I’M TOLD THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS FOCUSED ON DISMANTLING DISPARATE IMPACT LIABILITY: That’s great! My advice is to focus first on demolishing the argument that Title VI’s regulations impose disparate impact liability on federal funding recipients. No, they don’t, and if they do, they are beyond the scope of the power of any executive branch agency. Once they’ve gotten that far, it may be easier to persuade the Supreme Court that disparate impact liability as first applied in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) was wrongheaded from the start and needs to be ditched. It has caused harm to everyone. A good rule of thumb is that a legal doctrine that presumptively outlaws everything can’t be good.
Archive for 2025
April 1, 2025
DON SURBER: Judge Boasberg is not my president.
GORGEOUS:
First views of Earth's polar regions from Dragon pic.twitter.com/3taP34zCeN
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 1, 2025
Background: SpaceX launches first-of-its-kind human spaceflight mission around Earth’s poles.
Mission commander and cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his three crewmates — Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips — are now safely in orbit, tucked inside their 13-food-wide SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
The group is expected to handle more than 20 science experiments and research studies during their time in space, most of which focus on their health and response to the disorienting environment of microgravity.
All told, the Fram2 crew will spend three to five days in space. They’ll try to capture unique footage from their windows as they lap the planet end-to-end, passing over Earth’s poles for the first time in human spaceflight history.
You can follow along in realtime here.
THAT’S CRAZY TALK, MAN:
Maybe the real Nazis are the ones painting swastikas everywhere.
Maybe the real racists are the ones who discriminate based on race.
Maybe the real cheaters are the ones who imported millions of illegal immigrants to vote.
Maybe, just maybe… they lied to us the entire time.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 31, 2025
DON’T LET CRAZY PEOPLE LOOK AFTER YOUR KIDS: UK School Suspended a Toddler for Transphobia.
I ASSUME THEY’RE ALL FAKE UNTIL PROVEN TRUE: Evanston, IL and Another ‘Hate Crime’ That Never Happened.
And they’re basically never proven true.
MAYBE THE BIGGER STORY IS JPMORGAN NOT DOING DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE PAYING OUT $175 MILLION: The Future Was Bright for This Startup Founder Until Her Fraud Caught up With Her. “The wild success of Frank opened the door to high-profile appearances on cable news shows for Javice. She also made her way onto Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ list because of her company’s runaway accomplishments. The only trouble was that much of it turned out to be a façade.”
SHE GETS THE CLASS ANGLE:
The divide in America is not political—it's a class divide separating the elites from the working class. Trump's economic agenda—a tight labor market and tariffs—raises the wages of working class Americans, which is why Wall Street, the Democrats, and their rich base hate it. pic.twitter.com/58NmuMUxnP
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) March 30, 2025
ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS, AND A VIGNETTE CHALLENGE ON MY BLOG: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
Except some Sundays I wake up with a horrible URI and don’t, but manage to run it on Monday. Anyway, better late than never!
MY TAKE? WELL, ANY AMOUNT OF HEINLEIN NO MATTER HOW DILUTED IN SUPPOSEDLY CLEVER SATIRE IS POISONOUS TO TOTALITARIANS: The Exact Words of the Text. Thoughts on thirty years of memetic skirmishing over the meaning of Starship Troopers.
As it should be!
I HAVE NO WORDS. A CRITIQUE OF THIS WOULD NEED TO BE DANCED AND MY FEET ARE SORE: Peak Academic Absurdity—the Sequel.
NO. ONE LAW FOR BOTH, OR ELSE IT’S ALL DROSS: Sexual Misconduct Looks Different When a Woman is the Perpetrator.
Would we destroy the older person’s life if the sexes were reversed? Yes, we would. Did the younger partner have agency? Yes, but so would a woman. I say treat as she would treat a man in that situation. No more. No less.
EXCEPT THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS. (NOT EVEN ON APRIL 1ST): Democrats: “We have the right to vandalize Teslas, and if you try to stop us you are fascists!”
SHE’S ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO BE BORN FOR THIS MOMENT. BUT THERE’S A PRICE: I don’t usually get personal, but I need to say this. Not long ago, I had 50,000 followers. Now, it’s over 700,000. For most people, that would feel like a windfall. It hasn’t felt that way for me. A few weeks ago, I was doxxed. Since then, it’s been the most chaotic stretch of my life. Some of the same people I thought I was standing up for chose to side with the person who exposed a gay Deaf man—and who’s harmed many other Deaf people—for ideological reasons. That betrayal shook me.
BECAUSE EUROPEANS ARE EVENTUALLY GOING TO HAVE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM TYRANNY WITH SPORKS: This Is Why We Must NEVER Give Up Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. EVER!
OH, HEY, THIS IS FAMILIAR TO ME FROM PORTUGAL IN THE SEVENTIES! COMMIES NEVER CHANGE! New Mexico Republican Headquarters Hit by DELIBERATE Arson Attack.
KNOWING HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE THIS WILL DIE ABORNING, BUT … Florida, Kansas Senators Intro LEDGER Act After DOGE Uncovers $4.7T In Untraceable Treasury Payments.
And for the sadly X-less.
MOSTLY BECAUSE WE WON’T PRETEND TO BELIEVE YOU: Oh, don’t pretend you don’t know what lawfare is.
March 31, 2025
STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION: Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard: The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia and the suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania.. The Trump administration said on Monday that it was reviewing roughly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard, claiming that the university had allowed antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus. In a statement on Monday, the administration said that it was examining about $256 million in contracts, as well as an additional $8.7 billion in what it described as ‘multiyear grant commitments.'”