# This Shrek Film Was Not In Theaters

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Podcast: [Serious Trouble](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851)
Published: 2026-06-05T18:35:52+00:00
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week’s Serious Trouble comes to you live from a perch overlooking the soon-to-be-built Trump National Championship Golf Links at East Potomac Park by Donald J. Trump. Or, maybe — as I looked over the federally administered national parkland along the Potomac River, I was looking at a suite of projects where the president’s “just do things” approach has faced intermittent trouble in court. For example: Trump’s name has been ordered down off the Kennedy Center , which is once again just the Kennedy Center. We discuss challenges to his “anti-weaponization fund," and the status of various lawsuits aimed at stopping the fund and the ripeness and standing challenges they face. And we look at the “you fucking dingus” doctrine — the extent to which Trump’s most cartoonish actions cause judges to hunt for ways to respond to them. That’s for free subscribers. Paying subscribers also get: * Alexis Wilkins vs. MS NOW , and the George Costanza theory of actual malice. * The junior lawyer leading the James Comey seashell prosecution steps down (as lawyers flee the government more broadly ) while a judge in another case rules that “8647” is not a true threat. * Trump really doesn’t want to pay tariff refunds, and Ilya Somin argues the tariff cases show how CASA has created a mess . * A CIA official gets indicted for lying on his resume , but really for stealing tens of millions of dollars worth of gold that he was somehow able to order to his office . * George Santos appears to be under investigation for insider trading in a prediction market about George Santos . * A gadfly blogger in Ohio is arrested for texting an image to a state senator that apparently depicts Shrek masturbating . Is that…

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