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.
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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…
The representation in paragraph 5 that Unsworth was the one who tauntingly restarted things is still quite false.
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… @popehat2. 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: