🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

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Today’s show is all about how this Dept of Justice is unraveling in court &, of course, at the top with the impending confirmation of Todd Blanche as AG. With bonus quotes from “Casino” as we try to decipher mafia-speak! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 251 — You Whack The Guy, You Don't 86 Him

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · August 4 · 57m

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We’re back where we started. www.lawdork.com/p/todd-blanc...

Good morning to Judge Brinkema and Judge Williams

Listen: Trump's crypto schemes make his first-term grifting seem like the good old days. I chatted about his unrestrained profiteering, the Clarity Act, and more with @lizdye.bsky.social & @andrewtorrez.bsky.social for @lawandchaospod.bsky.social.

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Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...

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On today's show, we welcome back @zacheverson.com to discuss not just how crypto enables massive grift by Trump (and others) but also a framework for regulating it going forward. with @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 250 — Trump Corruption-palooza (Ft. Zach Everson)

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · July 31 · 1h 6m

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BREAKING: Ninth Circuit agrees with five other circuits (2, 6, 7. 10, and 11) that the DHS can't detain immigrants who've been here for years without a bond hearing. Fifth and 8th said have at it. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

What do Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Rudy "The Melting" Giuliani, Kash "I'm Not As Think As You Drunk I Am" Patel and a pretty cool arrangement of seashells all have in common with James Comey?? READ AND FIND OUT! with @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/comey-shel...

Comey Shells Prosecution Is Drowning In Corruption

DOJ in disarray

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"Judge Simon points out that he’s far from the only judge to conclude that, under Trump, the DOJ has forfeited the presumption of regularity it enjoyed for generations. Dhillon live-tweeting her every retaliatory move on social media is just the cherry on top." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it

When being terminally online goes wrong.

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More thoughts on the AI / law school discourse. I'm trying to pinpoint the problem(s) we are trying to solve. Is the problem AI or is it that AI is revealing to us deeply rooted issues with law school education? I suspect the latter.🧵

The Paramount-WB merger is postponed (for now), the gov’t can’t compile voter lists & we answer the question “if you trick a CBP agent into bricking your phone, is it a crime?” All this & more with @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 249 — DHS Voter Lists?

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · July 28 · 53m

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Susan Collins is officially beyond parody.

So I managed to get @lizdye.bsky.social and Andrew McCarthy on the same side of an issue. That's hilarious.

DOJ position on Biden tapes 'irreconcilable' with burial of Mar-a-Lago report on Trump: lawyer

Joe Biden apparently waved the white flag on the ghostwriter tapes, but could it be a Pyrrhic legal victory for the Trump administration?

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Start your weekend off right! With @lizdye.bsky.social and @andrewtorrez.bsky.social at www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ep-248-tar... If you enjoy, consider subscribing for the bonus deep dives. The latest explores the philosophical "Trolley Problem" and how that relates to our Constitution. Outstanding!

Ep 248 — Tariff Man Returns

Trump v BBC discovery moves forward; NoCARTEBLANPCHE Act discharge petition; legalwashing tariffs again

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Hey @lizdye.bsky.social and @andrewtorrez.bsky.social, Nintendo America is HQ'd in Redmond, Washington (same as Microsoft). And it's TOS specifies King County, which is Washington State, for venue. Like Andrew said, Nintendo is a good corporate citizen... At least as good as one can be in 2026.

"Bribe Force One" is now in my personal lexicon. Thanks, Andrew.

You paid more for that Nintendo Switch & the new Switch 2 controllers in 2025 thanks to tariffs. But if Nintendo gets its way, you're NOT going to see a dime of the tariff refunds the Supreme Court ordered. We talk why & so much more with @lizdye.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 248 — Tariff Man Returns

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · July 24 · 1h 5m

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"It's not really a trade strategy so much as a demonstration that no American commitment is durable past the next mood swing — which is its own kind of cost, distinct from whatever the tariffs themselves do to the price of Canadian whisky." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Tariff Man's new assault on Canada is his dumbest yet

The madman theory works ... right up until it doesn't anymore.

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New bills would make babies of undocumented immigrants and birth tourists "invaders" to deny them citizenship. Marauders of the maternity ward is next in the fight to end birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court case was just the start. mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/the-gops-i...

The GOP's Infant Invaders

The next stage of the Trump Administration's push to end birthright citizenship is here.

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This one was so much fun! Would you wobble the handrail? Raise the drawbridge? Make the street one-way??

Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social · 2w ago

What does the trolley problem have to teach SCOTUS about live, liberty, and property? @andrewtorrez.bsky.social's monthly bonus is a deep dive into law and philosphy. Gentlenerds, start your engines! lawandchaospod.substack.com/p/ep-bonus-t...

I am so proud of my cohost @lizdye.bsky.social’s latest appearance on NPR’s “On the Media” @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC. Give it a listen! www.npr.org/podcasts/452...

On the Media

On the Media is a weekly show that uses the media as a lens to understand our world.  On the Media listeners say the show is an essential companion, helping them survive the firehose of media coming a...

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We have the best lawyer!

National Security Counselors 🕵@nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2w ago

And boom goes the dynamite.

On today’s show, we talk about the secret new immigration court the Trump admin is trying to use, his silly (& costly!) lawsuit against the BBC & how a state Supreme Court has documented the corruption of the Roberts Court for all to see. With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 247 — They See Me Trollin'

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · July 21 · 59m

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After Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito fell on his ass, the DOJ is trying to ride to his rescue in the defamation trollsuit against the BBC lawandchaospod.substack.com/p/trump-bit-...

Trump Bit Off More Than He Could Chew Suing BBC, So DOJ Will Chew It For Him

Discovery's a bitch, man.

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On Friday, I was a guest on the Make It Make Sense podcast with @granthermes.bsky.social talking about this past Supreme Court term & how Chief Justice Roberts has broken the Court beyond repair from the inside. This was a lot of fun - give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Incidentally, if you have a 401(k) with index funds in it (i.e., if you have a 401(k)), you’ll be footing the bill for this thanks to changes the exchanges adopted solely to benefit Elon Musk

Futurism@futurism.com · 3w ago

The company is set to wipe out more than $1 trillion in market value.

⬇️ Must-read thread on today’s antitrust hearing on the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros merger. It sounds to me like the states (challenging the merger) have much the better of the argument but that may be my biased perception because this would be such an obvious anticompetitive disaster.

Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen@leahnylen.bsky.social · 3w ago

In a few minutes, the TRO hearing on the lawsuit by California and other states challenging the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal. Zoom details here: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/amo/m...

Fox News is straight up not broadcasting Markwayne Mullin’s big lie news conference, which is highly unusual since they normally take administration events of this sort. I guess they have 787 million reasons to refrain!

But can you assert a counterclaim in your answer to a counter-counterclaim??

Andrew Kinsey@andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 3w ago

A Magistrate in Chancery just issued an opinion that will appeal to procedure nerds. The question was whether a counterclaim could be filed in an answer to a counterclaim. In other words, can you file a counter-counterclaim. The Magistrate recommended that the answer is yes.

I wanted to call today’s show “The 800-Pound Beaver” but I was overruled by @lizdye.bsky.social There are so many interesting layers to why this cult brand store is so hyper-aggressive in litigating its IP. Plus Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing & so much more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...