Gail Hennessy

📚 ☮ Teacher/Professor, Volunteer, a lifelong learner with the desire to make a positive difference.

[Jonathan Karl @jonkarl]

"To say that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Teddy Roosevelt

#26 in Salvatore Catalano's new series of American Presidents

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[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

@BeschlossDC We lived in Vincennes, Indiana and across from the George Rogers Clark Memorial. That summer they had actors portraying Franklin, Lincoln and Washington. Walking in the park and relishing the Bicentennial was wonderful. I was proud to be an American.

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Five months ago, I argued against the President's $4 trillion tariffs at the Supreme Court.

In 237 years, the Court had never struck down a sitting President's signature initiative. Legal scholars said it was impossible. Some of my own colleagues said it was impossible.

We won. 6-3.

But the real story isn't what happened in that courtroom. It's what happened in the months before. And its the subject of my TED talk, coming out tomorrow.

I had the best legal team in the nation, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak, the most outstanding legal strategist I know. Huge thanks, too, go to the Liberty Justice Center (and in particular its fearless and hyper-intelligent leader Sara Albrecht), who organized the client small businesses, as well as to the brave small businesses themselves.

I also had four teachers preparing me.
A mindset coach who'd worked with Andre Agassi.
An improv coach who taught me that "Yes, and" works in Supreme Court arguments the same way it works everywhere else.
A meditation coach who taught me stillness.
And Harvey.

Harvey predicted many of the questions the Justices asked — sometimes almost word for word. Brilliant. Tireless. Occasionally insufferable.

Here's the catch: Harvey isn't a person.

Harvey is a bespoke AI I built over the last year with a legal AI company, trained on every question every Justice has asked in oral argument for 25 years, and everything they've ever written.

Tomorrow, TED releases my talk about what really happened — and what I learned standing at that podium.

AI can predict. AI can analyze. What AI cannot do is the one thing that actually won the argument.

Connect. Read the room. Hear not just a Justice's words, but her worry — and answer the worry.

That is the irreducibly human skill.
Find yours. Go deeper. In this age of AI, that's where your edge lives.

The talk goes live Thursday, May 7 at 11am ET: https://t.co/wLxKtBsHpF

What's the irreducibly human skill in your work — the thing AI can't touch?

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Today marks 79 years that #JackieRobinson made his MLB debut and broke the colour barrier. Take two minutes to watch this special video of Buck O’Neil talking about #Jackie42 - at the end he says #ThankYouJackie - we should get that trending day today. @nlbmprez

[Show-Me Institute @ShowMe]

NEW: https://t.co/Bkpgq1Rv3g now assigns A–F letter grades to every public school and district in Missouri.

Find your school: https://t.co/wJdFnrceOW | #moleg

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

Buck O'Neil touched many lives - mine included - he never knew he did but he did - I also used to share a book 1st graders wrote about Buck to my college students who wanted to teach - I hope he inspired those students as well.

[Bob Kendrick @nlbmprez]

Spent my last @MLB Opening Day at The K with my friend, Buck O’Neil in 2006. He’d missed getting into the HOF in Feb. by one vote and the @royals honored him! Buck passed away in Oct. after speaking at the HOF in July on behalf of 17 other Negro Leaguers who were selected!

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

@JamesMartinSJ @rickwormeli2 Thank you for your comment. My heart broke what I read what the President of the United States wrote. It was wrong! It hurt to think there is any human that would make such a statement.

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

@BeschlossDC Bad Bunny!

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

@BeschlossDC Loved it! A message of unity and love.

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

Memory must not be a burden but a guide (not a direct quote, but a message that should be a part of each of us)

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Auschwitz Survivor Bernard Offen during the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

“I am almost 97 years young, and I am a survivor of five camps including this one. Why do I mention those days? When you survive the Holocaust, when each day was a struggle to stay alive, you realize that each day of life is precious,” he said.

During his speech, Bernard Offen recalled the moment on the Auschwitz ramp when he was separated from his father: “My father was sent to the left, toward death, and I was sent to the right. I remember that moment—our eye contact and the feeling that we were seeing each other for the last time. He was sent to his death and I was given a chance to live. Then they tattooed a number on my forearm and I was transferred to a transit camp. There, when I asked what had happened to my father, my fellow prisoners replied that he was turned into smoke. It took me some time to understand what that meant.”

In his address Bernard Offen also shared a reflection directed toward the future: “Today, as I look at contemporary times, I see many signs I know all too well. I see hatred resurgent. I see violence beginning to be justified once again. I see people who believe their anger is more valuable than another human life. I say this because I am an old man who has seen where indifference leads to. And I say this because I believe—I truly believe—that we can choose differently.”

“I ask you today, let memory not be a burden. Let it be a light that guides us in the darkness. We, the witnesses, will soon pass away, but I believe this light will remain with you,” Bernard Offen emphasized"

Watch the entire address of Bernard Offen: https://t.co/3ej3a1I9k6

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.

As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

Alex and tens of thousands of Minnesotans have boldly defended their neighbors against the murderous occupation of an American city by the federal government. I am enraged and heartbroken for Alex, his family, Minneapolis, and America.

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

@KamalaHarris I am outraged and have been for a long time!

[Jonathan Karl @jonkarl]

Jack Smith spent more than 8 hours answering questions in a closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee on Dec 17.

It’s worth watching — you can see why Smith wanted to testify publicly — and why the committee waited until New Year’s Eve to release the video.

https://t.co/6QNjkaeUBV

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Sharing this remarkable image, José y Maria, by Everett Patterson, seems even more urgent this year. In the past, I’ve delighted over the clever visual puns (Dave’s City Hotel, Weisman cigarettes and Mary’s “Nazareth High School” sweatshirt) and in the reminder that Mary and Joseph were, like this couple, desperate young people looking for lodgings, when there was “no room at the inn,” as one translation of Luke’s Gospel has it.

In the past few years, there has been an intense debate (mainly online) over whether Mary and Joseph were refugees. To me, it seems clear that they were, at least during the “Flight into Egypt” where they flee a murderous king, leave Galilee and travel to Egypt to take refuge. That fits the classic description of a refugee: someone who leaves their homeland out a “well founded fear of persecution.” Some people say, well, they were still in the Roman Empire, which is beside the point. Do we really think that a poor couple from Galilee would have considered Egypt their homeland? Popes since at least Pope Pius XII have agreed. He called the Holy Family the “archetype of every refugee family.”

But before that, as a couple looking for lodging, they mirror thousands of couples and families today who have been denied “room at the inn.” In the United States, couples and families (and children) looking for “room” have been harassed, rejected, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and tortured. “No room at the inn.”

I will never understand how people can treat other human beings like this—even if they are, or are assumed to be, somehow breaking the law. Christ is present in every person, and every person has infinite dignity--whether you are Joseph and Mary, José y Maria, or an unknown person looking for room for their family.

If we delight in making room in our homes for our Nativity scenes, and delight in making room for Baby Jesus in the creche’s manger, can we make room for Christ, who is present in every migrant and the refugee? José y Maria, pray for us.

(Image: "José y Maria," Everett Patterson https://t.co/74UW24kf6Y)

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨Holy shit. Someone leaked the entire 60 Minutes episode CBS didn’t want you to see.

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

@JoJoFromJerz The childern were well behaved and used as stage puppets. This is not reading and sharing books with childern. Just using them for publicity.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Franklin the Turtle author Paulette Bourgeois’s publisher calls out Pete Hegseth: “We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image, which directly contradicts these values.”

RETWEET if you stand with Bourgeois against Hegseth!

[Gail Hennessy @ghennessy2]

@SenWarren My heart hurts! Sickening

[Ryan Hennessy @HennyNews]

Raytown South staff save student’s life with CPR, AED https://t.co/7Jxj6uAAg9