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Ahead of a panel on why folks should boycott FIFA World Cup, I did some quick data analysis:

- Of 42 qualifying countries, migration from 14 is restricted.
- Of the 9 from Africa, 7 are restricted & 2 fully banned (Côte d'Ivoire & Senegal).

Why anyone would participate in this is beyond me.

All charges against photojournalist Alexa Wilkinson DROPPED.

Wilkinson’s home was raided, her gear seized, and she was charged felony hate crimes for documenting the aftermath of a vandalism protest of the NYT & herself criticizing Editor Joe Kahn & the outlet’s genocide laundering.

We received 219 abstracts for #EuPRA2026 in #Sarajevo 🇧🇦!

This promises to be an amazing conference!

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Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian American, officials and witnesses say Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. n.pr/46PHPVX

I'd say yes to toulouse & maybe surprisingly (?) a definite yes to carcassonne - which is actually much more than the castle/cité & has a pretty great vibe for a smallish place, with a lovely riverside walking path...

EXCLUSIVE: US algorithms judging EU travellers not fully excluded in draft data deal It is still unclear how the new system would work under the existing complex array of EU data protection rules

EXCLUSIVE: US algorithms judging EU travellers not fully excluded in draft data deal

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH makes clear that the Court errs in concluding otherwise. I write separately to explain why the statute at issue here is consistent with the separation of powers as an original matter. The Constitution’s separation of powers forbids Congress from delegating core legislative power to the Pres- ident. This principle, known as the nondelegation doctrine, is rooted in the Constitution’s Legislative Vesting Clause and Due Process Clause. Art. I, §1; Amdt. 5. Both Clauses forbid Congress from delegating core legislative power, which is the power to make substantive rules setting the conditions for deprivations of life, liberty, or property. Nei- ther Clause prohibits Congress from delegating other kinds of power. Because the Constitution assigns Congress many powers that do not implicate the nondelegation doctrine, Congress may delegate the exercise of many powers to the President. Congress has done so repeatedly since the founding, with this Court’s blessing. The power to impose duties on imports can be delegated.1 At the founding, that power was regarded as one of many

powers over foreign commerce that could be delegated to the President. Power over foreign commerce was not within the core legislative power, and engaging in foreign com- merce was regarded as a privilege rather than a right. Early Congresses often delegated to the President power to regulate foreign commerce, including through duties on im- ports. As I suggested over a decade ago, the nondelegation doctrine does not apply to “a delegation of power to make rules governing private conduct in the area of foreign trade,” including rules imposing duties on imports. Depart- ment of Transportation v. Association of American Rail- roads, 575 U. S. 43, 80–81, n. 5 (2015) (opinion concurring in judgment). Therefore, to the extent that the Court relies on “‘separation of powers principles’” to rule against the President, ante, at 8 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.), it is mis- taken.

Thomas, dissenting, argues that the nondelegation clause doesn’t apply at all to Congress’s power to levy duties on imports. (Unsurprisingly, no one else agrees.)

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in cou...

Howard Lutnick's sons just made a buttload of money: www.wired.com/story/cantor...

US Supreme court strikes down Trump’s sweeping global tariffs The Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs in a 6-3 decision. Many companies, including Costco, have already lined up in court to demand refunds.

BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs in a 6-3 decision. Many companies, including Costco, have already lined up in court to demand refunds.

There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave “Congress alone” the power to impose tariffs during peacetime. Merritt v. Welsh, 104 U. S. 694, 700. And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it any more likely that Congress would relinquish its tariff power through vague language, or without careful limits.

(a) IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation.” §1702(a)(1)(B). Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs or duties. Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs, it would have done so expressly, as it consistently has in other tariff statutes. The power to “regulate . . . importation” does not fill that void. The term “regulate,” as ordinarily used, means to “fix, establish, or control; to adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1156. The facial breadth of this definition places in stark relief what ”regulate” is not usually thought to include: taxation. Many statutes grant the Executive the power to “regulate.” Yet the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax. The Court is therefore skeptical that in IEEPA—and IEEPA alone—Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax within the quotidian power to “regulate.” While taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation. Indeed, when Congress addresses both the power to regulate and the power to tax, it does so separately and expressly. That it did not do so here is strong evidence that “regulate” in IEEPA does not include taxation.

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA.

Just complete groin kicking.

They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one.

It didn't.

It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”.

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.

This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year.

They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

“To understand how Epstein accumulated the wealth and influence that enabled his predation of young women and children, we have to look beyond sex and money. For the Epstein class, what’s truly valued is what money can’t buy directly: deference, access and moral permission”

fuck yeah

So the bottom line is a 6–3 decision that Trump's tariffs are unlawful. All six join key parts of the opinion invalidating them.

There is a 3–3 split about whether to invoke the major questions doctrine, with the liberals saying no.

The majority does not say whether tariff refunds are now owed!

BREAKING: someone's brain, probably, now that scotus took his tariffs away...

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

#BREAKING #SCOTUS blocks President Trump's tariffs.

Oregon health officials declare measles outbreak with five confirmed cases • Oregon Capital Chronicle State health officials declared a measles outbreak Thursday following five confirmed cases in Oregon.

State health officials declared a measles outbreak Thursday following five confirmed cases in Oregon. buff.ly/Z74DCp2

Photo of Warren Chowdhury speaking at a podium with her colleagues on the city council Jason Chavez, Robin Wonsley, Elliott Payne, and also local business owners at Midtown global market

🚨 BIG WIN FOR MINNEAPOLIS SMALL BUSINESSES IMPACTED BY OPERATION METRO SURGE🚨

The $7 MILLION Small Business Resiliency Fund has officially passed the Minneapolis City Council. Unanimously.

Exclusive | Trump Weighs Initial Limited Strike to Force Iran Into Nuclear Deal The president was considering a range of military options but said he still preferred diplomacy.

Consistent with administration officials telling me in the past that POTUS views “a punch in the nose” as an important negotiating tactic.

It would of course be flagrantly illegal under U.S. and international law.

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Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons "It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.

BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons.

"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.

I think most people in the U.S. would be shocked to learn how many decisions police make….are actually made by wealthy tech companies who write policy, press releases, and even find funding for departments.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Alysa Liu - a brief thread

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Image of fake newspaper headline "here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that inconveniences rich assholes" by some rich asshole.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

Statement from the family of Virginia Giuffre:

"At last.

Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.

On behalf of our sister, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we extend our gratitude to the UK’s Thames Valley Police for their investigation…

ICE Has Doubled Its Presence in Notorious Brooklyn Jail Rep. Dan Goldman learned of the expansion on Wednesday when he became the first lawmaker to visit the federal facility since it began detaining immigrants last June.

They're denying treatment to ICE detainees with HIV in the prison where Nicolas Maduro and Luigi Mangione (and, I feel obligated to add, the guy who shot Jam Master J) are being held.