On Nov. 17, the Biden administration filed a suggestion of immunity on behalf of Mohammad bin Salman (#MBS) in a suit filed by the fiancée of Jamal #Khashoggi, who was assassinated in 2018. Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, brought a case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2020, seeking relief under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 and Alien Tort Statute in connection with Khashoggi’s killing.

#SaudiArabia

On site with summ: https://www.lawfareblog.com/biden-administration-recognizes-mbss-immunity-khashoggi-case

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Saw a certain Elon on the birdsite make a laughing reply to someone making fun of Mastodon on there.

He seems to have since deleted it. Perhaps he remembered "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" Stage 2 achieved. 😂 #riptwitter #spacekaren

I did a thread on the other site. It starts here:

https://twitter.com/sarahposner/status/1594078345309741056?s=46&t=HPO1kh5e91KWR6ivLopmoQ

The gist is the Times story shows us that Alito might be leaky (he denies.) This is bad for SCOTUS ethics/corruption.

But the part of the story that suggests these evangelical dinner mates and prayer partners swayed the justices is simply wrong, and misunderstands how the religious right works, and in particular with legal part of it.

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk decide..."

—@adamdavidson

https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment