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A Forensic Psychologist wandering in Missouri. These Toots are my own.
@kevinhearne I’ve been re-reading (listening to) the Iron Druid Chronicles (finishing up Tricked now). I just wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed this second round. It’s been such a joy to explore the growth and development of Atticus, Oberon, and Granuaile. I love how I can see hints of their future for the characters. Thanks for sharing you thoughts, dreams, ideas, and humor.

Offering good legal advice to Donald Trump is like offering MILF porn to Jared Fogle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/14/trump-indictment-classified-documents-settlement/

Trump rejected lawyers’ efforts to avoid classified documents indictment

The former president was not interested in attempting to negotiate a settlement in the classified documents investigation, three people briefed on the matter said.

The Washington Post

Ugh. Wtf is this nonsense.

The norm is against politicized prosecution; not against prosecution of politicians.

Not only do many countries prosecute politicians, including former presidents, but the *United States* does too, incl of congressmen or former presidents from the other party

Context: from an article explaining that this woman — who objected to a poem read at Biden’s inauguration being available in the school library - also “accidentally” posted stuff about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

https://www.jta.org/2023/05/24/united-states/the-florida-mom-who-got-amanda-gormans-poem-restricted-says-shes-sorry-for-promoting-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion

The Florida mom who sought to ban Amanda Gorman’s poem says she’s sorry for promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The activist apologized to JTA and to “the Jewish community” for sharing the antisemitic forgery on her Facebook page.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Sorry to hear of the passing of U.S. District Court Judge Ronald S.W. Lew. I had the privilege of externing for him back in ‘92. A fine man. He was also responsible for a memorable experience I’ve written about.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/the-fourth-of-july

The Fourth Of July

The America That Could Be

The Popehat Report

Jordan Neely’s homicide reminded be of this 2012 post so I fished it out of the Internet Archive. It grieves me how much the discussion of how we justify brutality still applies.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/deserves-got-nothing-to-do-with-it

Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It

Thoughts From 2012 Seem Relevant in 2023

The Popehat Report
But this is just the latest in a long list of times I, like an old man yelling at a cloud, shake my fist at people refusing to accept that words mean things.
Me when people arrive to my substack from various bigoted shitbird sites thinking they’ll like me because I criticized Stanford students or Steven Shaviro