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Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report.
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Popehat
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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off
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Popehat
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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Ivis Bohlen
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Matt Novak
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I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.
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The New York Times
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Donald Trump's lawyers on Friday asked the judge overseeing his classified documents case to put that proceeding almost entirely on hold as they sort through whether Trump enjoys immunity from the charges based on a landmark Supreme Court ruling this week.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.
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The New York Times
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The Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed abortion protections in the state’s Constitution on Friday. It struck down Republican-backed laws that banned a common second-trimester abortion procedure and that created new licensing requirements for abortion clinics.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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AND he can pardon them proactively! He can give blanket pardons for categories of officers before he leaves office that the next President can't revoke.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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To be clear, there are political leaders out there who could use more of what Biden is going thru
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Popehat
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Trump can make the thugs willing to do his bidding immune to federal prosecution. Not to bullets, though.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Years before this ruling, that was the defense trotted out by the Calm Down types: they didn’t do it! Too many people said no, I won’t commit crimes for you, Trump. They fail to realize there were multiple who were willing! If he’s reelected how many Jeff Clark’s do you wanna risk him appointing
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Spider
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So uh... anybody with a bigger megaphone than me want to help a butch out? The Gilbert Baker Foundation & CMG are asking a settlement from us for referring to the Gilbert Baker flag/original color scheme as the "Gilbert Baker flag" of twice what we've ever made from anything with those colors.
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Mitchell Epner
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With regard to former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper’s chilling account that then-President Trump wanted troops confronting protestors in Lafayette Park to “shoot them in the legs”, I’d love to hear someone ask the follow up question whether Trump understood that people would fall & get hit in torso.
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Ian Miles Schlong
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Looks like something useful is happening on the Nazi site - this court document about Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein case is going viral This is a disgusting read
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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I feel the Skepticism you hear from some when they seem utterly baffled that people would actually believe a second Trump term would bring authoritarian and anti democratic backsliding is rooted in, among other things, 1) not realizing that if something like that occurs, it’s not gonna have…
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Oliver Willis
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"The members of the mainstream media are human beings (despite frequent appearances to the contrary) and human beings respond to incentives. There is an enormous personal financial incentive to another four years of Trump in the White House" www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-media-...
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Greg Sargent
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Greg Sargent
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One striking detail in this story: The Pastor at Lake Church, where Mark Robinson gave this speech, told me he and Robinson expected these remarks to be "scrutinized." Then the Pastor defended them!
(also worth noting Christian Nationalist overtones in rest of speech cc @sarahposner.bsky.social)
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Sarah McLaughlin
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A dual U.S.-Saudi citizen is facing a long prison sentence and an even longer travel ban for "extremist ideology" over his cartoon comedy on Netflix and old social media posts. It's not the first time, and likely not the last, that Saudi Arabia has targeted U.S. citizens for their speech.
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Quinta Jurecic
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Baude who, by the way, clerked for Roberts, and whose read on what the hell is going on with the conservatives is worth a great deal
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Popehat
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Effortful yet feeble.
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Leave subtext as subtext plz
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/2 Now really looking forward to them covering the slow-motion car crash that is July 1914 which is an absolutely terrifying story of our inability to stop terrible things from happening
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Listening to The Rest is History’s new series on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and it’s as good as I hoped. Humanizes the guy, reveals the shitbirdery of his family and Hapsburg colleagues, and also explains why his assassination saved millions of birds.
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Parkscope Joe
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Well, happy 4th becuase the new Legal Eagle video and @kenwhite.bsky.social podcast have me shaken to the core and terrified for my future.
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Victory .aka Agent 99 🤭
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Popehat
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I remember and am pleased to follow again.
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Chris Geidner
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Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee, issued a nationwide Title IX rule injunction covering all children of "Moms for Liberty" members this week. That's bad enough, but the procedural/notice mess he made of it is also really absurd: www.lawdork.com/i/146289012/...
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Popehat
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I’m sorry, I don’t mean to offend, but I really deeply dislike Mastodon’s vibe. It’s like being trapped at a party with two other people: one who demands you debate them on whether Dick York or Dick Sargent was the better Darrin, and one who becomes irate that you said the word “Dick.”
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Chris Geidner
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Update: There were four rulings. (Story updated to include a Texas/Montana Section 1557 injunction.) www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...
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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”
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Gregory Hays
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Comfortably Numb
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COLUMNIST: Biden's economy is doing good. But maybe too good? EDITOR: No, no, you now work in Arts and Music section. COLUMNIST:
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Hard to believe the party that produced Boris Johnson and Liz Truss could falter like that
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Uncertainty Vice Principal
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It wasn't just the headline, he lied in the article too. And they didn't even bother to change that. Only with the most slimy mental gyrations could you claim that this meant "I always voted but I'm not planning to next time". What he wrote implies that he put it into practice already.
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Don Moynihan
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote
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Very proud that the New York Times is publishing my op-ed tomorrow “Why I Don’t Eat Burritos Or Indulge In Sarcasm And You Shouldn’t Either”
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Ah, yes, The Economist: the vanguard of the quest for youth
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Don Moynihan
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Facebook really hates this post, by the way. Not sure why.