You don’t get to “argue” that a law is not a law. At least, you do if you’re a lawyer and in the appropriate court, but you don’t get to if you’re just some asshole who wants to get away with stuff.

The senior federal judge tasked with reviewing the materials seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sharply questioned the former president’s attorneys Tuesday during their first hearing in his courtroom.

Judge Raymond Dearie repeatedly challenged Trump’s lawyers for refusing to back up the former president’s claim that he declassified the highly sensitive national security-related records discovered in his residence.

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Trump has argued that the 11,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI pursuant to

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Trump has been threatening Big Problems if he is indicted. Nice little country ya got here type of thing.

Trump warned that if he were indicted on a charge of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, there would be “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before.”

Perhaps. Then again perhaps pigs can fly.

Trump, speaking Thursday to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, added, “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.”

We would stand for it, sit for it, jump up and down for it, turn cartwheels for it, ride a bicycle from New York to San Francisco for it.

Hewitt, who is also a contributing columnist

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And it’s on.

The New York state attorney general filed a sweeping lawsuit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump Organization, alleging they were involved in an expansive fraud lasting over a decade that the former President used to enrich himself.

In the more than 200-page lawsuit, Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, alleges the fraud touched all aspects of the Trump business, including its properties and golf courses. According to the lawsuit, the Trump Organization deceived lenders, insurers and tax authorities by inflating the value of his properties using misleading appraisals.

“These acts of fraud and misrepresentation were similar in nature, were committed by upper management at the Trump Organization as

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“Offensive” isn’t really the issue.

Met officers guilty of sharing offensive messages with Wayne Couzens

A serving Metropolitan police officer and a former officer accused of sharing racist and misogynistic messages in a WhatsApp group with Sarah Everard’s killer have been found guilty of what a judge described as “sickening” and “abhorrent” behaviour.

Those are the issue – racist and misogynist. They’re the issue because of their relevance to how the police treat people and how they investigate crimes against people.

PC Jonathon Cobban, 35, and Joel Borders, 45, had joked about beating and sexually assaulting women, raping a colleague and using Taser weapons on children, their trial had been told.

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I did a couple of posts about “Giulia” Valentino last month: he’s a man who plays football on women’s teams. The Guardian had a Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Trans Ladies piece earlier this month about how mean everyone is to men who compete against women.

Five weeks later, speaking to the Guardian in a first media interview since the controversy, Valentino sought to set the record straight about the tournament final and make the case for including trans people in sports.

Issue isn’t sports. Issue is men muscling into women’s sports.

Commentators had suggested the game they played in, called the Dublin Junior J Shield football final, was for teenagers whereas it was for adults, with junior signifying

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The National Review has more information on Fred Sargeant:

Fred Sargeant, 74, an early advocate for gay rights in the U.S. who participated in the 1969 Stonewall riots, said trans activists at Sunday’s parade in Burlington grabbed his signs, shoved him, poured coffee on his head, smacked him, knocked him to the ground, and stole his property because he held a sign and handed out pamphlets critical of the trans movement.

Sargeant told National Review that after the attack he was briefly sent to the hospital, where he underwent a CT scan, but is now home in central Vermont and “on the mend.”

That’s good to know.

In recent years, Sargeant has become an outspoken critic of the gender

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Among the “counter-protesters” bullying feminists in Brighton on Sunday was one Carly-May Kavanagh, a “journalist” and staffer to misogynist MP for Brighton Lloyd Russell-Moyle. She won her 30 seconds of fame by yelling in the face of a man carrying a baby. (I don’t think I would take a baby to a protest, to be honest, but that’s a quibble.)

Kavanagh, along with another woman who has not been identified, hounded a father holding his small baby, taunting him and saying “you’re raising a little fascist.”

You can watch (and listen to) her doing it.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1571654220532645888

“You fucking fascist,” Kavanagh said to the man, a few feet from the face of his child. “You think that’s a good idea,

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But…

https://twitter.com/MyWebDoctorUK/status/1572158550977265665

Why, yes…every teenager deserves the same development opportunity as every other teenager. So why is Dr Helen Webberley so hell-bent on destroying such development opportunities? Why does she promote the fad for terminating such opportunities and replacing them with gender parodies?… Read the rest

Reduxx has more on the Ontario teacher with the giant tits prosthetic:

The Ontario High School at the center of controversy for having a male teaching young students while donning a large prosthetic bust has issued a full defense of the teacher in a newly-leaked email sent to parents.

I wonder what they would say if a female teacher wore a comparably massive prosthetic penis while teaching.

Following the viral news, [Oakville Trafalgar High School] has now issued an email statement to parents in which they defend Lemieux’s employment status in the name of inclusivity.

“We are aware of discussion on social media and in the media regarding Oakville Trafalgar High School. We would like to take this opportunity

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Hot damn Women’s March is confused.

Six days ago:

Until people who can get pregnant have control over our own bodies, we *cannot* be equal.

Abortion is a human right.

— Women's March (@womensmarch) September 14, 2022

Yesterday:

If you're a legislator who's making rules about reproductive health care without a single woman in the room you should rethink your whole life!!!!

— Women's March (@womensmarch) September 19, 2022

Are we talking about people who can get pregnant, or women?

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Trump can’t claim Honest Mistake.

A onetime White House lawyer under President Donald J. Trump warned him late last year that Mr. Trump could face legal liability if he did not return government materials he had taken with him when he left office, three people familiar with the matter said.

That means Trump can’t claim “Oh I didn’t realize, sorry, my mistake.”

The lawyer, Eric Herschmann, sought to impress upon Mr. Trump the seriousness of the issue and the potential for investigations and legal exposure if he did not return the documents, particularly any classified material, the people said.

The account of the conversation is the latest evidence that Mr. Trump had been informed of the legal perils of

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Hmm. Heavily disguised Activist burns lesbian strength poster while gesturing “fuck you.” Somehow I don’t find that particularly persuasive.

Outnumbered 3-1, the terfs weren't able to march and listened to speeches instead from the likes of Jo Campbell, a transphobes who encouraged an individual (with pre-existing suicidal thoughts) to act upon them pic.twitter.com/L2y0FfFUWA

— Leeds AFN (@AFN_Leeds) September 19, 2022

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Aha, a festival for International Day of the Girl.

https://twitter.com/SEIreland/status/1571937204603342855

What is Shona?

Nice, so all this is about empowering girls. Fair play to them.

I'm delighted to be speaking at @shonadotie SHINE Festival to celebrate International Day of the Girl on the 11th & 12th of October, why not come and join us?

For more info, check out https://t.co/kEfb0ZrD2f #ShineFestival pic.twitter.com/gPy0rwhIYn

— Sara R Phillips (@sararphillips) September 19, 2022

So much for empowering girls and International Day of the Girl.

Updating to add: There’s another one, because of course there is.

https://twitter.com/TarynDeVere/status/1571943337933918208

It seems she is a woman, but considers herself too special and interesting to be called a woman.

‘I think I might be genderqueer, or non-binary,”

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Another confused group that claims to be feminist but also likes to omit and erase women.

Until people who can get pregnant have control over our own bodies, we *cannot* be equal.

Abortion is a human right.

— Women's March (@womensmarch) September 14, 2022

What a pity they made the mistake of calling themselves Women’s March way back in January 2017. So typical of women not to think such things through.

A 10-year-old girl was raped in Ohio. She got pregnant. She's not a woman, she's a child.

Women, young girls, trans men, and nonbinary & intersex individuals can get pregnant too. You can be upset about that fact, or you can fight in solidarity for abortion access for ALL.

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Right side of history?

1./ The gender identity goons are on the march. They've started with women and gays. Yesterday they attacked women in Brighton with smoke canisters. They also assaulted venerable gay rights activist Fred Sergeant in Vermont, leaving him injured. They'll come for you too soon…. pic.twitter.com/NMV4uF4qeL

— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) September 19, 2022

3./ In our institutions, the media and judicial system a slow inexorable capture by gender identity activists is underway as biological sex is replaced with invented and shifting notions like 'gender identity' which activists can constantly redefine to police our behaviour.

— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) September 19, 2022

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While men in Brighton are busy calling feminist women fascists, Trump is doing the real thing:

Trump appeared to more fully embrace QAnon on Saturday, playing a song at a political rally in Ohio that prompted attendees to respond with a salute in reference to the cultlike conspiracy theory’s theme song.

While speaking in Youngstown in support of J.D. Vance, whom he has endorsed as Ohio’s Republican nominee for the Senate, Mr. Trump delivered a dark address about the decline of America over music that was all but identical to a song called “Wwg1wga” — an abbreviation for the QAnon slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.”

As Mr. Trump spoke, scores of people in the crowd raised

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Doesn’t this just say it all. Stentorian male voice shouting “YOU’RE NOT FEMINISTS” over and over and over.

Shut up, dude. You’re not the boss of us.

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Some people know exactly who the women are and what they’re for.

Ten former members of a Utah-based polygamist sect known as the Kingston Group are pursuing punitive damages against the organization after they say it subjected them to years of unpaid labor, sexual violence and human trafficking.

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, the sect’s ex-members allege: “It is largely through … illegal marriage practices that the [Kingston Group] is able to unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes.”

The lawsuit contains explicit details of how Kingston Group leaders – who also own and operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utah’s capital, Salt Lake City

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Philip Pullman blames the victims.

I despise transphobia.

— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) September 19, 2022

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One scrap from Brighton yesterday:

The transgenser activist in the dungarees who shouts 'fucking fascist' in the face of a baby is Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle's policy advisor https://t.co/mgYcLu2ojd

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) September 19, 2022

Carly-May Kavanagh – the woman who shouted 'fucking fascist' at a baby as part of her transgender activism – has changed her bio so that it no longer states that she is an MP's policy adviser pic.twitter.com/fuIDzcUIoe

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) September 19, 2022

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