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The Litigation Disaster Tourism Hour is live now. We'll look at the price of sedition, and whatever that thing was that got filed in Missouri.
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As someone who has done peer review - and is, doing more in a couple of hours (and knows stuff about expert witnessing):
I can confirm that peer review is *NOTHING* like "putting three expert witnesses on the stand in a court of law to attest to the accuracy of the material."
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I haven't read this journal article yet on the NY voter rolls "discovery" and who knows, it could be true. But I'll note that peer review most decidedly does NOT mean your reviewers "testify to the accuracy of the material". My lord we have work to do in infolit here.
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In London, this would be a Tubelerone...
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GNU Terry Pratchett
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Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg.
How do they rise up?
#Glorious25th #NightWatch #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett
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Spoiler alert:
The correct answer was distinctly not "help."
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STANDBY: I'm in the courthouse for sentencing this morning of OathKeepers founder Stewart Rhodes
We *do* expect Rhodes to speak on his own behalf in requesting leniency
Question is: Will he help or hurt his cause?
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Also I find it sus that all this is happening in the middle of a writers' strike.
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Let the ship shipfic commence.
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OK - got it now.
Further proceedings in a case where he first advanced the arguments like 6 months ago and I missed that it was a Lake thing because Mike Lindell was involved.
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Isn't this the second case - and in multiple jurisdictions - where Dershowitz has tried something like this to get out of sanctions?
I think it was, but I can't remember the name of the first case. Anyone able to help me out?
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ARIZONA--Alan Dershowitz, whose name appeared on Kari Lake and Mark Finchem's federal lawsuit to ban voting machines in the state, is set to appear today via video conference to ask Judge Tuchi to not consider sanctions against him. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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So basically Donald Trump is better at announcing presidential bids than Ron DeSantis because Trump is able to successfully ride down an escalator and also makes announcements on a social media site that wasn't captured?
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Yes. In multiple capacities.
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Serious question: Have you—as a litigator, law clerk, judge, or other reviewer of legal briefs—*ever* used a Table of Authorities to determine the page something was cited on? Or do you just skip over that when you're flipping through a brief like everyone else?
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Feeling 🙏🙏🙏 for all the times centrists scolded leftists for the vocabulary they use to describe this phenomenon.
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BREAKING: Full statement from Target announcing changes to Pride merchandise from stores ahead of June Pride month. Says threats to workers forced the change.
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Call it fascism, don't call it fascism, I genuinely don't give a shit. We're in the third year of an unprecedented wave of right-wing violence and takeover of local institutions and it does not feel like that reality has been clearly communicated to the population.
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Only one of the people who went to the symposium and entered the contest didn't like being grifted by the grifter who had been grifted by the other serial grifter.
And the arbitral panel looked at all of it, and Lindell, and were like "LOL No."
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And then Lindell apparently responded to the fact that he'd been grifted by trying to create a set of conditions for the contest - which he didn't, despite Spyder's advice cancel - that in Mike's mind made the contest unwinnable.
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And who had failed out of combat medic school also, and ultimately had a 10-year Army career that was cut short by his apparent inability to meet the standards required to get promoted to Sergeant.
Yeah, that guy.
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Mr. Merritt is the "military intelligence" "expert" that Sidney Powell relied so heavily on for the Kraken lawsuits.
The one whose expertise ultimately turned out to be based on his extensive experience failing out of Military Intelligence school.
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Because this data was so bad that Josh Merritt figured out it was bad.
Remember Josh Merritt? Of course you do, right?
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How bad was the data? How thoroughly did Lindell get scammed?
I think, friends, that the only possible answer was "it was pretty damn bad given who figured out it was bad."
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That one was back in the early Oughts, and led to Orange terrorism alerts, flight groundings, and probably almost got people killed.
Good times.
So that's the source of the data that Lindell bet $5 million was accurate.
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And before that, there was the Nevada bribery scandal (which fizzled out when the data didn't pan out.)
And before that was the time he convinced the Pentagon that he had secret software tools that could pull secret messages to terrorists from Al Jazeera.
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And also Larry Klayman, who is (or at least was) Dennis Montgomery's lawyer.
And the judge in the lawsuit against Arpaio, which led to Arpaio demanding (again) the judge's recusal, which may have contributed some to the ultimate decision to have Arpaio prosecuted for contempt.
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Those claims - which were based on data that Montgomery collected using secret software tools - purported to show that the government was surveilling all kinds of people. Including Zullo and Arpaio.
Oh, and Jerome Corsi of swiftboat infamy.
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The last time, it was when he grifted Joe Arpaio and Joe's "Cold Case Posse" nimrod Mike Zullo.
Who figured out that they'd been scammed in 2014, but changed their minds when they realized they could drag another 15 minutes of stupidity out of the deal.
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Well, I say "grift." Might be more accurate to say "his M.O." Or maybe his "trademark fraud."
Because this isn't the first time he's done that. Oh no. Not by a mile.
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Why does it sound familiar? (For those of you new to Dennis, here's where you get caught up.)
Claiming to have special software that captures special information that reveals sekrit conspiratorial ties and crimes and frauds and everything is Dennis Montgomery's grift.
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Who is Dennis Montgomery, you ask? Don't worry, I'll get there in a second.
Montgomery claimed to have special software tools that he used to capture secret information which revealed frauding and criming. If you're at all familiar with Dennis, this probably sounds familiar.
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So the data comes from <drumroll> comes from <extended drumroll>
Dennis Montgomery.
Yes, really.
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Where did the data come from?
Here's where it gets fun, dear reader, because the cast of characters is such a Who's Who of the fringe right-wing grifters who serve as the unraveling yarn in the...well...the...y'know.
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It appears - a lot of this is my reading between the lines - that Mike Lindell put together the contest because he was really excited about some "election data" that he'd been given.
And, apparently, put the contest together before even his own people had reviewed everything.
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Y'all, the arbitration award in the case where some guy sued Mike Lindell for failing to pay a $5 mil contest award is kind of amazing.
Not so much the award itself, which is pretty basic, but the picture of utter insanity it paints.
Here's the tl:dr:
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How dare the senior Senator from Alabama hold up the well-deserved promotions of over 200 military leaders AND our national security hostage for his own personal social agenda?
Enough. End this dangerous blockade.
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So apparently Sonya and Wrocky have discovered each other on this hellsite and are pleasantly interacting with each other.
IYKYK -
But I'll tag and because I saw it.
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This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen produced by lawyers representing Donald J. Trump.
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Like clockwork, after @WSJ report that the special counsel probe of Trump’s classified doc handling is nearing indictment, Trump reveals he had his lawyers today demand a meeting with Attorney General Garland
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Aloha, everyone -
The Litigation Disaster Tourism Hour is live now! Join us for a look at Trump's latest entry into the Dumbest Suit of 2023 Sweepstakes.
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The phrase that comes immediately to mind is "rapid unscheduled disassembly."
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"Musk and DeSantis will host an event on Twitter Spaces, the site’s platform for audio chats, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET. It will be moderated by David Sacks..." nbcnews.com/politics/2024-
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