As #AlexJonesReturns maybe helpful to revisit why he was booted from this and many other platforms in 2018. Even YouPorn banned him. I'll use 🎁links for @nytimes articles so all can read. 🧵 nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/…

VERDICT in the Alex Jones /Sandy Hook damages case. Judge coming out at 3:30p Time revision: 3:20pm

Hello from the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook verdict watch in CT. The jury has another note! "Can we please have another verdict packet? We wrote the wrong number down on a line" is the jury note.

Good morning☀️from the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial, verdict watch Day 3. Judge is here, jury coming soon. Jury's only coming in for the judge to greet them, NOT with a verdict.

New thread from Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial in CT. We've got another note from the jury. On Friday, the jury went home at 4:45pm or so. The judge will likely give them the same option today.

Good 🍁☀️from the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial, jury verdict watch...we're on day two of deliberations. Judge is here, jury will come in shortly to check in...judge having a sidebar. Hear it live: Of course when I brought up that live feed link I blasted a guitar riff from the YT ads to the entire courtroom.

Good morning 🎃from sunny Waterbury, CT & the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial. Full courtroom this morning for closing statements. After jury instrux, we wait--for a verdict on how much 💵Jones must pay 8 victims' families for the pain caused by his lies about the shooting. I am sitting in a row filled with the families' Newtown neighbors & supporters. All the families are here + Bill Aldenberg, the FBI agent in the case, plus lawyers' families. BIG day.

Good morning from 🌧️Waterbury, CT for the Alex Jones /Sandy Hook damages trial. Rain and at least one big❄️today: defendant packed up his entourage and fled on a private jet. So not looking likely he'll testify or yell on the courthouse steps today, which we wouldn't cover anyway Pattis, Jones' lawyer wants to instruct the jury that Jones is "chosen to boycott" the trial bc, in essence, he can't say what he wants bc it's against the rules. Judge not having any of that, rightly saying she can't address his thought process.

Jones’s lawyer Norm Pattis has very few Qs for these families in court. Like Jones, he has preferred (for years) to do his talking outside the courtroom. Jury is back. Was laughing in elevator w colleagues at Jones now promising "breaking news!" to get reporters to show up outside. No tnx & no breaking news. Jury watching Jones Sandy Hook videos.

Good 🌧️morning from the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial. Strong hoaxer contingent in the courtroom. NOT writing about Jones' Info-warring outside courthouse today💤As always you can watch the @LawCrimeNetwork livefeed here: Judge is here, warning those in the courtroom that anybody recording w/o authorization will be booted. Looking at you, guy in the American flag doo-rag.

Good morning ☀️ from the Alex Jones damages trial in Connecticut. The jury is seated and Robbie Parker has returned to the stand. Yesterday was heartbreaking; the Parkers, personally targeted by Jones, a key to this case. Robbie Parker is recalling he and Alissa flying back from Emilie's funeral, and seeing Alex Jones for the first time, on the in-flight TV, where he was on CNN, giving a (wild) interview with Piers Morgan.

Hello! New thread here, from Alex Jones/Sandy Hook CT damages trial. KEY testimony ahead: Alissa Parker, mother of Emilie, whose spouse, Robbie Parker, was named many times by Jones on Infowars. The Parkers are central to this case. We're live @nytimes : nytimes.com/live/2022/09/2… Folks I've moved over to our live blog, writing about this very emotional testimony by Alissa Parker. Join me if you like at the link above.

Good morning ☀️from the courtroom on day 10 of the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial. Expecting victims' relatives to testify today. Yesterday Nicole & Ian Hockley, parents of Dylan, & Jillian Soto, sister of Vicki, testified. @LawCrimeNetwork livefeed: Judge is here. Lawyers dealing w housekeeping issues, including Norm Pattis changing his tie, bc he spilled coffee on the one he was wearing.

GOOD MORNING ☀️from the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial in Waterbury, CT. Beautiful fall weather today🍁 Recap: In a surprise move Fri, Jones's lawyer told the court Jones wouldn't appear as planned. He'll be here Wed (maybe). Pattis told me he thot Jones did well on the stand. Surprising take, judging from the jurors' faces. nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/…

Jones is hobbled by any public forum that he doesn't control. He is forever on transmit, and never on receive. And again--this isn't about free speech. It's already been adjudicated that Jones defamed the Sandy Hook families who sued him. He lost FOUR defamation lawsuits. Again quoting the families' Texas lawyers: Speech is free. Lies, you pay for.

Good morning ☀️from Alex Jones/Sandy Hook damages trial in CT. Jones will be back on the stand today for questioning by his lawyer, then the families get another crack at him. Here's a 🎁 link to my story about Jones' meltdown yesterday. nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/… I'll be live blogging again today over at my employer's website...here's the link: nytimes.com/live/2022/09/2…

Good morning from rainy Waterbury, CT, & Alex Jones's trial for damages v. the families of 8 Sandy Hook victims. Jones himself expected to show up today. He withdrew $80k from his "bankrupt" company for security for his trip. Hope his bodyguards have⛱️⛱️ nytimes.com/2022/09/20/us/… Jones is in the courtroom. He's sitting at the defense table between his lawyer, Norm Pattis, & Pattis' associate

Morning 🌞 from Alex Jones' Sandy Hook damages trial in CT! Tough day for the Infowars fabulist, who last night had his bankruptcy claim gutted by a judge over a "lack of candor" & Jones' paying $80k for "security" here. Will he testify today? More soon...nytimes.com/2022/09/20/us/… The bankruptcy ruling was a major setback for Jones. Judge removed two of his top restructuring officials, strengthened independent oversight, and ordered that "insider relationships" and suspect spending by Jones be investigated.

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BREAKING: BIG setback for Alex Jones in his bankruptcy case--federal bk Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston has tossed out both Jones's lawyer AND his chief restructuring officer. Judge cites transparency issues, incl personal expenses by Jones... One example: Jones spent $80k on "security" for his trip to CT for his Sandy Hook damages trial, where he is right now. "I don't like where we are today," Judge Lopez says. But it's the right decision under the law.

New thread, we're back from lunch at Alex Jones damages trial v 8 Sandy Hook victims' families in Waterbury, CT. Clint Watts, online counter-terror expert, is still on the stand. Lawyer for the families plays Infowars lead-in to the show. Watts says the use of war imagery and words is "incitement," and the video is "highly effective in terms of content production."

Here in Waterbury for Alex Jones/Sandy Hook trial—Jones is outside the courthouse holding forth for the cameras. He’s apparently reluctant to come inside, where there are three rows of Sandy Hook families in the gallery waiting to hold him to account. It's as yet unclear whether Jones will testify today. Right now the Infowars corporate rep, Brittany Paz, is again on the stand. During her testimony last week lawyers for the families established that Infowars' traffic/sales surged when he spread Sandy Hook lies.