Supreme Court Kills Affirmative Action. Because why should Black kids be as entitled as legacy fuck-ups at major institutions?:
“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a blistering dissent. “If the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away. It will take longer for racism to leave us. And, ultimately, ignoring race just makes it matter more.”
Jackson’s dissent gets to this history. “The flagship educational institution of a former Confederate State has embraced its constitutional obligation to afford genuine equal protection to applicants,” she wrote. “Surely that is progress for a university that once engaged in the kind of patently offensive race-dominated admissions process that the majority decries.”
Pickleball Noise: Almost As Bad As Giant African Snails. Stand-Your-Ground confrontations at Florida pickleball courts coming soon…
Comer’s Source Debunked Biden Allegations. No wonder Comer can’t find him:
A Ukrainian oligarch who ran the energy company that hired Hunter Biden to serve on its board told associates of Rudy Giuliani that Burismanever had any contacts with then-Vice President Biden while his son worked at the company.
The conversation with Mykola Zlochevsky, part of the package of information received by lawmakers during former President Trump’s first impeachment, was highlighted by the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee as evidence undercutting a GOP-led probe into an alleged bribery scheme.
“No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement,” Zlochevsky says in the exchange, which appears to be with Vitaly Pruss, whom the letter describes as “another long-time associate of Mr. Giuliani who was a close friend of Mr. Zlochevsky.”
“As part of the impeachment inquiry against then-President Trump, Congress learned that Mr. Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian oligarch and the owner of Burisma, whom Republican Committee Members appear to have identified as the source of the allegations memorialized in the Form FD-1023, squarely rebutted these allegations in 2019,” he wrote.
An admittedly-truncated Open Thread due to an early dental appointment. Which makes it a DIY Open Thread. C’mon, I’m counting on you.
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