Sandhya Dirks

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.*
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It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.

the worst censorship/ suppression of my work i faced was not at the hands of an outside influence or power, but at the hands of editors and higher ups who killed or prevented my work. and not just after the election.

and whatever news outlets are left will put them on their airwaves, not question their credentials, volley softball questions, and deny that they are platforming fascism. same as now.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

The best example of this is when journalism started aggressively shedding jobs under Trump 1 (atop losses that started with the internet) people on Twitter would respond "learn to code" but tech has been shedding jobs since like 2021 and nobody cares.

Opinion | Netanyahu Is Choosing to Starve Gaza

Netanyahu Is Choosing to Starve Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

This withered husk of a society—built as it is on colonial systems of plunder & power—will put up with & participate in miserable conditions so long as it pays. But the racist billionaires fail to realize that it still has to function as a society. They can’t rig it to benefit *only* them.

Under Bhattacharya at NIH - who built his career playing victim of censorship - "Over 1,000 grants mentioning racism, discrimination, health equity, health disparities, minorities, and inequality have been terminated... outnumbering cuts to other research topics the administration considers taboo."

More ambulances driving into Alligator Alcatraz. This one at 3:37 pm today. This is a daily occurrence.

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute The sum sought by the government is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled its clash with the White House last week.

Reporting by college journalists sure makes it look like the @nytimes.com went with a Trump admin lie on Harvard. Yikes.

Garber said "the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is “false” and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials" 1/

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

Interesting how Steve Witkoff conveniently cropped out the razor wire, eh?

We all knew in advance what Witkoff and Huckabee would report back with.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

Buried in this leaked DHS memo is the suggestion of using the military against protestors “for years to come,” anticipating & eliminating public backlash against this fascist regime.

CORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 24-109 24-110 ORDER IN PENDING CASES LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. ROBINSON, PRESS, ET AL. V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question raised on pages 36-38 of the Brief for Appellees: Whether the State's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. Supplemental briefs for appellants are due on or before Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Supplemental brief for appellees is due on or before Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Reply briefs are due on or before 2 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2025. The time to file amicus curiae briefs is as provided for by this Court's Rule 37.3. Word limits and cover colors for the briefs should correspond to the provisions of this Court's Rule 33.1(g) pertaining to briefs on the merits rather than to the provision pertaining to supplemental

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.

If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

Brutal treatment of women detained by ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

Screenshot of nyc council member Shekar Krishnan’s statement on a late night veto by Eric Adam’s. 10r:0te story Hindus for Human Right... Happy Friday! Dogtopia o Denver Tech... 136 Co Wo Shekar for City Council •.. X 1d • © At the dead of night, Mayor Adams vetoed Intro 47-B, historic legislation that removes jail time from street vending and passed the City Council with a veto-proof majority. Council Member Shekar Krishnan, the bill's prime sponsor released the following statement: Shekar Krishnan CITY COUNCIL | ELMHURST & JACKSON HEIGHTS Council Member Shekar Krishnan on Mayor Adams Late Night Veto "In the dead of night, Mayor Adams did Donald Trump's bidding by vetoing my legislation that protects our immigrant small business owners, who are simply trying to provide for their families, from jail time and immigration consequences Rather than ushering in real change for our street vendors - moving towards a fair, comprehensive, and well-regulated system - Mayor Adams is playing politics with the lives of our city's smallest business owners. Donald Trump has just added 10,000 new ICE agents to the federal government, and he has explicitly made New York City a target for immigration enforcement. With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Adams decided once again to curry favor with Trump, vetoing legislation that the City Council passed with a veto-proof majority. As Mayor Adams tries to endanger our city, we will not back down from a fight to protect immigrant New Yorkers and create a better system for street vendors." Steve Shekar Krishnan New York City Council, 25th District Chair of the Committee on Parks and Recreation 09014 d Like Comment 18 comments 2 shares Send Share

Adams is predictably an asshole.

Also, many communities could do what Krishnan wanted & protect immigrants by expunging minor offenses, taking away pretexts for deportation.

And, universities can & should expunge student disciplinary records, especially those w/minor offenses.

most won’t.

The Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center, updated its tariff tracker on Friday. It calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year. Shoe prices, for example, are expected to rise 40 percent in the short run. America’s total economic output — its gross domestic product — is estimated to shrink by about $120 billion annually in the years to come.

Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."

“Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files but Kash Patel had FBI agents go through them and black out his name” is the kind of statement that will surely put out this fire

At least 9 U.S. citizens have been taken into the custody of agents with ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection after observing or portesting near immigration raids in the LA area.

My latest story for @capitalandmainnews is here: capitalandmain.com/border-patro...

I think the president just plainly stating that he's firing the person who produces economic data because he doesn't like the numbers officially pushes us into a new era where you just can't believe government data anymore.

my grief is complicated, but it is still grief.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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Senate Democrats Estimate DOGE Caused Billions of Dollars In Government Waste A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

Senate Democrats Estimate DOGE Caused Billions of Dollars In Government Waste talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...