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Posts by Joseph Menn

"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."

"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."

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People being very negative about this but letting the women and children leave first seems like the decent thing to do.

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Having picked the judge, the prosecutor, and the defendant, I imagine the next move is to personally select the jurors.

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We can't list everything wrong with this lawsuit but here's one: Patel says The Atlantic should have filed FOIAs before reporting.

The FBI’s average FOIA response time is two years.

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New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

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The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.”

Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy.

“I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

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Cyber Focus: Cybersecurity, National Security, and Critical Infrastructure S3E16 - Cult of the Dead Cow and the Roots of Modern Cyber Ethics with Joe Menn Cybersecurity’s history is often told through breaches, crime, and disruption. Joe Menn argues that the story of early hacker culture also offers something constructive: a model for how technical curi...

"Drawing from .. Cult of the Dead Cow, @joemenn.bsky.social traces how figures once associated w/ pranks, underground tools & legal gray zones helped influence vulnerability disclosure, hacktivism, privacy debates .. way government .. think about security" mccraryinstitute.com/podcast/cybe...

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I don’t know what the secret program is. I do think that secret legal interpretations are equivalent to secret laws, and neither seem like a good way to govern a country.

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But, but, you started this one

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ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

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Federal judge sets new limits on Trump ballroom construction U.S. District Judge Richard Leon clarified that some national security work can continue while the overall project is halted.

Breaking news: A judge limited President Trump’s planned White House ballroom, saying construction could proceed on an underground portion deemed necessary by the military, not on the 90,000-square-foot addition he has eyed to entertain VIP guests.

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funding ouroboros continues

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Well that’s big of him.

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Enjoyed this chat about the AI land rush for vulnerabilities, ethics in tech and Cult of the Dead Cow.

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Hot take: AI writes like crap, and if for some reason I am forced to read it, I will resent creator indefinitely.

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Sure, he used to be a mohel.

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My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

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Credit to the Block family for selling to the non-profit Banner at a discount. They were offered significantly more by a for-profit chain that would have further gutted the paper. They saw what rhe Banner is doing in Maryland and opted for civic responsibility.

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Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

NEW: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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time to invade Brazil

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If we send all our destroyers to the Middle East, what will we have left to deploy against Springsteen?

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Does site: still work on Google?

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Oh noooo

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Seriously, read this if you care about federal elections.

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

The people and protocols that held the line in 2020 are gone. In their place are two dozen political appointees in positions that could affect elections: 10 who actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote, and the rest who are associates of such people.

FULL STORY: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Oh no they crucified him

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Thou shalt have no other gods before me; Also the President really shouldn’t be a close second.

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DOLLY PARTON IS WEAK ON ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR EXPORT CONTROLS

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