Julie

After heart attack during New York bar exam, state board of law examiners gathers info about incident The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sounds about right, and it's time to radically re-think the Bar exam, IMHO. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

This Severe Bacterial Lung Infection Is Tearing Through NYC — Here's What To Know Most outbreaks occur when large industrial-sized AC units contain water with the bacteria.

Watch out, Harlem: www.huffpost.com/entry/what-i...

The “Undeserving Poor” Deserve Medicaid Most able-bodied Medicaid recipients already have jobs, but those who don’t should receive health care too.

The United States, even when it’s governed humanely, lacks a truly universal health care system. So let’s not kid ourselves when we claim to be a decent society while we dispense health care according to merit.

https://trib.al/B7bLfnK

Norms are out the window -- and they should have been when people started disappearing.

This is precisely what Northerners said in the late 1850s after southern congressmen protecting slavery threatened their northern colleagues for many years.

Northerners made it clear that they wanted their members of Congress to fight back.

Hard.

A few came to the Capitol with guns.

Just noticed that Justice Jackson wrote a 14-page dissent on the agency reorganization! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class and have created another class of people who really do think they’re better than everyone else.

There is an obvious cure.
https://trib.al/1yyoOL9

Sounds about right.

Allergists Recommend Allergy Sufferers Retreat Underground To Form Pollen-Free, Cave-Dwelling Society

Allergists Recommend Allergy Sufferers Retreat Underground To Form Pollen-Free, Cave-Dwelling Society theonion.com/allergi...

Things at the heart of being American:

Free & fair elections where WE get to decide who gets power.

The right to protest & talk back to power.

Faith in a fair chance before the law (due process)

The promise of citizenship: the ultimate pact of trust

A shared set of laws that rules us all.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Big Corporate Cash Grab Here’s a look at the industries that won in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and one that didn’t quite get everything it wanted.

Good rundown of corporate pork in the Big Bad Bill

substack.perfectunion.us/p/the-one-bi...

I ran across this Christian Identity tract in the papers of Walter Huss, the chair of the OR GOP who was criticized by his fellow Republicans for saying he wanted Christians to run the government. It was obvious how antisemitic that was in 1978. How things have changed.
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This is the sort of procedural hardball I've been wanting to see, and that Senate Democrats in particular should be doing way more of.

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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.

“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein also barred any further removals without due process of alleged Tren de Aragua members held in his district.

How Calling a Child the N-Word Made One Woman $700,000 The Shiloh Hendrix GiveSendGo campaign exposes the right’s patronage system for public displays of racism.

"The fact that conservatives are rallying around her speaks to the victimhood mindset that’s gripping today’s Republican Party.” — MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones

See, orders --

www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Today, SCOTUS lit the path for the Trump administration to start discharging thousands of transgender servicemembers, including people who have served openly for years. This is shameful, disgusting, + harmful to national security, the military, and all those who serve, especially these individuals.

USDA withdraws proposed framework to reduce salmonella illness from poultry - CR Advocacy Consumer Reports criticizes withdrawal given recent developments that undermine USDA’s ability to protect the public from foodborne illness  WASHINGTON DC – The USDA’s decision to…

Seems about right:

advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_releas...

Q: "What would have happened to you if you had shared battle plans like this when you were a pilot?"

Rep. Mikie Sherrill: "Like everyone else except Pete Hegseth, evidently, I would've been court-marshaled and drummed out of the military. This is absolutely ridiculous."

Or for some of us — protesting is easier than finding an attic to hide in

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

Trump pretends he's a dictator — and the credulous media too often nods along His endless executive orders often are presented as actual law. They're not.

Trump has signed more than 120 executive orders since taking office. These orders aren’t law, but you wouldn't know that from the headlines.

'It’s the media’s responsibility not to leave the public with a false impression,' @sulliview.bsky.social writes
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-pret...

Independent bookstores can also preorder your books! They won’t do sneaky things to try to undercut far less-powerful competitors! It may cost a little more, but your money is going into your community and not to people who are already rich.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT.

sincerely,

a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.