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US constitution

This is the US Constitution page @ the Library of Congress

Sections 9 and 10 have been removed

9 includes habeas corpus, the courts' review of unlawful detention & imprisonment

This gov't can't change the Constitution w/ sneaky editing, but it's a new low: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

J Street head says he’s now convinced Israel committing genocide in Gaza Jeremy Ben-Ami explains he has been 'persuaded rationally' by legal and scholarly arguments, stresses that though he won't use term himself, he won't argue against it either

Big. Glad people are waking up and calling it what it is: Genocide.

www.timesofisrael.com/j-street-hea...

You can get kicked out of Columbia on antisemitism charges for publicly agreeing with the head of J St. There is no looking glass

Drew Pavlou 1 @DrewPavlou Follow The Polisario Front was funded by the Soviets and Gaddafi during the Cold War. I will NOT fall for more Third Worldist propaganda. I support Morocco.

Almost every liberation struggle's national front was funded by the Soviets lol— I already knew that Drew would have supported apartheid in South Africa and Namibia and Portuguese rule in Angola but at least he admits here

Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.*
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The political economy of spite

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

absolutely fucking bewildering set of paragraphs

Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.

CNN and POLITICO with back to back pieces on how pro-Israel Democrats have been triangulating or responding to being on the defensive for the first time in their lives.

Axios reports that Sherrod Brown is making preparations to run for the Senate next year in Ohio (this is the special election for Vance’s seat, now occupied by Hulsted): www.axios.com/2025/08/04/s...

The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion

Says one entrepreneur, “There are people that are leveraging Christianity to get closer to Peter Thiel.” (h/t @tweetbit on X) - April 2025 … 1/ archive.ph/2025.08.02-1...

Context for gerrymandering debate

“How responsive/congruent is state policy with state public opinion” is one of the most studied poli sci questions

Red & blue states both passed more 'extreme' policy in recent decades. Blue state policy shifts were aligned with state opinion. Red states’ weren’t

Oct. 2024 poll: 66% of U.S. adult citizens who were familiar with Hank Hill thought if he were to vote in the 2024 presidential election, he would vote for Donald Trump
16% said he would vote for Kamala Harris
today.yougov.com/entertainmen...

2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted” Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

US links $1.9 billion in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance The Trump administration said states and cities will not receive funding to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies, according to an agency statement.

The Trump administration will deny emergency preparedness funds to cities and states boycotting Israel, which is heinous but unsurprising. The Trump admin literally wants its political enemies to die.

The American Jewish Committee supports the Trump admin’s policy. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

@realDonald Trump Promises Made. Promises Kept. POLICE U.S. BORDER PATROL NEGATIVE NET MIGRATION for the First Time in 50 Years!

White supremacist ideology aside, these guys know a shrinking population is bad for the economy, right?

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.

If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

WSJ OPINION The WNBA and Caitlin Clark's Civil Rights If the league won't act to protect its superstar from a hostile environment, the government should do so. By Sean McLean Aug. 3, 2025 at 11:38 am ET

WSJ OPINION Ms. Clark faces a textbook hostile work environment, as the Supreme Court described in Harris v. Forklift Systems (1993), with severe or pervasive conduct altering her conditions. Statistical disparities like those she faces often prompt federal probes and lawsuits. The precedent is clear: In Texas Dept. of Community Affairs v. Burdine (1981), courts outlined disparate treatment under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, letting employees allege less favorable treatment than peers due to race-warranting investigation without direct animus. That shifts the burden to the employer to prove nondiscriminatory motive.

When I saw the headline I assumed the “civil rights” bit was going to be some clunky metaphor, but no, this WSJ columnist is sincerely urging Caitlin Clark to sue for reverse race discrimination under a hostile work environment theory www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Professor Rashid Khalidi, who called Columbia "Vichy on the Hudson in March, has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of its deal with the Trump administration and adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide.

His open letter:

Sidney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the HOTTEST ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are “flying of the shelves.” Go get ‘em Sidney. On the other side of the ledger, Jaguar did a stupid, and seriously WOKE, advertisement, THAT IS A DISASTER. The CEO just resigned, the company is in turmoil. Shouldn’t they have learned a lesson from Bud Lite, which went Woke and essentially destroyed, in a short but very Woke campaign, the Company. The market cap destruction has been unprecedented, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST. Or just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her

brain leaking out his ears

Humiliation, Headaches, and Narcissism - JSTOR Daily Well-researched stories from Undark, Yale Environment 360, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

my humiliation article is on JSTOR recommended reading

daily.jstor.org/humiliation-...

Got told I owe the hospital 18,000 for a surgery that was only greenlit in the first place because Medicaid had approved full coverage for it 👍🏽 thanks American healthcare

I was at a fancy energy junket and the divide between the politicians/consultants and actual energy industry people was exactly knowing the lag time on a gas plant.

The Shift Back to Gas | Norton Rose Fulbright The federal government is making a concerted effort to promote construction of new power plants that burn fossil fuels.

"If greenfield power plants take two and half to three years to get built and you cannot get a gas turbine until 2030, when are you going to be online?  In 2032 or 2033. I have data centers hoping to open in 2026 and 2027. How are we going to bridge this?" www.projectfinance.law/publications...

The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

I’m not a doomer, but seeing all of this stuff laid out in one place, combined with seeing continued reports of businesses and universities and law firms capitulating to threats, combined with SCOTUS seemingly rubber stamping everything, makes me really, really apprehensive.

Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.