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Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own.

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2026-01-11 18:00:50 GMT

I feel comfortable mentioning the time I mildly criticized Jake Tapper on Twitter for a “what do you expect of a defense lawyer“ comment on Twitter and he responded by DM just FURIOUS and resentful I would call him out in public.
When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

2026-01-10 23:03:51 GMT

It’s a very YOU HATE WAFFLES week on Bluesky.

2026-01-09 18:42:23 GMT

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already:
If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder.
It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO.
/1

2026-01-09 15:45:00 GMT

More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people.
/1

2026-01-09 02:07:30 GMT

Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good.
In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
/1

2026-01-08 17:23:14 GMT

It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it.
Treat any Trump official accordingly.
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2026-01-08 01:10:55 GMT

1. ICE will kill you.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.

2026-01-07 20:21:10 GMT

Escalation to watch for: civil and criminal threats against people calling the ICE murder a murder, especially state and local officials and members of Congress. The regime must constantly escalate.

2026-01-06 05:18:03 GMT

Getting the people’s trust back I see
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2026-01-03 21:30:08 GMT

You can take the Europeans out of the Imperium but you can’t take the Imperium out of the Europeans
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2025-12-30 00:31:37 GMT

Anyone else have a shower door just spontaneously absolutely explode into pieces? Fortunately nobody was there.

2025-12-29 19:54:31 GMT

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich not to throw a huge embarrassing snit over not having his ego fluffed.
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2025-12-26 18:01:16 GMT

CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.

2025-12-23 20:29:09 GMT

[www.serioustrouble.show/p/redacted](https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/redacted )
[[redacted]](https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/redacted )

2025-12-23 06:12:50 GMT

U whiny bitch you u should not be in charge of a Cub Scout troop
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2025-12-22 05:01:24 GMT

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

2025-12-20 15:30:18 GMT

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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2025-12-19 21:33:58 GMT

Making a production in discovery that is almost entirely redacted is a popular way to say “fuck you”

2025-12-18 19:46:58 GMT

I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally.
By David Brooks

2025-12-18 04:05:32 GMT

We can DEFINITELY enjoy the fact that Trump is miserable. He’s President and he’s miserable. He’s got supreme power and he’s miserable. He’s insecure, resentful, consumed by bitterness and rage and entitlement, incapable of being fulfilled.
/1
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2025-12-18 04:00:21 GMT

I guess it’s possible to enjoy the disappointment and humiliation of Trump supporters even as we plunge over the edge of the chasm.

2025-12-18 02:45:21 GMT

I missed the address. I assume that it was inspiring and levelheaded.

2025-12-17 15:54:32 GMT

Chris Rufo makes a passionate plea for Americans to confine themselves to fact-based bigotry and fear and ignorance.
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2025-12-16 22:48:54 GMT

FIRE files suit on behalf of a TN public employee fired for a social media post about Charlie Kirk.
[www.thefire.org/research-lea...](https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/complaint-meeks-v-lawrence?fbclid=IwVERFWAOuwOtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR5smZJXtOAoUTB4PYsg_oopDZq9b_jVwAgILJX_gIy15w1nWSuZwgMyKTLfkg_aem_z-n25_iv4WfuKSponA9xRQ )
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2025-12-16 22:24:29 GMT

Confidential to N.S.: live so that you never feel compelled to write a snide, defensive, multi-paragraph explanation of what an analogy is in order to refute people saying you’re a dipshit.

2025-12-16 00:16:40 GMT

Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd:
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
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2025-12-14 01:56:07 GMT

My wife was binging Black Doves before losing interest halfway through over the plot and I was half-watching it and now if I want to see the rest I have to actually play it myself and that would be admitting that just watching Keira Knightly absolutely beat the shit out of people is satisfying

2025-12-12 22:36:34 GMT

The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
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2025-12-12 04:16:52 GMT

Don’t have an affair, and if you do, don’t have an affair with staff against employer policy, and if you do, don’t be indiscreet, and if you do, don’t fire her when it looks like you’ve been caught, and if you do, don’t [checks notes] Jesus Christ Sherrone Moore this is going to take FOREVER
1/32

2025-12-11 22:04:37 GMT

Everyone’s gonna die someday. Trump may die sooner, and when he does, I worry there will be a genuine explosion of violence by people who will be enraged by the celebrations, a deepening of the rift.

2025-12-11 20:30:31 GMT

The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.
Treat their people accordingly.
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2025-12-11 18:20:17 GMT

I take more than my share of shots at Quinn Emanuel but they have done great and difficult work, at substantial risk to the firm, for Abrego Garcia. Sincere thanks and respect.

2025-12-10 18:45:46 GMT

LOOK AT ME, I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW
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2025-12-08 19:02:47 GMT

This whole book is a hate crime. She's burning a cross on the front lawn of the English language.
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2025-12-02 19:24:30 GMT

The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
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2025-12-02 16:09:43 GMT

I don’t know how I missed this wild story about good ol’ demented floorshitting hamster Chuck C. Johnson this summer
[www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/charles-johnson-rico-liable-lawsuit-b2789559.html )
[Notorious far-right troll orde...](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/charles-johnson-rico-liable-lawsuit-b2789559.html )

2025-12-01 01:57:57 GMT

I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels
[www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...](https://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-statement-student-failing-grade-bible-psychology-essay-discrimination-first-amendment/article_306d35a7-ac6a-433f-9ff9-8dad255b1b72.html )
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2025-11-29 18:06:10 GMT

Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.

2025-11-29 01:23:45 GMT

The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
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2025-11-28 19:58:54 GMT

Post Thanksgiving the cats re-emerge
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2025-11-27 17:36:32 GMT

Fani Willis is an excellent illustration of the concept that MOST Americans are super-deferential to prosecutors to the point of ignoring their bad behavior, so long as the prosecutors are going after someone the Americans in question don’t like.

2025-11-27 02:08:24 GMT

Nuzzi is like Trump in this sense: the worst thing about America is not that someone that awful exists, the worst thing is that much of the press promotes and normalizes it for clicks.

2025-11-26 19:25:30 GMT

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
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2025-11-25 05:18:09 GMT

The Overton Window has shifted and increasingly wanton overt bigotry and evil are mainstream. Don’t accept it. Fight and defy people like this.
[www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-columnist-melanie-phillips-attacks-palestinians-pro-israel-event )
[British columnist Melanie Phil...](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-columnist-melanie-phillips-attacks-palestinians-pro-israel-event )

2025-11-20 17:37:02 GMT

President Trump has called for Democrats to be executed for sedition. The voters expect Democrats to come to the table with a real counter-proposal and negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise. That’s doing politics the right way.
-Ezra Klein, New York TImes

2025-11-20 17:16:13 GMT

It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.

2025-11-20 16:31:38 GMT

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
/1

2025-11-17 18:28:31 GMT

I think the universities didn’t convey clearly enough to Larry Summers and Laurence Krauss that they were expected to get sexual harassment PREVENTION training

2025-11-16 16:00:12 GMT

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
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2025-11-16 15:32:20 GMT

I can’t even
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2025-11-16 01:46:26 GMT

It must be magnificent to be these billionaires and foreign countries, all of whom secretly scorn Trump, giving him lavish but vulgar gifts that he doesn’t understand are elaborate expressions of their contempt for him, his taste, his principles, and his self-awareness.

2025-11-13 19:07:37 GMT

We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.

2025-11-11 21:25:00 GMT

Everyone is dunking on poor Noah Smith for getting lost and frustrated at Heathrow Airport and blaming him, which is victim-blaming and I am quite disappointed in all of you. Put the blame squarely where it belongs: on whoever failed to pin his name and destination to his sweater-vest.

2025-11-09 19:39:42 GMT

A few observations about all the sports-betting cases:
1. Most of them bear hallmarks of long-term investigations, so they are probably not purely a Trump administration thing. Biden DoJ started them. Trump admin is definitely putting in lots of attention to finishing them.

2025-11-09 19:25:20 GMT

Los Angeles: where we’re gong to have a big storm next week, but when I go up on the roof today to clean out the gutters and under the solar panels, i get a sunburn on my scalp because it’s bright and 85 in mid-November.

2025-11-08 02:40:38 GMT

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.
But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
/1
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2025-11-07 04:18:37 GMT

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

2025-11-06 20:38:03 GMT

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2025-11-05 02:41:56 GMT

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.

2025-11-04 16:24:28 GMT

Is there an application process for the list? Like an online portal or something? Or is it shut down with the government?
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2025-11-02 20:29:23 GMT

The Republicans have been promising a specific plan as an alternative to Obamacare ever since it passed in 2010. The promise is 15 1/2 years old now. That's probably why they don't seem very sincerely interested in it.
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2025-11-02 15:05:13 GMT

So it’s a SECRET plan
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2025-11-01 17:03:32 GMT

You mean we gotta spend an extra hour in the middle of all this

2025-10-31 22:59:48 GMT

So I have a Friday story for you. It’s one I promised to tell before. The themes are “seek help when you need it” and “communicating with family is important” but also “pay attention to how your coms work.”
/1

2025-10-30 23:12:45 GMT

American Right: WE HATE TRANS, GAYS, MUSLIMS, BLACKS, PROGRESSIVES, POORS, MEXICANS, DEMOCRATS, WHALES, THE ENVIRONMENT, LAWYERS, UNIVERSITIES, AND EVERYTHING ON TV
American Right-Wing Jews: Whooo! Yeah! You tell them!
American Right: BUT ESPECIALLY JEWS!
American Right-Wing Jews:
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2025-10-28 19:38:49 GMT

BREAKING: Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announces government investigation into “so-called solar energy,” including possible heath risks of “solar radiation” from solar panels and concerns that solar energy initiatives “may use up all of the sun, leaving us dark and cold.”

2025-10-27 23:21:31 GMT

Me to my assistant: do I have time for an interview with Isaac Chotiner
Assistant: I could pencil it in between the Dahmer dinner and poker with Anton Chigurh

2025-10-27 15:44:56 GMT

You can tell Olivia Reingold is telling the truth about all her friends dumping her because they let her release that video

2025-10-25 04:30:56 GMT

Turned off the apocalyptic Dodger game and watched A House of Dynamite. Extremely tense and scary. Reminded me of the book. Nuclear War: A Scenario. Thought of this administration handling such a crisis and wanted to throw up.

2025-10-24 14:41:38 GMT

Also as I understand it the Reagan ad was run by Ontario Province, not by Canada’s federal government or privy council or whatever. Imagine if countries cut off trade with us because of shit Alabama or Vermont did.

2025-10-24 14:32:14 GMT

Found out who put me on a ”BlueAnon” blocklist after several people reached out and it turned out to be this frequently agitated piss-obsessed subnormal but that’s how things go here in the big old Bluesky
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2025-10-23 02:17:48 GMT

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

2025-10-22 21:00:36 GMT

Donald Trump Continues His Campaign of Improving And Preserving Historic American Sites By Demolishing East Wing
—Tomorrow in the New York Times

2025-10-22 20:08:53 GMT

The East Wing Is On The Left If You Are Facing South, Which You Should, Because That's Where Real Americans Live, And So By Destroying It Trump Is Destroying The Left Wing, Which Is The Left Wing's Fault.
--Tomorrow in the Free Press

2025-10-22 20:00:13 GMT

Mike Johnson has not heard anything about the entire East Wing being demolished and cannot speak to that.

2025-10-22 15:35:25 GMT

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

2025-10-21 23:26:16 GMT

Me 10 years ago: You know people are always calling political opponents Nazis even if they aren’t anything like Nazis, I wish that would stop
Monkey‘s paw:
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2025-10-21 22:16:25 GMT

I’m skeptical that a court can or will do this, but i think it has to be tried, because the GOP has descended to full lawlessness, and we don’t have any kind of government if the majority party can just refuse to recognize others.
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2025-10-21 15:01:42 GMT

Graham Platner should have just said the tattoo was off the record

2025-10-18 18:06:50 GMT

Stopped at Office Depot. Had to wait in line behind five other middle-aged people buying poster board and markers.

2025-10-17 17:11:22 GMT

Here is this week’s Serious Trouble, recorded as the fates require before Bolton got indicted.
[www.serioustrouble.show/p/drakes-not...](https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/drakes-not-like-us-familiar-with )
[Drake's Not Like Us (Familiar ...](https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/drakes-not-like-us-familiar-with )

2025-10-17 16:10:54 GMT

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1

2025-10-12 16:05:02 GMT

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

2025-10-12 15:48:39 GMT

New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn either does kidnap and molest preschoolers or he doesn’t. Does he or does he not? Is there troubling evidence or isn’t there? Have preschoolers shrieked in pain and terror in his office or haven’t they? All of this plus the Brooklyn Book Festival!ghv

2025-10-11 19:41:41 GMT

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreidjl3cul5osuyl4ao7y35dqjkbzgalwuuj33fhhktqpxkn47kpcvi

2025-10-11 19:27:06 GMT

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

2025-10-11 17:52:37 GMT

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices
Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil
Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world
Founder2: ok that works

2025-10-10 16:42:26 GMT

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3m2u2ofh3uk2h
#note17uj…nwdv

2025-10-10 15:16:11 GMT

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

2025-10-09 22:11:52 GMT

I’ve never seen anything remotely this petty charged as bank fraud.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/post/3m2s42656as2y
#note10q5…s344

2025-10-08 22:45:28 GMT

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:
I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

2025-10-08 20:56:27 GMT

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

2025-10-07 14:25:01 GMT

How does one “win” the news

2025-10-07 01:03:47 GMT

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas
--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

2025-10-06 03:16:52 GMT

Not sure what the Ninth Circuit is going to do. Pretty sure what SCOTUS is going to do.

2025-10-06 03:04:37 GMT

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

2025-10-05 16:31:46 GMT

Skeptical of these reports of IDF brutalizing and humiliating Greta Thunberg and keeping her in inhuman conditions. I mean she’s not a six-year-old Palestinian girl.

2025-10-04 19:05:45 GMT

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that.
—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

2025-10-04 15:51:27 GMT

I admire the FBI agent who declined to perp-walk James Comey. However, I can’t sit by while anyone portrays that as the law enforcement norm before Trump. In fact law enforcement, state and federal, routinely does gratuitous perp walks.
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2025-10-01 23:59:36 GMT

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
[harpers.org/archive/1941...](https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/ )
[Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Tho...](https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/ )