Richard J Oparil
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Richard J Oparil
@ROparil
DC/NY litigator. No legal advice provided. Also at @roparil.bluesky.social.


ICE is operating the entire TSA pre-check operation in LaGuardia. Checking boarding passes, helping people load bags onto the scanner. TSA agents on metal detectors and screens. Massive line that stretches to the street, made it through in less than 30 minutes. ICE rocks.

Democrats want to protect illegal migrants by banning ICE officers from wearing masks. That’s why TSA lines are so long.


Why are the majority of the protesters in the no kings protest old white people?



This is absolutely infuriating and completely idiotic. An estimated 95,000 scientists and researchers have left federal agencies since Trump returned to the White House. These are the people tracking hurricanes, studying pediatric cancer, and modeling the climate tipping points that determine whether we can still prevent catastrophe. We lost them because this administration defunded their work, shuttered their offices, and made clear that finding out the truth is no longer a government priority. NASA’s own administrator just said studying climate change isn’t part of NASA’s mission. The agency that first warned Congress about global warming in 1988 now treats that work as a distraction. Meanwhile, China and Europe are recruiting our scientists, funding their labs, and making long-term bets on the industries of the future while we gut the research infrastructure that took generations to build. We are surrendering global scientific leadership voluntarily, deliberately, and one resignation letter at a time. nytimes.com/2026/03/25/cli…


Thank a Democrat for long lines and disrupted air travel. Thank President Trump for doing everything he can to keep airports open.

Should the Senate reconvene immediately and stay in session as long as it takes to (1) fully fund DHS, and (2) pass the SAVE America Act?

Why was Texas’ partisan, mid-decade redistricting okay but not Virginia’s?

🚨SCOOP: @AyannaPressley Forces Floor Vote on Haitian TPS House Democrats — with a critical assist from two Republicans — just stripped Speaker Johnson of his ability to bury Haiti TPS. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ayanna…













