Kavanaugh began by accepting the government’s claim that one in 10 residents of LA is an undocumented immigrant.
There is no citation for this figure, and there’s some evidence that it’s wildly inaccurate.
But it undergirds Kavanaugh’s entire legal theory, so he wasn’t about to factcheck it!
“Not surprisingly given those extraordinary numbers,
US immigration officers have prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area,”
he went on, noting
“the myriad ‘significant economic and social problems’ caused by illegal immigration.”
That internal quote about immigrants causing “significant economic and social problems”
is actually dicta from Brignoni-Ponce,
a decision which is five decades old.
Recent data proves that immigrants greatly strengthen the US economy
and commit crimes at significantly lower ratesthan native-born Americans
— which is why only blood and soil nationalists say that stuff today.
And while Kavanaugh was happy to cherrypick quotes from Brignoni-Ponce,
he wildly mischaracterized its holding.
There, the Court ruled that race plus location could NOT add up to reasonable suspicion because it would necessarily sweep up lots of people who were entirely innocent
— the exact opposite of Kavanaugh’s conclusion,
even with his demographic fudge to make it seem like every brown person ICE encounters in LA is likely to be an undocumented immigrant
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kavanaugh-ice-racial-profiling
We are eating the Earth.
The result will be catastrophic.
Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a long-term challenge resulting from an otherwise cheerful story,
in which more people live better lives with fuller bellies and bigger dreams.
The challenge will not be met with a single knockout punch; instead, we can offer partial solutions in countless places, and those will add up if we let them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/01/climate-agriculture-carbon-michael-grunwald/
This terrible, terrible bill is going to do direct, material harm to the country
- our health care system is going to be weakened,
- close to 100m people will be paying more for health care or lose their insurance,
- tens of millions will struggle to eat,
- our existential transition to a clean energy future undermined,
- an unprecedented domestic political police force will be established,
- the fiscal integrity of the United States will be in jeopardy to the explosion in our deficit and debt,
- and of course the wealthy and privileged will get their tax cuts.
It is a Trumpian monstrosity,
an orgy of plutocratic “let them eat cake” greed,
another step forward in their fanatical, wrecking ball agenda of sabotage, plunder, and betrayal.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/signing-this-terrible-bill-will-be
Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”.
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy
– particularly the vindictive kind
– spoke darkly of a “violent insurrection”.
JD Vance, the vice-president, inveighed against “insurrectionists carrying foreign flags” on the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.
It didn’t escape notice that an insurrection was exactly what Trump was accused of instigating on 6 January 2021,
when the flag being paraded through the Capitol was that of the Confederate secessionists.
And that Trump hadn’t shown quite the same enthusiasm for sending in the troops then.
But simply accusing the leader of the Maga movement of hypocrisy feels like such a 2015 move -- It barely registers as news these days.
What’s really notable is that this is the latest example of Trump’s childish tactic of repurposing criticisms of himself to attack his enemies.
The world was first introduced to this manoeuvre on 19 October 2016 during a presidential debate in Las Vegas. -- When Hillary Clinton accused Trump of being Vladimir Putin’s puppet, Trump shot back: “No puppet, no puppet … No, you’re the puppet.
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today.
There are tiny t-shirts and signs.
AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
https://bsky.app/profile/tolcser.bsky.social/post/3lrlxeye5vk2g
BREAKING: Judge Richard Myers ruled on Monday that the North Carolina Supreme Court's handling of the state supreme court election there violated the U.S. Constitution.
Under today’s order from Myers, a Trump appointee, the win for Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, that was the result of the initial election count is to be certified.
More, and links: https://substack.com/@chrisgeidner/note/c-114784685 https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/114457766083034777
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As Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans from surprise medical bills. “This must end,” Trump said. “We’re going to hold insurance companies and hospitals totally accountable.”
But Trump’s wide-ranging push to slash government spending, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is weakening the federal office charged with implementing the No Surprises Act.
Some 15% of those working at the federal Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, or CCIIO, were fired two weeks ago, according to the agency’s former deputy director in charge of operations, Jeff Grant.
The reality of litigation challenging the Trump administration is that it isn’t all going to win.
That’s OK.
Forcing the administration to defend its actions, on the record and in public, is important.
The mere fact of litigating can change implementation of policy to improve its application to those affected.
Even a loss can advance awareness about oppressive steps being taken by the administration.
And, multiple strategies might be taken to challenge certain actions, some of which will be more successful than others.
From a litigation perspective, in other words, not suing is sometimes “obeying in advance.”
Actions need to be challenged. If a key aspect of what President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and others are doing right now is seeing what they can get away with
— and what they can convince people that they can do
— then a key part of pushing back against that needs to be challenging everything that can be challenged.
In short: Force them to work for it.
Canada has border restrictions on felons entering the country.
We CAN offer a Ministerial Waiver, as we have done for some performers & others to allow entry.
We should VERY publicly offer Trump this waiver for the upcoming G7 meeting.
(Passive aggressive politeness is a Canadian thing.)
https://bsky.app/profile/canadaspmpet.bsky.social/post/3ljge5t4alk2r
Young Germans
Interviewed in English
about the Sunday #election
where the hate-based populist and largely fascist #AfD party is expected to take second place with 21% of the votes according to polls
In 1923 Adolph Hitler. incited an insurrection against the German Government.
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon.
Despite being treated charitably by judges, Hitler claimed political persecution
and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of the "corrupt" Social Democrats.
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The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act could
🔥prevent many married women from being able to register to vote🔥
The act, reintroduced by Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy, is intended to amend the "National Voter Registration Act"
to ensure that all people registering to vote are U.S. citizens.
It would require people to present in-person documentation as proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Much of the documentation listed under the SAVE Act is based on having
💥 a birth certificate that matches the person registering to vote. 💥
However,
👉 as many as 69 million married women in the United States have changed their legal name since getting married,
meaning their name does not match their birth certificate, according to the Center for American Progress.
https://www.newsweek.com/married-women-stopped-voting-save-act-2029325
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They seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.
For the Bahamas, there is Herschel Walker, a former NFL star whose fledgling Senate campaign was undone by a string of personal embarrassments but who now is named to be the next US ambassador to the small island nation.
To the plum diplomatic posting of Paris goes Charles Kushner, father of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and a man the president-elect once pardoned for a felony conviction that the former Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie, an ex-federal prosecutor, called “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he ever prosecuted.
And to Greece, once a preserve of seasoned career diplomats, goes Kimberly Guilfoyle, until recently the romantic partner of Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, and a woman known more for her rumbustious media profile than her diplomatic acumen.
The trio are among a flurry of ambassadorial nominees rolled out by Trump in recent weeks as he rushes to fill his administration at breakneck speed with envoys who will project his “America First” ideology abroad.
Their lack of credentials has prompted one experienced foreign policy analyst to label them a “diplomatic clown car” – and a deliberate affront to the countries hosting them.
Since last month’s election triumph, the president-elect has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory – including five in a single day this week.
Some appear conspicuously unschooled in the diplomatic arts; others have business links which experts say risk conflicts of interest.
Unlike most countries, which fill ambassadors’ roles from the ranks of professional diplomats, it is customary for US presidents to reward allies and financial backers with ambassadorial jobs – with prize postings like London and Paris almost always going to friends of the man in the oval office.
But Trump has broken new ground with the sheer volume of ambassadorial nominations – and his lack of consideration of their professional suitability.
“It’s not unusual to see a lot of political appointee ambassadors named early in a presidency,” said Dennis Jett, an international relations professor at Pennsylvania State University and author of a book on the history of US ambassadors.
“But I don’t recall any president-elect announcing bunches of ambassadorships like this guy’s doing. They don’t usually dip down into the ambassadorial ranks until they actually are sitting in the White House.
“The other remarkable thing is how stunningly unqualified everyone is. I don’t see anyone there who I think, ‘Now there’s a highly qualified person.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-team-cabinet?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Redis, creators of the popular in-memory database store, has been transitioning away from its open source roots since 2018,
when it moved its “Redis Modules”
(e.g. RediSearch) from an open source AGPL license to Apache 2.0 with a “Commons Clause” addendum
(i.e. commercial restrictions).
The following year, Redis replaced the Commons Clause with its own Redis Source Available License (RSAL)
that promised to maintain some freedoms, but with notable restrictions related to competing database services
— such as those provided by companies such as AWS.
In many ways, this was a bellwether of what was to come,
as other companies would later cite the “Amazon problem” as their reason for switching their license up.
Earlier this year, Redis’ transition to the world of proprietary was complete,
when it announced that its core software would be shifting from a BSD 3-Clause license to a dual-license setup
— RSAL or server side public license (SSPL).
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/15/open-source-companies-that-go-proprietary-a-timeline/
In recent years, the Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics.
The belief that God has called on conservative Christians to rule over society has extended into all levels of government,
from school boards to the White House.
Many pundits call this movement #Christian #nationalism.
But while it may seem like a phenomenon born out of our current political moment,
it represents the culmination of various movements with roots that trace back decades.
The more extreme elements didn’t just materialize a few years ago. They’ve been there from the start.
https://projects.propublica.org/christian-nationalism-origins/
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Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.
After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
“do the Wendell Berry thing”
in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.
Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”
The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.
He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.
Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.
Women would not be allowed to vote
—instead, men would vote for their households.
When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.
“I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”
The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.
We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
“I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
or Judeo-Christian worldview,
or Judeo-Christian whatever,
and really eradicate that from our thinking.
Because if we say that America is a
Judeo-Christian country,
then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”
What role, I asked him, would Jews play?
After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”
We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
"America as a people".
The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”
America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”
Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
—as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.
In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.
Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.
“I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
and to seek to restore that,” he said.
“This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"
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