BRAD KARP’S CAPITULATION HAS EMBOLDENED TRUMP

in his war on law and order in this country. C.f. the memo that Trump issued Friday night on the heels of the Karp-engineered capitulation by Paul,Weiss, the law firm he is supposed to protect, not betray.Who the hell would now want to patronize a law firm that has agreed to practice discrimination?

Trump’s memo enjoins AG Bondi–who has already violated her oath of office with her attacks on our judicial system–to prosecute law firms on the pretext of ethical abuse, which in his twisted fascistically upside-down parlance, actually means any law firm that has been retained to hold him accountable for his crimes.

Do you still think, Sen. Schumer, that we’re some time away from an existential crisis?

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MUSK SENIOR: SOME OF OUR BEST SERVANTS WERE BLACK

People like the Musks are so tone deaf and detached from societal realities that they can’t help but put their foot in their mouths every time they open them.

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PAUL, WEISS: THE LAW FIRM THAT GROVELS BEFORE LAWLESSNESS

Trump’s blitz against America has been a true test of which institutions have the integrity necessary to maintain themselves going forward. Columbia University does not. The law firm Paul, Weiss does not. 

Trump launched a completely frivolous Executive Order against Paul,Weiss which they were in the process of efficaciously combatting when chairman Brad Karp decided to fold. They have now committed themselves to Trump’s hate and intolerance agenda and will drop any DEI programs. They will also now be contributing $40 million of pro bono work for any cause that Trump sees fit to assign them, and you can be sure he will assign them the  most vile cases and causes.

Truckling to Trump is an indelible stain on Columbia, on Paul, Weiss, on ABC News, on any institution that allows itself to be extorted by a felonious president and his lawless regime. 

“Paul Weiss used to be a law firm to be admired and respected,” Norman Ornstein  tweets. “No more. It is a stain on the legal profession.”

Karp has disgraced and defiled his law firm. His tail-between-his-legs statement of surrender is revolting. Hopefully Paul Weiss’s clients will dwindle and Karp will be forced to resign. Hopefully Columbia students will rebel and demand that the Acting President and the Board of Trustees resign.

Defending America deserves no less.

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FALLS TO TRUMP

In an absolutely shocking capitulation, the university decides to fall on its sword for Trump.  It comes out swinging against public health, banning masks on the campus; it allows Trump and his ignorance brigade a measure of control over university departments and curriculum. Columbia has abandoned its commitment to academic freedom.  

The New York Times (and they should know how ungrateful Trump is when you kow tow to him)  reported yesterday that “Several historians and veteran professors said that the move by the federal government to intervene in an academic department at a private university would be unparalleled in the modern history of U.S. higher education.”

Acting president Katrina A. Armstrong issued a statement two days ago that is now revealed as pure bullshit: “We will never compromise our values of pedagogical independence, our commitment to academic freedom or our obligation to follow the law.”

Her decision, or whomever’s it was, makes a mockery of this pledge. It will cost Columbia immensely in diminished admissions and prestige.  Columbia is now a protectorate of Trump and his anti-education, anti-civil rights juggernaut.

And remember, Trump doesn’t give a flying fig  about anti-Semitism. Musk is a Nazi. Vance went to Germany to advocate for the neo-Nazis. Trump says that Schumer isn’t really a Jew. Trump and his followers routinely make remarks that incite anti-Semitism. All Trump and his gauleiters are doing is exploiting anti-Semitism to install their fascist agenda and deflect from their own complicity.

The sheer foolishness of whomever it was that engineered this surrender displays again how lacking in strategic insight the most intellectually accomplished people can be. As PEN writes in a statement today, Columbia’s cave (in return for which they have no guarantee of getting their US funding back), “opens the door for even greater interference and retaliation from the Trump administration, threatening academic freedom, vital research, and students’ education.”

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ALVARO BEDOYA RESPONDS TO BEZOS’ CENSORSHIP DEMANDS

“Mr. Bezos, when I think about ‘free markets and personal liberties’ I don’t think about the Post editorial page. I think about this vending machine in an Amazon Fulfillment Center, which is stocked not with chips but with painkillers.”

[with accompanying photo!]

Bezos tortures his workers; the only personal liberties he cares about are his own.

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DEPRAVED FASCIST J.D. VANCE ACCUSES HARRIS OF ALCOHOL ABUSE

and still she is silent.

Unless something shifts in the political DNA of establishment Democrats, they are going to find themselves totally irrelevant.

As Biden’s achievements are levelled by Trump, has Harris, for one, not learned a lesson about what Biden’s refual to respond to  MAGA defamation cost him?

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IT’S ABOUT TIME

Rep. Ivey is the first to call for Sen. Schumer to step down.

Schumer is walking around either in a fog of denial or in a deliberate attempt to buffalo America into believing we’re not at the crunch point.

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JACK SCHLOSSBERG STEPS UP

As the Democratic establishment is mute and inglorious or engaged in performative resistance only, Schlossberg addresses Trump’s betrayal of the arts (as well as so much else.) Comparing Trump to his grandfather: “JFK celebrated the arts and culture. [OK, at Jackie’s urging.] Trump attacks artist’s identities, took over the Kennedy center just to empty it out and pave it gold.” 

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DID WALL ST. TELL SCHUMER TO CAVE?

I’ve seen that speculation floating around, and it makes sense given Schumer’s inappropriate closeness with the Street.

Democratic “leadership” does not understand, or does not care, that Wall Street will donate to Democrats only to ensure that they lose–the same with Silicon Valley. 

Wall St. overwhelming went for Obama in 2008 because they believed he would let them off the hook for instigating the crash–he did, and he lost the House in 2010 as a result.

Wall St, like Silicon Valley, will never be satisfied with anything else than completele deregulation and complete immunity from tax obligations, and that’s what Trump is giving them.

Democratic “leadership” is still in denial–or is simply still attempting to escape responsibility for their calamitous failure last November.

Jeffries going cup in hand recently to Silicon Valley was a dido.  

“Leadership” still thinks neoliberal practices and policies will work. Instead they have collapsed the party.

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TRUMP PLEDGES TO EXTINGUISH THE KENNEDY CENTER

It’s always the same fake narrative: Trump wants to destroy a program or institution, says it needs to be “saved,” then proceeds to burn it to the ground.

The monster had the audacity to commandeer the Kennedy Center stage for a meeting with his fake board of directors, aka obsequious servitors, among them doyennes of lies and cacaphony Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo. Probably he’ll be giving them solo concert evenings soon.

Trump launched into another lie and defamation-filled campaign spech interspersed with drooling recollections of how excited he got watching women dance on Broadway.

Then he took part in a fake photo session where he pretended to be addressing cheering crowds from the presidential box. Except that there were no crowds. His zombie gestures resembled a store-window mannequin, but no department store that wanted to attract customers would put that in their window displays.

He plans to make KC a. non-union house.  Way to go, union leaders who supported Trump.

He wants KC to participate in his campaign to make hate and intolerance the law of the land, rejecting legitimate cultural expression as “woke.”

He also plans to destroy the KC Honors, which already have been degraded in recent years by pandering to corporate cultural parameters. But we ain’t seen nothing yet. He plans to host them himself, and he’d like to hand out Honors to his campaign contributors.

The Democrats, of couse, say nothing, so terrified are they to be identified with any cultural offering besides corporate entertainment product. A fascist billionaire might then call him or her an ‘elitist’!

Props to the Times for getting their hands on a clandestinely-recorded tapes of his “board” meeting, since Trump of course banned the press. But, oh is the Times eager to euphemize and normalize Trump, and his “strong and sometimes surprising” er, views.

 That newspaper’s staff must be completely demoralized.

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