“During the hearings Friday, Moss repeatedly lamented the uncertainty left by the Supreme Court’s rulings on the issue and said the public was left to “read the tea leaves” in the high court’s decisions.
“I don’t know what to make of what the Supreme Court did because that is one of the downsides of the emergency docket,” the judge said. “We just don’t know which of those arguments the Supreme Court found convincing in ordering the relief it ordered.””
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/04/trump-south-sudan-deportation-00440024
“When dealing with a potentially career-threatening political scandal, there is a standard playbook: Issue a broad denial. Attack the accuser. Then declare the controversy over and tell everyone to move on.
That’s what Emil Bove — Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer-turned-senior Justice Department official — is going for as he tries to secure a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. The scandal? A scathing whistleblower disclosure by a former Justice Department lawyer that alleges disturbing and unethical conduct on the part of Bove and other senior DOJ lawyers, including multiple efforts to defy the courts in service of Trump’s agenda.
The disclosure, released one day before Bove’s Senate confirmation hearing last week, has further complicated a nomination that had already opened an uncomfortable fissure within the conservative legal movement and which faces an uncertain future in the GOP-controlled Senate.
Immediately after the allegations were unveiled, a defense took shape among the Trump administration and its Republican allies.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/02/erez-reuveni-justice-department-whistleblower-00435486
Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/democrats-climate-retreat-california-energy-00439882
Romania faces reckoning with Brussels over soaring budget deficit
https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-reckoning-brussels-soaring-budget-deficit/
Trump-GOP’s Anti-Government Ideology Exposed By Deadly Texas Floods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykbJQ7GXKzM
“despite its scale, the bloc remains ideologically and strategically fragmented. “It’s a group of countries that hate each other,” Burack said bluntly. “China is harming many of them through unfair trade practices. There’s not a lot of incentive for real unity.”
The alliance’s aspirations to challenge the U.S. dollar through alternative payment systems and a potential BRICS currency have gained media traction — but experts caution against overestimating this threat.
“There’s been a lot of fearmongering about a BRICS currency,” said Burack. “But the interests of these countries are completely divergent. There’s more smoke than fire when it comes to a currency challenge to the dollar.””
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“While its cohesion remains questionable, BRICS poses a long-term challenge to U.S. influence — particularly in regions where Washington has retreated diplomatically and economically.
“China filled the void left by the U.S. in places like Africa,” said Briggs. “Now it controls about 38% of the world’s minerals. Meanwhile, Russia’s economy has doubled despite sanctions, because they preemptively reduced reliance on the dollar.”
Yet Chang sees India as a brake on any aggressive anti-Western tilt. “BRICS has an ‘I’ in it—and that’s India. Modi doesn’t want to be part of an anti-Western bloc. As long as India’s in BRICS, the rest of the world is safe.””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/xi-jinping-surprise-no-show-140004411.html
“According to the materials, Mamdani scored a 2140 out of 2400 on the SAT, placing him in the 89th percentile nationwide. At the time, this was below the median SAT score for admitted students at Columbia and, given the prevailing distribution by race, well below the median SAT score for Asian students, but likely well above the median SAT score for black students—hence, the advantage of marking “black.”
The wrinkle in the story, however, is that, despite having a father on the faculty and marking black on his application, Columbia rejected Mamdani. There are two plausible theories for why this happened. First, in general, Columbia is a highly competitive university with an admissions rate of less than ten percent, which means that candidates around the median will not make the cut.
Second, there is a possibility that Mamdani’s box-checking gambit backfired. The full application includes the name and contact information for his father, Mahmood Mamdani, and his mother, Mira Nair, both of whom are public figures and neither of whom is black. The application also included a flag noting that the elder Mamdani appeared to be “affiliated with Columbia” and another line noting the family’s address in an exclusive Manhattan neighborhood. With even cursory research, an admissions officer could have seen that Mr. Mamdani was neither black, nor underprivileged”
https://christopherrufo.com/p/zohran-mamdanis-sat-score-revealed?r=254a0i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The demographic crisis will radically change the global economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEOCJvmzKo
Ethics and morality existed long before Jesus. Much of what Jesus said was said by someone before him. Nevertheless, Jesus and Christianity had a huge impact on Western ethics. The Greeks and Romans cared about people in their in-group. The Jews cared about fellow Israelites, including neighbors who had joined the group. Jesus preached that we should love all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA6FeavzG8c
Ukraine Strikes Russia’s Bombers – The Operation, Damage & Lessons of Ukraine’s “Bear” Hunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPXs2wDv4Kc