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DD v. YouTube Hearing
Two interesting developments in Defense Distributed v. YouTube (1:25-CV-01095-ADA, W.D. Tex.), the state court case Google couldn’t help but bring into the federal system: 1. Judge Albright, a Trump appointee, snatched the case up from the magistrate sua sponte. 2. Judge Albright has set a hearing, one week from today, concerning Defense Distributed and Google’s […]
10.23.25
09.29.25
What Happened to FOSSCAD?
No (primal) father should have to bury his (disabled) child. The young perish while the old linger. Alas, that these evil days should be mine! Yes, the FOSSCAD subreddit was banned on Friday, September 26th for violating “Rule 7.” Among others, I have been scapegoated because I mentioned FOSSCAD in a federal lawsuit filed the […]
07.14.25
Defense Distributed v. Bondi
On Friday Defense Distributed filed our reply to the ATF’s objection to our motion for an injunction against the Biden/Trump “frame or receiver” rule. It’s a Trump rule now not just because his DOJ defends it, but because it gives the rule novel interpretations never attempted in the Biden years. This filing was more enjoyable […]
07.03.25
Independence Day SITREP
Just in time to celebrate that civil war we won in the 1770s to reject Hanoverian imperialism, NPR warns us that ghost guns may not be so dead. They may even be doing that whole revenant thing which, in fairness, ghosts are known to do. Bondiland Military Populism Just a word about the two legal […]
06.09.25
DD-Day
Defense Distributed v. Bondi Last Friday Defense Distributed made its first filings in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s VanDerStok decision. Unlike the case’s other plaintiffs, we’ve maintained fully briefed Second and Fifth Amendment arguments that can now have their day. AG Bondi and the Trump DOJ asked for a sixty (60) day stay to […]