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I spoke to Reuters about our Seventh Circuit appeal on behalf of drivers trapped in gridlock by pro-Hamas protestors who blockaded the entrance to O’Hare Airport for hours. Argument scheduled for April 9.
📰HLLI in the News
@JgreeneJenna of @Reuters covered our lawsuit on behalf of drivers who were trapped in their vehicles for hours after anti-Israel activists blocked access to O’Hare International Airport.
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No, they cannot. See why here.
Can federal judges appoint a U.S. attorney and then override the President's removal authority?
On Unwritten Law, NCLA’s @JacobHuebert joins Mark Chenoweth and @VecchTweets to discuss Trump v. Rogoff and our amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
NCLA argues that the President can remove court-appointed U.S. attorneys and that courts lack constitutional authority to appoint them in the first place.
At stake: the separation of powers and accountability for those exercising executive power.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/YbGaTAzFkUY
🎧 Listen ⤵️ nclalegal.org/media/unwritte…
The gold-fringed flag is the giveaway that, notwithstanding the PowerPoint, this is really about admiralty jurisdiction.
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This along with the fact that only half of Americans can read at a 7th grade level is explains so much of what you see on X dot com:
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"Gosh, why are the mummy displays so dark and opaque? Must be the lights are broken. I should go tell them downstairs," I thought to myself while recently wandering around the Redpath Museum at McGill University.
Then I read the sign.
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In 33 months Houston built an entire Austin airport. 22 gates came online today, with another 26 gates coming online in 15 months.
Meanwhile Austin, which currently has 34 gates, spent 18 months debating their 6 gate Concourse M, broke ground 3 weeks ago, and might be done summer of 2028.
A major milestone.
@HoustonTX Mayor John Whitmire joined Houston Airports and @United to mark a major milestone at IAH.
22 new gates. State-of-the-art facilities. The world’s biggest United Club℠.
The new Terminal B opens tomorrow.
Read more: bit.ly/4z4JRha
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In Zucman's world, if you wave your hands and say something is one-off, people won't adapt their behaviour. "Rational expectations!"
This has curious implications. If it's rational to do the tax once, by symmetry, it's rational to do it again.
A second, "one-off" surprise.
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This Hoover Institution study, which has fueled the deluge of ads (more than $200 million spent by billionaires so far) to defeat the California billionaire tax, is spectacularly misleading.
Let me explain its crucial flaw. 🧵
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Zucman argues that the tax will raise his projected revenue because billionaires who leave CA after 1/1/26 will be taxed anyway.
At least $542B of net worth (Page, Brin, Thiel) departed the state by 12/31/25.
The entire thread is a misleading denial of this fact.
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nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…
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Crazy how they’ve been doing this for six years and nobody knew because it’s the wnba
It's been common practice for many WNBA teams over at least the past six seasons to leave the court right before "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played. trib.al/rNKEj1d
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One of the reasons formal typed prescriptions never say “once daily” is a Latino guy read “once” as “eleven” once, God rest his soul.
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When your policies are born out of hostility toward property owners, this is what happens.
Isabel Adon bought into a co-op in the Bronx to build something for her children. Junior Gonzalez did it after serving in the Marines. They say overnight, the city of New York took it all with little to no notice or compensation, labeling their building "distressed" and transferring the deed to a nonprofit. This happened to hundreds of families, nearly all in minority communities. A $60 million settlement has been proposed, but the fight isn't over. Every family deserves the right to build generational wealth without fear of losing it.
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NEW FROM ME 🚨🚨🚨
Zohran Mamdani's pick to oversee the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Justine Olderman, has openly called for abolishing the police, accused cops of enforcing white supremacy and has demanded reparations
Olderman will make $225,000 in her new job
freebeacon.com/democrats/mam…
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BREAKING: the federal search warrant against Ilhan Omar names her as "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar," indicating that DOJ believes she is present in the United States under a false identity!
Revealed in a scheduling order today from DDC
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Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.
She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range.
The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.
🚨 ALERTE - Des élèves ONT BLOQUÉ le lycée François Villon, à Beaugency (45), en écoutant MRH, un titre faisant référence à des TERRORISTES ISLAMISTES.
« À la Mohamed Merah, v-esqui' les caméras. Bataclan, je l'ai shooter à l'œil, chasse à l'homme, Salah Abdeslam »
« J’ai pas peur, j’ai pas peur de l’enfer, le pacte est intact, à part Allah qui peut m’arrêter. Bataclan, faisaient les morts, allongez-vous, je vais en shooter à l’œil ».
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Every time I see something like this about the British Navy i think about the fact that the US Navy went toe-to-toe with them in the War of 1812 with like six frigates and a bunch of privateers and it got so bad that the British admiralty forbade ships from engaging American frigates unless they had a two to one advantage.
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US frigate victories in 1812 were isolated single-ship actions against detached British vessels while most of the Royal Navy fought France; the Admiralty later directed against single engagements with larger US ships.
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Amortization of loans; interest rates; and tax deductions are other big ones. Knew someone who thought the government paid me back to give to a 529.
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Looks like the US basically won its war with Iran??
No terminal oil price spike to date. 🛢️
Total flows now at prewar levels (minus Iran). It just skirts Hormuz now.
And Iran's economy is in a tailspin.
> Do nothing
> Win
Iran fired its Hormuz gun and it was a water squirt.
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UC Berkeley Law is under federal civil rights investigation related to these policies. Don't the law students know better than this? justice.gov/opa/pr/joint-inv…
BREAKING: The flagship law review at UC Berkeley is poised to delete all internal application records after we reported on the journal's use of personal statements to promote "diversity," sparking concerns that the journal is attempting to destroy evidence of unlawful discrimination.
The law review will vote tomorrow on a document retention policy that would require the journal to delete all "Write-On application materials following the conclusion of each year's Write-On process," as well as any materials related to the election of the journal's Holistic Review Committee. It would also bar the law review from retaining "any recordings of election forums."
As a reminder, law review editors have pledged in writing to "uplift Native voices," weigh "diverse life experience" against "technical editing abilities," and "integrate anti-racist sentiment" into the selection process.
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I like how even the 1 in 4 stat from the 2010s wasn’t enough for them. Now it’s 1 in 3.
It’s complete nonsense ofc. American university does not have a higher assault rate than African civil wars and if you can’t immediately see this doesn’t pass the smell test you’re ngmi.
Parents are paying $400K to send their daughters to a place where they have a greater than 1 in 3 chance of getting raped? nytimes.com/2026/10/20/opini…
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amazing how they don’t even pretend elon committed a crime, because they know it doesn’t matter if he did. they’ll find something. the point is just they really hate him, and when democrats really hate someone he belongs in prison.
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him."
Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file:
"If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him."
"So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list."
"He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard."
They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.
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One of the more ignorant things I see on X all the time, including from @bradlander, is that Israel's presence in the WB is "illegal." No, it's not. Israel was attacked from Jordan in 1967. In that war, Israel captured the West Bank. It's not illegal to occupy territory captured in a war started by the other side until a peace agreement is reached. There has been no peace agreement. Things don't become illegal because you don't like them.
And given that Israel offered several times to give almost all of the WB, plus land swaps from Israel to make up for the remaining territory, the reason the territory remains under Israeli control is the Palestinian side's refusal to accept those offers.
