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Tyler Austin Harper / New York Times:
I Teach at an Elite College. Here's a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions. — Dr. Harper is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College. — When I was in graduate school several years ago, I spent my summers getting paid to help Asian American kids seem less Asian.
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HotAir, New Republic, HuffPost, NPR, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon and Althouse
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Erwin Chemerinsky / Los Angeles Times:
The Supreme Court's ultimate ‘judicial activism’: striking down affirmative action in college admissions — For decades, conservatives have railed against judicial activism, but Thursday's decision striking down affirmative action by colleges and universities in admissions was the height of conservative judicial activism.
Washington Post:
State affirmative action bans helped White, Asian students, hurt others
State affirmative action bans helped White, Asian students, hurt others
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STAT, MSNBC, NBC Bay Area, CT Mirror, Associated Press, NBC 7 San Diego, NBC News, CBS News, The Root, New York Times, The 19th, The Guardian and New York Daily News
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
19 thoughts on affirmative action
19 thoughts on affirmative action
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The Atlantic, Mother Jones, New York Times, Freddie deBoer, Daily Bulletin, HotAir, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, Insider, The 19th, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost and Semafor
Olatunde Johnson / TIME:
The Supreme Court's Decision on Affirmative Action Must Not Be the Final Word
The Supreme Court's Decision on Affirmative Action Must Not Be the Final Word
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Townhall, New York Times, The Atlantic, New Jersey Online and UnHerd
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say — Prosecutors could bring between 30 to 45 additional criminal charges against the former president in the coming weeks, The Independent has learned — Trump calls indictment a ‘beautiful badge of honour and courage’
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Raw Story, PoliticusUSA and Balloon Juice
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CNN:
Former Trump campaign official cooperating with special counsel in 2020 election interference probe — Former Donald Trump campaign official Mike Roman is cooperating with prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith's team in the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and U.N.C. — In disavowing race as a factor in achieving educational diversity, the court all but ensured that the student population at the campuses of elite institutions will become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino.
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Sherrilyn Ifill / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Conservatives Are Breaking History and Our Future
The Supreme Court's Conservatives Are Breaking History and Our Future
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Law Dork with Chris Geidner
Joan Biskupic / CNN:
John Roberts doesn't want race to matter as he ends affirmative action for college admission programs
John Roberts doesn't want race to matter as he ends affirmative action for college admission programs
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Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Ketanji Brown Jackson Dismantles SCOTUS Conservatives in Blistering Dissent
Ketanji Brown Jackson Dismantles SCOTUS Conservatives in Blistering Dissent
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Mother Jones, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Insider, FiveThirtyEight, Slate, The Federalist, ABC News, The Messenger, Washington Examiner and NBC News
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
In Affirmative Action Ruling, Black Justices Take Aim at Each Other
In Affirmative Action Ruling, Black Justices Take Aim at Each Other
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Andres Triay / CBS News:
Man with Jan. 6 warrant and weapons arrested after running toward Obamas' D.C. home — A man with weapons and an active Jan. 6-related warrant was arrested by law enforcement in former President Barack Obama's Washington, D.C., neighborhood, two sources briefed on the matter tell CBS News.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 participant, identified nearly two years ago, is arrested near Obama home — Taylor Taranto was identified by “Sedition Hunters” in August 2021 and has been living in a van near the D.C. jail. He was arrested Thursday, more than two years after the Capitol attack.
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CNN:
Biden's Iran envoy placed on leave after security clearance suspended amid investigation into possible mishandling of classified material, sources say — Rob Malley, the US special envoy on Iran, has been placed on leave without pay, which occurred after his security clearance was suspended earlier …
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CNN:
Top Trump campaign aide Susie Wiles met numerous times with special counsel investigators in documents probe — A senior campaign official for Donald Trump was allegedly shown a classified map by the former president during a meeting at his New Jersey golf club after Trump left office, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Raw Story, Political Wire, Daily Kos, emptywheel and Mediaite
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Trump 2024 aide who allegedly saw classified map works for China lobbying firm
Trump 2024 aide who allegedly saw classified map works for China lobbying firm
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Raw Story and The Messenger
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Special counsel office still investigating Trump's handling of documents, sources say
Special counsel office still investigating Trump's handling of documents, sources say
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Mediaite and Political Wire
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court — Christian website designer says she received email request from same-sex couple but ‘author’ says he did not send it - and is not gay — The veracity of a key document in a major LGBTQ+ rights case before the US supreme court …
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Digby's Hullabaloo
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Jason Leopold / Bloomberg:
Trump ‘Standing Order’ to Declassify Not Found by DOJ, Intelligence Agency — A “standing order” that former President Donald Trump has claimed authorized him to instantly declassify documents removed from the Oval Office could not be found by either the Justice Department or Office of Director of National Intelligence.
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Raw Story, Rolling Stone, PoliticusUSA and Political Wire
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Tim Scott calls on universities to end legacy admissions — Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said now that the Supreme Court has limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, colleges should eliminate legacy-based admissions next. — “I think the question is how do you continue to create …
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Philipp Hubert / The Intercept:
Top NIH Official Advised Covid Scientists That He Uses Personal Email to Evade FOIA — David M. Morens, a high-ranking official at the NIH, told prominent scientists discussing Covid's origins that he would delete emails. — A top adviser to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes …
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Fox News and The Daily Caller
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Fauci adviser hid emails from FOIA requests: ‘Always communicate on Gmail’
Fauci adviser hid emails from FOIA requests: ‘Always communicate on Gmail’
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Washington Examiner and Instapundit
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Ron DeSantis the 'Worst Candidate I've Ever Seen'—Former GOP Strategist — A veteran GOP political strategist has described Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the “worst” presidential candidate he has ever seen. — Jeff Timmer, a senior adviser at the Lincoln Project …
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Raw Story, UPROXX, The Guardian, Crooks and Liars, Political Wire and The Daily Beast
Jeff Berardelli / WFLA-TV:
‘Off the charts’: Earth's vital signs are going haywire — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth's vital signs blinking red. Meteorologists and climate scientists …
The Columbus Dispatch:
Ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder sentenced to maximum 20 years — Once one of the most powerful politicians in Ohio, Householder is now a convicted felon, guilty of racketeering conspiracy and breaking the public's trust. He was immediately taken into custody.
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Daily Mail:
Glamorous vice president of Russian bank Kristina Baikova, 28, ‘plunges to her death from 11th floor apartment window’ in Moscow in latest mysterious fatality involving country's top execs — Kristina Baikova allegedly fell from her 11th floor apartment on Friday morning
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The Sun, The Messenger and Political Wire
Harvard Admissions Lawsuit:
Supreme Court Decision — Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Court held that Harvard College's admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Beth Harpaz / The Forward:
NYC mayor compared 84-year-old Holocaust survivor to a ‘plantation’-owner — A heated exchange between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Jeanie Dubnau, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor and tenant activist, ended with the mayor accusing Dubnau of racism. — “Don't stand in front …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Jesse Watters was invited to speak before a group of executives. His remarks led to an ‘epic meltdown’ — Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. — CNN —
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New York Times:
Koch Network Raises Over $70 Million for Push to Sink Trump — Americans for Prosperity Action is wading into a Republican presidential primary for the first time, and waiting to see which candidate it will get behind for 2024. — The political network established by the conservative industrialists Charles …
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Associated Press:
Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 95 — Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Her niece, the Rev. Bernice King, tweeted that her “beloved aunt” died Thursday. She was 95.
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Wall Street Journal:
Women Interviewing for Bill Gates's Private Office Were Asked Sexually Explicit Questions — Female job candidates say extreme vetting process by a security firm sometimes included questions about pornography and sexual histories; Gates's office says such questioning would be unacceptable
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Li Cohen / CBS News:
Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis — Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that would allow for roads across Florida to be made with “radioactive” mining waste that has been linked to cancer.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, The Capitolist, Orlando Sentinel and Florida Politics
Kent Walker / Google:
An update on Canada's Bill C-18 and our Search and News products — President of Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet … The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 (the Online News Act), requiring two companies to pay for simply showing links to news, something that everyone else does for free.
CBS News:
Hunter Biden's former business partner was willing to go before a grand jury. He never got the chance. — A former business partner of Hunter and James Biden, who worked directly with them on a 2017 China energy deal, was never asked to testify to a Delaware grand jury investigating Hunter Biden …
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Reuters:
Trump says may skip first Republican debate, hold rival event — Former U.S. President Donald Trump said he might not participate in the Republican Party's first 2024 election primary debate in August and may hold an alternative event, citing his lead in opinion polls and what he claims is the hosting network's bias against him.
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Raw Story