Okay, this is the initial post on the new blog of Casa de bmaz. You may have known me from nearly 18 years at, and with, Emptywheel. I was unceremoniously terminated from that post because Marcy said I was “undermining her journalism”. The basis was, by all appearances, that I very early on said Fani Willis was an ethically dubious prosecutor, and that the Fulton County case was mostly (not entirely) garbage. I was right about that. I also said the rando county citizen case in a rando local Colorado county court was garbage. I will, I think, be correct on that too.

Bottom line is, I was not “undermining Marcy’s journalism”, I was just saying what I thought. The problem is I would consistently say so, when Marcy thought something different. So, she demanded I lay off of Fani Willis. Which I did, I started speaking of only “Fulton County” instead. Then came the idiotic case filed by selectively planted private individuals in a local county court in Colorado that could, and would, skew the national Presidential election. I was then instructed to “take a break” for a while, but was instead just summarily excised from what I had done faithfully for over a quarter of my life.

Oh well, that’s the way it goes. I knew people, to the extent anybody ever comes here, would ask, so there it is. I wasted a quarter of my life supporting people (hi Rayne) apparently, but now I am here. I’ll always say what I think, and can now do so without false constraints about others people’s journalism.

Welcome, and thank you for visiting here.