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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. Decent people fight evil. Signal: KenWhite.1969

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Telling courts that refunds would be "automatic" and "assured" was the government's way of avoiding emergency relief.

06.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 389 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

Blocked and reported.

06.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exactly 1 post to go from "Israel is blackmailing Trump into this" to express and wild antisemitic noticing, must be a coincidence

06.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

I would like to be present when government lawyers tell a 78-year-old judge β€œwe can’t follow your order because the computer won’t let us.” That’s always fun.

06.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 324 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 0
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Also, we've actually set up our system so that it's impossible to stop criming

06.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Over 4 million man hours, and all they have is boys.

06.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 271 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 0
Once the review of an entry is complete and any manual duty calculations completed (see paragraph 18 above), it takes an IS or ES approximately 5 minutes to process an individual refund, including amending, liquidating and certifying the refund for each entry. The refund processing for the 53,173,939 entries with IEEPA duties will require 4,431,161 man hours for CBP to complete.

Once the review of an entry is complete and any manual duty calculations completed (see paragraph 18 above), it takes an IS or ES approximately 5 minutes to process an individual refund, including amending, liquidating and certifying the refund for each entry. The refund processing for the 53,173,939 entries with IEEPA duties will require 4,431,161 man hours for CBP to complete.

At 5 minutes per refund, it will take 506 years of staff time to resolve this.

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"As last month's jobs report was just released moments ago, with the economy adding 92,000 jobs in February"

"Actually, we lost 92,000 jobs"

"OK, so that was wrong in the script"

06.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 667 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 40
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating β€” even indirectly β€” in the war.

06.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 538 πŸ” 274 πŸ’¬ 78 πŸ“Œ 106

By morons for morons

06.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 634 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 2
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CNN's Dana Bash reports on a convo she just had with Trump: "He said there are now five things in this SAVE America Act that he wants the House and Senate to pass. He said, 'No mail in ballots, no men in women's sports, and no transgender operations for youth.' He added those two."

06.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 741 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 158 πŸ“Œ 76
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Nippon Life Insurance Company of America on March 4 accused ChatGPT maker OpenAI of practicing law without a US license and helping a former disability claimant breach a settlement and flood a federal court docket with meritless filings reut.rs/4ldVzzS

06.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Yes, I'm PC. Pro Children not being mass murdered. Am I the problem?

06.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Texas Representative Tony Gonzales Will Not Seek Re-election Several House members had called for Tony Gonzales to step down after texts emerged showing his pursuit of a staff member who later killed herself.

Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican accused of coercing a staff member into a sexual relationship before she killed herself, said he would not seek re-election.

06.03.2026 04:45 πŸ‘ 547 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 22
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Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump on terrorist attacks in America: β€œLike I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

06.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 2550 πŸ” 963 πŸ’¬ 526 πŸ“Œ 407
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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14 cases, that are known. DHS refuses to respond to inquiries.

β€œIn response to the outbreak, the facility has been closed to visitors and legal advisers and isn’t expected to reopen until March 19”

06.03.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 399 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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What a surprise.

06.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 4534 πŸ” 1327 πŸ’¬ 154 πŸ“Œ 58
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And canis interruptus?

06.03.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

06.03.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 2116 πŸ” 378 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 23
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a man in a suit and tie is holding his hand to his chest . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding his hand to his chest .
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We don’t agree and that’s okay.

06.03.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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One thing that’s always been wild to me is there inability to recognize who the bad guy is. Jessup, Patrick Bateman, Jordan Belfort. These guys consistently idolize the obvious villain.

05.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 1581 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 60

β€œIt may be bullshit, but it’s OUR bullshit.”

06.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not criticizing them for doing it. It’s mocking how the reality of their behavior doesn’t match their bravado.

06.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Do they constantly posture and bluster as belligerent tough guys?

06.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Leaking these out bit by bit over time sure seems like a swell strategy

06.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 1812 πŸ” 324 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 1

BREAKING:

The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.

They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.

DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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