![]() I don't even like talking to them on the phone. ![]() I'm not in Riverside County and I don't like people to visit me. On Post.News, Mastodon at by email at ken at popehat dot com.Įverything ends, and that’s okay. If anyone knows any volunteer orgs in Riverside County, CA (especially out near Banning) that visit the elderly, please drop me a DM. On SeriousTrouble.Show, the Substack for the podcast I co-host with Josh Barro ![]() I’m voting with my feet, exactly the way I’ve been telling people to do for years. But I’d never ask the government to stop it. DPRK News Service Two of the blog's writers, Patrick (who died in September 2022) and Derrick, run a satirical Twitter feed purporting to be the voice of North Korea which parodies the style and content of North Korean state media. I’m repulsed by the flood of triumphant bigotry and trolling, and by Musk’s sad-lonely-boy leaning into the arms of freaks who embrace him in his fruitless quest for love. That, not government regulation, is the way to do it. If one of us disagrees with the other’s exercise of rights, we can part company. Twitter - or whoever runs it - has rights. Clark knows perfectly well that the joke is a reference to a time he gave a Twitter FollowFriday to a white nationalists post reading '1488. Correct the factual record every time, THEN make your point. DOJ Demands Info on Popehat and Others Tagged in Smiley Emoji Tweet The feds are now going after social-media users for being tagged by Twitter accounts they dont like. This is exactly how it’s supposed to work, as I’ve been arguing for years. Popehat And stop letting false facts and lies go uncorrected because you think your argument stands even in the face of those bad facts. I’ll probably delete the past tweets because I can’t stomach them being available to promote this enterprise. So I’m exercising my free speech and free association and leaving, and shuttering the account. The last straw was Elon Musk sending lunatics and bigots against former employees and leaning into conspiracy theories. I'll always remember Popehat for blocking literally everyone and for joining Allahpundit in arguing for the refusal of medical care to the Covid unvaccinated. That new branding is ugly and despicable and I don’t want to contribute content to it. Just as Twitter’s former leaders exercised their free speech and free association rights to brand Twitter one way, Twitter’s new boss is exercising his rights to brand it another way. I’m not just talking about the increasing tech glitches. The other reason is that I think it’s fundamentally changed, at least for now. Legal news about President Donald Trump often outrages people, but it shouldn’t. The people who voice it are so honest, and of such good faith, that I’m confident it will be coming. I miss him, and his perspective and wit and humanity, keenly. September 28, 2020, 9:06 am CDT Image from . Popehat I’m just going to sit here and wait for the outrage that I’m accustomed to hearing when protesters shut down highways. Gradually I used it more and he used it less, until he split off to his own account. I only started using it around 2014 or so. My late friend and co-writer Patrick started Twitter account and built it. I still interact with many of the people I knew there, having connected with them at a series of successor locations, but many are lost to the decades - people I felt I knew, now only vaguely remembered. Usually whatever content I posted there - primitive lawsplainers, snark, banter, arguments - is gone as well. So: though the site slumbers, it is not dead.Many of those forums are gone now, like the proverbial tears in rain. And I may develop some projects to write about here more regularly. Its easy to spot overt calls for censorship from the commentariat. They both instruct and reflect their fickle audience. If I judge there is interest, I may start posting links to the Atlantic pieces and ATPL podcasts here for debate, in part so I can hear more regularly how much the site sucks now that I am Deranged By Trump/In The Tank For Trump. by Ken White American journalists and pundits rely upon vigorous free speech, but are not reliable supporters of it. And, though it seems I have abandoned the Make No Law podcast, I haven't - those podcasts are just incredibly time consuming to produce. My creative outlets are my new gig as a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the weekly All the President's Lawyers radio show and podcast on KCRW. One of the most justifiably ridiculed type of blog posts is the "hey guys I haven't posted in a long time" non-substantive blog posts, but nonetheless, here I am with a hey-guys-I-haven't-posted-in-a-long-time blog posts. ![]()
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