Nobody could have seen this coming:

Rep. Devin Nunes’s infamous memo — the document numerous House Republicans claimed would demonstrate fundamental anti-Trump corruption at the FBI — was released early Friday afternoon. The entire thing is three and a half pages and only takes a few minutes to read closely and carefully. After doing that, there is only one conclusion a fair reader could draw: There is absolutely nothing here. There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed. The memo is a piece of partisan spin, and not a particularly compelling one at that. Republicans who claimed it was anything else have been egregiously misrepresenting what the memo actually says.

Well — not a complete nothingburger, as it did lead to this excellent subtweet of Seb Gorka:

sorry no tweets for a little while

i read the memo and it was indeed 100x bigger than what started the American Revolution so I had to rush from Boston on horseback to rouse the people — Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) February 2, 2018

And while it’s certainly true that it’s too easy to get FISA warrants, this is a problem Republicans have just specifically refused to solve.

…for some occasions, only Pierce will do: