The obvious reason why it's important to try Trump before the election is that it's important that he face a trial for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, and if he wins, that won't happen.

So weird Trump supporters aren’t eager to get the trial started so his name can be definitively cleared before the election.

I know you’re not supposed to care about tweets but yet again, look at the ratio on this. Literally thousands of replies pushing Great Replacement conspiracy thinking, some rationalizing violence. Prominent racists like Sailer amplifying and people thanking Elon for spreading it

Some thoughts on the slim prospects for anonymizing the Trump jurors, and what it means for the case. open.substack.com/pub/juliansanc…

This drives me nuts. I use a VPN routinely, but especially in sponsored ads on YouTube I see some pretty absurd claims made about what a VPN can actually do to protect you.

Why Stormy Matters: Her testimony wasn't just a salacious sideshow; it's directly relevant to the legal charges Trump faces. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/why-stormy-m…

Text and Subtext at Newsmax (Or: How to lie by telling the truth) open.substack.com/pub/juliansanc…

Just released episode 4 of WatchCats, featuring kate conger & Ryan Mac 🙃 of The New York Times on how DOGE is rerunning the Musk playbook for Twitter on the federal government. watchcats.substack.com/p/kate-conger-…

Just added the full transcript for Episode 4 of WatchCats: "Moving Fast & Breaking Things, at Twitter and the Federal Government"—for my fellow dinosaurs who prefer reading to listening. watchcats.substack.com/p/kate-conger-…

The chaos of Trump’s first month looks disturbingly coherent if you suppose he’s deliberately set on a collision course with the courts—and restructuring the federal bureaucracy to enable him to ignore them. open.substack.com/pub/juliansanc…

On Episode 5 of WatchCats we speak with Minnesota AG Keith Ellison about state lawsuits challenging DOGE, and future fights on the horizon. watchcats.substack.com/p/keith-elliso…

A little experiment we're trying at WatchCats: A short daily DOGE news roundup. Let us know if it's worth making it a regular feature. watchcats.show/p/watchcats-ne…

Your daily WatchCats roundup of DOGE news for April 2, 2025: watchcats.show/p/watchcats-ne…

Noah and I talk about IRS sharing migrants' data with ICE; SCOTUS blocking an order to rehire fired workers; DOGE access to federal databases; and much more on the WatchCats daily roundup: watchcats.show/p/watchcats-ne…

Then 40 of the 435—the ones called the “Freedom Caucus”—went to the chief priests & asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver the budget over to you?” So they counted out for them 30 pieces of TrumpCoin. Hence, the Caucus watched for an opportunity to hand it over.