July 17, 2021

WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. ALSO, WE’LL SUE YOU IF YOU TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT WE’RE DOING. Mom Says School Board Threatened to Sue Her for Seeking Public Information on Critical Race Theory in Curriculum.

AS IF WE HADN’T KNOWN:  Wikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’.

I mean, according to wiki I’m a white male Mormon who has problems with women and immigrants writing science fiction.

And if you believe that, I invite you to doss down with Florida Man.

SPIT OUT THAT BLACK PILL. SPIT IT I SAY:  Nobody Knows The Trouble….

Where we’re going there’s no room for doomers. If you insist on singing the blues, at least learn to play the piano.

THE FRENCH TOO ARE DONE WITH BEING BOILED:  The segregation of Citizen COVID.

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AMERICANS, MY PEOPLE, BE UNGOVERNABLE:  Defiance.

Resist because it’s the right thing to do. Resist because the Junta hates you. Resist because the Junta is illegitimate. Resist because if you don’t you’re going to end up having to shoot yourself out of communism. Resist because it’s Friday. Resist because the sun came out in the morning.

If you’ve ever tried to bathe a cat who really really didn’t like it, channel that. Be the cat. Be impossible to hold, and all claws.

Be Americans.

YEAH, SO BOOKSELLERS HAVE BEEN ROLLING LEFT FOR DECADES:  Today’s blacklisted American: Booksellers want to burn a book they do not like.

“MISTAKEN” IS A FUNNY WAY TO SPELL “TREASONOUS”:  Barr’s Mistaken Choice.

And yes, I know that Charlie Martin will tell me it doesn’t meet the legal definition of treason. Don’t care. Installing an enemy stooge as president is treason, by any other name.

I INVESTIGATE “SECRETARY” BLINKEN TO INVESTIGATE RACISM IN CHINA OR THE UAE:  Secretary of State Blinken Invites United Nations to Investigate Racism in the U.S.

If he survives, we’ll talk.
A man in a blue helmet is an enemy…. You know the rest.

RISING CASES ARE NOR RISING DEATHS:  Los Angeles Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate With Rising COVID Cases.

At this point the left is denying efficacy of the very vaccine they are pushing, and frankly just making merde up. (Pardon my French.)

They need a firm “no.” They need their nose rubbed in their own excrement. Commies are a lot like puppies. Big, stupid, evil, murderous puppies. Who won’t leave you alone.

BIDEN IS KILLING PEOPLE BY DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY:  Biden: Facebook is ‘Killing People’ Allowing COVID Misinformation.

Not that this shabby and senile comic book villain will understand that.

AND THERE IT IS AGAIN, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Biden Admin Calls for Cross-Platform Social Media Deplatforming.

These Buffons de Derriere think that if they sew a man’s mouth shut, they’ve changed his opinion. They have no clue what they’re messing with. Some days I feel like I’m watching toddlers play with C-4

GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC INDOCTRINATION CENTERS:  Mandatory CRT-Based Program Coming to a School Near You.

Olly olly oxen free!

Also: Commies, leave the kids alone!

OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE:  Providence Teachers Union Confirms Affinity Group Segregation, Historical Books Destroyed, Holocaust Education Ended (Ramona Bessinger Update).

Sure, having a parent stay home and homeschool costs. Trust me, I know. But at this point, what is your choice? Did you have kids for the state?

IF YOU’RE GOING TO LIST EVERYTHING OCCASIONAL CORTEX DOESN’T UNDERSTAND:  AOC Doesn’t Understand The Cuba Embargo – Shock.

You’re going to need a bigger blog.

July 16, 2021

I JUST GOT MY GAMES, hope you will order yours.

JOSH BLACKMAN: The Path Forward For The Texas DACA Case: A stay from the Fifth Circuit is unlikely. Do Justices Kavanaugh and/or Barrett have the “fortitude” to let the injunction go into effect?

Today, Judge Hanen ruled that DACA was both procedurally and substantively invalid. (Co-blogger Jon Adler wrote about it here). This case has been pending forever. Texas filed the original complaint in May 2018. The case sat around while the DACA rescission litigation wound through the federal courts. Last June, the Chief set aside the rescission memorandum in Regents. Now, a year later, the district court set aside the original policy, which has been in effect since 2012. Yes, the policy is more than 9 years old. It has stretched the entirety of my academic career.

Judge Hanen issued three very precise remedies First, the Court vacated the original 2012 DACA memorandum, in part. Second, the Court temporarily stayed “the immediate vacatur as it applies to current DACA recipients.” Third, DHS may continue to accept new applications, but the agency was “enjoined from approving any new DACA applications and granting the attendant status.”

At this point, the Defendant-Intervenors, as well as the Biden Administration, will seek a stay from the Fifth Circuit. That remedy is very unlikely, as Hanen’s decision follows very closely from the Fifth Circuit’s DAPA decision. Later, the parties will seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Court.

How do the votes shake out? I suspect the Chief Justice will grant a stay for all three remedies. There is only one jurist in the country who can radically alter federal law, and his name is John G. Roberts. And we know the Chief does not like district court injunctions. Alas, Roberts plus the Kagan three makes four–not enough for a stay. And if all four dissent from the denial of a stay, it will be obvious to the world that Justices Kavanaugh and/or Barrett refused to help the Dreamers.

Will Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett have, in the words of Justice Gorsuch, the “fortitude” to deny the stay. Justice Kavanaugh recently split the difference in the eviction case: he found the moratorium illegal but declined to put that ruling into effect. My prediction? He declines to stay the first ground of relief, vote to stay at the second ground for relief, and urges the Court to grant cert before judgment for the third ground for relief. Plus he writes a hand-wringing concurrence about how DACA is illegal but the Dreamers are such wonderful people. He can copy-and-paste from his Regents decision: “They live, go to school, and work here with uncertainty about their futures.”

Sigh.

OPEN THREAD: In the thick of night, it’ll hold up in the light.

OH, GOOD GRIEF: CDC investigating monkeypox case in Dallas in traveler from Nigeria.

More on monkeypox here. “Human monkeypox infections have only been documented six times outside of Africa; in the United States in 2003 (47 cases), in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and Israel (1 case) in 2018, in Singapore in 2019 (1 case) and in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and the United States (1 case) in 2021.”

West African monkeypox tends less to human transmission than Central African monkeypox. Given that this case is from Nigeria, I assume it’s the former. Not likely to be much of a threat, but who needs it? And it’s interesting that Dallas saw cases during the Ebola outbreak a few years ago, too.

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