USC cancels main commencement ceremony as Gaza war protests roil campus, others across US Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have ignited on colleges campuses across the U.S., with hundreds of arrests and confrontations. 04/25/2024 - 9:30 am | View Link
Racine's 16th Street Studios: Open House on April 27 Where: 16th Street Studios in the Racine Arts and Business Center, 1405 16th St. Details: Artists who have studios in the 550,000-square-foot mixed use industrial building open their spaces to the ... 04/25/2024 - 12:45 am | View Link
Civil trial set to begin for Camden school board advisory president accused of sexually abusing his former student Jury selection begins Monday in the civil trial of Wasim Muhammad, accused by a former student of sexually abusing her when he was her teacher at Cooper B. Hatch Middle School. 04/21/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Bill in memory of Stanford goalie Katie Meyer aims to support college students in distress Assembly Bill 1575 — or, as its supporters hope it will be called, Katie Meyer’s Law — seeks to help students facing difficult situations like hers. 04/19/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
UW football player pleads not guilty to felony rape charges An 18-year-old University of Washington football player charged with two counts of felony rape pleaded not guilty to both charges in court Thursday morning.Tylin "Tybo" Rogers, who was arrested in ... 04/18/2024 - 7:23 am | View Link
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.
Politico's magazine did a cover story on the New York Times and their feud with the Biden White House, and boy, was it enlightening. Well, maybe not. There wasn't much we didn't already guess, it was just weird to hear them say it out loud.
I find it so puzzling when the people who work there don't understand how much bad faith coverage it took to lose the support of liberal Democrats.
During the Supreme Court hearing that will likely determine whether or not Donald Trump is tried before the next presidential election over his attempt to steal the last one, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a question that should alarm everybody.
Speaking of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kavanaugh correctly noted that it was “very controversial in the moment” and probably why Ford lost the 1976 presidential election.
The Just Waiting For Another Kent State Shooting Edition
A. L. Katz makes some interesting claims. What is w/ Melania Trump?
Dispatches From A Collapsing State has another long one, against the neo-liberal order. Good luck w/ that, optimist.
Public Notice also goes on at length about Don Snorleone.
And someone not in love w/ the sound of his own typing, the mercifully short Politicalprof.
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After 15 months of trying to pull a Biden family crime spree out of thin air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his dreams of MAGA glory crumble into dust. Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, told a Republican colleague that he’s ready to be “done with” the whole fiasco, according to CNN.