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Racial discrimination is alive and well in higher education. That’s what the Trump administration strongly – and rightly – suspects. In late March, the Department of Justice opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical schools, including those at Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, and Ohio State University. The administration wants their admissions data to see if the medical schools are still practicing the discriminatory DEI policies that the Supreme Court banned in 2023. The president’s team is asking the right questions. And based on investigations we’ve done at Do No Harm, the answer is…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. West Bank settler attacks on Palestinians are “rather sophisticated, organized, and funded systematic actions,” with the goal of “cleansing” the entire region, said journalist Ron Ben-Yishai. Brad Reed for Common Dreams An Israeli war correspondent who has been described as having deep ties to the Israel Defense Forces said that intensifying settler violence in the occupied West Bank appears to be “ethnic cleansing.”…

President Donald Trump announced a ten-day truce between Israel and Lebanon. Israel has been attacking and occupying Lebanon since 2023.  “I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel,” the President wrote on his Truth Social account Thursday. “These two Leaders have agreed that in order to achieve PEACE between their Countries, they will formally begin a 10 Day CEASEFIRE at 5 P.M. EST.” Israeli and Lebanese officials met in Washington on Tuesday. Trump said he was inviting Netanyahu and Aoun to a follow-up summit at the White…

Old fortification in Oman. Photo by Matthew Stevenson. Before the United States decides to stump up another half a trillion dollars for Pete Hegseth’s Excellent Adventures, it might want to answer the question why the country has only won a handful wars in the last hundred years? Victory disease is defined as “dangerous overconfidence, arrogance, and complacency that arises within a leadership or military force following a string of decisive victories,” and most imperial powers in decline, including now the U.S., suffer from it chronically. On paper, measured by budget appropriations, the U.S. army is the greatest show on turf—with…

On Thursday, the ninth day of the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. is ready to restart combat operations against the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached, reiterating threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure. “We are reloading with more power than ⁠ever before, ⁠and better intelligence,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing. “We are locked and loaded ​on your critical dual-use infrastructure, on your remaining power generation, and on your energy industry. We’d rather not have to do it.” The Washington Post, citing unnamed officials, reported Wednesday…

U.S. and Iran Should Turn This Pause Into Peace Source link

Congress defied the plain meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it said data gathered by warrantless surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could be used by the F.B.I. for prosecution purposes, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Justice Louis Brandeis in 1916. (Harris & Ewing /United States Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) By Andrew P. Napolitano The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the…

Last week’s purchases were mostly funded via sales of the company’s STRC preferred stock. What to know: Strategy bought 4,871 bitcoin for about $329.9 million last week at an average price of $67,718 per coin. The company has spent roughly $58.02 billion on its bitcoin at an average cost of $75,644 per coin, leaving it with about $5 billion in unrealized losses at current prices. With 766,970 BTC, Strategy controls about 3.8 percent of bitcoin’s circulating supply. Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) added 4,871 bitcoin to its treasury over the past week at an average price of roughly $67,718 per coin,…

The Growing State Tax and Jobs Divide Source link