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I am pointing a gub at you
Jan 18, 2021 13 tweets 7 min read
Pleased to learn that a federal criminal grand jury's subpoena to Twitter to get my personal info was quashed by the judge, despite my association with sketchy accounts like @Popehat and @associatesmind, whom the court refused to do any favors.
(Thread ...) This started in 2017 with a Twitter thread about the interesting case of John Rivello, who was indicted for assault with "a deadly weapon, to-wit: a Tweet", where the tweet contained an allegedly seizure-inducing GIF and was sent to a known epileptic, @kurteichenwald.
May 14, 2019 25 tweets 16 min read
Every filing Elon Musk makes in his defamation case is somehow even more assholish than the previous one. Here's today's entirely-unnecessary "Nature" section of his answer to the complaint.
Lots of projection going on here.
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… ImageImage The representation in paragraph 5 that Unsworth was the one who tauntingly restarted things is still quite false.
Jan 2, 2019 14 tweets 9 min read
Some updates on fugitive Proud Boy lawyer Jason Lee Van Dyke (on the lam since 12/21):
1. He was still alive on 12/26, when he filed a "notice of non-participation" (w/ spicy service certificate) in one of his frivolous lawsuits.
courtlistener.com/docket/8162584…
@popehat 2. Per Tom Retzlaff, the threats that led to Van Dyke's bond revocation hearing were (a) "I promise you this motherfucker: If my law career dies, you die with it."
Sep 21, 2017 33 tweets 25 min read
New thread for updates on John Rivello, man indicted for assault on Kurt Eichenwald with "a deadly weapon, to wit: a Tweet".
#DeadlyTweet @jew_goldstein @kurteichenwald
Earlier thread:


Audio and transcript of preliminary hearing: