SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

What cannot be lost in all this is that students have simply been demanding their tuition not go towards funding an illegal occupation, nor a genocide. Everything that has come after is a product of the powers that be vehemently refusing to honor that entirely reasonable ask.

1) Here’s a small sampling of what the NYPD has been up to and or what we’ve learned about the NYPD just in the last five months since Empire City came out:

1) September 11, 2024
NYPD Buried Hundreds of Misconduct Cases"
www.propublica.org/article/nypd...

I need a whole other podcast just to cover the NYPD shitstorm that keeps ramping up just in the five months since Empire City came out in September.

There’s just no way to overstate how consistently reckless, violent, costly, and totally unaccountable this organization is.

The problem with millennials and Gen Z isn't TikTok. It's that we're not half as delusional as our parents. We recognize patterns a lot easier. We know who burns villages just to acquire the land. We know who destroys the food supply. We know who breaks treaties. We know who profits from genocide.

A new collection of essays explores the role of cultivating radical resistance through care in growing the world we want.

I am a survivor of the 1948 Nakba who lived to witness the 2024 genocide. I may not live to see justice be made, but I am certain our long struggle will be rewarded. Our grandchildren will live at home once again.

Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.

What people don't quite understand is that the unique attention being paid to the slaughter in Gaza comes not because of antisemitism but because it is uniquely bad. It just is. This from @chrislhayes.bsky.social show is excellent:

wondery.com/shows/empire...
I see massive group of politics- obsessed ppl here, and I'd like you all to hear this stunning piece of journalism by @chenjerai.bsky.social
#empirecity's depth + scope of the origins of 🇺🇸's police force is mind-blowing. Please tune in here & turn off the MSM.

Be clear: Gaetz did not withdraw because he's becoming a distraction or whatever. He withdrew because it was clear that he would not be confirmed. A bunch of Senators said no behind closed doors and the Trump team can see that they don't have enough votes.