” that the archives had given to the Jan. 6 House committee.”
Degree, not kind
A difference of degree, not kind.
More bad stuff
Voting machines and Giuliani.
Attachment B
In the immortal (tweeted, unpunctuated) words of Donald Trump Jr., “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”