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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. Signal: KenWhite.1969

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Why is a child just out of frame raising his hand

22.07.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

She does not, yet. Yes, as I am large and clumsy I am very careful.

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Oh he’s black. MAGA is going to shit itself empty.

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Women’s contributions and men’s racism erased from history of Muir Woods National Monument An initiative to fill in historical gaps from the Muir Woods National Monument disappeared under pressure from the Trump administration.

SCOOP: The Trump Administration directed the Muir Woods National Monument to remove language it had added to its interpretative signs detailing women's contributions to the monument and the racist ideologies of some of its founders.

19thnews.org/2025/07/publ...

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Wow, it's amazing all the different kinds of files they can produce when they want to

21.07.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4552    πŸ” 896    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 101

These stories are horrific, as is the realization that around 35% of Americans would respond β€œGOOD!”

21.07.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2353    πŸ” 679    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 24

YOU’VE SEEN MY DICK, NOW SEE MY WORK

21.07.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I assume the point is β€œhey, the FBI doesn’t kill people, the FBI tries to get them to kill themselves.”

21.07.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 756    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 2

The anti-fun tacticool military is here. Sullen mandatory fake cheer for endless PT will surely endear the military to Dear Leader, and pay off when he needs them to commit overt crimes for him!

Seriously, this is going to blow up in their faces.

21.07.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 254    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 2

I don’t know how much programming this sick fuck required, given that he bragged about stuff like jerking off into a t-shirt on a date.

21.07.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 611    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s really not difficult to imagine this administration starting a war on various drugs that help keep me alive.

21.07.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

What utter legal buffoonery.

21.07.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 299    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
We conclude a reasonable officer in these circumstances would not have
understood Lander’s statement that his β€œold lady is [his] attorney” and that he
β€œwant[ed] her present” as a request for an attorney. Lander’s claim that his old lady
was his lawyer was made in a joking manner after he made multiple prior requests
to contact her. Several times during the traffic stop, Lander asked Chief Schuller if
he could call his partner, whom he referred to as both his girlfriend and his old lady.
Almost immediately after Agent Pennock introduced himself and started his
interview at the police station, Lander again requested to call his old lady or have
Agent Pennock call her. Lander stated he wanted to talk to her so she could calm
him down and that he did not want to make any decisions without her. Shortly
thereafter, Agent Pennock read Lander his Miranda rights, including his right to
appointed counsel, and Lander made his claimed invocation. Lander laughed while

We conclude a reasonable officer in these circumstances would not have understood Lander’s statement that his β€œold lady is [his] attorney” and that he β€œwant[ed] her present” as a request for an attorney. Lander’s claim that his old lady was his lawyer was made in a joking manner after he made multiple prior requests to contact her. Several times during the traffic stop, Lander asked Chief Schuller if he could call his partner, whom he referred to as both his girlfriend and his old lady. Almost immediately after Agent Pennock introduced himself and started his interview at the police station, Lander again requested to call his old lady or have Agent Pennock call her. Lander stated he wanted to talk to her so she could calm him down and that he did not want to make any decisions without her. Shortly thereafter, Agent Pennock read Lander his Miranda rights, including his right to appointed counsel, and Lander made his claimed invocation. Lander laughed while

8th Cir. holds that the statement β€œMy old lady is my attorney, I want her present," was not a clear and unequivocal invocation of the right to have an attorney present during a custodial interrogation.

Incriminating statement not suppressed.

ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/07...

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This is making me worried.

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The time to write your β€œwhy do people mourn when a famous person dies? People die all the time, your parasocial relationship with the dead person is illusory and illogical” skeet is immediately after you go back in time and hand your father a condom

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Office predator predating

21.07.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1434    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 7

Workaday Trump era story that would be completely unreal and beyond belief in any normal non-degenerate time. "A top State Department official who oversaw recent mass layoffs is now taking over as the acting head of the General Services Administration, according to an email sent to staff."

21.07.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 563    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Oh shit

21.07.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Richard Lawson, the DOJ lawyer who apparently doesn't believe in the rule of law or maybe even our legal system, filed the notice of appeal in the Jenner lawsuit.

Show some dignity, man.

21.07.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 666    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

Just recorded this week’s Serious Trouble. Trump sues the WSJ β€” is it performative or a signal of impeding abuse of power? Also: me on why a 251-page RICO complaint is not the approach I would choose to establish your mental acuity, and I shittalk the NYPD for a while.

21.07.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 424    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

Well now I have Bon Fucking Jovi in my head all morning

21.07.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe Author: Samuel Samson

From the U.S. State Department's official substack (!)

'the global liberal project is... trampling democracy, and Western heritage... in the name of a decadent governing class afraid of its own people'

With friends like these...

substack.com/@statedept/p...

h/t @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social

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The NYT ethos: we will scrupulously and conspicuously use β€œwhom” but we are kind of on the fence about freedom

21.07.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2446    πŸ” 418    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 15

The absolute presidential immunity established in Trump v. United States should extend to every brush with pedophilia Trump and his advocates have had.

by Alan Dershowitz

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i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott

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Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask.
Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a β€œreign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to β€œkeep them and their families safe.”

Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask. Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a β€œreign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to β€œkeep them and their families safe.”

NY Times showing how to both sides the secret police abduction squads story

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Trump Demands Sports Teams Make Their Names Racist Again President Donald Trump wrote that the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians should restore their racist team names "IMMEDIATELY."

Likely trying to deflect from the current disaster that is his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files, Donald Trump is trying to bully sports teams into restoring their old, racist team names.

20.07.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1159    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 41

Oh so *now* they care about due process.

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ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave.

Keep fighting back ✊🏽

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