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Join the 100 Ideas in 10 Days Spar Challenge here

I used to keep a practice of journaling 10 ideas a day. Read James Altucher’s article on journaling ideas here.

These ideas ranged from ways to solve big social problems to professional and personal ideas.

For our next spar challenge, which goes live in 36 hours, we’ll be writing down 10 ideas a day, each day, for 10 days.

If you don’t know what SPAR is, read this article and listen to this podcast:

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Spar is a new app that combines social media with productive habits. It works like this:

• A person forms a group based on a shared goal.
• Each person who joins the group MUST check-in daily.
• If you check in daily, it’s free.
• Every day you don’t check it, you pay a penalty of $3.

We will be launching our own challenges.

Our first one goes live this Monday. You can join it here.

This is an introductory challenge and not particularly hard.

Do something physical every day for 60 minutes, and read a book uninterrupted for 30.

Something physical could be a walk, could be stretching, frankly it could be a massage. Anything that elevates your heart rate above resting is “physically active.” Yard work even counts. No one is saying you have to train for the Olympics to join.

Read whatever book you want. I’m not the book police. But you must read uninterrupted for 30 minutes. Phones on airplane mode or in the other room, please. I suppose you could count reading while doing cardio if you want to be clever, but it must be a reading book not an audio book, unless you’re visually impaired.

FAQs.

The only legitimate question is, “What if I get sick and can’t work out,” and of course just check in saying you have a cold and don’t want to spread your germs all over. (Thank you for that, by the way. Don’t go to the gym sick.)

Otherwise no questions, as I’ve found that people who ask a bunch of questions are delaying taking action or are looking for a way out. “What if [insert situation special to me and me only arises]?”

Don’t be a vibe killer.

If you want to procrastinate or whatever, that’s fine, too. Just stay away from me.

If you want to have some fun and push yourself, then sign up here.

Today the Second Circuit Court of Appeals directed the parties in a case involving Jeffrey Epstein to provide the Court with any final redaction requests they have:

ORDER, dated 07/17/2019, ordering the parties Virginia L. Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell to file one-page letter briefs no later than 07/19/2019 indicating any additional locations in the record that might implicate the privacy interests of the individuals named on page 59, line 25 Exhibit KK of the motion for summary judgment, by JAC, RSP, CFD, FILED.[2610854] [18-2868] [Entered: 07/17/2019 02:23 PM]

These files are being unsealed as a result of a lawsuit first filed by Cerno Media and later joined by the Miami Herald. Cerno Media sought to unseal over 2,000 records implicating Jeffrey Epstein and his fellow sex traffickers. The lower court ruled against Cerno Media. Cerno Media filed an appeal.

While Cerno Media’s appeal was pending, the Miami Herald filed its own motion to unseal the records, lost before the same judge as we did, and they appealed.

The Second Circuit Court of Appealed reversed the lower court ruling, ordering the files the be released:

Michael Cernovich, and the Miami Herald Company (with reporter Julie Brown) appeal from certain orders of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Robert W. Sweet, Judge) denying their respective motions to unseal filings in a defamation suit. We conclude that the District Court failed to conduct the requisite particularized review when ordering the sealing of the materials at issue. At the same time, we recognize the potential damage to privacy and reputation that may accompany public disclosure of hard‐fought, sensitive litigation. We therefore clarify the legal tools that district courts should use in safeguarding the integrity of their dockets. Accordingly, we VACATE the District Court’s orders entered on November 2, 2016, May 3, 2017, and August 27, 2018, ORDER the unsealing of the summary judgment record as described further herein, and REMAND the cause to the District Court for particularized review of the remaining sealed materials.

Due the to scrutiny Cerno Media’s lawsuit and the Miami Herald’s extensive coverage brought, Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking.

As the Second Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, Cerno Media led the charge on the lawsuit to unseal the records in the Epstein case:

On January 19, 2017, Cernovich, an independent blogger and self‐described “popular political journalist,” moved to intervene, seeking to unseal the summary judgment record, and Dershowitz joined his motion. On April 6, 2018, after the case had settled, the Herald moved to intervene and unseal the entire docket. The District Court granted each of these motions to intervene, but denied the related requests to unseal in orders entered November 2, 2016, May 3, 2017, and August 27, 2018, respectively. The Appellants timely appealed from each of the orders denying their respective motions to unseal. Although each Appellant seeks the release of a different set of documents, all argue that the District Court failed to analyze the documents individually or properly apply the presumption of public access to court documents. We therefore ordered that the appeals be heard in tandem and held argument on March 6, 2019. On March 11, 2019, we issued an order to show cause why we “should not unseal the summary judgment motion, including any materials filed in connection with this motion, and the District Court’s summary judgment decision.”8 The parties timely filed their responses.

You can support that lawsuit here.

I joined comedian Kurt Metzger to talk culture, trends, and growing up. This one is more comedy focused and the lyrics are explicit. The podcast was a lot of fun, and you can find it here.

Every week, Kurt Metzger tries to find redemption in the awful things he’s said the week before. Can Kurt ever get right? Chances are he won’t, but you won’t want to miss a single episode.

Can’t Get Right

You can also listen on iTunes here.

• Episode #002 – Grow Up with Mike Cernovich

Today at his bail hearing Jeff Epstein asked to that he be held on house arrest in his $77 million Manhattan mansion. The judge he appeared before was skeptical, and it appears that Epstein will be held without bail.

In light of Epstein's bail motion, Judge Berman's order three years ago rejecting privately funded "armed guard regime" is worth rereading in full. The request was filleted on several grounds, systemic injustice being only being one of them.

Doc: https://t.co/T92Pse1RIy pic.twitter.com/csPbB6AaBz

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 11, 2019

The 14 point Jeffrey Epstein bail proposal is available here:

These are the rest of the 14 restrictions that they propose.

"For reasons explained elsewhere, round-the-clock, privately funded security guards will virtually guarantee – not just reasonably assure – Mr. Epstein’s presence in the circumstances of this case," the memo says. pic.twitter.com/vq8uA3O7ec

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 11, 2019

Twitter is down for most of its users. The cause of the outage is unknown. Twitter went down just as Trump held a social media summit, leading to unfounded speculation even though many social media companies have been down over the past several weeks:

Early Wednesday, people around the globe began reporting app issues, according to DownDetector, a web service that offers a real-time overview of bugs and outages online. About 8:45 a.m. EST, thousands of Instagram users began reporting that they were having problems.

The hashtags #InstagramDown, #FacebookDown and #WhatsApp have since started trending on Twitter, a result of widespread social conversation surrounding the service interruption.

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