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Jehovah’s Witnesses leaders used to condemn televangelists. Now they want to be TV stars.

 Ex-JW activist Lloyd Evans put out a new video today that looks like all kinds of []

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Today in Trump: Incompetence among the super-wealthy, and manufactured martyrdom

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

[Regarding this story: Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk]

There’s a pervasive sense among the super-wealthy that they are also super-competent by virtue of their wealth, no matter the the manner in which that wealth came to []

Amazing find of 20 ancient coffins found in Egypt near Luxor

 There’s not a lot of information about this new discovery in Egypt, but we still love this kind of []

ProPublica: Records suggest Trump has committed fraud even into his presidency

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

[In regards to this story: Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies]

This seems big-ish. ProPublica evidently obtained either the tax returns or tax summaries for Trump’s NY businesses over the past 8 or so years and you probably won’t be surprised to []

Doomsday family lived in basement for 9 years waiting for the end of the world

 Very disturbing and confusing story coming out of the Netherlands today about a group of seven people who have been living in a farm’s basement for the past nine years waiting for the world to []

Edward Snowden: Attorney General Bill Barr doesn’t want you using encryption

 Interesting piece by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in today’s Guardian, warning about the US government (with UK and Australian backup) fighting against Facebook’s plans to extend end-to-end encryption to Messenger and []

The White House is bluffing when it threatens witnesses over ‘executive privilege’

[Fiona Hill]

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

The White House has been thuggishly waving around what it calls “executive privilege” like the sword of Damocles over the heads of testifying witnesses before Congress, such as the recently resigned Fiona []

Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses, ex-Scientologists hail new California sex-assault law

 We’re seeing a lot of people who oppose groups like Scientology and Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrating today after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB []

Is scientific evidence of life on Mars being ignored by NASA?

 We just caught up with a fascinating article which appeared four days ago at Scientific []

What the Trey Gowdy debacle tells us about Trump as a nightmare client

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

[Regarding this story: Inside Trump’s Botched Attempt to Hire Trey []