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Dir. of Litigation, @hamlinclaw, free speech; plus fights for consumers against class action abuse. “Ted Frank is good at Twitter.” — Reuters. On my second 🫀.
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Joined October 2008
A couple of good wins this month for @HamLincLaw @annastjohn @FrankBednarz in the Seventh and Second Circuits—and a personal accomplishment of mildly historic nature. Links in next tweet.
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“Once you get some government program in... it becomes a special privilege of a small group which has an enormously strong interest to maintain it. And you do not have any comparable group that has an interest to get rid of it.” — Milton Friedman
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I love how Europe spent 25 years sanctimoniously lecturing Israel about the immorality of its security barrier but the moment Europeans started living among jihadists they did the same thing.
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The Blaze has retracted their J6 bomber / ex-Capitol Police officer story: @washingtonpost (with my @GettyImages photo)
washingtonpost.com
A news article on the conservative website last month fanned ongoing theories on the right of an inside job. The FBI’s arrest Thursday points elsewhere.
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Insane excerpts from the Navy’s investigations:
Investigations Show Failures Behind Carrier Harry S. Truman Collision, Loss of 3 Super Hornets — USNI News https://t.co/b1oTPNnJZq
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after chatgpt was released, british MPs started using phrases in their parliamentary speeches that american congressmen use in their floor speechs
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One of the few things that made NYC livable is that unlike in SF, LA, DC pre-Guard etc the cops actually didn’t allow people to camp out on the street. Now we’ll join those happy places with the insane and drug addicted ruling the public sidewalks.
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JUST IN: Judge unseals Epstein grand jury records in south Florida. Judge Rodney Smith (Trump) says law Congress passed & Trump signed overrides background grand jury secrecy. Doc:
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Nice! COVID-19 vaccination remains robustly related to a reduced risk of mortality. Healthy vaccinees remain healthy four years on!
Sorry antivaxxers. COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults 18-59 shows you're better off being vaccinated.
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Readers, be careful out there. I rented a car in DC, and parked it downtown with a copy of AMERICAN CANTO visible in the passenger seat. When I got back from a leisurely lunch, I discovered someone had broken in to the rental car and left two more copies of Olivia Nuzzi’s book.
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Flight attendant comes over intercom: “your flight is oversold, I need two volunteers to take a flight this afternoon for a $300 voucher.” I spring into action. I was born for these moments. This is why I studied game theory. Literal tingles. I pull out my megaphone and address
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Highly misleading by leaving off Biden's 4,165 sentence commutations. Criticize Trump all you like, but stop trying to whitewash Biden.
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The Plur1bus economy, like that of Westeros before it, is not sustainable.
@tedfrank In a natural environment, calorie availability under these constraints would be low and variable, depending on location, season, and group size. Estimates from studies on early human foraging suggest around 500-1,000 kcal per person daily from fallen fruit and rare carrion, with
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Yes, it’s true that Mentava’s haters are all the people who are vehemently against the method of learning to read that is shown in study after study and in actual practice to be obviously superior. They also, however, control the most of public education in the United States.
@Austen When people lose the plot, it usually means the narrative has already moved past them. Haters are just free marketing at that point. If anything, it confirms Mentava is hitting the right pressure points.
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One of those ADA "testers" went to a toy store they had no intention of buying a toy at, and then lied in a court action and said they did. California Court of Appeal says store can sue them for malicious prosecution. #appellatetwitter (link in next tweet)
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.@tedfrank had an explanation: Palantir got better.
I am trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for why Chris Wray’s FBI sat on this info on the ***pipe bomber*** while spending millions of dollars and moving heaven and earth to destroy the lives of grandmothers who entered a public building on a workday.
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Some publications even wrote about it!
freebeacon.com
In December 2021, Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison met with a group of individuals tied to the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case, including at least two eventual defendants. They openly...
The fact that Keith Ellison is on tape agreeing to collude with the perpetrators of the scheme in exchange for campaign donations was reported in April. A consortium of hundreds of Minnesota state employees who witnessed the governor's active suppression of those seeking
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Adding @tedfrank insight and Kash’s post … (if you don’t know what Palantir is it’s basically analyzes & interprets of a bunch of different crap)
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@neontaster @redsteeze Apparently the IEDs used a particular brand of pipe where the manufacturer sold 90% of them at Home Depot. Home Depot might have been happy to voluntarily turn over all 2018-21 DMV-area purchases of that pipe to the FBI—or may have just sold that info to a data broker. There was
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In 2025 dollars, Ford lost $3 billion on the Edsel, which used to be the epitome of a failed product pivot. It was a scandal when Howard Hughes lost less than $1 billion on the Spruce Goose. Meta lost many X that on the metaverse. I need to read the eventual HBS case study,
Mark Zuckerberg is all but conceding that the metaverse is a big bust. WSJ: “Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse— Mark Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion”
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i spent years working with car on demand companies to improve their user experience, and one of the largest source of user frustration we consistently saw in the feedback was the cleanliness of the vehicles What we observed was incredibly consistent: once a car is even slightly
If a @waymo gets dirty, it detects it with cameras and sensors and drives back to get itself cleaned And probably, the previous customer who made them dirty isn't going to get another ride again
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