In the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is a unique legal entity with characteristics unlike any other, which thereby allow its powers to be abused unlike any other. Lawyers have long seen ICE as a threat to American democracy, and for good reason.

In this blog post, I have tried to list off every anti-trans policy done by the Trump administration as of January 2025.

Bro… I hate war, I hate checkoffs, I hate lobbying, I hate buybacks, I hate Obama,I hate Trump, I hate non-profits. Ugh. Lactose intolerants, rise up.

A mathematician volunteers to teach a class at a women’s prison and learns an unexpected lesson. Told live at our Man Behind the Curtain Show on June 16, 2018 at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC.

via: https://geometrynyc.wixsite.com/home/combinatorics-reu

Hypothesis:

Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.

Thus making prices go up by forcing teams to scale up their operations and take up more space. The United States is capable of restaurants where quantity of sales, rather than quality, makes a business profitable—see the automat and the diner—but this kind of business has faded away in recent years.

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

Actually cooked.

Interesting book. May read in the future.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG8_bWpmaE

Wow, a JREG video I can relate to LOL.

The great irony of this is that people like Merrick Garland think that they’re eschewing politics. The reality is the opposite: the careful avoidance of anything that appears political is itself a political act. It is a performance, intended to convey to your audience that you are neutral and unbiased. It’s an effort in institutional PR.

Sharyn Alfonsi’s Inside CECOT for 60 Minutes, which was censored by Bari Weiss, as it appeared on Canada’s Global TV app.

Wow. And they pulled this shit off the air. Terrifying.

This is a good introduction to hate speech as a legal phenomenon, with emphasis on social media and college campuses. Exposed me to a lot of useful viewpoints.

This article is low-key brain poison. She almost sounds reasonable. Almost. Why are we complementing the Trump administration’s bad faith compact? Why has “equity” and “intolerance” of hateful philosophies like Zionism become bad words. Why do people keep saying “we just need one generation of civics classes to solve systemic injustice!!1!” Sigh. And the author’s a black woman, so she’s definitely been used as a mouthpiece. RIP.

Each grantee that is an institution of higher education, as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1002(a), that is private (hereinafter “private institution”) must comply with its stated institutional policies regarding freedom of speech, including academic freedom, as a material condition of the Department’s grant.

I finally found how the DoE can prevent a private institution from having funding. This definitely encourages schools that even remotely rely on federal funding to stay in lockstep with Section 983 and the First Amendment. Damn.

via: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/HTML/LSB10438.web.html

Resources to assist grantees in the administration of Federal grants awarded by the Department of Education.

From which the DoE can stem the flow.

An interesting little article which exposed me to various cursed parts of the U.S. Code.

Someone please explain to me why this doesn’t basically extend protected speech (i.e. hate speech) to all colleges and universities… Hell, not even private schools are a refuge.

via: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/HTML/LSB10438.web.html

denial of grants and contracts from Department of Defense, Department of Education, and certain other departments and agencies

Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services: For a prima facie case of employment discrimination under Title VII, a plaintiff who is a member of a majority group does not need to show background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is an unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.

Worst Supreme Court case of the year. KBJ is a coon confirmed. Thomas has somehow been rendered reasonable. A hearty RIP to procedural affirmative action.

The US legal system is so effed.