“Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19” apnews.com/article/cali...

U.S. Measles Cases Surpass 2025 Total https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/21/u-s-measles-cases-surpass-2025-total/

Claremont has direct proximity to and influence over the government right now. The guy who led the mass deportation campaign for all of 2025 believes this shit. So yeah, this is fringe, racist, batshit nuttery. It's also a serious threat. www.thebulwark.com/p/whos-to-bl...

Insurance is based on a socialist concept (collectivizing costs) but private for-profit insurance is the worst of capitalism, where the profit motive incentivizes NOT giving people what they paid for.

Never mind the bollocks…

Beware the leftist takeover

These hearings are good theater. But again, no one in this administration from Trump to Hegseth on down follows laws, or court orders, or international treaties. There is no hearing solution for this. There is only one solution: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Last week Jesse Watters made a horrific comment that made light of sexual assault. I created a montage of DISGUSTING comments he's made regarding consent and sexual violence. Fox News has paid out tens of millions in sexual harassment lawsuits. Watters still has a job. 🤷‍♀️

BREAKING: The U.S. attorney in Washington state who was fired by Trump just 54 minutes after assuming the office has filed a lawsuit challenging his removal — signaling the first legal challenge to the termination of this kind.

When immigration agents are free to break the law without personal consequence, there are deadly consequences for everyone else ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I spent some time perusing Kirchik’s Twitter timeline and, yikes.

Anticonstitutional.

Oof.

Imagine all the better things that could have been done with $37.5 billion. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president | Bhaskar Sunkara

I kinda think it should be a career destroying scandal that the head of DHS (a department that shouldn't exist) is completely hallucinating hordes of drones that didn't exist that DHS didn't shoot down.

UT leaders choosing ideology over excellence. Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university,” said Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department. “Because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.”

And Kentucky Republicans rewrote the rules for interim replacements so that Beshear would have to pick a replacement off a list they've determined.

Courts have recently held that police do not need a warrant to obtain your search history, an expert on surveillance explains: “Police can essentially rummage through your most revealing Google search queries and find incriminating evidence against you.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday agreed to have the full court review the constitutionality of the federal ban on firearm possession by a person previously convicted of a felony—taking a cue from Justice Thomas in doing so. More at Law Dork:

This is how the press has enabled and sustained the rise of fascism over the past 10 years.

This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

"When six justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line. That is not defiance. That is the design." The Supreme Court's credibility is starting to run dry with state courts.

"But"

To be clearer on this, Trump is faring worse than Bush did during peak unpopularity of Iraq War and worse than Nixon at height of Watergate.

Politicised probes mark a radical departure from the DoJ’s past norms. And a broader change is underway, too, with the department itself depleted and redirected, at remarkable speed

Okay this is overly general. It’s not “administration policies,” generally, it’s THE MASS TERMINATION OF EXISTING WORK PERMITS due to TPS terminations. That’s the imminent labor shock here.

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing. Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same time period, Biden had created 625,000.

Aaaaaand full CA5 is going full CA5.

This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”

1. ICE is lying about body cams and I have the documents that prove it. On July 14, Tom Homan, who oversees ICE's immigration crackdown at the White House, said that ICE purchased body cams as soon as Democrats approved funding for DHS in April. That is a lie.

New episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast. Conversation w/ lead attorney in the Stop WOKE Act case recently decided by the 11th circuit. one of the most important academic freedom cases in recent years www.podbean.com/ew/pb-icchs-...

New at The Watch: More on how and why Democrats should make it possible for victims and their families to sue Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and other political appointees for violence inflicted by immigration agents.

If you lawyers see any case where the fed govt is arguing the national government was *always* in charge of migration across US history, the legal history record says differently. If you need a historian who knows where the location of the line was between fed/state authority was & why, that's me.

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

any institution or business that replies “go fuck yourself” to his demands will cultivate a lifetime of customers and goodwill

2. Homan argued ICE officers weren't using body cams when they killed two people in six days is that Democrats held up DHS funding. But did ICE not purchase body cams in April when the funding was approved. In fact, ICE had not purchased body cams at the time of Homan’s statement.

Russell Vought should be impeached, and Stephen Miller can and should be impeached too. The Constitution does not limit the term “civil officer” to Senate appointed officers.

Did you know the five oldest, continuously-operating law schools in the United States are (in order): 1. Harvard 2. Virginia 3. Yale 4. Cincinnati 5. Louisville Not even kidding.

Oregon is on the good list (Least Regressive tax systems, right-hand side)

A Kansas court began hearing a challenge to a GOP-backed law that could make it more difficult for voters to cast a mail ballot in the state if it goes into effect. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

If anyone is still taken in by Trump’s 2020-was-rigged shtick at this late date, this may help.

all of them tbh

This is an @ij.org case: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

“Trump’s War has cost $113 billion and counting. Trump’s War has resulted in a collapse of U.S. credibility in the region and beyond. Trump’s War led to Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz. And gas prices have gone from about $3 to $4 a gallon today.” www.thebulwark.com/p/spain-wins...

Redistribution of wealth.

This is a good example of the fear that ICE has engendered in so many. A man here completely legally with nothing (on paper) to fear from ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station and was struck by a passing truck. Awful.