SCOTUS… Making Universities White Again
GET GOD OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND STATE ONLINE SCHOOLS.
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs using race-based admissions at Harvard and U.N.C. as unconstitutional.
FUCK conservative SCOTUS. The Supreme Court is taking the nation backward – one strategic court ruling at a time.
Freedom MATTERS. Why do right-wing pundits keep dismissing our outrage about #SCOTUS stripping away our rights? Forcing people to give birth is criminal, & just the beginning. Speak up for freedom!
SCOTUS guts use of race in college admissions, splitting 6-3 along ideological lines. Sotomayor dissents from bench. Jackson & Thomas trade barbs.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s actual dissent.
STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v.
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson with the dissent of the century: “Deeming race irrelevant in law does now make it so in life… No one benefits from ignorance.”
Ketanji Brown Jackson has a two-part footnote on Clarence Thomas.
She says he “responds to a dissent I did not write… demonstrates an obsession with race consciousness that far outstrips my or UNC’s… ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish, here.”
The Supreme Court ended affirmative action. The *how* of it is not very interesting: They killed it because they could.
But why? Well, because affirmative action was the only policy where the whiteness card got revoked.
GOP: College is a scam! Drop out and have a bunch of kids!
Also GOP: When you admit a black kid to college you take away a place for a white kid! Unfair! Wrong!
Just making sure: Jared & Ivanka can still use Saudi money to pay for their children to get into Harvard, right?
Explainer
(1) Kushner’s parents paid $2.5 million to get him into Harvard https://propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard
(2) Kushner got >$2 billion from Saudis for whatever he did for them while running our Middle East policy
(3) SCOTUS left legacy & donor buy-ins safe while gutting affirmative action
Kids of white Harvard students will continue to get legacy rides and white students with more privileged backgrounds will benefit from tutors, better schools, and more resources simply because of a system created to perpetuate inequality.
Ryan Garrett@Garrett_RM
As a higher ed professional (with experience in admissions), this thread speaks perfectly to my thoughts on today’s SCOTUS decision. While this ruling can have its issues (just as affirmative action had issues), it still acknowledges the benefits of a diverse campus community.
Thread by @AshaRangappa_ : Admissions officer here… IMO Harvard/UNC opinion is much narrower than I expected it to be & impact will be much less than I see a lot of people suggesting — & possibly give institutions MORE ability to curate classes based on diversity interests\
Shelby v. Holder, the most devastating decision against #VotingRights, was funded by #PaulSinger. His fishing buddy, #JusticeAlito should have recused himself. That would’ve changed the outcome, because the #SCOTUS decision was made 5 to 4, with Alito’s being the deciding vote. #JusticeAlito should not have been on Shelby v. Holder. If he’d recused himself, we would still have the full Voting Rights Act.
Let’s talk about Senate Bill 795, the new effort to start a voucher program sending public funds to private schools, called “Lifeline Scholarships.”
#StopVouchers #DeVosPlan4PA #FundPAPublicSchools #PASchoolsWork #FundOurSchoolsPA
This is the “Great” America that The Bible Belt, The Silent Majority, the TEA PARTY, the HOUSE FREEDOM PARTY the AMERICAN LEAGUE OLIGARCHY, MOM’S FOR LIBERTY, CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY are talking about.
The media helps them via omissions of the stories. They don’t report on what the GOP lies about, in this case they will hold on to this story until it’s too late and irrelevant to report. They’ll likely report on TV about it next year AFTER the election.
The same folks that won a victory at the Supreme Court today are deeply connected to Moms for Liberty, so put that on your radar. As it turns out, and has never been reported, SFs recalls are directly linked to DeSantis’ GOP. Friends of Lowell founder Lee Cheng, Harmeet Dhillon, and Moms for Liberty’s Chris Marston all sit on the board of the anti-LGBT, anti-affirmative action Center for American Liberty.
Lee Cheng is also a 1985 Lowell alum that brought the 1994 lawsuit against SFUSD that led to the resegregation of San Francisco’s schools. Lee Cheng is also a founding member of The Center for American Liberty, whose CEO is Harmeet Dhillon, attorney for Donald Trump. The treasurer is Chris Marston, registrar for Mom’s For Liberty’s three national PACs.
@jennycohn1 Thank God (pun intended) 4 the ability to download & archive proof of the NAR’s dominionist agenda. This is painstaking but crucial work. The American public must be able to hear & read the NAR’s own words. Not our words, theirs. Trump, Flynn, & Stone embrace these zealots.
The Tea Party Used To Be called The American League
Voting against Trump is ‘treason to your heritage’ The white nationalist and former KKK grand wizard encouraged his listeners to volunteer for Trump. https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke — KKK Grand Wizard David Duke
The Heritage Foundation was founded with Koch Brothers money.
KOCH BROTHERS SECRETLY FOUNDED CATO THINK TANK.
“I know that men are won over less by the written word than the spoken word, that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great orators . . . and not to writers.” — Adolph Hitler
Donald Trump’s money originally came from his grandfather Friedrich Trump who ran a whore house and bar in Canada’s subarctic British Columbia. Donald Trump’s Father Fred Trump was arrested when anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klansmen attacked police in New York in 1927.
The Scots-Gaelic Sanas of Ku Klux Klan ~ Dan Cassidy Jump Jim Crow
TODAY “Prosecutors are now prepared to ‘stack’ an ‘additional 30 to 45 charges’ on top of the 37-count indictment brought against Mr Trump” using new evidence including additional recordings “which reveal Mr Trump making incriminating statements.”
The judge overseeing the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit just REJECTED Donald Trump’s attempted use of presidential immunity to stop the lawsuit. Judge Kaplan wrote there’s no connection between Trump’s attacks on E. Jean & his responsibilities as president. Great news for E. Jean.
Elections director of Arizona county quits, says she wasn’t protected from political attacks
Prosecutors charge three men with insider trading scheme related to Trump’s media company
HEALTH
Physicians for Human Rights @P4HR
New U.S. #abortion restrictions don’t only violate the fundamental human rights of pregnant people; these laws also put clinicians in an impossible position, forcing them to choose between the law and the reproductive rights + health of their patients.
Why Canada’s wildfires will affect air quality for weeks to come
Canada’s fire season is especially bad, and it could lead to smoke drifting southward for the rest of the summer. By Li Zhou Jun 28 2023
PA House passes controversial bill that would set on patient-to-nurse ratios in hospitals
FINANCE
@jchervinsky and @MTCoppel wrote a paper explaining why outline the legal argument for why Chair Gensler must recuse himself from decisions related to digital asset enforcement.
Chair Gensler Must Recuse Himself From Digital Asset Enforcement Decisions
1/ SEC Chair Gary Gensler has wrongly prejudged that all digital assets are securities.
As a result, federal law requires that he recuse himself from all enforcement decisions related to digital assets.
177 page COINBASE’S ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF’S COMPLAINT
Coinbase $COIN International has reached approximately $100 million in daily trading volumes, as per data from The Block. From June 21 to June 28, the exchange recorded nearly $900 million in trading volumes.
Vitalik Buterin states that the Ethereum Foundation owns wallet 0x5ed6.
Vitalik might be a russian-chinese agent.
In the Flow Diagram below, Label “1” is what Vitalik claims is owned by the ETH Foundation. This wallet setup and was the original funder of Wallet 2. Wallet 2 setup 3, and Wallet 3 setup 4.
I front ran the WORLD by 4.5 months when I told you that Wanxiang, a Chinese auto maker, was the early ETH investor who funded & setup Vitalik Buterins official wallets. Now the news on Prometheum comes out & people are waking up.
Large Language Models Are Small-Minded
Financial storm bears down on US commercial real estate
Long-awaited reckoning arrives as building loans come due at time of scarcer credit
Only 10% of NYC commercial real estate isn’t in distress. Wow!! The calls to return to the office are about a real estate bust becoming a snowball Im for the US economy not productivity
It almost seems as if those in the media and government want liberals and conservatives (whatever those terms mean now), black and white, rural and urban, old and young, etc. people to fight with each other, to distract us from the real threat, a few sucking up all the wealth.
