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The Other Things the Press Missed by Ignoring the Details Revealed in the Joshua Schulte Prosecution

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emptywheel
In reporting on a exhibit released during Joshua Schulte's trial in February as if it is news, the press is admitting they missed far more damning details from the trial itself.
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Three Things: SCOTUS on LGBTQ+ Discrimination, Qualified Immunity, Gun Rights

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Rayne
Very big SCOTUS day today. Huge -- and that's in spite of the court declining to hear cases on multiple issues.
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Trash Talk: The NBA's Insane Money Grab Scheme

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bmaz
I really don't have a lot for this week, but there is this: The National Basketball Association is desperate to join the Grand Reopening. And boy is it a doozy. Via ESPN: "the NBA's board of governors overwhelmingly approved a proposal for…
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COVID-19 Exposes Migrant Worker Conditions Amounting To Modern Day Slavery In Florida Agriculture

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Jim White
Alachua County in Florida has added 91 new COVID-19 cases over the past two days, raising its total by about 20 percent. This outbreak, when coupled with similar outbreaks among migrant agricultural workers in Immokalee and across the state, bring to light the conditions amounting to a version of modern day slavery under which these workers are forced to labor.
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Jeff Wall Admits that Any Scrutiny of DOJ's Motion to Dismiss Flynn Prosecution Will Cause Irreparable Harm to Bill Barr

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emptywheel
It's likely that Judge Karen Henderson will agree with Judge Robert Wilkins to deny Mike Flynn's petition for a writ of mandamus because it is premature. But the biggest takeaway from the hearing in the Circuit was Principal Deputy Solicitor General Jeff Wall's claim that DOJ will suffer irreparable harm if asked to explain itself in a hearing in Judge Sullivan's court.
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The Deficit Myth By Stephanie Kelton: Introduction and Index

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Ed Walker
Stephanie Kelton's new book lays the foundations for an economics for progressives.
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Appointed Amicus John Gleeson Argues DOJ Engaged in Gross Prosecutorial Misconduct in Moving to Dismiss Flynn Prosecution

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emptywheel
Amicus John Gleeson advises Judge Emmet Sullivan to reject DOJ's motion to dismiss the Mike Flynn prosecution, because their reasons for doing so are obviously pretextual.
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Judge Reggie Walton Has Questions about the Non-Stone Redactions in the Mueller Report

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emptywheel
Several recent orders in the BuzzFeed/EPIC FOIA for the Mueller Report suggest that Reggie Walton has some questions about the redactions of stuff beyond the Roger Stone material that can now be released.
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Defendant Barr's Flip-Flops Finally Attract Press Attention

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emptywheel
Bill Barr is finally being called out on his lies. And that's happening even as a lawsuit could force Barr to make the same claims in court.
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The Why of "Defund the Police" [UPDATE]

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Rayne
There are ample reasons why policing as we know it in this country needs to be deconstructed and replaced -- in shorthand, defund the police. This is a dedicated post and thread.
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Three Things: A for "Antifa", B for Brutality, C for Commit (Murder)

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Rayne
Law enforcement in this country is screwed up. It doesn't help matters that many Americans have been conditioned to see a vaporware bugbear as a threat and not the police who fail to protect and serve the public.
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The Fog of Protest

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Quinn Norton
"We could wrap this up right now," a police officer said over the scanner traffic that I was listening to as I walked along Mission Street in San Francisco. It was late on the night of June 3rd, and I had joined a protest group walking south…
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The Fabulous Emptywheel Music Blog: Country AND Western Edition!

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bmaz
Welp, it has been another glorious month week living the glorious life in Trump's America. So let's have a little fun and games. I am pretty much normally a rock and roll person. Ed Walker's opera and Zappa post was wonderful. So, let's change…
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When Billy Barr Called a Press Conference to Target Non-Terrorists Rather than Brag about the Right Wing Terrorists FBI Caught

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emptywheel
Bill Barr's press conference was designed to retroactively a lot of abusive decisions made by Bill Barr to target Antifa and not the right wing terrorists that FBI already captured.
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Tanks for the Memories

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Rayne
U.S. military troops and resources have been deployed because Americans dared to exercise their First Amendment rights. This isn't like 1992 but more like 1989.
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If the Steele Dossier Is Disinformation, Republicans Have Become Willful Participants in the Operation

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emptywheel
There's a high likelihood that one reason Russia planted disinformation in the Steele dossier was to get the Republicans to act exactly the way they have been for the last three years.
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The Father of the DEA Dragnet Sics It on Free Speech

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emptywheel
Bill Barr thinks it is totally inappropriate to do network mapping when it involves the sensitive political activities of Donald Trump. He just rolled out far more invasive surveillance against the sensitive First Amendment activities of George Floyd.
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Antifa Ain't That

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Quinn Norton
You've seen the scary pictures of Antifa. You've seen them in images from the Battle of Seattle, Occupy Wallstreet, Oakland FTP protests, outside the G20, and many more moments where a reporter nervously says to camera "Things are getting out…
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Three Things: Loads of Bricks, White Chicks, Made-up Schtick

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Rayne
So much manure, so few shovels. Here's three piles, have at it.
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