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Clapping for Q: Trump sends secret message at rally with his applause

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McConnell adds Section 230 repeal as a poison pill to kill $2,000 checks

 Because a website like The Underground Bunker can only exist because of Section 230, Scott Pilutik’s take on current legislation seems especially important.

Tonight is a busy night in Covid Relief Legislative Theater, so I’ll try to briefly summarize because it’s a bit confusing. []

Clare Bronfman, who funded Nxivm’s attacks on enemies, gets 6.75 years in prison

[Clare Bronfman during the trial]

Today Clare Bronfman was sentenced to 6.75 years in prison, which was more time than the prosecution was seeking. She was handcuffed in court and taken []

Hollywood fixture Paul Barresi files lawsuit against Trader Joe’s for bizarre incident

[Paul Barresi]

In April, the Daily Mail described Paul Barresi as a “notorious private investigator” who had been hired by Amber Heard to dig up dirt on her ex-husband Johnny Depp. According to that story, Heard’s request backfired when Barresi not only couldn’t find anyone with a bad word to say about the Pirates of the []

Understanding the clever politics of Chief Justice Roberts on Trump’s tax records

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

As a matter of judicial politics, Chief Justice John Roberts played the Presidential financial records cases masterfully, writing two 7-2 opinions that had the full buy-in of the court’s liberal wing. He easily disposed of the President’s preposterous claims as to the []

How Walter Sobchak would react to the judge’s order holding up Mary Trump’s book

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

I mentioned the other day how the Queens County Surrogate Court is the wrong place to ask that a book not be published. Today Robert Trump evidently found the right place — the Dutchess County Supreme Court — to get his injunction []

Florida firing the architect of its COVID-19 dashboard reflects Red State data manipulation

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

A few places have already reported on Florida’s firing in late May of Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah), a scientist at the Florida Department of Health and the architect of Florida’s online COVID-19 dashboard. But her story needs amplification because it’s indicative of the []

There’s no doubt Trump views COVID testing not as a solution but as a political problem

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Trump’s repeated insistence that “[w]ith smaller testing we would show fewer cases!” is like a psychological test for dissociative disorder, identifying one’s willingness to believe that problems can be solved by declining to acknowledge their []

Berman only DOJ figure with weight to investigate Trump, so Barr wants him gone

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: ‘I have not resigned’: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman fires back at Barr, who says he’s leaving]

High drama. Barr hoped to bury this on a Friday night by announcing Geoffrey Berman’s departure by press release without bothering to check []

Trump and Xi’s concentration camps: When a quid pro quo is the least horrific explanation

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Don’t Buy John Bolton’s Book. But Don’t Ignore Its Revelations]

Most of the reporting on John Bolton’s telling of the exchange between Trump and Chinese President Xi has focused on Trump asking Xi to help him get reelected, which was []