DeSantis: The vendor doing this for Florida provided them with a packet with a map of Martha's Vineyard and the numbers for different services on Martha's Vineyard. It had numbers for the overall agencies in Massachusetts that handle things involving immigration and refugees

NEW: Special Master Raymond Dearie began his review with sharp skepticism for Donald Trump's team, particularly on thir refusal to provide proof Trump declassified anything.

"You can't have your cake and eat it too," he says.

w/ @joshgerstein (from

HAPPENING NOW: I have dialed in to Judge Dearie's courtroom, and apparently the system has left every single caller unmuted -- so it sounds roughly like midtown at rush hour, but with the added benefit of dozens of people screaming at each other to shut up.

This is truly the soundtrack of my nightmares, people who sound demonically possessed yelling "MUUUUTE" at inhuman decibel levels and getting increasingly furious that no one is listening.

Moral: Never dial in 20 minutes early.

Someone is now piping elevator music into the call after another caller sang America the Beautiful. Another man hypnotically reciting "Trump is a criminal." Since I dialed in, a woman has been shrieking "Mute your phones!" consistently every 10-15 seconds.

UPDATE: The situation has improved from Satanic screaming orgy to earsplitting metallic scraping. Looks like we're almost ready to begin the hearing.

.@joshgerstein, who is in the courtroom, says there is a concerted effort by the technologists in EDNY to mute the rabble.

BREAKING: BIG setback for Alex Jones in his bankruptcy case--federal bk Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston has tossed out both Jones's lawyer AND his chief restructuring officer. Judge cites transparency issues, incl personal expenses by Jones...

One example: Jones spent $80k on "security" for his trip to CT for his Sandy Hook damages trial, where he is right now. "I don't like where we are today," Judge Lopez says. But it's the right decision under the law.

"I hope I never have to make another decision like this as long as I'm on the bench," Judge Lopez says.

Judge now expanding the power of DoJ's Subchapter V trustee to run Jones's business, citing a "lack of candor in this case." Wow.

Judge says someone completely independent is needed to run Infowars, citing concerns with disclosure, lack of candor and the $54 million debt to an LLC partly owned by his family, and the need to investigate insider rel'ships

Alex Jones is now complaining that the judge won’t let him argue his innocence in the damages phase. A default judgment was entered last year because he refused to participate in discovery. Rules don’t work well for Alex. ❄️ ❄️ ❄️