Counting on You to Count on Us How is Verfassungsblog actually funded? Among those who have recently taken an official interest in this question is, of all parties, the AfD.

Important @verfassungsblog.de editorial: "That the 🇩🇪 branch of authoritarian populism now explicitly targets Verfassungsblog in its efforts to neutralize any threat to it is not cause for alarm. It is a confirmation. This is exactly what we must be prepared for" verfassungsblog.de/counting-on-...

Sur le dernier motif d’irrecevabilité : Il me semble que la CEDH a déjà accepté des requêtes s’appuyant sur un grief non soulevé devant la juridiction suprême nationale

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?
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Pratique assez américaine mais bien commode car n’a pas vraiment d’équivalent dans l’usage français. Je l’ai aussi adopté depuis longtemps

YouTube video by NPR Buttigieg: "We have a president who really is attempting to become an autocrat"

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J'ai une butternut dans ma cuisine qui a connu 3 gouvernements.

America’s accelerating exit from itself After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...

BREAKING: A federal judge just sumamrily struck Trump's complaint against the New York Times, essentially calling it, essentially, garbage.

Must be rewritten within 28 days.

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So much for freedom of speech

Emmanuel Grégoire, candidat socialiste à la mairie de Paris : « Transformer “Le Parisien” en machine de propagande bolloriste, ce serait trahir la République » TRIBUNE. Emmanuel Grégoire, candidat socialiste à la mairie de Paris, s’élève, dans une tribune au « Monde », contre la possible acquisition du journal par le milliardaire Vincent Bolloré. Le rachat i...

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Judge says Trump administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion from Harvard | CNN Politics A federal judge on Wednesday gave Harvard University a landmark victory in its fight against the Trump administration, siding with the Ivy League school in its effort to restore more than $2 billion i...

“A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities,” says a federal judge edition.cnn.com/2025/09/03/p...

Enfin une décision sur le fond !

A nos lecteurs Le Monde.fr - 1er site d’information sur l’actualité. Retrouvez ici une info de la thématique Politique du 21 août 2025 sur le sujet A nos lecteurs

@lemonde.fr est empêché d’assister aux #AMFIS2025 #LFI en raison du refus d’accréditer #OlivierPérou. Nous élevons la plus vive protestation contre cette entrave caractérisée à la liberté de la #presse et à l’accès à l’information." Par @jerofeno.bsky.social #médias
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What people need to understand is corruption and ineptitude go hand in hand. White collar criminals are lazy. They commit theft and fraud because they don't want to put in the work or just don't understand how to do something honestly. They lack the ability and patience to go through the process.

What the Columbia Settlement Really Means

the settlement comes at a very steep price to Columbia’s autonomy and to the constitutional freedoms of Columbia’s faculty, staff, and students

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Pierre-Édouard Stérin est suspecté d’avoir utilisé une vingtaine d’intermédiaires pour financer le RN sans jamais apparaître.

Enquête de @fabricearfi.bsky.social et @anttonrouget.bsky.social

👉‍ www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

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

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, (…), a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions.

Autrement dit, les Français de souche non européenne (bon courage pour le définir), non chrétiens, sont des citoyens de seconde classe. Méritent ils même d’avoir des droits?

« Gangrenée », image biologique très à la mode au XIXe, qu’on ne peut traiter qu’avec l’amputation (enfin au XIXe siècle toujours. L’utilisation du terme ennemi (vs adversaire) rappelle Carl Schmitt, ce grand juriste allemand qui a plutôt mal tourné

« Le Conseil constitutionnel doit censurer la loi Duplomb au nom du principe de précaution » TRIBUNE. Alors que la pétition contre le texte réintroduisant l’acétamipride a franchi les deux millions de signataires, des associations de patients et des sociétés savantes médicales ou scientifique...

« Dans le pays des Lumières, les politiques publiques doivent se fonder sur des faits établis par la connaissance médicale et scientifique. »
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Better link: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

Trump’s Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground

My colleague @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social makes the critical point: If noncitizens have no First Amendment rights in the deportation context, they have no First Amendment rights at all, because the threat of deportation will hover over every statement they make. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

The Late Show isn’t dying because people stopped watching late-night TV. It’s being murdered because Stephen Colbert spent the last decade being one of Trump’s most persistent critics on network television.

https://trib.al/Mi7ISuK

Sur le bandeau, « Lutte de la haine en ligne » au lieu de « Lutte contre la haine en ligne »
C’est la haine qui lutte 😁

Très triste

ALERTE GENERALE !

Une pétition a été lancée sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale demandant que le gouvernement arrête d'utiliser X pour ses communications officielles.
On signe toutes et tous pour lui donner le maximum de visibilité.
C'est ici :
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Harvard’s « websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare ». That doesn’t look good www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...