Ken Bensinger
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Reporter @nytimes; co-host of "The Michigan Plot" podcast - https://t.co/IPZRMwNYoU - [email protected] - DMs open; On Signal at kenbensinger.98
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"an otherwise normal life to lead"
TRUMP: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of "Congresswoman" Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
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As of today, it's unclear who will represent Loomer in the case, which is in the middle district of Florida after Klayman's 2-year suspension begins next month, or whether Klayman will be able to file a response to the dismissal motion before then.
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Meanwhile, on Nov. 3, Klayman released a video asking Trump to help settle the case. "I'd like you to contact Bill Maher & say 'it's time, Bill....Please settle this thing w/ Laura Loomer...I know that she loves you. Not in a sexual sense, of course.'" https://t.co/sXlE2IuVg7
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Klayman did not notify the court of his suspension until 3 days after Maher's lawyers did so. In his filing he called the suspension "unconstitutional & illegal" and separately said that Maher's lawyers should be sanctioned for bringing up his suspension in court.
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Specifically, the court found he'd represented 3 clients against Judicial Watch without proper notice/consent and that he'd refused to stop representing a client to whom he'd expressed romantic feelings
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Klayman is a former federal prosecutor & founder of Judicial Watch. He's been called "pathologically litigious" & was disciplined multiple times by the DC appeals court for ethical issues. Last week, Florida's Supreme Court sided with the state bar in suspending his license.
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Loomer sued Maher in Oct 2024 because of jokes he made about her having a sexual relationship with Donald Trump in an episode of Real Time the previous month. "Who’s Trump Fucking?," Maher said. "I think it might be Laura Loomer. I’m just saying." Full text from that episode:
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Interesting new wrinkle in Laura Loomer's defamation suit vs Bill Maher: her lawyer, Larry Klayman, just had his license suspended for 2 years & won't be able to represent her as of Dec. 6 It comes as Maher just filed a motion to dismiss claiming there was no defamation.
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The committee's policy, dictated by chairman James Comer, is to never reveal the names of victims & indeed the R majority has followed that in all other Epstein dumps. But after the WH named Giuffre on Weds, the majority put out an un-redacted version, breaking its own rules.
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The decision to redact Giuffre's name (as it was presented by Democrats on the committee Weds morning) has become the main talking point for right wing outlets, which call it a conspiracy to create an anti-Trump narrative. I wrote about that focus here: https://t.co/MhIZJqlYLh
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Right-wing outlets have focused on a single redacted name in the 23,000 pages of correspondence related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released on Wednesday.
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"It felt very disrespectful for them to un-redact her name when she's not here to speak for herself" - Virginia Giuffre's brother commenting on the decision of the Republican majority of the Oversight Committee to put out an Epstein email with her name unmasked yesterday.
Sky Roberts (brother of Virginia Giuffre): “It felt very disrespectful for them to unredact her name when she’s not here to speak for herself. If my sister was here today, she would be appalled by this administration. She would not refer to President Trump as a gentleman. He’s
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Indiana recently passed a law requiring schools to teach "intellectual diversity" and used the law to justify the removal after a student complained to Sen. Jim Banks about the chart. @stefsaul
https://t.co/NZQF8x7lTf
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The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the “Make America Great Again” slogan as an example of white supremacy.
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Indiana University is removing a professor from teaching a class because she showed a graphic called the Pyramid of White Supremacy that included the phrase "Make America Great Again." This is a version of that graphic.
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"Who could believe that the head of a think tank doesn’t think?” Our profile of @KevinRobertsTX, the powerful Heritage Fdn president now trying to escape a gaffe by using the Ron Burgundy defense: he doesn't follow the news, and just reads what people put in front of him.
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Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.
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Wolf River said it's seeking over $100M in damages from Google, which told me in a statement that as soon as it learned of the problems, it "acted quickly to fix it." Yet when I searched for Wolf River this Monday, here was the result the AI overview served up:
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The company, Wolf River Electric, is a solar contractor. It's never been sued and has many 5-star ratings. But time and again the "AI Overview" as well as Google's autocomplete suggested otherwise. Here's one of the results the company found in late 2024
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I found lawsuits filed against Google, Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft. One involved a MN company that claims it lost $ millions in business because Google's top search result — made by AI — said it was sued by the state AG for deceptive practices. It wasn't. https://t.co/aPpW6R1S0I
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New court cases seek to define content created by artificial intelligence as defamatory — a novel concept that has captivated some legal experts.
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We've all seen AI hallucinations. But what happens when AI large language models put out untrue info about YOU? Info that could hurt your reputation? Who is to blame & what can be done? In my latest story, I look at the emerging are of A.I. defamation litigation.
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He needs to just go full gold at this point. Nothing but gold on all surfaces. Anything less suggests America isn’t the greatest country in the world.
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Tallest basketball player ever has an 11" vertical jump, which I feel like negates a lot of that height. Yao Ming had a 26" vert for example. https://t.co/lfYOuKhC52
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The Montreal native entered the Gators' blowout victory over North Florida late in the second half Thursday.
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