I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.
I don't post on here much any more, or monitor it much, so probably better to find me on Bluesky if you need me.
De gustibus etc. No platform is perfect. But I feel more comfortable there, and less like I'm likely to get screamed at for using Latin without a CW or something.
This week on Serious Trouble, we introduce a new recurring character —- Bob Menendez! Will he be a fan favorite or a Cousin Oliver? Tune in to find out.
Also Ken asks if Menendez’ excuse is he’s Cuban and Cuomo’s is he’s Italian, do we need some sort of chart of what crimes different nationalities do? Or . . . Is that problematical? Should we not do that?
@Popehat just start with WASPs. Historical crime patterns include genocide, colonialism, enslavement of other humans, fascist tendencies, warmongering, crony corruption, the invention of both parasitic finance capitalism and "greige", and clapping on the wrong beats.
This week on Serious Trouble: long sentences in January 6 cases, a questionable new RICO case against protestors in Georgia, Ken Chesebro and Sydney Powell are not mutual admirers, Donald Trump loses more in the E. Jean Carroll case, and Elon Musk yells about defamation and Jews.
@Popehat I truly wish this would be the start of a movement using imprisonment as a last resort. The US has a rate of imprisonment 10-20 times higher than other Western countries and incarcerates one-quarter of the world's prisoners. About one-quarter of young adults report having a parent being held in detention and one-quarter of African American children will have a parent spend one year or more in state or federal prison. Source: These are stats from 15 years publishing on this topic
This week on Serious Trouble, a deep dive into the law allowing federal officers to remove state cases to federal court, and …. Wait? Where are you going? COME BACK HERE YOUY COWARDS
@Popehat The level of corruption, racism, and cruelty really leaves us no other option than abolish the police and all of DHS and start over. We spend way too much on this crap. 3rd largest spending in the world behind US and China militaries. With the most people in jail and prison. Hell no.
@SloanStudio@Popehat The US Navy sometimes has bad ships, where the crew has become dysfunctional. They don't try to fix it now, they replace the crew, and disperse the original crew across the fleet. That works. We need a radically different thing, and no one who carries a gun in this one should be in an armed position in the next.
@joostdh@Popehat
I speculated that blocking would be a privilege for X premium members only, or become fee based, or become tiered -- you can pay to override someone's block, unless they pay for a super-block, and so on
Overt and Predicate Acts Explained: Why Fani Willis Isn't Trying To Criminalize Phone Calls or Tweets, And Also Why Her Approach Is Gratuitous And A Problem
@Popehat I continue to appreciate all of the work you put into these things, Ken. Thank you! I feel like, even after you said similar things in the podcast, I understand these things a little better.
ICYMI: Josh and I turned around an episode on the Georgia RICO indictment in less than 24 hours and I think it’s one of our better ones. Very good guest appearance by Andrew Fleischman, who brings his knowledge as a Georgia defense and appellate attorney.
As promised, TWO SERIOUS TROUBLES AT THE SAME TIME -- this second episode of the day addresses the Georgia RICO indictment. Why is it weird? Why is Georgia's RICO weird? What's going to happen? Josh, Ken, and guest Georgia attorney Andrew Fleischman explore it.