No conscience

 A name we'll be learning in days to come is Rajan Vasisht, who appears to have been Clarence Thomas's bagman.  Between 2019 and 2021 he was in charge of the justice's Venmo account, where attorneys with business before the Supreme Court made their payments, usually tagged as "Thomas Christmas Party."  No crude envelopes full of cash for them.  Vasisht did not respond to the Guardian's questions about this lavish Christmas party, but they did manage to obtain a list of the generous lawyers and their cases.  Your move, Mr. Chief Justice.  I crack myself up.

Christopher Wray spent six hours refuting Republican claims that he's ignoring "the Biden shakedown regime," that the FBI instigated Trump's coup attempt, that he's "biased against conservatives," that Gal Luft's indictment was just an attempt to intimidate their "whistleblower" and similar idiocy.  Their apologists (Fox News) are telling the even lower information folks that Luft was indicted last week in "retaliation," though he has been on the lam since his indictment last November.  

Trump wants his trial for stealing the Poolshed Papers and displaying them to random visitors to be delayed until after the election, because he plans on pardoning himself and everyone who hasn't turned state's evidence (not you, Giuliani) and using the full force of "his" government to Dachau everybody else.  He has a list.  It's misspelled, but it's real.

Mike Lindell is auctioning off his company's assets.  Will Elon Musk soon do the same?  The people he fired to make Twitter fall apart last year have filed a class action suit for half a billion dollars in severance pay, which is roughly the amount Twitter loses every six months.  Meanwhile he can bask in the approval of Anas Haqqani, a senior leader of the Taliban.  It's getting harder to find a site that won't cancel your hate but Haqqani is happy with Elon's approach to "freedom of speech."  And credibility, plenty of credibility.

Todd Rokita of Indiana and six other Republican attorneys general issued a vague threat against Target for displaying Pride merchandise last month, couched in language about protecting children from "sexually explicit" materials.  The condoms and dildos they sell from July through May are presumably heterosexual and fine.  Now we'll see what kind of lawyers Target retains.