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Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/ Non-practicing optimist.

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U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER DIRECTING TARIFF REFUNDS -COURT FILING

06.03.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 275 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 177
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This is not good.

06.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 5451 πŸ” 2273 πŸ’¬ 487 πŸ“Œ 340
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OpenAI Practices Law Without A License, Insurer Alleges - Law360 OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.

OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.

06.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

Virginia lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind bill that prohibits schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

06.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 272 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 11
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating β€” even indirectly β€” in the war.

06.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 548 πŸ” 280 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 107
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β€˜Price to pay for Berkeley’: Jeffrey Epstein paid law student’s tuition in exchange for β€˜assistants’ Records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female β€œassistants.”

!”Records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female β€œassistants.”

www.dailycal.org/news/nationa...

06.03.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Price to pay for Berkeley’: Jeffrey Epstein paid law student’s tuition in exchange for β€˜assistants’ Records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female β€œassistants.”

!”Records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female β€œassistants.”

www.dailycal.org/news/nationa...

06.03.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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A proposed law working its way through New York's legislature would bar artificial intelligence chatbots from impersonating lawyers and other licensed professionals in the state, opening up AI platforms to lawsuits by ​users reut.rs/40doISe

06.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

BREAKING:

The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.

They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.

DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

06.03.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 5197 πŸ” 2319 πŸ’¬ 190 πŸ“Œ 206
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Trump to Rubio: "Your next one is gonna be Cuba. He's waiting but he says, 'Let's get this one finished first.' We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen."

05.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 1771 πŸ” 683 πŸ’¬ 439 πŸ“Œ 531

FOLKSβ€”-

05.03.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The House just defeated the Massie-Khanna War Powers Resolution on Iran.

Crosses, reportedly, were-
R's voting yes: Massie, Davidson (R-OH)
D's voting no: Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, Vargas

05.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 511 πŸ” 226 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 177

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

05.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 12212 πŸ” 1570 πŸ’¬ 509 πŸ“Œ 886

Blowing this up now should do additional wonders for US economic growth. 🀑

05.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 441 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4
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There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

05.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 2546 πŸ” 855 πŸ’¬ 745 πŸ“Œ 963

ISRAELI MEDIA: U.S. AND ISRAEL CONSIDER REDUCING ATTACK FREQUENCY AMID DECLINING WEAPON STOCKS TO SUSTAIN LONGER MILITARY OPERATIONS

05.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 225 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 28

You know what it's like teach Con Law in 2026? Here's our current assignment:

Dames & Moore v. Regan (executive authority to negotiate deal over 1979 Iran hostage crisis)
War Powers Resolution
Trump v. United States
Trump v. Hawaii
Trump v. Vance
Trump v. Mazars

sigh.

05.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2) Iran is 4x the size of Iraq with 2x the population. Much of the land is very mountainous. There are practical reasons why the U.S. has never seriously considered a land invasion or occupation of Iran.

05.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 201 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

what are we doing here

05.03.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

September.

05.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI hit with lawsuit claiming ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer ChatGPT maker OpenAI has been accused in a new lawsuit of practicing law without a U.S. license and helping a former disability claimant breach a settlement and flood a federal court docket with merit...

OpenAI hit with lawsuit claiming ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

05.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 12

Azerbaijan just closed airspace "in the south of the country" per Bloomberg macro squawk. Losing that link would have a massive impact on Europe-Asia (incl the Indian subcontinent and ANZ) air travel.

05.03.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 480 πŸ” 162 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 14
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From FT comments

05.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 4139 πŸ” 1429 πŸ’¬ 191 πŸ“Œ 104
Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com
@nancyayoussef
The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.
12:20 PM β€’ 3/4/26 β€’ 44K Views

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM β€’ 3/4/26 β€’ 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

04.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 1638 πŸ” 711 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 332

"It is the purpose [of the War Powers Resolution] to insure that the collective judgment of both Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities." 50 USC 1541

Or not.

04.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lol

*HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO SUBPOENA BONDI IN EPSTEIN FILES PROBE

04.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 1775 πŸ” 220 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 26

Apart from the terminally online, the average person has no ability to understand what is going on with the slightest amount of confidence right now. But perhaps that’s the point

04.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations The Justice Department has proposed a regulation seeking to authorize Attorney General Pam Bondi’s intervention to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers.

JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

04.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 1348 πŸ” 581 πŸ’¬ 153 πŸ“Œ 139
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflictβ€”and 9000
miles from North Americaβ€”makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

04.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 13471 πŸ” 4964 πŸ’¬ 539 πŸ“Œ 295
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Iran war Stay up to date on the latest Iran war news coverage from AP News.

We have added a new AP Stylebook Online entry for the Iran war.
Our guidance explains that it is acceptable to use the term "war" to refer to the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting Feb. 28, 2026, and Iran’s retaliation.

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