Thursday Open Thread
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Twitter Quits the Biden Administration’s Ham-Handed Crusade Against COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’
Twitter recently announced that it will no longer enforce its ban on “COVID-19 misinformation,” a fuzzily defined category that ranged from demonstrably false assertions of fact to arguably or verifiably …
The Solicitor General Says It Is Not “Ever Too Late” to Get A Statute Right
Today’s oral argument in United States v. Texas featured an interesting exchange between Chief Justice John Roberts and Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar on whether the Adminsitrative Procedure Act allows courts to …
Toxified Tech
We spend much of this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast talking about toxified tech – new technology that is being demonized by the press and others. Exhibit One, of course, …
Uniting for Ukraine Private Refugee Sponsorship Program Breaks Through Bureaucratic Red Tape
The Biden Administration’s new Uniting for Ukraine program has enabled Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s brutal invasion and repression to enter the United States far more quickly and easily than would have …
What’s the Correct Way to Pronounce “Qatar”? Well, What’s the Correct Way to Pronounce “France”?
Because of the World Cup, people who haven’t much focused on Qatar have been talking about, and there’s been a cottage industry of articles about how to pronounce it—and about …
Teaching math through World Cup soccer
Now that the U.S. has played England to a draw in the World Cup, it’s a good opportunity to use FIFA rules to calculate how many games there have to …
Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s easy to take for granted all the good things we have—in our family lives, in our professional lives, in our nation, in the world—and focus on the bad. I …
Court Rules Against The Gateway Pundit in Request for Press Pass
From today’s decision in TGP Communications LLC v. Sellers by Judge John Tuchi (D. Ariz.): TGP is an online news and opinion publication. Founded in 2004, TGP has developed a …
Court Blocks N.Y.’s Requirement of Express Owner Permission to Carry Guns on Private Property
From a decision today by Judge John Sinatra (W.D.N.Y.) in Christian v. Nigrelli: Another one of New York’s new restrictions imposed in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Bruen …