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Darren Kaplan
@darrenkaplan.bsky.social
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Attorney--class actions and mass torts, maker of dumb jokes, and, occasionally, astute observations.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · Apr 4
My firm, Kaplan Gore LLP, is proud to stand with more than 500 other law firms in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to Donald Trump’s executive order targeting that firm.

No matter how powerful our opponent, we will never back down from a fight. www.law.com/americanlawy...
More than 500 Law Firms Sign Amicus Brief in Support of Perkins Coie
The majority of the signatories are small, midsized and boutique firms.
www.law.com
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 4h
To shamelessly rip off Mel Brooks, instead or retail fleeing, its staying in droves.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 10h
The Trump Administration is at war with Christianity.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 13h
You keep waiting for the rhetorical turn in this opinion piece in the @nytimes.com, but it never comes. Christopher Caldwell is completely serious.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
www.nytimes.com
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 1d
The expression Pam Bondi made instead of answering Senator Whitehouse's question as to whether she knew anything about photos in Jeffrey Epstein's safe that a witness has claimed showed Trump with half-naked girls.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 2d
Breaking: SCOTUS has denied certiorari in Ghislaine Maxwell's petition to overturn her conviction in the Southern District of New York for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors.

That's the end of the appellate road, and her conviction and sentencing stands.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 3d
@nyjets.bsky.social fans contemplating the rest of the season.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 4d
Congratulations to Mark Sanchez on surpassing Aaron Rodgers as the most embarrassing Jets quarterback of the modern era.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 5d
A massive fire has erupted at a large oil refinery. Nearby residents were ordered to shelter in place.
Obviously this means we should completely abandon fossil fuels as a dangerous and unproven energy source.

Am I doing this right?
"Headline: LIVE UPDATES: Investigation underway into massive fire at Chevron's El Segundo refinery."
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 7d
Republicans are literally defunding the police. www.amny.com/news/judge-b...
Judge temporarily blocks Trump from cutting counterterrorism funds to NYC | amNewYork
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from cutting $187 million in Homeland Security Grant Program funding allocated to New
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 7d
Sounds like a prime candidate for the Supreme Court to stay any resulting injunction from the lower court on the Shadow Docket.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 7d
Republicans: "Cone on, you know we're incapable of governing by ourselves."
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 7d
I know this is going to totally shock you but an entity run by Donald Trump just ran out of money.
Trump Taj Mahal Hotel Liquidation Sale sign.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 8d
You know what would be a good idea?
For Schumer and Jeffries to publish a list of their actual demands for continuing to fund the government in simple everyday language.
Gross malpractice that they haven't done this.
Meaningless, non descriptive headline
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 10d
My favorite genre of alternative history fiction takes place in 1930s Germany but the Nazis are constantly complaining about their feelings being hurt when people refer to them as "Nazis," and "Fascists."
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 11d
The @WSJ's motion to dismiss Trump's defamation case arising from its reportage of the birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly signed by Trump is a grand slam home run.

I predict a dismissal without leave to replead.

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Adobe Acrobat
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 12d
I'm beginning to suspect that Trump's name might be in the Epstein files.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 13d
No. But presumably that's where Comey was when he testified remotely. (It was during Covid).
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 13d
Everyone should be emailing their U.S. Senators and telling them that the time has come to SHUT THIS CORRUPT CLOWN SHOW DOWN!

Here's mine:
www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess...
www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/emai...
Message Chuck | U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
www.schumer.senate.gov
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 13d
SHUT THIS CORRUPT CLOWN SHOW DOWN!
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 14d
This is insane!
Ed Martin of the DOJ's "weaponization task force," threatened a criminal investigation into a former FBI agent who sued Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about the Sandy Hook shootings.
Democrats should make firing Martin a non-negotiable condition for avoiding a shutdown.
Top DOJ official suggests he's investigating FBI agent who sued Alex Jones in Sandy Hook defamation case. (Video shows Jones giving press conference outside courthouse.)
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 16d
The race is on to get an indictment out of a grand jury. It's like fascist beat the clock.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 16d
Waiting for the new "Crown of Thorns" by Nerf.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 17d
You'd think the @nytimes.com would at least accurately identify Craig Shirley as the author of an upcoming book on "Donald J. Trump's Stunning Victory" in 2024.
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 19d
Whenever someone suggests that there's some outer limit of offensiveness beyond which speech ceases to enjoy First Amendment protection, I think of the facts in Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011), and the 8-1 majority saying "Nope." supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · 20d
Constitutional Law class for 2Ls is gonna be so lit this year!
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