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November 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Here's the opinion. It's a rout. Too often, courts address only the actual malice question and do not reach falsity. This court correctly says there's no actual malice *and* the plaintiff did not show there were any false statements. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social I hate to be "That Guy", and I can't be the first, but the clapping story is from Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. At a local Soviet Party meeting in 1937 after Stalin's name was mentioned... well you know, “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!”
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Everytime I listen to Stephen Miller I think of this one angry nerdy bitter kid I went to high school with who used to have just one line in his AIM profile, the Radiohead lyric:

“When I am king, you will be first against the wall”
The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Even if Hegseth intended this gathering to be a lecture on warfighting and standards, the presence of Trump makes it far likelier that it will deteriorate into a highly political event that further drags the armed forces into the partisan political maelstrom. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans
President Trump will attend the unusual gathering of hundreds of generals summoned to Virginia on short notice by Pete Hegseth, adding new security concerns.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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An important read about the background and possible motivation of the ICE shooter. His friends describe him as an extremely online edge lord, with no strong political leanings.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Such little, little people.
The White House has placed a photo of an auto-pen signature instead of a portrait of former President Biden on the “Presidential Walk of Fame”
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I have watched some of these "debates."

Agree 100% with this assessment.

(As mentioned before, I spent too much of my high-school time on [successful] debate teams. That pursuit has its quirks and flaws—but miles better than what was being served up here.)
This is an important point. Setting yourself up on a dais under a banner that says "Prove me wrong" is the schoolyard bully's idea of debate. If you take the time to actually watch clips of Kirk "debating" you will instantly see that what is actually sophomoric point-scoring, not genuine debate.
This should be obvious but debate culture is a zero sum spectacle organized around a collective humiliation ritual. The point of a debate isn’t to produce a new, intersubjective understanding. It’s to decide who wins. Anyone demanding you participate in it does not have your best interest in mind.
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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What the media is NOT covering about who Charlie Kirk was
What the media is NOT covering about who Charlie Kirk was
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
youtube.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I recommend everyone watches this
September 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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I recommend everyone watches this
September 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 193 Comments

“It really concerns me.”

— Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by Politico, about the impact of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. politicizing the CDC.
September 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Wow, wait until @stephenm discovers this *left wing* organization advocating mass killing.

Glad Stephen and Laura are calling for outlets like this to be defunded. Bring on the IRS investigation!!!
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Here’s video of my Sept. 10 Supreme Court Historical Society online lecture, “Away Without Leave but Back in Washington, Briefly: Nazi Prosecutor Justice Robert H. Jackson on the Road to Nuremberg, September 1945,” with photos and Q&A.
Thanks, SCHS, & happy viewing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfP...
Away Without Leave: Justice Robert H. Jackson Between Washington & Nuremberg
YouTube video by Supreme Court Historical Society
www.youtube.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:
September 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
September 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Every time I see this guy I think of the @kenwhite.bsky.social quip, "Kash always has an expression on his face like he gambled on a fart and lost"
He's looking for the suspect up & down.
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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“Europeans were not present for the conversation.”
August 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM