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Trump’s Former Insurance Lawyer Fucked Up His Revenge Prosecution Of James Comey In So Many Ways
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Yes, as I already wrote about, the indictment against James Comey was already thrown out due to Halligan’s improper appointment, but it’s also worth covering how badly she fucked up even if she had been appointed legally. These cases were destined for the dus…
Nov 25, 2025, 9:42 PM
The Fascism Is Happening Live On TV
Mike Brock, Techdirt
Mark Kelly—former Navy combat pilot, astronaut, sitting United States Senator—stated a simple legal fact on video: members of the US military can refuse illegal orders. Not as opinion. Not as political positioning. As established law codified in the Uniform C…
Nov 25, 2025, 8:01 PM
USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No.
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
The US Patent Office is about to gut the only effective tool we have for killing bad patents—and they’re doing it by administrative fiat, without Congress, in a way that would make patent trolling easier than it’s been in over a decade. They need to hear from…
Nov 25, 2025, 6:53 PM
James Comey, Letitia James Indictments Tossed Because Trump’s Insurance Lawyer Wasn’t Legally Appointed To The DOJ
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The DOJ continues to shed talent as those who actually care about doing the job right are either quitting or being fired for refusing to be Trump’s vindictive blunt force objects. The problem with shedding this much talent is that you need to replace it with …
Nov 25, 2025, 5:35 PM
Larry Ellison Met With Trump To Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan To Fire
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Trump’s right wing billionaire friend Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son, David) recently acquired CBS and likely co-ownership of TikTok. Like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the goal isn’t really subtle: rich, thin-skinned right wingers want to own the …
Nov 25, 2025, 1:30 PM
If Your Antitrust Case Depends On Pretending TikTok Doesn’t Exist, It’s Going To Fail
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Last week’s dismissal of the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta—combined with the earlier limited remedies in the Google search case—demonstrates something that should be obvious by now: antitrust is a pathetically weak tool for increasing competition in digit…
Nov 24, 2025, 7:55 PM
Federal Judge Spends Most Of 233 Pages Calling Out DHS, ICE, CBP, Border Patrol For Their Lies
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino has already made a name for himself during Trump’s second administration. He began making this name by engaging in an unapproved sweep of the area he controlled in California as Trump was still waiting to be sworn in. Th…
Nov 24, 2025, 6:43 PM
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coord…
Nov 24, 2025, 5:24 PM
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is David with a comment about Trump’s freakout after Democrats told soldiers not to follow illegal orders: What everyone appears to overlook Trump’s tantrum here clearly shows that he is perfectly aware…
Nov 23, 2025, 8:00 PM
This Week In Techdirt History: November 16th – 22nd
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we featured a guest post about the many problems with the idea of upload filters, while Poland was trying to get them excluded from the EU Copyright Directive. Twitch was continuing to trip over itself in response to its DMCA…
Nov 22, 2025, 8:30 PM
Why People Don’t Demand Data Privacy, Even As Governments & Corporations Collect More Personal Info
Rohan Grover and Josh Widera, Techdirt
When the Trump administration gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to a massive database of information about Medicaid recipients in June 2025, privacy and medical justice advocates sounded the alarm. They warned that the move could trigger all kin…
Nov 21, 2025, 11:28 PM
Trump Says Democratic Lawmakers Should Die For Telling The Military To Obey Their Oath
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
The President of the United States is calling for the execution of six Democratic lawmakers—all military veterans or former intelligence officers—because they reminded US service members of their oath to the Constitution. That’s not hyperbole or exaggeration.…
Nov 21, 2025, 7:04 PM
September Arrest, Deportation Of Firefighter Shows The Administration Just Wants Brown People Gone
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
I’ve expended far too many words stating the obvious: the Trump administration’s deportation program isn’t interested in removing criminals. It’s only interested in removing people who aren’t white. That’s why it vets visa applicants for “anti-American” socia…
Nov 21, 2025, 5:19 PM
Trump Attacks Leave U.S. Cybersecurity Agencies Hollowed Out And Managed By Useless Zealots
Karl Bode, Techdirt
We’ve noted time and time again that Trump’s attack on U.S. cybersecurity defenses and oversight are utterly indistinguishable from a foreign attack. Perhaps with the exception of more lip filler, spray tans, diabetes, bogus efficiency, and fake piety. That’s…
Nov 21, 2025, 1:20 PM
Ken Paxton’s Tylenol Lawsuit Is Off To A Terrible Start
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Ken Paxton’s bullshit lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol, built on Trump and RFK Jr.’s bullshit press conference in which they pretended that science says acetaminophen causes autism, is off to a predictably bad start. I had a bit of a laugh shortly after …
Nov 21, 2025, 4:13 AM
Why The Trump Administration’s Comparison Of Antifa To Hamas, ISIS, And MS-13 Makes No Sense
Art Jipson, Techdirt
When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to the transnational criminal group MS-13, Hamas and the Islamic State group in October 2025, she equated a nonhierarchical, loosely organized movement of antifascist activists with some of the worl…
Nov 20, 2025, 9:33 PM
Trump’s Own Judges Easily Reject His Bonkers Lawsuit Against CNN For Calling His Big Lie A ‘Big Lie’
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Donald Trump, who presents himself as a free speech champion, sure loves suing the media for their First Amendment-protected speech. CNN is a favorite target of his though these lawsuits don’t do particularly well. Back in 2022, he sued CNN for calling Trump’…
Nov 20, 2025, 8:16 PM
Brendan Carr Launches Baseless ‘Investigation’ Into PBS, NPR, And BBC To Try And Silence Criticism Of His Weird, Unpopular Boss
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Donald Trump’s FCC boss Brendan Carr is opening a fake new “investigation” into PBS, NPR, and BBC in the hopes of suppressing journalistic criticism of the country’s increasingly unmoored and unpopular President. Carr first leaked word of the fake investigati…
Nov 20, 2025, 5:32 PM
The TikTok ‘Ban’ Continues To Be One Of The Biggest Turds In Tech Policy History
Karl Bode, Techdirt
After four years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, and a year after the app was to be banned from app stores via an act of Congress, TikTok remains widely available. The Trump administration insists they …
Nov 20, 2025, 1:25 PM
The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
Rob Davis, Techdirt
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something h…
Nov 19, 2025, 8:00 PM
Texas GOP Had A Legal Path To Gerrymander. Trump’s DOJ Ordered Them To Take The Blatantly Illegal Path Instead
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Let’s say, hypothetically, you want to gerrymander some congressional districts to help your party win more seats. Here are a couple of options: Which do you choose? If you said “obviously option 1,” congratulations, you understand the law better than the Tru…
Nov 19, 2025, 6:50 PM
UK Pulls Access To Intel Since It Doesn’t Want To Be Part Of Trump’s ‘Murder People In Boats’ Program
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
This won’t matter to Donald Trump or the dozens of administration officials who live to please him. In all likelihood, it will just lead to Trump and his administration smearing one of this nation’s allies for being weak on crime and too supportive of people …
Nov 19, 2025, 5:20 PM
Trump Says He’ll Sue BBC For ‘$5 Billion’ Despite Apologies, Resignations Over Editing Gaffe
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Last week we noted how the BBC has been tripping over itself to apologize to Donald Trump for some edits made to a BBC documentary. Admittedly the edits weren’t the best idea; they effectively cobbled together two different parts of Trump’s January 6 speech 5…
Nov 19, 2025, 1:22 PM
DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Not content to simply deport as many South American migrants from this country as possible, the Trump administration leaned into its lies about the latent threat to national security the mere existence of foreign people poses to national security. This admini…
Nov 18, 2025, 6:50 PM
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