True enough. But if the law sets up something like a department that will be managed by the executive, how the executive manages the department falls under the executive even if the department was created by the law.
Why should it be more difficult for others than it was for your ancestors?
My ancestors risked everything and faced opposition from natives and the descendants of people who immigrated prior to them. There was no handout for my ancestors and they faced discrimination.
"Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God. You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
I am pretty sure that running with the whole "bougie white people doing bougie white people things" does a better job of undercutting the whole "people have the right to preserve their culture/identity" than anything the left could do.
What culture are you preserving in San Francisco, exactly?
This time, I believe America may learn a painful lesson about how the norms really protected the laws. That without those norms it isn’t so much of a leap to start subverting laws in clever ways. Because at the end of the day, laws are ink on paper. They have no power over us, except for the power we give them. And they can be easy to work around for those possessing the shamelessness.
This is a great point.
(continues reading the essay)
Oh, I see that we think that this started with Trump.
There was an Executive Order that said "we're not sending this USAID money out no more" and a couple of judges said "nope, the Executive doesn't have the authority to do that! We're putting a block on the Executive!" and this is yelling "WHOA WHOA WHOA".
BREAKING: Judge Ali has *granted* the motion to enforce his restraining order against the State/USAID spending freeze. He has ordered the Trump administration to pay "all invoices and letter of credit drawdown requests" for work done prior to Feb. 13 — by 11:59pm tomorrow night. https://t.co/KMpiWFINQb
Tsahi Idan's body was returned to Israel today, Saul. Would you see an attempt to discuss that in response to your talking about Trump as an inappropriate attempt to change the subject?
We in a discussion about Musk slashing the Federal government. Why are you talking about the University of Colorado, and why are you using the University of Colorado as an example of a department?
I thought it was broad enough to cover such things as "spending" but if you insist, I'll limit future examples in this thread to stuff that has a .gov or .mil website.
This college has apparently decided that the Department of Education will likely have a problem with the name, at minimum, so has preemptively changed it.
Why do you think this is an attempt to ‘hide’?
If you don't like the word "hide", how's "rebrand"?
Back in the early oughts, my managed services job was bought and sold and renamed a buncha times and I had to get up and go into a room and fill out paperwork multiple times but when the paperwork was done I'd get a new badge and go back to the same desk and do the same job as I did the day before.
In the same way, the exact same job being done by the DEI Office now being done by the Whole Employee Office would be an example of what I'm talking about.
Do you understand the phenomenon I'm talking about here?
What you think the University of Colorado should have done at this point in time?
Oh, I'm not paid well enough to come up with game plans for universities.
Hell, renaming the department and getting rid of the troublesome office nameplate and replacing it with a nameplate with different letters on it is probably the best play. "Maybe Trump will get impeached and we can just keep on keeping on and, let's face it, DEI was getting to be a kind of thought-terminating cliché anyway so it's for the best."
Thank you for your letters to the Department of Justice (Department) dated February 11, 2025, and February 19, 2025. We are sending an identical response to the other Member who joined your letters.
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Okay.
What's the first thing we notice there? That's right: Diddly Squat.
That's what they told her. Diddly.
Reading as charitably as possible, I'd say that they said that there are ongoing criminal investigations and potential prosecutions.
That said, it only really makes sense that there would be those things for Epstein and it doesn't make sense that there would be ongoing criminal investigations and potential prosecutions for JFK, RFK, or MLK Jr.
So I'm mostly just saying that we're going to have jam to-morrow, just like we had jam yesterday.
From the sounds of it, the contents will be coming out piecemeal. So we'll get a couple of names here, a couple of names there.
"So there will be names that *AREN'T* released?"
"Sounds like it."
"So this could be used as a weapon against certain people but other names will remain hidden?"
"Sounds like it."
Cutting out the DEI stuff is the stuff that will make the most noise. There will be various departments that will try to route around it by hiding that it was the DEI office the week prior.
This will get the DOGE fans to say "see how important it was that we get rid of this? Look at how sneaky they are!"
From the article I linked to above:
On the federal level, employees have been ordered to report efforts to “disguise” DEI offices through various name changes or otherwise. Other businesses and institutions, like CU, have opted to rename their offices and change the language on their websites.
Some say that The Denver Post is a Nazi newspaper for Nazis. Other call it "Commie fishwrap".
I can only link to it and ask you to decide for yourself if it is Facebook quality or higher.
I guess that’s how your sentence is supposed to end?
On “Supreme Court issues Stay”
True enough. But if the law sets up something like a department that will be managed by the executive, how the executive manages the department falls under the executive even if the department was created by the law.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025”
You'll note that Saul did *NOT* answer InMD's questions despite InMD answering Saul's questions.
This is because Saul believes that InMD has obligations to him but that he has no such reciprocal obligations to InMD.
He operates as if there is one law for himself but different laws for others.
Just notice this. That's all you need to do.
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"Clearly"
I'm not sure how clear it is.
On “From Fox News: AG Pam Bondi announces Epstein files will start to be released on Thursday the 27th”
There is now footage of journalists holding up binders that, they assert, contain "Phase 1" of the Epstein File rollout.
On “Supreme Court issues Stay”
It doesn't strike me as unconstitutional on its face and management of (some of) USAID's funding seems to fall under the powers of the Executive.
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Why should it be more difficult for others than it was for your ancestors?
My ancestors risked everything and faced opposition from natives and the descendants of people who immigrated prior to them. There was no handout for my ancestors and they faced discrimination.
"Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God. You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
On “Supreme Court issues Stay”
With any luck, we'll see the Supreme Court uphold Justice Ali's ruling, I guess.
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So, please, let me rephrase:
Students and Faculty at Columbia have taken over a building at Barnard and are chanting stuff like “Globalize the Intifada”.
My main question: Does Tenure cover this?
"
Along with his wife and his dog (?).
No foul play is suspected.
"
I am pretty sure that running with the whole "bougie white people doing bougie white people things" does a better job of undercutting the whole "people have the right to preserve their culture/identity" than anything the left could do.
What culture are you preserving in San Francisco, exactly?
Is it bougie?
"
The Barnard faculty and students did a good job of misdirecting with the documents that they put out. (Linked in original comment.)
On “Supreme Court issues Stay”
You'd think that the Judicial Branch would have agreed.
On “In Times Without Norms, All Laws Fall Silent”
This time, I believe America may learn a painful lesson about how the norms really protected the laws. That without those norms it isn’t so much of a leap to start subverting laws in clever ways. Because at the end of the day, laws are ink on paper. They have no power over us, except for the power we give them. And they can be easy to work around for those possessing the shamelessness.
This is a great point.
(continues reading the essay)
Oh, I see that we think that this started with Trump.
On “Supreme Court issues Stay”
There was an Executive Order that said "we're not sending this USAID money out no more" and a couple of judges said "nope, the Executive doesn't have the authority to do that! We're putting a block on the Executive!" and this is yelling "WHOA WHOA WHOA".
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025”
People call for global intifada all the time. What can you do?
On “Supreme Court issues Stay”
Have you ever wondered if there was ever going to be Judicial pushback against Marbury v. Madison?
Sometimes I have.
On “From Fox News: AG Pam Bondi announces Epstein files will start to be released on Thursday the 27th”
Tsahi Idan's body was returned to Israel today, Saul. Would you see an attempt to discuss that in response to your talking about Trump as an inappropriate attempt to change the subject?
"
Not yet it's not.
On “Musk vs Gore”
We in a discussion about Musk slashing the Federal government. Why are you talking about the University of Colorado, and why are you using the University of Colorado as an example of a department?
I thought it was broad enough to cover such things as "spending" but if you insist, I'll limit future examples in this thread to stuff that has a .gov or .mil website.
This college has apparently decided that the Department of Education will likely have a problem with the name, at minimum, so has preemptively changed it.
Why do you think this is an attempt to ‘hide’?
If you don't like the word "hide", how's "rebrand"?
Back in the early oughts, my managed services job was bought and sold and renamed a buncha times and I had to get up and go into a room and fill out paperwork multiple times but when the paperwork was done I'd get a new badge and go back to the same desk and do the same job as I did the day before.
In the same way, the exact same job being done by the DEI Office now being done by the Whole Employee Office would be an example of what I'm talking about.
Do you understand the phenomenon I'm talking about here?
What you think the University of Colorado should have done at this point in time?
Oh, I'm not paid well enough to come up with game plans for universities.
Hell, renaming the department and getting rid of the troublesome office nameplate and replacing it with a nameplate with different letters on it is probably the best play. "Maybe Trump will get impeached and we can just keep on keeping on and, let's face it, DEI was getting to be a kind of thought-terminating cliché anyway so it's for the best."
On “From Fox News: AG Pam Bondi announces Epstein files will start to be released on Thursday the 27th”
Florida's Anna Palina Luna wrote the FBI for a formal response on the Epstein, JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr files.
They sent back a letter saying:
Okay.
What's the first thing we notice there? That's right: Diddly Squat.
That's what they told her. Diddly.
Reading as charitably as possible, I'd say that they said that there are ongoing criminal investigations and potential prosecutions.
That said, it only really makes sense that there would be those things for Epstein and it doesn't make sense that there would be ongoing criminal investigations and potential prosecutions for JFK, RFK, or MLK Jr.
So I'm mostly just saying that we're going to have jam to-morrow, just like we had jam yesterday.
"
From the sounds of it, the contents will be coming out piecemeal. So we'll get a couple of names here, a couple of names there.
"So there will be names that *AREN'T* released?"
"Sounds like it."
"So this could be used as a weapon against certain people but other names will remain hidden?"
"Sounds like it."
"
My initial takeaway: jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025”
...Do you read what I said above (or below) as a defense of Owens?
On “Musk vs Gore”
Let me rephrase it, then.
Cutting out the DEI stuff is the stuff that will make the most noise. There will be various departments that will try to route around it by hiding that it was the DEI office the week prior.
For example, here's an article from The Denver Post: University of Colorado renames DEI office to 'Office of Collaboration'
This will get the DOGE fans to say "see how important it was that we get rid of this? Look at how sneaky they are!"
From the article I linked to above:
Some say that The Denver Post is a Nazi newspaper for Nazis. Other call it "Commie fishwrap".
I can only link to it and ask you to decide for yourself if it is Facebook quality or higher.
I guess that’s how your sentence is supposed to end?
"Something needs to be done. This is something."
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Is writing something the same thing as taking over a building?
To the extent that it is, I'd say "yes, of course".
If it's different for any reason, we'd probably want to explore those reasons.
If those reasons exist at all, of course.