Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, one of Trump's most gleeful supporters, has set up a one-stop shop: Joining false claims about the election with networks of fascists who'll take to the streets.
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Jeff Bezos' Manifesto of Impotence
Reality is in fact on the ballot this year, the race remains neck and neck, and you, Jeff Bezos, decided to go down without a fight.
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So Help Me God: Lawyers, Encryption, and Insurrection
Volume III of the Appendix to Jack Smith's immunity brief starts with what are likely texts obtained from Mike Roman and Boris Epshteyn's phones, both of which were seized in September 2022. There are reasons to suspect that Smith faced a delay in accessing texts from both those phones.
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How to Read the Immunity Appendix
Most of the evidence in the appendix to Jack Smith's immunity filing remains sealed. But by understanding how the four volumes work, we can understand most of what appears in it.
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Jack Smith Takes Up the Aid and Abet Theory Endorsed by Judge Amit Mehta in 2022
Back in February 2022, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that it was at least plausible to hold Trump liable for the assaults of cops on January 6 via an aid and abet theory of liability. In Jack Smith's response to Trump's attempt to get his indictment thrown out based on the Fischer decision Smith adopts that theory of liability.
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