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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.

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Published: March 17, 2025 23:16

Fucker thinks he invented “due process is only good if it produces results that people who look like me approve of” and dresses it up in some pretentious nonsense. Rocky Road is against the common good because I do not like Rocky Road. I am a deep…

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Published: March 17, 2025 17:22

Historically, law enforcement determinations of who is or isn’t in a gang has been some of the most entrails-of-a-sheep subjective voodoo bullshit in the entire criminal justice system. So now if a neo-Nazi is wiling to call you a gang member you are…

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Published: March 17, 2025 16:54

It’s important to recognize nice things amidst everything terrible. Kid3’s mock trial team (which won LA County last year) took 5th out of 35 in California this weekend. I was away but we let them use my office to camp in between sessions at the local…

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Published: March 17, 2025 14:39

Don’t come to the United States now. I know that’s capitulation, because the fascist trash that runs the country wants to go full blood and soil and keep you out, but it’s not safe. Don’t do it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 17, 2025 01:46

Will Chamberlain was probably radicalized by one of the many anti-American institutions hostile to our values he’s been a member of, like Human Events, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Internet Accountability Project, and Quinn Emmanuel. [contains…

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Published: March 16, 2025 20:56

Remember that the people who are cheering the haphazard mass firing of federal employees — because they hate federal employees and think they are the “deep state” — are simultaneously happy to accept ICE’s unreviewable, often clearly wrong determination of…

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Published: March 16, 2025 20:44

Victories for defense lawyers are infrequent. A client was sentenced to more than I had hoped, but I managed to get him out early to go home to see a dying loved one. A dozen factors made it touch and go all the way but he just landed in his home country.

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Published: March 16, 2025 15:58

I assume a lot of these stories are not by design — not “hey go pursue the LPR-applicants married to Americans” — but just ICE going after the easiest things they can — whoever comes to their attention — without caring about actual dangerousness or…

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Published: March 16, 2025 02:34

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not…

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Published: March 14, 2025 22:28

If hating POTUS disqualifies you from entry to the US we’re going to take a tourism hit, man. Also: I am 100% fine with other countries PNGing all our officials. Turn up the heat. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 14, 2025 20:53

The grimmest realization is not the very old one that Trump is a hyper-sensitive narcissist who thinks criticizing him should be illegal. The grimmest realization is that a substantial number of Americans are born serfs, best suited for a monarchy, who…

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Published: March 14, 2025 20:07

Like my faith that my God loves me out of grace, regardless of what I deserve, I am warmed by the fact that however much of a huge nerd I am, I will always at least be cooler than Ted Cruz. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 14, 2025 15:06

Put another way: I’ve never had the sense that Yglesias has any actual values, just strategies. “Moderating” is a questionable strategy when you have no control over what “moderate” means and you’re just reacting to bad-faith fascists who will demand that…

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Published: March 14, 2025 14:58

Yglesias looks at Columbia and says “well appeasement clearly works.” Yglesias also utterly lacks the insight to understand that the Right currently defines what “moderate stances” means and is dragging it inexorably into fascism with his assistance.

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Published: March 14, 2025 01:38

The government is demanding that a school discipline students as it wants, change the authority structure at the school, and end a department it doesn’t like. Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party. …

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Published: March 13, 2025 23:24

Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump] Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off] A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant. Chuck Schumer: STOP! …

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Published: March 13, 2025 22:09

Trump: COLUMBA IS AWFUL Columbia: [slaps student] Trump: COLUMBIA IS ANTISEMITIC Columbia: [kicks student in groin] Trump: NO MONEY FOR COLUMBIA LOL Columbia: [punches brown student in nose] Trump: WE WILL CLOSE COLUMBIA Columbia: [reaching for another…

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Published: March 13, 2025 20:06

Here is a great new account that will do important public service by letting us read the filings that journalists don’t like and by stopping me from unproductive violence re same [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 19:00

I specifically remember being told that opposing hate speech laws was the same as supporting hate speech and that “what will happen when the other guy gets ahold of this” was reactionary nonsense. Huh. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 18:33

I feel as if the government of the United States should be willing, and able, to answer the question “is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 18:00

I am filled with contempt for the people who think this is an acceptable way for America to treat an ally. They deserve a ignorant, thuggish government, but regrettably they have inflicted it on all of us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 15:41

Sometimes a group of lawyers can come to be regarded almost universally as crooks. Anyone remember Prenda Law, the group of porn-uploading copyright trolls who ran an extortionate scam? Rather quickly they were regarded across the national legal…

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Published: March 13, 2025 15:30

The sleazy trick that Trumpist government lawyers played here show that Trumpists believe they are above everything: that professional courtesy should be manipulated to the benefit of the regime. We need a list of them all. [contains quote post or…

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Published: March 13, 2025 15:06

Remembering the last time we invaded Panama. It was ‘89. I was in college, didn’t have many problems, was in relatively decent shape, was having fun, watched a lot of grainy night-vision videos of the invasion on TV, War on Drugs seemed to be going swell,…

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Published: March 13, 2025 04:42

This is an embarrassment for Yale. It’s a grime time and things are going to keep getting grimmer if universities jump at shadows from fear of Trumpism. If you teach at Yale I sure hope ChatGPT doesn’t say you kidnapped the Lindbergh baby or something.…

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Published: March 13, 2025 00:40

Phase One: Don’t Be Hysterical, There Will Be No Fascism Phase Two: Actually Calling This Fascism Is Exaggerated Phase Three: How This Fascism Is The Fault of Liberal Writers Who Don’t Admire Me Phase Four: Refugee Camp Chieftain Vingo Cuckslayer Will…

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Published: March 13, 2025 00:02

The suggestion that American Jews have divided loyalties — that their patriotism and devotion to American values is inherently suspect because of the existence of Israel — is a persistent anti-Semitic trope. It demeans us all. But criticizing censorship…

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Published: March 12, 2025 21:56

I differ with Mr. Sorbo on may topics but would like to agree with him that both payday loans and pawnshop loans carry usurious interest rates that ought to be regulated for consumer protection. Kevin, as God is my witness, I will help you get back your…

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Published: March 12, 2025 20:59

Question for those advocating that colleges be “neutral” on political topics: Do you believe Columbia University should not take a stance on whether the United States should revoke its students visas or green cards based on the administration’s hostility…

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Published: March 12, 2025 20:17

It's right to be outraged, and it's fair to question Columbia's motives and messaging, but the dean is probably right that anyone who isn't a citizen is now at risk if the administration doesn't like their speech about Israel. [contains quote post or…

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Published: March 12, 2025 18:30

I continue to feel separated in every meaningful way from people who think this is okay. I’m not sure being their neighbor or their fellow citizen is an achievable or desirable goal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 12, 2025 17:45

Question for immigration practitioners: say ICE and the administration, being sloppy, thought Khalil only had a student visa when they came to arrest him, and only learned then he had a green card. Would that impact the legality of the arrest? Did they…

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Published: March 12, 2025 16:06

AUSAs Brandon Waterman and Jeff Oestericher are rising to support and defend un-American fascism and should be treated accordingly in every aspect of their lives. Don’t break bread with fascists. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 12, 2025 15:02

This is a variation on Ben Shapiro’s “Jews are plagued by Bad Jews.” Ultimately the Nazis think all Jews are bad, and Ben and Laura think that 75% of them are bad, but they’re trying to close that gap and find agreement. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: March 12, 2025 03:13

Anyway Gavin Newsom’s podcast is premised on this concept “I will bring on people I disagree with and have conversations with them and that’s good for Discourse” and then he invites Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon, and Michael Savage. This is the thing about…

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Published: March 12, 2025 03:03

I asked my wife to guess who was next on Gavin Newsom’s podcast and she EXTREMELY SARCASTICALLY and with a gesture conveying disdainful hyperbole said “STEVE BANNON” and I had to tell her she was sincerely right and it did not go well after that [contains…

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Published: March 12, 2025 02:02

“This is Gavin Newsom, Episode Five. This week: Are buttons on silk blouses put too close together? I asked Andrew Cuomo during our International Women’s Day episode.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 22:54

Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for…

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Published: March 11, 2025 22:29

Mahmoud Khalil showcases an ugly thing about America: freedom of speech (and religion) poll very well in the abstract but if you probe with specific examples of things people don’t like the support falls through the floor. The default is “freedom for…

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Published: March 11, 2025 21:56

Hey remember when people said “we need a domestic terrorism statute” and people like me said “that would be super ripe for abuse for whatever lunatic is in power, would you want Trump to have that power” and you sneered at “slippery slope thinking”? Yeah,…

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Published: March 11, 2025 21:30

Glad Perkins is pushing back hard. The Perkins EO is lawless and contemptible, an act of banana republic petulance. It’s the official government weaponization of @lizcheney.bsky.social’s infamous attack on lawyers who represented Gitmo detainees — but…

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Published: March 11, 2025 17:37

I think the best way to produce a renaissance in American faith is to have Trump buy a Cybertruck and get stuck in it when it bursts into flame. How would you be able to deny God then? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 17:34

This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 00:59

This administration is so cartoonishly evil and corrupt. Unfortunately the cartoons are Maus and Judge Dredd. Anyway it’s great to know that Trump is still devoted to domestic abusers. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 10, 2025 23:12

This country’s founders knew that “treason” was a claim so vulnerable to abuse that they took the trouble to define it narrowly in the constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to…

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Published: March 10, 2025 23:00

If someone starts an account to call attention to evil — say a log of wrongly detained people — and your reaction is immediately to bash the account for not having existed earlier and for not yet doing what you want, you are a shitty person working out…

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Published: March 10, 2025 21:40

“Then Mr. Haynes stumbled away from officers saying he had to ‘take care of something.’ He leaned into the open window of the Tesla and shouted ‘ALEXA RECORD RU PAUL’S DRAG RACE’” in the direction of where the glove compartment would in a real car. Officer…