Ben
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lawyer. blockheaded Bracegirdle from Hardbottle
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A federal judge in Chicago issued a massive opinion on *Thursday that required the Trump admin to stop brutalizing people at the Broadview ICE facility
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence
For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A federal judge in Chicago issued a massive opinion on *Thursday that required the Trump admin to stop brutalizing people at the Broadview ICE facility
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
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i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
![However, the brothers' Google search history in the weeks after the theft for phrases including "how to wash crypto”, “top crypto lawyers”, “wire fraud statute / wire fraud statue [sic] of limitations”, and “prison or jail worse” suggest that perhaps the brothers had some clue that their actions could be interpreted criminally, as do the brothers' own descriptions of their plan as “sus”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreicpwu5pjoddgp2ovmaka2kfu6d6uc7uijrld5a4hovz5qpaqlkk5u@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
someone should tell trump that the surest way to dismantle the department of education would be to cancel student loan debts
An idiot is dismantling the Dept of Education at the direction of her even more ignorant boss. What could go wrong?
Trump administration takes major step toward dismantling the Education Department
The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
someone should tell trump that the surest way to dismantle the department of education would be to cancel student loan debts
"everyone is 12 now" theory is truly undefeated as a descriptor of the politics-as-content aspect of contemporary US but these Epstein emails are striking in illustrating that men in power have always been 12, just in the most sociopathic way possible
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"everyone is 12 now" theory is truly undefeated as a descriptor of the politics-as-content aspect of contemporary US but these Epstein emails are striking in illustrating that men in power have always been 12, just in the most sociopathic way possible
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every time they’re backed into a corner their way out is a to pluck an assault on some tenet of basic decency from a fetid message board
Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
every time they’re backed into a corner their way out is a to pluck an assault on some tenet of basic decency from a fetid message board
I'm sorry what is it like?
“Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer,” said Charles Tiefer, a leading authority on federal contract law.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm sorry what is it like?
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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Wow so she was AG of Florida that whole time Epstein is going buck wild down there huh
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Wow so she was AG of Florida that whole time Epstein is going buck wild down there huh
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
some incredible context here on the polite-diplomacy vs everyone-here-is-full-of-shit split among liberal jurists, especially considering Kagan's "we're all originalists now" pander at her confirmation hearings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
some incredible context here on the polite-diplomacy vs everyone-here-is-full-of-shit split among liberal jurists, especially considering Kagan's "we're all originalists now" pander at her confirmation hearings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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Here's a good blog: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
defector.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here's a good blog: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
like everyone who saw the up-close video, it genuinely fucked me up. how can you not feel visceral grief and horror for the victim/his family. so it's a shame the right can't help but sucking all resulting humanity out of the room by being so obviously, cynically full of shit about everything
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
like everyone who saw the up-close video, it genuinely fucked me up. how can you not feel visceral grief and horror for the victim/his family. so it's a shame the right can't help but sucking all resulting humanity out of the room by being so obviously, cynically full of shit about everything
can't believe a lawyer who exclusively represents evil clients and causes would turn out to be evil himself
Harvard law professor just putting evidence of colluding with a pedophile *on his letterhead* into a bound book but yeah meritocracy
September 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
can't believe a lawyer who exclusively represents evil clients and causes would turn out to be evil himself
cool that all the biggest, richest law firms and universities in the country immediately caved to the beta version of this Trumpian extortion and threw trans ppl under the bus. the slope is this slippery bc those mfs greased it
BREAKING: Feds indict LGBTQ org lawyer for testimony in long-running Alabama "judge-shopping" investigation.
In an indictment unsealed Monday, Lambda Legal counsel Carl Charles faces a felony charge of making a false declaration to the investigating judicial panel back in 2022.
New, at Law Dork:
In an indictment unsealed Monday, Lambda Legal counsel Carl Charles faces a felony charge of making a false declaration to the investigating judicial panel back in 2022.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Feds indict LGBTQ org lawyer for testimony in Alabama "judge-shopping" investigation
In an indictment unsealed Monday, Lambda Legal counsel Carl Charles faces a felony charge of making a false declaration to the investigating judicial panel.
www.lawdork.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
cool that all the biggest, richest law firms and universities in the country immediately caved to the beta version of this Trumpian extortion and threw trans ppl under the bus. the slope is this slippery bc those mfs greased it
I guess it's kind of cathartic that, despite being so obviously insecure and obsessive about their looks, our rulers cannot help personifying their deeply unsettling and ugly politics. soullessness made flesh
September 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I guess it's kind of cathartic that, despite being so obviously insecure and obsessive about their looks, our rulers cannot help personifying their deeply unsettling and ugly politics. soullessness made flesh