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#171: SantaCON? 25,000 poorly dressed drunks in NYC may have gotten fleeced. Plus: DOJ Lawyer sanctioned, 438 pounds of explosives, and OpenAI is making up things about the attack against its CEO. And the Gang Update...

To be fair, they did warn you it was a con in the name.

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#171: SantaCON? 25,000 poorly dressed drunks in NYC may have gotten fleeced. Plus: DOJ Lawyer sanctioned, 438 pounds of explosives, and OpenAI is making up things about the attack against its CEO. And the Gang Update...

“…there was something inherently pure about the city of Brotherly Love holding line on the Al Gore-era of the Internet vibes.”

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#171: SantaCON? 25,000 poorly dressed drunks in NYC may have gotten fleeced. Plus: DOJ Lawyer sanctioned, 438 pounds of explosives, and OpenAI is making up things about the attack against its CEO. And the Gang Update...

We’ve reviewed hundreds of court dockets this week to find news stories that went unreported. Please don’t also make us write a clever social media post to get you to read it.

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The benefit of having your own news site is you can publish reporting pieces that go deep and wonky on seemingly esoteric topics quietly bubbling in the background and then wait a few months till it becomes not an esoteric topic for larger media outlets and the public at large.

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The Rabbit Hole: The (Un)Making of Americans As the Trump Administration dramatically ramps up efforts to revoke the citizenship of convicted felons, we look at the evolution of the law enforcement and immigration tactic.

“The past year of denaturalization cases has proven that the legal process is viable, the law enforcement tool is available, but how it’s wielded is simply subject to the policy whims of whatever political party holds office.”

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#170: The Opinion No One Wrote About The Fourth Estate falls down on the job. Plus: BigLaw Tries to Delete News Story.

“The current state of journalism in this country is perfectly reflected by the fact that no one in the fourth estate has noticed this opinion.”

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#170: The Opinion No One Wrote About The Fourth Estate falls down on the job. Plus: BigLaw Tries to Delete News Story.

“The current state of journalism in this country is perfectly reflected by the fact that no one in the fourth estate has noticed this opinion.”

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Complaint – #1 in DSCC v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01114) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-12335628) filed by DCCC, DSCC, HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION, CHARLES E. ...

New - The DNC has filed a lawsuit challenging the new mail in voting executive order.

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The Rabbit Hole: A 600 Million Dollar Heist Hundreds of U.S. companies have been tricked into hiring North Korean remote workers for sensitive corporate and government jobs.

This is the story of deception, shady online figures, sensitive U.S. government contracts, and a 600 million dollar heist.

New The Rabbit Hole piece by @pwbeck.bsky.social

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#169: Us 🤝 Fifth Circuit A scrappy news org influences the courts. Plus: Muslim Charity Sues Muslim Charity, Epstein Survivors Survive Legal Challenge, and Ric Grennell is Not Legally Defamed.

“We’re not really sure how to feel about our first piece of reporting that ended up in a federal appellate court being about a children’s online video game.”

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i don't do this often, but: subscribing to @courtwatch.bsky.social newsletter by @seamushughes.bsky.social is really worth your time. Seamus is the best in the business when it comes to the federal dockets, and his weekly roundup is indispensable

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Check out www.courtwatch.news/subscribe?ut... if you're looking for all the insane cases traipsing through our country's courts day in and out.

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The 3 most creative and effective public calls by our readers for new Court Watch subscribers earns the poster a free lifetime paid subscription and access to all our past and future paywalled content.

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The Rabbit Hole: Saints and Killers A rising number of mass shootings can be traced back to a young and violent online community obsessed with death.

We temporarily dropped the paywall this morning to bring you a story about a rising number of mass shootings can be traced back to a young and violent online community obsessed with death

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#168: An Aspiring Saint Gets Charged DOJ says Eric Byrd was obsessed with mass shooters. He’s not the only one this week. Plus: Bank Robberies, East Wing Tours, and Devil Emojis

feds charged a Raleigh teen with communicating a threat. The complaint "outlines the story of a young man accused of being engrossed in neo-nazi, mass shooter glorification, and nihilistic culture." from @courtwatch.bsky.social
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#168: An Aspiring Saint Gets Charged DOJ says a Eric Byrd was obsessed with mass shooters. He’s not the only one this week. Plus: Bank Robberies, East Wing Tours, and Devil Emojis

“We shouldn’t be the only ones with bloodshot eyes and a nagging sense of impending doom about Gen Z.”

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Scooplet: Authorities have arrested an Ohio man, Wyatt Brzoski, accused of threatening numerous people, advocating for a Christchurch shooter, and staking out a mosque in Ohio in tactical gear

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If you're a journalist and you haven't done a PACER training with @seamushughes.bsky.social yet you are missing out on actual knowledge but also learning just how high one man's quarterly pacer bill can go so now's your chance

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The Rabbit Hole: Iran’s Reach in the United States While the war’s reverberations are largely felt outside the borders of the United States, the ramifications may soon begin here.

In this week’s The Rabbit Hole, we look at past activities by the Iranian government and its intersection with the U.S. criminal justice system to understand how a wounded but still deadly regime may try to respond within America.

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a man is talking on a cell phone with the words " what i do have are a very particular set of skills " written below him ALT: a man is talking on a cell phone with the words " what i do have are a very particular set of skills " written below him

We train thousands of journalists a year on PACER. For the public, we’re showing our tricks for finding stories in the federal courts to the next 100 new paid subscribers between now and Friday evening.

Take advantage of the limited time offer here.

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Undercover informants. A crime lab. Operations like Middleman, Chameleon & Long Tailed Liberation.

For more than a century, one law has protected all of god's little creatures

Our Sunday story on the most important conservation act you've never heard of

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Come for the legal writing smackdown, stay for the music recommendations. Never heard of Nathan Evans Fox before this morning and now I have his song stuck in my head. It’s a cousin song to Childer’s “Bitin’ List”

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#166: "Good Luck Reading This” A federal judge trolls about font sizes. Plus: Judicial walls closing in on DOGE, Tariff refunds, U.S. Attorney’s office can’t do tables, and the State Department’s $20,000 payment to a news organizat...

Try as we might, we don’t think we’d ever reach the level of petty disdain that is oozing from these footnotes in this judge’s opinion.

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The Rabbit Hole: Exploiting A.I. to Exploit Children As artificial intelligence makes it easier to create explicit images of children, prosecutors and judges grapple with how to respond.

In this week’s The Rabbit Hole, reporter Peter Beck takes a look at how the distance between cutting-edge technology and decades-old criminal statutes is impacting our ability to protect the most vulnerable of society.

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Complaint – #1 in L.C. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-00688) – CourtListener.com Complaint

Francesca Albanese has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over sanctions.

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FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.

A scoop with our friends at @404media.co

The FBI got a search warrant for X to provide details on the Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create more than 200 nonconsensual sexual videos of a woman he knew in real life.

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