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Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Monday that activists against the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal aliens have been targeting the children of ICE agents.

The Organs of the Left are like the Mafia: “Nice life you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”

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Columbia University has appointed Farah Jasmine Griffin, a longtime supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, to the position of “University Professor,” the Ivy League school’s “highest academic distinction” reserved for “exceptional scholars.”

Columbia president Claire Shipman announced the move in a Monday statement, lauding Griffin as “a scholar of rare breadth and clarity” known for “the depth of her contributions to Columbia’s intellectual life.” Griffin joined Columbia in 2000 and served as the inaugural chair of the school’s American and African Diaspora Studies Department. She has been an outspoken proponent of the BDS movement during her time at Columbia.

As early as 2002, Griffin signed a divestment petition targeting Israel, prompting criticism from Columbia’s then-president, Lee Bollinger. More recently, in 2016, Griffin signed a faculty petition that accused Israel of “inhumane segregation and systemic forms of discrimination” and called on Columbia to “take a moral stance against Israel’s violence in all its forms” by divesting “from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people for over 68 years.”

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And people like Mamdani (and those who voted for him) are what cause Islamophobic right-wingers to exist.

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I propose that we accompany physical detox with a verbal detox: we need to purge our bloated vocabulary of several concepts that are poisoning our understanding of ourselves and the world.

These concepts have been elaborated by people who would describe themselves as “self-aware,” “progressive,” and “liberated,” but they are actually terms more fit for a society of slaves than a society of free persons. Indeed, these concepts, at least as they are typically employed by “progressives,” could be described, without exaggeration, as a species of slavespeak. By this, I simply mean that they are used disingenuously, to rationalise political oppression and slavery.

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The Republican National Committee, along with the Republican Party of Arizona, has filed suit against the State of Arizona, claiming it improperly allows people who have never lived in the U.S. to participate in state elections.

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A wave of new California laws will take effect on July 1, touching nearly every corner of life, from subscriptions and short-term rentals to wages and student mental health.

Part of a broader package signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom during his latest legislative session, the measures aim to boost transparency, expand health coverage, raise wages, and improve access to legal and mental health support.

What it will inevitably actually do is expand government, hire more government workers, and increase taxes.

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“It was important for our art team to kind of design the world of space, to design the ‘communiverse’ to be this colorful, welcoming, diverse place, this aspirational place where aliens of all shapes and sizes and colors can come and live together,” said director Domee Shi. “And when Elio first lands, he just feels like this is home and he wants to stay.”

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While tax rates are at historic highs, the complexity of the Tax Code itself presents enough problems to be worthy of a complete renewal.

• The first problem with the Tax Code complexity is that enforcement has become such a nightmare that even the well-funded IRS cannot begin to properly enforce it.
• The next problem is that the tax code’s complexity unfairly benefits those with time, resources, and ironically, money, to spend avoiding taxation, allowing the richest and most unethical to benefit from the web of confusion.
• The last problem with the tax code is that it creates a fundamental rift between the American people and the government through providing a realistic view into the complexity and self-contradictory nature of the state.