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Were it not for investigative reporting, in this case the Miami Herald, we would not be having this societal reaction and conversation about sex-trafficking predators. No, Jeffrey Epstein and his privileged treatment was not fake news. But allowing a predator to, in effect, continue preying was morally reprehensible.
Another day at the orifice. A federal appeals court ruled that Trump had violated the Constitution by blocking Twitter users who criticized or mocked him. Because he uses Twitter to actually conduct government business, said the court, he could not exclude Americans from reading or engaging with his posts because he didn’t like them. The reinforced bottom line: The new, noxious normal of Trump and political expression increasingly taking place online still doesn’t place anyone above the law.
“Unlike immigrants, natural-born citizens such as Tucker Carlson are neither screened nor forced to pass a citizenship test nor made to swear an oath. And when they stray from the American way, no one thinks to tell them that they’re failing to assimilate.” That was a lot more than a satiric broadside from the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf.