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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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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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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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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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Update: There were four rulings. (Story updated to include a Texas/Montana Section 1557 injunction.) www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...

NEW: A trio of federal court rulings this week have blocked Biden administration efforts to protect LGBTQ people in getting healthcare and going to school without discrimination. www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...

Trans healthcare anti-discrimination rule blocked nationwide as other LGBTQ rule challenges proceedwww.lawdork.com Some aspects of the rule enforcing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act go into effect on Friday. Also: Another Title IX rule injunction.

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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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

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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:

Hard to believe the party that produced Boris Johnson and Liz Truss could falter like that

Britain's Labour Party is projected to win a historic landslide victory — knocking the Conservatives out after 14 years of power in a brutal wipeout

Labour Party To Win U.K. General Election, Exit Polls Showwww.huffpost.com The center-right Conservative Party has governed Britain for the past 14 years.

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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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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

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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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

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

Facebook really hates this post, by the way. Not sure why.

America is not perfect. Far from it. But there are ideals worth fighting for, values worth pursuing, even when we fall short. Don’t abandon it to the totalitarians. https://www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth-of-july

The Fourth Of Julywww.popehat.com The America That Could Be

America is not perfect. Far from it. But there are ideals worth fighting for, values worth pursuing, even when we fall short. Don’t abandon it to the totalitarians. https://www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth-of-july

The Fourth Of Julywww.popehat.com The America That Could Be

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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“A senior source involved with…Trump’s 2024 effort… and another person working with the Heritage-based Project 2025 (the conservative policy agenda project) tell Rolling Stone that the point of these multi-pronged legal attack plans and potential blitz of challenges isn’t necessarily to win…”

This almost certainly won’t work but: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Right-Wingers Plan to Make it Difficult for Democrats to Replace Bidenwww.rollingstone.com If Democrats want to choose a new nominee, experts don’t believe the Heritage Foundation can stop them — but that may not be the point.

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Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

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I don't know if this part of the ad means @kenwhite.bsky.social is safe or he's in a lot of danger

The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.

New Trump Ad Shows Montage Of People He’ll Kill If Electedwww.theonion.com PHOENIX—Following this week’s landmark Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity against criminal prosecution for official acts, Donald Trump’s campaign released an ad Wednesday that con...

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Mr. Hutz, aka Miguel Sanchez, I hope you saw the post going around earlier: No one is above the law No, one is above the law!

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The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.

New Trump Ad Shows Montage Of People He’ll Kill If Electedwww.theonion.com PHOENIX—Following this week’s landmark Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity against criminal prosecution for official acts, Donald Trump’s campaign released an ad Wednesday that con...

Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.

ICYMI: This episode of Serious Trouble is pretty grim. It’s also our 101st episode! www.serioustrouble.show/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump Wins The Immunity Idolwww.serioustrouble.show A sweeping SCOTUS ruling makes it functionally impossible to prosecute Trump; lower courts will spend years sorting out how to apply the convoluted ruling; the court constrains regulatory agencies

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While DOJ independence was already a dead letter for purposes of a second Trump term since Attorney General E. Trump or J. Turley or whoever will have been chosen expressly because he's willing to take orders, also worth noting that Roberts blessed POTUS telling AG whom to prosecute.

Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.

My wife, who is doing a great job as a volunteer with CASA (which provides volunteer advocates for kids in foster care, who troubleshoot the system for the kids), has her first court hearing as a CASA today. /1

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I'm sorry, what? How did any lawyer sign their name to this lawsuit? Missouri has filed against New York under SOCTUS's original jurisdiction to stay Trump's sentencing. ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

“SEE DAD? I’ve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHO’S NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?”

Bear in mind that Brett Kavanaugh BROUGHT HIS PARENTS to watch the decision being handed down.