This has always been one of the laughable jokes of Democrats who repeatedly vote to renew warrantless spying on Americans.

Dems like Pelosi and Schiff insisted Trump is a Nazi-like dictator, yet voted in 2018, and again today, to hand the Executive Branch vast spying powers:

House Republicans just voted to violate our 4th Amendment rights. They went out of their way to do it.

This is how the Constitution dies.

By a tie vote, the amendment to require a warrant to spy on Americans goes down in flames.

This is a sad day for America.

The Speaker doesn’t always vote in the House, but he was the tie breaker today. He voted against warrants.

Big Brother just put on his steel-toed stomping boots

I’m sad—and frankly baffled—to report that the House voted today to reward the government’s widespread abuses of Section 702 by massively expanding the government’s powers to conduct warrantless surveillance. 1/14

Matt Taibbi Walter Kirn , this is absolutely the best episode yet. I laughed out loud a dozen times. You owe it, as a public service, to release this from the shackles of the paywall. racket.news/p/america-this…

Terrible beyond belief

Guys, ☘️Irish-American Brendan.☘️ did a sprawling two-hour interview with Walter Kirn. You have to subscribe to listen, but trust me, you won't regret it. Tales from the Mall is terrific—Brendan goes beyond the usual talking points and gets people to share the stuff others don't.

America This Week, April 12, 2024: 'NPR's Greatest Hits.'
@WalterKirn and Matt Taibbi dive into NPR editor Uri Berliner's comments, then review some of the most curious NPR stories of late. Also: 'Jackals and Arabs' by Franz Kafka

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AI art is not advancing

Taste is regressing

In time the trends will meet

First they tell you that they can't tell you why they do a thing

Then they mock you for trying to guess

Over and over

First, far from ignoring it, I was the first person to report on Trump censorship requests. Second, I barely touched the Covid issue until the end. I focused on the intel agencies and then the larger issue of just getting as much as we could. You got basically everything wrong.

Journalists for secrecy and surveillance

Just received in the mail from China an orange phone case that I didn't order addressed to 'William White.' Huh.

There are few things quite as baffling (or grating) as other people's ring-tone choices

None of this goopy AI processed cheese at County Highway, 'America's Only Newspaper'

Your body will feel it when you hold the paper in your hand. Your mind will feel it as the words go in

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A legal caste system

TALES FROM THE MALL #158

Out now, the Editor-at-Large of County Highway, poet, novelist, journalist, critic Walter Kirn (Walter Kirn) joins the show for an intimate conversation about youth, friendship, America & more.

Subscribe on Patreon to listen. Episode link in my bio.

I’m dying 😭

The porn spam in my replies is from some evil disruption program whose origins I lack the skills to trace

Not sure how I qualified for this treatment