Eric Lisann

Eric Lisann

@ericlisann.bsky.social

Lawyer, former federal and state prosecutor, independent legal analyst and contributor France24, adjunct HEC Paris. Father, loud spectator of college tennis matches. Same handle on the former Twitter.

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Mental Manipulation and Political Messaging in the Free World. Does it say more about MAGA or their handlers that they are so easily persuaded that anti-Trump songs are Trump endorsements?

Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

Neil Young files second lawsuit against Trump for unauthorised use of Rockin’ in the Free World at rallies The musician and outspoken critic of the president is suing for $10m in reputational damages www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

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Hold Democrats to this and prevent them from breaking the public's trust when they reclaim the majority. "Trump does need mid-level bureaucrats and lawyers to carry out high-level corruption, and targeting them with legitimate investigations would threaten his lawless project."

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Hold Democrats to this and prevent them from breaking the public's trust when they reclaim the majority. "Trump does need mid-level bureaucrats and lawyers to carry out high-level corruption, and targeting them with legitimate investigations would threaten his lawless project."

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Nice summary of huge electoral scandals where the perpetrators were never held accountable, and that begat our contemporary electoral fragility.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

Better late than never, for Massie.

Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), on Monday indicated he would reintroduce articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should he remain at the Pentagon after Congress returns to Washington, D.C., following the November midterm elections. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

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Axios: Senate Republicans are increasingly worried that Mississippi, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in 44 years, is now in play. “The wall has broken. The enemy is inside the fort,” one national Republican political operative told Axios. “We are now fighting hand to hand.”

It has taken almost 2 years but a party has finally gotten around to challenging the constitutionality of Trump's billion dollar hauls from foreign governments under the guise of crypto investing. Will be protracted arguments about standing first. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comCrypto shareholder sues Trump, family-backed crypto ventureThe lawsuit focuses on two business deals linked to World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm Trump launched with his sons.

Corporate media will never question corporate officers and political-spending decision makers on their political spending choices. The result is Trump, Musk, and his FOGE partner Ramaswamy.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

This is a desperate hombre. A wealthy desperate hombre grown fat on his US government-granted monopoly on low-earth orbit satellites and on other subsidies. He will continue to spend whatever it takes of his government-granted wealth to assure the continued corruption of that government.

Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave another $76 million to boost Republicans in the first two weeks of October, bringing his total giving this cycle to more than $442 million. www.politico.com/live-updates...

All of the reporting on the Starshield throttling fails to explore the most important and obvious issue - is Musk truthful or lying when he insists the White House or Pentagon made the actual decision?

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

1. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

Totally missed by political media even in their hard-wired horse race mode - much closer Senate race in Arkansas than the consultants and talking heads predicted. Cotton is not king there.

Aspiring Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Brendan Carr was actually re-nominated to his office by Biden, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Was his turn-coating on free speech really so unforeseeable or is the confirmation process useless?

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

That Habba payola greased more people's hands in the WH than just Habba's. Otherwise she would be following Kirsten Guilfoyle into oblivion.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

An all-Texas showdown. "What this is about is we have the world’s only trillionaire getting massive tax breaks from this governor [Abbott] after giving him over $500,000 in campaign contributions.” But Ken Paxton blocked the full release of the correspondence on grounds that it was "embarrassing."

Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, is suing her gubernatorial opponent in order to review more than a thousand pages of communication between Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk’s representatives thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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Replying to @owillis.bsky.social

The mainstream media is addicted to rote repetition of bullshit from billionaires without giving it any context

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DOJ leaders intervened to protect Meta as Zuckerberg has played a core role shaping Trump’s agenda to counter backlash over the safety of AI. The Trump DOJ has retreated on a wide range of corporate investigations inherited from the Biden era. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

news.bloomberglaw.comMeta Platforms Drug Sale Criminal Case Halted by DOJ Leaders (1)Top Justice Department officials have sidelined career prosecutors’ long-running grand jury investigation of Meta Platforms over facilitating illegal pharmaceutical sales, just after company executive...

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Sadly Lindsey Graham's namesake legislation is as performative as most things Graham.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

No he can’t do that. Congress must defend itself. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest. apnews.com/article/russ...

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Establishment Democrars through Biden and Schumer have historically been hesitant to push anti-corruption efforts at the top of their agenda. The fecklessness has cost them electorally, and ceded power to Trump. www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

mediaite.comNew Fox Poll: ‘Government Corruption’ the Top Issue For Whopping 88% of AmericansTrump’s signature issue of “voter fraud” was the last important issue polled, with a 52 to 48% split on voters being concerned or not.

DOJ leaders intervened to protect Meta as Zuckerberg has played a core role shaping Trump’s agenda to counter backlash over the safety of AI. The Trump DOJ has retreated on a wide range of corporate investigations inherited from the Biden era. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

news.bloomberglaw.comMeta Platforms Drug Sale Criminal Case Halted by DOJ Leaders (1)Top Justice Department officials have sidelined career prosecutors’ long-running grand jury investigation of Meta Platforms over facilitating illegal pharmaceutical sales, just after company executive...

Sadly Lindsey Graham's namesake legislation is as performative as most things Graham.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

No he can’t do that. Congress must defend itself. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest. apnews.com/article/russ...

Establishment Democrars through Biden and Schumer have historically been hesitant to push anti-corruption efforts at the top of their agenda. The fecklessness has cost them electorally, and ceded power to Trump. www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

mediaite.comNew Fox Poll: ‘Government Corruption’ the Top Issue For Whopping 88% of AmericansTrump’s signature issue of “voter fraud” was the last important issue polled, with a 52 to 48% split on voters being concerned or not.

Trump's first pick for AG. The real kicker is he may not have been worse than what we got.

Rep Andy Harris' belligerence is matched by his ignorance, befitting the chair of the Freedom Caucus. But the good folk in his ruby red district have dutifully sent him to Washington for 16 years anyway. Dems had the chance to re-district this year but the leader of the MD Democratic Party refused.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

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Trump’s new White House Press Secretary says she passed the Bar Exam in China. China doesn’t let foreigners take their Bar Exam. Either she’s lying about being licensed or she’s a Chinese National.

They thought they could appease him with their previous contrived settlement payoffs, and a grotesque White House correspondents dinner, but that just encouraged more extortion.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.

Why pay attention to a NYT columnist whose most distinguishing pronouncement was beclowning himself with a drunken conflating of his bar tab with his meal, which he used to assess the political economy. Such is the state of contemporary legacy media. www.businessinsider.com/newark-airpo...

businessinsider.comA NYT columnist was mocked by a Newark airport restaurant after complaining about his $78 mealDavid Brooks came under fire for posting about the cost of his burger and fries, but neglecting to mention that alcohol made up most of the bill.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

It's always true that David Brooks should shut up.

Every MAGA accusation is a confession. Arresting his parents over unpaid medical bills was a confession that the righteous Trump-loving Kansas Senator didn't pay his own bills.