Universal Music just sued Quince — the $10B DTC fashion brand — for using Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" and other hits in TikTok ads. Wild, when AI and software let anyone make their own pop banger for a fraction of the cost of defending a copyright claim. "Espresso" is a couple Splice loops.

You can thank the adoption of no-fault divorce laws. California led the way with the nation’s first no-fault divorce laws in 1969.

Roger Sollenberger: Péter Magyar, the new Hungarian prime minister, says CPAC was paid by the Hungarian government and will not be any longer

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

I find it amusing the applicant's marketing material and arguments about how you can eat the pancakes by dipping them, sharing them, eat them while walking or standing up was effectively met with, "yeah, well, that's just shit you can do with a pancake..."

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

It’s not being tested by either of those things. It’s being tested by the fact that the president agreed to it without reading it, promised a bunch of stuff he self-evidently couldn’t deliver, and agreed to abide to a bunch of terms that he self-evidently couldn’t tolerate.

Recklessly producing and then accepting a situation where a foreign power can restrict freedom of navigation is not just a strategic defeat, it is a reversal of the most fundamental foreign policy and national security priority of the United States since the founding of the republic.

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator.

The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization.

Congress is on recess.

This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

There's a reason this place is spinning its wheels as a twitter knock off rather than a platform where normal people want to participate.

I like Bluesky better than most platforms but the comments section can sometimes be full of trash people.

CPB—the institution Congress created in 1967 to insulate public media from exactly this kind of political pressure—dissolved last month. The funding architecture is gone. No injunction puts that back together. The court got the law right. The damage is already done.

Observing this sort of thing is why people don't come back and start looking elsewhere for analysis. The weird inability to identify friend vs foe is a problem here.

That said I hope you continue doing what you're doing on Bluesky and change your mind.

It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed."

I wrote about it here.

Collateralized DoorDash Obligations: What a New Klarna Lawsuit Reveals About Predatory Lending the Trump Administration Won't Stop A new class action says Klarna combined Wall Street's originate-and-sell recklessness with payday lending tactics — and the Trump administration gutted the only agency that could stop it.

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If you hop on the USPTO database you can see the problems coming when they are cheap before they become 11 million dollar problems.

When the Beat Drops in Court: Afroman, Defamation, and the Long History of Music Meeting the Law featuring Eminem, Aqua, and 2 Live Crew A jury in rural Ohio just handed Afroman a full defense verdict after seven sheriff's deputies sued him for turning footage of their botched raid into an album's worth of diss tracks. The trial featur...

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We would cut off Ukraine and then Russia would do whatever Russia wants to do anyway.

MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES I. INTRODUCTION Petitioner Herring Networks, Inc. is a nationally known conservative news network. In 2020 and years following, it became the subject of public controversy for its role in attempting to subvert our nation's Constitution by spreading lies about the 2020 election. Petitioner has more recently become the subject of public controversy for its hiring of former United States Congressman Matt Gaetz, who in October 2024 was briefly named as a prospective nominee for United States Attorney General. Gaetz resigned from office before the House Ethics Committee released a bipartisan report finding that "Representative Gaetz violated House Rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, acceptance of impermissible gifts, the provision of special favors and privileges, and obstruction of Congress." In December 2024, Gaetz was hired by Petitioner. The controversial hire was reported by many major, reputable news organizations and was also reported by Petitioner's own news network. Respondent Chelsea Goss is a social media activist who produces political commentary on platforms including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. Her work has been seen by millions, and her content receives about 40 to 50 million views each month. Through her speech and activism, she aims to be a voice for victims of sexual assault by powerful men-which led her to public commentary about Petitioner's hiring of former Congressman Gaetz. She has posted dozens of videos about the hiring on social media, often using language like "pedophile" and "child fucker" to describe Mr. Gaetz, who was found by the House Ethics Committee to have committed statutory rape for having sex with a 17-year-old girl when he was 35. Petitioner brought this action to silence Respondent from speaking about itself, Gaetz, and Mr. Herring. [too long]

and that her posts about MAGA have used violent imagery. Respondent's political speech is protected by the First Amendment. Respondent's speech cannot be transformed into harassment by her presence in Herring Networks' parking lot on two occasions, during which she recorded video to post on social media while she referred to Gaetz as a "child fucker" and "pedophile" and asked those present about the House Ethics Committee report, in front of the office that hired Gaetz, to draw public attention to the issue. She left immediately when asked to leave. No threats of violence, no threats of harm; what Petitioner claims was verbal "harassing behavior" consisted nearly entirely of questions and commentary about Petitioner's hiring of Matt Gaetz. Petitioner has attempted to conceal the nature of the public issue from the Court by redacting the name of Gaetz from its memorandum and omitting it from other submissions. The omission is material: Gaetz is a public figure, Respondent's statements about him are substantially true, and drawing attention to this public issue is a legitimate purpose. Respondent brings this special motion to strike to protect her First Amendment right to speak publicly about issues of public concern, including on social media. The Court should reject Petitioner's attempt to abuse California's workplace violence laws to silence Respondent, grant this special motion to strike the Petition in its entirety and award mandatory attorneys' fees.

Last month, the pro-Trump cable network OANN asked a court in San Diego to restrain our client, Chelsea Goss, from speaking on social media about Matt Gaetz's statutory rape of a 17-year-old girl—or at all about OANN, Matt Gaetz, or Charles Herring.

Today, we filed the anti-SLAPP.

This is a weird quirk to copyright law where a celebrity doesn't have rights to an image of themselves. Feels like fair use? Probably not even if it's paparazzi taking the picture. Layer in she's using it for influencer sales and maybe we hope both parties lose. /shrug

Could they tackle student loans? Are they taking requests?

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

The AI Industry Was Built on Copyrighted Content Nobody Asked to Use. California Wants That on the Record. California's AB 2013 survived xAI's legal challenge. AI companies must now disclose their training data. What they reveal could expose a copyright liability the industry has been betting against for y...

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Basically all of the bad economic news this term is because the president deliberately decided to do something moronic. He is much more personally responsible for this than most presidents are for the downturns in their administration.

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

I’d like to check it out.

They want to try to cut and run. The problem with this is that you can’t at this point. The only way out is through.

“Let them eat my balls.”

"We reserve the right to cut and run when we get bored, this gets complicated, or we don't want to do it anymore."