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UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

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Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

The High Court's summary. #auspol

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for retention this fall are adapting to a challenge neither they nor their peers in the state have had to face for decades: how to run a political campaign while insisting they’re not politicians.

A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful "Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

“While we are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent, we are not bound to stay silent as to the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric of those opinions,” said Sal Mungia, a Washington Supreme Court justice

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A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful "Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

wrote about last week's super interesting tribal sovereignty decision in Washington Supreme Court

one justice wrote a standalone concurrence basically saying 'the court applied the law correctly, but also the law is terrible and it's our responsibility to say so'
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A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.

The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’s bid to set aside $1.4 billion verdict The Supreme Court rejected a bid by conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones to set aside the historic $1.4 billion jury verdict against him for defaming families of victims of the Sandy Ho...

"The Supreme Court rejected a bid by conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones to set aside the historic $1.4 billion jury verdict against him for defaming families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary mass killing." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Here's an updated list of who has signed and who is refusing to sign the Pentagon's press policy. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Must be read to be believed. @politico.com names names: "The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator." #MAGA #GOP

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

The Trump administration is engaging in an unprecedented strategy to undermine elections. From rolling back the federal role in protecting the electoral process to threatening local election officials, our new interactive timeline is tracking it all: bit.ly/3IZMSdG

“This is essentially despotism as a service.”

These people are not going to magically become normal if they lose an election

This dynamic of Young Republicans staking out positions far to the right of older, more "normie" Republicans has been a feature of the US conservative movement since the 1960s. Over time those further right elements just got incorporated into the mainstream. bsky.app/profile/seth...

As his extra-judicial killings have been endorsed by the 2025 @nobelprize.bsky.social Peace Prize recipient, he's clearly doing God's work?

<sarcasm>

Comey Indictment Shows Danger of Subservient Prosecutors The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics.

Trump pushed out the federal prosecutor who refused to bring charges against James Comey, then installed someone who would. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance details how the Comey indictment reflects the flawed process that produced it. bit.ly/46TyPOR

Fox News to Join Other Networks in Rejecting Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Media ‘Pledge’: Report Major television networks, including Hegseth’s former employer Fox News, are expected to release a joint statement rejecting media access "pledge." The post Fox News to Join Other Networks in Rejecting Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Media ‘Pledge’: Report first appeared on Mediaite.

Fox News to Join Other Networks in Rejecting Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Media ‘Pledge’: Report

So musk is now paying for Robinson and the Tate brothers defenses.

A Year Before Trump’s Crime Rhetoric, Dallas Voted to Increase Police. The City Is Wrestling With the Consequences. Leaders at Dallas HERO argued the city was descending into anarchy despite falling violent crime rates. Residents, including some law enforcement officials and at least one prominent Trump supporter, fear the push could be used as a playbook.

NEW: Despite falling crime rates, leaders at a nonprofit argued Dallas was descending into anarchy to sell voters on increasing police.

Some residents now fear the push could be used as a playbook for other cities.

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

WHCA Joint Statement on Press Restrictions at the Pentagon

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

If you put your ear against the Capitol, you can hear the sound of a man who will do nothing to challenge—and anything to justify—presidential violations of the Constitution, as long as the president is of his own party. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Will be interesting to see if Fox/News Ltd signs.

That the third in line for the presidency has no idea what extra-constitutional actions a president from his own party is up to is obviously grounds for removal—his or the president’s. Or both. Obviously.

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

Interesting take from Justice C-B but strange that US Supreme Court justices feel the need to publicly defend/explain their actions. Supreme Court actions should not require further clarification on television. #SCOTUS

She probably should have impressed this upon Kavanaugh before he issued an opinion endorsing what are now known as “Kavanaugh stops.”

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;