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Dec 062024
2024-12-06
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Dec 032024
Kamala Harris stayed silent during the election as big Democratic donors attacked chief antitrust regulator Lina Khan — at the same time Khan’s agency launched an investigation into the employer of Harris’s brother-in-law and top advisor.
Lina Khan on May 15, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) When Democratic donors attacked the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris administration’s chief antitrust regulator, Lina Khan, during this year’s election, Vice President Harris declined to defend her, prompting some critics to say Harris was abandoning a populist message during a heated campaign.
At the time, the public did not know what was just revealed: Khan’s agency had launched a probe of the…
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2024-12-03
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Dec 032024
In the early morning hours of November 7, more than 12 police officers showed up outside at an address in Springfield, Virginia, knocked, broke down the door, and raided the family home of two Palestinian American students at George Mason University. University and Fairfax County police refused to show the family the warrant. One Fairfax County detective with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — cross-designated as a local and federal agent — was also present. The family and Mason faculty supporting them, however, believe they know what the FBI-led investigation was about: the young family members’ pro-Palestine activism. Two of the Palestinian American family’s daughters attend George Mason. One is an undergraduate student and the…
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2024-12-03
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Dec 032024
This may not mean much in the grand scheme of things but it’s good to see these objections on the record. It’s incremental, but in these times, every increment helps, especially when the Supreme Court seems actively disinterested in discussing cases in which government officials might be found to be in the wrong.
Cert has been denied to Vicki Baker, a McKinney, Texas resident whose house was basically razed to the ground by police officers looking to arrest a kidnapping suspect. Without a doubt, kidnapping is a serious crime and this incident involved a 15-year-old. But the events that unfolded following a high-speed chase turned Vicki Baker’s home into the PD’s own private Afghanistan as they…
2024-12-03
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Dec 032024
Last month I told the tale of our surprise SVOG audit which is currently costing us well over $20,000 out of the blue for no reason. Next up in this year’s series on “never run a nightclub”, let me tell you a story about Performing Rights Organizations! What are those? Buckle up. There are four different PROs these days, and artists and/or labels sign up exclusively with one of them to collect licensing fees on their behalf. “Collect” as used here is in the mafia sense of “collections”. Here’s how it works. You legally purchase music. You press play on that music in your coffee shop. The PRO shakes you down for an additional fee for…
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2024-12-03
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