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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/08/2026

The day has come! “The Nerd Reich” is now available at your favorite local bookstore. I’ll be on @msnowreports.bsky.social at approximately 10:30 am ET to talk about it. Tune in. And buy it! First week sales make a huge difference. If you keep reading, I keep fighting.

Promotional graphic for the nerd Reich book. Quote from Publishers Weekly: “ transfixing it’s an ominous look at an insular elite arrayed against American democracy.”

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Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We’re gonna level with you: between the memetic orders, the Gemini is this illegal prompts, and the ransomware involving J.P. Morgan, this may be our best weekly roundup ever. www.courtwatch.news/p/186-ok-goo...

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#186: Ok Google, how illegal is this?

Asking A.I. if you’ll catch a federal charge. Plus: A Judge’s Meme, Terror Charity, Bollywood-inspired robbery, and TikTok’s second amendment.

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Please help keep these folks running. #news #courtwatch #legal #law

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“Destructive scanning is not the same as book burning” Sure. I guess

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Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A 30 year old court just got its first case. A Friday night scoop on the Alien Terrorist Removal Court’s only docket. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

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Alien Terrorist Removal Court Has Its First Case

Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has never reviewed an application. Until now

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The grift starts at the top.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 01/07/2026

Laws requiring people to provide ID to access the Internet are going to backfire. Moral panics produce bad laws; these laws will not protect children but they DO erode privacy protections for everyone.

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 26/06/2026

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

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Judiciary Approves Funding for Case Management and Public Access Modernization

To fund the accelerated initiative to modernize and strengthen the security of its case management and public access system, the Judiciary is implementing a modest temporary increase in fees for elect...

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The majority of the Supreme Court is intellectually dishonest, brazenly corrupt, and nakedly partisan. #scotus

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 25/06/2026

Thanks to @samleecole.bsky.social and @404media.co for covering this important issue!

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 24/06/2026

CourtListener memberships are now free for Legal Services Organizations. This brings our new and wildly powerful AI integration and our best-in-class alert systems to those who need them most: free.law/2026/06/23/l...

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Free Law Project Now Offers Free Group Memberships for Legal Services Organizations

Legal aid attorneys deserve the same powerful research tools as the most well-resourced firms in the country. Free Law Project is making that possible with a new free group membership tier for nonprof...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations! www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Rakuten Kobo Rejects 45% of Submissions After Slew Of AI-Generated #Books Uploaded (via @thebookseller.com) www.thebookseller.com/news/rakuten... #publishing #GenAI #AI #ebooks

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Surprised it wasn’t a Cybertruck

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 17/06/2026

We’re a proud signatory to this letter. Make PACER free and secure.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is bombshell stuff.

Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 14/06/2026

@lawfaremedia.org has a fantastic new tool for legal research that builds on the CourtListener database. You start with a keyword search, then you ask a question about the result set using AI to filter the results further. It's really neat and quite powerful! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/intr...

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Introducing RAGtime

A Lawfare research platform now available in beta

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fantastic initiative by IL Secretary of States office. Now all in Illinois have access to reliable information sources. www.ilsos.gov/departments/...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We elected this unrestrained, delusional, ass-ignorant brat to the United States presidency twice. Our republic is tragedy and farce.

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Once again wondering where the book from @jaketapper.bsky.social is, discussing the obvious and severe mental decline of someone who already started off low on the IQ totem pole.

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Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Running a small independent news site covering the courts, we’re stuck by how many stories bigger news orgs missed. For example, a pro se litigant in Oregon filed a lawsuit to stop the production of a U.S. mint 24 carat Trump commemorative coin. He convinced a judge yesterday.

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

He’s always unaware when something inconvenient comes out.

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Highly recommend subscribing, this read was great.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It’s a fitting court district for two news startups (well, one news startup and a rich guy trolling with a substack) to fight about what to call themselves when they don’t cover the Eastern District of Virginia. www.courtwatch.news/p/177-csi-co...

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#177 - CSI:Courts

In a misconduct investigation, they sent a judge’s couch cushion to the lab? Plus: Rihanna, Bolt cutting ICE handcuffs, AI screwups, and Latvian passports

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

With Google moving to AI & big news orgs not citing our scoops, we’re slowly contracting in subscribers. I’m not asking for a paid subscribers. You give me a few weeks of a free subscription I know you’ll see the value Support indy news. Subscribe to Court Watch www.CourtWatch.news/subscribe

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

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Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Thwarted Terror Attacks. Attempted School Shootings. Suicides. Are A.I. companies complicit in a string of violence that began online? New piece that examines the rash of new lawsuits against A.I. companies. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

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The Rabbit Hole: When A.I. Helps Kill.

Thwarted Terror Attacks. Attempted School Shootings. Suicides. Are A.I. companies complicit in a string of violence that began online?

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Smalls @smalls.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This book should be required fucking reading:

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Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There is a docket which notes every time a judge rejects a pro se initial filing. It’s filled w/ heartbreaking stories of folks looking for relief through the court system. They’re all denied on technicalities like page numbers, paragraph sizing, and formatting www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

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The Rabbit Hole: Taking on the Courts, Alone.

Between the legal deserts and rising costs of lawyers, more and more Americans are attempting to represent themselves in court. For the most part, it’s not going well for them.

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Outside of the bare-knuckle legal fights that will in many ways shape our future, there exists another space. A place where people cannot afford $3,4000 rates at top-tier law firms & in some cases can’t find a lawyer to hire, even if they could swing the price. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

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The Rabbit Hole: Taking on the Courts, Alone.

Between the legal deserts and rising costs of lawyers, more and more Americans are attempting to represent themselves in court. For the most part, it’s not going well for them.

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404 Media @404media.co · 07/05/2026

NEW: 404 Media’s experimentation with Haotian AI marks the first time a journalist has managed to test this deepfake software to see how it really works. What did we learn? Haotian AI demonstrates its tool as a way to impersonate at least one US police department. And it's extremely effective.

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‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.

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