Scott Pilutik

It's not really jury nullification if the jury simply determines the facts didn't merit probable cause

2025 was drunk abusive grandpa smashing the stove, refrigerator, and dishwasher. Everyone is hiding under the bed upstairs, wondering who will clean up the kitchen, and how the grown-ups could've let things get this far.

Ugh, I'm sorry, that sucks. Pretty views though.

The klan robe in one's closet isn't made less racist because it hangs alongside business suits.

Even more on point, Scientologists were ordered to buy multiple tickets to see Battlefield Earth opening weekend, and they did. Didn't save the film.

Watching these games is a stress-free experience, it's like televised hockey wallpaper. Yeah, that was my attempt at glass half-full.

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There's also no such thing as embarrassment at FIFA

"Hollywood is just a popularity contest" is what a smug bore like Bill Maher would say, now a paranoid smug bore.

"Using his ... ability to win elections, he started to change the constitution to give himself more power and to take power away from other groups. He started to expand the use of decrees. He turned his ruling party into a rubber stamp"

Yep--ohh, he meant Chavez!

The Prenda Law case featured some of the worst lawyering ever, and by worst I don't mean incompetent. The firm was essentially a criminal conspiracy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_...

She stood on a journalism best practices soapbox as her basis for spiking it, holding forth on a best practice that doesn't exist.

The rule can't be: Speak Truth to Power... but only if Power Cooperates.

I saw it in real time and thought, oh wow maybe best one ever

I'm curious to what degree "pending" criminal charges stems directly from the arrest that landed them there, such as a resisting arrest charge or nonsense like obstruction etc.

Hampton Sides, The Wide Wide Sea, about the final voyage of James Cook.

By the same author: In the Kingdom of Ice, about an ill-fated arctic exploration in the 1870s

The passive voice here makes it sound like they're all characters in a Coen brothers film, tragic victims of random, quirky fate.

Love the last second shift to Xanadu.

Inceptionoes

On the one hand these look "bad" for Wolff, but I can also see Wolff dropping these himself. Journalistic ethics isn't a big concern for him and these make him look like a player. This drop puts him out in front of a story that's about to get bigger.

FWIW, Vince Gilligan was a writer on the X-Files for years. Plenty of sci-fi in his DNA

Fantastic reporting, you really went down the rabbit hole. Greatly appreciated.

Lawyer here asking myself the same question, I'm dubious. I mean, the L literally stands for Lawsuit, NY's anti-SLAPP law is narrower than most. Additionally, Wolff is a fabulist.

I love you, but you're ungrateful and make too much money.

Because knowing up front better manages the expectations of the journalist as to what they can then ask. I believe most journalists would actually respect such a request at the end of an initial conversation, but that's not what happened here. This took place over days.

Protesting woman holding a sign that reads: MORE DUE PROCESS LESS DUDES PODCAST

They went from being enemy combatants to perfectly harmless b/c processing living enemy combatants requires nominal forethought as to the rights of these civilians, and nominal forethought isn't Hegseth's strong suit. They just wanted to kill Venezualans because Trump wants to oust Maduro.

It didn't make me cry, but it made me want to understand it so that I might too

Like she took off from LaGuardia

It's one thing when Jeanine Pirro gets a no-bill because the public doesn't know the defendants, but a grand jury refusing to indict James Comey would be a huge L and an embarrassing news cycle.