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Nobody but google really does - but they do state -

<quote>For example, one of several factors we use to help determine this is understanding if other prominent websites link or refer to the content. This has often proven to be a good sign that the information is well trusted. </quote>

So to jump down another rabbit hole, I would say that Twitter is a) a prominent website and b) while not linking directly, it's definitely "referring to the content."

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I personally haven’t had problems with Google funneling right wing propaganda at me, and I do a whole lot of searching for things that should result in that, if their algorithm was vulnerable in a significant way. I think it’s mostly the social media algorithms that are the problem. I know some browsers do favor right wing stuff though. I frequently have to explain to my hubby that Yahoo News is not a great source.

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i'd say early 60's based upon everybody doing the twist, but i don't recall having black plastic garbage bags back then.

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You can draw most of the relevant meaning of the sealed order from the docket text. The docket basically says the a stay no longer applies, they're not granting any further stay, so there is no stay, and the parties (here, Corcoran) are ordered to comply with a prior ruling that instructs Corcoran to produce documents.

There may be, and likely is, a lot more to it than that, but the result as right-this-second this isn't affected by that.

And of course it could have been leaked, also, too.

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PENGUIN LIBEL!!!!!!!!!!!

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I hope they've actually just been planning on arresting him on April Fools day the whole time....

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Kinda sad to see that much misogynistic language provided as a high-visibility insult. I've said this elsewhere--American English hates women. And we do often hate ourselves.

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Life is going to suck for the PAB from now until the day he dies. He’s never going to know a moment of peace ever again. His legal problems are never going to end.

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Trump is going to burn the Republican Party to the ground and it is a glorious thing to see.

Behind door number one, Trump buries DeSantis and all the 7 dwarves who might dare to challenge him, and then the guy who lost the popular vote twice is gonna see if he can do better running under indictment in multiple jurisdictions.

Behind door number two, At the Republican Convention, the Party Leaders who still have functioning testicles lock Trump in a closet with rabid wolverines so they can hand the nomination to someone, anyone who didn't lose the popular vote two times in a row and is not currently under indictment in multiple jurisdictions, and Trump's rabid moron brigade burns the city that was stupid enough to host this gathering of mob violence to the ground. They then all write in Trump in an act of defiance, vowing to never, never again vote for any Republican.

Or door number three, somewhere between New Hampshire and Ohio, Trump realizes that evil deep state minions have infiltrated the Republican primaries and despite everyone knowing that he got 96% of the vote, probably more, they have managed to steal the nomination of the Party that is all about him to begin with, and how unfair is that? So he runs on a third party "Muskrat Party" (named after his hair), and goes to to the biggest defeat since Martin Luther King ran for Governor of Alabama in 1964 in another timeline even dumber than this one.

I am happy no matter what, the Republicans built this monster, and now they have to let it kill them all.

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Today was the best day of the rest of his miserable life, and today sucked balls.

It's all downhill from here.

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Been re-watching Game of Thrones with Mrs. Cripes. The court's response reminds me of Tyrion Lannister, freshly appointed acting Hand, out-positioning his evil sister. He's replacing the lead City Watch (Secret Service in Dargon-Land) with his own guy, Braun. When the first guy complains and says don't threaten me, Tyrion sez, "That's not a threat, it's an order. (over his shoulder): Braun, if he speaks again, kill him. There. Now THAT'S a threat.See the difference?"

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Music to the ears of J6 insurrectionists who cut off their ankle monitors to protest in Manhattan.

Wait. No. It's not music to their ears. More like the opposite.

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The ways of Elon are mysterious to common men. It's said if you look at his logic too closely, you'll go mad.

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Where's the ratings in that. They got to come down and breech the Patriot Moat© with every angle being recorded.

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Meanwhile in Fulton County, Georgia, Donald's worries are far from over with regard to that "perfect phone call" he made. Naturally he's raging against D.A. Fani Willis. According to Trump, Atlanta is "one of the most dangerous and corrupt cities in the U.S." and why doesn't Willis do something about that instead of persecuting a former president who has done nothing wrong?A splendid fellow he is to be talking about "corrupt."As for dangerous, for violent crime Atlanta is only number 38. If by "one of the most" Trump means Atlanta is in the top fifty, well, yeah - but half a dozen Florida cities come immediately ahead of it, with seven Arizona cities right up near the top, and Mobile, Alabama and Anchorage, Alaska, in first and second place. Not that Trump is playing to an audience in the habit of checking out facts. Just opening his loose ugly mouth and braying out whatever it suits him to assert in the moment, as he always does. Lying barefaced, as he also always does.

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*Adds finishing touch of a gardenia on Spring edition of tinfoil hat*That's just the sort of thing ol' Poopert Murdoch would want you to say!

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