Darren Kaplan
@darrenkaplan.bsky.social
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Attorney--class actions and mass torts, maker of dumb jokes, and, occasionally, astute observations.
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My firm, Kaplan Gore LLP, is proud to stand with more than 500 other law firms in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to Donald Trump’s executive order targeting that firm. No matter how powerful our opponent, we will never back down from a fight.
www.law.com/americanlawy...
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More than 500 Law Firms Sign Amicus Brief in Support of Perkins Coie
The majority of the signatories are small, midsized and boutique firms.
https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/04/04/-more-than-500-law-firms-sign-amicus-brief-in-support-of-perkins-coie/?slreturn=20250404143028
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My favorite genre of alternative history fiction takes place in 1930s Germany but the Nazis are constantly complaining about their feelings being hurt when people refer to them as "Nazis," and "Fascists."
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The @WSJ's motion to dismiss Trump's defamation case arising from its reportage of the birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly signed by Trump is a grand slam home run. I predict a dismissal without leave to replead.
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https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:a33ad161-6e8a-4f2c-bd9d-c94e85cdfe3a
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Everyone should be emailing their U.S. Senators and telling them that the time has come to SHUT THIS CORRUPT CLOWN SHOW DOWN! Here's mine:
www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess...
www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/emai...
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Message Chuck | U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck
3 days ago
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SHUT THIS CORRUPT CLOWN SHOW DOWN!
3 days ago
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This is insane! Ed Martin of the DOJ's "weaponization task force," threatened a criminal investigation into a former FBI agent who sued Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about the Sandy Hook shootings. Democrats should make firing Martin a non-negotiable condition for avoiding a shutdown.
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The Onion
10 days ago
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/
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11 days ago
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The new right wing messaging is "Stop calling us fascists or we will force you off the air."
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David_j_roth
11 days ago
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
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This is the official social media account of the Department of Homeland Security.
12 days ago
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The head of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice is publicly and unapologetically taking marching orders from Laura Loomer. In this case, "defund[ing] American universities."
14 days ago
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Find someone that will love you the way the Trump Administration loves corporate polluters.
16 days ago
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What an unbelievable shit storm this administration has blundered into with a crucial ally and trade partner. Presumably because it wanted a photo op of a deportation of people from somewhere other than Central America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
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Freed From U.S. Detention, South Korean Workers Return Home to Tearful Cheers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/world/asia/korean-workers-georgia-arrest.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
16 days ago
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Fine, I have now removed all obscenities and references to opposing counsel's mother in my response to defendant's counter-offer. I hope we're all happy now.
17 days ago
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Saw this as well this morning. Antisemitism on the right is ignored or excused. Antisemitism on the left is magnified and endlessly scrutinized.
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18 days ago
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Brandon Friedman
18 days ago
It is possible to condemn political violence without venerating objectively bad people who made America worse. Let's try for that.
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@CNN just had to break into its coverage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk to cover breaking news of a school shooting.
#America
18 days ago
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HE HAD A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL WORKING AS A "MASEUSSE" IN THE MAR-A-LAGO SPA! HE TOLD REPORTERS HE ENDED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH EPSTEIN AFTER HE "STOLE HER" FROM HIM! THAT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IS TRUMP'S COVER STORY! HOW BAD DO YOU THINK THE TRUTH ACTUALLY IS?
19 days ago
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You know, if you're a Trump supporter, you can just say, "I was wrong" and you'll be able to face your children again.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed
Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1
20 days ago
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39 seconds and not a single discernable person of color in view. Not a single frame from a suburb or city. I don't know what state @EliseStefanik is planning to run for governor of, but it isn't New York.
20 days ago
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Justice Sotomayor writes for the history books in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo: "Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf
20 days ago
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Decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit:
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21 days ago
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I don't agree with Ezra Klein on everything (don't even get me started on "Abundance"), but he's dead right here (gift article). SHUT IT DOWN!
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22 days ago
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Tammy Duckworth
22 days ago
No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone
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My wife asked me to refinish the outdoor furniture this year and the stain she picked out was the same color as RFK Jr.'s face.
23 days ago
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Because, of course. Via ProPublica, Lyin' Lee Zeldin also currently has two primary-residence mortgages, one on Long Island and another in Washington, D.C.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud
23 days ago
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So far all I'm getting from the AI boom is more annoying popups in apps exhorting me to try the app's new AI features. The future is here and it's mostly just blocking the screen.
25 days ago
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2-1 decision in the 5th Circuit--Judges Southwick (G.W. Bush Appointee) and Ramirez (Biden Appointee) enjoin the use of "the war-related federal statute . . . for removing foreign terrorists." Judge Oldham (Trump Appointee) dissents.
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26 days ago
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A few quick questions. Did we just target a civilian vessel? In international waters? Are we the Houthis?
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26 days ago
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Just a small reminder that Trump's 50-day Deadline for Vladimir Putin to end the war he started in Ukraine has expired. Here's how Putin is marking that solemn occasion.
26 days ago
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Death by a thousand cold cuts
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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Prosecutors Fail to Obtain Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
about 1 month ago
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Is not a single member of the Press going to ask Trump about this?
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about 1 month ago
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Imagine how hard you'd have to work to willfully misinterpret something like this. It makes the Right's freakout over the change in the Cracker Barrel logo look like an Oxford Union debate.
about 1 month ago
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Melania Trump is leading a White House effort to inspire children and teachers "to embrace AI" which . . . Sorry, I can't add anything to this that's not already there.
about 1 month ago
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The woman who wants to be governor of New York is encouraging Trump to invade and occupy New York.
about 1 month ago
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Our new U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia already covering herself in glory with a third no true bill from the grand jury in a groundless assault on an FBI agent charge arising from the video recording of a transfer into ICE custody.
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about 1 month ago
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Little known fact, when you sign one unconstitutional executive order, you get the second one at half price.
thehill.com/homenews/546...
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Trump to sign orders targeting cashless bail, flag burning
President Trump is expected to sign two executive orders on Monday ramping up federal intervention on crime, with one aimed at ending cashless bail policies and another seeking to crack down on tho…
https://thehill.com/homenews/5468513-donald-trump-cashless-bail/amp/
about 1 month ago
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This is what actual lawfare looks like, in case you're searching for an example.
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about 1 month ago
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Imagine being incandescent with rage over a family and casual restaurant chain modernizing its logo instead of at the federal government extracting a 10% ownership stake in a U.S. company with $53 billion in annual revenue. The modern conservative movement is completely broken.
about 1 month ago
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You don't say? "The deal could face a challenge from shareholders or others concerned about its legality."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/t...
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Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html
about 1 month ago
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Maybe you should see a doctor about that. Rep. Elise Stefanik supporters are demanding that she "release their gas.*
about 1 month ago
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Hi. This is batshit insane!
about 1 month ago
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Trump is a flaming ping pong ball that Putin and our European allies are batting back and forth. That's all this is.
about 1 month ago
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Cas Piancey
about 1 month ago
The argument “but right now everything is fine” has always been an effective way to foresee if something is a scam or fraud.
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Sketchy @EliseStefanik makes an incredibly rare public appearance in her own district and is met with a chorus of boos and jeers from her constituents.
www.mynbc5.com/article/elis...
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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik met with boos, jeers during visit to Plattsburgh
Stefanik, who was in Plattsburgh to honor former Clinton County Clerk John Zurlo, said she was disappointed that protesters politicized what was supposed to be an event to honor Zurlo and to provide h...
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/elise-stefanik-plattsburgh-protesters/65808523
about 1 month ago
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So do they give out Nobel Peace Prize participation trophies?
about 1 month ago
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Vomit.
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about 1 month ago
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All grifts, great and small.
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Kristi Noem is living rent free in home used by Coast Guard commandant
A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/15/kristi-noem-is-living-free-charge-coast-guard-commandants-home/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU1MjMwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU2NjEyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTUyMzA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImRmODRlMWEwLWYyMDgtNDkxYy1hODE3LWFiN2E0NjRiZGMyOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzA4LzE1L2tyaXN0aS1ub2VtLWlzLWxpdmluZy1mcmVlLWNoYXJnZS1jb2FzdC1ndWFyZC1jb21tYW5kYW50cy1ob21lLyJ9.EvaFLc9kAnZHl-K8QNr7Kf_-6dBy5ska3-7UgZC2PEM&fbclid=IwY2xjawMMUo5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsHIjETxsCUhYaGdn1_A4P3jFaHt5BOzNPpoVWFcSSOS90eIs2o6xgCPHqey_aem_oF7zKeh1NHN7tXzarYjlgQ
about 1 month ago
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Rolling Stone
about 2 months ago
NEW: Sources tell Rolling Stone that Trump has repeatedly critiqued the string of media appearances by Epstein accusers and their families, arguing that some of them are just trying to make him look bad. Story:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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