Here is this week’s Serious Trouble, recorded as the fates require before Bolton got indicted. [www.serioustrouble.show/p/drakes-not...](
Drake's Not Like Us (Familiar With Defamation Law)
Drake loses his lawsuit, but nobody can take his dignity (because he doesn't have any); Letitia James is indicted; schools may prohibit 'Let's Go B...
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Drake's Not Like Us (Familiar With Defamation Law)
Drake loses his lawsuit, but nobody can take his dignity (because he doesn't have any); Letitia James is indicted; schools may prohibit 'Let's Go B...
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Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1
Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”
New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn either does kidnap and molest preschoolers or he doesn’t. Does he or does he not? Is there troubling evidence or isn’t there? Have preschoolers shrieked in pain and terror in his office or haven’t they? All of this plus the Brooklyn Book Festival!ghv
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreidjl3cul5osuyl4ao7y35dqjkbzgalwuuj33fhhktqpxkn47kpcvi
If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world Founder2: ok that works
Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings. RE:
Bluesky Social
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran...
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On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.
I’ve never seen anything remotely this petty charged as bank fraud. RE:
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Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)
NEW: Here's the two-count indictment against NY AG Letitia James. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.583342/gov.uscourts.vae...
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