Finally some reporting on OBBB and higher ed

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Published Opinion – #219, Att. #1 in Nathan v. Alamo Heights ISD (5th Cir., 25-50695) – CourtListener.com PUBLISHED OPINION FILED. [25-50695 Reversed] Judge: JWE, Judge: EHJ, Judge: JES, Judge: CES, Judge: PR, Judge: LHS, Judge: CH, Judge: JEG, Judge: SAH, Judge: DRW, Judge: JCH, Judge: SKD, Judge: KDE, J...

Here's the Fifth Circuit's en banc opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The majority, by Kyle Duncan, is something he's been planning for since long before Trump named him to the bench, it's exactly what was warned of when he was nominated, and today he did it.

Many parents “have no choice but to send their children to a public school.” Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 424 (2007) (Alito, J., concurring). Until today, this reality never meant that parents also have no choice but to accept government-chosen religious scripture that will surround their children. Stated simply, “the right of parents ‘to direct the religious upbringing of their’ children would be an empty promise if it did not follow those children into the public school classroom.” Mahmoud, 505 U.S. at 547. If schools across Texas must display this scripture, then today our court ordains that empty promise.

There is no way that the country can allow the Fifth Circuit's en banc decision allowing forced classroom presentation of the Ten Commandments to exist alongside Mahmoud.

It's laughable. And offensive.

It's discussed elsewhere, but Higginson, dissenting, got the last word — and it's good:

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.

We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

Unspeakable evil.

they hate. This is eugenics. It can also be called the death march of medical freedom.

harms others. In the end I think we can assume that the administration really doesn’t care if 25% or more of the US population would disappear. After all this would primarily be the poor, the minorities, immigrants and the sick…anyone that the right sees as a burden, or use the social programs

healthy. But the truth is that today in the US there is no health security. The interest in the collective health of the nation is being swept aside by the anti-science, anti-vaccine medical freedom movement, where everyone, including soldiers, can do what ever they please no matter how much it

flu vaccines, millions of soldiers in WW1 were stricken or died from the flu. Their movements also helped spread it around the world, just as international travel would today. One may think that it would be in the interests of national security to do all that is possible to keep troops

Jim is one of our nation’s most eminent virologists. Allowing the flu to spread among our troops is a national security issue, putting military preparedness at risk. This is how deep the rot is among this country’s leadership.

oh and by the way, guess who'll be hosting Wednesday's California gubernatorial debate? www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

Vice signaling

This is some politically correct nonsense and we need a pithy dismissive term for it the same way that PC and Woke have been used

The Supreme Court Just Twisted Its Cop Immunity Doctrine in an Even More Violent Direction Roy Scott was a 65-year-old Black man who called the police for medical help. He was soon killed.

The Rehnquist/Roberts court on Bivens: We will not let victims of abusive cops sue their abusers under this judge-created doctrine.

The same court on qualified immunity: We will hide behind this judge-created doctrine to make sure victims of police abuse cannot sue their abusers.

They’re arresting blokes with builders bums in Ohio now??

US military service members will no longer be required to get annual flu shot Defense secretary Pete Hegseth makes announcement and calls military’s flu vaccine mandate ‘broad’ and ‘not rational’

The next flu outbreak on a carrier is going to be wild.

These fucking dumbasses negative virtue signaling...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

one of the defining traits of the conservative movement is how ready they are to destroy the lives of completely random nobodies if it helps serve their lies and propaganda.

Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says “It’s working!“: Amazon emails with vendors show pattern of disappearing deals.

Amazon delenda est.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

In this photo, Prince isn’t looking up at the buildings, just down at the steps right in front of him. He had become, by that time, the greatest, most complete pop star ever. And during that rehearsal, there was a guitar solo he never practiced — “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. youtu.be/dWRCooFKk3ct

Prince walks down 52nd St. in New York City in 2004, on his way to rehearsal, and on his way to history.

Today’s 10 years since Prince passed, and I just wanted to tell one of many personal stories, about why I have this wonderful photo by Afshin Shahidi (a friend, who was also Prince’s personal photographer for years) hanging in our home. It tells a very special story…

Heartbreaking.

Also, this makes me so angry at the antivaxxers who are going to cause children (not always their own) to get measles, who then get better, only for some to die a decade from now when it comes back as Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

you are telling me french engineers figured out high speed rail 45 years ago? and made trains all electric after the 1970s oil crises? daaaammm. so when there is yet another oil crisis in 2026, they are all just.....fine???
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lmao Keir Starmer is that you

A line that lives rent free in my head since the first time I read this essay: “There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say "fuck you"!”

Repurpose parking into higher and better uses that benefit more than just car owners, leave spaces for loading zones, people with disability parking permits, and meter the spaces that remain to discourage long-term car storage. Remember that NYC didn't allow overnight parking until 1950!

And once again I'll say that paid residential parking permits would give drivers even more of a sense of entitlement and ownership of the curb, which would make it harder to put in bike lanes, bus lanes, bioswales, containerized garbage, etc.

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.

it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City