One more clear data point for why we have to fiercely defend Times v Sullivan.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Taylor Little is suing Instagram for addicting them as an 11 year old, which they say led to an eating disorder, daily self harm, and suicide attempts. Meta says social media addiction isn’t real (despite certainly making it sound real in their internal documents.) What do you think?

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

Has there ever been something this brutal done to examaine the breakdown in trust in journalism? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Consequences for corruption. That's what we need. Consequences, consequences, consequences.

The recent social media trial in LA was a David & Goliath case. A 20-year-old named Kaley sued Meta and Google for addicting her to their apps as a child and won -- despite the legal armor of Section 230. One of her lawyers told me how they pulled it off.

(My producer tells me this cost us $70. A rare book.)

There are 60,000 copies out there of the first edition of Andrew Lownie's book Entitled, which contains lines about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein that HarperCollins removed from later printings, after mysteriously apologizing to the first lady. We have one in our office.

Freely Fest Livestream YouTube video by Freedom Forum

Janelle Monáe performing right now at Freely Fest,
Freedom Forum's celebration of the first amendment: www.youtube.com/live/zYQcjZf...

There's officially too much news.

We are a rogue state.

Thank you - it's huge news amid a bunch of huge news, and important to take some time to understand the ins and outs of it. We'll be covering it next week as well with one of the most affecting interviews I've done in a long time -- with one of the young people currently suing Meta and others.

LOL.

Same - it's a concern for me as a dad too.

Meta Knew They Were Addicting Kids. Now They’re Paying for It. Podcast Episode · Question Everything · April 2 · 33m

How did a 20 year old beat the Goliaths of Meta and Google in court last week for harming her as a child? I talked to her lawyer about the novel case they mounted and the damning evidence they extracted from inside the companies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

I enjoyed this conversation and bit of idea jousting with Ryan on Section 230. The law is only becoming more relevant with the recent verdicts against Meta and YouTube. Check it out.

Oh yeah, and this.

This is what the news looks like when dictatorship clashes with democracy…

It’s genuinely a challenge for legal journalists to cover the birthright citizenship case, because one side’s argument is “the Fourteenth’s Amendment intent and text and a century of uninterrupted Supreme Court precedent all support birthright citizenship,” and the other side’s argument is “nuh-UH”

A Video So Real It Looks Fake Podcast Episode · Question Everything · March 26 · 28m

Netanyahu isn’t dead. But after dissecting the way one lie about his “proof of life” video in a coffee shop metastasized, I can’t blame people for thinking he is. There doesn’t even need to be a deepfake now and the truth still gets destroyed. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

Just read @masnick.com's critique of the social media verdicts. I would argue that bad law makes bad defendants. Meta was allowed to become a pox on society because with Section 230 we removed the mechanisms for accountability and liability against them.

A Video So Real It Looks Fake Podcast Episode · Question Everything · March 26 · 28m

Or here (🍎): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

A Video So Real It Looks Fake

Listen here (🎧): open.spotify.com/episode/06N7...

New episode today. Sought comment from Joe.

That’s a lot of YESes.

So pleased to be featured by Long Lead this week!

Today could be the start of a new era for social media. A jury found that Instagram and YouTube were addictive and harmful to teens and the companies knew it. And there are thousands of cases from teenagers, attorneys general, and school districts behind this one.

I just dug into the Afroman defamation trial and it’s restored my faith in America’s justice system.

Yup

I am glad Estefany Rodriguez has been released. I am still worried about the reporting and dissent that is not happening because she was arrested in the first place.