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Abundant posts about civil liberties, national security, and US legal cases. Full-length posts at emptywheel.net. Warning: High propensity for potty-mouthed outbursts on TV.

Immigrant to Ireland (I married well). Find me in Limerick.

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I read the NYT Front Page, so you don't have to.

I want to thank Jim Jordan for asking an intelligence expert (Mike Morell) to lay out how Trump has the personality of a dictator.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24791909-230404-morell-transcript_redacted#document/p86/a2568445

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"Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist [who has potty mouth warnings in her Xitter bio] greeted her blue verification badge Wednesday with an expletive."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/04/twitter-blue-check-restored-x/

Elon Musk’s X restores blue checks to influential accounts

The social network formerly known as Twitter is now gifting premium features to users with at least 2,500 verified followers.

The Washington Post

Hunter Biden's lawyers confirm (and cite) my reporting: David Weiss claimed that Keith Ablow's sawdust was Hunter Biden's cocaine.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82796/gov.uscourts.ded.82796.89.0.pdf

A little table to help confused journalists deal with a busy news day.
Since January 6, I've cycled in this picture of Trump from when he had COVID (so from October 2020, when the insurrection was still just a twinkle in Roger Stone's eyes), bc it's such an expression of Trumpism. As it happens, it's not far off his mug shot.
Over on Xitter, the self-imagined Trump opponents continue to serve as data mules for his unfiltered propaganda.

"Effected" is probably not the word Trump's firewall lawyers intended to use here.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.244001/gov.uscourts.dcd.244001.105.0_4.pdf

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Read in context, Xitter says that it's mission is to provide a platform for hate speech, a topic of paramount importance, unfettered by observations that it is hate speech.

Xitter has followed through on their threat to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate. Effectively they're complaining that CCDH Xitter Filed it, quoting data out of context.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.416212/gov.uscourts.cand.416212.1.0_1.pdf

Transcript Order – #663 in In re: Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal., 3:21-md-02981) – CourtListener.com

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