An outstanding third game. And Emma Hayes seems to have the team on schedule. So great. USA 3-0 Japan (Apr 17, 2026) Final Score - ESPN

These numbers are scary. 60% of student visas applicants from India are rejected? Denial rates were 64 percent in Africa and 41 percent in Asia. However, less than 10 percent of European applicants didn’t get a visa. Dumb, racist, and bad for America. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Hard to imagine this going through (though perhaps not as hard as in other times), but the various market definition issues would be incredibly fun. One interesting Chicago-centric illustration is how to treat Southwest. www.reuters.com/business/uni...

Tell me you practiced law *before becoming an academic,* without telling me you practiced law.

The US was sort of founded on the idea that “divine right” was bullshit, yes? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Almost a surprise there is no order that we all watch.

Now the FCC will take away broadcast licenses if stations show any college football game at the same time as the Army Navy game?? (sec. 2b) Not on my bingo card, even in this crazed time for media law. Naturally, the FCC has no authority to do so. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Stuck in an hours-long security line at the airport? It’s because Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ bill to fund DHS agencies that don’t conduct immigration enforcement, like TSA. That’s how dead set they are on allowing ICE to keep terrorizing communities with impunity. Remember this.

Here's what I said about this meritless letter to the American Lawyer. First, the letter does not specify the alleged agreement. Second, the agreement, if any, cannot be per se, like the no poach agreements. Third, there is no possibility that the Mansfield ... www.law.com/americanlawy...

The FTC Chair comes for Diversity Lab and law firms participating in Mansfield Certification. The Chair's letter suggests collusion, but wouldn't survive a motion to dismiss in any court. news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

The only thing we learned from the last round of expansion is that there are alread too many teams in the playoff www.espn.com/college-foot...

Courier has not been the same since the LaserJet III model was retired--or really since the Selectric II. I will die on this hill.

One thing to think about in the battle for Warner Bros is that Paramount and Netflix are both arguing about who is closer to Trump. And by acquiring HBO, that company will be John Oliver’s boss. @lastweektonight.com

RIP Southwest. We hardly knew ye. www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc...

Yet the Six Justices do not consider the Civil War Amendments part of the history and traditions setting the founding values of the Constitution.

Decreasing price / power in electronics has been one of the most important economic drivers of the past 5 decades. That is coming to an end too. Making America Poorer Again. Lenovo and Dell Warn: Your Next Laptop Could Cost More Really Soon www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

“So quit. I can get another girl to take your job in 5 minutes - one who really wants it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Saving turkey lives -- the pick up line for ribs and brisket thanksgiving (and smoked turkey legs if you must). www.soulandsmoke.com

For an additional, very important example of a specialized handwriting that general LLMs may be less effective on, my colleague @ek27.bsky.social used AI to build a model to decode 400+ year old English court documents. news.law.northwestern.edu/news/decodin...

"We're pro-affordability, but we're going to raise tariffs on you. We're pro-affordability, but we're going to undermine the Fed, which is going to potentially cause inflation. We're pro-affordability, but... we're going to rip the American health insurance system up."

Incoherent at many levels - Fox News has more viewership than any other network news organization. And the merger has nothing to do with the reach of broadcast news, just with ownership of local stations. Alas, facts. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Tigers aren't Wildcats.

Don’t you cave, @durbin.senate.gov , don’t you do it. Don’t you see Illinoisans, Chicagoans, fighting against Trumpism and fighting to help people. We want a government that works for everyone. And you works for us. Ffs.

Justice Jackson once again wipes the floor.

Once again, even these threats violate the first amendment -- and are absolutely toothless. www.yalejreg.com/nc/the-fcc-l...

Peak Chicago fall biking weather (sunny and 47). Amazing.

Which, of course, really means surveiling *everyone.* (Plus, they can't be trusted to maintain such a line, can they? No.)

Good ones in Chicago need support. Here's where I mostly contribute, and have today. www.chicagosfoodbank.org

The administration does not want to cure cancer. "An analysis of patient records suggests that mRNA covid-19 vaccines boost the immune response to cancerous tumours when given soon after people start a type of immunotherapy, extending their lives." www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

And we are lucky and grateful that he is standing up!

This story is quite unfair in returning repeatedly to the 2028 election--implying that @govpritzker.illinois.gov is standing up to the President's threats and military occupation to create publicity for a presidential run. I'm sure he'd rather be at an Iowa fish fry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

This is an appointments clause violation easily, no? Like the original formalist wins on separation of powers being ignored again? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

No one wants or needs Trump to send National Guard here. Kudos at last to the business community for being clear about this and how bad and counterproductive it would be. www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chi...

My heart breaks for this self-inflicted loss of vacation--the results of which have kept the *country* up at night (which doesn't get summers off). www.law.com/nationallawj...

This is an extraordinary attempt to avoid accountability, to hide the random, highly militarized practices we have seen on other video here. Video of government overreach is crucial. www.chicagobusiness.com/airlines-air...

But how do we *know,* without a concurring opinion from Justice Kavanaugh?

It will be noted in fn 12 as an important issue raised in the amicus briefs but not strictly before the Court -- and lower courts will get slammed for not treating it as a holding.

Does Matt Damon even know he's in a Stella commercial? (Which I'm sure is the bit, so kudos. And yet?). youtu.be/GAoeGC-eL4I?...

Have you read this article? Read it? I haven't even cited it yet!

Because L'affaire Kimmel continues, with new threats against ABC and other actions possible, I've recapped the FCC's Communications Act authority over broadcast licenses--which does not include denials, revocations, or refusal to transfer based on broadcaster viewpoints. 1/3 ssrn.com/abstract=552...

Perhaps a rereading of Fowler's would be a good escape from these times. Of course, the second edition, not the third or fourth, a matter this piece inexplicably fails to mention. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Legalistically, the definition of arbitrary and capricious. Politically and economically bankrupt.

Late-Night Talk-Show Hosts as "Officers of the United States"

The Chair of the Federal *Communications* Commission too. A remarkable level of hypocrisy. www.wsj.com/opinion/pam-...

A reminder that Congress can and should stand up for Fed independence, even if (and before) the Supreme Court decides presidents can fire governors. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Florida: Hold my beer.

Pritzker needs to go straight to the Supreme Court. I wonder if he knows this.

Brilliant #bikethedrive weather this morning. And great pavement this time too!